{"product_id":"nineties-a-book","title":"Nineties: A Book","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eNineties: A Book\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eChuck Klosterman\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780735217959\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003ePenguin Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2022\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e384\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eAn instant \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestseller! \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFrom the bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eBut What if We're Wrong\u003c\/i\u003e, a wise and funny reckoning with the decade that gave us slacker\/grunge irony about the sin of trying too hard, during the greatest shift in human consciousness of any decade in American history. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIt 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. In the beginning, 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 an act of emotional violence, and nobody picked up their new cell phone if they didn't know who it was. The 90s brought about a revolution in the human condition we're still groping to understand. Happily, Chuck Klosterman is more than up to the job. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Beyond epiphenomena like \"Cop Killer\" and \u003ci\u003eTitanic\u003c\/i\u003e and Zima, there were wholesale shifts in how society was perceived: the rise of the internet, pre-9\/11 politics, and the paradoxical belief that nothing was more humiliating than trying too hard. Pop culture accelerated without the aid of a machine that remembered everything, generating an odd comfort in never being certain about anything. On a 90's Thursday night, more people watched any random episode of \u003ci\u003eSeinfeld\u003c\/i\u003e than the finale of \u003ci\u003eGame of Thrones.\u003c\/i\u003e But nobody thought that was important; if you missed it, you simply missed it. It was the last era that held to the idea of a true, hegemonic mainstream before it all began to fracture, whether you found a home in it or defined yourself against it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Nineties\u003c\/i\u003e, Chuck Klosterman makes a home in \u003ci\u003eall\u003c\/i\u003e of it: the film, the music, the sports, the TV, the politics, the changes regarding race and class and sexuality, the yin\/yang of Oprah and Alan Greenspan. 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. Chuck Klosterman has written a multi-dimensional masterpiece, a work of synthesis so smart and delightful that future historians might well refer to this entire period as \u003ci\u003eKlostermanian\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Penguin Press","offers":[{"title":"Nineties: A Book | Chuck Klosterman | Hardcover | 9780735217959 | Used: Very Good | Back Stacks D 1759703","offer_id":49199701393560,"sku":"1759703","price":30.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/71Z3oeNfFQL.jpg?v=1780697953","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/nineties-a-book","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}