© Columbia University Press
Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies
Paper, 296 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12495-9
$26.00
/ £18.00
December, 2005
Cloth, 296 pages,
ISBN: 978-0-231-12494-2
$85.00
/ £58.50
"An ambitious study... This will stand as the definitive book on the 1970s for some time to come. Highly recommended." — Library Journal
"A very unsettling cautionary tale." — Erik Himmelsbach, Los Angeles Times
"Berkowitz... has boldly attempted to put a troubled decade into proper perspective in this concise and useful summary." — Peter Aspden, Financial Times
"An interesting look at a tumultuous time." — Jules Wagman, Blade
"Contrary to popular wisdom, "Something Happened" in the 1970s, and Berkowitz helps us remember what that was and why it still matters." — Terry Hartle, Christian Science Monitor
"A strong case that the '70s deserve far more attention than they have received." — Terry hartle, Orange County Register
"Quite a lot happened in the 1970s and this may be the concise, yet definitive account." — Sunday Constitution
"An essential map for what is perhaps the most misunderstood decade of the twentieth century." — Associatedcontent.com
"Berkowitz has provided an essential map to what is perhaps the most misunderstood decade of the twentieth century." — Eve Lichtgarn, Westside Chronicle
"Scholarly, judicious, and readable... Highly recommended." — Choice
"A concise glimpse of the era... Something Happened one of the better surveys to have appeared about a significant decade." — Yanek Mieczkowski, The Journal of American History
"Edward Berkowitz offers a highly readable account of a decade that tends to get overlooked." — M. J. Heale, History
"Edward Berkowitz's Something Happened is an even-handed, reliable, comprehensive, and remarkably concise account of a decade whose events transformed the nation. Watergate, Vietnam, the oil embargo, the rights revolution, stagflation, New York City's fiscal meltdown, Three Mile Island, the Iran hostage crisis, The Godfather, and The Mary Tyler Moore Show: Berkowitz synthesizes all these—and more—in his portrait of the era that marked a momentous divide in America's political economy, foreign policy, and culture." — Michael B. Katz
, University of Pennsylvania, author of The Price of Citizenship: Redefining the American Welfare State
"In Something Happened, the always masterful Ed Berkowitz brings the complexity of the seventies era to life. His pithy accounts of that era's presidents, politics, and policymaking are brilliant." — David Farber
, Temple University, author of Taken Hostage: The Iran Hostage Crisis and America's First Encounter with Radical Islam
"From Nixon to Reagan, Wilbur Mills to Bill Gates, and Roe v. Wade to The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Something Happened offers a wide-ranging, nuanced, and balanced history of a watershed era in modern American life. Berkowitz's steady eye and his incisive analyses of public policy, science and medicine, and political economy make this book particularly valuable to scholars and general readers alike." — Bruce J. Schulman, Boston University, author of The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics
"Something Happened will surely become the indispensable starting point for students, scholars, and general readers seeking to navigate the complex cross-currents of the 1970s. As well as providing a lucid and richly enjoyable overview of the key events of that elusive decade, Berkowitz does a brilliant job of placing them in the broader sweep of twentieth-century American history." — Gareth Davies, University of Oxford, author of From Opportunity to Entitlement: The Transformation and Decline of Great Society Liberalism