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AmericanHeritage.com / 1973: The Year That Changed Everything? (732 words) |
 | In his new book, 1973 Nervous Breakdown: Watergate, Warhol, and the Birth of Post-Sixties America, the historian Andreas Killen christens 1973 “Year one of the culture wars.” By which he means that it marked the end of the idealism and political transformation of the sixties and the start of a new conservatism and political malaise. |
| Wade, gay rights, and women’s liberation began to gain force. |
| The culture wars that Killen argues started in 1973 are still being waged, and our political landscape is still very much shaped by what was perhaps the most polarizing event of that year: Roe v. |
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