A COSMOPOLITAN LAWYER: JUST SOME READINGS I HAVE ENJOYED LATELY

First, this blog replaces my previous blog, thecosmoplitanlawyerblogspot.com . Second, unlike that earlier blog, the present one is primarily meant as a record of my readings. It is not meant to suggest that others will be or should be interested in what I read. And third, in a sense, it is a public diary of one who is an alien in his own American culture. A person who feels at home just about anywhere, except in his birthplace . . . America.

Friday, July 28, 2017

ON BEING COOL IN POSTWAR AMERICA

Joel Dinerstein, The Origins of Cool in Postwar America (Chicago & London: U. of Chicago Press, 2017) ("I offer here a final definition of cool--fully formed as of 1963--as it became part of the American self-concept: cool is a subconscious method for negotiating identity in modernity through popular culture." Id. at 441.).