How We Got Here: The 70s The Decade That Brought You Modern Life--For Better Or Worse

David Frum

Basic Books, 2008 - History - 463 pages

For many, the 1970s evoke the Brady Bunch and the birth of disco. In this first, thematic popular history of the decade, David Frum argues that it was the 1970s, not the 1960s, that created modern America and altered the American personality forever. A so.

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Review: How We Got Here: The 70s The Decade That Brought You Modern Life -- For Better Or Worse

User Review  - Richie - Goodreads

I give this book three stars not because it is good (it is not), but because I am a fan of the book-length jeremiad. My copy is thoroughly stained with red ink, margin notes like "seriously?" or "oh ...

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User Review  - Michelle Llewellyn - Goodreads

Recommended by author of the popular LDS historical fiction series "Children of the Promise" and "Hearts of the Children", Dean Hughes included this book in one of his reading lists. Being a fan of ...

About the author

David Frum is a contributing editor to The Weekly Standard and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. His writing has appeared on the editorial pages of the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and Foreign Affairs. Frum writes a twice-weekly column for Canada's National Post and broadcasts regularly on NPR's Morning Edition. He lives in Washington, D. C.

Bibliographic information

• Title: How We Got Here: The 70s The Decade That Brought You Modern Life--For Better Or Worse
• Author: David Frum
• Publisher: Basic Books, 2008
• ISBN: 0786723505, 9780786723508
• Length: 463 pages
• Subjects: History / United States / General