Between panic and desire / Dinty W. Moore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moore, Dinty W., 1955-

Series:

American lives.

American lives

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.

Popular culture.

United States--Civilization--1945---Miscellanea.

United States.

United States--Social conditions--1960-1980.

United States--Social conditions--1980-.

Moore, Dinty W., 1955-.

Moore, Dinty W.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (161 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

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

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

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-281-21340-3

9786611213404

0-8032-1768-4

OCLC:

437200618