The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s
by
Meg Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2016
An authoritative history of the energy crises of the 1970s and the world they wrought
In 1973, the Arab OPEC cartel banned the export of oil to the United States, sending prices and tempers rising across the country. Dark Christmas trees, lowered thermostats, empty gas tanks, and the new fifty-five-mile-per-hour...