Reading Post Week Eight

  • Due May 21, 2021 by 11:59pm
  • Points 5
  • Submitting a text entry box or a file upload

Please post a 500-700 word response to this week's reading assignment.

Below are some questions I pose as prompts for this reflection; you do not need to answer all of them, but may choose one as a starting point for your post. This is more than merely a reading summary, but should be a substantive, thought-provoking comment that considers and cites specific examples from the reading to make your point.  You may also use your post to home in on other issues in the reading that you find particularly interesting and provocative.

READING:

1) Benjamin Waterhouse, “From Consensus to a Crisis of Confidence”
2) Jefferson Cowie, “Nixon’s Class Struggle”
3) Pete Hamill, “The Revolt of the White Lower Middle Class” (1969)
4) Bethany Moreton, “The Soul of the Service Economy”
5) Ajay Mehrotra, “The Myth of the Overtaxed American”
7) Clare Boothe Luce, “Is the New Morality Destroying America?” (1978)

QUESTIONS:

What were some key moments and events that led to declining trust in government among Americans during the 1970s?  What were the economic and political consequences of the civil rights movements and modern feminism that manifested themselves in the 1970s?  How did a changing global economy contribute to growing fault lines of politics and identity in American culture?

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