The Sense Of The 70s

A Rhetorical Reader

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"This book of readings from the seventies captures the shape and substance of a strange and controversial decade in the words of a wide range of commentators, including journalists, novelists and non-fiction writers, popular and academic critics, a politician, an activist playwright, a humorist, and a criminal. The more than seventy selections include examples of excellent writing by Woody Allen, Alex Haley, Gail Sheehy, A. Alvarez, Nat Hentoff, Gloria Steinem, Nora Ephron, and many others"--Back cover.