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Cynicism and the Evolution of the American Dream
by Wilber W. Caldwell  Publisher Comments Putting a recognizable face on contemporary American...
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America Reborn : Twentieth-century Narrative in Twenty-six Lives (00 Edition)
by Martin Walker Publisher Comments In America Reborn, journalist and historian Martin Walker defines twentieth-century America through the portraits of twenty-six American individuals whose accomplishments, innovations, and ideals propelled the United States to a position of global...
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Not in Kansas Anymore: A Curious Tale of How Magic Is Transforming America
by Christine Wicker Publisher Comments Magic has stepped out of the movies, morphed from the pages of fairy tales, and taken root in the modern mind. Soccer moms are getting voodoo head washings in their backyards, young U.S. soldiers send chants toward pagan gods of war, and a seem-ingly...
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Boomer Nation: The Largest and Richest Generation Ever, and How It Changed America
by Steven M Gillon Publisher Comments The Baby Boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, form the single largest demographic spike in American history. Never before or since have birth rates shot up and remained so high so long, with some obvious results: when the Boomers were kids, American...
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Science for Sale: The Perils, Rewards, and Delusions of Campus Capitalism
by Daniel S. Greenberg Publisher Comments < div> < div> In recent years the news media have been awash in stories about increasingly close ties between college campuses and multimillion-dollar corporations. Our nation& #8217; s universities, the story goes, reap enormous...
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The Great Risk Shift: Why American Jobs, Families, Health Care and Retirement Aren't Secure -- and How We Can Fight Back
by Jacob S. Hacker Publisher Comments Blending powerful human stories, big-picture analysis, and compelling ideas for reform, this remarkable volume will hit a nerve, serving as a rallying point in the vital struggle for economic security in an increasingly uncertain world....
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Playboys in Paradise: Masculinity, Youth and Leisure-Style in Modern America
by Bill Osgerby Publisher Comments Post-war America was an exciting time. It was an age characterized by backyard barbecues and beach parties, mai-tai cocktails and Ford Mustangs, high school hops, Hawaiian shirts and Hugh Hefner's Playboy empire. This book charts middle-class America's...
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Sister of the Road: The Autobiography of Box Car Bertha
by Bertha Thompson as told to Ben L. Reitman 
Publisher Comments Another raging slab of real American history you're not likely to find in the textbooks. This is second title in the new (and best-selling!) Nabat series that debuted with Jack Black's You Can't Win. It's a window into a wildly under-appreciated dropout...
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Left Behind in Rosedale PB
by Scott Cummings Publisher Comments Left Behind in Rosedale is a stunning analysis of community and neighborhood decline. Through creative application of ethnographic analysis, participant observation, and in-depth interviews, Scott Cummings’ unique book breathes human life into one...
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Migrations to Solitude
by Sue Halpern Publisher Comments Why do we often long for solitude but dread loneliness? What happens when the walls we build around ourselves are suddenly removed--or made impenetrable? If privacy is something we count on as a basic right, why are our laws, technology and life-styles...
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Landscape in Sight: Looking at America
by John Brinck Jackson Publisher Comments Focusing not on nature but on landscape -- land shaped by human presence -- Jackson invites us to see the everyday places of the American countryside and city. This appealing anthology, illustrated with Jackson's sketches and photographs, brings together...
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Sharing the Dream
by Dominic Pulera Synopsis White males, 100 million strong, constitute approximately 35 percent of the U.S. population, a percentage that declines slightly each year. They matter very much to discussions of race, ethnicity, and gender in the US due to their numbers and the...
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Activism, Inc.: How the Outsourcing of Grassroots Campaigns Is Strangling Progressive Politics in America
by Dana R Fisher Publisher Comments Activism, Inc. introduces America to an increasingly familiar political actor: the canvasser. She’s the twenty-something with the clipboard, stopping you on the street or knocking on your door, the foot soldier of political campaigns. Granted...
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American Foundations: An Investigative History
by Mark Dowie Publisher Comments An investigative history of American philanthropic foundations....
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Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture
by Michael A Bellesiles
Publisher Comments Michael A. Bellesiles' Arming America is a stunning and seminal book that challenges everything we've previously been taught about America's history with guns. Painstakingly examining the historical record, Bellesiles shatters the myth of our gun...
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Building a Better Race: Gender, Sexuality, and Eugenics from the Turn of the Century to the Baby Boom
by Wendy Kline Publisher Comments Wendy Kline's lucid cultural history of eugenics in America emphasizes the movement's central, continuing interaction with popular notions of gender and morality. Kline shows how eugenics could seem a viable solution to problems of moral disorder and...
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Hiroshima in America: A Half Century of Denial
by Robert Jay Lifton Publisher Comments A half century after the bombing of Hiroshima, two distinguished writers look at the impact of the use of the A-bomb, and the supression of debate, on American life. Lifton and Mitchell question why Hiroshima still touches such a raw nerve, and explore...
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The Burden of Bad Ideas
by Heather Macdonald Publisher Comments Critics have attacked the foolishness of some of today's elite thought from many angles, but few have examined the real-world consequences of those ideas. In this book, Heather Mac Donald reports on their disasterous effects throughout our society....
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Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World
by Sarah Vowell Publisher Comments Take the Cannoli is a moving and wickedly funny collection of personal stories stretching across the immense landscape of the American scene. Hailed by Newsweek as a "cranky stylist with talent to burn," Vowell has an irresistible voice -- caustic and...
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Fatherless America : Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem (95 Edition)
by David Blankenhorn Publisher Comments A compelling and controversial exploration of absentee fathers and their impact on the nation....
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