Time Capsule Series

Open the Time Capsule and Step Back Into 1976! A history of 1976 that explores everyday American life, culture, breakthroughs, and world events through the American lens.

With 142 photos and illustrations, this book is your time machine into the Bicentennial year of fireworks and a nation taking stock of itself. It was a moment when VHS came into living rooms, and the United States made its first successful landing on Mars.

Written in a conversational voice, the Time Capsule Series delivers history the way a knowledgeable friend would tell it, with the pace and visual energy of a fun magazine with the substance of an engaging history book.

Inside you'll find:

• Everyday life—from Pop-Tarts and tiny kitchen TVs in the morning to school bus chatter, traffic jams, dinner tables, and takeout cartons
• Music of the era—the 1976 soundscape of arena anthems and disco, with underground punk brewing
• Movies and TV—from Rocky and Taxi Driver to the comfort-TV of the three-channel era, including Happy Days
• Sports history—the Montreal Olympics as a global stage, and the Cincinnati "Big Red Machine" baseball dominance
• America and the World—a "clean break" political mood in the US, alongside authoritarian turns in Latin America with military juntas seizing power in the Southern Cone
• How families lived the American Dream—frugality and light optimism before the credit boom, with the "land yacht" in the driveway
• Science and innovation—from the $9M Cray-1 supercomputer to the $666 Apple I, showing two ends of the computing future
• The generation of 1976 from then to now—a cohort that remembers life before the internet, then fully adapted to a networked world

Time Capsule of 1976 is a perfect gift that offers a vivid view of the year and how it impacted the world.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.