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Author Lutz, Tom.

Title Doing nothing : a history of loafers, loungers, slackers and bums in America / Tom Lutz.

Imprint New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  174 L978d 2006    ---  Available
Edition 1st ed.
Description ix, 363 p. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [321]-354) and index.
Contents Cody on the couch -- The idler and his works -- Loungers, romantics, and rip van winkle -- Loafers, communists, drinkers, and bohemians -- Nerve cases, saunterers, tramps, and flâneurs -- Sports, flappers, babbitts, and bums -- Beats, nonconformists, playboys, and delinquents -- Draft Dodgers, surfers, TV beatniks, and hippie communards -- Slackers.
Subject Slackers -- United States -- History.
Laziness -- United States -- History.
ISBN 0865476500 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780865476509 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Standard No. IG# 0865476500
YDXCP 2378718
NLGGC 288167546
NZ1 10506010

 
    
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