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Community and Social Change in America
by Thomas Bender  Synopsis Did urbanization kill 'community' in the nineteenth century, or even earlier? In this highly regarded volume Bender argues not only that community survived the trials of industrialization and urbanization but that it remains a fundamental element of...
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Class Acts: Service and Inequality in Luxury Hotels
by Rachel Sherman Publisher Comments In this lively study, Rachel Sherman goes behind the scenes in two urban luxury hotels to give a nuanced picture of the workers who care for and cater to wealthy guests by providing seemingly unlimited personal attention. Drawing on in-depth interviews...
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Zombification: Stories from National Public Radio
by Andrei Codrescu Publisher Comments "The world is undergoing zombification. It was gradual for a while, a few zombies here and there, mostly in high office, where being a corpse in a suit was de rigueur . . . The worst part about zombies raging unchecked is the slow paralysis they induce...
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Genxegesis: Essays on Alternative Youth (Sub)Culture in the 1990s
by John Mcallis Ulrich Synopsis Although most people think "Generation X" is a recently coined label for the post-Baby Boom generation, since the early 1950s the phrase has signified a seemingly identity-less group of young people trying to define themselves within an uncertain, even...
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Flophouse: Life on the Bowery
by Harvey Wang Publisher Comments In its heyday, close to one hundred thousand men found shelter each night in flophouses along America's largest and most infamous skid row, the Bowery. Today, only a handful of flops are left, their tiny five- and ten-dollar-a-night rooms home to fewer...
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Technological Utopianism in American Culture
by Howard P Segal Book News Annotation In his new preface and epilogue to the book's 20th anniversary edition, Segal (history, U. of Maine) remarks that the topic of technological utopianism is even more timely today than it was in 1985. He discusses 25 US utopians of the late 19th and...
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The Other Side of the River: A Story of Two Towns, a Death, and America's Dilemma
by Alex Kotlowitz Publisher Comments Alex Kotlowitz's There Are No Children Here was more than a bestseller; it was a national event. His beautifully narrated, heartbreaking nonfiction account of two black boys struggling to grow up in a Chicago public housing complex spent eight weeks on...
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Armed America: The Remarkable Story of How and Why Guns Became as American as Apple Pie
by Clayton E Cramer Synopsis In this true story of our nation's love affair with firearms, Clayton E. Cramer debunks the myths and takes readers along a winding historical trail full of surprising revelations and riveting anecdotes, explaining the roots of America's gun culture....
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While They're at War: The True Story of American Families on the Homefront
by Kristin Henderson Publisher Comments Kristin Henderson is a journalist married to a military chaplain who has served in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq. In While They're at War, she draws upon the trust she's earned from military families and her unique access to military staff to...
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Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy
by Lewis H Lapham 
Publisher Comments Dissent is democracy. Democracy is in trouble. Never before, argues Lewis Lapham, have voices of protest been so locked out of the mainstream political conversation: they are criminalized, marginalized, and muted by a government that recklessly...
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Flag: An American Biography
by Marc Leepson Publisher Comments The thirteen-stripe, fifty-star flag is as familiar an American icon as any that has existed in the nation’s history. Yet the history of the flag, especially its origins, is cloaked in myth and misinformation. Flag: An American Biography rectifies...
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From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America
by Christopher Finan Publisher Comments The first comprehensive history of free speech in America for a general readership, from a respected historian and free speech activist A 2007 Book Sense Selection In this lively history of our most fundamental and perhaps most vulnerable right...
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The Funding of Scientific Racism: Wickliffe Draper and the Pioneer Fund
by William H Tucker Publisher Comments The Pioneer Fund, established in 1937 by Wickliffe Preston Draper, is one of the most controversial nonprofit organizations in the United States. Long suspected of misusing social science to fuel the politics of oppression, the fund has specialized in...
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Class Matters : Cross-class Alliance Building for Middle-class Activists (05 Edition)
by Betsy Leondar Publisher Comments Movements for social change could be more powerful if they had more class diversity-a factor that has limited their past size and clout. But attempting to cross class barriers has frequently left middle-class activists frustrated, with few resources to...
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My Generation: Fifty Years of Sex, Drugs, Rock, Revolution, Glamour, Greed, Valor, Faith, and Silicon Chips
by Michael Gross Synopsis The story of the Baby Boom generation, the driving force of modern American culture--how it grew up, shaped the history of the 20th century, and set the course toward the 21st....
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Not Keeping Up with Our Parents: The Decline of the Professional Middle Class
by Nan Mooney Publisher Comments Drawing on more than a hundred interviews with diverse families across America, Nan Mooney explores the financial struggles of today's professional middle class, delving into their sense of economic security and their plans for and fears about the future....
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School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program (Politics and Society in Twentieth-Century America)
by Susan Levine Synopsis Whether kids love or hate the food served there, the American school lunchroom is the stage for one of the most popular yet flawed social welfare programs in our nation's history. School Lunch Politics covers this complex and fascinating part of American...
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American Silhouettes: Rhetorical Identities of the Founders
by Albert Furtwangler Synopsis Franklin, John Adams, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, John Marshall-all are familiar yet curiously distant American heroes, blurred by the similarities of their background and culture. In this engrossing book Albert Furtwangler looks at these...
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Working Poor : Invisible in America (04 Edition)
by David K. Shipler
Powells.com Staff Pick The Working Poor is a deeply impressive book, a thorough and balanced study of the millions of Americans living at or around the poverty line. Shipler's varied portraits and interviews are insightful and moving, and his analysis of causes and...
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Beleaguered Rulers
by William F Jay Synopsis Social critic May asks professionals--whom he calls the leaders of culture in contemporary Western society--to abandon their self-interested pursuits and contribute to the common good....
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