A satirical reference work identifies and stigmatizes various contemporary examples of public relations attempts to make unnecessary--or downright bad--products seem necessary ...

Salvos of sane and humorous dissent from the worship of the almighty market.

If you owe a couple cavities to Marathon candy bars, learned your adverbs from Schoolhouse Rock!, and can still imitate the slo-mo bionic running sound of The Six Million ...

Photographs of more than sixty of the most popular alternative music bands capture the history and the rebelliousness of Sonic Youth, Nirvana, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, and ...

In a substantial new afterword to his classic account of the collapse of American triumphalism in the wake of World War II, Tom Engelhardt carries that story into the twenty ...

A riotously funny, razor-sharp indictment of America's cultural wasteland by one of its most merciless critics.

A collection of humorous American oddities, including the Accountant Hall of Fame, earthworm farmers, and the town that added an exclamation point to its name to perk up its ...

American popular culture changed dramatically during the Vietnam era. This book explores the popular culture that shaped the baby boomers and the transformation that generation ...