Main entry:

Killen, Andreas.

Title & Author:

1973 nervous breakdown : Watergate, Warhol, and the birth of post-sixties America / Andreas Killen.

Edition:

1st U.S. ed.

Publication:

New York : Bloomsbury : Distributed to the trade by Holtzbrinck, 2006.

Description:

312 pages ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-301) and index.
Fear of flying -- Reality programming -- Operation homecoming -- Personality crisis -- Warholism -- Reinventing the fifties -- Power shift -- Conspiracy nation.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

Tumultuous and exciting, 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 testify to a nation in the middle of a serious identity crisis. 1973 Nervous Breakdown offers a fever chart of a year of uncertainty, fragility, and change, a year in which post-war prosperity crumbles and modernism gives way to postmodernism. Killen ransacks newspapers, magazines, novels, films, TV shows and music to bring to life traumatic events. The fate of the family, the future of the presidency, the sanity of the masses--all of these bedrocks of society are threatened. 1973 marks the pivotal year of a decade whose impact on our own cultural zeitgeist remains considerable--a decade in sore need of liberation both from the long shadow of the 1960s and from the backwards shadow cast by the 1980s. With this book, Andreas Killen offers a lively and revelatory analysis of one of the most important periods in the second half of the 20th century. [from publisher description].

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ISBN:

1596910593 (hardcover)
9781596910591

Subject:

Watergate Affair, 1972-1974.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 Peace.
Israel-Arab War, 1973 Economic aspects.
Petroleum industry and trade United States.
Affaire Watergate, 1972-1974.
Guerre du Viêt-nam, 1961-1975 Paix.
Guerre israélo-arabe, 1973 Aspect économique.
Peace
Civilization
Economics
Petroleum industry and trade
Social conditions
Watergate-Affäre
Vietnamkrieg
Nahostkonflikt
Erdölversorgung
Kultur
Soziale Situation
Yom Kippur War, 1973 Economic aspects.
Petroleum industry and trade Economic aspects United States.
Nineteen seventy-three, A.D.
Nineteen seventies
United States Civilization 1970-
United States Social conditions 1960-1980.
États-Unis Civilisation 1970-
États-Unis Conditions sociales 1960-1980.
United States
USA

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269516
Call No.: BIB 201776
Status: Available