The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew

by Sue William Silverman

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803264852
• ISBN13: 9780803264854
• Release Date: March 2014
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.6"