Christian Caryl.
Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century.
New York: Basic Books (Perseus Books Group), 2013.
Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com; book webpage at author's website.
Christian Caryl, "1979: The Great Backlash," Foreign Policy, 21 June 2009.
The germination of the idea for the book.
Christian Caryl, "What I Left Out: I wrote a book about 1979, but I left out the peace treaty between Egypt and Israel. Here’s why." Foreign Policy, 24 May 2013.
Christian Caryl, "When Afghanistan Was Just a Stop on the 'Hippie Trail'," The Huffington Post, 12 June 2013.
An excerpt from Strange Rebels.
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Author Information:
- Christian Caryl, author's website.
- Christian Caryl, Wikipedia.
- Christian Caryl at The New York Review of Books.
- Christian Caryl at Foreign Policy.
- Democracy Lab at Foreign Policy, edited by Christian Caryl.
- Legatum Institute - People includes profile of Christian Caryl.
Video and Audio:
- Christian Caryl, "Strange Rebels Book Trailer," Emma Patti Harris, YouTube, 26 April 2013.
- Aaron Schachter and Christian Caryl, "1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century," The World, PRI, 17 April 2013.
- John Hockenberry and Christian Caryl, "1979: The Birth of the Modern Age," The Take Away, WNYC Radio and PRI, 30 April 2013.
- Susan B. Glasser and Christian Caryl, "After Words with Christian Caryl," BookTV, C-SPAN, 07 May 2013.
- Christian Caryl and Marshall Poe, "Strange Rebels," New Books Network, 20 May 2013.
- Kurt Volker and Christian Caryl, "Leadership Voices with Christian Caryl," The McCain Institute for International Leadership, Arizona State University, 13 June 2013.
(Event webpage at McCain Institute includes transcript and video.) - Christian Caryl, "World Affairs TODAY: Season 6, Episode 8: Christian Caryl, 'Strange Rebels'," World Affairs Council of Washington DC, 16 July 2013.
(Event webpage at World Affairs Council; World Affairs Council of Washington DC.) - Christian Caryl, "Starr Forum: Strange Rebels . . .," Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 19 September 2013.
(Event webpage MIT Center for International Studies; Video webpage at MIT TechTV; MIT CIS Starr Forum.) - Anne Applebaum and Christian Caryl, "Strange Rebels . . .," Legatum Institute, London, 02 October 2013.
- Christian Caryl, "Strange Rebels: Why We Still Live in the Shadow of 1979," Clements Center for History, Strategy & Statecraft, The University of Texas at Austin, 01 October 2014.
(Event webpage at the Clements Center.)
Book Reviews:
- "When the world changed," The Economist, 11 April 2013.
- Michael Kimmage, "Deng Xiaoping and Margaret Thatcher: Kindred Spirits," The New Republic, 11 May 2013.
- Jones Atwater, "Non-Fiction: Strange Rebels by Christian Caryl," January Magazine, 31 May 2013.
- Peter Dizikes, "That ’70s show," MIT News, 13 June 2013.
- Dominic Sandbrook, "Review," The Sunday Times, 16 June 2013. (subscription required)
- Ferdinand Mount, "When Our World Turned Upside Down," The New York Review of Books, 20 June 2013.
- Isaac Chotiner, "Annus Mirabilis," The New York Times, 21 June 2013.
- James McAuley, "Strange Bedfellows," Prospect, 24 June 2013.
- Harvey Blume, "Short Fuse Book Review: A Fascinating Tale of 'Strange Rebels'," The Arts Fuse, 03 July 2013.
- Ian Thomson, "Book Review," The Observer, 07 July 2013.
- Jonathan Derbyshire, "Book Review," The Guardian, 25 July 2013.
- John Lanchester, "1979 And All That," The New Yorker, 05 August 2013.
- David Runciman, "Counter-Counter-Revolution," London Review of Books, Vol. 35 No. 18, 26 September 2013.
- Anatol Lieven, "1979 – a critical year?," The Times Literary Supplement, 30 September 2013.
- Donald A. Yerxa, "1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century: An Interview with Christian Caryl," Historically Speaking, Volume 14, Number 4, pp. 18-19, September 2013. (excerpt only; subscription required for full article)
- Walter G. Moss, "The 1960s, the Thatcher/Reagan Era, and Today’s Political Divide," History News Network, October 2013.
Originally published at LA Progressive. - Crawford Kilian, "Four Who Changed the System from Within," TheTyee.ca, 06 January 2014.
- Artemy M. Kalinovsky, "Review," Journal of Cold War Studies, Volume 16, Number 4, pp. 248-250, Fall 2014. (excerpt only; subscription required for full article)
- William R. Keylor, "Book Review," The Historian, Volume 77, Issue 1, pages 200–201, Spring 2015. (subscription required)
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Wikipedia Articles:
- 1970s.
- 1979.
- Soviet Union. Margaret Thatcher and the United Kingdom:
- Margaret Thatcher (1925-2013).
- MargaretThatcher.org, Margaret Thatcher Foundation (a source for speeches, historical documents, etc.).
- United Kingdom general election, 1979.
- Postwar Britain (1945-present).
- Post–World War II economic expansion.
- Post-war consensus.
- Economic history of the United Kingdom : 1945 to 2001.
- 1970s energy crisis.
- The Great Inflation (1970s).
- UK miners' strike (1972).
- Three-Day Week (January-March, 1974).
- Grunwick dispute (1976-1978).
- Winter of Discontent (1978-1979).
- Deindustrialisation by country : United Kingdom.
