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100 Years on the Road: The Traveling Salesman in American Culture
by Timothy B Spears  Publisher Comments Vividly illustrated, this lively book presents the first in-depth study of the traveling salesman, illuminating his role in American culture from 1830 to 1920. Drawing on letters, diaries, and autobiographies, as well as on literary works by Crane...
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Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
by Neil Postman 
Synopsis Postman takes an enlightening look at the long-term effects of mass media--how it transforms our world, and the ways in which the media onslaught can be challenged....
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| Used: $7.95 Trade Paper List Price $12.95
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This Noble Land My Vision for America
by James A Michener Publisher Comments With his genius for research and his mastery of many cultures, James A. Michener cuts to the heart of the issues that threaten to fragment and undermine America today: racial conflict, the widening gulf between rich and poor, the decline of education...
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The fourth turning :an American prophecy
by William Strauss Publisher Comments This astonishing book will change the way you see the world--and your place in it. With startling originality, The Fourth Turning illuminates the past, explains the present, and reimagines the future. Most remarkably, it offers an utterly persuasive...
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Middle American Individualism
by Herbert J Gans Publisher Comments Written by one America's most eminent sociologists, this book examines the lives and ideals of today's "middle Americans"--whom the more affluent and elite have long put down as an uncultured and unthinking mass--and finds in them the individualistic...
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America's Rome (Volume 2): Catholic and Contemporary Rome
by William L Vance Publisher Comments In Volume II: Catholic and Contemporary Rome, Vance begins by examining the three foremost Roman Catholic symbols: the bambino, the madonna, and the pope. In the section on contemporary Rome, he addresses American attitudes toward Rome's earliest...
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Discovering Difference: Contemporary Essays in American Culture
by Christoph K Lohmann Publisher Comments Approaching the cultural concept of 'difference' from a variety of perspectives, Discovering Difference represents the spectrum of subjects an modes of analyses currently employed in literary and cultural studies--Marx, Freud, Derrida, Lacan, feminist...
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The Rise of Selfishness in America
by James Linco Collier Publisher Comments It is a crowded, smoky room. Strongly rhythmic music plays, couples dance, dress is casual and revealing. Nearly everyone is drinking--beer or wine, gin or whiskey--and the distinct scent of marijuana hangs in the air. The foregoing scene might have...
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| Used: $6.50 Hardcover List Price $21.00
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The Overworked American: The Unexpected Decline of Leisure
by Juliet B. Schor Publisher Comments This pathbreaking book explains why, contrary to all expectations, Americans are working harder than ever. Juliet Schor presents the astonishing news that over the past twenty years our working hours have increased by the equivalent of one month per year&...
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Cold new world :growing up in a harder country
by William Finnegan Publisher Comments In this groundbreaking work of social journalism, a spotlight is cast on a population we find it easy, or convenient, to overlook. "While the national economy has been growing, the economic prospects of most Americans have been dimming," William Finnegan...
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The American Radical
by Mari Jo Buhle Publisher Comments The American Radical tells the story of American democracy from the late 18th century to the present through the lives of the women and men who have fought to advance it....
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America By the Numbers Field Guide To the U S Pop
by William H Frey Book News Annotation Reading and interpreting census figures is the basis for this intriguing volume on the makeup of the population in the US. The authors, all affiliated with the Social Science Data Analysis Network at the U. of Michigan, bring a fresh viewpoint to...
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My American Century
by Studs Terkel Book News Annotation Terkel has selected some 50 of the most memorable interviews from his eight classic books published over the past 30 years. Among them are Kid Pharaoh, the con man of Division Street, Tom Patrick, the fireman of Working, and C. P. Ellin, the former Ku...
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A Day in the Night of America
by Kevin Coyne Publisher Comments An absorbing journey through the upside-down world of 7.3 million Americans who work the night shift. Traveling over 18,000 miles from Massachusetts to Alaska, interviewing and working alongside 429 "nightsiders," freelance journalist Coyne captures the...
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The tragedy of abundance
by Jerome O Steffen Book News Annotation American society is founded on two fallacies, says Steffen (history, U. of Oklahoma), free agency of the individual, and unlimited wealth. He shows how they have manifested themselves repeatedly in the country's history, and concludes that our only...
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Restless Nation: Starting Over in America
by James Jasper Publisher Comments What is it that makes Americans so American? It can't be money: although the United States is the most productive economy in the world, it also has the highest poverty rates. It can't really be faith, either: Americans are the most religious people in...
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Prejudice, Politics, & the American Dilemma
by Paul M Sniderman Publisher Comments A sophisticated, interdisciplinary look at the current state of race and American politics....
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Marginalized in the Middle
by Alan Wolfe Publisher Comments AcknowledgmentsI: Marginalized in the Middle II: The Changing Politics of Social Criticism III: Realism and Romanticism in Social Criticism IV: Talking About Race V: Thinking About Gender VI: Criticism Beyond Ideology VII: What Generations Owe to Each...
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Blood Class & Empire the Enduring Anglo
by Christophe Hitchens Publisher Comments A revised and reissued classic examining Britain's relationship with America....
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Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
by Janisse Ray Synopsis Interweaving memoir and natural history, Ray describes her world: a childhood spent in a junkyard; a religious background steeped in the fundamentalist tradition; and relatives as colorful as any from fiction. 15 illustrations....
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