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Between panic and desire /
Blending narrative and quizzes, memory and numerology, and imagined interviews and conversations with dead presidents on TV, the book dizzily documents the disorienting experience of growing up in a postmodern world. Here we see how the major events in the author?s early life?the Kennedy assassinati...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©2008.
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| Colección: | American lives.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: between panic and desire
- Panic
- Introduction: hello, my name is
- Son of Mr. Green Jeans: a meditation on missing fathers
- Double vision
- Son of Richard M. Nixon
- Three bad trips, 1968-77
- Questions and activities before continuing
- Paranoia
- Introduction: imagine that
- Baseball, hot dogs, mescaline, and Chevrolet
- Number nine
- 1984
- Questions and activities before continuing
- Desire
- Introduction: why Oprah doesn't call
- Son of George McManus
- Three milestones
- Leonard Koan
- Son of a Bush
- Three days in September
- What you want, what you get, what you need: a post-Nixon, post-panic, post-modern, post-mortem
- "Curtis knows best": towering, permanent, perilous, and soon to be televised on a widescreen near you
- The final chapter
- Index
- About the author.