Preface
Prologue
Chapter I - "I'm Wasted, and I Can't Find My Way Home:" The End of the
Sixties
Close - Ups: Jimi Hendrix / Abbie Hoffman
Chapter II - "A Decent Interval:" America Leaves Vietnam, 1969 - 1973
Close - Ups: John Paul Vann / John Kerry
Chapter III - "Should Have Destroyed the Tapes:" The Collapse of the Nixon
Presidency.
Close-Ups: Richard Nixon / Spiro Agnew
Chapter IV - Bringing the War Home: Last Spasms of the Radical Left
Close-Ups: Bernardine Dohrn / Donald De Freeze
Chapter V - "The American Ride Is Ending:" Energy Crises and a
Post-Industrial Economy
Close-Ups: Bill Gates / Lee Iacocca
Chapter VI - Looking Out for Number One: The Me Decade and the Endurance of
Social Commitment
Close-Ups: Robert Ringer / Paul Watson
Chapter VII - "What Is Special Order 937?:" Film and Television in the
Seventies
Close-Ups: Sam Peckinpah / Stephen Spielberg
Chapter VIII - "Bridge Over Troubled Water:" Popular Music in the Seventies
Close-Ups: Jackson Browne / Patti Smith
Chapter IX - "A Crisis of Confidence:" National Politics and Foreign Policy
Close-Ups: Shirley Chisholm / Phyllis Schlafly
Epilogue: "Are You Better Off Now....:" The Promise and Reality of the
Eighties
Bibliographic Essay
Index
