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.