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The Food of a Younger Land: A Portrait of American Food--Before the National Highway System, Beforechain Restaurants, and Before Frozen Food, When
by Mark Kurlansky
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A remarkable portrait of American food before World War II, presented by the New York Timesabestselling author of Cod and Salt. Award-winning New York Timesabestselling author Mark Kurlansky takes us back to the food and eating habits of a younger... ( read more)
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Capture the Flag: A Political History of American Patriotism
by Woden Teachout
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Americans honor the flag with a fervor seen in few other countries: The Stars and Stripes decorate American homes and businesses; wave over sports events and funerals; and embellish everything from politicians' lapels to the surface of the moon. But what... ( read more)
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This Is Your Country on Drugs: The Secret History of Getting High in America
by Ryan Grim
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It's time to stock up on munchies, twist the caps off your water bottles, and get on the bus You're about to embark on a cross-country tour of the complex, bizarre, and surprising history of drug use in America, a history that takes you from the... ( read more)
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Next Stop, Reloville: Life Inside America's New Rootless Professional Class
by Peter Kilborn
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An eye-opening investigation of the growing phenomenon of “relos,” the professionals for whom relocation is a way of life Drive through the newest subdivisions of Atlanta, Dallas, or Pittsburgh, and youll notice an unusual similarity in the... ( read more)
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Idiot America: How Stupidity Became a Virtue in the Land of the Free
by Charles P. Pierce
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The Culture Wars Are Over and the Idiots Have Won A veteran journalist's acidically funny, righteously angry lament about the glorification of ignorance in the United States. In the midst of a career-long quest to separate the smart from the pap, Charles... ( read more)
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The Book of Cool: What Is It? Who Decides It? and Why Do We Care So Much?
by Marianne Taylor
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From jazz music to wearing sunglasses indoors, “cool” has always been the ultimate social label. The craving for this acceptance has powered popular culture for the last hundred years. Fashion, music, cars, pop idols, attitudes, and even some... ( read more)
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Born in the USA: The American Book of Origins
by Trevor Homer
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From Bubble Wrap to Bubblegum, from Men-on-the-Moon to Monopoly, from Kidney Transplants to Kool-Aid, to microwave ovens to M & M's, America has been at the forefront of the main advances of the human race for the last two centuries. America has given... ( read more)
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Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture
by Carrie (edt) Mclaren
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With the style and irreverence of Vice magazine and the critique of the corporatocracy that made Naomi Kleins No Logo a global hit, the cult magazine Stay Free!long considered the Adbusters of the United Statesis finally offering a compendium of new and... ( read more)
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Soldier from the War Returning: The Greatest Generation's Troubled Homecoming from World War II
by Thomas Childers
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One of our most enduring national myths surrounds the men and women who fought in the so-called "Good War." The Greatest Generation, we're told by Tom Brokaw and others, fought heroically, then returned to America happy, healthy and well-adjusted. They... ( read more)
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Ark of the Liberties: Why American Freedom Matters to the World
by Ted Widmer
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Americas decline in popularity over the last eight years has been nothing short of astonishing. With wit, brilliance, and deep affection, Ted Widmer, a scholar and former presidential speechwriter, reminds everyone why this great nation had so far to... ( read more)
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The Big Sort: Why the Clustering of Like-Minded America Is Tearing Us Apart
by Bill Bishop
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In 2004, journalist Bill Bishop coined the term "the big sort." Armed with startling new demographic data, he made national news in a series of articles showing how Americans have been sorting themselves into alarmingly homogeneous communities -- not by... ( read more)
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California Series in Public Anthropology #21: Righteous Dopefiend
by Philippe Bourgois
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This powerful study immerses the reader in the world of homelessness and drug addiction in the contemporary United States. For over a decade Philippe Bourgois and Jeff Schonberg followed a social network of two dozen heroin injectors and crack smokers on... ( read more)
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The Slave Next Door: Human Trafficking and Slavery in America Today
by Kevin Bales
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"Once again, Kevin Bales and Ron Soodalter make us confront a tragic reality--there are as many as 27 million people trapped in modern slavery worldwide. In this book, we hear the voices of survivors and those who are fighting every day for freedom... ( read more)
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Blood and Politics: The History of the White Nationalist Movement from the Margins to the Mainstream
by Leonard Zeskind
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A unprecedented, sweeping account of white nationalism's rise in Americafrom the MacArthur Award-Winning expert in the field More than fifteen years in the making, Blood and Politics is the most comprehensive history of the white supremacist... ( read more)
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American Nerd: The Story of My People
by Benjamin Nugent
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Most people know a nerd when they see one but can't define just what a nerd is. American Nerd: The Story of My People gives us the history of the concept of nerdiness and of the subcultures we consider nerdy. What makes Dr. Frankenstein the archetypal... ( read more)
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The Pirate's Dilemma: How Youth Culture Is Reinventing Capitalism
by Matt Mason
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It started with punk. Hip-hop, rave, graffiti, and gaming took it to another level, and now modern technology has made the ideas and innovations of youth culture increasingly intimate and increasingly global at the same time. In The Pirate's Dilemma... ( read more)
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America Over Easy
by Mark Sheehan
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Travel guide to the best places to go in America including maps. Put together with the American Tourism Association, the author has teamed up with the industry players who love to explore and promote visitors to the United States.... ( read more)
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The Girl I Left Behind: A Personal History of the 1960s (P.S.)
by Judith Nies
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At the height of the Vietnam War protests, twenty-eight-year-old Judith Nies and her husband lived a seemingly idyllic life. Both were building their respective careers in Washington--Nies as the speechwriter and chief staffer to a core group of antiwar... ( read more)
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Not Keeping Up with Our Parents: The Decline of the Professional Middle Class
by Nan Mooney
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Already garnering coverage in U.S. News and World Report, the Washington Post, Newsweek, Salon, and Utne Reader, and heard on NPR and PBS, Nan Mooney draws on more than a hundred interviews with diverse families across America and shows how profoundly... ( read more)
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Slanted and Enchanted: The Evolution of Indie Culture
by Kaya Oakes
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A lively examination of the spirit and practices that have made the indie movement into a powerful cultural phenomenon.
You know the look: skinny jeans, Chuck Taylors, perfectly mussed bed-head hair; You know the music: Modest Mouse, the Shins... ( read more)
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The Dumbest Generation: How the Digital Age Stupefies Young Americans and Jeopardizes Our Future (Or, Don't Trust Anyone Under 30)
by Mark Bauerlein
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This shocking, surprisingly entertaining romp into the intellectual nether regions of todayas underthirty set reveals the disturbing and, ultimately, incontrovertible truth: cyberculture is turning us into a society of know-nothings.... ( read more)
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America's Main Street Hotels: Transiency and Community in the Early Auto Age
by John A. Jakle
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In small cities and towns across the United States, Main Street hotels were iconic institutions. They were usually grand, elegant buildings where families celebrated special occasions, local clubs and organizations honored achievements, and communities... ( read more)
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