Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class

by Jefferson R. Cowie Narrated by Tom Perkins

Overview

A wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade, Stayin' Alive is prize-winning historian Jefferson Cowie's remarkable account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the 1970s. In this edgy and incisive book-part political intrigue, part labor history, with large doses of American music, film, and television lore-Cowie, with "an ear for the power and poetry of vernacular speech" (Cleveland Plain Dealer), reveals America's fascinating path from rising incomes and optimism of the New Deal to the widening economic inequalities and dampened expectations of the present.



"So fresh, fertile, and real . . . establishes its author as one of our most commanding interpreters of American experience." -Rick Perlstein, The Nation

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

“Will long stand as the finest and most sophisticated portrait of politics and culture in the American 1970s.”

—E.J. Dionne

“Gives the best sense of the way that it felt to live through the decade . . . Cowie’s book captures the contradictory nature of the 1970s politics better than almost any other ever written about the period.”

—Kim Phillips-Fein, Dissent



“Might be the most groundbreaking and original national history of a working class since E.P. Thompson’s Making of the English Working Class”

—Steven Colatrella, New Politics

Product Details

BN ID:	2940170635818
Publisher:	Tantor Audio
Publication date:	12/18/2018
Edition description:	Unabridged

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