This is who we were. In the 1980s.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mars, Laura.

Contributor:

Grey House Publishing, Inc.

Derks, Scott.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nineteen eighties.

United States--Economic conditions--1981-2001.

United States.

United States--Social conditions--1980-2020.

United States--History--1969-.

United States--Civilization--1970-.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 570 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2016]

Summary:

This companion book to the 1980 Census provides the reader with a deeper understanding of day-to-day life in America from 1980 to 1989. Readers will uncover how American life was affected by the fall of the Berlin Wall, the rise of the Computer Age, and Reagan-era prosperity and decadence. Collecting information from government surveys, social worker histories, economic data, family diaries, letters, newspapers, and magazine features, this book assembles a look into America's past. This volume features 26 profiles of people living and working during the 1980s, painting a picture of what it was like to live in America in this period. These stories portray both struggling and successful Americans from various economic classes, occupations, and regions across the country, capturing a wide range of thoughts and emotions.

Contents:

Profiles

Historical snapshots

Economy of the times

All around us: What we saw, wrote, read & listened to

Census data.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 5, 2016).

"Based on material from Grey House Publishing's Working Americans series by Scott Derks".

Related Work:

Derks, Scott. Working Americans.

ISBN:

9781786841346

1786841347

9781619259355

1619259354

OCLC:

959632356