American Politics and Society
Americans have long struggled with 1970s decade to understand exactly how it influenced American political, economic and social fabric. It seemed that while historians were pondering over the role of 1960s and 1980s, the decade in between evaporated in thin air with no one paying much attention or been able to comprehend the role played by this decade. But when the confused teenager of 1970s grew up to become academics and journalists, a shift in history was noticed.
To most Americans, seventies was an era of defeat and depression. Americans were sorely defeated in Vietnam, they faced hostage crisis in Iran, met some serious inflation problems and oil shortage. Thus if anything, Americans would want to forget that 70s ever existed. But that is not the whole picture- its just one side of the coin. The other side shows a much different picture where 70s played as crucial a role in shaping history as 1920s or 1960s did.
With the 1970s generation become more vocal and eloquent, they also became more aware of the role their decade had played in shaping the American culture, its political and economic structure. It is now believed that the America we live in today has its roots in the quiet revolution of 1970s. It was during this decade that experimentation in terms of social changes that had taken place in 1960s finally came to their appropriate end. This doesn't mean they disappeared but rather they were filtered out so that only the most appropriate, the most needed and the most in-demand changes stayed while the rest were weeded out.
Bruce J. Schulman in his book "The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics," studies the decade in greater detail and depth to answer one important question:...
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