Culture in an Age of Money

Nicolaus Mills is an historian, author, and journalist, and is a professor at Sarah Lawrence College.

• Part 1 The Culture of Triumph and the Spirit of the Times 11Part 2 Blips, Bites and Savvy Talk 29Part 3 Putting on the Glitz: Architecture After Postmodernism 47Part 4 The Short Happy Life of the American Yuppie 66Part 5 Pluggies 83Part 6 A Culture of Paper Tigers 95Part 7 Blackness Without Blood 109Part 8 Civil Rights and the Reagan Court 130Part 9 The Trials of Televangelism 142Part 10 Vietnam Screen Wars 156Part 11 China, Bloomie's and the Met 175Part 12 The Literature of AIDS 201Part 13 Fictions of Acquisition 216Part 14 The End of the Common Reader 234Part 15 Presidency by Ralph Lauren: Closing the Decade in Style 246

A stinging indictment of the Reagan era for its effects on both highbrow and popular culture...The targets are many and the attacks are proudly partisan.