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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Reyna, Stephen P

Titel

The Times They Are A-Changin: Global Warring 1975–1989

Ist Teil von

• Deadly Contradictions, 2016, p.204

Ort / Verlag

United States: Berghahn Books

Erscheinungsjahr

2016

Link zum Volltext

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• “Tricky Dicky” (as President Richard Nixon was nicknamed by some, not affectionately) resigned for reasons of corruption on 9 August 1974. Nine months later, on 30 April 1975, Saigon fell. The Vietnam War was over, and many people suspected, in the words one of the era’s musical poet, “the times they [were] a-changin’.” After the next three presidential administrations (Gerald Ford, 1974–1977; James “Jimmy” Carter, 1977–1981; and Ronald Reagan, 1981–1989) it was clear: they had changed. This chapter will explore the change in the relative significance of the political and the economic contradictions. By the end of