The 1970s in the United States (nonfiction)
1. 
The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat
by:
Bob Woodward
3.80 avg rating — 2,500 ratings 2. 
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Game, Set, Match: Billie Jean King and the Revolution in Women's Sports
by:
Susan Ware
3.59 avg rating — 99 ratings 
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Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy 4.45 avg rating — 4,804 ratings
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Archie Bunker's America: TV in an Era of Change 1968-1978
by:
Josh Ozersky
3.83 avg rating — 12 ratings 9. 
How We Got Here: The 70's: The Decade That Brought You Modern Life
by:
David Frum
3.57 avg rating — 247 ratings 10. 
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Back to the Fifties: Nostalgia, Hollywood Film, and Popular Music of the Seventies and Eighties
by:
Michael D. Dwyer
4.38 avg rating — 8 ratings 
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Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction
by:
Grady Hendrix
4.26 avg rating — 11,487 ratings 15. 
Everything Is Combustible: Television, CBGB's and Five Decades of Rock and Roll: The Memoirs of an Alchemical Guitarist
by:
Richard Lloyd
3.68 avg rating — 246 ratings 16. 
Political Protest and Cultural Revolution: Nonviolent Direct Action in the 1970s and 1980s
by:
Barbara Epstein
3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings 
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Interior Desecrations: Hideous Homes from the Horrible '70s
by:
James Lileks
4.14 avg rating — 647 ratings 
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South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s
by:
Kellie Jones
4.41 avg rating — 37 ratings 21. 
Shock and Awe: Glam Rock and Its Legacy, from the Seventies to the Twenty-first Century
by:
Simon Reynolds
3.98 avg rating — 744 ratings 22. 
Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective
by:
J. Samuel Walker
3.59 avg rating — 98 ratings 
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Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit
by:
John E. Douglas
4.09 avg rating — 78,654 ratings 25. 
The Last Headbangers: NFL Football in the Rowdy, Reckless '70s: the Era that Created Modern Sports
by:
Kevin Cook
3.96 avg rating — 488 ratings 25. 
January 1973: Watergate, Roe v. Wade, Vietnam, and the Month That Changed America Forever
by:
James Robenalt
3.91 avg rating — 180 ratings 27. 
Jewish Radical Feminism: Voices from the Women's Liberation Movement
by:
Joyce Antler
3.88 avg rating — 26 ratings 28. 
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What Wild Ecstasy: The Rise and Fall of the Sexual Revolution
by:
John Heidenry
3.52 avg rating — 27 ratings 31. 
Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s
by:
Meg Jacobs
3.86 avg rating — 97 ratings 32. 
Miss American Pie: A Diary of Love, Secrets and Growing Up in the 1970s
by:
Margaret Sartor
3.39 avg rating — 953 ratings 33. 
Making Rumours: The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album
by:
Ken Caillat
3.70 avg rating — 1,987 ratings 34. 
Opening Wednesday at a Theater Or Drive-In Near You: The Shadow Cinema of the American '70s
by:
Charles Taylor
3.67 avg rating — 327 ratings 35. 
Fire and Rain: The Beatles, Simon and Garfunkel, James Taylor, CSNY, and the Lost Story of 1970
by:
David Browne
3.85 avg rating — 2,513 ratings 36. 
Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee
by:
Paul Chaat Smith
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 409 ratings 37. 
A Superpower Transformed: The Remaking of American Foreign Relations in the 1970s 4.01 avg rating — 102 ratings
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Jimmy Carter, Human Rights, and the National Agenda (Volume 20) (Presidential Rhetoric and Political Communication)
by:
Mary E. Stuckey
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings 37. 
Disasterama!: Adventures in the Queer Underground 1977 to 1997
by:
Alvin Orloff
4.34 avg rating — 175 ratings 37. 
Integrity: Good People, Bad Choices, and Life Lessons from the White House
by:
Matthew Krogh
3.75 avg rating — 81 ratings 37. 
The 300: The Inside Story of the Missile Defenders Guarding America Against Nuclear Attack
by:
Daniel Wasserbly
3.63 avg rating — 112 ratings 37. 
Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People
by:
Tim Reiterman
4.32 avg rating — 2,616 ratings 37. 
