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A wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade, is prize-winning historian Jefferson Cowies remarkable account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the 1970s. In this edgy and incisive bookpart political intrigue, part labor history, with large doses of American music, film and television loreCowie, with an ear for the power and poetry of vernacular speech (), reveals Americas fascinating path from rising incomes and optimism of the New Deal to the widening economic inequalities and dampened expectations of the present.