Giants of Jazz
by Studs Terkel


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Sketching the lives of the giants of jazz, Studs Terkel uses firsthand interviews to bring to life the human stories behind the music. This evocation of the mythic heroes of jazz ranges from Louis Armstrong to John Coltrane and Charlie Parker, from Duke... (read more)

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You Have No Rights: Stories of America in an Age of Repression
by Matthew Rothschild


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Chilling true stories of ordinary Americans whose everyday liberties have been violated since September 11. "I'm very liberal and sometimes my friends say I'm giving them some kind of paranoid, nutty stuff, and I agree, but then the FBI show up."—... (read more)

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The Hundred-Year Lie: How Food and Medicine Are Destroying Your Health
by Randall Fitzgerald


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Combining the impact of the classic bestseller Silent Spring with Fast Food Nation, The Hundred-Year Lie presents a devastating expose of how chemicals in everyday products are ruining our health. Over the past one hundred years, we have been guinea pigs... (read more)

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America Through Foreign Eyes: Classic Interpretations of American Political Life
by Stephen Brooks


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The chapters in this volume address the issue of why and how foreign observers view American politics the way they do. By including selections from five of the most widely cited foreign observers of American politics and history, this volume not only... (read more)

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Picture Windows: How the Suburbs Happened
by Rosalyn Baxandall


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Picture Windows chronicles how suburbia sprawled, proving to be a hothouse for scores of disaffected artistic types and mopey teens.-Vanity Fair... (read more)

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Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town
by Nate Blakeslee


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In the summer of 1999, in the tiny west Texas town of Tulia, thirty-nine people, almost all of them black, were arrested and charged with dealing powdered cocaine. The operation, a federally-funded investigation performed in cooperation with the local... (read more)

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The New Mainstream: How the Multicultural Consumer Is Transforming American Business
by Guy Garcia


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An economic revolution is transforming America: the New Mainstream. In this groundbreaking book, Guy Garcia explains how Americans will eat, work, play, learn, and spend money in the twenty-first century -- and why any organization that ignores the... (read more)

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Clubland the Nocturnal Carnival of Ecsta
by Frank Owen




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In 1995, journalist Frank Owen began researching a story on “Special K,” a new designer drug that fueled the after-midnight club scene. He went to buy and sample the drug at the internationally-notorious Limelight, a decrepit church converted... (read more)

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A Working Stiff's Manifesto: A Memoir
by Iain Levison


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Iain Levison can find work but not fulfillment. The frustration of dead-end, deadhead labor induces a kind of pink-slip payback syndrome as the realization sets in that his college degree will gain him little by way of psychic wages on the job. He is... (read more)

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The American Dream Vs. the Gospel of Wealth: The Fight for a Productive Middle-Class Economy (Future of American Democracy)
by Norton Garfinkle


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Norton Garfinkle paints a disquieting picture of America today: a nation increasingly divided between economic winners and losers, a nation in which the middle-class American Dream seems more and more elusive. Recent government policies reflect... (read more)

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Hippie
by Barry Miles


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Immersing you in the Hippie movement of the late 60s and early 70s, this title takes you through the fashion, philosophy, music, literature, films and politics of the Hippie ideal, tracing its growth from the Beats in the 1950s to the peace-demanding... (read more)

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Class Matters
by Nyt


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The acclaimed New York Times series on social class in America—and its implications for the way we live our lives      We Americans have long thought of ourselves as unburdened by class distinctions. We have no hereditary... (read more)

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America's Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon
by Mark Hamilton Lytle


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Here is a panoramic history of America from 1954 to 1973, ranging from the buoyant teen-age rebellion first captured by rock and roll, to the drawn-out and dispiriting endgame of Watergate. In America's Uncivil Wars, Mark Hamilton Lytle illuminates the... (read more)

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Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic: The Aesthetics of Consumerism
by Daniel Harris


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Call it an encyclopedia of low-brow aesthetics. In Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic, the writer whom Steven Millhauser called "the most original essayist since George Orwell" examines with devastating wit and in a style distinctly his own the contagious... (read more)

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Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town
by Nate Blakeslee


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In the summer of 1999, in the tiny west Texas town of Tulia, thirty-nine people, almost all of them black, were arrested and charged with dealing powdered cocaine. The operation, a federally-funded investigation performed in cooperation with the local... (read more)

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The Copycat Effect: How the Media and Popular Culture Trigger the Mayhem in Tomorrow's Headlines
by Loren Coleman


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VIOLENCE BEGETS VIOLENCE BEGETS VIOLENCE... A disturbed student shoots up his classroom -- and suddenly a wave of mass murder is sweeping through our nation's schools. A young child is taken from her home -- and for months afterward child abductions are... (read more)

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The Abusing of America
by Steven Diamond


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Is the modern way of living beneficial over the long term? Can society continue to meet people's material wants versus needs in a world with an ever-increasing population? The author presents compelling evidence that the answer is no.... (read more)

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My Pilgrim's Progress: Media Studies, 1950-1997
by George W S Trow


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In My Pilgrim's Progress, George W. S. Trow gives us a brilliantly original and provocative look at what's happened to America in our time -- a guided tour of the media, the politics, and the personalities of the last half-century by one of our most... (read more)

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