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X Saves the World: How Generation X Got the Shaft But Can Still Keep Everything from Sucking
by Jeff Gordinier  
Powells.com Staff Pick I was very skeptical about this book when I first picked it up — and became even more so when Gordinier predicted my exact reaction. But X Saves the World is impossible to resist: a well-written, extremely funny, and, I have to say, unnervingly...
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Understanding America: The Anatomy of an Exceptional Nation
by Peter H Schuck Publisher Comments What is America? Is it a hegemonic superpower, composed of ruthlessly selfish capitalists? Or is it a land of hope and glory, a shelter for the huddled masses, and a beacon of freedom and enlightenment? The definition of this complex nation has been...
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Generation Me: Why Today's Young Americans Are More Confident, Assertive, Entitled--And More Miserable Than Ever Before
by Jean M. Twenge
Publisher Comments Called "The Entitlement Generation" or Gen Y, they are storming into schools, colleges, and businesses all over the country. In this provocative new book, headline-making psychologist and social commentator Dr. Jean Twenge explores why the young people...
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Invisible Enemies: The American War on Vietnam, 1975-2000 (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War)
by Edwin Martini Synopsis Beginning where most histories of the Vietnam War end, Invisible Enemies examines the relationship between the United States and Vietnam following the American pullout in 1975. Drawing on a broad range of sources, from White House documents and...
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The Terror Dream: Fear and Fantasy in Post-9/11 America
by Susan Faludi Publisher Comments From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and bestselling author of Backlash — an unflinching dissection of the mind of America after 9/11 In this most original examination of America's post-9/11 culture, Susan Faludi shines a light on the country...
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Post Modernist Turn (Twayne's American Thought & Culture)
by J David Hoeveler Synopsis This series examines major figures and movements that have influenced the development of American culture from the 16th century to the present. Each volume provides: -- A chronology of influential ideas and cultural trends, and associated historic events...
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People Celebrates the 70s with CD (Audio)
by People Publisher Comments A lively, affectionate salute to an over-the-top decade....
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Millennials Rising: The Next Great Generation (Vintage)
by William Strauss Publisher Comments By the authors of the bestselling 13th Gen, the first in-depth examination of the Millennials--the generation born after 1982. "Over the next decade, the Millennial Generation will entirely recast the image of youth from downbeat and alientated to...
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Clubland the Nocturnal Carnival of Ecsta
by Frank Owen
Publisher Comments In 1995, journalist Frank Owen began researching a story on “Special K,” a new designer drug that fueled the after-midnight club scene. He went to buy and sample the drug at the internationally-notorious Limelight, a decrepit church converted...
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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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Huerfano: A Memoir of Life in the Counterculture
by Roberta Price Publisher Comments In the late 1960s, new age communes began springing up in the American Southwest with names like Drop City, New Buffalo, Lama Foundation, Morning Star, Reality Construction Company, and the Hog Farm. In the summer of 1969, Roberta Price, a recent college...
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The 1980s (American Popular Culture Through History)
by Bob Batchelor Publisher Comments The eighties are seen by many as a time of excess and extremes. From Boy George to Madonna, metal heads to valley girls, and workout clothes to shoulder pads, many pushed the boundaries of what was was conventional. After a decade of war, disillusionment...
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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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Sokal Hoax : the Sham That Shook the Academy (00 Edition)
by Editors Of Lingua Franca Publisher Comments In May 1996 physicist Alan Sokal published an essay in the fashionable academic journal Social Text. The essay quoted hip theorists like Jacques Lacan, Donna Haraway, and Gilles Deleuze. The prose was thick with the jargon of poststructuralism. And...
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Transforming America: Politics and Culture in the Reagan Years
by Robert M Collins Publisher Comments By the end of the 1980s, the malaise that had once pervaded American society was replaced by a renewed sense of confidence and national purpose. However, beneath this veneer of optimism was a nation confronting the effects of massive federal deficits, a...
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What Were Your Parents Doing Back Then
by Jeremiah Lowney Book News Annotation Lowney presents the results of numerous nonparticipant observation research studies he conducted among youth in Southern California from 1970 to the late 1990s. Tracking the use of drugs and its effects on family relationships (and vice versa), he...
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The Social Health of the Nation: How America is Really Doing
by Marc L Miringoff Publisher Comments For the past twelve years, the annual release of the Index of Social Health has been a major event, cited in The New York Times, The Washington Post, and other national media our most reliable barometer of progress in addressing America's social ills...
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Culture in an Age of Money
by Nicolaus Mills Synopsis Fifteen brilliant essays on the kind of culture created by the magic of the marketplace in 1980s America, from architecture to the yuppie ascendancy. Amusing, caustic and cleverly written....What makes Culture in an Age of Money fun to read is its...
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High School Confidential: Secrets of an Undercover Student
by Jeremy Iversen Publisher Comments It's spring semester at Mirador High in Southern California, and twenty-four-year-old Jeremy Iversen is going deep undercover to deliver the real deal about the dull classes and fast times of American teens today. Trading in his suit and tie for jeans...
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13th Gen Abort Retry Ignore Fail
by Neil Howe Publisher Comments In commentary and quotations, computer dumps and cartoons, 13TH GEN is a multimedia anthem to the American post-boomer generation,our country's thirteenth generation since the founding fathers....
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