- Economy of the United Kingdom. Pope John Paul II and Poland:
- Pope John Paul II (1920-2005; pope 1978-2005).
- Pope John Paul II: First papal trip to Poland (June 1979).
- Postwar communist Poland.
- History of Poland (1945–89).
- Polish People's Republic (1952-1989).
- History of Solidarity. Deng Xiaoping and China:
- Deng Xiaoping (1904-1997).
- 1976 Tangshan earthquake.
- Chinese economic reform.
- History of the People's Republic of China (1976–89).
- Economy of China. Ayatollah Khomeini and Iran:
- Ruhollah Khomeini (1902-1989).
- White Revolution, began 1963.
- Iranian Revolution, 1979.
- Iran: After the 1979 Revolution.
- History of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
- Iran hostage crisis, began 4 November 1979; hostages released 20 January 1981. Afghanistan:
- Mohammed Daoud Khan (1909-1978).
- War in Afghanistan (1978–present).
- Saur Revolution, 1978.
- People's Democratic Party of Afghanistan.
- Soviet–Afghan War, 1979-1989.
- Mujahideen: Afghanistan.
- Islamic Unity of Afghanistan Mujahideen.
- Gulbuddin Hekmatyar (b.1947).
- Ahmad Shah Massoud (1953-2001).
- Taliban.
- W. Patrick Lang, "Policy in Afghanistan," Sic Semper Tyrannis, 16 October 2015. Other Notable Events in and around 1979:
- Aldo Moro, former Prime Minister of Italy, is kidnapped by the Red Brigades, 16 March 1978.
- The U.S. Senate votes 68–32 to turn the Panama Canal over to Panamanian control on 31 December 1999; 16 March 1978 and 18 April 1978. (The Panama Canal Treaties were signed 07 September 1977.)
- The first Unabomber attack, Northwestern University, May 1978.
- Camp David Accords, 17 September 1978.
- Airline Deregulation Act of 1978 signed into law by President Jimmy Carter, 24 October 1978.
- Collapse of the Pol Pot / Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, 7 January 1979.
- Egypt–Israel Peace Treaty, 26 March 1979.
- Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto, former President (1971-73) and Prime Minister (1973-77) of Pakistan, executed on 4 April 1979.
- Jimmy Carter rabbit incident, 20 April 1979.
- Saddam Hussein becomes President of Iraq, 16 July 1979.
- Sandinistas overthrow the dictator of Nicaragua Anastasio Somoza, July 1979. (Somoza was later assassinated in Paraguay, 17 September 1980.)
- Moral Majority, a U.S. Christian right wing political group, is founded, July 1979.
- Paul Volcker appointed chairman of the board of governors for the U.S. Federal Reserve System, August 1979.
- Park Chung-hee, the President of South Korea, assassinated on 26 October 1979.
- Grand Mosque seizure, Mecca, November-December 1979.
- U.S. embassy burning in Islamabad, 21 November 1979.
- U.S. embassy burning in Libya, 2 December 1979.
- Archbishop of San Salvador Óscar Romero is assassinated, Salvadoran Civil War, 24 March 1980.
- Depository Institutions Deregulation and Monetary Control Act of 1980, signed by President Jimmy Carter on 31 March 1980.
- Motor Carrier Act of 1980 which deregulates the U.S. trucking industry is signed into law by President Carter, 01 July 1980.
- Bologna massacre, Italy, 2 August 1980.
- In Australia, baby Azaria Chamberlain disappears from a campsite at Ayers Rock (Uluru), reportedly taken by a dingo, 17 August 1980.
- Oktoberfest terror attack, Munich, 26 September 1980.
- Paris synagogue bombing, 3 October 1980.
- The Staggers Rail Act is enacted, deregulating U.S. railroads, 14 October 1980.
- U.S. presidential election, 04 November 1980.
- An American missionary and three American nuns are murdered by a military death squad in El Salvador, 02 December 1980. Other late 1970s conflicts and terrorist organizations:
- Cold War, 1947–1991.
- Cold War (1962–79).
- Sino-Vietnamese War, 1979.
- Soviet "Active Measures".
- Gaddafi and international terrorism.
- Groups supported by Gaddafi's Libya.
- Operation Gladio.
"Operation Gladio," Timewatch, BBC, 1992. - Angola: Portuguese Colonial War; Angolan War of Independence, 1961–1974; Angolan Civil War, 1975-2002.
- Political violence in Turkey (1976–80).
- Basque conflict, 1959–2011.
- Guatemalan Civil War, 1960-1996.
- Ethiopian Civil War, 1974-1991.
- Eritrean War of Independence, 1961–1991.
- Mozambican Civil War, 1977–1992.
- Operation Condor, 1975-1989.
- Dirty War, Argentina, 1974-1983.
Other books on the 1970s noted in this blog:
- Blum, Years of Discord: American Politics and Society, 1961-1974 (1991).
- Patterson, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (1996).
- Patterson, Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore (2005).
- Stein, Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies (2010).
- Kalman, Right Star Rising: A New Politics, 1974-1980 (2010).
- Ferguson & Rogers, Right Turn: The Decline of the Democrats and the Future of American Politics (1986).
- Jacobs, Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s (2016).
- Beckett, When the Lights Went Out: Britain in the Seventies (2009).
This post has many links to videos that describe the politics of Britain during the 1970s and which therefore help in understanding what followed. - Turner, Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s (2008).
- Wheen, Strange Days Indeed: The 1970s: The Golden Days of Paranoia (2010).
- Ferguson, Maier, et al., editors, The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective (2010).