Scott Peeples

Scott Peeples is the author of The Man of the Crowd: Edgar Allan Poe and the City (Princeton Univ. Press, 2020) as well as two other books and numerous articles on American literature. He teaches English at the College of Charleston.
Where Were You in ’72? The ’50s Revival Reconsidered

Where Were You in ’72? The ’50s Revival Reconsidered

How do we explain 1970 America’s intense ’50s nostalgia, which took off around the time of the Paris Peace Accords and the end of the military draft?