1970s: the Me Decade

1970s: the Me Decade

When journalist Tom Wolfe (1931–) surveyed the changes that had swept America in the past few years, he gave the decade a label that has stuck: "The Me Decade." Wolfe and others noticed that the dominant concerns of most people had shifted from issues of social and political justice that were so important in the 1960s to a more selfish focus on individual well-being. What was behind this sudden change in the American mood?

Economic and political shifts help to explain much of the change. From the end of the World War II (1939–45) until the end of.....

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