America in the 1970s (fiction and nonfiction)

1.
The White Album
The White Album 4.03 avg rating — 47,351 ratings
2.
Dispatches
Dispatches 4.22 avg rating — 21,217 ratings
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Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class
Stayin’ Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class 4.11 avg rating — 958 ratings
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Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s
Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s 3.86 avg rating — 97 ratings
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The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan
The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan 4.24 avg rating — 3,322 ratings
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67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence
67 Shots: Kent State and the End of American Innocence 3.92 avg rating — 594 ratings
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Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America 4.25 avg rating — 10,667 ratings
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Carrie
Carrie 3.99 avg rating — 813,809 ratings
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All the President's Men
All the President's Men 4.18 avg rating — 56,979 ratings
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The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics
The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics 3.72 avg rating — 614 ratings
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Breakfast of Champions
Breakfast of Champions 4.06 avg rating — 275,082 ratings
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Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979
Lost Illusions: American Cinema in the Shadow of Watergate and Vietnam, 1970-1979 4.05 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City
Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City 4.12 avg rating — 3,693 ratings
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What Wild Ecstasy: The Rise and Fall of the Sexual Revolution
What Wild Ecstasy: The Rise and Fall of the Sexual Revolution 3.52 avg rating — 27 ratings
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January 1973: Watergate, Roe v. Wade, Vietnam, and the Month That Changed America Forever
January 1973: Watergate, Roe v. Wade, Vietnam, and the Month That Changed America Forever 3.91 avg rating — 180 ratings
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Archie Bunker's America: TV in an Era of Change 1968-1978
Archie Bunker's America: TV in an Era of Change 1968-1978 3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream 4.07 avg rating — 370,611 ratings
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Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence
Days of Rage: America's Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence 3.96 avg rating — 2,326 ratings
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Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk
Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk 4.19 avg rating — 35,980 ratings
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Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective
Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective 3.59 avg rating — 98 ratings
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Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class
Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class 4.03 avg rating — 646 ratings
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Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America
Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-up in the 1970s Changed America 3.84 avg rating — 681 ratings
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Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns
Women for President: Media Bias in Eight Campaigns 3.86 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Rolling Stone the Seventies
Rolling Stone the Seventies 4.16 avg rating — 32 ratings
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Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam
Guests of the Ayatollah: The First Battle in America's War with Militant Islam 4.16 avg rating — 5,003 ratings
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Play It As It Lays
Play It As It Lays 3.91 avg rating — 85,279 ratings
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The World Looked Away: Vietnam After the War
The World Looked Away: Vietnam After the War 4.64 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Withdrawal: Reassessing America's Final Years in Vietnam
Withdrawal: Reassessing America's Final Years in Vietnam 4.14 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Punk Avenue: Inside the New York City Underground, 1972-1982
Punk Avenue: Inside the New York City Underground, 1972-1982 3.98 avg rating — 474 ratings
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Opening Wednesday at a Theater Or Drive-In Near You: The Shadow Cinema of the American '70s
Opening Wednesday at a Theater Or Drive-In Near You: The Shadow Cinema of the American '70s 3.67 avg rating — 327 ratings
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"What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President?": Jimmy Carter, America's "Malaise," and the Speech that Should Have Changed the Country
"What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President?": Jimmy Carter, America's "Malaise," and the Speech that Should Have Changed the Country 3.81 avg rating — 215 ratings
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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy
Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy 4.45 avg rating — 4,805 ratings
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Richard Nixon: The Life
Richard Nixon: The Life 4.36 avg rating — 3,360 ratings
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An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy
An Extraordinary Time: The End of the Postwar Boom and the Return of the Ordinary Economy 3.94 avg rating — 195 ratings
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How We Got Here: The 1970s: The Decade That Brought You Modern Life
How We Got Here: The 1970s: The Decade That Brought You Modern Life 3.57 avg rating — 247 ratings
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Disasterama!: Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977 to 1997
Disasterama!: Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977 to 1997 4.34 avg rating — 175 ratings
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Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People
Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People 4.32 avg rating — 2,616 ratings
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Let the Great World Spin
Let the Great World Spin 3.96 avg rating — 108,634 ratings
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Gone from the Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History
Gone from the Promised Land: Jonestown in American Cultural History 4.08 avg rating — 25 ratings
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It Seemed Like Nothing Happened: The Tragedy and Promise of America in the 1970s
It Seemed Like Nothing Happened: The Tragedy and Promise of America in the 1970s 3.65 avg rating — 48 ratings
39.
