Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
by Eric Schlosser




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Pretensions to Empire: Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration
by Lewis Lapham


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The preeminent political essayist writes about the perversion of America's democratic legacy under George W. Bush—and makes a compelling case for impeachment. Lewis Lapham stands virtually alone among mainstream American journalists in having... (read more)

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Flavor of the Month: Why Smart People Fall for Fads
by Joel Best


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While fads such as hula hoops or streaking are usually dismissed as silly enthusiasms, trends in institutions such as education, business, medicine, science, and criminal justice are often taken seriously, even though their popularity and usefulness is... (read more)

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Psychedelics
by Peter Stafford


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In Psychedelics, Peter Stafford offers a framework for understanding the enormous amount of information available on psychoactive substances. In addition to the photographs, illustrations, charts, and tables, he writes about the origins, varieties... (read more)

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When the Astors Owned New York: Blue Bloods and Grand Hotels in a Gilded Age
by Justin Kaplan


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Endowed with the largest private fortunes of their day, two heirs of arch-capitalist John Jacob Astor battled with each other for social primacy. William Waldorf Astor (born 1848) and his cousin John Jacob Astor IV (born 1864) led incomparably privileged... (read more)

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I Want That!: How We All Became Shoppers
by Thomas Hine


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“ Hine offers fresh insight into why we shop and how we are--in some ways--born to do so. A jaunty writer who breaks down an unwieldy topic in to a thoughtful cultural riff... Hine delivers a balanced and entertaining analysis of how we arrived at... (read more)

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The Rise and Fall of the White Republic: Class Politics and Mass Culture in Nineteenth-Century America (Haymarket)
by Alexander Saxton


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In this historical study, Saxton asks why white racism remained an idealogical force in America long after the need to justify slavery and Western conquest had disappeared. It examines images of race at a popular level, from blackfaced minstrels to dime... (read more)

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Dangerous Harvest: Drug Plants and the Transformation of Indigenous Landscapes
by Michael K Steinberg


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Throughout history almost all traditional indigenous societies have used psychoactive substances derived from plants in religious and healing rituals. Once such plants are adopted by outsiders for profane use, the often impoverished peasant farmers who... (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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Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties
by Robert Stone


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Prime Green opens during Robert Stone's last year in the Navy, when he took part in operation Deep Freeze 3, an Anarctic trip that involved circumnavigating the globe. Once out of the Navy, Stone worked for the old New York Daily News and started school... (read more)

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Hope Dies Last: Keeping the Faith in Troubled Times
by Studs Terkel


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Hope Dies Last is Studs Terkel's inspiring new oral history of social action in America. An alternative, more personal history of the "American century," Hope Dies Last forms a legacy of the indefatigable spirit that Studs has always embodied, and an... (read more)

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Timothy Leary: A Biography
by Robert Greenfield


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To a generation in full revolt against any form of authority, "Tune in, turn on, drop out" became a mantra, and its popularizer, Dr. Timothy Leary, a guru. A charismatic and brilliant psychologist, Leary became first intrigued and then obsessed by the... (read more)

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Growing Old in America: The Bland-Lee Lectures Delivered at Clark University (Bland-Lee Lectures Delivered at Clark University)
by David H Fischer


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A history of aging in America surveys and compares actualities and attitudes in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries and suggests practical improvements on the current inadequate system of pensions, social security, medicare, and other... (read more)

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Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure
by Juliet B Schor


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This pathbreaking book explains why, contrary to all expectations, Americans are working harder than ever. Juliet Schor presents the astonishing news that over the past twenty years our working hours have increased by the equivalent of one month per year&... (read more)

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Who Are You People?: A Personal Journey Into the Heart of Fanatical Passion in America
by Shari Caudron


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You know those people who get passionately, fanatically, obsessively into things? People like doll collectors or Star Wars fans or that lady down the street with creepy red and white gnomes all over her yard? I noticed them too and I was, well, jealous.... (read more)

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Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture
by Michael Bellesiles


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Michael A. Bellesiles's "Arming America is a stunning and seminal book that challenges everything we've previously been taught about America's history with guns. Painstakingly examining the historical record, Bellesiles shatters the myth of America's gun-... (read more)

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I Have America Surrounded: A Biography of Timothy Leary
by John Higgs


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President Nixon called him the most dangerous man in America, while Terence McKenna believed he made more people happy than anyone else in history. Few People have divided opinion as strongly as Dr. Timothy Leary. Leary, a brilliant behavioral... (read more)

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California Crazy and Beyond: Roadside Vernacular Architecture
by Jim Heimann


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In 1980, Los Angeles historian Jim Heimann wrote a book about the oddball roadside architecture that has dotted the American landscape since the advent of the auto. Published by Chronicle Books as California Crazy, it stayed in print for nearly 20 years.... (read more)

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