Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right Hardback - 2011

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“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