No Direction Home: The American Family and the Fear of National Decline, 1968-1980

by Natasha Zaretsky

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Between 1968 and 1980, fears about family deterioration and national decline were ubiquitous in American political culture. In No Direction Home, Natasha Zaretsky shows that these perceptions of decline profoundly shaped one another.

Throughout the 1970s, anxieties about the future of the nuclear family collided with anxieties about the direction of the United States in the wake of military defeat in Vietnam and in the midst of economic...

Format:Paperback

Language:English

ISBN:0807857971

ISBN13:9780807857977

Release Date:April 2007

Publisher:University of North Carolina Press

Length:336 Pages

Weight:1.19 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"

Related Subjects

20th Century Education & Reference Historical Study & Educational Resources History Nationalism Political Ideologies Political Science Politics & Government Politics & Social Sciences Social History Social Sciences Sociology

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