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How We Got Here

The 70's: The Decade that Brought You Modern Life (For Better or Worse)

By: David Frum

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Paperback | 16 November 2000 | Edition Number 1

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A sweeping condemnation of the decline of American culture since the 1970s by one of Americas leading conservative writers. . For many, the 1970s evoke the Brady Bunch and the birth of disco. In this first, thematic popular history of the decade, David Frum argues that it was the 1970s, not the 1960s, that created modern America and altered the American personality forever. A society that had valued faith, self-reliance, self-sacrifice, and family loyalty evolved in little more than a decade into one characterized by superstition, self-interest, narcissism, and guilt. Frum examines this metamorphosis through the rise to cultural dominance of faddish psychology, astrology, drugs, religious cults, and consumer debt, and profiles such prominent players of the decade as Werner Erhard, Alex Comfort, and Jerry Brown. How We Got Here is lively and provocative reading.

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History History of the Americas Society & Culture Cultural Studies Popular Culture Politics & Government Sociology & Anthropology Anthropology Earliest Times to Present Day 20th Century History from 1900 to 2000

Post War 20th Century History after 1945 Specific Events & Topics in History Social & Cultural History

Acknowledgments	p. vii
List of Illustrations	p. xi
Introduction	p. xiii
Trust	p. 1
Duty	p. 55
Reason	p. 113
Desire	p. 167
Rights	p. 215
Regeneration	p. 285
Conclusion	p. 347
Notes	p. 359
Index	p. 385
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