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"An entertaining trip through pop culture, for the ""old fogeys"" and ""kids these days"" An entertaining trip through pop culture, for the ""old fogeys"" and ""kids these days"" Today's teens and twentysomethings have never seen a real airplane ticket. To them, point-and-shoot cameras are so last millennium and ""Star Wars"" is a movie, not a defense strategy. The world views of today's young and old have never been more different. In this entertaining romp through American culture, the creators of the Beloit College Mindset List explore 75 icons once-famous and now forgotten-from Abbott and Costello to the singing telegram. Packed with entertaining facts, trivia, and photos, this is the perfect gift for college students, their oh-so-outdated parents, and pop culture mavens nostalgic for days gone by."

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Exquisitely mindboggling entertainment. - Jim McManus, author of Positively Fifth Street

If you're up for a trip down memory lane, or want to learn more about your parent's generation, this book is for you... READ IT IF: You're feeling nostalgic.Your parents like mentioning things and people from the good ole days. You're curious about past American cultural icons and phrases. - Second Bookshelf on the Right

Tom McBride and Ron Nief have never failed to open my mind while making me smile. The Mindset List has been an annual treasure. The Mindset List of the Obscure opens the way to pleasurable discovery of Americans lost but not to be forgotten. - Jim Fleming, former host of PRI's To the Best of Our Knowledge and host and producer of Wisconsin Public Radio's Chapter A Day

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TOM MCBRIDE, Keefer Professor of the Humanities at Beloit College in Wisconsin, and RON NIEF, emeritus director of public affairs at Beloit, are coeditors of the internationally renowned Beloit College Mindset List. They have been featured in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today, and on CBS, NPR, CNN, Fox, and more.

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