1970s

Joe Austin (2001). Taking the Train: How Graffiti Art Became an Urban Crisis in New York City. (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 356 p.). Professor of Popular Culture (Bowling Green State). Graffiti--New York (State)--New York; Street art--New York (State)--New York; Hip-hop--New York (State)--New York; Subways--New York (State)--New York; Urban renewal--New York (State)--New York; New York (N.Y.)--Social life and customs. 

Eds. Beth Bailey & David Farber (2004). America in the Seventies. (Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 246 p.). Professor of History (University of New Mexico); Associate Professor of American Studies (University of New Mexico). Nineteen seventies; United States--History--1969- ; United States--Social conditions--1960-1980. 

Edward D. Berkowitz (2006). Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies. (New York, NY: Columbia University Press, 296 p.). Professor of History and Public Policy and Public Administration (George Washington University). Nineteen seventies; Political culture--United States--History--20th century; Popular culture--United States--History--20th century; United States--Politics and government--1969-1974; United States--Politics and government--1974-1977; United States--Politics and government--1977-1981; United States--Social conditions--1960-1980.

Sam Binkley (2007). Getting Loose: Lifestyle Consumption in the 1970s. (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 336 p.). Assistant Professor of Sociology (Emerson College). Lifestyles--United States--History--20th century; Consumption (Economics)--Social aspects--United States--History--20th century; Popular culture--United States--History--20th century; Nineteen seventies; United States--Social life and customs--1971- ; United States--Social conditions--1960-1980. Sociological analysis of countercultural print culture of 1970s - what originated as emancipatory call to loosen up soon evolved into culture of highly commercialized consumption and lifestyle branding.  

Stephen Birmingham (1978). The Golden Dream: Suburbia in the Seventies. (New York, NY: Harper & Row, 213 p.). Suburbs--United States; United States--Social conditions--1960-1980.

Christopher Booker (1980). The Seventies: The Decade That Changed the Future. (New York, NY: Stein and Day, 354 p.). Nineteen seventies; Great Britain--Civilization--1945- ; United States--Civilization--1970-.

Seth Cagin & Philip Dray (1984). Hollywood Films of the Seventies: Sex, Drugs, Violence, Rock 'n' Roll & Politics. (New York, NY: Harper & Row, 290 p.). Motion pictures--United States--History.

Andrew J. Edelstein and Kevin McDonough (1990). The Seventies: From Hot Pants to Hot Tubs. (New York, NY: Dutton, 215 p.). Nineteen seventies; United States--Civilization--1970- ; United States--Social life and customs--1971-.

Roseann Ettinger (1999). Psychedelic Chic: Artistic Fashions of the Late 1960s & Early 1970s. (Atglen, PA: Schiffer Pub., 176 p.). Clothing and dress--United States--History--20th century; Psychedelic art--United States; Nineteen sixties; Nineteen seventies.

David Frum (1999). How We Got Here-The '70s: The Decade That Brought You Modern Life (For Better or Worse). (New York, NY: Basic Books, 418 p.). Senior Fellow, Manhattan Institute. Nineteen seventies; United States--Civilization--1970-; United States--Social life and customs--1971-. Author contends that 70's outdid 60's in terms of outright social revolution. 

Robert Hargreaves (1973). Superpower; A Portrait of America in the 1970's. (New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 628 p.). United States--Civilization--1945-.

David Heathcote; photography by Sue Barr (2006). The 70s House. (Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 240 p.). Interior decoration; Nineteen seventies. 70s was important watershed for interior domestic design; marked an essential transition from  Modernist-dominated design culture of the 60s to an era in which style and the individualistic ethos of fashion design became the guiding principles. 

Thomas Hine (2007). The Great Funk: Falling Apart and Coming Together (on a shag rug) in the Seventies. (New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 256 p.). Former Architecture and Design Critic (The Philadelphia Inquirer). Arts, American--20th century; Popular culture--United States--History--20th century; United States--Civilization--20th century. Ideas, feelings, sex, fashions, textures, gestures, colors, demographic forces, artistic expressions, other phenomena of complex era.

Ed. Elsebeth Hurup (1996). The Lost Decade: America in the Seventies. (Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press, 217 P.). Nineteen seventies; United States--Civilization--1970-. 

Ed. Sherrie A. Inness (2003). Disco Divas: Women and Popular Culture in the 1970s. (Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press,, 232 p.). Feminism--United States--History; Women--United States--Public opinion; Women in popular culture--United States; Sex role--United States; Public opinion--United States; Social change--United States; Nineteen seventies; United States--Social conditions--1960-1980.

Eds. Ashley Kahn, Holly George-Warren, Shawn Dahl (1998). Rolling Stone: The Seventies. (Boston, MA: Little, Brown and Co., 288 p.). Popular culture--United States--History--20th century; Nineteen seventies; United States--Civilization--1970-.

Herman Kahn [and] B. Bruce-Briggs (1972). Things To Come; Thinking About the Seventies and Eighties. (New York, NY: Macmillan, 262 p.). Civilization, Modern--1950- ; Nineteen seventies; Nineteen eighties; Forecasting.

