Whip Inflation Now & Have a Nice Day: Remembering the 1970s
It is Monday, September 21, 1970, in Flint, Michigan. Your father has been on strike for a week, supper is meatloaf, and at nine o'clock ABC is going to show professional football on a school night.
Whip Inflation Now & Have a Nice Day walks through the 1970s one year at a time. Each of its ten chapters opens inside a different American household: an autoworker's family in Flint, a farm family in Iowa, a bungalow on Chicago's South Side, a young couple at the train depot in Plains, Georgia, the morning Jimmy Carter won, an apartment in the Bronx the night the lights went out, a retired couple at a kitchen window three miles from Three Mile Island. Then the chapter brings back the year: the headlines, what was on the dial, what you wore, what was for supper, what things cost, and how you talked.
You'll remember:
Gas at 36 cents, and the lines that came laterArchie Bunker in his chair and "Live from New York, it's Saturday Night"The WIN button, which did not whip inflation, and the yellow smiley face that told you to have a nice dayThe mood ring, the Crock-Pot, and Pong on the family televisionAn Apple computer, sold as a bare circuit board, that nobody you knew had heard ofStar Wars opening in just thirty-two theaters, and the toy shelves that had no Star Wars figures by ChristmasThe book doesn't look away from Kent State, Watergate, the fall of Saigon, or the hostages in Iran. It tells them plainly, the way they reached the kitchen table.
Illustrated with 71 line drawings, with every date, price, and statistic checked against a published source.
For readers who lived the decade, for anyone looking for a gift for someone who did, and for younger readers who want to know what their parents are still talking about.
Remembering the Decades, Volume 1. Each volume stands on its own.
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