. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . "Personal narratives" . . . . . "1971-1975, approaching the apocalypse" . . . . . . . . . "History" . . . . . . "The one bright spot of the 1970's was Nixon's opening of China to the West while the riots at Attica prison and Kent State University, the trauma of the war in Vietnam and the Watergate scandal, left Americans exhausted, embittered and disillusioned. This program appraises the effects of those blights on the political landscape and their impact on the trust between the government and the governed, so vital to the well-being of a representative democracy such as the United States." . . . . . . . . . . . "Approaching the apocalypse" . . . . . . "China" . . . . "Since 1960" . . "Easy rider (Motion picture)" . . "United States" . .