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This Is Cocaine
by Nick Constable  Publisher Comments The recreational drug with the fastest-growing popularity, cocaine is marked by contrasts: it brings euphoria and despair, results in obscene wealth and dire poverty, and is used by both Peruvian hill farmers and sharply dressed American professionals...
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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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The Modern Temper: American Culture and Society in the 1920s
by Lynn Dumenil Publisher Comments When most of us take a backward glance at the 1920s, we may think of prohibition and the jazz age, of movies stars and flappers, of Harold Lloyd and Mary Pickford, of Lindbergh and Hoover--and of Black Friday, October 29, 1929, when the plunging stock...
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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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The Metaphysical Club: A Study of Ideas in America
by Louis Menand 
Publisher Comments Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History A riveting, original book about the creation of modern American thought. The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included...
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In Praise of Decadence
by Jeff Riggenbach Publisher Comments With a delightfully refreshing libertarian sense of the political right and left, Riggenbach exposes the myths and misinterpretations surrounding anarchism, liberalism, populism, and conservatism, as well as the term "decadence", which so many have used...
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Habits of the Heart: Individualism Commitment American Life
by Robert Neell Bellah Publisher Comments Meanwhile, the authors' antidote to the American sickness--a quest for democratic community that draws on our diverse civic and religious traditions--has contributed to a vigorous scholarly and popular debate. Attention has been focused on forms of...
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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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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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Soldier Dead: How We Recover, Identify, Bury, and Honor Our Military Fallen
by Michael Sledge Publisher Comments 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 bodies of...
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
Publisher Comments Are we what we eat? To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar Amerca. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has triggered the homogenization of our society. Fast food has hastened...
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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, and...
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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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Flatlining on the Field of Dreams: Cultural Narratives in the Films of President Reagan's America
by Alan Nadel Publisher Comments 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 Art of Democracy: A Concise History of Popular Culture in the United States
by Jim Cullen Publisher Comments "An exceptionally well-written and engrossing introduction to the nonelitist art forms of American popular culture."<BR>"--Library Journal" (starred review)...
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A Working Stiff's Manifesto: A Memoir
by Iain Levison Publisher Comments 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...
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The Pursuit of Loneliness: American Culture at the Breaking Point
by Philip Ellio Slater Publisher Comments In a classic indictment of American individualism and isolationism, Philip Slater analyzes the great ills of modern society--violence, competitiveness, inequality, and the national "addiction" to technology....
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