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5) The 1980s
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Discusses the decade 1980-1989 in the United States in terms of culture, art, science, and politics.
6) The 1990s
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Discusses the decade 1980-1989 in the United States in terms of culture, art, science, and politics.
7) The 1970s
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Discusses the decade 1970-1979 in the United States in terms of culture, art, science, and politics.
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"It's 1977. Ike and Lucy, the kids of Senator Charlie and Margaret Marder, are grown up--and in trouble. US Marine Ike has gone AWOL after a military operation gone horribly wrong. Now he's off the grid, working on the pit crew of the moody stunt master Evel Knievel and hanging in the roughest dive bar in Montana. His sister Lucy has become the star reporter of a brand-new Washington, DC tabloid breaking stories about a serial killer and falling in...
11) The eighties
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Traces the events, trends, and important people of the 1980s, including science, technology, fashion, music, art, architecture, sports, entertainment, and news.
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"Borowitz argues that over the past fifty years, American politicians have grown increasingly allergic to knowledge, and mass media have encouraged the election of ignoramuses by elevating candidates who are better at performing than thinking. Starting with Ronald Reagan's first campaign for governor of California in 1966 and culminating with the election of Donald J. Trump to the White House, Borowitz shows how, during the age of twenty-four-hour...
15) The Vietnam War
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Explores the origins, crucial battles, key characters, and public sentiment of this divisive conflict.
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Through an examination of the lives of several Americans and leading public figures over the past three decades, Packer portrays a superpower in danger of coming apart at the seams, its elites no longer elite, its institutions no longer working, its ordinary people left to improvise their own schemes for success and salvation.
19) The 1990s
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Discusses the political, historical, and cultural life of the United States in the 1990s.
20) The 1990s
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This book discusses four major events during the 1990s: the Gulf War, Bill Clinton's presidency, the emergence of the Internet, and the arrival of grunge and rap music.