| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
287 p. : ill. ; 21 cm. |
| Note |
Subtitle on cover: The business of culture in the new Gilded Age. |
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Articles published in The Baffler between 1992 and 1996. |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
H.M.S. Baffler / Lewis Lapham -- Opening salvo : the new gilded age / Thomas Frank -- Why Johnny can't dissent / Thomas Frank -- The Killer App : wired magazine, voice of the corporate revolution / Keith White -- Back in black : here come the beatniks! / Maura Mahoney -- Burn down the House of Commons in your brand new shoes / Keith White -- Consolidated Deviance, Inc. / Thomas Frank and Dave Mulcahey -- Apostles of the new entrepreneur : business books and the management crisis / Bill Boisvert -- I've seen the future, and it's a Sony! / Stephen Duncombe -- The time-management Gospel / Jennifer Brostrom -- Leadership and you / Dave Mulcahey -- The advertised life / Tom Vanderbilt -- Alternative to what? / Thomas Frank -- What is alternative? / Chris Holmes -- The problem with music / Steve Albini -- The packaging of a literary persona / Maura Mahoney -- A dream of perfect reception : the movies of Quentin Tarantino / Gary Groth -- Twenty-nothing / Thomas Frank and Keith White -- Harsh realm, Mr. sulzberger / Thomas Frank -- Twentieth Century lite / Thomas Frank -- Post-urban, post-industrial but never post-elite / Edward Castleton -- Revolt of the Nice : edge city, capital of the twenty-first century / Tom Vanderbilt -- Lotteryville, USA / Kim Phillips -- The gaudy and damned / Tom Vanderbilt -- Closing salvo : Dark Age / Thomas Frank. |
| Subject |
United States -- Civilization -- 1970-
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Consumers -- United States.
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Corporations -- Social aspects -- United States.
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Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Wealth -- Social aspects -- United States.
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| Added Author |
Frank, Thomas, 1965-
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Weiland, Matt.
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| Added Title |
Baffler.
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| ISBN |
0393316734 (pbk.) |
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9780393316735 (pbk.) |
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0393046214 (hard cover) |
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9780393046212 (hard cover) |
| Standard No. |
NLGGC 16130074X |
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YDXCP 1403781 |
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NZ1 2180091 |
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AU@ 000013396166 |
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