 | Rolling Stone the Seventies: The Seventies by Calif.) Rolling Stone (San Francisco
Buy used from: $1.82 The good folks at "Rolling Stone" magazine have collected many of the best writings of the decade, along with great photographs and groovy layout.
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 | Suburbia by Bill Owens
Buy new: $19.77 / Used from: $13.86 This superb collection of photos chronicles the domestic and public lives of a small California community in the early seventies. Haunting in its own kitsch sort of way.
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 | Have A Nice Decade: The '70s Pop Culture Box
Buy used from: $110.00 Stunningly exhaustive collection of great musical hits, along with many classic novelty pieces. Comes with a funky book and a faux shag cover.
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 | The Ice Storm: A Novel by Rick Moody
Buy new: $11.16 / Used from: $1.63 In this very funny, yet deeply moving and reflective novel, Rick Moody charts the inner lives of a New England family during Thanksgiving weekend in 1973.
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 | All the President's Men
Buy new: $17.99 / Used from: $3.92 Washington DC is given the star treatment by director Alan J Pakula and cinematographer Gordon Willis in this moody portrait of Woodward and Bernstein's Watergate investigation.
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 | Frampton Comes Alive! by Peter Frampton
Buy new: $18.99 / Used from: $6.97 As the eponymous protagonist of "Wayne's World" says of this mega popular album: it was practically *issued* to kids in the 70s. Frampton's warbling, talking guitar is more out-there than Mr Spock.
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 | I Never Liked You: A Comic Book by Chester Brown
Buy used from: $3.58 This elegiac comic book charts the emotional turmoil of adolesence in mid-seventies Canada.
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 | Robert Smithson: The Collected Writings by Robert Smithson
Buy new: $23.73 / Used from: $15.00 These probing and insightful musings of one of the great seventies artists redefined art making and art theory. His 1970 work, "Spiral Jetty", is one of the masterpieces of Earth Art. Essential.
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 | Archie Americana Series : Best of the Seventies by John L. Goldwater
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $3.54 Archie, Jughead and the rest of the Riverside gang trade in flower power and flips for long sideburns and bell-bottoms. Boss.
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 | Dazed and Confused
Buy used from: $1.96 Richard Linklater's hazy recollections of high school in the Bicentennial year are perfectly realized in this very funny and touching film. Light up that bong, turn on your black light, and enjoy!
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 | Journey by Journey
Buy used from: $2.43 The supersonic grooves on this other-wordly album will take you beyond. Transcendental.
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 | The Mary Tyler Moore Show - The Complete First Season
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $7.95 Join Mary and the team at WJM-TV for good times Minneapolis style. A very well written character study which constantly reveals its true humanism and love of the world.
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 | It Seemed Like Nothing Happened: America in the 1970s by Peter N. Carroll
Buy new: $24.33 / Used from: $7.00 An insightful historical account of America in the Seventies.
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 | The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter's Journey Beyond the White House by Douglas G. Brinkley
Buy used from: $0.41 Follow the journey of one of the United States' greatest leaders. Inspirational.
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 | Will You Please Be Quiet, Please?: Stories by Raymond Carver
Buy new: $10.20 / Used from: $4.44 Almost no other scribe better depicted the day-to-day life of 70s America than this minimalist short-story writer. Evocative, lyrical and compelling.
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 | What's Going On by Marvin Gaye
Buy new: $7.97 / Used from: $4.47 In 1971, Marvin Gaye produced one of the finest soul albums ever. Timely and contemporary in nature, this funky tribute to peace is liquid beauty. A gift to everyone, everywhere.
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