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James Sullivan (4) (1965–)

Auteur van 7 Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin

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James Sullivan is a regular contributor to the Boston Globe and author of books on James Brown (The Hardest Working Man) and consumer culture (Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon). He previously served as pop music and culture critic at the San Francisco Chronicle and has written for many toon meer other publications. He lives in Massachusetts. toon minder

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Sullivan, James
Geboortedatum
1965-11-07
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nonfiction/biography. I admit that I wasn't listening attentively to the whole book (I like to use the playaways to read myself to sleep) but the parts I caught were interesting--a very remarkable and accomplished life, all things considered. I did notice some chapters repeated parts of other chapters, but in this playaway format it doesn't really matter.
 
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reader1009 | 3 andere besprekingen | Jul 3, 2021 |
This is a log sheet of Carlin's career, cataloging all of his venues and connections in the entertainment business. The dates are a bit jumbled at times. It is a tribute to a brilliant, hard working man, with full disclosure of his human frailties. It is a good expose on the industry, at least in Carlin's time. As a biography it glosses over much detail about his life but does record the events. He deserved this eulogy because of his courage, tenacity and insight.
 
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DonaldPowell | 3 andere besprekingen | Feb 5, 2019 |
If you don't know why George Carlin is important, but want to, then this book will spell it out for you. Letter by letter, job by job, word by word. Sometimes that is done well, here, it seems a bit dogged and labored.
 
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laurustina | 3 andere besprekingen | Jan 14, 2015 |
Despite how advertisers keep treating as a new and exciting clothing, jeans, and the denim they are made from, have been around for hundreds of years. Blue jeans are named after their place of first import, Genoa, Italy, and denim comes from the material serge de Nimes, a cotton blend from Nimes, France. Materials for jeans arrived in the America almost right after the Pilgrims did. Denim jeans have been part of the social and manufacturing landscape for so long that they seem almost ineffable. James Sullivan’s Jeans, however, goes a little deeper into the history of jeans to find a chronicle of rebellion and globalization.

Sullivan looks at denim jeans in their cultural context, seeing jeans as a symbol for other stories and feelings. From Levi Strauss’s initial pair of jeans in 1853 to help manual laborers in San Francisco to Brigham Young’s denunciation of jean-wearers to the youth rebellions of the 1950s, jeans seemed to exist in the past to show one’s ideals. Lately, not so much. While a fair amount of the book is devoted to Strauss’s company and each generation’s use of jeans, there are far more interesting tidbits sprinkled throughout. Sullivan looks at blue dye manufacturing in Nigeria (even the ink in the book is blue) and the specific advertisement of jeans. All in all, it’s a good book that provides an interesting perspective on an often-overlooked object.
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