Fad Mania!
Subtitle: a history of American crazes
By: by Cynthia Overbeck Bix
Publisher: Lerner Publishing Group
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 64
ISBN-13: 9781467710343
Subjects: Popular culture; Civilization; Juvenile literature; History
Description: Fad Mania! takes readers through crazy fads in American history, from swallowing goldfish to cramming phone booths and showing up for spontaneous flash mob events, providing a snapshot of America popular culture.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 61) and index.
Table of contents: title: Here today, gone tomorrow; title: Dance 'til you drop : the roaring twenties; title: Playing through hard times : the 1930s and the 1940s; title: Phone booths & hula-hoops : the fabulous fifties; title: Flower power : the sixties; title: Mood rings and disco dancers : the 1970s me decade; title: The have-it-all years : the 1980s and the 1990s; title: Flash mobs & Webkinz : the millennium.