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Title: Interesting slant on a maligned decade.
Review: David Frum can write, and he takes a subject that usually gets superficial treatment, and comes up with some very good insights. An awful lot of traditions, and social norms, and political, civil, and infrastructural trends were forever broken or altered in the seventies, a lot more than the sixties, the supposed great decade of radical change and revolution.Overall, a good read. The sections on activist judges and the civil rights movement and the school riots in Boston was especially enlightening. A good book, but hard to categorize--not truly a history book, not popular reading, and not especially light reading or fun fare. I think, though, that it can be rewarding.I learned of this book through National Review Online, so I expected it to be very conservative, and I didn't find it that way at all.
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