DREDGED is the third and final book in Barbara Bowen Feied's account of life in the United States from 1930 to 1980. The 1970s was a bridge decade between the social idealism of the 1960s and the materialistic "me"ism of the 1980s. But through recession, inflation, continuing anti-Vietnam War demonstrations, the Watergate scandals, life went on, children grew up, careers were begun and ended, new goals set and, sometimes, achieved.