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100 1 $aWheen, Francis.
245 10 $aStrange days indeed :$bthe 1970s : the golden age of paranoia /$cFrancis Wheen.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bBBS/PublicAffairs,$c2010.
300 $a343 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 313-334) and index.
505 0 $aIntroduction : The paranoia blues -- Sleepless nights -- Stick it to the end, sir -- Going underground -- Madmen in theory and practice -- Days of the jackals -- Such harmonious madness -- Eternal vigilance -- Crossing the psychic frontier -- The road to ruritania -- Lords of the beasts and fishes -- Morbid symptoms -- In the jungle labyrinth -- Conclusion : Let's do the time warp again.
520 $aA look back at the 1970s describes the paranoia of the era, examining the anxieties and odd behavior of world leaders and the spread of urban guerrillas and terrorist groups. The 1970s is the most deranged of decades in this rollicking, lurid retrospective. Taking Richard Nixons paranoid persecution complex as the periods zeitgeist, Wheen finds it everywhere. Along with an amusing rehash of Watergate, his panorama of 70s nuttiness encompasses conspiracy theories, Hollywood thrillers, the Baader-Meinhof gang, sci-fi novelist Philip K. Dicks letters to the FBI denouncing his literary agent as a Communist, and tawdry political intrigues in a Britain beset by strikes, power outages, IRA bombings, Trotskyist dramaturgy, and coup whisperings.
650 0 $aNineteen seventies.
650 0 $aWorld politics$y1965-1975.
650 0 $aWorld politics$y1975-1985.
600 10 $aNixon, Richard M.$q(Richard Milhous),$d1913-1994$xPsychology.
600 10 $aWilson, Harold,$d1916-1995$xPsychology.
650 0 $aParanoia.
650 0 $aCold War.
650 0 $aEspionage$xHistory$y20th century.
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