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1980 was a turning point in American history.
When the year began, it was still very much the
1970s, with Jimmy Carter in the White House, a
sluggish economy marked by high inflation, and
the disco still riding the airwaves. When it
ended, Ronald Reagan won the presidency in a
landslide, inaugurating a rightward turn in
American politics and culture. We still feel the
effects of this tectonic shift today, as even
subsequent Democratic administrations have
offered neoliberal economic and social policies
that owe more to Reagan than to FDR or LBJ. To
understand what the American public was thinking
during this pivotal year, we need to examine
what they were reading, listening to, and
watching. nbsp198 America's Pivotal
Yearnbspput the news events of the
era8212evrything from the Iran hostage crisis
to the rise of televangelism8212ino
conversation with the year8217spopular
culture. Separate chapters focus on the movies,
television shows, songs, and books that
Americans were talking about that year, including
both the biggest hits and some notable flops
that failed to capture the shifting zeitgeist. As
he looks at the events that had Americans glued
to their screens, from the Miracle on Ice to the
mystery of Who Shot J.R., cultural historian Jim
Cullen garners surprising insights about
how Americans8217attitudes were changing as
they entered the 1980s. Praise for Jim Cullen's
previous Rutgers University Press books
quotInfrmed and perceptivequot8212Noman Lear
onnbspThoe Were the Days Why All in the Family
Still Matters quotJimCullen is one of the most
acute cultural historians writing
today.quot8212Lois P. Masur, author
ofnbspTheSum of Our Dreams onnbspMarin
Scorsese and the American Dream quotThiis a
terrific book, fun and learned and
provocative....Cullen provides an entertaining
andnbspthoghtful account of the ways that we
remember and how this is influenced and directed
by what we watch.quot8212Jeome de Groot,
author ofnbspConuming
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HistorynbsponnbspFrom Memory to History
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