This is who we were in the 1970s.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gale Group, Content Provider.

Mars, Laura, editor.

Series:

Gale eBooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nineteen seventies.

United States--Economic conditions--1971-1981.

United States.

United States--Social conditions--1960-1980.

United States--Civilization--1970-.

United States--History--1969-.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 488 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Amenia, NY : Grey House Publishing, [2015]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This is Who We Were, provides the reader with a deeper understanding of day to day life in America in 1950. This new series is sure to be of value as both a serious research tool for students of American history as well as an intriguing climb up America's family tree. The richly-illustrated text provides an interesting way to study a truly unique time in American history.

Contents:

This is Who We Were: In the 1970s

Front Matter

Table of Contents

Essay on the 1970s

Introduction

Section 1 Profiles

1970

1971

1972

1973

1975

1976

1977

1978

1979

Section 2 Historical Snapshots

Early 1970s

Mid 1970s

Late 1970s

Section 3 Economy of the Times

Consumer Expenditures

Annual Income of Standard Jobs

Selected Prices

The Value of a Dollar, 1860-2014

Section 4 All Around Us

"Organizing the High Schools,"

"March 14 Draft Card Turn-in in Chicago,"

"Students Strike Against Cambodia,"

"What's Troubling High School Students?"

"California Reservists Speak Out Against War,"

"Sky Spies to Watch Pollution,"

"Pollution Clean-up of Nation Will Take Time, Experts Warn,"

"The Failures of Educational Reform,"

"Conservationists Disappointed,"

"Correpondence Between Nicholas Bageac and Henry W. Allen,"

"Payroll Leadership the Key, UCAN Tries to Break Cycle,"

"'71 Year of the Ballot for Midlands' Youth,"

"Women Against Themselves,"

"The Family Is out of Fashion," by Ann Richardson Roiphe,

"For They Are All Honorable Men," by Jan Barry,

"The Crucial Math of Motherhood,"

"All about a Subject You Can Sink Your Teeth Into,"

"Avery Repeats Stop Winter Olympics View,"

"IBM Feels Bite of Growing Computer Leasing Industry,"

"The 'Weaker Sex' Comes on Strong,"

"Going Home,"

"Length of Schoolboy's Hair Sharply Divides Community,"

"Critical Area Study of Charlotte Harbor Delayed,"

"Down and Out in America...,"

"Paper Restoring: A Scary Business,"

"Computer Feeds Crop of Chickens,"

"Housing for the Aged in Suburbia: Even the Affluent Find It Hard to Keep Up,"

"It's 1986 and Every Student Has a Calculator,"

"Stanley Cup Well Running Dry for Flyers,"

"Inflation Still Potent, '78 Slump Inevitable,".

"Does Atlanta Want Good Theater?"

Editorial, "Economy and Energy,"

International Rescue Committee,

"CBS Inventor Recalled First Color Telecast,"

"Intrepid Joins Bich Team as French Hone for 1980,"

"Nepal Is Nepal, New York Is 'Fat City,'"

"New Oxford's Powers Keeps Getting Better,"

"Rodgers Could Taste Third Boston Marathon Victory,"

Section 5 Census Data

State-by-State Comparative Tables: 1970, 1980 and 2010

Population

1980 Census Population

1980 Census of Housing

Further Reading

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

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

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781785398032

1785398032

9781619257504

1619257505

OCLC:

945376628