Jacobs, Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s (2016)

Meg Jacobs.
Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s.
New York: Hill and Wang (Farrar, Straus and Giroux / Macmillan), 2016.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Author information:

• Meg Jacobs, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University.
• Meg Jacobs, Twitter.
• Meg Jacobs, Wikipedia.
• Meg Jacobs and Julian E. Zelizer, Conservatives in Power: The Reagan Years, 1981-1989: A Brief History with Documents, Bedford Cultural Editions Series, New York: Bedford/St. Martin's (Macmillan), 2010.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Meg Jacobs, Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America, Princeton University Press, 2005.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  For this book Jacobs won the Ellis W. Hawley Prize [Organization of American Historians; Wikipedia] in 2006.

Video and Audio, Interviews: Meg Jacobs

• Meg Jacobs and Bill Nigut, "Book Discussion on Panic at the Pump," Jimmy Carter Presidential Library and Museum, Atlanta, Georgia, BookTV, C-SPAN, 05 May 2016.
• Meg Jacobs and Sam Seder, "The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s," The Majority Report with Sam Seder, 29 April 2016.
  Interview Audio at Majority Report website.
  The interview includes a few songs from the 1970s including "Cheaper Crude or No More Food" (before) and "Freeze a Yankee" (after). The songs are not included in the YouTube clips.
  Interview Audio, Part One at YouTube.
  Interview Audio, Part Two at YouTube.
• Meg Jacobs and Mike Pesca, "The Energy Crisis and the End of American Liberalism," The Gist, Episode 481, Slate.com, 21 April 2016.
  The interview with Meg Jacobs begins around time 7:00.
• Meg Jacobs and Timothy Shenk, "How the 1970s Energy Crisis Changed American Politics," Booked, Dissent magazine blog, 26 May 2016.
• Meg Jacobs and Robin Young, "Why It's So Difficult For Presidents To Ask For Less Energy Use," Here & Now, WBUR, 01 June 2016.
• Meg Jacobs and Matt Piotrowski, "Princeton’s Meg Jacobs on the 1970s Energy Crisis and Her Book Panic at the Pump," The Fuse, 22 June 2016.
  This is an interview transcript.
• Meg Jacobs, "Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s," Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, 12 January 2017.
• Meg Jacobs, "Why in the 1930s Did the U.S. Move Left and in the 1970s Move Right?," American Historical Association, 129th Annual Meeting, New York City, 04 January 2015.
  Past Meetings, American Historical Association.
  Caroline F. Ware (1899–1990), Wikipedia.

Essays: Meg Jacobs

• Meg Jacobs, "America’s Never-Ending Oil Consumption," The Atlantic, 15 May 2016.
• Meg Jacobs, "‘Ronald’ Trump: Why 2016 Is Looking a Lot Like 1980," The Daily Beast, 24 May 2016.
• Meg Jacobs, "To Trump, is oil just another commodity?" CNN.com, 25 May 2016.

Book Reviews:

• Marc Levinson, "When America Ran on Empty," The Wall Street Journal, 05 May 2016.
  Also available at MarcLevinson.net.
• Steven Mufson, "Have we learned anything from the failures of the ’70s?," The Washington Post, 03 June 2016.
• Matthew L. Wald, "Oil," The New York Times, 10 June 2016.
• Jefferson Decker, "Running on Empty," The Nation, 04 August 2016.
• Michael Causey, "Recalling gas-station lines, embargoes, and all-around angst," Washington Independent Review of Books, 18 April 2016.

Some Wikipedia Articles:

• 1970s energy crisis.
• 1973 oil crisis.
• 1973–75 recession.
• 1979 energy crisis.
• Early 1980s recession.
• Early 1980s recession in the United States.
• Reaganomics.
• 1980s oil glut.
• Post–World War II economic expansion.
• Economic history of the United States: Postwar prosperity: 1945–1973.
• Economic history of the United States: Late 20th century.

Kalman, Right Star Rising: A New Politics, 1974-1980 (2010)

Laura Kalman.
Right Star Rising: A New Politics, 1974-1980.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2010.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

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Author Information:

• Laura Kalman, Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara.
• Laura Kalman, C-SPAN.
• Laura Kalman. Legal Realism at Yale, 1927-1960. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1986.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Laura Kalman. Abe Fortas: A Biography. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1990.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Laura Kalman. The Strange Career of Legal Liberalism. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1996.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Laura Kalman. Yale Law School and the Sixties: Revolt and Reverberations. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Laura Kalman. The Long Reach of the Sixties: LBJ, Nixon, and the Making of the Contemporary Supreme Court. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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Video: Laura Kalman

