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Falling Room (American Lives)
by Eli Hastings  Publisher Comments Coming of age poor in spirit in the America of plenty is an old story that is yet endlessly new, beginning afresh every time a confused teenager tries to make sense of his privileged place in the world. Eli Hastings got a head start on this when his...
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Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture
by Jon Savage Publisher Comments From the author of the critically acclaimed England's Dreaming, a landmark cultural history of youth Teenagersas we have come to define themwere not, award-winning author Jon Savage tells us, born in the 1950s of rockers and Beatniks, when most histories...
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Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping
by Rachel Bowlby Publisher Comments Asserting that a history of shopping has been, until recently, a history of women, Bowlby trains her eye on the evolution of the modern shopper. She examines the curious history of our ideas about women and consumption -- from the glamorous nineteenth...
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Altered state :the story of ecstasy culture and Acid House
by Matthew Collin Publisher Comments The authors trail Ecstasy from California, through New York, covering its history, culture, and the politics that surround it. "First things first. Altered States sends all those imitation Irvine Welshs from the football-hooligan school of literary E...
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The Last Opium Den
by Nick Tosches Publisher Comments Nick Tosches trades civilization and its discontents for the possibility of one moment of pure bliss. Driven by romantic, spiritual, and medicinal imperatives, Nick Tosches goes in search of something everyone tells him no longer exists: an opium den...
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Hard Times an Oral History of the Great
by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments A reissue of Terkel's classic work, with a new introduction by the author. "HARD TIMES doesn't render the time of the Depression or historicize about it - it is that time, its lingo, mood, its tragic and hilarious stories..." - Arthur Miller....
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The Way We Really Are: Ending the War Over America's Changing Families
by Stephanie Coontz Publisher Comments Stephanie Coontz, the author of The Way We Never Were, now turns her attention to the mythology that surrounds today’s family—the demonizing of “untraditional” family forms and marriage and parenting issues. She argues that while...
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The Style Bible: An A-Z of Global Youth Culture
by Alon Shulman Publisher Comments The Style Bible is the definitive A-Z compendium of the most significant trends in music, arts, club culture, fashion, film, food, products, drugs, technology and personalities influencing the tastes of youth culture around the world....
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Sex Seen
by Sharon Ullman Publisher Comments Sex Seen provides a complex and intriguing account of the changes that have taken place in the social construction of sexuality during the past century. Focusing on Sacramento, California, at the dawn of the twentieth century, Sharon Ullman juxtaposes...
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True and Only Heaven: Progress and Critics
by Christopher Lasch Publisher Comments 'An extraordinary book by one of our wisest social and political observers, Lasch's brilliant analysis of our secular dreams and hopes, our blind spots and foolishness, ought to help us all figure out what we believe and where we are headed as this...
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Keeping Up with the Joneses: Envy in American Consumer Society, 1890-1930
by Susan J Matt Publisher Comments A century ago many Americans condemned envy as a destructive emotion and a sin. Today few Americans expect criticism when they express envy, and some commentators maintain that the emotion drives the economy. This shift in attitude is Susan Matt's...
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Talking to Myself: A Memoir of My Times
by Studs Terkel 
Publisher Comments Terkel offers the reader an autobiography of our times--the stirring story of a man whose life has been so vivid that its telling mirrors the events of our century. From Mahalia Jackson to Bertrand Russell, from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Federico...
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Patriotism and the American Land
by Richard Nelson and Barry Lopez and Terry Tempest Williams Publisher Comments Terrorism. Homeland Security. Patriotism. Since September 11, 2001, these terms have emerged as a fundamental part of our cultural lexicon, with their unsaid assumptions and attendant emotions being used to inspire and buttress a varied set of...
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The New Mainstream: How the Multicultural Consumer Is Transforming American Business
by Guy Garcia Publisher Comments An economic revolution is transforming America: the New Mainstream. In this groundbreaking book, Guy Garcia explains how Americans will eat, work, play, learn, and spend money in the twenty-first century -- and why any organization that ignores the...
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The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
by Roger Kimball Book News Annotation Managing editor of the and art critic, Kimball continues his tirade against the cultural revolution of the 1950s and 1960s. He argues that the upheaval caused by the war in Vietnam allowed the ideology of the counterculture to escape from its...
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My Misspent Youth
by Meghan Daum
Publisher Comments An essayist in the tradition of Joan Didion, Meghan Daum is one of the most celebrated nonfiction writers of her generation, widely recognized for her fresh, provocative approach with which she unearths the hidden fault lines in the American landscape...
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Generations Apart: Xers Vs Boomers Vs the Elderly (Contemporary Issues)
by Richard D Thau Publisher Comments The actual and potential conflict between America's three prominent generations -- the under 35 Generation X, the over 35 Baby Boomers, and the over 65 Elderly -- seems more pronounced each yea due to financial burdens, social concerns, and political...
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Cigarettes: Anatomy of an Industry from Seed to Smoke
by Tara Parker Pope Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-172) and index....
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Working
by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments Studs Turkel records the voices of America. Men and women from every walk of life talk to him, telling him of their likes and dislikes, fears, problems, and happinesses on the job. Once again, Turkel has created a rich and unique document that is as...
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Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in the Land of No Alternatives
by Greil Marcus Publisher Comments From the critic who knows music and culture like no other, a fascinating look at two outsiders who epitomize America's fractured self-image In June of 1992, when all polls showed Bill Clinton didn't have a chance, he took his saxophone onto the Arsenio...
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