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America in the 1970s (Twenty-First Century Books, 2010) online. Sandbrook, Dominic. Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right (2012) excerpt; Schulman, Bruce J., ed. Rightward bound: Making America conservative in the 1970s (Harvard University Press, 2008). Thornton, Richard C.
Their partnership changed form and continued as a nonsexual one, and they were separated during much of the 1970s. Capote never finished another novel after In Cold Blood. The dearth of new prose and other failures, including a rejected screenplay for Paramount Pictures 's 1974 adaptation of The Great Gatsby , were counteracted by Capote's ...
June 16 – The musical film Grease is released, starring 24-year-old New Jersey born actor John Travolta and 29-year-old British-Australian actress and singer Olivia Newton-John. [ 11 ] June 19 – Garfield , which eventually becomes the world's most widely syndicated comic strip , makes its debut nationwide.
1980s in the United States by state or territory (62 C) 1980s disestablishments in the United States (66 C, 9 P) 1980s establishments in the United States (71 C, 14 P)
In addition, the media and entertainment industry during the 1980s glamorized the stock market and financial sector (e.g. the 1987 movie Wall Street), causing many young people to pursue careers as brokers, investors, or bankers instead of manufacturing and making it unlikely that any of the lost industrial base would be restored any time soon.
This is a list of books and publications related to the hippie subculture. It includes books written at the time about the counterculture of the 1960s and early 1970s, books that influenced the culture, and books published after its heyday that document or analyze the culture and period. The list includes both nonfiction and fictional works ...
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March 25 – James Wright, American poet (born 1927) March 26 – Roland Barthes, French literary theorist (born 1915) [19] March 27 – Idris Jamma', Sudanese poet (died 1980) [20] April 6 – John Collier, English-born American short story writer (born 1901) April 15 – Jean-Paul Sartre, French philosopher, novelist and dramatist (born 1905 ...