The Nineties: A Book

In this book, author Chuck Klosterman integrates film, music, sports, TV, politics, social changes, and cultural contrasts. The book presents a a humorous and insightful look at the decade that gave us grunge irony about trying too hard, during the most significant shift in human consciousness in American history.

Beyond pop culture phenomena like “Cop Killer” and Titanic, there were wholesale shifts in society: the rise of the internet, pre-9/11 politics, and the paradoxical belief that trying too hard was humiliating. Pop culture generated an odd comfort in uncertainty. On a 90s Thursday night, more people watched any random Seinfeld episode than the Game of Thrones finale. But no one thought it was important; if you missed it, you simply did. It was the last era with a true, hegemonic mainstream before it fractured, whether you embraced or defined yourself against it.

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