American Studies Senior Seminar: Weekly Assignment #9

The Seventies (1970-1980)

Using your text, the internet or a basic American history text of your choice, review and be prepared to talk about the following topics by the time of our meeting next week

1) The "imperial presidency"

2) Nixon's visit to China (1972)

3) SALT 1

4) Frank Snepp's "Decent Interval"

5) Watergate

6) The Bakke case

7) Christopher Lasch's "The Culture of Narcissism"

8) Robert Pirsig's "Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance"

9) Post-Modernism

10) Betty Freidan's "The Feminine Mystique"

11) Milton Friedman and the new monetarists