X saves the world : how Generation X got the shaft but can still keep everything from sucking / Jeff Gordinier.

9780670018581
0670018589

New York : Viking, 2008.

English

xxx, 189 p. ; 22 cm.

HQ799.7 .G67 2008

305.20973

Jammed in between the garish showboating of the baby boomers and the tabloid-trash stunts of the millennials, the discerning generation that gave us Yahoo! and Nirvana has been quietly and inexorably changing the face of American culture. The men and women who came of age in the era of Lollapalooza have been underrepresented for too long in pop sociology, but reporter and essayist Jeff Gordinier argues that it's time for the slackers to rise up and take charge. He takes the reader along on an eye-opening journey from Prague to San Francisco, from Woodstock '94 to Us Weekly, in his quest to find the essence of X. Along the way he shows how Gen X innovations in art, comedy, technology, activism, and (gasp!) business have come to define the way we live now.--From publisher description.

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