Back to Our Future How the 1980s Explains the World We Live in Now--Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything

Name: Back to Our Future How the 1980s Explains the World We Live in Now--Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything
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ISBN: 9780345518781

ISBN-10: 0345518780

ISBN-13: 9780345518781

Edition: 2011

Authors: David Sirota

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Wall Street scandals. Fights over taxes. Racial resentments. A Lakers-Celtics championship.The Karate Kidtopping 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 Timesbestselling 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…

Book details

List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 3/15/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 304
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Introduction



Liking Ike, Hating Woodstock


Die, Hippie, Die!



The Jump Man Chronicles


The John Galt of Oceania


Just Do It


Outlaws With Morals



Why We (Continue To) Fight


Kicking the Vietnam Syndrome


Operation Red Dawn



The Huxtable Effect


Movin' on Up?


The End of History?


Acknowledgments


Notes


Glossary