How the 1970s energy crisis facilitated a neoliberal shift in US political culture.In Energizing Neoliberalism Caleb Wellum offers a provocative account of how the 1970s energy crisis helped to recreate postwar America. Rather than think of the crisis as the obvious outcome of the decades ampampquotoil shocksampampquot Wellum unpacks the cultural construction of a crisis of energy across different sectors of society from presidents policy experts and environmentalists to filmmakers economists and oil futures traders. He shows how the dominant meanings ascribed to the 1970s energy crisis helped to energize neoliberal visions of renewed abundance and power through book market values and approaches to energy.