The Pat Boone fan club : my life as a white Anglo-Saxon Jew / Sue William Silverman.
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- 9781461957294
- 146195729X
- 130640603X
- 9781306406031
- 9780803264991
- 0803264992
- Silverman, Sue William
- Boone, Pat -- Appreciation
- Boone, Pat
- Silverman, Sue William
- Jews -- United States -- Biography
- Jewish women -- United States -- Biography
- Jews -- United States -- Identity
- Jewish women -- United States -- Identity
- Juifs -- États-Unis -- Biographies
- Juives -- États-Unis -- Biographies
- Juifs -- États-Unis -- Identité
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical
- HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local -- General
- Art appreciation
- Jewish women
- Jews
- Jews -- Identity
- United States
- 973/.04924 23
- E184.37.S55
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Gentile reader, and you, Jews, come too. Follow Sue William Silverman, a one-woman cultural mash-up, on her exploration of identity among the mishmash of American idols and ideals that confuse most of us--or should. Pat Boone is our first stop. Now a Tea Party darling, Boone once shone as a squeaky-clean pop music icon of normality, an antidote for Silverman's own confusing and dangerous home, where being a Jew in a Christian school wasn't easy, and being the daughter of the Anti-Boone was unspeakable. And yet somehow Silverman found her way, a "gefilte fish swimming upstream," and found her voice, which in this searching, bracing, hilarious, and moving book tries to make sense of that most troubling American condition: belonging, but to what?Picking apricots on a kibbutz, tramping cross-country in a loathed Volkswagen camper, appearing in a made-for-television version of her own life: Silverman is a bobby-soxer, a baby boomer, a hippy, a lefty, and a rebel with ...
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