Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-264) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.