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The Decade We Scarcely Knew Was A Decade

December 2023
1min read

When many of us were living through them, the 1970s seemed like a sort of nondescript breathing space between the ardent sixties and whatever lay ahead. Now Nicholas Lemann resesses that ten-year span and finds a clearly defined and portentous era.

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