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Greenback: The Almighty Dollar and the Invention of America
by Jason Goodwin  Publisher Comments With the wry and admiring eye of a modern Tocqueville, Jason Goodwin gives us a biography of the dollar and the story of its astonishing career through the wilds of American history. Looking at the dollar over the years as a form of art, a kind of...
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Listen to America: Twenty-Five Years in the Life of a Nation, as Heard on National Public Radio
by Linda Wertheimer Publisher Comments No one listens to America better than National Public Radio, and for a quarter of a century NPR has broadcast an ongoing conversation about the boisterous life of our nation. Now Linda Wertheimer has collected the best parts of that conversation; the...
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Apocalypse Culture
by Adam Parfrey Publisher Comments Two thousand years have passed since the death of Christ and the world is going mad. Nihilist prophets, born-again pornographers, transcendental schizophrenics and just plain folks are united in their belief in an imminent global catastrophe. What are...
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White Collar American Middle Class 50TH Edition
by C Wright Mills Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references and index....
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Mapping American Culture
by Wayne Franklin Synopsis What connections can be drawn between oral history and the shopping mall? Gospel music and the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant? William Carlos Williams's Paterson and the Manhattan Project's secret cities? The answers lie in this insightful collection...
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Inventing Modern: Growing Up with X-Rays, Skycrapers, and Tailfins
by John H Lienhard Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-283) and index....
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66 Frames
by Gordon Ball Synopsis "This book made me want to take acid and have sex with lots of people. It also made me want to stay up all night in the company of my genius friends in the mid-sixties in New York's Lower East Side." -- Andrei Codrescu Part hip expose of the New York...
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Theater of War: In Which the Republic Becomes an Empire
by Lewis Lapham Publisher Comments AMERICA'S MAINSTREAM DISSIDENT DEBUNKS THE "WAR ON TERRORISM." In the two years since September 11, finding skeptics in the battle against evil has been a rare achievement. Unpopular opinions seldom make an appearance on the network news, and voices of...
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Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby
by Stephen L Carter Publisher Comments In a climate where whites who criticize affirmative action risk being termed racist and blacks who do the same risk charges of treason and self hatred, a frank and open discussion of racial preference is difficult to achieve. But, in the first book on...
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The Widening Gap: Why America's Working Families Are in Jeopardy and What Can Be Done about It
by Jody Heymann Publisher Comments This hard-hitting book draws on the first systematic national research on how the need to meet family obligations is affecting working Americans of all social classes and ethnic groups. What happens when kids get sick? When an elderly parent is...
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American Studies
by Louis Menand Publisher Comments At each step of this journey through American cultural history, Louis Menand has an original point to make: he explains the real significance of William James's nervous breakdown, and of the anti-Semitism in T. S. Eliot's writing. He reveals the reasons...
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Marijuana: Its Effects on Mind & Body
by Miriam Cohen Synopsis Discusses the scientific, social, and personal aspects of marijuana, examining its history, cultural impact, psychological and physical effects, dangers, and legal status....
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Faded Mosaic
by Christopher Clausen Publisher Comments We are not a multi-cultural nation but a post-cultural society, Mr. Clausen argues, with enormous implications for all aspects of American life....
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Abandoned: The Betrayal of the American Middle Class Since World War II
by William J Quirk Synopsis Do you consider yourself a member of the middle class? Eighty percent of Americans describe themselves in those terms; working-class citizens who are neither rich nor poor. Has the government addressed the needs of the middle class to your satisfaction...
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Left Behind in Rosedale PB
by Scott Cummings Publisher Comments Left Behind in Rosedale is a stunning analysis of community and neighborhood decline. Through creative application of ethnographic analysis, participant observation, and in-depth interviews, Scott Cummings’ unique book breathes human life into one...
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Migrations to Solitude
by Sue Halpern Synopsis Why do we often long for solitude but dread loneliness? What happens when the walls we build around ourselves are suddenly removed--or made impenetrable? If privacy is something we count on as a basic right, why are our laws, technology and life-styles...
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Drug Wars
by Margaret O Hyde Publisher Comments -- New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age, 1992 "A sane and well-focused overview of the major problem drugs". -- SLJ. "A worthy, much-needed volume on a subject of increasing relevance". -- KR. V. 1990....
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Sharing the Dream
by Dominic Pulera Synopsis White males, 100 million strong, constitute approximately 35 percent of the U.S. population, a percentage that declines slightly each year. They matter very much to discussions of race, ethnicity, and gender in the US due to their numbers and the...
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The Heterodoxy Handbook
by David Horowitz Synopsis A collection of the most worthy pieces from Heterodoxy, an irreverent monthly journal combating the folly of political correctness....
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Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel
by Marty Jezer Synopsis The author takes a look into the life of Abbie Hoffman. The focus is on Abbie's life as an activist: the social, cultural, and political milieu in which he worked; the ideas that inspired his work; and what happened to America when he put his ideas into...
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