Decade of Nightmares
The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America
1st Edition
Published on 15. March 2006
353 pages
978-0-19-803972-3 (ISBN)
Description
Drawing on a wide array of sources--including tabloid journalism, popular fiction, movies, and television shows--Philip Jenkins argues that a remarkable confluence of panics, scares, and a few genuine threats created a climate of fear that led to the conservative reaction. He identifies 1975 to 1986 as the watershed years. During this time, he says, there was a sharp increase in perceived threats to our security at home and abroad, dangers which began to be described in terms of moral evil. Rejecting the radicalism of the '60s, which many saw as the source of the crisis, Americans adopted a more pessimistic interpretation of human behavior, which harked back to much older themes in American culture. This simpler but darker vision ultimately brought us Ronald Reagan and the ascendancy of the political Right.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Introduction
- 1 Mainstreaming the Sixties
- 2 Going Too Far: Bicentennial America
- 3 Against the Grain
- 4 The Politics of Children: 1977
- 5 Predators
- 6 Captive America: 1980
- 7 Into the Reagan Era
- 8 Evil Empires
- 9 Dark Victories
- 10 The Abuse Epidemic
- 11 Wars Without End
- Notes
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
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- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
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