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Author Zaretsky, Natasha, 1970-

Title No direction home [electronic resource] : the American family and the fear of national decline, 1968-1980 / Natasha Zaretsky.

Imprint Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, c2007.

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Description xii, 320 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-304) and index.
Contents Introduction -- Homeward unbound : prisoners of war, national defeat, and the crisis of male authority -- Getting the house in order : the oil embargo, consumption, and the limits of American power -- "The great male cop-out" : productivity lag and the end of the family wage -- The spirit of '76 : the Bicentennial and Cold War revivalism -- The world as a mirror : narcissism, "malaise," and the middle-class family -- Conclusion : The familial roots of Republican domination.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Middle class -- United States -- Economic conditions.
Middle class -- Political activity -- United States.
Middle class -- United States -- History.
United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980.
United States -- Politics and government.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0807830941 (alk. paper)
9780807830949 (alk. paper)
0807857971 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780807857977 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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