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Fools' names, fools' faces / Andrew Ferguson ; with an introduction by P.J. O'Rourke.
Van Pelt Library E169.04 .F465 1996
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ferguson, Andrew, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- Fads.
- United States.
- Fads--United States.
- United States--Social life and customs--1971-.
- Manners and customs.
- Physical Description:
- xvii, 213 pages ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Atlantic Monthly Press, [1996]
- Summary:
- What do Bill Bennett and James Carville, Louis Farrakhan and Gennifer Flowers, Don Imus and Bill Moyers have in common? They all wish Andrew Ferguson had never heard of them. For ten years, Ferguson has prowled the fever swamps of American celebrity in search of frauds and mountebanks, and he has not been disappointed. This is "celebrity journalism" of an unusually high - and skewed and entertaining - order. But Ferguson also takes his readers beyond mere celebrity to examine the larger social trends and enthusiasms of this hyper-accelerated age. In Fools' Names, Fools' Faces, his first collection of essays, he dissects (and sometimes becomes a reluctant participant in) the quintessentially American fads that the '90s have forced upon us.
- ISBN:
- 0871136511
- OCLC:
- 34564835
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