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Culture in an Age of Money Nicolaus Mills

Culture in an Age of Money By Nicolaus Mills

Culture in an Age of Money by Nicolaus Mills

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Fifteen brilliant essays on the kind of culture created by the magic of the marketplace in 1980s America, from architecture to the yuppie ascendancy.

Culture in an Age of Money Summary

Culture in an Age of Money: The Legacy of the 1980s in America by Nicolaus Mills

Fifteen brilliant essays on the kind of culture created by the magic of the marketplace in 1980s America, from architecture to the yuppie ascendancy. Amusing, caustic and cleverly written....What makes Culture in an Age of Money fun to read is its refreshing candor. -New York Times

Culture in an Age of Money Reviews

A stinging indictment of the Reagan era for its effects on both highbrow and popular culture...The targets are many and the attacks are proudly partisan. * The Progressive *
Curious and tantalizing...a benchmark not of the present but of history. -- Daniel Bell
Amusing, caustic, and cleverly written. -- Herbert Mitgang * The New York Times *

Table of Contents

Part 1 The Culture of Triumph and the Spirit of the Times 11 Part 2 Blips, Bites and Savvy Talk 29 Part 3 Putting on the Glitz: Architecture After Postmodernism 47 Part 4 The Short Happy Life of the American Yuppie 66 Part 5 Pluggies 83 Part 6 A Culture of Paper Tigers 95 Part 7 Blackness Without Blood 109 Part 8 Civil Rights and the Reagan Court 130 Part 9 The Trials of Televangelism 142 Part 10 Vietnam Screen Wars 156 Part 11 China, Bloomie's and the Met 175 Part 12 The Literature of AIDS 201 Part 13 Fictions of Acquisition 216 Part 14 The End of the Common Reader 234 Part 15 Presidency by Ralph Lauren: Closing the Decade in Style 246

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GOR012773818
9780929587356
0929587359
Culture in an Age of Money: The Legacy of the 1980s in America by Nicolaus Mills
Nicolaus Mills
Used - Good
Hardback
Ivan R Dee, Inc
19900901
254
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