In 'Back to Our Future,' the '80s are Alive and, Well ...

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PHILADELPHIA -- David Sirota is tooling around his hometown, giving what he calls "his '80s tour." He points out a billboard for the Philadelphia 76ers that boasts the basketball team's logo. One recycled from the 1980s.
* Past is present: David Sirota's bedroom at his childhood home in Huntingdon Valley, Pa., is filled with memorabilia from the '80s. To this day, the author says, people are "still looking through an '80s mind-set."

By Eileen Blass, USA TODAY

To Sirota, 35, a syndicated columnist, author and radio talk-show host based in Denver, the '80s are where it all began. And where it all continues to be. For better or worse.

He makes his case in his book Back to Our Future: How the 1980s Explain the World We Live in Now -- Our Culture, Our Politics, Our Everything (Ballantine, $25). It arrives Tuesday.

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