num_pages: 320
description: 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 reveal a nation in the middle of a serious identity crisis. 1973 Nervous Breakdown offers a fever chart of a year of uncertainty and change, a year in which post-war prosperity crumbled and modernism gave way to postmodernism in a lively and revelatory analysis of one of the most important periods in the second half of the 20th century.
language: English
title: 1973 Nervous Breakdown: Watergate, Warhol, and the Birth of Post-Sixties America
titlecomplete: 1973 Nervous Breakdown: Watergate, Warhol, and the Birth of Post-Sixties America
genres: American, Nonfiction, American History, Sociology, History
ratings_count: 143
publisher: Bloomsbury USA