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How We Got Here: The 1970s: The Decade That Brought You Modern Life (for Better or Worse) Hardcover - 1999

by David Frum


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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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AT THE CLIMAX OF THE 1947 FILM CLASSIC, MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET, THE hero-a young lawyer determined to prove that a man who claims to be Santa Claus should not be institutionalized as a lunatic-opens the argument that will win his case by reading aloud a long description of the reliability of the U.S. Post Office.

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  • Title How We Got Here: The 1970s: The Decade That Brought You Modern Life (for Better or Worse)
  • Author David Frum
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 448
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books, New York, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date December 1999
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780465041954 / 0465041957
  • Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.48 x 6.31 x 1.15 in (24.08 x 16.03 x 2.92 cm)
  • Reading level 1320
  • Library of Congress subjects United States - Civilization - 1970-, United States - Social life and customs -
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 00271770
  • Dewey Decimal Code 971.92
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