• Beverly Gage, Laura Kalman, Athan G. Theoharis, Katherine A. Scott, John F. Fox Jr., "The Church Committee at 40: Surveillance and Reform since the 1970s," Organization of American Historians, Annual Meeting, St. Louis, Missouri, American History TV, C-SPAN, 17 April 2015.
  • Church Committee.
  • Pike Committee.
  • Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.
  • The CIA's Family Jewels: Agency Violated Charter for 25 Years, Wiretapped Journalists and Dissidents, The National Security Archive.
• Laura Kalman, Douglas G. Brinkley, Nina Totenberg, C. Boyden Gray, Allen Weinstein (moderator), "Shaping the Modern Supreme Court," Franklin Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, Hyde Park, New York, American History TV, C-SPAN, 11 November 2007.
  • Abe Fortas (1910–1982), U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice 1965-1969.
  • Earl Warren (1891–1974), Chief Justice of the United States 1953–1969.
  • Thurgood Marshall, (1908–1993), U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice 1967-1991.
  • William Rehnquist (1924–2005), U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice 1972-1986, Chief Justice of the United States 1986–2005.
  • Robert Bork (1927–2012).
  • Warren Court, 1953-1969.
  • Burger Court, 1969-1986.
  • Rehnquist Court, 1986-2005.
• Henry "Sam" Chauncey Jr., Edmund S. Morgan, William Lilley III, (David M. Kennedy's eulogy read by Sam Chauncey), Laura Kalman, "Memorial Service for Historian John Morton Blum," Yale University, BookTV, C-SPAN, 11 November 2011.
  • John Morton Blum (1921-2011).
  • Danielle Trubow, "Iconic historian passes away," Yale Daily News, 19 October 2011.
  • Edmund Morgan (1916-2013).
• Laura Kalman, Sean Wilentz, William Inboden, Mary Frances Berry, "Taking a Longer View: The 2012 Election in Historical Context," 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, New Orleans, Louisiana, 04 January 2013.
  Another copy on YouTube.
  • Robert Sean Wilentz, Department of History, Princeton University.
  • Sean Wilentz, Wikipedia.
  • William Inboden, Clements Center for National Security, The University of Texas at Austin.
  • William Inboden, Wikipedia.
  • Mary Frances Berry, Department of History, University of Pennsylvania.
  • Mary Frances Berry, maryfrancesberry.com.
  • Mary Frances Berry, Wikipedia.
• Laura Kalman, "Some Thoughts on Yale and Guido," Prague Conference on Political Economy, 2012.
  • Guido Calabresi (b. 1932), Wikipedia.
• Paul Mahoney, John Fabian Witt, Laura Kalman, Anne Coughlin, G. Edward White, Risa Goluboff, "Legal History Book Panel on UVA Law Professor Risa Goluboff's Vagrant Nation," University of Virginia School of Law, 10 February 2016.
  • Risa Goluboff. Vagrant Nation: Police Power, Constitutional Change, and the Making of the 1960s. Oxford University Press, 2016.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Risa Goluboff. The Lost Promise of Civil Rights. Harvard University Press, 2007.
    [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  • Risa L. Goluboff, University of Virginia School of Law.
  • Papachristou v. City of Jacksonville (1972), Wikipedia.

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Video: 1970s

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### Julian E. Zelizer, Bruce J. Schulman, Paul Starr, Bill Berkowitz, "Book Discussion on Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s," Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University, BookTV, C-SPAN, 09 April 2008.

• Julian E. Zelizer, Department of History, Princeton University.
• Bruce J. Schulman, Department of History, Boston University.
• Bruce Schulman, Wikipedia.
• Paul Starr, Princeton University.
• Paul Starr (b. 1949), Wikipedia.
• Bill Berkowitz, alternet.org.

Books Discussed:

• Bruce J. Schulman and Julian E. Zelizer, editors. Rightward Bound: Making America Conservative in the 1970s. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2008.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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### Bruce J. Schulman, "Jimmy Carter and the 1970s," Boston University, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 24 February 2011.

• Bruce J. Schulman, Department of History, Boston University.
• Bruce Schulman, Wikipedia.
• Bruce J. Schulman, The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics, New York: The Free Press (Simon & Schuster Inc.), 2001; Cambridge, Massachusetts: Da Capo Press (Perseus Books Group), 2002.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

Wikipedia Articles:

• Jimmy Carter, (b. 1924).
• Presidency of Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981.

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### Judith Stein, "Politics & Economics in the 1970s," Graduate Center, City University of New York, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 27 March 2012.

• Judith Stein, Department of History, The City College of New York.
• Judith Stein (1940–2017), Wikipedia.

Books Discussed:

• Judith Stein. Pivotal Decade: How the United States Traded Factories for Finance in the Seventies. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2010.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
  My post on Pivotal Decade is here.