Valentine
Valentine 3.76 avg rating — 43,512 ratings
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American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst 3.87 avg rating — 12,108 ratings
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Future Shock
Future Shock 3.82 avg rating — 5,191 ratings
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Daisy Jones & The Six
Daisy Jones & The Six 4.20 avg rating — 1,772,416 ratings
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Doonesbury's Greatest Hits: A Mid-Seventies Revue
Doonesbury's Greatest Hits: A Mid-Seventies Revue 4.19 avg rating — 1,735 ratings
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Anywhere but Here
Anywhere but Here 3.56 avg rating — 3,245 ratings
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Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics
Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics 4.21 avg rating — 1,082 ratings
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Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret 3.94 avg rating — 252,131 ratings
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Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and the National Agenda (Volume 20) (Presidential Rhetoric and Political Communication)
Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and the National Agenda (Volume 20) (Presidential Rhetoric and Political Communication) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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New York in the 70s
New York in the 70s 3.84 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Mary Jane
Mary Jane 4.13 avg rating — 105,704 ratings
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My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel
My Friend Dahmer: A Graphic Novel 3.91 avg rating — 32,966 ratings
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Feiffer on Nixon: The cartoon presidency
Feiffer on Nixon: The cartoon presidency really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats
Full Body Burden: Growing Up in the Nuclear Shadow of Rocky Flats 4.06 avg rating — 4,497 ratings
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Love Goes To Buildings On Fire: Five Years In New York That Changed Music Forever
Love Goes To Buildings On Fire: Five Years In New York That Changed Music Forever 3.90 avg rating — 2,631 ratings
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Nixon Volume #2: The Triumph of a Politician 1962-1972
Nixon Volume #2: The Triumph of a Politician 1962-1972 4.10 avg rating — 438 ratings
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Halloween (Halloween #1)
Halloween (Halloween #1) 4.15 avg rating — 8,836 ratings
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Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power
Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power 3.88 avg rating — 2,691 ratings
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Black Klansman: A Memoir
Black Klansman: A Memoir 3.62 avg rating — 21,428 ratings
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Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon & the Destruction of Cambodia
Sideshow: Kissinger, Nixon & the Destruction of Cambodia 4.23 avg rating — 368 ratings
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The Nixon Tapes: 1971-1972
The Nixon Tapes: 1971-1972 3.76 avg rating — 159 ratings
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The Day Elvis Met Nixon
The Day Elvis Met Nixon 3.59 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy
The Only Living Witness: The True Story of Serial Sex Killer Ted Bundy 4.14 avg rating — 5,025 ratings
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President Nixon: Alone in the White House
President Nixon: Alone in the White House 4.02 avg rating — 533 ratings
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Zodiac
Zodiac 3.91 avg rating — 26,805 ratings
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Watergate: A Brief History with Documents
Watergate: A Brief History with Documents 3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
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In the Shadow of the White House: A Memoir of the Washington and Watergate Years, 1968-1978
In the Shadow of the White House: A Memoir of the Washington and Watergate Years, 1968-1978 4.21 avg rating — 203 ratings
68.
The Stranger Beside Me
The Stranger Beside Me
by: Ann Rule
4.14 avg rating — 109,014 ratings
69.
Fear of Flying
Fear of Flying 3.47 avg rating — 22,979 ratings
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Crisis: The last year of the Carter presidency
Crisis: The last year of the Carter presidency 3.83 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Essential Howard the Duck, Vol. 1
Essential Howard the Duck, Vol. 1 4.16 avg rating — 308 ratings
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Omega the Unknown Classic
Omega the Unknown Classic 3.48 avg rating — 206 ratings
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Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!
