Authors@Google: Neil Strauss

Neil Strauss visits Google's San Francisco office to present his book "Everyone Loves You When You're Dead". This event took place on March 23, 2011, as part of the Authors@Google series. Rolling Stone and NY Times journalist Neil Strauss is visiting YouTube on Wednesday, March 23rd, at 2pm. Neil is the best-selling author of The Game and co-wrote Jenna Jameson's autobiography, How to Make Love Like a Porn Star. His new book Everyone Loves You When You're Dead takes a look back at his years spent interviewing stars such as Britney Spears, Lady Gaga, Johnny Cash, and the members of Motley Crue. "Strauss has earned such trust of his subjects that he becomes part of some very weird scenes, all of which are presented in all their often hilarious detail: shooting guns with Ludacris, getting kidnapped by Courtney Love, making Lady Gaga cry, and shopping for Pampers with Snoop Dogg." - Publisher's Weekly

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Authors@Google Presents David Sirota: Back to Our Future

Wall Street scandals. Fights over taxes. Racial resentments. A Lakers-Celtics championship. The Karate Kid topping the box-office charts. Bon Jovi touring the country. These words could describe our current moment—or the vaunted iconography of three decades past. In this wide-ranging and wickedly entertaining book, New York Times bestselling journalist David Sirota takes readers on a rollicking DeLorean ride back in time to reveal how so many of our present-day conflicts are rooted in the larger-than-life pop culture of the 1980s—from the "Greed is good" ethos of Gordon Gekko (and Bernie Madoff) to the "Make my day" foreign policy of Ronald Reagan (and George W. Bush) to the "transcendence" of Cliff Huxtable (and Barack Obama). Today's mindless militarism and hypernarcissism, Sirota argues, first became the norm when an '80s generation weaned on Rambo one-liners and "Just Do It" exhortations embraced a new religion—with comic books, cartoons, sneaker commercials, videogames, and even children's toys serving as the key instruments of cultural indoctrination. Meanwhile, in productions such as Back to the Future, Family Ties, and The Big Chill, a campaign was launched to reimagine the 1950s as America's lost golden age and vilify the 1960s as the source of all our troubles. That 1980s revisionism, Sirota shows, still rages today, with Barack Obama cast as the 60s hippie being assailed by Alex P. Keaton--esque Republicans who long for a return to Eisenhower-era conservatism ...

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