Heretic's Heart: A Journey Through Spirit and Revolution
by Margot Adler


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This memoir unfolds along two unique coming-of-age paths: the correspondence between a Berkeley antiwar activist, now the New York bureau chief for National Public Radio and authority on feminist spirituality, and an American soldier in Vietnam in the... (read more)

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Homeland
by Dale Maharidge


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"In Homeland, Maharidge breaks new ground in the genre of 9/11 journalism by heading into heartland America . . . . The tales Maharidge relates expose the synergy between economics and racism in Rust Belt communities, whose residents are the victims of... (read more)

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Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult & Imitation in American Popular Culture
by John Strausbaugh


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A refreshingly clearheaded and taboo-breaking look at race relations reveals that American culture is neither Black nor White nor Other, but a mix-a mongrel. Black Like You is an erudite and entertaining exploration of race relations in American popular... (read more)

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Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food (California Studies in Food and Culture #16)
by Warren Belasco


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In this provocative and lively addition to his acclaimed writings on food, Warren Belasco takes a sweeping look at a little-explored yet timely topic: humanity's deep-rooted anxiety about the future of food. People have expressed their worries about the... (read more)

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Altered States: America Since the Sixties (Contemporary Worlds)
by Jeremy Black


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Red states versus blue states. Metro versus retro. North or South, East or West. Pundits, politicians, and social scientists love to carve out categories in an attempt to make sense of political and social divisions that run through the American... (read more)

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The Psychedelic Reader: Selected from the Psychedelic Review
by Timothy Leary


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This anthology examines the mind-expanding potential of both natural and synthesized psychedelics. The writers include Timothy Leary, Alan Watts, and Sir Julian Huxley.... (read more)

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The Liberty of Strangers: Making the American Nation
by Desmond King


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Harry S. Truman once said, "Ours is a nation of many different groups, of different races, of different national origins." And yet, the debate over what it means--and what it takes--to be an American remains contentious. Nationalist solidarity, many... (read more)

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Cosmopolitanism and Solidarity: Studies in Ethnoracial, Religious, and Professional Affiliation in the United States (Studies in American Thought and Culture)
by David Hollinger


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    "Who are we?" is the question at the core of these fascinating essays from one of the nation's leading intellectual historians. With old identities increasingly destabilized throughout the world—the result of demographic... (read more)

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The Encyclopedia of Sixties Cool: A Celebration of the Grooviest People, Events, and Artifacts of the 1960s
by Chris Strodder


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A celebration of the 1960s, this encyclopedia profiles the 250 most interesting personalities who significantly changed popular culture, including musicians, actors, directors, artists, athletes, politicians, writers, and... (read more)

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The Starr Report Disrobed
by Fedwa Malti Douglas


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What is this strange book asks Fedwa Malti-Douglas, that can bring the American presidency to its knees? In this probing study of Kenneth W. Starr's influential and historic work, she reveals how The Starr Report exposed the cultural tendencies, desires,... (read more)

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The Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and America Realized the Enlightenment
by Henry Stee Commager


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The foremost American historian of his generation delves into the nation's European origins, illuminating how the new country embodied the principles of the Enlightenment--ideals that Europe, trapped by tradition and privilege, could not itself realize. .... (read more)

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American Culture, American Taste: Social Change and the Twentieth Century
by Michael Kammen


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In American Culture, American Tastes, Michael Kammen leads us on an entertaining, thought-provoking tour of America's changing tastes, uses of leisure, and the shifting perceptions that have accompanied them throughout our nation's history. Starting at... (read more)

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Unsung Heroines: Single Mothers and the American Dream
by Ruth Sidel


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Based on interviews with single mothers Sidel offers a corrective to the negative views of this population in the popular media.... (read more)

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The Little Box of Drugs: Unbiased and Unadulterated Commentary on the Drugs Debate
by Nick Brownlee


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This boxed set offers comprehensive guides to the four major drugs that appear heavily in the media and society, maintaining their appeal despite draconian laws and government propaganda. These portraits of cannabis, cocaine, Ecstasy, and heroin are... (read more)

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The Gawker Guide to Conquering All Media: Gawker Media
by Gawker Media


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With the same deliciously biting irreverence and insider dish that's made Gawker.com addictive to millions of readers every month, The Gawker Guide to Conquering All Media serves up a hilarious blueprint for climbing to megawatt power in the media world.... (read more)

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Sweatshop: The History of an American Idea
by Laura Hapke


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Arguing that the sweatshop is as American as apple pie, Laura Hapke surveys over a century and a half of the language, verbal and pictorial, in which the sweatshop has been imagined and its stories told. Not seeking a formal definition of the sort that... (read more)

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The High Times Reader
by Annie Nocenti


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Since its launch in 1974 by cultural outlaw and international drug smuggler Thomas King Forçade, High Times magazine has served as a preeminent showcase of the American counterculture. Conceived to "bring a new consciousness into the media," the... (read more)

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Jeans: A Cultural History of an American Icon
by James Sullivan


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The story of America's best-loved garment, from the humble pants Levi Strauss sold to California miners in the 1870s to big-city socialites spending big money — $300 and up—for premium jeans today. Since their emergence over a century and a... (read more)

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