The Last Days Of America [antikvár]

1Being an American in the 1980s was not always easyas you remember. When the decade began, most of us were convinced that we had no place to go but up. After all, we had gotten by Vietnam and Richard Nixon and Iran and Jimmy Carter. What else could go wrong?Ha!Not that anything catastrophic had happened, thank God. It was just that we all still had to eat and live somewhere and move around now and then. But who could still afford to do any of these things in style any more? Very fewwith gas at $3.85 a gallon for unleaded premium, with a 1985 model Cadillac costing $42,000, with that house in Woodside that we bought for $400,000 in 1982 now going for well over a million according to our neighbors who kept track of such things, and with steak now at $16 a pound at Safeway.Still, when we Americans compared our situation with that of most of the rest of the world, we really had nothing to Q7