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  • Interview with Charlie Angus, author of DANGEROUS MEMORY: COMING OF AGE IN THE DECADE OF GREED banner. Background image from book cover of black silhouetted figures in a protest with arms and fists and signs and megaphones raised, with a blue and black texture around them. Solid grey-purple section to centre-left with text and Open Book logo overlaid, and image of the book cover to centre-left, with full cover image including graphics, title, and author name in text.
    Interview with Charlie Angus, author of DANGEROUS MEMORY: COMING OF AGE IN THE DECADE OF GREED banner. Background image from book cover of black silhouetted figures in a protest with arms and fists and signs and megaphones raised, with a blue and black texture around them. Solid grey-purple section to centre-left with text and Open Book logo overlaid, and image of the book cover to centre-left, with full cover image including graphics, title, and author name in text.
    December 12, 2024

    In Dangerous Memory, Charlie Angus Unpacks the 1980s and the Many Ways that the Decade Still Haunts Us

    Coming of age in the 1980s is something that if often seen romanticized or parodied in popular culture, with some of the more ridiculous and lively touchstones of the era featured in film, literature, ...

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