The 90s brought about a revolution in the human condition we're still groping to understand. It was the last era that held to the idea of a true, hegemonic mainstream before it all began to fracture. Chuck Klosterman makes a home in all of it: the film, the music, the sports, the TV, the politics, the changes regarding race and class and sexuality, the yin/yang of Oprah and Alan Greenspan. Klosterman has written a multi-dimensional masterpiece, a work of synthesis so smart and delightful that future historians might well refer to this entire period as Klostermanian.
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