1976

by Megan Volpert

1976 plucks the deepest chords of America's Bicentennial year. It exposes the guts of our country's political, historical, and cultural machine in a prose that matches the rhythms of horror, joy, and sheer madness in our national psyche. This is as original, inventive, and fresh a book as any historian or novelist of note has written about the US. A juggernaut of improbability and inevitability, her vision of America rolls in simultaneously from the past and the future, with a posse of grand ghosts. Her brilliant saga is driven by the music that never stops rocking the North American continent, and, in an essential way, births her. Volpert is heir to Whitman, Hunter S. Thompson, and the Ramones who, unbeknownst to themselves, will appear in 1976-a book that heralds a grand new genre." - Andrei Codrescu, author and Peabody Award-winner for the film Road Scholar, a journey into post-Kerouac America.

240 pages, Paperback

Published April 15, 2016

About the author

Megan Volpert is author or editor of over a dozen books on popular culture, including two Lambda Literary Award finalists and an American Library Association honoree. She won Georgia Author of the Year for her newest work, Boss Broad (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2019). Volpert is a part-time Assistant Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Kennesaw State University, has been teaching public high school English in Atlanta for almost two decades and was 2014 Teacher of the Year. She writes for PopMatters and has edited anthologies of philosophical essays on the music of Tom Petty and the television series RuPaul’s Drag Race.

Reviews

[Laura · Rating 5 out of 5]

Like getting to hang out w yr best smartest funniest most irreverent & deep friend while she shows you souvenirs of a time she never knew and shows she knows it better than you do. Volpert is one of the best, fastest, take no prisoners thinkers about America, and 1976 is a must read!

[Julie]

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