General
There are 868 books in this aisle.
Browse the aisle by Title | by Author | by Price
See recently arrived used books in this aisle.
 Used: $14.95 Hardcover List Price $24.95 
add to wish list |
|
Wrestling with the Angel of Democracy: On Being an American Citizen
by Susan Griffin  Publisher Comments Susan Griffin, winner of a MacArthur grant and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, is widely recognized as one of the most important feminist thinkers of our day. Griffin has been broadly praised for her erudition and depth...
|
||||||
Used: $5.50 Trade Paper List Price $19.50
add to wish list |
|
The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap
by Stephanie Coontz Publisher Comments The Way We Never Were examines two centuries of American family life and shatters a series of myths and half-truths that burden modern families. Placing current family dilemmas in the context of far-reaching economic, political, and demographic changes...
|
||||||
Used: $9.95 Hardcover List Price $35.00
add to wish list |
|
Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village: The American Bohemia, 1910-1960
by Ross Wetzsteon Publisher Comments If the twentieth century was the American century, it can be argued that it was more specifically the New York century, and Greenwich Village was the incubator of every important writer, artist, and political movement of the period. From the century's...
|
||||||
Used: $4.95 Trade Paper List Price $13.00
add to wish list |
|
Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
by Eric Schlosser Publisher Comments America's black market is much larger than we realize, and it affects us all deeply, whether or not we smoke pot, rent a risqué video, or pay our kids' nannies in cash. In Reefer Madness the best-selling author of Fast Food Nation turns his...
|
||||||
Used: $9.95 Hardcover List Price $29.95
add to wish list |
|
Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal
by Michael Kazin Publisher Comments What is Americanism? The contributors to this volume recognize Americanism in all its complexity--as an ideology, an articulation of the nation's rightful place in the world, a set of traditions, a political language, and a cultural style imbued with...
|
||||||
Used: $13.95 Hardcover List Price $26.00
add to wish list |
|
The Working Poor: Invisible in America
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...
|
||||||
Used: $10.50 Hardcover List Price $19.95
add to wish list |
|
Seventeen Traditions (07 Edition)
by Ralph Nader Publisher Comments Ralph Nader is known for his lifetime of progressive activism and fearless critique of corruption in American politics and society. Yet in this fresh and inspiring new book, Nader takes a look backwardandndash;at a serene and enriching childhood spent in...
|
||||||
Used: $6.71 Hardcover List Price $21.00
add to wish list |
|
Assassination Vacation
by Sarah Vowell
Powells.com Staff Pick Leave it to Sarah Vowell to roam across America in search of the motivations and culture of political murder. Obsessive, edifying, and, of course, witty, Assassination Vacation is unlike any other historical tourism or travel writing book you'll ever...
|
||||||
Sale: $7.98 Trade Paper List Price $16.95
add to wish list |
|
The Creation of the Media: Political Origins of Modern Communications
by Paul Starr Publisher Comments America's leading role in today's information revolution may seem simply to reflect its position as the world's dominant economy and most powerful state. But by the early nineteenth century, when the United States was neither a world power nor a primary...
|
||||||
New: $25.00 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer
by Michael A. Elliott Publisher Comments On a hot summer day in 1876, George Armstrong Custer led the Seventh Cavalry to the most famous defeat in U.S. military history. Outnumbered and exhausted, the Seventh Cavalry lost more than half of its 400 men, and every soldier under Custer’s...
|
||||||
Used: $5.95 Trade Paper List Price $14.95
add to wish list |
|
Apocalypse Culture
by Adam Parfrey Publisher Comments Two thousand years have passed since the death of Christ and the world is going mad. Nihilist prophets, born-again pornographers, transcendental schizophrenics and just plain folks are united in their belief in an imminent global catastrophe. What are...
|
||||||
Used: $4.95 Trade Paper List Price $14.00
add to wish list |
|
Postethnic America Beyond Multiculturali
by David A Hollinger Publisher Comments Sympathetic with the new ethnic consciousness, Hollinger argues that the conventional liberal toleration of all established ethnic groups no longer works because it leaves unchallenged the prevailing imbalance of power. Yet the multiculturalist...
|
||||||
Used: $5.95 Hardcover List Price $24.95
add to wish list |
|
Pretensions to Empire: Notes on the Criminal Folly of the Bush Administration
by Lewis Lapham Publisher Comments The preeminent political essayist writes about the perversion of America's democratic legacy under George W. Bush—and makes a compelling case for impeachment. Lewis Lapham stands virtually alone among mainstream American journalists in having...
|
||||||
Used: $5.21 Hardcover List Price $23.95
add to wish list |
|
Skipping Towards Gomorrah: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Pursuit of Happiness in America
by Dan Savage Publisher Comments Dan Savage is irreverent, irrepressible, and opinionated. He's held his own on Politically Incorrect, told tales on This American Life, continues to write a beloved nationally syndicated column-and he's had it up to here (my hand is higher than my head...
|
||||||
Used: $13.00 Hardcover List Price $26.00
add to wish list |
|
Over Here (06 Edition)
by Humes Publisher Comments In 1944, the U.S. government feared the flood of returning World War II soldiers as much as it looked forward to peace. To avoid economic catastrophe, FDR, the American Legion, William Randolph Hearst, and others began crafting the Servicemen’s...
|
||||||
New: $25.00 Hardcover
add to wish list |
|
Ain't My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle-American Anti-Imperialism
by Bill Kauffman Publisher Comments From “the finest literary stylist of the American right,” a surprising and spirited account of how true conservatives have always been antiwar and anti-empire (Allan Carlson, author of The American Way) Conservatives love war, empire...
|
||||||
Used: $6.95 Trade Paper List Price $16.00
add to wish list |
|
The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America
by Louis Menand
Publisher Comments Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History A riveting, original book about the creation of modern American thought. The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included...
|
||||||
Used: $4.95 Hardcover List Price $27.00
add to wish list |
|
The Metaphysical Club: A Study of Ideas in America
by Louis Menand
Publisher Comments Winner of the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for History A riveting, original book about the creation of modern American thought. The Metaphysical Club was an informal group that met in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1872, to talk about ideas. Its members included...
|
||||||
Used: $11.50 Trade Paper List Price $25.00
add to wish list |
|
Childhood in America
by Paula Fass Synopsis The family lies at the center of raging public debates over work, parenthood, welfare, and values-debates that cut across lines of race, politics, and class. In the media, in discussions of public policy, and in the courts, this debate is critically...
|
||||||
Used: $18.95 Hardcover List Price $28.95
add to wish list |
|
Boom!: Voices of the Sixties: Personal Reflections on the '60s and Today
by Tom Brokaw Publisher Comments In The Greatest Generation, his landmark bestseller, Tom Brokaw eloquently evoked for America what it meant to come of age during the Great Depression and the Second World War. Now, in Boom!, one of America's premier journalists gives us an epic portrait...
|
||||||
