
Often considered a lost decade, a pause between the liberal Sixties and Reagan's Eighties, the 1970s were indeed a watershed era when the forces of a conservative counter-revolution cohered. These years marked a significant moral and cultural turning point in which the conservative...

This study argues that the 1970s were a watershed in American history, that they marked a significant moral and cultural turning-point in which the conservative movement became the motive force driving politics, and would remain so for the ensuing three decades.