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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction: Facing Janus -- 1. On the Cusp: American Politics and Culture in 1979 -- 2. Wind Shear: The Political Cultures of 1980 -- 3. The Closing of Heaven's Gate: Hollywood in Transition -- 4. Starting Over: Pop Music's Future Goes Back to the Past -- 5. Ebb and Flow: Tidal Shifts in Broadcast Television -- 6. Turning the Page: The Publishing Industry in 1980 -- 7. Inflection Point: Autumn 1980 -- Conclusion: Inaugurating the Eighties -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author.

Victory and anxiety : World War and Cold War, 1945-1962 -- Conformity and rebellion : American culture and politics, 1945-1963 -- Confidence and agitation : the American empire at high tide, 1960-1965 -- Fulfillment and anger : the American empire in conflict, 1965-1974 -- Experimentation and exhaustion : political culture of the Sixties, 1965-1974 -- Reassessment and nostalgia : the American empire at bay, 1973-1981 -- Revival and denial : the American empire on borrowed time 1981-1991 -- Innovation and sentiment : the culture of the Eighties, 1981-1991 -- Distraction and prosperity : the post-Cold War era, 1992-2001 -- Comfort and dread : the American empire in decline, 2001-

The highly acclaimed first edition of The Art of Democracy won the 1996 Ray and Pat Brown Award for ""Best Book,"" presented by the Popular Culture Association.

1980 was a turning point in American history. When the year began, it was still very much the 1970s, with Jimmy Carter in the White House, a sluggish economy marked by high inflation, and the disco still riding the airwaves. When it ended, Ronald Reagan won the presidency in a landslide, inaugurating a rightward turn in American politics and culture. We still feel the effects of this tectonic shift today, as even subsequent Democratic administrations have offered neoliberal economic and social policies that owe more to Reagan than to FDR or LBJ. To understand what the American public was thinking during this pivotal year, we need to examine what they were reading, listening to, and watching. 1980: America's Pivotal Year puts the news events of the era—everything from the Iran hostage crisis to the rise of televangelism—into conversation with the year's popular culture. Separate chapters focus on the movies, television shows, songs, and books that Americans were talking about that year, including both the biggest hits and some notable flops that failed to capture the shifting zeitgeist. As he looks at the events that had Americans glued to their screens, from the Miracle on Ice to the mystery of Who Shot J.R., cultural historian Jim Cullen garners surprising insights about how Americans' attitudes were changing as they entered the 1980s. Praise for Jim Cullen's previous Rutgers University Press books: "Informed and perceptive" —Norman Lear on Those Were the Days: Why All in the Family Still Matters "Jim Cullen is one of the most acute cultural historians writing today." —Louis P. Masur, author of The Sum of Our Dreams on Martin Scorsese and the American Dream "This is a terrific book, fun and learned and provocative.Cullen provides an entertaining and thoughtful account of the ways that we remember and how this is influenced and directed by what we watch." —Jerome de Groot, author of Consuming History on From Memory to History

This paper provides a reflective account of a consultation process on professional designations for evaluators initiated and coordinated by the Canadian Evaluation Society (CES). Described are (1) the forces leading CES to generate discussion and debate about professional designations for Canadian evaluators, (2) the process of developing and implementing a request for proposals for a tentative action plan that would serve as a basis for debate, and (3) the subsequent development and implementation of a pan-Canadian, tripartite consultation process that involved CES members, CES Chapter organizations, and partners of the Society (including evaluation users). The paper concludes with reflections on the process and a summation of lessons learned.