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Flatlining on the Field of Dreams: Cultural Narratives in the Films of President Reagan's America
by Alan Nadel  Synopsis Flatlining on the Field of Dreams demonstrates, with witty prose and careful analysis, how the overindulgent, image-conscious years of the Reagan administration are reflected in sundry aspects of American films produced during that era. Discussing dozens...
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The Mauve Decade: American Life at the End of the Nineteenth Century
by Thomas Beer Synopsis Laced with witty anecdotes and sparkling epigrams, Beer's remarkable cultural history encompasses the wild panoply of the Gilded Age's last decade--from high society to the closing of the West--bracketed by Emerson's death and Teddy Roosevelt's...
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My America: What This Country Means to Me by 150 Americans from All Walks of Life (Lisa Drew Books)
by Hugh Downs Publisher Comments "Some of these essays are powerful and poetic. Some seem to reflect a stunned condition on the part of the contributor. But all of them share a newborn or reawakened feeling about the country we live in -- an underlying concern for it, whether that...
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Crisis in American Institutions 10TH Edition
by Jerome H Skolnick Synopsis Presents articles on such social problems as corporate power, economic crisis, sexism, racism, and inequality....
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In Glory's Shadow: The Citadel, Shannon Faulkner, and a Changing America
by Catherine Manegold Publisher Comments In Glory's Shadow explores the history of The Citadel, an institution set on preserving tradition in the face of profound change. Established as protection against slave insurrections feared by the white minority of Charleston, South Carolina, a...
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Making a Killing: The Business of Guns in America
by Tom Diaz Book News Annotation Argues that despite rhetoric about the right to bear arms, the reality is that the proliferation of guns and gun owners poses a threat to public health and safety. The book is divided into three parts: the gun business, the spiral of lethality, and...
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American Vistas, Vol. 1
by Leonard Dinnerstein Publisher Comments This two-volume anthology of readings introduces students to the diversity and excitement of U.S. history. Featuring articles by nationally-renowned scholars and journalists, American Vistas offers balanced and up-to-date coverage of America's social...
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Book of American Values and Virtues: Our Tradition of Freedom, Liberty and Tolerance
by Erik A Bruun Publisher Comments A collection of nearly 1000 stories, poems, speeches, key documents, and other writings by great American men and women that affirms the purpose and substance of a heritage based on and sustained by the principle that all men are created equal. Chapters...
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Married to the Job: Why We Live to Work and What We Can Do about It
by Ilene Philipson Publisher Comments Do you take your work home with you? Do you check your work e-mail and voice mail when you're not on the job? Are your closest friends at the office? Do you feel guilty when you're sick and can't go to work? Does time stand still during nonbusiness hours?...
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Culture and the Radical Conscience
by Eugene Goodheart Synopsis Debates on culture, politics, and the university have hardly abated since the 1960s when the radical assault on the authority of culture first challenged the classical conception of higher education with imperious demands for relevance and ideological...
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The Refinement of America: Persons, Houses, Cities
by Richard L Bushman Publisher Comments This lively and authoritative volume makes clear that the quest for taste and manners in America has been essential to the serious pursuit of a democratic culture. Spanning the material world from mansions and silverware to etiquette books, city planning,...
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America Under Attack: September 11, 2001 (Lucent Terrorism Library Series)
by Gail Stewart Synopsis The attacks that horrified the United States prompted a variety of responses -- from heroic rescues from the World Trade towers and the Pentagon to a courageous attempt by passengers to fight back against their hijackers. This book details the...
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Cities on a Hill: A Journey Through Contemporary American Cultures
by Frances Fitzgerald Publisher Comments In Cities on a Hill, Frnaces FitzGerald, one of our most gifted and acclaimed writers and social historians, explorers what it is to be an American. In this major new work, she reports on four communities she sought out — cultural enclaves that took...
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Great American Stuff: People, Places and Products That Make Us Happy to Live in America
by Ray Jones Synopsis One of the most compelling and delightful popular culture anthologies published in decades, this volume tells the story of Ivory Soap and the Model-T Ford, probes the intricate glories of Navajo rugs and Frank Lloyd Wright architecture, and celebrates...
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Searching for Alternatives: Drug-Control Policy in the United States
by Melvyn B Krauss Book News Annotation Reprint. Originally published in 1983, U. of Queensland Press. Dixon (linguistics, Australian National U.) provides readers with an accessible and interesting account of his adventures and discoveries as he studied the Australian aboriginal language...
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Mission Underway the History of the Pop
by Ray Broadus Browne Publisher Comments Originally published and copyrighted in 1989 by Bowling Green State University Popular Press under the name Against Academia: The History of the Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association and the Popular Culture Movement 1967...
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Where the road and the sky collide :America through the eyes of its drivers
by K T Berger Book News Annotation The narrative, based on interviews with various people who have something to say on the subject, e.g. drivers, accident victims, those in the industry, serves to summarize the problems connected with reliance on cars. The offered solutions include new...
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Declining Fortunes: The Withering of the American Dream
by Katherine S Newman Publisher Comments American society has reneged on its promise to the baby-boom generation. Young people for the first time find themselves unable to duplicate, let alone surpass, their own parents’ standard of living. Declining Fortunes sheds new light on a driving...
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Good Society
by Robert N Bellah Publisher Comments THE GOOD SOCIETY examines how many of our institutions- from the family to the government itself- fell from grace, and offers concrete proposals for revitalizing them....
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How to Stop Time: Heroin from A to Z
by Ann Marlowe 
Publisher Comments ”Heroin,” writes Ann Marlowe, ”is a stand-in, a stopgap, a mask for what we believe is missing. Like the ’objects’ seen by Plato’s man in a cave, dope is the shadow cast by cultural movements we can’t see...
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