The Origins of Cool in Postwar America Knowledge management Selected as a Book of

Selected as a Book of the Year by the New York Times

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The Origins of Cool in Postwar America Knowledge management Selected as a Book ofCool. It was a new word and a new way to be, and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture. The Origins of Cool in Postwar America uncovers the hidden history of this concept and its new set of codes that came to define a global attitude and style. As Joel Dinerstein reveals in this dynamic book, cool began as a stylish defiance of racism, a challenge to suppressed sexuality, a philosophy of individual rebellion, and