Natasha Zaretsky: 2 books
No Direction Home
The American Family and the Fear of National Decline, 1968-1980
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
Between 1968 and 1980, fears about family deterioration and national decline were ubiquitous in American political culture. In No Direction Home, Natasha Zaretsky shows that these perceptions of decline profoundly shaped one another.
Throughout the 1970s, anxieties about the future of the nuclear...
Radiation Nation
Three Mile Island and the Political Transformation of the 1970s
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2018
On March 28, 1979, the worst nuclear reactor accident in U.S. history occurred at the Three Mile Island power plant in Central Pennsylvania. Radiation Nation tells the story of what happened that day and in the months and years that followed, as local residents tried to make sense of the emergency....