tonight we are so thrilled to welcome chuck klosterman talking

in the '90s, a book, chuck klosterman makes a home in all of it, the film, the music, the sports, the tv, the politics, the changes regarding race, class, and sexuality and the yin and yang of oprah and alan greenspan. this evening will include an audience q&a so please use the q&a button at the bottom of your screen if you would like to ask a question as well as if someone asks a question you would like to know the answer to, uptick that question. a link to buy "the '90s" will be shared a couple of times tonight. we currently have over 100 actual signed copies, you can see right here. so order yours while supplies last. thanks so much, chuck, for joining us, we're excited to have you. >> this is the beginning? okay. well, you know, this is normally the part in the event where i would say like, boy, it's great to be here. but, you know, it's really not great to be here because i'm not there. i am literally here, like out behind my house. this book could have come out last fall, probably, we probably could have pushed it and had it come out in the fall but we thought, well, if we wait

in the 90s, a book, chuck chuck klosterman brooks a home in all of it. the film, the music, the sports, the tv, the politics, at the changes regarding release and class and sexuality, and the young and young of oprah and alan greenspan. so this evening's event will include audience q&a. so please use the q&a button at the bottom of your screen if you'd like to ask a question. as well as someone has talked a question you would also like to know the answer to, please up for that particular question by stepping clicking the thumbs up at. and lastly, support chuck and posed by purchasing a cop audio of his book for most. and this link to buy the 90s will be posted. since shaq has dropped by the so we have an actual hundred signed copies. so order yours while supplies last. all right, thanks so much, chuck, for joining us, and we're excited to have you. >> this is the beginning? okay! well, you know, this is normally the part in the event where i would be, i would say, like, boy, it's great to be here and! you know, is really not great to be here, because i'm

tonight we are so thrilled to welcome chuck klosterman talking about his new release the 90s a book. he is the best-selling author of eight nonfiction books

tonight we are so thrilled to welcome chuck klosterman talking about his new release the 90s a book. he is the best-selling author of eight nonfiction books two novels and short story collection raised in captivity. he has written for the new york times the

tonight we are so thrilled to welcome chuck klosterman talking about his new release the 90s a book. he is the best-selling author of eight nonfiction books two novels and short story collection raised in captivity. he has written for the new york times the washington post gq esquire spin the guardian and billboard among others. the 90s

tonight we are so thrilled to welcome chuck klosterman talking about his new release the 90s a book. he is the best-selling author of eight nonfiction books two novels and short story collection raised in captivity. he has written for the new york times the washington post gq esquire spin the guardian and billboard among others. the 90s brought about a revolution in the human condition that we're still groping to understand beyond. epiphenomena like like cop killer titanic and zema. there are wholesale shifts in how society was perceived the rise of the internet 3 9 11 politics and the paradoxical belief that nothing was more humility humiliating than trying to hard. pop pop culture accelerated without the aid of a machine that remembered everything generating an odd comfort it never being certain about anything. in the 90s a book took close to men makes a home in all of it the film the music the sports the tv the politics the changes regarding race and class and sexuality and then yin and yang oprah and alan greenspan. so this evening's event will include an audience q&a. so please

and then chuck klosterman looks back at the social political and technological happenings of the 90s marked by the growth of the internet and later. aaron thompson discusses the history of monuments that america and the debate about what should remain standing. find a full schedule at c-span.org slash history your program guide. and now lectures and history with carl abrams. we have already talked about big events in our survey of american history and obviously big events are very important. we have started on one and our last class period that we met. i think last friday we dealt with the new deal and we have talked about the economic and the