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|author=Richard Weight
|title=MOD: From Bebop to Britpop, Britain's Biggest Youth Movement
|rating=5
|genre=History
|summary=''Mod'' is arguably a rather-overused term. First of all, there is the matter of establishing a precise definition. ''Modernism'', which was soon abbreviated for convenience, began as the working-class movement of a newly affluent nation. Once the age of immediate post-war austerity was gone, the cult of a youth keen to shake off the drab conformity of life in 1950s Britain took hold. It was more than anything else an amalgam of American music and European fashions, beginning as a popular cult and gradually becoming a mainstream culture.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099597888</amazonuk>
}}
{{newreview
|author=Stian Bromark and Hon Khiam Leong (translator)
|summary=Moving back to his native Detroit, Mark Binelli tries to see where it all went wrong for a city which was once ''America's capitalist dream town'' but has shrunk more significantly than anywhere else in the country over recent years. How did this happen, and what effect has it had on the residents there? Is the decline irreversible, or can those who want to bring about a changed and improved Detroit succeed?
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0099553880</amazonuk>
}}