Culture in an Age of Money
The Legacy of the 1980s in America
As the Reagan administration began, Nancy Reagan chose new china for the White House-at a cost of $209,508. The pattern for the decade was struck. As the Reagans made wealth seem glamorous, what followed was a culture dominated by a belief in the magic of the marketplace. Money words became the key language for the eighties, and they signaled a culture with an insatiable need to proclaim its triumphs. In the wake of the Reagan years, fifteen brilliant essayists survey the kind of culture created by Reagan politics and Reagan ideology. From architecture to the yuppie ascendancy, including politics, film, art, literature, finance, fashion, reli…
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- ISBN: 978-0-929587-71-4
- EAN: 9780929587714
- Produktnummer: 1150450
- Verlag: Ivan R. Dee
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1991
- Seitenangabe: 256 S.
- Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D1.5 cm 399 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 399
Über den Autor
Nicolaus Mills teaches literature at Sarah Lawrence College. Among his books are The New Journalism and The Great School Bus Controversy. He is at work on a book about the Mississippi Freedom Summer.
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