Silverman, Sue William, <br/><br/>
The Pat Boone fan club :  my life as a white Anglo-Saxon Jew / 
Sue William Silverman. 
 - Lincoln :  University of Nebraska Press,  (c)2014. 
 - 1 online resource. 
 - American lives .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographies and index. 
<br/><br/> Gentile reader, and you, Jews, come too. Follow Sue William Silverman, a one-woman cultural mash-up, on her exploration of identity among the mishmash of American idols and ideals that confuse most of us--or should. Pat Boone is our first stop. Now a Tea Party darling, Boone once shone as a squeaky-clean pop music icon of normality, an antidote for Silverman's own confusing and dangerous home, where being a Jew in a Christian school wasn't easy, and being the daughter of the Anti-Boone was unspeakable. And yet somehow Silverman found her way, a "gefilte fish swimming upstream," and found her voice, which in this searching, bracing, hilarious, and moving book tries to make sense of that most troubling American condition: belonging, but to what?Picking apricots on a kibbutz, tramping cross-country in a loathed Volkswagen camper, appearing in a made-for-television version of her own life: Silverman is a bobby-soxer, a baby boomer, a hippy, a lefty, and a rebel with ... 
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<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781461957294 9781306406031 9780803264991 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Silverman, Sue William.<br/>Boone, Pat--Appreciation.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Jews--United States--Biography.<br/>Jewish women--United States--Biography.<br/>Jews--Identity.--United States<br/>Jewish women--Identity.--United States
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic Books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>E184  / .P383 2014