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The Burden of Bad Ideas
by Heather Macdonald  Publisher Comments Critics have attacked the foolishness of some of today's elite thought from many angles, but few have examined the real-world consequences of those ideas. In this book, Heather Mac Donald reports on their disasterous effects throughout our society....
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Life with Father: Parenthood and Masculinity in the Nineteenth-Century American North (Gender Relations in the American Experience)
by Stephen Frank Synopsis Who was the Victorian patriarch, and what kind of father was he? In this richly documented study, Stephen M. Frank presents the first account of nineteenth-century family life to focus on the role of fathers. Drawing on letters, diaries, memoirs, and...
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Theater of War
by Lewis Lapham Synopsis Finding sceptics in the US's "battle against evil" is a hard task: unpopular opinions seldom appear in the US press or on the TV news, and in the months since the destruction of the World Trade Center, the voices of dissent in America have been few and...
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Anthem :an American road story
by Shainee Gabel Publisher Comments In the spirit of John Steinbeck's Travels with Charley, this is the enthralling chronicle of an epic road trip in search of a new definition of the American dream. In 1995, two young women who had been living and working in Hollywood quit their jobs to...
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Home-alone America
by Mary Eberstadt Publisher Comments Using hard data assembled over years of research, Mary Eberstadt empirically demonstrates the hard truth that many of us are reluctant to admit: children without a stay-at-home mother are far more likely to grow up with higher rates of obesity, learning...
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Extreme Virtue: Truth and Leadership in Five Great American Lives
by Crispin Sartwell Publisher Comments Explores leadership and civic virtue in American culture....
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The Redneck Manifesto: America's Favorite Scapegoats Find Their Voice-They're Mad as Hell and They're Not Going to Take It Anymore!
by Jim Goad Publisher Comments In a book that is destined to be praised, reviled, cited, denounced, loved, and hated -- perhaps by the same reader -- culture maverick Jim Goad presents a thoroughly reasoned, darkly funny, and rampagingly angry defense of America's most maligned social...
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America's Back Porch
by Daniel Jeffreys Publisher Comments On America's back porch, the most diverse and exotic cultures flourish in wild abandon; but it often takes the scrutiny of an outside observer, with an eye for the bizarre, to bring into relief the hilarious, often unsettling, bounty of strange...
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Cute, Quaint, Hungry and Romantic: The Aesthetics of Consumerism
by Daniel Harris Publisher Comments 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...
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Stairways to Heaven: Drugs in American Religious History
by Robert C Fuller Publisher Comments From Native Americans’ use of tobacco for solemnizing oaths to the spread of New Age religious beliefs in Haight-Ashbury coffeehouses, drugs have been intimately associated with American spirituality. In Stairways to Heaven, Robert Fuller presents...
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Extremism in America: A Reader
by Lyman Tower Sargent Publisher Comments "Disturbingly accessible...Presents the ideas, platforms and screeds of extremists of both left and right in their own words." —The Washington Post Book World "A demonstrative primer of the intricate complex of themes and views that make up the...
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My American Century
by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments For over thirty years, millions of readers have enjoyed Studs Terkel's groundbreaking, provocative, and moving oral histories. Now, in a pantheon of 'ordinary' Americans, Terkel collects the most memorable interviews from each of his eight classic works....
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Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture
by Michae Bellesiles Publisher Comments How and when did Americans develop their obsession with guns? Is gun-related violence so deeply embedded in American historical experience as to be immutable? The accepted answers to these questions are "mythology," says Michael A. Bellesiles. Basing...
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Pop Culture Wars: Religion and the Role of Entertainment in American Life
by William Romanowski Synopsis The debates over entertainment are especially volatile because they include not only controversial subjects such as sex and violence, but religion as well. In this, his latest book, Romanowski brings something desperately needed to the discussion--an...
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Soldier Dead: How We Recover, Identify, Bury, and Honor Our Military Fallen
by Michael Sledge Synopsis < P> What happens to members of the United States Armed Forces after they die? Why do soldiers endanger their lives to recover the remains of their comrades? Why does the military spend enormous resources and risk further fatalities to recover the...
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Love to Hate: America's Obsession with Hatred and Violence
by Jody M Roy Synopsis < P> Roy explains the culture of violence and hate in America.< /P>...
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An Album of Memories: Personal Histories from World War II
by Tom Brokaw Publisher Comments A seventeen-year-old who enlisted in the army in 1941 writes to describe the Bataan Death March. Other members of the greatest generation describe their war — in such historic episodes as Guadalcanal, the D-Day invasion, the Battle of the Bulge...
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Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in the American Elsewhere
by Hank Stuever Publisher Comments In his unique, funny, and haunting reports, Steuver records the odd and touching realities of modern life in everyday places. Elsewhere might be revealed in tract-house adventures of a homedecor reality show, at a discount funeral home in a strip mall...
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A Visionary Nation: Four Centuries of American Dreams and What Lies Ahead
by Zachary Karabell Publisher Comments America is a nation based on an idea. For nearly four centuries, Americans have shared the conviction that a perfect world is within reach. Running through our history is the presumption that we can have it all. In A Visionary Nation, Zachary Karabell...
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The Art of Democracy: A Concise History of Popular Culture in the United States
by Jim Cullen Synopsis An exceptionally well-written and engrossing introduction to the nonelitist art forms of American popular culture.--Library Journal(starred review)...
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