An account of the author's increasingly determined search for and into his father's and his Armenian heritage and into the history, culture, and character of Armenia and its people

Product Description: Living-Room War is Arlen's valiant - and entertaining - attempt to figure out exactly what television does to us. This timeless collection of essays provides a poetic look at 1960s television culture, ranging from the Vietnam war to Captain Kangaroo, from the 1968 Democratic convention to televised sports...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Tom Avery, a New York journalist approaching forty, takes his pretty, young wife, Catherine, to meet his estranged father, film director Samuel Avery, at his New Mexico ranch, in a story about the dangers of love

A profile of his parents accompanies the author's account of his search for his lost Armenian heritage, and the history, culture, and character of Armenia

Considering various aspects of life in the 'television age,' Arlen explores the development of this medium, its effects on our outlooks of nature, sex, and politics, and the ways in which mass media controls us

In this tour de force, Arlen focuses on the people, extraordinary processes, and lunacies involved in the making of one thirty-second television commercial