“An engaging, nuanced and literate take on the alternately dynamic and diffident decade.” - Washington Post It’s a fascinating trip down memory lane.” - Time “In The Nineties, Klosterman examines the social, political and cultural history of the era with his signature wit. The result is a multidimensional masterpiece, a work of synthesis so smart and delightful that future historians might well refer to this entire period as Klostermanian. In The Nineties, Klosterman dissects the film, the music, the sports, the TV, the pre-9/11 politics, the changes regarding race and class and sexuality, the yin/yang of Oprah and Alan Greenspan, and (almost) everything else. Happily, Chuck Klosterman is more than up to the job. The ’90s brought about a revolution in the human condition, and a shift in consciousness, that we’re still struggling to understand. It was the last era with a real mainstream to either identify with or oppose. Landlines fell to cell phones, the internet exploded, and pop culture accelerated without the aid of technology that remembered everything. In between, one presidential election was allegedly decided by Ross Perot while another was plausibly decided by Ralph Nader. It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. From the author of But What If We’re Wrong comes an insightful, funny reckoning with a pivotal decade
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