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1970s

Scope|Overview Sources|Personalities and Events|Notable Literature|Notable Non-Fiction|Periodicals, Journals, & Trade Publications

SCOPE: The decade of the 1970s was relatively quiet compared to the events of the 1950s and 1960s. The notable events of the decade were the Watergate Scandal culminating in the resignation of President Richard Nixon and the tragedy of the Kent State Shootings. Culturally, Hollywood produced several blockbusters including Star Wars, Jaws, The Exorcist, The Godfather, and The Sting. The music of disco fever permeated the youth scene.

OVERVIEW SOURCES:

REF E 169.1.B664 1990 American Chronicle

REF E 169.12.A419 American Decades, 1970-1979

REF D 848.L4 1988 Day by Day, the Seventies

REF PN 1993.5.U6 B65 The Films of the Seventies

REF E 174.5.W46 1991 The U.S.A: A Chronicle in Pictures

Some representative books from the Circulating Collection (located upstairs in the library)

PERSONALITIES AND EVENTS

Harcleroad, Fred F. Issues of the Seventies. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1970.

Lazarsfeld, Paul. Views from the Socially Sensitive Seventies. New York: American Telephone and Telegraph Co; 1973.

Schulman, Bruce J. The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2002.

Waldrep, Shelton. The Seventies: The Age of Glitter in Popular Culture. New York: Routledge, 2000.

NOTABLE LITERATURE

Bach, Richard. Jonathan Livingston Seagull. New York: Macmillan, 1970.

Bellow, Saul. Humboldt's Gift. New York: Avon, 1973.

Cheever, John. Falconer. New York: Knopf, 1977.

Crichton, Michael. The Terminal Man. New York: Bantam Books, 1973.

Dickey, James. Deliverance. New York: Dell, 1971.

Didion, Joan. A Book of Common Prayer. New York: Pocket Books, 1978.

Didion, Joan. Play it as it Lays. New York: Pocket Books, 1978.

Doctorow, E.L. Ragtime. New York: Random House, 1975.

French, Marilyn. The Women's Room. New York: Summit Books, 1977.

Gardner, John. October Light. New York: Knopf, 1976.

Heller, Joseph. Something Happened. New York: Knopf, 1974.

Kosinski, Jerzy. Being There. New York: Grove Press, 1999.

Kosinski, Jerzy. Passion Play. New York: St. Martins Press, 1979.

Mailer, Norman. The Executioner's Song. Boston: Little, Brown, 1979.

Morrison, Toni. The Bluest Eye. New York: Knopf, 2000.

Ryan, Cornelius. A Bridge Too Far. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974.

Styron, William. Sophie's Choice. New York: Random House, 1979.

Updike, John. A Month of Sundays. New York: Knopf, 1975.

Updike, John. Rabbit Redux. New York: Knopf, 1971.

Wouk, Herman. War and Remembrance. Boston: Little Brown, 1978.

NOTABLE NON-FICTION

Bernstein, Carl. All the President's Men. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1974.

Brown, Dee. Bury my Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West. New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1991.

Halberstam, David. The Best and the Brightest. New York: Modern Library, 2001.

Harris, Thomas Anthony. I'm OK, You're OK. New York: Avon Books, 1973.

Lasch, Christopher. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations. New York: Norton, 1978.

Millett, Kate. Sexual Politics. New York: Ballantine, 1978.

Speer, Albert. Inside the Third Reich: Memoirs. New York: Collier Books, 1981.

Toffler, Alvin. Future Shock. New York: Bantam, 1971.

Townsend, Robert. Up the Organization. New York: Knopf, 1970.

Tuchman, Barbara. A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century. New York: Knopf, 1984.

Wolfe, Tom. The Right Stuff. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1979.

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Click the link for a list of full text journals available through our databases in:

United States History-General

American Prospect

Magazine of History

National Interest

Open Access Journals in History

Updated 08/22/2007