Stayin' Alive
“So fresh, fertile, and real…establishes its author as one of our most commanding interpreters of American experience.”
The Nation
Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize for the Best Book on American History
Winner of the Merle Curti Award for Best American Social History
Winner of the Labor History Best Book Prize
A Salon Best Book of the Year
A wide-ranging cultural and political history that will forever redefine a misunderstood decade
Stayin’ Alive is prize-winning historian Jefferson Cowie’s remarkable account of how working-class America hit the rocks in the political and economic upheavals of the 1970s.
In this edgy and incisive book―part political intrigue, part labor history, with large doses of American music, film and television lore―Cowie reveals America’s fascinating path from rising incomes and optimism of the New Deal to the widening economic inequalities and dampened expectations of the present.
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