1973 Nervous Breakdown (eBook, ePUB)
Watergate, Warhol, and the Birth of Post-Sixties America
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1973 marked the end of the 1960s and the birth of a new cultural sensibility. A year of shattering political crisis, 1973 was defined by defeat in Vietnam, Roe v. Wade, the oil crisis and the Watergate hearings. It was also a year of remarkable creative ferment. From landmark movies such as "The Exorcist," "Mean Streets, " and "American Graffiti "to seminal books such as "Fear of Flying "and "Gravity's Rainbow, " from the proto-punk band the New York Dolls to the first ever reality TV show, "The American Family," the cultural artifacts of the year reveal a nation in the middle of a serious ide...
1973 marked the end of the 1960s and the birth of a new cultural sensibility. A year of shattering political crisis, 1973 was defined by defeat in Vietnam, Roe v. Wade, the oil crisis and the Watergate hearings. It was also a year of remarkable creative ferment. From landmark movies such as "The Exorcist," "Mean Streets, " and "American Graffiti "to seminal books such as "Fear of Flying "and "Gravity's Rainbow, " from the proto-punk band the New York Dolls to the first ever reality TV show, "The American Family," the cultural artifacts of the year reveal a nation in the middle of a serious identity crisis. "1973 Nervous Breakdown" offers a fever chart of a year of uncertainty and change, a year in which post-war prosperity crumbled and modernism gave way to postmodernism in a lively and revelatory analysis of one of the most important periods in the second half of the 20th century.
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