Puzzling Evidence: A Boomer Pop History
Boob Tube, Flicks, Rock & Roll and Politics
Part One: 1946 - 1976
by Dr. “Magic” Sam Shanahan and Greg Giacona
Stare into the sun and it’s brilliance will make you blind.
Study human folly and the darkness will burn a hole in your mind.
Ever since the first crude cave drawings, humankind has tried to understand itself and its world through reflections. Are the media reflections that reach us today through television, movies and Rock & Roll – our modern cave drawings – merely a vast array of meaningless and unconnected phenomena? Or together do they contribute to some kind of grand mosaic that faithfully reflects back to us a vision of our true identity? In this wonderful first volume, Dr. Shanahan and Mr. Giacona painstakingly attempt to fit the mass media puzzle pieces of the Boomer Generation together with great humor and wit (a boon to Boomers, who are accustomed to having everything prepared for us) so that the Big Picture begins to emerge.