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Cities on a Hill: A Journey Through Contemporary American Cultures
by Frances Fitzgerald  Publisher Comments In Cities on a Hill, Frnaces FitzGerald, one of our most gifted and acclaimed writers and social historians, explorers what it is to be an American. In this major new work, she reports on four communities she sought out — cultural enclaves that took...
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Where the road and the sky collide :America through the eyes of its drivers
by K T Berger Book News Annotation The narrative, based on interviews with various people who have something to say on the subject, e.g. drivers, accident victims, those in the industry, serves to summarize the problems connected with reliance on cars. The offered solutions include new...
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Arguing the World the New York Intellect
by Joseph Dorman Publisher Comments From cafeterias to cocktail parties to the pages of influential journals of opinion, few groups of friends have argued ideas so passionately and so publicly as the writers and critics known as the New York intellectuals. A brilliantly contentious circle...
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Declining Fortunes: The Withering of the American Dream
by Katherine S Newman Publisher Comments American society has reneged on its promise to the baby-boom generation. Young people for the first time find themselves unable to duplicate, let alone surpass, their own parents’ standard of living. Declining Fortunes sheds new light on a driving...
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Good Society
by Robert N Bellah Publisher Comments THE GOOD SOCIETY examines how many of our institutions- from the family to the government itself- fell from grace, and offers concrete proposals for revitalizing them....
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American Culture American Tastes Social
by Michael Kammen Publisher Comments Americans have a long history of public arguments about taste, the uses of leisure, and what is culturally appropriate in a democracy that has a strong work ethic. Michael Kammen surveys these debates as well as our changing taste preferences, especially...
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The Secret Lives of Citizens: Pursuing the Promise of American Life
by Thomas Geoghegan Publisher Comments In this witty combination of memoir and observation, Thomas Geoghegan addresses the widespread cynicism about our government and explores what it means to be a "national" civil servant and a "local" citizen. "This is unlike any public-policy book I've...
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Making a Killing: The Business of Guns in America
by Tom Diaz Synopsis A comprehensive expose of the gun industry....
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The Age of Consent: The Rise of Relativism and Corruption of Popular Culture
by Robert H Knight Synopsis The vise-grip of moral relativism on American popular culture was not suddenly achieved in the 1960s. In an incisive book of unequaled historical scope, Robert H. Knight studies this alluring but poisonous philosophy's hundred-year conquest of the...
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Where We Stand: 30 Reasons for Loving Our Country
by Roger Rosenblatt Publisher Comments In these 30 essays, Roger Rosenblatt draws on his 27 years of reporting and commenting on America to reaffirm the core values of our complex and wonderful country. Famous for his ability to put wise and important ideas into witty and instructive prose...
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The Secret Lives of Citizens: Pursuing the Promise of American Life
by Thomas Geoghegan Publisher Comments Now, at a time when the cynicism about our government's value is a topic of heated discussion, Thomas Geoghegan vividly redefines the terms of the debate. Combining memoir and trenchant observation, he uses his own life to explore what it means to be a...
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Stacked Deck: A Story of Selfishness in America (America in Transition: Radical Perspectives)
by Lawrence E Mitchell Synopsis Americans for generations have been raised with the mantra that we can grow up to be anything we want to be, achieve anything we can imagine. How many of us believe the message? Dream big. It is a fundamental ideology of unbounded opportunity...
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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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Intimate Matters 2ND Edition
by John Demilio Publisher Comments The first full length study of the history of sexuality in America, Intimate Matters offers trenchant insights into the sexual behavior of Americans, from colonial times to today. D'Emilio and Freedman give us a deeper understanding of how sexuality has...
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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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Hotel America Scenes in the Lobby of The
by Lewis Lapham Synopsis 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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The Long Road Home
by Danielle Steel Publisher Comments Bestselling novelist Danielle Steel takes us on a harrowing journey into the heart of America's hidden shame in a novel that explores the power of forgiveness, the dark side of childhood, and one woman's unbreakable spirit. From her secret perch at the...
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Hitting the Lottery Jackpot: Governments and the Taxing of Dreams
by David Nibert Synopsis When thirteen machine shop workers from Ohio won a $295.7 million lotto jackpot, the largest ever, it made headlines. But the real story is that the lottery is a losing proposition for the vast majority who play it. Hitting the Lottery Jackpot provides...
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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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