Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s
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| Rating | : | 4.36 (688 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0809058472 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-03-06 |
| Language | : | English |
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"The scholarship has rightly been called into question" according to D.R. Adams. Jacobs' book is a mediocre, workable book that follows a simple formula: almost each paragraph starts out with a quotation from a newspaper, followed by a few sentences of analysis, before ending with another quotation from a separate source. It was a pain to get through--and I read energy history books like this for a living. As a compendium of newspaper and magazine reports about gasoline prices in the 1970s, it's . "this is a great reminder of events that shaped politics and policy up" according to fozzthis is a great reminder of events that shaped politics and policy up fozz46 If you lived through the gas crisis and rampant inflation of the `70`s,this is a great reminder of events that shaped politics and policy up to present day. For younger readers,it will probably be a bit tedious,as many of the political figures involved will be unknown to them. Nonetheless,a great ,well researched account of a period in recent American history that changed our fundamental values and beliefs.. 6. If you lived through the gas crisis and rampant inflation of the `70`s,this is a great reminder of events that shaped politics and policy up to present day. For younger readers,it will probably be a bit tedious,as many of the political figures involved will be unknown to them. Nonetheless,a great ,well researched account of a period in recent American history that changed our fundamental values and beliefs.. I highly recommend it to anyone interesting in deeper understanding of the Ronald G. Oechsler Lively, eminently readable and thoroughly researched account of the subject. I highly recommend it to anyone interesting in deeper understanding of the relatively ineffective responses of successive administrations and the policy community to this major shock to the U.S. economy. Prof. Jacobs his a rich understanding of U.S. history which brings a unique depth to her work.
Hanlan Book Award. Hawley Prize, as well as the New England Historical Association’s James P. . Meg Jacobs teaches history and public affairs at Princeton University. She is also the coauthor of Conservatives in Power: The Reagan Years, 1981–1989 (2010). Her first book, Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (2005), won the Organization of American Historians’ Ellis W
As we face the repercussions of a changing climate, a volatile oil market, and continued turmoil in the Middle East, Panic at the Pump is a necessary and lively account of a formative period in American political history.. Though the embargo would end the following year, it introduced a new kind of insecurity into American lifean insecurity that would only intensify when the Iranian Revolution led to new shortages at the end of the decade.As Meg Jacobs shows, the oil crisis had a decisive impact on American politics. Dark Christmas trees, lowered thermostats, empty gas tanks, and the new fifty-five-mile-per-hour speed limit all suggested that America was a nation in decline. The result was a political stalemate and panic across the country: miles-long gas lines, Big Oil conspiracy theories, even violent strikes by truckers.Jacobs concludes that the energy crisis of the 1970s became, for many Americans, an object lesson in the limitations of governmental power. Bush sent troops to protect the free flow of oil in the Persian Gulf. The Democratic Party was divided, with older New Deal liberals who prized access to affordable energy sq
In so doing she makes our recent history feel absolutely fresh, and absolutely relevant in meeting our next set of challenges." Nicholas Lemann, professor of journalism and dean emeritus at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism"In Panic at the Pump, Jacobs weaves together history, politics, and culture with unusual narrative skill to engage the reader in a good story while explaining why U.S. "If you want to understand the world, you need to understand oil, and if you want to understand oil and its political power, this book is required reading." Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy"Panic at the Pump is a thoughtful tour of an era we would rather not think about, carefully retracing the economics that made the United States dependent on oil imports, and the crises t