X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from SuckingRead Jeff Gordinier's posts on the Penguin Blog 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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X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft But Can Still Keep ... Jeff Gordinier Limited preview - 2008 |
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X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft But Can Still Keep ... Jeff Gordinier No preview available - 2009 |
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