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50 Favs of the '60s '70s '80s

Author : Fred John Del Bianco Jr
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1468561111
Total Pages : 206 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (685 download)

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Download or read book 50 Favs of the '60s '70s '80s written by Fred John Del Bianco Jr and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2012-04 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look back at 150 (fifty from each decade) of the essential subjects from each of the exciting decades of change ... the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s! Fifty Favs provides a detailed summary of the leading Pop Culture topics---the people, music, sports, movies, and events of those fabulous decades of Americana that many of us fondly remember. Available in paperback or electronic book. Please visit the author's website at www.50favs.com

In the New World

Author : Lawrence Wright
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0345802969
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book In the New World written by Lawrence Wright and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-11-07 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Looming Tower comes an intimate memoir of one man’s coming-of-age, and a universal story of the American experience of two crucial decades. • "A wonderfully readable, thoroughly absorbing memoir of a twenty-five-year span of wrenching change." —The Philadelphia Inquirer We first meet Larry Wright in 1960. He is thirteen and moving with his family to Dallas, the essential city of the New World just beginning to rise across the southern rim of the United States. As we follow him through the next two decades—the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the devastating assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr., the sexual revolution, the crisis of Watergate, and the emergence of Ronald Reagan—we relive the pivotal and shocking events of those crowded years. Lawrence Wright has written the autobiography of a generation, giving back to us with stunning force the feelings of those turbulent times when the euphoria of Kennedy’s America would come to its shocking end.

The Sixties Speak to the Eighties...

Author : Kathy Sarachild
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 10 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book The Sixties Speak to the Eighties... written by Kathy Sarachild and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Back to Our Future

Author : David Sirota
Publisher : Ballantine Books
ISBN 13 : 0345518802
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Back to Our Future written by David Sirota and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-03-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wall Street scandals. Fights over taxes. Racial resentments. A Lakers-Celtics championship. The Karate Kid topping the box-office charts. Bon Jovi touring the country. These words could describe our current moment—or the vaunted iconography of three decades past. 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—from the “Greed is good” ethos of Gordon Gekko (and Bernie Madoff) to the “Make my day” foreign policy of Ronald Reagan (and George W. Bush) to the “transcendence” of Cliff Huxtable (and Barack Obama). Today’s mindless militarism and hypernarcissism, Sirota argues, first became the norm when an ’80s generation weaned on Rambo one-liners and “Just Do It” exhortations embraced a new religion—with comic books, cartoons, sneaker commercials, videogames, and even children’s toys serving as the key instruments of cultural indoctrination. Meanwhile, in productions such as Back to the Future, Family Ties, and The Big Chill, a campaign was launched to reimagine the 1950s as America’s lost golden age and vilify the 1960s as the source of all our troubles. That 1980s revisionism, Sirota shows, still rages today, with Barack Obama cast as the 60s hippie being assailed by Alex P. Keaton–esque Republicans who long for a return to Eisenhower-era conservatism. “The past is never dead,” William Faulkner wrote. “It’s not even past.” The 1980s—even more so. With the native dexterity only a child of the Atari Age could possess, David Sirota twists and turns this multicolored Rubik’s Cube of a decade, exposing it as a warning for our own troubled present—and possible future.

Decade of Nightmares

Author : Philip Jenkins
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195341589
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book Decade of Nightmares written by Philip Jenkins and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wide array of sources, the author of "Dream Catchers" identifies 1975 to 1986 as the watershed years when Americans rejected the radicalism of the 1960s and adopted a more pessimistic interpretation of human behavior.

In the New World

Author : Lawrence Wright
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0345802950
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (458 download)

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Download or read book In the New World written by Lawrence Wright and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2013-02-12 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We first meet Larry Wright in 1960. He is thirteen and moving with his family to Dallas, the essential city of the New World just beginning to rise across the southern rim of the United States. As we follow him through the next two decades—the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, the devastating assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr., the sexual revolution, the crisis of Watergate, and the emergence of Ronald Reagan—we relive the pivotal and shocking events of those crowded years. Lawrence Wright has written the autobiography of a generation, giving back to us with stunning force the feelings of those turbulent times when the euphoria of Kennedy’s America would come to its shocking end. Filled with compassion and insight, In the New World is both the intimate tale of one man’s coming-of-age, and a universal story of the American experience of two crucial decades.

The Eighties in America

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (797 download)

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Download or read book The Eighties in America written by and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Other Eighties

Author : Bradford Martin
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 142995342X
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Other Eighties written by Bradford Martin and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this engaging new book, Bradford Martin illuminates a different 1980s than many remember—one whose history has been buried under the celebratory narrative of conservative ascendancy. Ronald Reagan looms large in most accounts of the period, encouraging Americans to renounce the activist and liberal politics of the 1960s and ‘70s and embrace the resurgent conservative wave. But a closer look reveals that a sizable swath of Americans strongly disapproved of Reagan's policies throughout his presidency. With a weakened Democratic Party scurrying for the political center, many expressed their dissatisfaction outside electoral politics. Unlike the civil rights and Vietnam era protesters, activists of the 1980s often found themselves on the defensive, struggling to preserve the hard-won victories of the previous era. Their successes, then, were not in ushering in a new era of progressive reforms but in effecting change in areas from professional life to popular culture, while beating back an even more forceful political shift to the right. Martin paints an indelible portrait of these and other influential, but often overlooked, movements: from on-the-ground efforts to constrain the administration's aggressive Latin American policy and stave off a possible Nicaraguan war, to mock shanties constructed on college campuses to shed light on corporate America's role in supporting the apartheid regime in South Africa. The result is a clearer, richer perspective on a turbulent decade in American life.

