10/13/2010 @ 7:00

10/13/2010

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Saint Paul, MN

Something happened : a political and cultural overview of the seventies By Edward D. Berkowitz Ramsey Library � yes Hennepin Library � yes Anoka County - no 296 pages 2007 This is an even-handed, reliable, comprehensive, and remarkably concise account of a decade whose events transformed the nation. Watergate, Vietnam, the oil embargo, the rights revolution, stagflation, New York City's fiscal meltdown, Three Mile Island, the Iran hostage crisis, The Godfather, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Berkowitz synthesizes all these, and more , in his portrait of the era that marked a momentous divide in America's political economy, foreign policy, and culture.