It Seemed Like Nothing Happened: America in the 1970s

It Seemed Like Nothing Happened: America in the 1970s by Carroll, Peter N.. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780813515380.

"A compelling and persuasive challenge to the journalistic characterization of the 70s as the Me Decade." -- Ruth Rosen, University of California, Davis "This is the single best book on the 1970s." -- Leo Ribuffo, George Washington University In this unique, comprehensive history of the 1970s, we learn about international developments: the war in Cambodia, Nixons trip to China, the oil embargo and resulting gas shortage, the Mayaquez incident, the Camp David accords, the Iranian capture of the U.S. embassy and the taking of hostages, the ill-fated rescue mission. All this signaled a decline in American power and influence. We also learn about domestic politics: Kent State, the Pentagon Papers, Haynsworth and Carswell, the Eagleton affair, the rise of ticket splitting, inflation, recession, unemployment, Watergate, Agnews resignation, the Saturday night massacre, Nixons resignation, the pardon for draft evaders, Proposition 13, the politicization of organized religion, the conservative shift in the Democratic Party, and the Reagan electoral landslide. Carroll reminds us of tragedies and occasional moments of levity, bringing up the names Patricia Hearst, George Jackson and Angela Davis, Wilbur Mills and the Argentina Firecracker, Wayne Hays and Elizabeth Ray, Harvey Milk and Mayor George Moscone.