Thomas W Hodgkinson

How to Be Cool

The 150 Essential Idols, Ideals and Other Cool S***

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Produktbeschreibung

From the co-author of the brilliant How to Sound Cultured, a wry and incisive guide to the people and ideas that have defined cool.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Icon Books
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 198mm x 131mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9781785782626
• ISBN-10: 1785782622
• Artikelnr.: 48163357

Autorenporträt

Thomas W. Hodgkinson is the co-author of How to Sound Cultured (Icon, 2015) and author of the novel Memoirs of a Stalker (Silvertail, 2015). He writes regularly for The Spectator and the Daily Mail and is a contributing editor at The Week. He lives in North London.

Inhaltsangabe

About the authorAcknowledgementsIntroductionPART ONE: IDOLS: William Blake
Beau Brummell
Lord Byron
Sarah Bernhardt
Arthur Rimbaud
Isadora Duncan
Coco Chanel
Lead Belly
Dorothy Parker
Amelia Earhart
Humphrey Bogart
Marlene Dietrich
Anaïs Nin
Greta Garbo
Josephine Baker
Lee Miller
Martha Gellhorn
Robert Johnson
Tennessee Williams
Jackson Pollock
Michelangelo Antonioni
Jesse Owens
Albert Camus
William S. Burroughs
Billie Holiday
J.D. Salinger
Timothy Leary
Charlie Parker
Jack Kerouac
Norman Mailer
Marlon Brando
Paul Newman
Lenny Bruce
Richard Burton
Allen Ginsberg
Miles Davis
Neal Cassady
Michel Foucault
Che Guevara
Andy Warhol
Maya Angelou
Jean-Luc Godard
James Dean
Guy Debord
Miriam Makeba
Ronald Kray & Reginald Kray
Nina Simone
Gloria Steinem
Elvis Presley
Dick Cavett
Hunter S. Thompson
Robert Fraser & Christopher Gibbs
David Bailey
John Lennon
Bob Dylan
Vivienne Westwood
Muhammad Ali
Jimi Hendrix
Lou Reed
Janis Joplin
Keith Richards
Anita Pallenberg
Marianne Faithfull
Patti Smith
David Bowie
Richard Branson
DJ Kool Herc
Steve Jobs
Madonna
Quentin Tarantino
Björk
Kurt Cobain
Sofia Coppola
Biggie Smalls
Kate Moss PART TWO: IDEAS
IDEALS AND OTHER COOL S***Fictional idols: Hamlet
Sherlock Holmes
James BondNomads: Troubadours
Beatniks
MobosThe truth: Method acting
Documentaries
WikileaksAffectlessness: Irony
Postmodernism
PokerParodies: The Fonz
The Dude
Ali GPlaces: Tangier
London
The Chelsea HotelHeroes: Cowboys
Private eyes
GeeksVillains: Pirates
Gangsters
VampiresCounter-examples: Bono
Tom Cruise
Tony BlairEastern spirituality: Hinduism
Buddhism
ChristianityAccessories: Hats & scarves
Beards
Tattoos & piercingsMaxims: Live fast
die young; Dance like no one's watchingGuys who had it but blew it: Ernest Hemingway
Robert De NiroOn the road: Cars
MotorbikesDrugs: Marijuana
LSD
HeroinCrazy s***: Conspiracy theories
Black magic
InsanityCool movies: The Magnificent Seven
Easy Rider
Pulp FictionThe ride & the fall: Surfing
snowboarding & skateboarding; Sky diving
bungee jumping & base jumping PART THREE: THE REAL DEAL Homer Hedy Lamarr The Independent Principality of Sealand Children Conchita Cintrón My wife Lao Tzu Anti-celebrities Tycho Brahe Hypnagogia & hypnopompia The War Against Cliché by Martin Amisv The history of the heart shape Jack Johnson La Belle Noiseuse 142¿ Fulham Road Solitude Socrates Victoria Mark Rylance Lila Says by Anonymous A tobacconist in Corfu Town 'For Emma
Forever Ago' by Bon Iver Heinrich 'Harry' Beck 'In The Summertime' by Mungo Jerry Being uncool Appendix: The Cool Test Index