American Cool Constructing a Twentieth-Century Emotional Style

• Main Author: Stearns, Peter N. (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: NYU Press 1994
• Subjects: History of the Americas; History
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Cool. The concept has distinctly American qualities and it permeates almost every aspect of contemporary American culture. From Kool cigarettes and the Peanuts cartoon's Joe Cool to West Side Story (Keep cool, boy.) and urban slang (Be cool. Chill out.), the idea of cool, in its many manifestat...