Here is Dr. Terry Anderson’s case for Why the Nineties Matter is a good summer read:
“My book, Why the Nineties Matter, examines all major events in the era from Desert Storm to 9/11. The book explores significant themes such as the crumbling political center, rise of the Angry White Men, the Digital Revolution, and the fruition of the late 1960s and 1970s cultural movements which resulted in Anything Goes America.
Although I lived through the 1990s, of course, it was fascinating to discover how much I missed, and how some seemingly unimportant events then became major influencers later: Ruby Ridge encouraged Angry White Men; Netscape vastly expanded the World Wide Web; doctors David Ho and Anthony Fauci transformed HIV AIDS from a Killer to treatable disease; O.J. Simpson's "trial of the century" changed the nightly news to Infotainment.
The conclusion answers Why the Ninties Matter, or in other words, how did America get to where we are in the 2020s.”