The Nineties
A Book
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · January 31, 2023
An instant New York Times bestseller! “Informative, endlessly entertaining.”—BuzzFeed “Generation X’s definitive chronicler of culture.”—GQ From the author of But What If We’re Wrong comes an insightful, funny reckoning with a pivotal decade It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed.
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- Who it’s for
- A witty, reflective look at a decade that still feels uncomfortably current.
- Themes
- s culture, American history, media and technology
- Pacing
- Reflective
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An instant New York Times bestseller! “Informative, endlessly entertaining.”—BuzzFeed “Generation X’s definitive chronicler of culture.”—GQ From the author of But What If We’re Wrong comes an insightful, funny reckoning with a pivotal decade It was long ago, but not as long as it seems: The Berlin Wall fell and the Twin Towers collapsed. In between, one presidential election was allegedly decided by Ross Perot while another was plausibly decided by Ralph Nader.
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Landlines fell to cell phones, the internet exploded, and pop culture accelerated without the aid of technology that remembered everything. It was the last era with a real mainstream to either identify with or oppose. The ’90s brought about a revolution in the human condition, and a shift in consciousness, that we’re still struggling to understand. Happily, Chuck Klosterman is more than up to the job. 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. 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.
A Sharper Decade
A witty, reflective look at a decade that still feels uncomfortably current.
Come here for
- Cultural history with a playful edge
- Big-period thinking, lightly unruly
Expect
- Insight over nostalgia
- Sustained, conversational history
Where it sits
| Pop Culture Studies | 53% |
|---|---|
| 20th-Century America | 46% |
| How Media Works | 46% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- 20th-Century America
- Pop Culture Studies
- How Media Works
- Authors
- Chuck Klosterman
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- January 31, 2023
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- s culture · American history · media and technology
- Reading lane
- 20th-Century America