Rough Waters: Our North Pacific Small Fishermen's Battle : A Fishing Family's Perspective 4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate
by:
Jefferson Morley
4.01 avg rating — 255 ratings 37. 
American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst
by:
Jeffrey Toobin
3.87 avg rating — 12,108 ratings 46. 
The Transformation of American International Power in the 1970s liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Solar Flares: Science Fiction in the 1970s (Liverpool Science Fiction Texts and Studies, 43) (Volume 43)
by:
Andrew M. Butler
3.12 avg rating — 8 ratings 
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Captain Fantastic: Elton John's Stellar Trip Through the '70s
by:
Tom Doyle
3.90 avg rating — 454 ratings 54. 
Ravens in the Storm: A Personal History of the 1960s Anti-War Movement
by:
Carl Oglesby
3.78 avg rating — 74 ratings 54. 
¡Sí, Ella Puede!: The Rhetorical Legacy of Dolores Huerta and the United Farm Workers 4.23 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Politics of Authenticity: Liberalism, Christianity, and the New Left in America
by:
Doug Rossinow
3.61 avg rating — 59 ratings 
59. 
Lennon Remembers: The Full Rolling Stone Interviews from 1970
by:
Jann S. Wenner
4.13 avg rating — 2,276 ratings 60. 
The Ones Who Hit the Hardest: The Steelers, the Cowboys, the '70s, and the Fight for America's Soul
by:
Chad Millman
3.95 avg rating — 575 ratings 60. 
Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the '70s & the '80s
by:
Brad Gooch
3.87 avg rating — 494 ratings 60. 
Elvis and Ginger: Elvis Presley's Fiancée and Last Love Finally Tells Her Story
by:
Ginger Alden
3.91 avg rating — 2,037 ratings 63. 
We Are As Gods: Back to the Land in the 1970s on the Quest for a New America
by:
Kate Daloz
4.13 avg rating — 292 ratings 
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Nixon's Darkest Secrets: The Inside Story of America's Most Troubled President
by:
Don Fulsom
3.19 avg rating — 203 ratings 65. 
The Man Who Sold the World: David Bowie and the 1970s
by:
Peter Doggett
3.64 avg rating — 582 ratings 65. 
An Outlaw and a Lady: A Memoir of Music, Life with Waylon, and the Faith that Brought me Home
by:
Jessi Colter
4.15 avg rating — 642 ratings 69. 
The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics 3.72 avg rating — 614 ratings
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Children of the Silent Majority: Young Voters and the Rise of the Republican Party, 1968-1980
by:
Seth Blumenthal
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
72. 
The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk
by:
Randy Shilts
4.14 avg rating — 4,469 ratings 73. 
The Rest of It: Hustlers, Cocaine, Depression, and Then Some, 1976–1988
by:
Martin Duberman
3.88 avg rating — 25 ratings 73. 
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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I Can't Wait Until Tomorrow ... 'Cause I Get Better-Looking Every Day
by:
Joe Namath
3.70 avg rating — 77 ratings 79. 
The Postmodernist Turn: American Thought and Culture in the 1970s (Studies in the American Thought and Culture Series) liked it 3.00 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Stewardess Is Flying The Plane! American Films of the 1970s
by:
Ron Hogan
3.70 avg rating — 91 ratings 
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Persistence of Sentiment: Display and Feeling in Popular Music of the 1970s
by:
Mitchell Morris
3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings 
88. 
1973 Nervous Breakdown: Watergate, Warhol, and the Birth of Post-Sixties America
by:
Andreas Killen
3.72 avg rating — 151 ratings 88. 
Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events, 1940s-1970s
by:
Harold H. Martin
4.60 avg rating — 5 ratings 
91. 
Bread: A Sweet Surrender: The Musical Journey of David Gates, James Griffin & Co. 4.11 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Kicking & Dreaming: A Story of Heart, Soul, and Rock and Roll
by:
Ann Wilson
4.07 avg rating — 4,193 ratings 97. 
City Boy: My Life in New York During the 1960s and 1970s
by:
Edmund White
3.73 avg rating — 1,225 ratings 
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Starring New York: Filming the Grime and the Glamour of the Long 1970s
by:
Stanley Corkin
3.38 avg rating — 8 ratings