How We Got Here
David Frum(Author)
Basic Books (Publisher)
Published on 19. January 2000
Book
Hardback
448 pages
978-0-465-04195-4 (ISBN)
Description
A sweeping condemnation of the decline of American culture since the 1970s by one of Americas leading conservative writers. . For many, the 1970s evoke the Brady Bunch and the birth of disco. In this first, thematic popular history of the decade, David Frum argues that it was the 1970s, not the 1960s, that created modern America and altered the American personality forever. A society that had valued faith, self-reliance, self-sacrifice, and family loyalty evolved in little more than a decade into one characterized by superstition, self-interest, narcissism, and guilt. Frum examines this metamorphosis through the rise to cultural dominance of faddish psychology, astrology, drugs, religious cults, and consumer debt, and profiles such prominent players of the decade as Werner Erhard, Alex Comfort, and Jerry Brown. How We Got Here is lively and provocative reading.
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Language
English
Place of publication
United States
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Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 156 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-465-04195-4 (9780465041954)
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