The 1970s was a culturally vibrant period. Will Kaufman addresses the dominant cultural forms of the 1970s--fiction and poetry; television and drama; film and visual culture; popular music and style; public space and spectacle--and the decade's most influential figures and texts, from the author Toni Morrison to the television series, "All in the Family," from Diane Arbus to Bruce Springsteen, from "M.A.S.H." to "Taxi Driver," and from disco divas to protestors of the Vietnam War. Proving there's more to the decade than polyester and narcissism, "American Culture in the 1970s" critically reengages with one of America's most misunderstood eras.