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The Greatest American Speeches: The Stories and Transcripts of the Words That Changed Our History
by Quercus  Synopsis This book contains 50 momentous and thought-provoking speeches from a wide range of historical eras and perspectives. Each chapter contains a biography of each speaker, the history of why each speech was significant, and what happened as a result. Iconic...
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Religion in American Life: A Short History
by Jon Butler Publisher Comments Perhaps surprising in a country without a national church, religion has played a powerful role in American life. Now, in the new paperback edition of Religion in American Life, three of the country's most eminent historians of religion offer a superb...
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Homeland
by Dale Maharidge Publisher Comments Homeland is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Maharidge's biggest and most ambitious book yet, weaving together the disparate and contradictory strands of contemporary American society-common decency alongside race rage, the range of dissenting voices, and...
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A Nation of Realtors: A Cultural History of the Twentieth-Century American Middle Class (Radical Perspectives)
by Jeffrey Hornstein Publisher Comments How is it that virtually all Americans came to think of themselves as middle class in the twentieth century? In this cultural history of real estate brokerage, Jeffrey M. Hornstein argues that the rise of the Realtors as dealers in both domestic space...
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Building a Bridge To the 18TH Century : How the Past Can Improve Our Future (99 Edition)
by Neil Postman Publisher Comments In Building a Bridge to the 18th Century, acclaimed cultural critic Neil Postman offers a cure for the hysteria and hazy values of the postmodern world. Postman shows us how to reclaim that balance between mind and machine in a dazzling celebration of...
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The Majic Bus: An American Odyssey
by Douglas Brinkley Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 508-522)....
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Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives
by Martha H Swain Synopsis Celebrating the achievements of Mississippi women. This collection of seventeen fascinating biographies, produced by the Mississippi Women's History Project, is an important step toward gaining the state's women their due place in its written record. The...
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Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation (Princeton Studies in American Politics)
by Jennifer Hochschild Publisher Comments The ideology of the American dream--the faith that an individual can attain success and virtue through strenuous effort--is the very soul of the American nation. According to Jennifer Hochschild, we have failed to face up to what that dream requires of...
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Generation Ageless: How Baby Boomers Are Changing the Way We Live Today and They're Just Getting Started
by J Walker Smith Publisher Comments Generation Ageless—an authoritative and eye-opening look at the past, present, and future of Baby Boomers Think Baby Boomers are all alike? Think again. This dynamic generation is nearing the traditional age of retirement, but is in no mood to...
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Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World
by Sarah Vowell Publisher Comments Daughter of a Montana gunsmith and closet Don Corleone disciple ('The Godfather' is a film crammed with rules for living), Sarah Vowell has written a delightful series of autobiographical stories which stretch across the immense landscape of the American...
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Hope Dies Last: Keeping Faith in Difficult Times
by Studs Terkel 
Powells.com Staff Pick "One of this country's finest journalistic rabble-rousers has a new volume of oral history, around the theme of activism. A typical Chicago-centric cross-section is represented: secular and religious, young and old, spanning the ideological...
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50+: Igniting a Revolution to Reinvent America
by William D Novelli Publisher Comments 50+ is a call to arms. It’s a groundbreaking look at the revolution that’s going on right now among seventy-eight million American baby boomers. From age 50+ on up, Americans are refusing to rock away their retirement. They’re starting...
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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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Homeland Mythology (07 Edition)
by Collins Synopsis Since 9/11, America has presented itself to the world as a Christianist culture, no less antimodern and nostalgic for an idealized past than its Islamist foes. Their shared master-narrative might sound like this: Once upon a time, the values of the...
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On Paradise Drive: How We Live Now (and Always Have) in the Future Tense
by David Brooks Publisher Comments Take a look at Americans in their natural habitat: guys shopping for barbecue grills, doing that special walk men do when in the presence of lumber; superefficient soccer Ubermoms who chair school auctions, organize PTAs, and weigh less than their kids...
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White-Collar Sweatshop
by Jill Andresk Fraser Publisher Comments In the 1990s, before the bubble of the "miracle economy" burst, corporate America grew fat on the miseries of the American worker. Media attention has focused on dot-com disasters, massive layoffs, and explosions of corporate violence....
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Doing Nothing: A History of Loafers, Loungers, Slackers, and Bums in America
by Tom Lutz Publisher Comments From the author of Crying, a witty, wide-ranging cultural history of our attitudes toward work — and getting out of it. Couch potatoes, goof-offs, freeloaders, good-for-nothings, loafers, and loungers: ever since the Industrial Revolution, when...
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Socialism in America
by John L Bowman Publisher Comments In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville predicted a ...species of oppression...[with] which democratic nations are menaced...unlike anything which ever before existed in the world... It was a despotism that ...would be more extensive and...would degrade men...
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America Reborn: A Twentieth-Century Narrative in Twenty-Six Lives
by Martin Walker Synopsis In a superb work of narrative history, the story of America in the 20th century is told through the lives of 26 of its most remarkable men and women, from presidents and industrialists to entertainers, artists, activitists, spies, criminals, and...
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Forbidden Fruit: Sex & Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers
by Mark D Regnerus Publisher Comments Americans remain deeply ambivalent about teenage sexuality. Many presume that such uneasiness is rooted in religion. But how exactly does religion contribute to the formation of teenagers' sexual values and actions? What difference, if any, does religion...
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