Frererick R. Karl (2002). A Chronicle of Wasted Time: America in the Seventies. (Philadelphia, PA: Xlibris, 556 p.). Nineteen seventies; United States--Civilization--1970- ; United States--Social conditions--1960-1980; United States--Biography.

Andreas Killen (2005). 1973 Nervous Breakdown: Watergate, Warhol, and the Birth of Post-Sixties America. (New York, NY: Bloomsbury, 312 p.). Assistant Professor of History (City College of New York). Nineteen seventy-three, A.D.; Nineteen seventies; Watergate Affair, 1972-1974; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975--Peace; Israel-Arab War, 1973--Economic aspects; Petroleum industry and trade--Economic aspects--United States; United States--Civilization--1970-United States--Social conditions--1960-1980. Author argues that the 70's have "entered the historical lexicon as a virtual synonym for weakness, confusion, and malaise," adds that by the end of 1973 (Watergate cover-up, Arab oil embargo, Paris Peace Accords), "the institutional failures of American society routinely evoked expressions of systemic, perhaps irreparable crisis."  

Cynthia Crippen Leonard, and Marc Aronson, Thomas (1988). Day by Day, The Seventies. (New York, NY: Facts On File, 1297 p.). Nineteen seventies--Chronology. Contents: v. 1. 1970-1975 -- v. 2. 1976 -- index.

Eds. Suzanne Levine and Harriet Lyons (1980). The Decade of Women: A Ms. History of the Seventies in Words and Pictures. (New York, NY: Putnam, 253 p.). Women--United States--History--20th century; United States--Social conditions--1960-1980.

James Lileks (2004). Interior Desecrations: Hideous Homes from the Horrible 70’s. (New York, NY: Crown Publishers, 175 p.). Columnist for the Star-Tribune in Minneapolis. Interior decoration--United States--History--20th century; Nineteen seventies--Humor; Aesthetics, American.  

Editors of Mad Magazine (1996). Mad About the Seventies: The Best of the Decade. (Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1 vol.). Mad (New York, N.Y. : 1958); Nineteen seventies--Humor.

Kim McQuaid (1989). The Anxious Years: America in the Vietnam-Watergate Era. (New York, NY: Basic Books, 350 p.). United States -- Politics and government -- 1969-1974; United States -- Politics and government -- 1963-1969; Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- United States; Watergate Affair, 1972-1974.

Penman (1998). Vital Signs: Music, Movies and Other Manias. (New York, NY: Serpent’s Tail, 374 p.). Rock music--History and criticism; Motion pictures--History; Celebrities--Biography; Arts--History; Nineteen seventies; Nineteen eighties; Nineteen nineties; Great Britain--Social life and customs--1945- ; United States--Social life and customs--1971-.

Alison Pressley (2002). The Seventies: Good Times, Bad Taste. (London, UK: Michael O’Mara, 111 p.). Popular culture--Great Britain--History--20th century; Nineteen seventies; Youth--Great Britain--Social life and customs--20th century; Great Britain--Social life and customs--1945-.

Bruce J. Schulman (2001). The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics. (New York, NY: Free Press, 334 p.). Teaches History and American Studies (Boston University). Nineteen seventies; United States--Civilization--1970-. 

Stephanie A. Slocum-Schaffer; with a foreword by John Robert Greene (2003). America in the Seventies. (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 226 p.). Nineteen seventies; United States--History--1969-. 

Howard Sounes (2006). Seventies: The Sights, Sounds and Ideas of a Brilliant Decade. (London, UK: Simon & Schuster, 472 p.). 

Tad Szulc (1974). Innocents at Home: America in the 1970s. (New York, NY: Viking, 342 p.). Youth -- United States; Social problems; United States -- Social conditions -- 1980- United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980.

Edward J. Thomas (2000). A Turbulent Decade: A History of the Events of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania During the 1970’s. (St. Clair, PA: E.J. Thomas, 192 p.). Nineteen seventies; Schuylkill County (Pa.)--History--20th century; Schuylkill County (Pa.)--History, Local.

Editors of Time-Life Books; with a foreword by Dick Cavett (1998). Time of Transition, The 70s. (Alexandria, VA: Time-Life Books, 192 p.). Nineteen seventies; Nineteen seventies--Pictorial works; United States--History--1969- ; United States--History--1969---Pictorial works.

ed. Shelton Waldrep (2000). The Seventies: The Age of Glitter in Popular Culture. (New York, NY: Routledge, 317 p.). Nineteen seventies; Popular culture--United States--History--20th century; Mass media--United States--History--20th century; United States--Social life and customs--1971-.

Phillip Whitehead (1985). The Writing on the Wall: Britain in the Seventies. (London, UK: M. Joseph in association with Channel Four Television Co., 438 p.). Nineteen seventies; Great Britain--History--Elizabeth II, 1952-.

Richard Zoglin (2008). Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America. (New York, NY: Bloomsbury, 256 p.). Senior Editor and Writer (Time). Stand-up comedy--United States--History--20th century. Backstage view of the time when a group of brilliant, iconoclastic comedians ruled the world; behind-the-scenes look at one of the most influential and tumultuous decades in American popular culture.

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