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No Direction Home
Natasha Zaretsky
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The University of North Carolina Press 
Sachbuch / 20. Jahrhundert (bis 1945)
Beschreibung
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 recession, Zaretsky explains. By exploring such themes as the controversy surrounding prisoners of war in Southeast Asia, the OPEC oil embargo of 1973-74, and debates about cultural narcissism, Zaretsky reveals that the 1970s marked a significant turning point in the history of American nationalism. After Vietnam, a wounded national identity--rooted in a collective sense of injury and fueled by images of family peril--exploded to the surface and helped set the stage for the Reagan Revolution. With an innovative analysis that integrates cultural, intellectual, and political history,
No Direction Home explores the fears that not only shaped an earlier era but also have reverberated into our own time.
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1980 election, ethnicity, "Crisis of Confidence" speech, inflation, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations, OPEC oil embargo of 1973-1974, fatherlessness, President Jimmy Carter, Henry Kissinger, Norman Podhoretz, American Revolution Bicentennial Administration, national decline, Nixon Administration, Bicentennial of 1976, economic recession, industrial workers, women's liberation movement, Iranian hostage crisis, working women, single parenthood, Ronald Reagan, Christopher Lasch, American prisoners of war, Vietnam War, Cold War, family wage, male breadwinner, military failure, feminism, deindustrialization, family decline, narcissism, energy shortages, quality of worklife programs, two-earner family, productivity lag, 1970s, unemployment, nationalism, nuclear family, American family