How We Got Here : The 70's: The Decade That Brought You Modern Life (For Better or Worse)

For many, the 1970s evoke the Brady Bunch and the birth of disco. In this first, thematic popular history of the decade, David Frum argues that it was the 1970s, not the 1960s, that created modern America and altered the American personality forever. A society that had valued faith, self-reliance, self-sacrifice, and family loyalty evolved in little more than a decade into one characterized by superstition, self-interest, narcissism, and guilt. Frum examines this metamorphosis through the rise to cultural dominance of faddish psychology, astrology, drugs, religious cults, and consumer debt, and profiles such prominent players of the decade as Werner Erhard, Alex Comfort, and Jerry Brown. __How We Got Here__ is lively and provocative reading. For many, the 1970s evoke the Brady Bunch and the birth of disco. In this first, thematic popular history of the decade, David Frum argues that it was the 1970s, not the 1960s, that created modern America and altered the American personality forever. A society that had valued faith, self-reliance, self-sacrifice, and family loyalty evolved in little more than a decade into one characterized by superstition, self-interest, narcissism, and guilt. Frum examines this metamorphosis through the rise to cultural dominance of faddish psychology, astrology, drugs, religious cults, and consumer debt, and profiles such prominent players of the decade as Werner Erhard, Alex Comfort, and Jerry Brown. How We Got Here is lively and provocative reading. A biting look at the evolution of the modern day culture in the United States by a leading conservative thinker places the beginning of the decline that has led to the current state of affairs in the 1970s, with its culture of drugs, cults, astrology, and pop psychology. Reprint. Examines the political events, popular opinion polls, films, music, and advertising of the 1970s that brought extreme changes to popular American culture. The author presents his views that the decade of the 1970s̕ created modern American culture and changed the American personality A sweeping condemnation of the decline of American culture since the 1970s by one of America's leading conservative writers