Today, "if you ask a semi-educated young person to identify the root cause of most American problems, there's a strong possibility they will say, 'Capitalism.'" In the '90s, the more probable answer "would have been commercialism." So observes the wide-ranging culture critic Chuck Klosterman in The Nineties: A Book.
Without pronouncing judgment on the shift, the book riffs on it for a few pages before morphing into an analysis of the song "Achy Breaky Heart," then segueing to Garth Brooks, Seinfeld, and Titanic.
