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Author Sirota, David (David J.)

Title Back to our future : how the 1980s explain the world we live in now--our culture, our politics, our everything / David Sirota.

Imprint New York : Ballantine Books, c2011.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  973.92 Si79b 2011    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description xxi, 276 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references.
Contents Pt. I. Liking Ike, hating Woodstock : Die, hippie, die! -- pt. II. The jump man chronicles : The John Galt of Oceania ; Just do it ; Outlaws with morals -- pt. III. Why we (continue to) fight : Kicking the Vietnam syndrome ; Operation Red Dawn -- pt. IV. The Huxtable effect : Movin' on up? ; The end of history?
Summary In this wide-ranging and wickedly entertaining book, "New York Times" bestselling journalist David Sirota takes readers on a rollicking DeLorean ride back in time to reveal how so many of our present-day conflicts are rooted in the larger-than-life pop culture of the 1980s.
Subject United States -- Civilization -- 1970-
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-
Popular culture -- United States.
Political culture -- United States.
Nineteen eighties.
ISBN 9780345518781 (hbk. : acid-free paper)
0345518780 (hbk. : acid-free paper)

 
    
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