Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class Audiobook

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