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True and Only Heaven: Progress and Critics
by Christopher Lasch  Synopsis 'An extraordinary book by one of our wisest social and political observers, Lasch's brilliant analysis of our secular dreams and hopes, our blind spots and foolishness, ought to help us all figure out what we believe and where we are headed as this...
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Driving with the Devil: Southern Moonshine, Detroit Wheels, and the Birth of NASCAR
by Neal Thompson Publisher Comments Presents the dramatic untold story of the origins of NASCAR racing in the world of Southern moonshiners, who used fast Ford cars to transport bootleg alcohol during the Depression, men who transformed their driving skills to the Dixie racetracks in the...
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Assembling My Father: A Daughter's Detective Story
by Anna Cypra Oliver Publisher Comments Anna Cypra Oliver's strikingly original book offers both a moving story of self-discovery and a vivid record of a turbulent era. In the late 1960s, Anna's father—a charismatic man from a cultivated Jewish background—and her equally...
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Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx
by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc 
Publisher Comments In her extraordinary bestseller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses readers in the intricacies of the ghetto, revealing the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour, gold-drenched drug dealers, and street-corner society. Focusing on two...
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A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America Now
by Peter Wood Publisher Comments America has gotten into ugly moods before, but never as today. In taking us on a guided tour of American acrimony, Peter Wood traces the roots of anger's triumph in our social and political world. He examines the liberating bromides of psychotherapists...
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Apocalypse Pretty Soon
by Alex Heard Publisher Comments Over a ten-year period, intrepid cultural traveler Alex Heard has been sojourning among America's most intensely religious and political believers -- sometimes dark, sometimes joyful, usually bizarre, and very occasionally deadly groups who bring their...
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Law and Providence in Joseph Bellamy's New England: The Origins of the New Divinity in Revolutionary America (Religion in America Series)
by Mark Valeri Publisher Comments This study of religious thought and social life in early America focuses on the career of Joseph Bellamy (1719-1790), a Connecticut Calvinist minister noted chiefly for his role in originating the New Divinity--the influential theological movement that...
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Ruined Time
by Robert Briggs Book News Annotation The Beat vision was never "a way of life or a way anywhere in particular it remained a condition an atmosphere of attitudes that poets could feel, painters see, musicians hear, and writers scrutinize. It was a promising fifth dimension in which it was...
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Is America Breaking Apart?
by John Hall Publisher Comments Is the United States a nation of materialistic loners whose politics are dictated by ethnic, racial, religious, or sexual identities? This is what America has become in the eyes of many commentators. Americans seem to fear that their society is breaking...
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Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century by Those Who've Lived It
by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments "Inspired...the language spoken here is pure Terkel."—The New York Times Book Review A New York Times bestseller when it was first published in 1995, Coming of Age presents an astonishing portrait of American life and the experience of aging in the...
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Uniforms: Why We Are What We Wear
by Paul Fussell Publisher Comments From Boy Scouts to soldiers, nurses to UPS workers, chefs to nuns, Paul Fussell describes, in sharp and telling anecdotes, the history and meanings of various uniforms. He reveals their secret language and unfolds their cultural significance. Focusing on...
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The Warrior Image: Soldiers in American Culture from the Second World War to the Vietnam Era
by Andrew J Huebner Publisher Comments Images of war saturated American culture between the 1940s and the 1970s, as U.S. troops marched off to battle in World War II, the Korean War, and the Vietnam War. Exploring representations of servicemen in the popular press, government propaganda...
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The Devil Never Sleeps
by Andrei Codrescu Publisher Comments The Devil is alive and well and living in America, Andrei Codrescu tells us, and with good reason. Nowhere else in the world--not even in Codrescu's native Transylvania--is he taken quite as seriously. When Codrescu gently derided the fundamentalist...
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American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville
by Bernard-Henri Levy
Powells.com Staff Pick Hoping to gauge the success of America's experiment in democracy, France's leading journalist follows Tocqueville's journey across our once nascent nation to rediscover what it means to be an American. Here in opposing and quick succession, we meet...
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The March of Unreason: Science, Democracy, and the New Fundamentalism
by Dick Taverne Publisher Comments In The March of Unreason, Dick Taverne expresses his concern that irrationality is on the rise in Western society, and argues that public opinion is increasingly dominated by unreflecting prejudice and an unwillingness to engage with factual evidence...
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Fat Land : How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World (03 Edition)
by Greg Critser Publisher Comments In this astonishing expose, journalist Greg Critser looks beyond the sensational headlines to reveal why nearly 60 percent of Americans are now overweight. Critser's sharp-eyed reportage and sharp-tongued analysis make for a disarmingly funny and truly...
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Primitive America: The Ideology of Capitalist Democracy
by Paul Smith Publisher Comments One of the most confounding aspects of American society—the one that perhaps most frequently perplexes observers both domestic and foreign—is the vast contradiction between what anthropologists might term the “hot” and “cold&...
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A Nation of Religions: The Politics of Pluralism in Multireligious America
by Stephen Prothero Publisher Comments The United States has long been described as a nation of immigrants, but it is also a nation of religions in which Muslims and Methodists, Buddhists and Baptists live and work side by side. This book explores that nation of religions, focusing on how...
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Giants of Jazz
by Studs Terkel Synopsis Sketching the lives of the giants of jazz, Studs Terkel uses firsthand interviews to bring to life the human stories behind the music. This evocation of the mythic heroes of jazz ranges from Louis Armstrong to John Coltrane and Charlie Parker, from Duke...
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Chasing the Red, White, and Blue: A Journey in Tocqueville's Footsteps Through Contemporary America
by David Cohen Publisher Comments In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville his journey to America, traveling from New York to the frontier city of Flint, Michigan, down the Ohio River Valley and into Mississippi, then turning east through the Old South and concluding in Washington, D.C. His...
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