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Orr, Floyd

 
9780595400041: Timeline of America: Sound Bytes from the Consumer Culture
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 0595400043 ISBN 13 : 9780595400041
Editeur : iUniverse, 2006

Synopsis

Godzilla Stuffed into a BriefcaseColumbus takes a vacation to The Bahamas, and discovers the area to be a fun place. He tells all his other adventurous friends about it, and they decide they all need vacations, too. Soon everybody in The Old Country is loading up enough beer to make the trip and sailing to The Bahamas.Hysterical events have surprised us, inventions have made us more comfortable, and recreational pursuits have all but dominated our lives. The story of America is told in a pair of Jekyll & Hyde Timelines. You will meet the good doctor inside. His mean, ugly brother will arrive in 2008.This is a lot more than a pop culture trivia book, although no simpler phrase describes it. Ten timelines tell the story of America's development from the arrival of Columbus to the homeruns of Barry Bonds and the movie release of The Da Vinci Code. The story is separated into ten topics: events, comforts, cars, toys, movies, television, music, nerds, sports, and gossip. Like any competent trivia book, there is a test at the end, but this tale is about the quest, not the grail. This is a capsule history of the things that have defined us, and Godzilla doesn't like being so tightly restrained.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Godzilla Stuffed into a BriefcaseColumbus takes a vacation to The Bahamas, and discovers the area to be a fun place. He tells all his other adventurous friends about it, and they decide they all need vacations, too. Soon everybody in The Old Country is loading up enough beer to make the trip and sailing to The Bahamas.Hysterical events have surprised us, inventions have made us more comfortable, and recreational pursuits have all but dominated our lives. The story of America is told in a pair of Jekyll & Hyde Timelines. You will meet the good doctor inside. His mean, ugly brother will arrive in 2008.This is a lot more than a pop culture trivia book, although no simpler phrase describes it. Ten timelines tell the story of America's development from the arrival of Columbus to the homeruns of Barry Bonds and the movie release of The Da Vinci Code. The story is separated into ten topics: events, comforts, cars, toys, movies, television, music, nerds, sports, and gossip. Like any competent trivia book, there is a test at the end, but this tale is about the quest, not the grail. This is a capsule history of the things that have defined us, and Godzilla doesn't like being so tightly restrained.

Biographie de l'auteur

Floyd M. Orr has been a life-long student of psychology, sociology, and American pop culture. He writes only in his special Nonfiction in a Fictional Style, in which nostalgia and personal experience are always enclosed within flights of fantasy and hyperbole. He lives with his wife and a herd of cats.

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Éditeur
iUniverse
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0595400043
ISBN 13 
9780595400041
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
300
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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