Organized by sections including politics, business, science & health, sports, arts & entertainment, food and obituaries the book covers the biggest stories that shaped the 1970s. Articles include coverage of historic events like the Watergate scandal, the end of the Vietnam War, the 1973 oil crisis and the Iranian Revolution of 1979; cultural highlights like the break-up of the Beatles, the rise of disco, reviews of movies like Star Wars, The Godfather, Jaws, and Saturday Night Fever and features on musicians like Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, the Bee Gees, Patti Smith; plus pieces on influential personalities including Gloria Steinem, Bobby Fischer and Farrah Fawcett and pivotal political figures like Richard Nixon, Pol Pot, and Augusto Pinochet. Haberman guides readers through the articles he's selected, putting the events into historical context and exploring the impact these events and individuals eventually had on the future. The book also includes hundreds of colour photographs from the Times and other sources.