Description |
xi, 208 pages ; 22 cm |
Contents |
Saul Bellow and the Moronic Inferno -- The Killings in Atlanta -- The Case of Claus von Bulow -- Truman Capote: Knowing Everybody -- Philip Roth: No Satisfaction -- Elvis Presley: He Did It His Way -- Diana Trilling at Claremont Avenue -- Norman Mailer: The Avenger and the Bitch -- Palm Beach: Don't You Love It? -- Brian De Palma: The Movie Brute -- Here's Ronnie: On the Road with Reagan -- Mr Vidal: Unpatriotic Gore -- Too Much Monkey Business: The New Evangelical Right -- Vidal v. Falwell -- Joseph Heller, Giantslayer -- Newspeak at Vanity Fair -- Kurt Vonnegut: After the Slaughterhouse -- Gloria Steinem and the Feminist Utopia -- William Burroughs: The Bad Bits -- Steven Spielberg: Boyish Wonder -- John Updike: Rabbitland and Bechville -- Joan Didion's Style -- In Hefnerland -- Paul Theroux's Enthusiasms -- Gay Talese: Sex-Affirmative -- Double Jeopardy: Making Sense of AIDS -- Saul Bellow in Chicago. |
Subject |
United States -- Social life and customs -- 1971-
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ISBN |
0670814326 |
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9780670814329 |
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