The troubled 1970's -- Sex, families, stagflation -- The political world of the mid-1970s -- Carter, Reagan, and the rise of the right -- "Morning again in America" -- America and the world in the 1980's -- Bush 41 -- "Culture wars" and "decline" in the 1990's -- Immigration, multiculturalism, race -- Political wars of the early Clinton years -- Prosperity, partisanship, terrorism -- Impeachment and electoral crisis, 1998-2000
