Klosterman Chuck 1972 (4 results)

very good dust-jacket, light wear, cover price $28.00, very good hardcover with pink spine and white boards. KLOSTERMAN, CHUCK. The nineties: a book. New York: Penguin Press, 2022, stated 1st Printing, 370pp., . Essays about 1990s popular culture, politics, sports, literature, and music from the New York Times bestselling author of But What if We're Wrong. Beyond epiphenomena like "Cop Killer" and Titanic and Zima, there were wholesale shifts in how society was perceived during the 1990s: the rise of the Internet, pre-9/11 politics, and the paradoxical belief that nothing was more humiliating than undisguised ambition. Pop culture accelerated without the aid of a machine that remembered everything, generating an odd comfort in never being certain about anything. On a 1990s Thursday night, more people watched a random episode of Seinfeld than the finale of Game of Thrones. At the beginning of the 1990s, almost every name and address was listed in a phone book, and everyone answered their landlines because you didn't know who it was. By the end, exposing someone's address was considered an act of emotional violence, and nobody picked up their new cell phone if they didn't know who it was. On the global history front, the Berlin Wall fell (with checkpoints being opened late evening 9 November 1989, and official demolition 13 June 1990)-- in perhaps no other book ever written would a sentence like "The video for 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' was not more consequential than the reunification of Germany" make complete sense! This was the last era that held to the idea of an objective, hegemonic mainstream, whether you found a home in it or defined yourself against it. Happily, Chuck Klosterman makes a home in all of it: the films, the music, the sports, the TV, the politics, the changes regarding race and class and sexuality, the yin/yang of Oprah and Alan Greenspan, creating a wise and funny reckoning, a muiltidimensional masterpiece, a work of synthesis so smart and delightful that future historians might well refer to this entire period as Klostermanian. ISBN 9780735217959.…

Hardcover. Octavo, 272 pages. In Very Good condition with a Very Good dust jacket. Spine is white with black print. Dust jacket is white with black print. Price unclipped: "$26.00". Boards in black paper, white print. Signed in ink by the author on the half-title page. NOTE: Shelved in Netdesk Column W. 1406755. FP New Rockville Stock.…