No Direction Home: The American Family and the Fear of National Decline, 1968-1980

by Natasha Zaretsky

Book Overview

Between 1968 and 1980, fears about family deterioration and national decline were ubiquitous in American political culture. In No Direction Home, Natasha Zaretsky shows that these perceptions of decline profoundly shaped one another.

Throughout the 1970s, anxieties about the future of the nuclear family collided with anxieties about the direction of the United States in the wake of military defeat in Vietnam and in the midst of economic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807857971
• ISBN13: 9780807857977
• Release Date: April 2007
• Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"