There is no reason to believe that the trends in writing about the 1970s will slow any time soon. The decade appears to have found its place in the developing historiography of the postwar United States. This is a long overdue trend. The 1970s certainly were a decade of bad fashion choices and questionable décor. But the decade represents a whole lot more than that, and a lot more than just Watergate and Vietnam, as this far-from-complete sampling of recent literature of the era clearly indicates.