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The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice
by Greil Marcus  Publisher Comments From the author of Mystery Train and Lipstick Traces, an exhilarating and provocative investigation of the tangle of American identity “America is a place and a story, made up of exuberance and suspicion, crime and liberation, lynch mobs and...
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Listen to America: Twenty-Five Years in the Life of a Nation, as Heard on National Public Radio
by Linda Wertheimer Publisher Comments No one listens to America better than National Public Radio, and for a quarter of a century NPR has broadcast an ongoing conversation about the boisterous life of our nation. Now Linda Wertheimer has collected the best parts of that conversation; the...
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Touch and Go: A Memoir
by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments The extraordinary life and times of an American icon—the Pulitzer Prize-winning oral historian's long-awaited memoir—a major publishing event. At nearly ninety-five, Studs Terkel has written about everyone's life, it seems, but his own. In...
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American Studies
by Louis Menand Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of The Metaphysical Club, brilliant illuminations of America yesterday and today. At each step of this journey through American cultural history, Louis Menand has an original point to make: he explains the real significance of...
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Staying Up Much Too Late: Edward Hopper's Nighthawks and the Dark Side of the American Psyche
by Gordon Theisen Publisher Comments A fasinating study of Edward Hopper's iconic Nighthawks painting and its deep significance for understanding American culture. Staying up Much Too Late discusses the painting Nighthawks and the painter Edward Hopper and their central importance to...
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American Diversity: A Demographic Challenge for the Twentyirst Century
by Nancy A Denton Synopsis Presenting important work by well-known demographers, American Diversity focuses on U.S. population changes in the twenty-first century, emphasizing the nation's increasing racial and ethnic diversity. Rather than focusing on separate groups sequentially,...
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The Great Risk Shift: The New Economic Insecurity and the Decline of the American Dream
by Jacob S Hacker Publisher Comments America's leaders say the economy is strong and getting stronger. But the safety net that once protected us is fast unraveling. With retirement plans in growing jeopardy while health coverage erodes, more and more economic risk is shifting from...
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One Nation Under Guns: An Essay on an American Epidemic (Speaker's Corner)
by Arnold Grossman Publisher Comments The United States holds the dubious distinction of experiencing more civilian gun deaths than any industrialized nation on earth?nearly 30,000 per year. While a majority of Americans favor far more restrictive gun laws than currently exist, efforts to...
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American Culture, American Taste: Social Change and the Twentieth Century
by Michael Kammen Publisher Comments In American Culture, American Tastes, Michael Kammen leads us on an entertaining, thought-provoking tour of America's changing tastes, uses of leisure, and the shifting perceptions that have accompanied them throughout our nation's history. Starting at...
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Home-Alone America: The Hidden Toll of Day Care, Behavioral Drugs, and Other Parent Substitutes
by Mary Eberstadt Publisher Comments Why are there so many troubled kids these days, diagnosed with learning disabilities or behavioral problems? Why is child obesity out of control? Why are teenagers contracting herpes and other sexually transmitted diseases at unprecedented rates? In...
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Inventing Modern: Growing Up with X-Rays, Skycrapers, and Tailfins
by John H Lienhard Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-283) and index....
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These United States: A Portrait of America
by John Leonard Publisher Comments In 1922, The Nation launched a series of forty-nine articles by a distinguished group of writers—novelists, journalists, educators, social workers, lawyers, unionists, and maverick intellectuals—each of whom was asked to contemplate his or...
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Who Are We: The Challenges to America's National Identity
by Samuel P Huntington Publisher Comments In his seminal work The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel Huntington argued provocatively and presciently that with the end of the cold war, "civilizations" were replacing ideologies as the new fault lines in international...
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The Last Empire: Essays 1992-2000
by Gore Vidal Publisher Comments Like his National Book Award—winning United States, Gore Vidal’s scintillating ninth collection, The Last Empire, affirms his reputation as our most provocative critic and observer of the modern American scene. In the essays collected here...
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Kids' Stuff : Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood (97 Edition)
by Gary Cross Publisher Comments To sort out who's who and what's what in the enchanting, vexing world of Barbiesandreg; and Ninja Turtlesandreg;, Tinkertoysandreg; and teddy bears, is to begin to see what's become of childhood in America. It is this changing world, and what it unveils...
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The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America
by Jeffrey Rosen 
Publisher Comments The Unwanted Gaze is an important book about one of the most pressing issues of our day: how changes in technology and the law have combined to demolish our rights of privacy, and what we can and must do to re-secure them. In a world in which Ken...
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Righteous : Dispatches From the Evangelical Youth Movement (06 Edition)
by Lauren Sandler Publisher Comments Illuminating, often troubling, and unapologetically frank, Righteous is dynamic young journalist Lauren Sandleras report from the nexus of religious fundamentalism and youth culture. As a secular guide through the passion and politics of the teenage...
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The Rise and Fall of Leftist Radicalism in America
by Edward Walter Publisher Comments Walter analyzes the history of American radicals of the left (socialists, communists, and radical liberals) from their emergence as an opinion-shaping force during the Great Depression to the present, and concludes that theirs is a fundamentally negative...
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The Abusing of America
by Steven Diamond Synopsis Is the modern way of living beneficial over the long term? Can society continue to meet people's material wants versus needs in a world with an ever-increasing population? The author presents compelling evidence that the answer is no....
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Theater of War: In Which the Republic Becomes an Empire
by Lewis Lapham Publisher Comments AMERICA'S MAINSTREAM DISSIDENT DEBUNKS THE "WAR ON TERRORISM." In the two years since September 11, finding skeptics in the battle against evil has been a rare achievement. Unpopular opinions seldom make an appearance on the network news, and voices of...
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