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Habits of the Heart: Individualism Commitment American Life
by Robert Neell Bellah  Publisher Comments Meanwhile, the authors' antidote to the American sickness--a quest for democratic community that draws on our diverse civic and religious traditions--has contributed to a vigorous scholarly and popular debate. Attention has been focused on forms of...
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American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century (Politics and Culture in Modern America)
by Nelson Lichtenstein Publisher Comments At the dawn of the twenty-first century, the legitimacy of American capitalism seems unchallenged. The link between open markets, economic growth, and democratic success has become common wisdom, not only among policy makers but for many intellectuals as...
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US Guys: The True and Twisted Mind of the American Man
by Charlie Leduff Publisher Comments The New York Timesas most intrepid itinerant takes the measure of American manhood on a road trip like no other Charlie LeDuff has made a career out of his extraordinary ability to capture the spirit of the people and places he profiles. US Guys is his...
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Have a Nice Doomsday: Why Millions of Americans Are Looking Forward to the End of the World (P.S.)
by Nicholas Guyatt Publisher Comments In Have a Nice Doomsday, Nicholas Guyatt searches for the truth behind a startling statistic: 50 million Americans have come to believe that the apocalypse will take place in their lifetime. They'reconvinced that, any day now, Jesus will snatch up his...
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Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema
by David Gerstner Publisher Comments In this innovative analysis of the interconnections between nation and aesthetics in the United States during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, David A. Gerstner reveals the crucial role of early cinema in consolidating a masculine...
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My Job, My Self: Work and the Creation of the Modern Individual
by Al Gini Synopsis Arguing that adults require work in the same way that children need play, Gini views work as a fundamental part of our humanity whose purpose is not merely to generate products but to produce emotionally healthy people....
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My American Century
by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments For over thirty years, millions of readers have enjoyed Studs Terkel's groundbreaking, provocative, and moving oral histories. Now, in a pantheon of 'ordinary' Americans, Terkel collects the most memorable interviews from each of his eight classic works....
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Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture
by Michae Bellesiles Publisher Comments How and when did Americans develop their obsession with guns? Is gun-related violence so deeply embedded in American historical experience as to be immutable? The accepted answers to these questions are "mythology," says Michael A. Bellesiles. Basing...
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Unequal Chances: Family Background and Economic Success
by Samuel Bowles Publisher Comments Is the United States the land of equal opportunity or is the playing field tilted in favor of those whose parents are wealthy, well educated, and white? If family background is important in getting ahead, why? And if the processes that transmit economic...
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Soldier Dead: How We Recover, Identify, Bury, and Honor Our Military Fallen
by Michael Sledge Synopsis < P> What happens to members of the United States Armed Forces after they die? Why do soldiers endanger their lives to recover the remains of their comrades? Why does the military spend enormous resources and risk further fatalities to recover the...
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The American Dream Vs. the Gospel of Wealth: The Fight for a Productive Middle-Class Economy (Future of American Democracy)
by Norton Garfinkle Publisher Comments Norton Garfinkle paints a disquieting picture of America today: a nation increasingly divided between economic winners and losers, a nation in which the middle-class American Dream seems more and more elusive. Recent government policies reflect...
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Love to Hate: America's Obsession with Hatred and Violence
by Jody M Roy Synopsis < P> Roy explains the culture of violence and hate in America.< /P>...
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An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other Goliaths
by Glenn Reynolds 
Publisher Comments There was a time in the not-too-distant past when large companies and powerful governments reigned supreme over the little guy. But new technologies are empowering individuals like never before, and the Davids of the world-the amateur journalists...
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Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in the American Elsewhere
by Hank Stuever Publisher Comments In his unique, funny, and haunting reports, Steuver records the odd and touching realities of modern life in everyday places. Elsewhere might be revealed in tract-house adventures of a homedecor reality show, at a discount funeral home in a strip mall...
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A Visionary Nation: Four Centuries of American Dreams and What Lies Ahead
by Zachary Karabell Publisher Comments America is a nation based on an idea. For nearly four centuries, Americans have shared the conviction that a perfect world is within reach. Running through our history is the presumption that we can have it all. In A Visionary Nation, Zachary Karabell...
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The Compassionate Community: Ten Values to Unite America
by Jonathan Miller Publisher Comments Kentucky State Treasurer Jonathan Miller, a rising star in the Democratic party and the leading advocate for a broader discussion of faith within politics, identifies ten nonpartisan values that unite all Americans, and uses Old Testament stories to...
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Driving Women: Fiction and Automobile Culture in Twentieth-Century America
by Deborah Clarke Synopsis Over the years, cars have helped to define the experiences and self-perceptions of women in complex and sometimes unexpected ways. When women take the wheel, family structure and public space are reconfigured and re-gendered, creating a context for a...
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New Class Society Goodbye American D 2ND Edition
by Robert Perrucci Publisher Comments Extensively revised, the second edition of The New Class Society includes innovative new sections and concepts throughout the book that identify and explore how complex organizational structures and actions create and perpetuate class, gender, and racial...
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Leisureville: Adventures in America's Retirement Utopias
by Andrew D Blechman Publisher Comments When his next-door neighbors in a quaint New England town suddenly pick up and move to a gated retirement community in Florida, Andrew D. Blechman is astonished by their stories. Larger than Manhattan, with a golf course for every day of the month, two...
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A Working Stiff's Manifesto: A Memoir
by Iain Levison Publisher Comments Iain Levison can find work but not fulfillment. The frustration of dead-end, deadhead labor induces a kind of pink-slip payback syndrome as the realization sets in that his college degree will gain him little by way of psychic wages on the job. He is...
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