Meltdown Expected - Aaron J. Leonard

Meltdown Expected

Crisis, Disorder, and Upheaval at the end of the 1970s
Buch | Hardcover
206 Seiten
2024
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-3646-4 (ISBN)
27,40 inkl. MwSt
In January 1978, President Jimmy Carter proclaimed that “There is all across our land a growing sense of peace and a sense of common purpose.” Yet in the ensuing months, a series of crises disturbed that fragile sense of peace, ultimately setting the stage for Reagan’s decisive victory in 1980 and ushering in the final phase of the Cold War. 

 

Meltdown Expected tells the story of the power shifts from late 1978 through 1979 whose repercussions are still being felt. Iran’s revolution led to a hostage crisis while neighbouring Afghanistan became the site of a proxy war between the USSR and the US, who supplied aid to Islamic mujahideen fighters that would later form the Taliban. Meanwhile, as tragedies like the Jonestown mass suicide and the assassination of Harvey Milk captured the nation’s attention, the government quietly reasserted and expanded the FBI’s intelligence powers. Drawing from recently declassified government documents and covering everything from Three Mile Island to the rise of punk rock, Aaron J. Leonard paints a vivid portrait of a tumultuous yet pivotal time in American history. 

 

AARON J. LEONARD writes about the history of radicalism and state repression in twentieth-century America. He is the author of Heavy Radicals: The FBI’s Secret War on America’s Maoists, The Folk Singers & the Bureau, and Whole World in an Uproar: Music, Rebellion & Repression 1955-1972. He lives in southern California.  

Abbreviations 

Introduction 

1 The Beginning of the End of the 1970s 

2 Marg bar Shah! (Death to the Shah!) 

3 From Harrisburg to Sverdlovsk 

4 Economic Dislocations 

5 China on the Capitalist Road 

6 Up Against the Wall

7 The Use of Terrorism 

8 The FBI, beyond Reform

9 After Disco 

10 Morality Wars 

11 A Shifting Chessboard 

12 The Looming 1980s Conclusion 

Coda 

Acknowledgments

Notes 

Bibliography 

Filmography 

Selected Discography 

Index 

 

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 2 color and 12 B-W illustrations
Verlagsort New Brunswick NJ
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Gewicht 64 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-9788-3646-5 / 1978836465
ISBN-13 978-1-9788-3646-4 / 9781978836464
Zustand Neuware
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