{"product_id":"accelerate-james-brooke-smith-9780750996839","title":"Accelerate!: A History of the 1990s","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA kaleidoscopic history of the 1990s, a decade of fin-de-si鐵le hope and exuberance - plus the events, ideas and people who made and broke it\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e The 1990s was the decade in which the Soviet Union collapsed and Francis Fukuyama declared the \"end of history.\" Nelson Mandela was released from prison, Google was launched and scientists in Edinburgh cloned a sheep from a single cell. It was also a time in which the President of the United States discussed fellatio on network television and the world's most photographed woman died in a car crash in Paris. The radical pop band the KLF burned a million quid on a Scottish island, while the most-watched program on TV was \u003ci\u003eBaywatch\u003c\/i\u003e. Anti-globalization protestors in France attacked McDonalds restaurants, while American survivalists stockpiled guns and tinned food in preparation for Y2K.\u003cp\u003eFor those who lived through it, the 1990s glow in the memory with a beguiling mixture of proximity and distance, familiarity and strangeness. It is the decade about which we know so much yet understand too little. Taking a kaleidoscopic view of the politics, social history, arts and popular culture of the era, James Brooke-Smith asks - what was the 1990s? A lost golden age of liberal optimism? A time of fin de si鐵le decadence? Or the seedbed for the discontents we face today?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e James Brooke-Smith, Jack Smyth\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0750996838\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780750996839\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e History Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/02\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"James Brooke-Smith","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44079184740607,"sku":"9780750996839","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_cfa723db-ebc1-490b-883b-6e00618ad8e4.jpg?v=1685479719","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/accelerate-james-brooke-smith-9780750996839","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}