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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Moore, Dinty W., 1955-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2008.
Colección:American lives.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
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.
Notas:Includes index.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xv, 140 pages) : illustrations
ISBN:9780803217683
0803217684
1281213403
9781281213402
9786611213404
6611213406