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"An engrossing and impossibly wide-ranging project . . . In The Free World, every seat is a good one." —Carlos Lozada, The Washington Post
"The Free World sparkles. Fully original, beautifully written . . . One hopes Menand has a sequel in mind. The bar is set very high." —David Oshinsky, The New York Times Book Review | Editors' Choice
One of The New York Times's 100 best books of
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Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Essays about 1990s popular culture, politics, sports, literature, music"-- Provided by publisher.
At the beginning, everyone's name and address was listed in the phone book, and everyone answered their landline because you didn't know who it was. By the end, exposing someone's address was an act of emotional violence, and nobody picked up their cell phone if they didn't know who was calling. Klosterman shows that in the 1990s there was a wholesale...
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Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
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A cultural critic and investigative journalist uncovers the full history of the Barbie doll, from her introduction in 1959 through countless transformations, makeovers and career changes to its emergence as an international pop culture icon.
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BenBella Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"Unmask Alice: LSD, Satanic Panic, and the Imposter Behind the Worlds Most Notorious Diaries is the true story of a young-adult blockbuster . . . of a terror that stalked 1980s America . . . and of the ruthless charlatan behind both"-- Provided by publisher.
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Washington Mews Books, an imprint of New York University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
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"Midcentury America was on the move when powerful autos sped along the new interstate highways while suburbs sprouted, and a baby-booming middle class enjoyed TV favorites, passenger jet travel, atomic engineering, and cocktails toasting all things modern"-- Provided by publisher.
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St. James Press
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Includes numerous signed essays, alphabetically arranged, and written or reviewed by subject experts and edited to form a consistent, readable, and straightforward reference. Entries cover topics and persons in major areas of popular culture: film; music; print culture; social life; sports; television and radio; and art and performance (which include theater, dance, stand-up comedy, and other live performance).
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Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2022]
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English
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"This book offers a unique look at a pivotal year in American history, tracing the significant events of 1966 by using the baseball season as its narrative arc, but also examining the Space Race, television, film, politics, music, and more"-- Provided by publisher.
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Twelve
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Discusses how the rise of the Internet, reality television, and tabloid culture transformed the boundaries of sexuality in the 1990s, providing first-hand accounts by such individuals as Monica Lewinsky, Joan Rivers, and Jesse Jackson.
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Arcade Publishing
Pub. Date
©2014.
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English
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"The Beatles arrived in the United States on February 7, 1964, and immediately became a constant, compelling presence in fans' lives. For the next six years, the band presented a nonstop deluge of sounds, words, images, and ideas, transforming the childhood and adolescence of millions of baby boomers. Beatleness explains how the band became a source of emotional, intellectual, aesthetic, and spiritual nurturance in fans' lives, creating a relationship...
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William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Pub. Date
2018.
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English
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The story of a monk, a minstrel, and the music that brought them together.... In 1965, Thomas Merton fulfilled a twenty-four-year-old dream and went to live as a hermit beyond the walls of his Trappist monastery. Seven months later, after a secret romance with a woman half his age, he was in danger of losing it all. Yet on the very day that his abbot uncovered the affair, Merton found solace in an unlikely place-the songs of Bob Dylan, who, as fate...
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Touchstone
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
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A companion book to the groundbreaking PBS and BBC documentary series celebrates the pioneers and artists of American roots music--blues, gospel, folk, Cajun, Appalachian, Hawaiian, and Native American--without which there would be no jazz, rock, country, R & B, or hip hop today.
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