American Cool: Constructing a Twentieth-Century Emotional Style by Peter N. Stearns

American Cool: Constructing a Twentieth-Century Emotional Style

Peter N. Stearns

378 pages first pub 1994 (editions)

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Cool. The concept has distinctly American qualities and it permeates almost every aspect of contemporary American culture. From Kool cigarettes and the Peanuts cartoon's Joe Cool to West Side Story (Keep cool, boy.) and urban slang (Be cool. Chill...

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