1. The transformation of American life in the 1970s

2. Interpreting the ’70sInterpreting the ’70s The weakening of American power The paradoxical legacy of the ’60s The “Southernisation” of America

3. National Malaise: The end of the boom years & American power questioned

6. Inflation (CPI) 1950-2000

8. Top rate federal income tax, 1936-2001

10. 1978 Camp David Accords

12. Iranian hostage crisis 1979-1980

13. The Legacy of the 60s: Consolidation, transformation, repudiation

15. Noraid (top left) Jewish Defense League (above) Ethnicity as destiny: The Godfather

16. The battle for the ERA

17. Roe v Wade (1973) The right to privacy, drawing on the 9th amendment: “the enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people” and explicitly ruling that the “persons” mentioned in the 14 th amendment’s equal protection clause “did not include the unborn.”

18. Backlash: Phyllis Schlafly

23. Jerry FalwellOral Roberts

24. Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker

25. “If my heart really, honestly desires a nice Cadillac … would there be something terribly wrong with me saying, 'Lord, it is the desire of my heart to have a nice car … and I'll use it for your glory?' I think I could do that and in time, as I walked in obedience with God, I believe I'd have it.” Paul Crouch

29. Dixie Rising: The Southernisation of America

30. The “sunbelt”

33. Dixie Rising: nascar racing in 1976 (top) Dallas (premiered 1978)

35. “Malaise” speech, 1979

36. All the legislation in the world can’t fix what’s wrong with America… the threat is nearly invisible in ordinary ways. It is a crisis of confidence. It is a crisis that strikes at the very heart and soul and spirit of our national will. We see this crisis in the growing doubts about the meaning of our own lives and in the loss of unity of purpose for our Nation…

37. …too many of us now tend to worship self- indulgence and consumption. Human identity is no longer defined by what one does, but by what one owns. But we've discovered that owning things and consuming things does not satisfy our longing for meaning. We've learned that piling up material goods cannot fill the emptiness of lives which have no confidence or purpose.