Popular Jewelry of the '60s, '70s & '80s

Author : Roseann Ettinger
Publisher : Schiffer Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 9780887409981
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Popular Jewelry of the '60s, '70s & '80s written by Roseann Ettinger and published by Schiffer Pub Limited. This book was released on 1997 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, attitudes about costume jewelry include respect and enjoyment from the growing number of collectors who search for pieces made by important designers from the sixties, seventies and eighties. Today's teenagers are wearing vintage Hippie and Mod jewelry. Prices are escalating. Over 600 color photographs and 60 advertising pieces are presented to display the variety in these popular adornments. Fashion and political trends are explained to show that they were reflected in the jewelry designs. Value ranges are included.

The Veiled Hand

Author : Frederick Wicks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Veiled Hand written by Frederick Wicks and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Chronicle of Wasted Time

Author : Frederick Robert Karl
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781401058975
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (589 download)

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Download or read book A Chronicle of Wasted Time written by Frederick Robert Karl and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Chronicle of Wasted Time is a cultural history of the 1970s in America. It presupposes that the Seventies had a distinct character, although it cannot be so sharply defined as the Sixties or Eighties. A book on the Seventies joins almost innumerable unresolved elements, and what troubled that decade continues to trouble us. The difficult part is that these troubling elements do not connect, so that a continuous narrative is often impossible to maintain. Yet there was something like a "culture" of the Seventies, however disconnected the parts. That culture is the theme of the book.

Popular Culture

Author : Carla A. Freccero
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479814032
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Popular Culture written by Carla A. Freccero and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1999-08-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concise introduction to the study of popular culture From Madonna and drag queens to cyberpunk and webzines, popular culture constitutes a common and thereby critical part of our lives. Yet the study of popular culture has been condemned and praised, debated and ridiculed. In Popular Culture: An Introduction, Carla Freccero reveals why we study popular culture and how it is taught in the classroom. Blending music, science fiction, and film, Freccero shows us that an informed awareness of politics, race, and sexuality is essential to any understanding of popular culture. Freccero places rap music, the Alien Trilogy and Sandra Cisneros in the context of postcolonialism, identity politics, and technoculture to show students how they can draw on their already existing literacies and on the cultures they know in order to think critically.Complete with a glossary of useful terms, a sample syllabus and extensive bibliography, this book is the concise introduction to the study of popular culture.

The Sixties Speak to the Eighties

Author : Kathie Sarachild
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (111 download)

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Download or read book The Sixties Speak to the Eighties written by Kathie Sarachild and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

1980s Childhood

Author : Michael A Johnson
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0752478915
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (524 download)

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Download or read book 1980s Childhood written by Michael A Johnson and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2011-11-30 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you remember trying to solve the Rubik’s cube whilst dressed in your He-Man picture pyjamas? Did you try to make ‘cool’ sound effects with your mouth like Jones from Police Academy? Or maybe you swooned over Scott and Charlene’s (aka Jason and Kylie’s) wedding of the year? If that sounds like you, there’s no mistaking you were a child of the eighties. Rev up your DeLorean, switch on the Flux Capacitor and take a cruise back through the decade that made you the person you are today. This amusing and entertaining collection of reminiscences will jog the memories of all who grew up in the same decade where greed was good, mullets were cool and white dog poo littered the streets.

Saturday Morning TV Collectibles

Author : Dana Cain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780873418010
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (18 download)

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Download or read book Saturday Morning TV Collectibles written by Dana Cain and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Toys and other collectibles from Saturday morning kids' programs are as yummy as a couple of fresh Scooby Snacks. This encyclopedia features memorabilia from such classic 'toons as "Scooby Doo, The Flintstones, The Jetsons, " and more. 1,000 photos, 200 in color.

Bobos in Paradise

Author : David Brooks
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416561730
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Bobos in Paradise written by David Brooks and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his bestselling work of “comic sociology,” David Brooks coins a new word, Bobo, to describe today’s upper class—those who have wed the bourgeois world of capitalist enterprise to the hippie values of the bohemian counterculture. Their hybrid lifestyle is the atmosphere we breathe, and in this witty and serious look at the cultural consequences of the information age, Brooks has defined a new generation. Do you believe that spending $15,000 on a media center is vulgar, but that spending $15,000 on a slate shower stall is a sign that you are at one with the Zenlike rhythms of nature? Do you work for one of those visionary software companies where people come to work wearing hiking boots and glacier glasses, as if a wall of ice were about to come sliding through the parking lot? If so, you might be a Bobo.

Living in the Eighties

Author : Gil Troy
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019972010X
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Living in the Eighties written by Gil Troy and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009-10-22 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some see the 1980s as a Golden Age, a "Morning in America" when Ronald Reagan revived America's economy, reoriented American politics, and restored Americans' faith in their country and in themselves. Others see the 1980s as a new "Gilded Age," an era that was selfish, superficial, glitzy, greedy, divisive, and destructive. This multifaceted exploration of the 1980s brings together a variety of voices from different political persuasions, generations, and vantage points. The volume features work by Reagan critics and Reagan fans (including one of President Reagan's closest aides, Ed Meese), by historians who think the 1980s were a disastrous time, those who think it was a glorious time, and those who see both the blessings and the curses of the decade. Their essays examine everything from multiculturalism, Southern conservatism, and Reaganomics, to music culture, religion, crime, AIDS, and the city. A complex, thoughtful account of a watershed in our recent history, this volume will engage anyone interested in this pivotal decade.