Bøger af Joseph Boskin

At the height of the Korean War in 1952, a budding young historian was drafted into the US Army just as the Pentagon was organising a top-secret, scientific expeditionary unit, the Transportation Arctic Group (TRARG). Here Boskin tells the story of TRARG, a keenly observed narrative that delivers both the absurd and the sublime in equal measure.

Rebellious Laughter changes the way we think about the ordinary joke. Claiming that humor in America is a primary cultural weapon, Boskin surveys the multitude of joke cycles that have swept the country during the last fifty years. Dumb Blonde jokes. Elephant jokes. Jewish-American Princess jokes. Lightbulb jokes. Readers will enjoy humor from many diverse sources: whites, blacks, women, and Hispanics; conservatives and liberals; public workers and university students; the powerless and power brokers. Boskin argues that jokes provide a cultural barometer of concerns and anxieties, frequently appearing in our day-to-day language long before these issues become grist for stand-up comics.