| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 140 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
American lives
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American lives.
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| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Prologue: between panic and desire -- Panic -- Introduction: hello, my name is -- Son of Mr. Green Jeans: a meditation on missing fathers -- Double vision -- Son of Richard M. Nixon -- Three bad trips, 1968-77 -- Questions and activities before continuing -- Paranoia -- Introduction: imagine that -- Baseball, hot dogs, mescaline, and Chevrolet -- Number nine -- 1984 -- Questions and activities before continuing -- Desire -- Introduction: why Oprah doesn't call -- Son of George McManus -- Three milestones -- Leonard Koan -- Son of a Bush -- Three days in September -- What you want, what you get, what you need: a post-Nixon, post-panic, post-modern, post-mortem -- "Curtis knows best": towering, permanent, perilous, and soon to be televised on a widescreen near you -- The final chapter -- Index -- About the author. |
| Summary |
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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Moore, Dinty W., 1955-
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Moore, Dinty W., 1955- |
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Moore, Dinty W., 1955- |
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980.
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United States. |
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Social conditions. |
| Chronological Term |
1960-1980 |
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1980-2020.
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United States -- Civilization -- 1945- -- Miscellanea.
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Civilization. |
| Chronological Term |
1945- |
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Trivia and miscellanea.
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| Subject |
Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Popular culture. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Since 1900 |
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Electronic books.
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History.
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Trivia and miscellanea.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Moore, Dinty W., 1955- Between panic and desire. Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2008 9780803211490 (DLC) 2007023288 (OCoLC)141188020 |
| ISBN |
9780803217683 (electronic book) |
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0803217684 (electronic book) |
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080321149X (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780803211490 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
| Standard No. |
9786611213404 |
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