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Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s

Independent bookstore Book Culture welcomes Meg Jacobs as she discusses her new book, Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s, with Eric Foner.

In Panic at the Pump, Meg Jacobs shows how a succession of crises beginning with the 1973 Arab oil embargo prompted American politicians to seek energy independence, and how their failure to do so shaped the world we live in.

Jacobs argues that the energy crises of the 1970s became, for many Americans, an important object lesson in the limitations of governmental power. Washington proved unable to design a national energy policy, and the inability to develop resources and conserve only made the United States more dependent on oil from abroad. As we face the repercussions of a changing climate, a volatile oil market, and continued unrest in the Middle East, “Panic at the Pump” is a necessary and instructive account of a formative period in American political history.

This is a free event and Meg Jacobs will be available to sign books following the discussion.

Event details

Tuesday April 19 2016 at 7.00pm

Book Culture, 536 W 112th Street, New York 10025

Contact: Cody Madsen, Events Manager, phone 212-865-1588 or [email protected]

About the speakers

Meg Jacobs is a research scholar in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. Her first book, Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (2005), won the Organization of American Historians’ Ellis W. Hawley Prize for the best book on political economy, politics, and institutions of the modern United States, as well as the New England History Association’s Best Book Award.

Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and 19th-century America. He is one of only two persons to serve as President of the Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and Society of American Historians. He has also been the curator of several museum exhibitions, including the prize-winning “A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln,” at the Chicago Historical Society. His book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer, Bancroft, and Lincoln prizes for 2011. His latest book is Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad.

About Book Culture

Book Culture has been part of the Morningside Heights community since 1997, with locations on 112th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam and on the corner of 114th and Broadway, where there has been an independent bookstore for over fifty years. The 112th location offers a wide range of publications in the arts, humanities, and sciences. The 114th store carries popular titles and a large collection of children’s books. For more information, visit http://www.bookculture.com.











When: Tue., Apr. 19, 2016 at 7:00 pm - 9:30 pm
Where: Book Culture
536 W. 112th St.
212-865-1588
Price: Free
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Independent bookstore Book Culture welcomes Meg Jacobs as she discusses her new book, Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s, with Eric Foner.

In Panic at the Pump, Meg Jacobs shows how a succession of crises beginning with the 1973 Arab oil embargo prompted American politicians to seek energy independence, and how their failure to do so shaped the world we live in.

Jacobs argues that the energy crises of the 1970s became, for many Americans, an important object lesson in the limitations of governmental power. Washington proved unable to design a national energy policy, and the inability to develop resources and conserve only made the United States more dependent on oil from abroad. As we face the repercussions of a changing climate, a volatile oil market, and continued unrest in the Middle East, “Panic at the Pump” is a necessary and instructive account of a formative period in American political history.

This is a free event and Meg Jacobs will be available to sign books following the discussion.

Event details

Tuesday April 19 2016 at 7.00pm

Book Culture, 536 W 112th Street, New York 10025

Contact: Cody Madsen, Events Manager, phone 212-865-1588 or [email protected]

About the speakers

Meg Jacobs is a research scholar in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. Her first book, Pocketbook Politics: Economic Citizenship in Twentieth-Century America (2005), won the Organization of American Historians’ Ellis W. Hawley Prize for the best book on political economy, politics, and institutions of the modern United States, as well as the New England History Association’s Best Book Award.

Eric Foner, DeWitt Clinton Professor of History at Columbia University, specializes in the Civil War and Reconstruction, slavery, and 19th-century America. He is one of only two persons to serve as President of the Organization of American Historians, American Historical Association, and Society of American Historians. He has also been the curator of several museum exhibitions, including the prize-winning “A House Divided: America in the Age of Lincoln,” at the Chicago Historical Society. His book, The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery won the Pulitzer, Bancroft, and Lincoln prizes for 2011. His latest book is Gateway to Freedom: The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad.

About Book Culture

Book Culture has been part of the Morningside Heights community since 1997, with locations on 112th Street between Broadway and Amsterdam and on the corner of 114th and Broadway, where there has been an independent bookstore for over fifty years. The 112th location offers a wide range of publications in the arts, humanities, and sciences. The 114th store carries popular titles and a large collection of children’s books. For more information, visit http://www.bookculture.com.

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