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Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right

Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right - Paperback

by Dominic Sandbrook
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Availability:In StockContributor:Dominic SandbrookPublish date:2012-02-14Pages:544
Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400077243ISBN-10:1400077249UPC:9781400077243Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Political Ideologies, History & TheoryBook Topic:20th Century, Conservatism & LiberalismSize:7.98 x 5.29 x 1.09 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SC4Q2QRAAS

"I'm mad as hell, and I'm not going to take it anymore " The words of Howard Beale, the fictional anchorman in 1976's hit film Network, struck a chord with a generation of Americans. In this colourful new history, Dominic Sandbrook ranges seamlessly over the political, economic, and cultural high (and low) points of American life in the 1970s, exploring the roots of the fears, resentments, cravings, and disappointments we know so well today. From Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan to Anita Bryant and Jerry Falwell, he shows how the 1970s saw the emergence of a new right-wing populism, setting the stage for the bitter partisanship and near-total cynicism of our modern political landscape.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Knopf Doubleday Publishing GroupISBN-13:9781400077243ISBN-10:1400077249UPC:9781400077243Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:United States, Political Ideologies, History & TheoryBook Topic:20th Century, Conservatism & LiberalismSize:7.98 x 5.29 x 1.09 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SC4Q2QRAAS

Dominic Sandbrook was educated at Oxford, St. Andrews, and Cambridge. He taught American history at the University of Sheffield and is a former senior fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford. Sandbrook is the author of Eugene McCarthy: The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism, as well as three best-selling books on modern British history, Never Had It So Good, White Heat, and State of Emergency. He is also a journalist and critic, writing regularly for the London Daily Telegraph, Daily Mail, and The Sunday Times, and a columnist for the New Statesman and BBC History Magazine.


Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

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