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### Melissa Harris-Perry, "Betty Ford and the Role of First Ladies," Tulane University, New Orleans, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 04 April 2012.
The lecture begins with a survey of notable First Ladies before Betty Ford. The discussion of Betty Ford begins at time 32 minutes.

• Melissa Harris-Perry, melissaharrisperry.com.
• Melissa Harris-Perry (b. 1973), Wikipedia.
• Melissa V. Harris-Perry, C-SPAN.

Wikipedia Articles:

• Betty Ford (1918–2011).

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### Kirsten Swinth, "Battle Over the Equal Rights Amendment," Fordham University, New York City, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 17 April 2012.

• Kirsten Swinth, History Department, Fordham University.

Wikipedia Articles:

• The Equal Rights Amendment was passed by Congress (House on October 12, 1971; Senate on March 22, 1972) but was not ratified by the requisite number of states by the deadline 22 March 1979 nor by the extended deadline 30 June 1982.

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### Regina Morantz-Sanchez, "Backlash Against Women's Liberation Movement," University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 09 April 2013.

• Regina Morantz-Sanchez, Department of History, University of Michigan.

Wikipedia Articles:

• Feminist movement.
• Feminism in the United States.
• Second-wave feminism.

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### Donald T. Critchlow, "1970s Republican Revival," Arizona State University, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 10 October 2013.

• Donald Critchlow, School of Historical, Philosophical, and Religious Studies, Arizona State University.
• Donald T. Critchlow, C-SPAN.
• Donald T. Critchlow (b. 1948), Wikipedia.
• Donald T. Critchlow. The Conservative Ascendancy: How the Republican Right Rose to Power in Modern America, Second Edition. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2011.
  [Publisher; Google Books, 2007 edition; Amazon.com.]
• Donald T. Critchlow, Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade, Princeton University Press, 2005.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

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### Amy Koehlinger, "Father Divine, Jim Jones & Modern Religious Utopias," Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 14 November 2013.

• Amy Koehlinger, School of History, Philosophy, and Religion, Oregon State University.

Books Mentioned:

• Paul E. Johnson and Sean Wilentz. The Kingdom of Matthias: A Story of Sex and Salvation in 19th-Century America, Second Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

Wikipedia Articles:

• Father Divine (c.1876-1965).
• International Peace Mission movement.
• Jim Jones (1931-1978).
• Peoples Temple, mass suicide November 1978.

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### Bonnie Morris, "Women's Sports and Title IX," Georgetown University, Washington D.C., 05 March 2014.

• Bonnie Morris, Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program, George Washington University.
• Bonnie J. Morris, C-SPAN.

Wikipedia Articles:

• Title IX (1972).

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### Michael McGerr, "Feminism and 1960-1970s Popular Music," Indiana University, Bloomington, Lectures in History, C-SPAN, 1 April 2014.

• Michael McGerr, Department of History, Indiana University.
• Michael McGerr, Wikipedia.

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### Beverly Gage, Donna Murch, Kimberly Phillips-Fein, Robert O. Self, Heather Ann Thompson, "Social Changes of the 1970s," American Historical Association, New York City, American History TV, C-SPAN, 02 January 2015.

• Beverly Gage, Department of History, Yale University.
• Beverly Gage, beverlygage.com.
• Donna Murch, Department of History, Rutgers University.
• Kimberly Phillips-Fein, Gallatin School of Individualized Study, New York University.
• Robert O. Self, Department of History, Brown University.
• Heather Ann Thompson, Department of Afroamerican and African Studies, University of Michigan.
• Dr. Heather Ann Thompson, heatherannthompson.com.

Books by the panelists:

• Beverly Gage. The Day Wall Street Exploded: A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Donna Murch. Living for the City: Migration, Education, and the Rise of the Black Panther Party in Oakland, California. Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2010.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Kim Phillips-Fein. Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2009.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Kim Phillips-Fein. Fear City: New York's Fiscal Crisis and the Rise of Austerity Politics. New York: Metropolitan Books (Henry Holt and Company / Macmillan), 2017.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Robert O. Self. American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland. Princeton University Press, 2003.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Robert O. Self. All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s. New York: Hill and Wang (Macmillan), 2012.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Heather Ann Thompson. Whose Detroit?: Politics, Labor, and Race in a Modern American City. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2001.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Heather Ann Thompson, editor. Speaking Out: Activism and Protest in the 1960's and 1970's. Pearson, 2009.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Heather Ann Thompson. Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy. New York: Pantheon Books (Penguin Random House), 2016.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Wikipedia; Amazon.com.]

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Wikipedia Articles:

• History of the United States (1964–80).
• Presidency of Gerald Ford, 1974-1977.
• Presidency of Jimmy Carter, 1977-1981.
• United States presidential election, 1980.
• Presidency of Ronald Reagan, 1981-1989.

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