Cool.
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 a youthful search for s.
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.
It was a new word and a new way to be , and in a single generation, it became the supreme compliment of American culture.
Cool