Strange Days Indeed : : the 1970S : the Golden age of Paranoia
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The 1970s is the most deranged of decades in this rollicking, lurid retrospective. Taking Richard Nixons paranoid persecution complex as the periods zeitgeist, Wheen finds it everywhere. Along with an amusing rehash of Watergate, his panorama of 70s nuttiness encompasses conspiracy theories, Hollywood thrillers, the Baader-Meinhof gang, sci-fi novelist Philip K. Dicks letters to the FBI denouncing his literary agent as a Communist, and tawdry political intrigues in a Britain beset by strikes, power outages, IRA bombings, Trotskyist dramaturgy, and coup whisperings.
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PUBLISHED
New York : BBS/PublicAffairs, 2010.
Year Published: 2010
Description: 343 p. ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9781586488451
1586488457
SUBJECTS
Wilson, Harold, -- 1916-1995 -- Psychology.
Nixon, Richard M. -- 1913-1994 -- Psychology.
World politics -- 1965-1975.
Nineteen seventies.
World politics -- 1975-1985.
Paranoia.
Cold War.
Espionage -- History -- 20th century.