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1 online resource. |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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American lives
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American lives.
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| Summary |
Gentile reader, and you, Jews, come too. Follow Sue William Silverman, a one-woman cultural mash-up, on her exploration of identity among the mishmash of American idols and ideals that confuse most of us--or should. Pat Boone is our first stop. Now a Tea Party darling, Boone once shone as a squeaky-clean pop music icon of normality, an antidote for Silverman's own confusing and dangerous home, where being a Jew in a Christian school wasn't easy, and being the daughter of the Anti-Boone was unspeakable. And yet somehow Silverman found her way, a "gefilte fish swimming upstream," and found her voice, which in this searching, bracing, hilarious, and moving book tries to make sense of that most troubling American condition: belonging, but to what?Picking apricots on a kibbutz, tramping cross-country in a loathed Volkswagen camper, appearing in a made-for-television version of her own life: Silverman is a bobby-soxer, a baby boomer, a hippy, a lefty, and a rebel with ... |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Silverman, Sue William.
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Silverman, Sue William. |
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Boone, Pat -- Appreciation.
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Boone, Pat. |
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Jews -- United States -- Biography.
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Jews. |
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United States. |
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Jewish women -- United States -- Biography.
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Jewish women. |
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Jews -- United States -- Identity.
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Identity (Philosophical concept) |
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Jewish women -- United States -- Identity.
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Biographies.
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Electronic books.
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Autobiographies.
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Autobiographies.
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Print version: Silverman, Sue William. Pat Boone fan club 9780803264854 (DLC) 2013034570 (OCoLC)857234420 |
| ISBN |
9781461957294 (electronic book) |
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146195729X (electronic book) |
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130640603X (electronic book) |
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9781306406031 (electronic book) |
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9780803264991 (electronic book) |
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0803264992 (electronic book) |
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9780803264854 |
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0803264852 |
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9780803264984 |
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0803264984 |
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9780803265004 |
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080326500X |
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