![]() We begin to see the first inklings of big changes in the American economy. The seventies were a time of economic transition. “There’s no question that he is the greatest ex-president the United States has ever had” That’s what Jefferson Cowie’s book, among others, does. ![]() ![]() In recent years, historians have been paying more careful attention to what was going on in the seventies and identifying the decade as an important turning point in American politics. And for a long time, the 1970s were seen as just the transition from the sixties to the eighties. The Eighties were the Reagan era, the beginning of a new conservative regime in the United States. The sixties were the start of the Vietnam war and counterculture, the time of the civil rights movement, student protests and the maturing of the baby boomers. For a long time, people looked back at the 1970s as an in-between decade. To understand Jimmy Carter and his presidency, it’s important to understand the context in which he was elected and served as president. ![]() ![]() Please introduce us to Vanderbilt historian Jefferson Cowie’s Stayin Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class. Your first book is a cultural and political history of the decade. Stayin Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
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