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  • The Naughty Nineties

  • The Triumph of the American Libido
  • By: David Friend
  • Narrated by: David Friend
  • Length: 26 hrs and 26 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (16 ratings)

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By: David Friend
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A sexual history of the 1990s, when the Baby Boomers took over Washington, Hollywood, and Madison Avenue. A definitive look at the captains of the culture wars—and an indispensable road map for understanding how we got to the Trump Teens.

The Naughty Nineties: The Triumph of the American Libido examines the scandal-strafed decade when our public and private lives began to blur due to the rise of the web, reality television, and the wholesale tabloidization of pop culture.

In this comprehensive and often hilarious time capsule, David Friend combines detailed reporting with first-person accounts from many of the decade's singular personalities, from Anita Hill to Monica Lewinsky, Lorena Bobbitt to Heidi Fleiss, Alan Cumming to Joan Rivers, Jesse Jackson to key members of the Clinton, Dole, and Bush teams.

The Naughty Nineties also uncovers unsung sexual pioneers, from the enterprising sisters who dreamed up the Brazilian bikini wax to the scientists who, quite by accident, discovered Viagra.

©2017 David Friend (P)2017 Hachette Audio
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"Vivid. [An] insightful and compulsively readable overview of America's hormonal coming of age."—Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

"How I loved this book! THE NAUGHTY NINETIES is a raucous ride through the 20th century's closing decade—an impressive sweep of social and cultural history in an era dominated by instant communication and gratification that presages our turbulent times. David Friend brilliantly captures the social and sexual revolution that came home to roost in the 1990s and left little to the imagination!"—Doris Kearns Goodwin, presidential historian and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II and Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln

"This thoughtful and ridiculously entertaining book will surely solidify the '90s as America's most embarrassing decade."—Dave Eggers, bestselling author of A Hologram for the King and The Circle

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More like a 90s Encyclopaedia

This book is in no way a concise look to the decade which ptobably has changed everything. How me behave, how mr think, how we elect and how we react. From politics to publicity, ranging, including and overlapping with manifold issues as essential to human life and entertainment such as television, fashion industry, cinematography, modern arts and partisan inclination of individuals. The author provides a detailed look to the events of 90s which we probably all either lived through or listened from elder people (in case you are at an age bracket that probably has to get to claim full-fledged adulthood) and the philosophical and sociological perspectives provided let it raise from a banality, a fact from mundane aspects of life or a theory so sophisticated to have been rooted in one of the cornerstones of the Philosophy of Frankfurt School... If you have an urging to broaden your perspective and experience an a-ha moment, this book is the right destination... Narration by the author himself is also impressive and knows very well how to ensnare your probably not-long-enough attention span in a complex web of tails, truths and interpretations...

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