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The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew (American Lives)
The Pat Boone Fan Club My Life as a White AngloSaxon Jew - American Lives Author:Sue William Silverman 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 f... more »or 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 something to say to those of us?most of us?still wondering what to make of ourselves. « less