X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking
In this simultaneously hilarious and incisive “manifesto for a generation that’s never had much use for manifestos,” Gordinier suggests that for the first time since the “Smells Like Teen Spirit”breakthrough of the early 1990s, Gen X has what it takes to rescue American culture from a state of...
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In this simultaneously hilarious and incisive “manifesto for a generation that’s never had much use for manifestos,” Gordinier suggests that for the first time since the “Smells Like Teen Spirit”breakthrough of the early 1990s, Gen X has what it takes to rescue American culture from a state of collapse. Over the past twenty years, the so-called “slackers”have irrevocably changed countless elements of our culture—from the way we watch movies to the way we make sense of a cracked political process to the way the whole world does business.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780670018581 (0670018589)
Publish date: March 27th 2008
Publisher: Viking Adult
Pages no: 224
Edition language: English
I'm still reading, but I'm thinking everyone over 35 should read this...for the trip down memory lane, if nothing else.Finished and it was fabulous! (And thought-provoking, too.)
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