Contributor
Schmidt, Mark Ray, 1953-
Imprint:San Diego, CA : Greenhaven Press, c2000.
Description320 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Note:Nixon's plan to end the Vietnam War / Richard Nixon. - The war of October 1973 and the oil embargo / Burton I. Kaufman. - Camp David Accords and Middle East tensions / Sandra Mackey. - Revolution and hostages in Iran / George Lenczowski. - Busing and Nixon's southern strategy / James T. Patterson. - The creation of magnet schools and integration / Christine H. Rossell. - The struggle for black equality / Harvard Sitkoff. - The Watergate crisis / Harold Evans. - No coups ... no tanks ... no mobs : America without Nixon / Bill Moyers. - 1976 : Bicentennial reflections / Barbara Tuchman. - When ideals and reality clash : the presidency of Jimmy Carter / Theodore H. White. - Structures to protect the environment / Philip Shabecoff. - Trouble at Love Canal / Samuel S. Epstein, Lester O. Brown, and Carl Pope. - Accident at Three Mile Island / Peter Stoler. - The romance with the automobile ends / Robert L. Shook. - Pop music in the '70s / David P. Szatmary. - A sample of '70s television / Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik. - Television families and reality / Ella Taylor. - The changing image of the cowboy / Richard Slotkin. - Star wars, Raiders, and Close encounters / Peter Biskind. - Blue jeans as self-expression / Beverly Gordon. - The search for self-fulfillment / Daniel Yankelovich. - The movement to liberate women / Judith M. Bardwick. - The faces of feminism / Sheila Tobias. - Mothering, careers, and self-fulfillment / Joyce Maynard. - Attitudes toward women in the workplace / Nancy E. McGlen and Karen O'Connor. - Abortion rights for women : Roe v. Wade / Dan Drucker. - Did the Women's Movement lose direction? / Christina Hoff Sommers. - Reflections on the 1970s : a personal view / Lawrence Wright. - Lessons from Vietnam / Walter H. Capps.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p. 312-313) and index.
