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 |
Publicado: |
Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
©2008.
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Colección: | American lives.
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Temas: | |
Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | 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 assassination, Nixon?s resignation, watching Father Knows Best, and dropping acid atop the World Trade Center, to name a few?shaped the way he sees events both global and personal today. More to the point, we see how these events shaped, and possibly even distorted, today?s world for all of us who spent our fo. |
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Notas: | Includes index. |
Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xv, 140 pages) : illustrations |
ISBN: | 9780803217683 0803217684 1281213403 9781281213402 9786611213404 6611213406 |