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My Love Affair with America: The Cautionary Tale of a Cheerful Conservative
by Norman Podhoretz  Publisher Comments In this touching and delightful memoir, Norman Podhoretz charts the ups and downs of his lifelong love affair with his native land, and warns that to turn against America, from the Right no less than from the Left, is to fall into the rankest ingratitude....
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Crime & the American Dream
by Steven F Messner Publisher Comments The foundation of this book is institutional anomie theory, an offshoot of strain theory. It explores why America's over-emphasis on the pursuit of materialistic gain contributes to the country's high rates of violent crime....
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| Used: $7.75 Hardcover List Price $65.00
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Hotel America Scenes in the Lobby of The
by Lewis Lapham Publisher Comments In Hotel America, Lewis Lapham draws a portrait of a society at a loss to know what to think or make of itself at the end of a century once defined as America's own. His observations speak to the moral and intellectual confusions visited upon the...
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Gun Violence in America: The Struggle for Control
by Alexander Deconde Publisher Comments Few social issues have produced more exaggerated claims and contention among Americans than the struggle to control gun violence. Fueling the emotional fire in debates between firearm groups such as the National Rifle Association (NRA) and gun control...
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Embodiment of a Nation: Human Form in American Places
by Cecelia Tichi Publisher Comments From Harriet Beecher Stowe's image of the Mississippi's "bosom" to Henry David Thoreau's Cape Cod as "the bared and bended arm of Massachusetts," the U.S. environment has been recurrently represented in terms of the human body. Exploring such instances...
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Habits of the Heart
by Robert N Bellah Publisher Comments "The contemporary benchmark from which to look back and look forward in the continuing inquiry about American character."--Daniel Bell<P>"One of the most penetrating examinations of American individualism I have seen. . . . I hope it will be read...
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At Peril: Stories of Injustice
by Thomas J Cottle Publisher Comments A noted sociologist explores the hazards of everyday life in contemporary American society....
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American Public Life and the Historical Imagination
by Wendy Gamber Publisher Comments OVER THE PAST THIRTY YEARS, a number of historians, preeminently Morton Keller of Brandeis University, have created a new field of historical study that reinvigorates political history by incorporating the study of legal, economic, religious, and...
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Imagine: What America Could Be in the 21st Century
by Marianne Williamson Synopsis America's foremost visionaries offer a prescriptive plan for what every person can, and must, do to create a better future for themselves and the world. Contributions by Gloria Steinem, Thomas Moore, Deepak Chopra, and more. Illustrations....
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American Class System
by Paul Kalra Book News Annotation Kalra commits the American heresy--he not only identifies the structure of the class system, but he goes on to show how it controls income, taxes, savings, subsidies for education, housing, healthcare, and the "American" way of life. Thoroughly...
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A Brief History of American Culture
by Robert M Crunden Publisher Comments "The discussion of each period is wide-ranging, analyzing movements and spotlighting major figures in politics and philosophy, law and literature, economics and education, jazz and journalism, science and civil rights. A readable, insightful overview of...
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The One and the Many: Americaus Struggle for the Common Good (Joanna Jackson Goldman Memorial Lecture on American Civiliza)
by Martin E Marty Publisher Comments E pluribus unumno longer holds. Out of the many have come as many claims and grievances, all at war with the idea of one nation undivided. The damage thus done to our national life, as too few Americans seek a common good, is Martin Marty's concern. His...
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Mumford, Tate, Eiseley: Watchers in the Night
by Gale H Carrithers Book News Annotation Though of diverse backgrounds and training, Lewis Mumford, Allen Tate, and Loren Eiseley--three of the century's most distinctive cultural critics--all considered America to be benighted by a dominant myth, the cultural degeneration. Carrithers...
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Machine-Age Ideology: Social Engineering and American Liberalism, 1911-1939
by John M Jordan Publisher Comments In this multidisciplinary work, John Jordan traces the significant influence on American politics of a most unlikely hero: the professional engineer. Jordan shows how technical triumphs - bridges, radio broadcasting, airplanes, automobiles, skyscrapers...
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Good Citizenship in America
by David M Ricci Publisher Comments An easily accessible analysis of civic trends in America that highlights much of what is decent in American life....
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Hey, Waitress!: The USA from the Other Side of the Tray
by Alison Owings Publisher Comments Most of us have sat across the tray from a waitress, but how many of us know what really is going on from her side? Hey, Waitress aims to tell us. Containing lively, personal portraits of waitresses from many different walks of life, this book is the...
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America's Forgotten Majority: Why the White Working Class Still Matters
by Ray Teixeira Publisher Comments Ruy Teixeira and Joel Rogers tackle a central mystery of twentieth-century electoral politics—how did the Democratic party lose the vote of the white working class, which today constitutes roughly 55 percent of the electorate? And why do both...
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The Good Citizen
by David Batstone Book News Annotation Nine scholars, representing different genders, sexualities, and cultures, discuss the idea and ideal of citizenship, and make the case that a renewed America requires not only cooperation, but a pluralistic collaboration. Topics include the ethics of...
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A Brief History of American Culture
by Robert M Crunden Publisher Comments The roots of today's "culture wars" can be found in the molding tensions of an American character, one that wasn't handed down by tradition or enforced by a government, but one that was shaped out of the mire of individuals, religious beliefs...
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Revolutions Revisited: Two Faces of the Politics of Enlightenment
by Ralph Lerner Publisher Comments What happens after the revolution? In this elegant extended essay, Ralph Lerner explores how suchs enlightened revolutionaries as Franklin, Lincoln, and Tocqueville met the challenge of translating a revolution into lasting political and social change...
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