Back to our future
Subtitle: how the 1980s explain the world we live in now--our culture, our politics, our everything
By: David Sirota
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780345518781; 9780345518804
Subjects: Social conditions; Popular culture; Civilization; Political culture; Nineteen eighties
Description: In this wide-ranging and wickedly entertaining book, "New York Times" bestselling 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: pt. I. Liking Ike, hating Woodstock : Die, hippie, die!; title: pt. II. The jump man chronicles : The John Galt of Oceania ; Just do it ; Outlaws with morals; title: pt. III. Why we (continue to) fight : Kicking the Vietnam syndrome ; Operation Red Dawn; title: pt. IV. The Huxtable effect : Movin' on up? ; The end of history?