The Naughty Nineties set the stage for our reality-TV presidency
by Jon Meacham
Sep 16, 2017
2 minutes
ONE OF THE GREAT HISTORICAL questions is also one of the most difficult to answer: When, precisely, did a given phenomenon, cultural or political, truly begin? Should we date Christianity’s durability to the time of the Passion or, more likely, to Constantine’s conversion? Can we, with Leonard Bernstein, say the cultural liberties of the 1960s came from the spectacular rise of Elvis Presley, with his
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