Ebook: Right star rising: a new politics, 1974-1980

Tells the history of the Ford-Carter years, discusses the relevance of the period's politics on today's issues, and explains its shaping of the current political environment.;pt. 1. The end of the sixties -- The nightmare continues -- The poverty of power -- Between public and private : family matters -- The fading of America -- pt. 2. Moderation and its discontents -- The death of détente -- Intangibles -- From busing to Bakke -- Limits -- pt. 3. Ready for the eighties : mobilization on the right -- The market as magnet -- Gender, God, and government -- Return to the Cold War : the United States, the Soviet Union, and the Middle East -- To the mountaintop and back.