Dominic Sandbrook was educated at Oxford, St. Andrews, and Cambridge. He taught American history at the University of Sheffield and is a former senior fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, Oxford. Sandbrook is the author of "Eugene McCarthy: The Rise and Fall of Postwar American Liberalism," as well as three best-selling books on modern British history, "Never Had It So Good," "White Heat, " and "State of Emergency." He is also a journalist and critic, writing regularly for the London "Daily Telegraph, ""Daily Mail, " and "The Sunday Times, "and a columnist for the "New Statesman" and "BBC History Magazine."
"As historians go, [Sandbrook] is a Hugh Grant-level charmer.. . .
"Mad as Hell" is frisky and intelligent; it's among the most
readable histories of the 1970s I've come across."
--Dwight Garner, "The New York Times "
""Mad as Hell" is an entertaining yet substantial book about a
wince-inducing era. When it comes to the Seventies, Sandbrook knows
the way we were, even if we wish we hadn't been."
--Chris Tucker, "Dallas Morning News"
"A terrific read . . . Sandbrook brings the 1970s back to vivid
life in "Mad as Hell", his entertaining, opinionated take on the
politics, economics, and cultural signifiers of a decade he views
as the incubator of today's right wing . . . Packed with anecdote
and insight."
--Carlo Wolff, "Christian Science Monitor"
"First-rate . . . [Sandbrook] is able to view history
panoramically, almost as a living, breathing organism, by
collecting and effectively using vast numbers of on-the-ground
anecdotes. When it comes time for a future Edward Gibbon to explore
the decline and fall of the American Republic, it is quite possible
that he or she will zero in on the cultural trends and economic
upheavals of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.
If that is the case, "Mad as Hell" will be there as a guiding
light."
--Sasha Abramsky, "Columbia Journalism Review"
"A shrewd, sparkling politico-cultural history of post-Watergate
America . . . [Sandbrook's] subtle, well-written narrative of
wrathful little guys confronting a faltering establishment
illuminates a crucial aspect of a time much like our own."
--"Publishers Weekly"
"Starting with Richard Nixon's resignation in 1974, all the
touchstones of the period are detailed . . . Sandbrook lays out
just how this discontent found its expression in the emergence of
Ronald Reagan and the Republican Right . . . Readers will be
rewarded."
--Alan Moores, "Booklist"
"A shrewd, sparkling politico-cultural history of post-Watergate
America . . . [Sandbrook's] subtle, well-written narrative of
wrathful little guys confronting a faltering establishment
illuminates a crucial aspect of a time much like our own."
--"Publishers Weekly"
"Starting with Richard Nixon's resignation in 1974, all the
touchstones of the period are detailed . . . Sandbrook lays out
just how this discontent found its expression in the emergence of
Ronald Reagan and the Republican Right . . . Readers will be
rewarded."
--"Booklist"
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