If you were there, it was a wild ride – and the book captures that. If you weren’t there, it lets you know what humanity’s most fun American decade was really like and why it will never happen again. I’m only teasing about the Gen X’ers. From what I can tell, Nagel’s work took a nose dive in value in the late nineties, but is enjoying a YUGE resurgence now, which is cool because I wouldn’t want his legacy simply forgotten.