Slapstick, or Lonesome No More! 3.85 avg rating — 43,900 ratings
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The best of 'Wimmen's comix' and other comix by women
The best of 'Wimmen's comix' and other comix by women 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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Honorable Exit: How a Few Brave Americans Risked All to Save Our Vietnamese Allies at the End of the War
Honorable Exit: How a Few Brave Americans Risked All to Save Our Vietnamese Allies at the End of the War 4.22 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Reckless: Henry Kissinger and The Tragedy of Vietnam
Reckless: Henry Kissinger and The Tragedy of Vietnam 3.93 avg rating — 69 ratings
77.
Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War
Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War 3.49 avg rating — 130 ratings
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The Downtown Pop Underground: New York City and the literary punks, renegade artists, DIY filmmakers, mad playwrights, and rock ’n’ roll glitter queens who revolutionized culture
The Downtown Pop Underground: New York City and the literary punks, renegade artists, DIY filmmakers, mad playwrights, and rock ’n’ roll glitter queens who revolutionized culture 3.96 avg rating — 212 ratings
79.
The Pirates and the Mouse: Disney's War Against the Underground
The Pirates and the Mouse: Disney's War Against the Underground
by: Bob Levin
3.89 avg rating — 61 ratings
80.
The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground (Haymarket Series)
The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground (Haymarket Series) 3.60 avg rating — 117 ratings
81.
Staying Alive: The Disco Inferno Of The Bee Gees
Staying Alive: The Disco Inferno Of The Bee Gees 3.56 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Disco Demolition: The Night Disco Died
Disco Demolition: The Night Disco Died 3.22 avg rating — 65 ratings
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Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970
Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970 3.85 avg rating — 2,513 ratings
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Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One
Funk: The Music, The People, and The Rhythm of The One 4.07 avg rating — 280 ratings
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From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World
From the Velvets to the Voidoids: A Pre-Punk History for a Post-Punk World 3.91 avg rating — 1,724 ratings
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The Best of Punk Magazine
The Best of Punk Magazine 4.42 avg rating — 191 ratings
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Capricorn Rising: Conversations in Southern Rock
Capricorn Rising: Conversations in Southern Rock 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s
The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s 3.64 avg rating — 582 ratings
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Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1: 1970s-1981
Hip Hop Family Tree, Vol. 1: 1970s-1981
by: Ed Piskor
4.16 avg rating — 2,125 ratings
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Man on the Run: Paul McCartney in the 1970s
Man on the Run: Paul McCartney in the 1970s
by: Tom Doyle
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,432 ratings
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Persistence of Sentiment: Display and Feeling in Popular Music of the 1970s
Persistence of Sentiment: Display and Feeling in Popular Music of the 1970s 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Four Novels of the 1970s: Fifty-Two Pickup / Swag / Unknown Man No. 89 / The Switch
Four Novels of the 1970s: Fifty-Two Pickup / Swag / Unknown Man No. 89 / The Switch 4.31 avg rating — 121 ratings
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South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s
South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s 4.41 avg rating — 37 ratings
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We Are As Gods: Back to the Land in the 1970s on the Quest for a New America
We Are As Gods: Back to the Land in the 1970s on the Quest for a New America 4.13 avg rating — 292 ratings
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The Stewardess Is Flying The Plane! American Films of the 1970s
The Stewardess Is Flying The Plane! American Films of the 1970s
by: Ron Hogan
3.70 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Play It Again Sam
Play It Again Sam 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Maynard Jackson: A Biography
Maynard Jackson: A Biography 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Pick Up the Pieces: Excursions in Seventies Music
Pick Up the Pieces: Excursions in Seventies Music 3.67 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Conversations in the Spirit: Lex Hixon's WBAI 'In the Spirit' Interviews: A Chronicle of the Seventies Spiritual Revolution
Conversations in the Spirit: Lex Hixon's WBAI 'In the Spirit' Interviews: A Chronicle of the Seventies Spiritual Revolution
by: Lex Hixon
4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-first Century
Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-first Century 3.98 avg rating — 744 ratings
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