The Pat Boone fan club : my life as a white Anglo-Saxon Jew / Sue William Silverman.
Material type: TextSeries: Publication details: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
- online resource
- 9781461957294
- 9781306406031
- 9780803264991
- E184 .P383 2014
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Includes bibliographies and index.
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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