Table of Contents:
  • Nixon, Watergate, and presidential scandal
  • Vietnam and its consequences
  • Running out of gas: the economic downturn and social change
  • The frustrations of Gerald Ford
  • Congress and domestic policy in the age of Gerald Ford
  • Jimmy Carter and the great American revival
  • The rights revolution
  • The me decade and the turn to the right
  • The movies as cultural mirror
  • Television and the reassurance of the familiar
  • The end of the seventies.