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The 1970s / by Schmidt, Mark Ray,1953-;
Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-313) and index.
Subjects: Nineteen seventies.;
© c2000., Greenhaven Press,
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Dazed and confused : America confronts the 1970s / by Browne, Blaine T.(Blaine Terry),author.;
Includes bibliographical references and index."I'm wasted and I can't find my way home :" the end of the sixties -- '"A decent interval :'" America's exit from Vietnam, 1969-1973 -- "Should have destroyed the tapes" : the collapse of the Nixon presidency -- Bringing the war home : last spasms of the radical left -- "The American ride is ending :" energy crises and a post-industrial economy -- Looking out for number one : The "me decade" and the endurance of social commitment -- "What is special order 937?" : film and television in the seventies -- "Bridge over troubled water :" popular music in the seventies -- "A crisis of confidence :" national politics and foreign policy -- Epilogue : "Are you better off now....:" the promise and reality of the eighties."A concise overview of a neglected decade in American history as the nation reflects on its 50th anniversary"--
Subjects: Nineteen seventies.;
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Once upon a river : a novel / by Campbell, Bonnie Jo,1962-;
Margo Crane, a beautiful and uncanny markswoman, takes to the Stark River after being complicit in the death of her father and embarks on an odyssey in search of her vanished mother.
Subjects: Teenage girls; Fathers; River life; Mother and daughter; Nineteen seventies; Survival; Voyages and travels; Bildungsromans.;
© 2012, c2011., W.W. Norton & Co.,
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American heiress : the wild saga of the kidnapping, crimes and trial of Patty Hearst / by Toobin, Jeffrey.;
Includes bibliographical references (pages 352-355) and index.Prologue -- Nervous breakdown nation -- From inside the trunk -- The SLA -- The point of no return -- Prisoner of war -- Not just a bunch of nuts -- Three hundred bald men -- "I'm a strong woman" -- The birth of Tania -- Stay and fight -- Common criminals -- Showdown at Mel's -- Live on television -- Apocalypse on Fifty-Fourth Street -- "The gentlest, most beautiful man" -- Jack Scott makes an offer -- Road trip -- The streets of Sacramento -- Death of a "bourgeois pig" -- Feminist bomb-making -- Freeze! -- "There will be a revolution in Amerikkka and we'll be helping to make it" -- "Your ever-loving momma and poppa care about the truth" -- More excited than scared -- The search for old McMonkey -- The verdict -- "Favoring the rich over the poor" -- Aftermath."On February 4, 1974, Patty Hearst, a sophomore in college and heiress to the Hearst family fortune, was kidnapped by a ragtag group of self-styled revolutionaries calling itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. The already sensational story took the first of many incredible twists on April 3, when the group released a tape of Patty saying she had joined the SLA and had adopted the nom de guerre 'Tania'. The weird turns of the tale are truly astonishing -- the Hearst family trying to secure Patty's release by feeding all the people of Oakland and San Francisco for free ; the bank security cameras capturing "Tania" wielding a machine gun during a robbery; cast of characters including everyone from Bill Walton to the Black Panthers to Ronald Reagan to F. Lee Bailey; the largest police shoot-out in American history; the first breaking news event to be broadcast live on television stations across the country; Patty's year on the lam, running from authorities; and her circus like trial, filled with theatrical courtroom confrontations and a dramatic last-minute reversal, after which the term 'Stockholm syndrome' entered the lexicon. The saga of Patty Hearst highlighted a decade in which America seemed to be suffering a collective nervous breakdown. Based on more than a hundred interviews and thousands of previously secret documents, American Heiress thrillingly recounts the craziness of the times (there were an average of 1,500 terrorist bombings a year in the early 1970s). Toobin portrays the lunacy of the half-baked radicals of the SLA and the toxic mix of sex, politics, and violence that swept up Patty Hearst and re-creates her melodramatic trial. American Heiress examines the life of a young woman who suffered an unimaginable trauma and then made the stunning decision to join her captors' crusade. Or did she?" -- Book jacket.
Subjects: Biographies.; Hearst, Patricia, 1954-; Hearst, Patricia, 1954-; Symbionese Liberation Army.; Kidnapping victims; Stockholm syndrome; Trials (Robbery); Nineteen seventies.;
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Joyland / by King, Stephen,1947-author.;
Set in a small-town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
Subjects: Mystery fiction.; Ghost stories.; City and town life; Amusement parks; Nineteen seventies; Carnivals; College students; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Murder; Life change events;
© 2013., Hard Case Crime/Titan Books,
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Joyland [sound recording] / by King, Stephen,1947-; Kelly, Michael,1969-nrt;
Read by Michael Kelly.Set in a small town North Carolina amusement park in 1973, Joyland tells the story of the summer in which college student Devin Jones comes to work as a carny and confronts the legacy of a vicious murder, the fate of a dying child, and the ways both will change his life forever.
Subjects: Audiobooks.; City and town life; Amusement parks; Nineteen seventies; Carnivals; College students; Cold cases (Criminal investigation); Murder; Life change events;
© p2013., Simon & Schuster Audio,
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The 1970s : a new global history from civil rights to economic inequality / by Borstelmann, Thomas.;
Includes bibliographical references and index.Crosscurrents of crisis in 1970s America : trouble abroad, corruption at home, conservatism and the distrust of government, economic insecurity, turning inward -- The rising tide of equality and democratic reform : women in the public sphere, women in the private sphere, the many frontiers of equality, political reform, resistance -- The spread of market values : a sea change of principles, the economy goes south, globalization's gathering speed, from citizenship to deregulation, market solutions for every problem, a freer market, a coarser culture -- The retreat of empires and the global advance of the market : the emergence of human rights, European empires and Southern Africa, the Soviet Empire, the American empire, the Israeli exception, the retreat of the state, China and the hollowing out of socialism -- Resistance to the new hyper-individualism : the environmentalist challenge, religious resurgence at home, religious resurgence in Israel, religious resurgence in the Muslim world, Jimmy Carter as a man of his times -- More and less equal since the 1970s : evidence to the contrary, inclusiveness ascending, markets persisting, unrestrained consumption, inequality rising."The 1970s looks at an iconic decade when the cultural left and economic right came to the fore in American society and the world at large. While many have seen the 1970s as simply a period of failures epitomized by Watergate, inflation, the oil crisis, global unrest, and disillusionment with military efforts in Vietnam, Thomas Borstelmann creates a new framework for understanding the period and its legacy. He demonstrates how the 1970s increased social inclusiveness and, at the same time, encouraged commitments to the free market and wariness of government. As a result, American culture and much of the rest of the world became more--and less--equal."--Book jacket flap.
Subjects: Equality; Nineteen seventies.;
© c2012., Princeton University Press,
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