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1) Boomsday
Author
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Author Christopher Buckley imagines a not-so-distant future when America teeters on the brink of economic disaster as the baby boomers start retiring; Cassandra, Buckley's heroine, is a twenty-nine-year-old PR chick who blogs at night about the impending Boomsday budget crisis.
Author
Publisher
Chicago Review Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"I hope you get drafted, I hope you go to Vietnam, I hope you get shot, and I hope you die there. Those words, spoken in the anger of youth, marked the end of the torrid 1960s college romance of Annette DuBose and Gabe Pender. She would marry a fellow antiwar activist and end up immigrating to Canada. He would fight in Vietnam and come home to build an American dream kind of life--a great career, a trophy wife, and a life of wealth and privilege....
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Formats
Description
This book describes the development of a specific fabric, but in the process provides students with rare insights into U.S. corporate history, the changing image of women in America, and how a seemingly doomed product came to occupy a position never imagined by its inventors and contained in the wardrobe of virtually every American. Discusses the story of the relationship between technology, science and society over the past half a century.
