| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Book Review

No Direction Home: The American Family and the Fear of National Decline, 1968–1980. By Natasha Zaretsky. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. xiv, 320 pp. Cloth, $59.95, ISBN 978-0-8078-3094-9. Paper, $22.50, ISBN 978-0-8078-5797-7.)

In this exemplary and richly suggestive work of cultural history, Natasha Zaretsky brings together two prominent narratives that historians have often kept separate: the stories of decline of the nation and of the family from the late 1960s to the early 1980s. The life- and nation-changing events (and the anxieties they engendered) of that period are familiar—the end of the Vietnam War, turmoil in the Middle East, Watergate, stagflation, the breakup of the Cold War and Keynesian consensuses, deindustrialization, changes in household dynamics, and the rise of both feminism and conservatism. Zaretsky explores how, together, those events caused Americans to fret about threats to familial life and the nation—and in ways that were inextricably linked. Concerns about the "wounded family," subject to attack by external forces, and "aggrieved American nationalism," hammered by events in Vietnam and the Middle East, fed on one another (pp. 21, 18).

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