This book discusses the eighties, a time that brought one disaster after another - famine, war, space tragedy, nuclear accident, the AIDS virus and a time that marked the beginning of the era of global communications.
Discusses the youth culture of the eighties, highlighted by fitness, Michael Jackson, Dungeons and Dragons, breakdancing, AIDS, and politically by the first flight of the space shuttle and Gorbachev's assumption of power in the Soviet Union.