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　　Wall Street scandals. Fights over taxes. Racial resentments. A

Lakers-Celtics championship. The Karate Kid topping the box-office

charts. Bon Jovi touring the country. These words could describe

our current moment—or the vaunted iconography of three decades

past.

In this wide-ranging and wickedly entertaining book, New York

Times bestselling journalist David Sirota takes readers on a

rollicking DeLorean ride back in time to reveal how so many of our

present-day conflicts are rooted in the larger-than-life pop

culture of the 1980s—from the “Greed is good” ethos of Gordon Gekko

(and Bernie Madoff) to the “Make my day” foreign policy of Ronald

Reagan (and George W. Bush) to the “transcendence” of Cliff

Huxtable (and Barack Obama).

Today’s mindless militarism and hypernarcissism, Sirota argues,

first became the norm when an ’80s generation weaned on Rambo

one-liners and “Just Do It” exhortations embraced a new

religion—with comic books, cartoons, sneaker commercials,

videogames, and even children’s toys serving as the key instruments

of cultural indoctrination. Meanwhile, in productions such as Back

to the Future, Family Ties, and The Big Chill, a campaign was

launched to reimagine the 1950s as America’s lost golden age and

vilify the 1960s as the source of all our troubles. That 1980s

revisionism, Sirota shows, still rages today, with Barack Obama

cast as the 60s hippie being assailed by Alex P. Keaton–esque

Republicans who long for a return to Eisenhower-era

conservatism.

“The past is never dead,” William Faulkner wrote. “It’s not even

past.” The 1980s—even more so. With the native dexterity only a

child of the Atari Age could possess, David Sirota twists and turns

this multicolored Rubik’s Cube of a decade, exposing it as a

warning for our own troubled present—and possible future.

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　　David Sirota is a journalist, nationally

syndicated weekly newspaper columnist, and radio host. His weekly

column is based at The Denver Post, San Francisco Chronicle,

Portland Oregonian, and The Seattle Times and now

appears in newspapers with a combined daily circulation of more

than 1.6 million readers. He has contributed to The New York

Times Magazine and The Nation and hosts an award-winning

daily talk show on Denver’s Clear Channel affiliate, KKZN-AM760. He

is a senior editor at In These Times magazine and a

Huffington Post contributor and appears periodically on CNN, The

Colbert Report, PBS, and NPR. He received a degree in

journalism and political science from Northwestern University’s

Medill School of Journalism. He lives in Denver with his wife,

Emily, and their dog, Monty.

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　　Hostile Takeover

　　“Every politically engaged citizen should read this book.”—Al

Gore

　　“Here are the horrifying facts about how our government works

today—and for whom it works—delivered in a tone of outrage that is

not only merited but appropriate. Read it and scream.”—Thomas

Frank

　　“A blunt, two-fisted attack that pulls back the covers on the

cozy canoodling between corporations and our government.”—Arianna

Huffington

　　The Uprising

　　“David Sirota is a clear-headed and principled hell-raiser for

economic justice.”—Naomi Klein

　　“Audacious . . . Sirota has a true gift for phrase-making and the

pithy comment.”—Providence Journal

　　“Sirota is honest, uncompromising, passionate, and a brilliant

communicator.”—Matt Taibbi

书籍介绍

Wall Street scandals. Fights over taxes. Racial resentments. A Lakers-Celtics championship. The Karate Kid topping the box-office charts. Bon Jovi touring the country. These words could describe our current moment—or the vaunted iconography of three decades past.

In this wide-ranging and wickedly entertaining book, New York Times bestselling journalist David Sirota takes readers on a rollicking DeLorean ride back in time to reveal how so many of our present-day conflicts are rooted in the larger-than-life pop culture of the 1980s—from the “Greed is good” ethos of Gordon Gekko (and Bernie Madoff) to the “Make my day” foreign policy of Ronald Reagan (and George W. Bush) to the “transcendence” of Cliff Huxtable (and Barack Obama).

Today’s mindless militarism and hypernarcissism, Sirota argues, first became the norm when an ’80s generation weaned on Rambo one-liners and “Just Do It” exhortations embraced a new religion—with comic books, cartoons, sneaker commercials, videogames, and even children’s toys serving as the key instruments of cultural indoctrination. Meanwhile, in productions such as Back to the Future, Family Ties, and The Big Chill , a campaign was launched to reimagine the 1950s as America’s lost golden age and vilify the 1960s as the source of all our troubles. That 1980s revisionism, Sirota shows, still rages today, with Barack Obama cast as the 60s hippie being assailed by Alex P. Keaton–esque Republicans who long for a return to Eisenhower-era conservatism.

“The past is never dead,” William Faulkner wrote. “It’s not even past.” The 1980s—even more so. With the native dexterity only a child of the Atari Age could possess, David Sirota twists and turns this multicolored Rubik’s Cube of a decade, exposing it as a warning for our own troubled present—and possible future.