This New Yorker article seems to have been written just on the day that David Cassidy died, maybe a day after, but though a lot of you have already seen it, I only found out about it today (essentially a year after his death) .
It seems an intelligently written piece. Somehow it reeks so much of nostalgia even though the author herself says (or seems to say) she was not of the generation who grew up watching The Partridge Family when it was originally on the air, but watched it years after it went off the air as something of a "second generation fan."

It is hard to believe. I remember much of the 1970s so vividly.


https://www.newyorker.com/sections/culture/remembering-when-america-found-refuge-in-david-cassidys-tousled-hair