BACK TO OUR FUTURE

作者: David Sirota 著

出版社: Random House US

出版时间: 2011-03

版次: 1

ISBN: 9780345518781

定价: 216.00

装帧: 精装

开本: 32开

纸张: 胶版纸

页数: 276页

分类: 外文古旧书>英文书>社会文化

　　Wall Street scandals. Fights over taxes. Racial resentments. ALakers-Celtics championship. The Karate Kid topping the box-officecharts. Bon Jovi touring the country. These words could describeour current moment—or the vaunted iconography of three decadespast.

  In this wide-ranging and wickedly entertaining book, New YorkTimes bestselling journalist David Sirota takes readers on arollicking DeLorean ride back in time to reveal how so many of ourpresent-day conflicts are rooted in the larger-than-life popculture of the 1980s—from the “Greed is good” ethos of Gordon Gekko(and Bernie Madoff) to the “Make my day” foreign policy of RonaldReagan (and George W. Bush) to the “transcendence” of CliffHuxtable (and Barack Obama).

  Today’s mindless militarism and hypernarcissism, Sirota argues,first became the norm when an ’80s generation weaned on Ramboone-liners and “Just Do It” exhortations embraced a newreligion—with comic books, cartoons, sneaker commercials,videogames, and even children’s toys serving as the key instrumentsof cultural indoctrination. Meanwhile, in productions such as Backto the Future, Family Ties, and The Big Chill, a campaign waslaunched to reimagine the 1950s as America’s lost golden age andvilify the 1960s as the source of all our troubles. That 1980srevisionism, Sirota shows, still rages today, with Barack Obamacast as the 60s hippie being assailed by Alex P. Keaton–esqueRepublicans who long for a return to Eisenhower-eraconservatism.

  “The past is never dead,” William Faulkner wrote. “It’s not evenpast.” The 1980s—even more so. With the native dexterity only achild of the Atari Age could possess, David Sirota twists and turnsthis multicolored Rubik’s Cube of a decade, exposing it as awarning for our own troubled present—and possible future. 　　David Sirota is a journalist, nationallysyndicated weekly newspaper columnist, and radio host. His weeklycolumn is based at The Denver Post, San Francisco Chronicle,Portland Oregonian, and The Seattle Times and nowappears in newspapers with a combined daily circulation of morethan 1.6 million readers. He has contributed to The New YorkTimes Magazine and The Nation and hosts an award-winningdaily talk show on Denver’s Clear Channel affiliate, KKZN-AM760. Heis a senior editor at In These Times magazine and aHuffington Post contributor and appears periodically on CNN, TheColbert Report, PBS, and NPR. He received a degree injournalism and political science from Northwestern University’sMedill School of Journalism. He lives in Denver with his wife,Emily, and their dog, Monty.
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　　Wall Street scandals. Fights over taxes. Racial resentments. ALakers-Celtics championship. The Karate Kid topping the box-officecharts. Bon Jovi touring the country. These words could describeour current moment—or the vaunted iconography of three decadespast.

  In this wide-ranging and wickedly entertaining book, New YorkTimes bestselling journalist David Sirota takes readers on arollicking DeLorean ride back in time to reveal how so many of ourpresent-day conflicts are rooted in the larger-than-life popculture of the 1980s—from the “Greed is good” ethos of Gordon Gekko(and Bernie Madoff) to the “Make my day” foreign policy of RonaldReagan (and George W. Bush) to the “transcendence” of CliffHuxtable (and Barack Obama).

  Today’s mindless militarism and hypernarcissism, Sirota argues,first became the norm when an ’80s generation weaned on Ramboone-liners and “Just Do It” exhortations embraced a newreligion—with comic books, cartoons, sneaker commercials,videogames, and even children’s toys serving as the key instrumentsof cultural indoctrination. Meanwhile, in productions such as Backto the Future, Family Ties, and The Big Chill, a campaign waslaunched to reimagine the 1950s as America’s lost golden age andvilify the 1960s as the source of all our troubles. That 1980srevisionism, Sirota shows, still rages today, with Barack Obamacast as the 60s hippie being assailed by Alex P. Keaton–esqueRepublicans who long for a return to Eisenhower-eraconservatism.

  “The past is never dead,” William Faulkner wrote. “It’s not evenpast.” The 1980s—even more so. With the native dexterity only achild of the Atari Age could possess, David Sirota twists and turnsthis multicolored Rubik’s Cube of a decade, exposing it as awarning for our own troubled present—and possible future.
作者简介:
　　David Sirota is a journalist, nationallysyndicated weekly newspaper columnist, and radio host. His weeklycolumn is based at The Denver Post, San Francisco Chronicle,Portland Oregonian, and The Seattle Times and nowappears in newspapers with a combined daily circulation of morethan 1.6 million readers. He has contributed to The New YorkTimes Magazine and The Nation and hosts an award-winningdaily talk show on Denver’s Clear Channel affiliate, KKZN-AM760. Heis a senior editor at In These Times magazine and aHuffington Post contributor and appears periodically on CNN, TheColbert Report, PBS, and NPR. He received a degree injournalism and political science from Northwestern University’sMedill School of Journalism. He lives in Denver with his wife,Emily, and their dog, Monty.

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