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PublisherNew Press, T.H.E.
ISBN-101565848756
ISBN-139781565848757
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Book TitleStayin' Alive : the 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
Number of Pages488 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2010
TopicUnited States / 20th Century, Social Classes & Economic Disparity, Sociology / General, Economic Conditions
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science, Business & Economics, History
AuthorJefferson Cowie
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.4 in
Item Weight28.6 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.5 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2010-010884
Reviews…so fresh, fertile and real that the only thing it resembles is itself…You just have to read it. It establishes its author as one our most commanding interpreters of recent American experience. It corrals all the generational energies coursing through the centrifuge of post–baby boomer ‘70s scholarship and churns them into the first compelling, coherent statement I've read of what happened in the '70s…Cowie's accomplishment is to convey what this epic cheat felt like from the inside."—Rick Perlstein, The Nation If you want to understand how we got here—how the Democrats' New Deal coalition shattered in the 1970s, and why progressives are still picking the shrapnel out of their political hides—you must read Stayin' Alive. A fun read with cultural insight…Cowie is impossibly fair."—Joan Walsh, Salon.com, "Will long stand as the finest and most sophisticated portrait of politics and culture in the American 1970s." --E.J. Dionne "Gives the best sense of the way that it felt to live through the decade . . . Cowie's book captures the contradictory nature of the 1970s politics better than almost any other ever written about the period." --Kim Phillips-Fein, Dissent "Might be the most groundbreaking and original national history of a working class since E.P. Thompson's Making of the English Working Class" --Steven Colatrella, New Politics, Praise for Stayin' Alive: "Will long stand as the finest and most sophisticated portrait of politics and culture in the American 1970s." --E.J. Dionne "Gives the best sense of the way that it felt to live through the decade . . . Cowie's book captures the contradictory nature of the 1970s politics better than almost any other ever written about the period." --Kim Phillips-Fein, Dissent "Might be the most groundbreaking and original national history of a working class since E.P. Thompson's Making of the English Working Class" --Steven Colatrella, New Politics, "...so fresh, fertile and real that the only thing it resembles is itself...You just have to read it. It establishes its author as one our most commanding interpreters of recent American experience. It corrals all the generational energies coursing through the centrifuge of post-baby boomer ¿s scholarship and churns them into the first compelling, coherent statement I've read of what happened in the '70s...Cowie's accomplishment is to convey what this epic cheat felt like from the inside."--Rick Perlstein, The Nation "If you want to understand how we got here--how the Democrats' New Deal coalition shattered in the 1970s, and why progressives are still picking the shrapnel out of their political hides--you must read Stayin' Alive. A fun read with cultural insight...Cowie is impossibly fair."--Joan Walsh, Salon.com, …so fresh, fertile and real that the only thing it resembles is itself…You just have to read it. It establishes its author as one our most commanding interpreters of recent American experience. It corrals all the generational energies coursing through the centrifuge of post--baby boomer #145;70s scholarship and churns them into the first compelling, coherent statement I've read of what happened in the '70s…Cowie's accomplishment is to convey what this epic cheat felt like from the inside."—Rick Perlstein, The Nation If you want to understand how we got here—how the Democrats' New Deal coalition shattered in the 1970s, and why progressives are still picking the shrapnel out of their political hides—you must read Stayin' Alive. A fun read with cultural insight…Cowie is impossibly fair."—Joan Walsh, Salon.com, "...so fresh, fertile and real that the only thing it resembles is itself...You just have to read it. It establishes its author as one our most commanding interpreters of recent American experience. It corrals all the generational energies coursing through the centrifuge of post-baby boomer ‘70s scholarship and churns them into the first compelling, coherent statement I've read of what happened in the '70s...Cowie's accomplishment is to convey what this epic cheat felt like from the inside."--Rick Perlstein,The Nation "If you want to understand how we got here--how the Democrats' New Deal coalition shattered in the 1970s, and why progressives are still picking the shrapnel out of their political hides--you must readStayin' Alive.A fun read with cultural insight...Cowie is impossibly fair."