A highly original examination of contemporary American culture that developed a cult following when first published in the New Yorker in 1980. Trow considers and reflects upon the components of change in contemporary America--a culture increasingly determined by the shallow worlds of consumer products, daytime television, and celebrity-heroes- ...
The legendary media critic here gets personal, providing his immediate and visceral--though never unintellectual--responses to the changes he's seen in half a century of watching the media develop and American culture diminish. A New York Times Notable Book for 1999.
Originally published in the June 11, 1984, New Yorker, this lengthy essay is a sharp-edged inquiry into the generational institutions of our national life. With the same iconoclastic spirit and multilayered prose that he interwove in his classic Within the Context of No Context, George Trow tells the story of upstate New York's Black Rock Forest-a ...
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