Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class by Jefferson R. Cowie

Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

Jefferson R. Cowie

464 pages • first pub 2010 (editions)

nonfiction history politics challenging informative slow-paced

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An epic account of how middle-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the 1970s, this wide-ranging cultural and political history rewrites the 1970s as the crucial, pivotal era of our time. Jefferson Cowie's edgy and...

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