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Prodigal Sons: The New York Intellectuals and Their World
by Alexander Bloom  Publisher Comments "A herd of independent minds," Harold Rosenberg once labelled his fellow intellectuals. They were, and are, as this book shows, a special and fascinating group, including literary critics Lionel Trilling, Alfred Kazin, Irving Howe, Leslie Fiedler, Philip...
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The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead
by David Callahan Publisher Comments Free cable television. Imaginary tax deductions. Do you take your chance to cheat? David Callahan thinks many of us would; witness corporate scandals, doping athletes, plagiarizing journalists. Why all the cheating? Why now? Callahan blames the dog-eat...
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The Mind at Work: Valuing the Intelligence of the American Worker
by Mike Rose Publisher Comments In the tradition of Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed and Studs Terkel's Working, The Mind at Work is an illuminating reassessment of American labor. Testimonials to physical work have always celebrated the dignity, the economic and moral value, even...
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The Gospel of Food: Everything You Think You Know about Food Is Wrong
by Barry Glassner Publisher Comments From the author of the national bestseller "The Culture of Fear" comes a rallying cry to abandon food fads and myths for calmer and more pleasurable eating....
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Home Fires Burning: Married to the Military-For Better or Worse
by Karen Houppert Publisher Comments As taps echoes across the cookie-cutter housing areas of upstate New York's Fort Drum, the wives turn on the evening news, both hoping for and dreading word of their husbands overseas. It's a ritual played out on military bases across the nation as the...
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The First Measured Century: An Illustrated Guide to Trends in America, 1900-2000
by Theodore Caplow Book News Annotation This text uses statistics about daily life to uncover trends of social change and continuity in the United States during the 20th century. Fifteen areas of American life are examined: population, work, education, family, living arrangements, religion,...
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Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy
by Lewis Lapham Publisher Comments Award-winning columnist Lewis Lapham issues an urgent new polemic about the strangling of meaningful dissent — the lifeblood of democracy — at the hands of a government and media increasingly beholden to the wealthy few. Never before, Lapham...
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Kidnapped: Child Abduction in America
by Paula Fass Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-308) and index....
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Land of the Free
by David Graham Publisher Comments Take an Elvis impersonator, a Ben Franklin look-a-like and a circus animal trainer and what do you get? Just a few of the colorfully entertaining portraits created by one of America's favorite photographers and humorists, David Graham, in Land of the...
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Flash Effect: Science and the Rhetorical Origins of Cold War America
by David J Tietge Book News Annotation Declaring the American Cold War rhetoric of scientific advancement as "the new opiate of the masses," Tietge (writing, Monmouth U.) suggests that American political and cultural institutions used science as an ordering symbolism of hierarchy that...
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Social Darwinism in American Thought ((Rev)83 Edition)
by Richard Hofstadter Publisher Comments Tracing the impact of Darwin on thinkers throughout the gilded Age and the Progressive era, 'Social Darwinism' shows how a politically neutral scientific theory has been adapted with skillful rhetoric to contradictory purposes....
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Unsung Heroines: Single Mothers and the American Dream
by Ruth Sidel Publisher Comments Based on interviews with single mothers Sidel offers a corrective to the negative views of this population in the popular media....
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God's Harvard: A Christian College on a Mission to Save America
by Hanna Rosin Publisher Comments Since 2000, America's most ambitious young evangelicals have been making their way to Patrick Henry College, a small Christian school just outside the nation's capital. Most of them are home-schoolers whose idealism and discipline put the average...
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Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food (California Studies in Food and Culture #16)
by Warren Belasco Publisher Comments In this provocative and lively addition to his acclaimed writings on food, Warren Belasco takes a sweeping look at a little-explored yet timely topic: humanity's deep-rooted anxiety about the future of food. People have expressed their worries about the...
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Lincoln's Smile and Other Enigmas (07 Edition)
by Trachtenberg Publisher Comments A new assemblage of masterly essays from a foremost scholar of American history and culture Alan Trachtenberg has always been interested in cultural artifacts that register meanings and feelings that Americans share even when they disagree about them...
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Gore Vidal's America
by Dennis Altman Publisher Comments Gore Vidal is one of the most significant American writers of the second half of the twentieth century, having produced a large number of best selling novels, essays, plays and pamphlets which have impacted on major political and social debates for fifty...
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Twentieth-Century Sprawl: Highways and the Reshaping of the American Landscape
by Owen D Gutfreund Publisher Comments Here, Owen Gutfreund offers a fascinating look at how highways have dramatically transformed American communities nationwide, aiding growth and development in unsettled areas and undermining existing urban centers.<BR>Gutfreund uses a "follow the...
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Race, Religion, Region: Landscapes of Encounter in the American West
by Fay Botham Publisher Comments Racial and religious groups have played a key role in shaping the American West, yet scholars have for the most part ignored how race and religion have influenced regional identity. In this collection, eleven contributors explore the intersections of...
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Citizen Hobo (03 Edition)
by Depastino Publisher Comments In the years following the Civil War, a veritable army of homeless men swept across America's "wageworkers' frontier" and forged a beguiling and bedeviling counterculture known as "hobohemia." Celebrating unfettered masculinity and jealously guarding the...
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The Empire of Reason: How Europe Imagined and America Realized the Enlightenment
by Henry Stee Commager Publisher Comments The foremost American historian of his generation delves into the nation's European origins, illuminating how the new country embodied the principles of the Enlightenment--ideals that Europe, trapped by tradition and privilege, could not itself realize. ....
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