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

by Jefferson Cowie

Book Overview

Winner of the 2011 Merle Curti award, an epic account that recasts the 1970s as the key turning point in modern U.S. history, from the renowned historian

A wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade, Stayin' Alive is prizewinning 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565848756
• ISBN13: 9781565848757
• Release Date: September 2010
• Publisher: New Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.3" x 9.1"