American Studies

1. Shopping Our Way to Safety

   “Not long ago, people did not worry about the food they ate. They did not worry about the water they drank or the air they breathed. It never occurred to them that eating, drinking water, satisfying basic, mundane bodily needs might be a dangerous... (read more)

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2. Bobos in Paradise

   Do you believe that spending $15,000 on a media center is vulgar, but that spending $15,000 on a slate shower stall is a sign that you are at one with the Zenlike rhythms of nature? Do you work for one of those visionary software companies where people... (read more)

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3. Fast Food Nation

   Analyzing the influence of the fast food industry on American society, an award-winning journalist explores the homogenization of American culture and the impact of the fast food industry on modern-day health, economy, politics, popular culture... (read more)

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4. Mystic Chords of Memory

   Mystic Chords of Memory "Illustrated with hundreds of well-chosen anecdotes and minute observations . . . Kammen is a demon researcher who seems to have mined his nuggets from the entire corpus of American cultural history . . . insightful and sardonic."... (read more)

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5. A Machine That Would Go of Itself

   Puliter Prie-winning historian Michael Kammen examines the cultural impact of the Constitution on the United States, explores the Constitutions place in the public consciousness and its role as a symbol in American life from ratification in 1788 to our... (read more)

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6. 50+

   50+ is a call to arms. It's a groundbreaking look at the revolution that's going on right now among seventy-eight million American baby boomers. From age 50+ on up, Americans are refusing to rock away their retirement. They're starting new careers... (read more)

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7. Land of Desire

   This monumental work of cultural history was nominated for a National Book Award. It chronicles America's transformation, beginning in 1880, into a nation of consumers, devoted to a cult of comfort, bodily well-being, and endless acquisition. 24 pages of... (read more)

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8. Tripping

   Collects narratives from fifty people regarding their psychedelic experiences while taking hallucinogenic drugs, including out-of-body occurences, religious awakenings, miracles, psychosis, and flashbacks.... (read more)

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9. A Is for American

   What ties Americans to one another? What unifies a nation of citizens with different racial, religious and ethnic backgrounds? These were the dilemmas faced by Americans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries as they sought ways to bind the newly... (read more)

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10. American Nerd

    A social exploration of the concept of the intellectual misfit presents a tour of nerd subcultures while tracing the personality's evolution in the media, literature, and society, in a report that reveals lesser-known common traits and interests among... (read more)

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11. Gang of Five

    In "Gang of Five, " bestselling author Nina J. Easton adds an important element to the history of American politics in the last thirty years. This is the story of the other, less well known segment of the baby-boom generation. These are young... (read more)

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12. The Real America

    The nationally syndicated radio talk-show host offers his views on such topics as family, politics, community, religion, celebrities, drugs, race relations, terrorism, and America. 150,000 first printing.... (read more)

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13. Popular Culture and the Future of Politics

    Popular Culture and the Future of Politics: Cultural Studies and the Tao of South Park argues that progressives should perceive the connections among media, policy, and culture beyond the limits of "politics" and "news". With sustained analyses of... (read more)

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14. For the Hell of It

    Drawing on his own twenty-year relationship with Hoffman, hundreds of interviews with friends, family members, and former comrades, and careful scrutiny of FBI files, court records, and public documents, Raskin provides the best account we have of this... (read more)

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15. The Competition Paradigm

    This insightful book explores the question of competition and effects it has on individuals, organizations, and society as a whole.... (read more)

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16. Cemetery Stories

    An anecdotal look at funeral customs and cemeteries includes stories about embalmers who have sex with the corpses they work on, forensics testing practices performed at The Body Farm, the craft of the undertaker, a cemetery established by slaves freed... (read more)

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17. The State of Disunion

    Why are some eras of American politics characterized by broad, bipartisan harmony and others by rancorous partisanship? In The State of Disunion, Nicole Mellow argues that these oscillations are a product of how the two major parties respond, or fail to... (read more)

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18. American Studies

    At each step of this journey through American cultural history, Louis Menand has an original point to make: he explains the real significance of William James's nervous breakdown, and of the anti-Semitism in T. S. Eliot's writing. He reveals the reasons... (read more)

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19. Revolutions Revisited

    Examines the practical matters of how enlightenment was brought about, detailing first how politicians, especially Franklin, sought to raise the public's aspirations, and then discussing the role of a national revolutionary heritage.... (read more)

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20. The Jobless Future

    High technology will destroy more jobs than it creates. This grim prediction was first published in the 1994 edition of The Jobless Future, an eerily accurate title that could have been written for today's dismal economic climate. Fully updated and with... (read more)

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