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Half a truth is better than none :some unsystematic conjectures about art, disorder, and American experience
by John Kouwenhoven  TOC A preliminary note on the lay of the land -- American culture: words or things? -- The trouble with translation -- Urban despair and the cities' hope --Architecture as environmental technology -- Democracy, machines, and vernacular design -- The Eiffel...
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Remembering Main Street: An American Album
by Pat Ross Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 227) and index....
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The good life :the meaning of success for the American middle class
by Loren Baritz Description Includes bibliographical references....
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American Social Character
by Rupert Wilkinson TOC Introduction : On American character -- An anthropologist looks at America / Margaret Mead -- The American cast of mind / Ralph Barton Perry -- From inner-direction to other-direction / David Riesman -- The organization man / William H. Whyte...
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A dream deferred :America's discontent and the search for a new democratic ideal
by Phillip Slater Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-218) and index....
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American Places: A Writer's Pilgrimage to 15 of This Country's Most Visited & Cherished Sites
by William Zinsser Description Includes bibliographical references (p. [193]-200)....
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Individualism & Commitment in American
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Hiroshima in America :fifty years of denial
by Robert Jay Lifton Description Includes bibliographical references (p. [382]-414) and index....
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The Good society
by Robert Bellah Description Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-331) and index....
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Lives in Trust: The Fortunes of Dynastic Families in Late Twentieth-Century America
by George E Marcus Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 357-364) and index....
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Thank God for the Atom Bomb & Other Essays
by Paul Fussell TOC Thank God for the atom bomb -- An exchange of views -- Postscript (1987) on Japanese skulls -- Writing in wartime -- George Orwell -- "A power of facing unpleasant facts" -- Killing, in verse and prose -- A well-regulated militia -- Travel, tourism, and "...
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Generation Alone: Xers Making a Place in the World
by William Mahedy Description Includes bibliographical references (p. [181]-183)....
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The fail-safe society :community defiance and the end of American technological optimism
by Charles Piller Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 206-227) and index....
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What really matters :searching for wisdom in America
by Tony Schwartz Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 439-447) and index....
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Old money :the mythology of America's upper class
by Nelson W Aldrich Description Includes bibliographical references and index....
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American Class Structure 4TH Edition
by Dennis Gilbert Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-340) and indexes....
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Talking to Myself: A Memoir of My Times
by Studs Terkel 
Publisher Comments Terkel offers the reader an autobiography of our times--the stirring story of a man whose life has been so vivid that its telling mirrors the events of our century. From Mahalia Jackson to Bertrand Russell, from Martin Luther King, Jr. to Federico...
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In Glory's Shadow: The Citadel, Shannon Faulkner, and a Changing America
by Catherine Manegold Publisher Comments In Glory's Shadow explores the history of The Citadel, an institution set on preserving tradition in the face of profound change. Established by Charleston, South Carolina's fearful white majority in 1822 as protection against slave insurrections, a...
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The Liberty of Strangers: Making the American Nation
by Desmond King Publisher Comments Harry S. Truman once said, "Ours is a nation of many different groups, of different races, of different national origins." And yet, the debate over what it means--and what it takes--to be an American remains contentious. Nationalist solidarity, many...
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The Big Vote: Gender, Citizenship, and the Politics of Exclusion, 1890s-1920s (Reconfiguring American Political History)
by Liette Patri Gidlow Publisher Comments Low voter turnout is a serious problem in American politics today, but it is not a new one. Its roots lay in the 1920s when, for the first time in nearly a century, a majority of eligible Americans did not bother to cast ballots in a presidential...
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