![]() ![]() Other topics he covers include politics, advertising, and social movements. Each chapter deals with much broader topics, not tossing quite as many pop culture references into each sentence. ![]() ![]() Fox's importance to the decade of the '80s. ![]() He tackles one topic at a time, starting with Michael J. Sirota explores that "why" throughout the rest of the book. The '80s have suddenly become relevant again today. Our interest in things from that decade has resurged and we're sharing them with our kids. Sirota does make a good point, though, that many things from the '80s are coming back. It is playful, but in the introduction it seems forced and not terribly informative. The introduction especially seems to be a long list of various '80s things with a few other words in between to stitch them together. Full of pop culture references and examples, the book explains how the '80s have informed policies, politics, new pop culture, and society today, and how history and pop culture of times long past affected the '80s as well.įlip to any page in the book and some reference to pop culture in the 1980s will jump out at you. What lingering effect did the 1980s have on our society and culture today? David Sirota tries to answer that question in his new book, Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now – Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything. ![]()
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