30 Issues | American Isolation and the 1973 Oil Crisis

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 9, 2016

Hear how the 1973 oil crisis contributed to Americans losing faith in government with Meg Jacobs, research scholar in the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University.

She's also the author of Panic at the Pump: The Energy Crisis and the Transformation of American Politics in the 1970s (Hill and Wang, 2016).

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