--Joan Walsh, Salon.com, "...so fresh, fertile and real that the only thing it resembles is itself...You just have to read it. It establishes its author as one our most commanding interpreters of recent American experience. It corrals all the generational energies coursing through the centrifuge of post-baby boomer '70s scholarship and churns them into the first compelling, coherent statement I've read of what happened in the '70s...Cowie's accomplishment is to convey what this epic cheat felt like from the inside."--Rick Perlstein, The Nation "If you want to understand how we got here--how the Democrats' New Deal coalition shattered in the 1970s, and why progressives are still picking the shrapnel out of their political hides--you must read Stayin' Alive. A fun read with cultural insight...Cowie is impossibly fair."--Joan Walsh, Salon.com
Dewey Edition22
Dewey Decimal331.097309047
SynopsisWinner of the 2011 Merle Curti award, an epic account that recasts the 1970s as the key turning point in modern U.S. history, from the renowned historian A wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade, Stayin' Alive is prizewinning historian Jefferson Cowie's remarkable account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the 1970s. In this edgy and incisive book--part political intrigue, part labor history, with large doses of American music, film and television lore--Cowie, with "an ear for the power and poetry of vernacular speech" ( Cleveland Plain Dealer ), reveals America's fascinating path from rising incomes and optimism of the New Deal to the widening economic inequalities and dampened expectations of the present., Winner of the 2011 Merle Curti award, an epic account that recasts the 1970s as the key turning point in modern U.S. history, from the renowned historian A wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade, Stayin' Alive is prizewinning historian Jefferson Cowie's remarkable account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the 1970s. In this edgy and incisive book--part political intrigue, part labor history, with large doses of American music, film and television lore--Cowie, with "an ear for the power and poetry of vernacular speech" (Cleveland Plain Dealer), reveals America's fascinating path from rising incomes and optimism of the New Deal to the widening economic inequalities and dampened expectations of the present., A wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade, Stayin' Alive is prize-winning historian Jefferson Cowie's remarkable account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the 1970s. In this edgy and incisive book--part political intrigue, part labor history, with large doses of American music, film and television lore--Cowie, with "an ear for the power and poetry of vernacular speech" ( Cleveland Plain Dealer ), reveals America's fascinating path from rising incomes and optimism of the New Deal to the widening economic inequalities and dampened expectations of the present. Winner of the 2011 Francis Parkman Prize from the Society of American Historians for the Best Book on American History Winner of the 2011 Merle Curti Prize from the Organization of American Historians for the Best Book in American Social History Winner of the 2011 Labor History Best Book Prize Winner of the 2011 Best Book Award from the United Association for Labor Education, An epic account of how middle-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the 1970s, this wide-ranging cultural and political history rewrites the 1970s as the crucial, pivotal era of our time. Jefferson Cowie's edgy and incisive book--part political intrigue, part labor history, with large doses of American musical, film, and TV lore--makes new sense of the 1970s as a crucial and poorly understood transition from New Deal America (with its large, optimistic middle class) to the widening economic inequalities, poverty, and dampened expectations of the 1980s and into the present. Stayin' Alive takes us from the factory floors of Ohio, Pittsburgh, and Detroit, to the Washington of Nixon, Ford, and Carter. Cowie also connects politics to culture, showing how the big screen and the jukebox can help us understand how America turned away from the radicalism of the 1960s and toward the patriotic promise of Ronald Reagan. Cowie makes unexpected connections between the secrets of the Nixon White House and the failings of George McGovern campaign; radicalism and the blue-collar backlash; the earthy twang of Merle Haggard's country music and the falsetto highs of Saturday Night Fever. Like Jeff Perlstein's acclaimed Nixonland, Stayin' Alive moves beyond conventional understandings of the period and brilliantly plumbs it for insights into our current way of life., Jefferson Cowie's edgy and incisive book makes new sense of the 1970s as a crucial and poorly understood transition from New Deal America, with its large, optimistic middle class, to the widening economic inequalities, poverty and dampened expectations of the 1980s and into the present.
LC Classification NumberHD8072.5
