The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium : American Culture on the Brink

The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium : American Culture on the Brink
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Leading us through millennial America, from mainstream culture to the pop underground, the author delivers his thesis--that phenomena such as Disney, Nike, and teenage tribalism, are expressions of a broad-based social anxiety and that the reasons for the anxiety are both real and imagined.
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