Strange Days Indeed The 1970s - The Golden Days of Paranoia

Name: Strange Days Indeed The 1970s - The Golden Days of Paranoia
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ISBN: 9781586488451

ISBN-10: 1586488457

ISBN-13: 9781586488451

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Authors: Francis Wheen

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The 1970s were a theme park of mass paranoia.Strange Days Indeedtells the story of the decade when a distinctive "paranoid style" emerged and seemed to infect all areas of both private and public life, from high politics to pop culture. The sense of paranoia that had long fuelled the conspiracy theories of fringe political groups then somehow became the norm for millions of ordinary people. And to make it even trickier, a certain amount of that paranoia was justified. Watergate showed that the governments really were doing illegal things and then trying to cover them up.Though Nixon may have been foremost among deluded world leaders he wasn't the only one swept up in the tide of late night…

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List price: $33.95
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Publication date: 3/2/2010
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 352
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Francis Wheen is an award-winning columnist for "The Guardian" in London, & the deputy editor of "Private Eye".



Introduction: The Paranoia Blues



Sleepless Nights



Stick it to the End, Sir



Going Underground



Madmen in Theory and Practice



Going on a Bear Hunt



Days of the Jackals



Such Harmonious Madness



Eternal Vigilance



Crossing the Psychic Frontier



The Road to Ruritania



Lords of the Beasts and Fishes



Morbid Symptoms



In the Jungle Labyrinth


Conclusion: Let's Do the Time Warp Again


Acknowledgments


Notes


Index