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Beyond Vietnam and Watergate: Rethinking the 1970s (October 2015): Works Cited

By Derek Charles Catsam

Citations

Adelman, Tom.  The Long Ball: The Summer of ‘75—Spaceman, Catfish, Charlie Hustle, and the Greatest World Series Ever PlayedLittle, Brown, 2003.

America in the Seventies, ed. by Beth Bailey and David Farber.  University Press of Kansas, 2004 (CH, Mar’05, 42-4323).

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Balmer, Randall.  Redeemer: The Life of Jimmy CarterBasic Books, 2014.

Barakso, Maryann.  Governing NOW: Grassroots Activism in the National Organization for WomenCornell, 2004 (CH, Sep’05, 43-0635).

Baxandall, Rosalyn, and Linda Gordon.  Dear Sisters: Dispatches from the Women’s Liberation MovementBasic Books, 2001.

Berkowitz, Edward D.  Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the SeventiesColumbia, 2006 (CH, Dec’06, 44-2283).

Biskind, Peter.  Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock ‘n’ Roll Generation Saved Hollywood.  Simon & Schuster, 1998.

Blount, Roy, Jr.  About Three Bricks Shy … And the Load Filled UpBallantine Books, 1989.

Borstelmann, Thomas.  The 1970s: A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic InequalityPrinceton, 2012 (CH, Jun’12, 49-5824).

Bowden, Mark.  Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America’s War with Militant IslamAtlantic Monthly, 2006.

Bradley, Richard.  The Greatest Game: The Yankees, the Red Sox, and the Playoff of ‘78Free Press, 2008.

Brinkley, Douglas.  The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter’s Journey beyond the White HouseViking, 1998.

Carroll, Peter N.  It Seemed like Nothing Happened: America in the 1970sRutgers, 1990.

Connelly, Michael.  Rebound!: Basketball, Busing, Larry Bird, and the Rebirth of BostonMBI Pub. Co., 2008.

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Cook, David A.  Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979California, 2002.

Cowie, Jefferson.  Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class.  New Press, 2010 (CH, Apr’11, 48-4661).

Davis, Seth.  When March Went Mad: The Game That Transformed BasketballH. Holt/Times Books, 2009.

Dow, Bonnie J.  Watching Women’s Liberation, 1970: Feminism’s Pivotal Year on the Network NewsIllinois, 2014.

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Epstein, Dan.  Big Hair and Plastic Grass: A Funky Ride through Baseball and America in the Swinging ‘70s.  Thomas Dunne/St. Martin’s, 2010.

Feminist Coalitions: Historical Perspectives on Second-Wave Feminism in the United States, ed. by Stephanie Gilmore.  Illinois, 2008 (CH, May’09, 46-5217).

Fergus, Devin.  Liberalism, Black Power, and the Making of American Politics, 1965-1980Georgia, 2009.

Fetner, Tina.  How the Religious Right Shaped Lesbian and Gay ActivismMinnesota, 2008 (CH, Jun’09, 46-5916).

Formisano, Ronald P.  Boston against Busing: Race, Class, and Ethnicity in the 1960s and 1970sNorth Carolina, 2004 (CH, Sep’91, 29-0581).

Freedman, Estelle.  No Turning Back: The History of Feminism and the Future of WomenBallantine, 2003 (CH, Dec’02, 40-2318).

Freeman, Joshua B.  American Empire: The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home, 1945-2000Penguin, 2012.

Frost, Mark.  Game Six: Cincinnati, Boston, and the 1975 World Series: The Triumph of America’s PastimeHyperion, 2009.

Frum, David.  How We Got Here: The 70’s: The Decade That Brought You Modern Life (For Better or Worse).  Basic, 2000.

Haberski, Raymond.  It’s Only a Movie!: Films and Critics in American Culture.  University Press of Kentucky, 2001 (CH, Sep’01, 39-0209).

Hornig, Doug.  The Boys of October: How the 1975 Boston Red Sox Embodied Baseball’s Ideals—and Restored Our Spirits.  Contemporary Books, 2003.

Horowitz, Daniel.  Jimmy Carter and the Energy Crisis of the 1970s: The “Crisis of Confidence” Speech of July 15, 1979: A Brief History with DocumentsBedford/St. Martin’s, 2005.

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Kellow, Brian.  Pauline Kael: A Life in the DarkViking, 2011.

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Lassiter, Matthew D.  The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt SouthPrinceton, 2006.

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Patterson, James T.  Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974Oxford, 1996.

____.  Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. GoreOxford, 2005.

Perlstein, Rick.  Before The Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American ConsensusHill and Wang, 2001.

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Reynolds, Bill.  ‘78: The Boston Red Sox, a Historic Game, and a Divided City.  New American Library, 2010.

Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s, ed. by Bruce J. Schulman and Julian E. Zelizer.  Harvard, 2008.

Rimmerman, Craig A.  The Lesbian and Gay Movements: Assimilation or Liberation?  2nd ed.  Westview, 2014.

Rodgers, Daniel T.  Age of FractureBelknap, Harvard, 2011.

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Roth, Benita.  Separate Roads to Feminism: Black, Chicana, and White Feminist Movements in America’s Second WaveCambridge, 2003.

Sandbrook, Dominic.  Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist RightKnopf, 2011.

Schulman, Bruce J.  The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and PoliticsFree Press, 2001.

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Siegel, Deborah.  Sisterhood, Interrupted: From Radical Women to Girls Gone Wild.  Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Snyder, Brad.  A Well-Paid Slave: Curt Flood’s Fight for Free Agency in Professional SportsViking, 2006.

Springer, Kimberly.  Living for the Revolution: Black Feminist Organizations, 1968-1980Duke, 2005.

Stein, Judith.  Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies.  Yale, 2010.

Stein, Mark.  Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian MovementRoutledge, 2012.

Stone, Amy.  Gay Rights at the Ballot BoxMinnesota, 2012.

Vaughn, Stephen.  Freedom and Entertainment: Rating the Movies in an Era of New MediaCambridge, 2005.

Wheen, Francis.  Strange Days Indeed: The 1970s: The Golden Age of ParanoiaPublic Affairs, 2010.