Format:
Online-Ressource (xv, 140 p)
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ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
9780803217683
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9780803211490
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080321149X
Series Statement:
American lives
Content:
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
Note:
Includes index
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Contents; Acknowledgments; Prologue: Between Panic and Desire; Part One: PANIC; 1. Introduction: Hello, My Name Is _______; 2. Son of Mr. Green Jeans: A Meditation on Missing Fathers; 3. Double Vision; 4. Son of Richard M. Nixon; 5. Three Bad Trips, 1968-77; 6. Questions and Activities Before Continuing; Part Two: PARANOIA; 7. Introduction: Imagine That; 8. Baseball, Hot Dogs, Mescaline, and Chevrolet; 9. Number Nine; 10. 1984; 11. Questions and Activities Before Continuing; Part Three: DESIRE; 12. Introduction: Why Oprah Doesn't Call; 13. Son of George McManus; 14. Three Milestones
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15. Leonard Koan16. Son of a Bush; 17. Three Days in September; 18. What You Want, What You Get, What You Need: A Post-Nixon, Post-panic, Post-modern, Post-mortem; 19. ""Curtis Knows Best"": Towering, Permanent, Perilous, and Soon to be Televised on a Widescreen Near You; 20. The Final Chapter; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780803211490
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Between Panic and Desire
Language:
English
