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X Saves the World

How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking

How Generation X Got the Shaft but Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking

By Jeff Gordinier

By Jeff Gordinier

By Jeff Gordinier

By Jeff Gordinier

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Category: Economics | Management

Category: Economics | Management

Paperback $15.00

Jan 27, 2009 | ISBN 9780143115151

Ebook $5.99

Mar 27, 2008 | ISBN 9781440639616

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    About X Saves the World

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    In this simultaneously hilarious and incisive “manifesto for a generation that’s never had much use for manifestos,” Gordinier suggests that for the first time since the “Smells Like Teen Spirit”breakthrough of the early 1990s, Gen X has what it takes to rescue American culture from a state of collapse. Over the past twenty years, the so-called “slackers”have irrevocably changed countless elements of our culture-from the way we watch movies to the way we make sense of a cracked political process to the way the whole world does business.

    About X Saves the World

    Read Jeff Gordinier’s posts on the Penguin Blog

    In this simultaneously hilarious and incisive “manifesto for a generation that’s never had much use for manifestos,” Gordinier suggests that for the first time since the “Smells Like Teen Spirit”breakthrough of the early 1990s, Gen X has what it takes to rescue American culture from a state of collapse. Over the past twenty years, the so-called “slackers”have irrevocably changed countless elements of our culture-from the way we watch movies to the way we make sense of a cracked political process to the way the whole world does business.

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    About Jeff Gordinier

    Jeff Gordinier is the food and drinks editor of Esquire and a frequent contributor to the New York Times. A product of Southern California and a graduate of Princeton University, he wrote 2008’s X Saves the World and co-edited the… More about Jeff Gordinier

    About Jeff Gordinier

    Jeff Gordinier is the food and drinks editor of Esquire and a frequent contributor to the New York Times. A product of Southern California and a graduate of Princeton University, he wrote 2008’s X Saves the World and co-edited the… More about Jeff Gordinier

    Product Details

    Category: Economics | Management

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Penguin Books
    Jan 27, 2009 | 224 Pages | 5-1/16 x 7-3/4 | ISBN 9780143115151

    Category: Economics | Management

    Ebook | $5.99
    Published by Penguin Books
    Mar 27, 2008 | 224 Pages | ISBN 9781440639616
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    “I loved this book. . . . It’s impassioned, very quick on its feet, dense with all the right allusions, funny, and in the end actually very moving.”
    -Nick Hornby

    “Ever wonder what became of Generation X, those ironic slackers wedged between the paunchy, tie-dyed boomers and their smug offspring, the millennials? Gordinier’s first-person manifesto starts with a thumbnail sketch of ’90s disillusionment and ends with a passionate call for social activism.”
    –Wired

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