Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: "Individuality in Name Only" -- 1 Postwar Teenagers and the Attitude of Authenticity -- 2 From Madness to the Prozac Americans -- 3 "They Didn't Do It for Thrills": Serial Killing and the Problem of Motive -- 4 Assimilation, Authenticity, and "Natural Jewishness" -- 5 "The Man He Almost Is": Performativity and the Corporate Narrative -- Conclusion: "Collage Is the Art Form of the Twentieth Century" -- Notes -- Works Consulted -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.