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Book Nook: '1999: The Year Low Culture Conquered America and Kickstarted Our Bizarre Times' by Ross Benes

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Were you playing collecting Beanie Babies? Playing video games? Watching
professional wrestling? Or the Jerry Springer Show? Yep, you were
definitely there. Ross Benes believes that 1999 was a pivotal year that
had a potent impact upon the times we are living in now. This book is
thought provoking, provocative, and thoroughly entertaining. Ross
remembers 1999 very well.

The Book Nook on WYSO is presented by the Greene County Public Library with additional support from Washington-Centerville Public LibraryClark County Public LibraryDayton Metro LibraryWright Memorial Public Library, and Tipp City Public.

Vick Mickunas is the host of Book Nook on WYSO, which he created in 1994. He has conducted more than 1,700 author interviews, from Studs Terkel to Lee Child to John Glenn. He is a book critic for the Dayton Daily News and the Springfield News-Sun.