SUGGESTED READING ★ A-19McGirr, Lisa. Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (2001).
An influential study of the rise of conservatism in Orange County, Califor-
nia, once one of its more powerful centers.
Moreton, Bethany. To Serve God and Wal- Mart: The Making of Christian Free
Enterprise (2009). Explores how the nation’s largest employer drew on
evangelical Christianity to justify its often- criticized labor policies.
Moyn, Samuel. The Last Utopia: Human Rights in History (2010). Traces the
development of human rights consciousness, with special emphasis on
the 1970s.
Schulman, Bruce J. The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and
Politics (2001). A survey of the numerous political, social, and economic
changes that took place during the 1970s.
Self, Robert. All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the
1960s (2013). Identifies changes in the role of women and the structure of
the family as key issues in the rise of modern conservative politics.
Stein, Judith. Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in
the Seventies (2010). A careful analysis of the economic transformations of
the 1970s.
Wilentz, Sean. The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974–2008 (2008). Explores
how Ronald Reagan set the terms of public debate during and after his
presidency.
WEBSITES
National Security Archive: http://nsarchive.gwu.edu
Watergate: http://watergate.info/
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BOOKS
Ash, Timothy Garton. History of the Present: Essays, Sketches, and Dispatches from
Europe in the 1990s (2009). An account of the decade by a perceptive Euro-
pean commentator.
Brands, H. W. The Strange Death of American Liberalism (2001). Explores how
liberals’ discrediting of the federal government through their criticisms of
the Vietnam War and Watergate paved the way for the triumph of antigov-
ernment conservatism.
Cassidy, John. Dot.con (2002). Describes the rise and fall of the “new economy.”