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Review the nineties klosterman6/29/2023 Concerns and anxieties were omnipresent, but the stakes were vague: Teenagers were allegedly obsessed with angst, and the explanation as to why was pondered constantly without any sufficient answer. “The internet was coming, but slowly, and there was no reason to believe it would be anything but awesome. “There were still nuclear weapons, but there was not going to be a nuclear war,” writes Klosterman. Not a particularly inspiring bridge, though. Those who remember the decade as a Clinton-era wash of roaring economy punctuated by the laughs and tears of “Seinfeld,” “Titanic” and the slacker grunge-rock of Nirvana will be reminded by Klosterman in mordant style that the 1990s were our bridge to the big now of the 21st century. Serving up the moments and meanings of a modern decade in a few hundred pages is no easy task, but Chuck Klosterman has managed to boil a hearty stew of insight with his new book “The Nineties” (Penguin Press, 384 pp., ★★★½ out of four, out now). Watch Video: Banned books: What a new wave of restrictions could mean for students
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