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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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“Gives the best sense of the way that it felt to live through the decade…Cowie’s book captures the contradictory nature of the 1970s politics better than almost any other ever written about the period.”
— Dissent
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“So fresh, fertile, and real…establishes its author as one of our most commanding interpreters of American experience.”
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“Might be the most groundbreaking and original national history of a working class since E. P. Thompson’s Making of the English Working Class.”
— New Politics
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Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize for the Best Book on American History
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Winner of the Merle Curti Award for Best American Social History
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Winner of the Labor History Best Book Prize
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A Salon Best Book of the Year
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About Jefferson R. Cowie
Jefferson Cowie is the multiaward–winning author of three books, including the winner of the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for History, Freedom’s Dominion: A Saga of White Resistance to Federal Power. Other books include Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class and Capital Moves: RCA’s Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor. His work has appeared in numerous outlets including Time, the New York Times, Foreign Affairs, and Politico. He holds the James G. Stahlman chair in history at Vanderbilt University.
About Tom Perkins
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