Stayin' Alive
The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
Format:Paperback
Publisher:The New Press
Published:16th Feb '12
Should be back in stock very soon
Jefferson Cowie's edgy and incisive book makes new sense of the 1970s as a crucial and poorly understood transition from New Deal America, with its large, optimistic middle class, to the widening economic inequalities, poverty and dampened expectations of the 1980s and into the present. Cowie also connects politics to culture, showing how the big screen and the juke box can help understand how the US turned away from the radicalism of the 1960s toward the patriotic promise of Ronald Reagan.
Will long stand as the finest and most sophisticated portrait of politics and culture in the American 1970s.”
E.J. Dionne
Gives the best sense of the way that it felt to live through the decade . . . Cowie’s book captures the contradictory nature of the 1970s politics better than almost any other ever written about the period.”
Kim Phillips-Fein, Dissent
Might be the most groundbreaking and original national history of a working class since E.P. Thompson’s Making of the English Working Class”
Steven Colatrella, New Politics
ISBN: 9781595587077
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 686g
468 pages