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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...
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50 American Revolutions You're Not Supposed to Know: Reclaiming American Patriotism
by Mickey Z Publisher Comments Since when was it unpatriotic to dissent? Why is it "un-American"to question our government's policies? And how did the Far Right manage to claim the flag exclusively for itself? A book that the country desperately needs, 50 American Revolutionsis a...
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Fear of Falling: The Inner Life of the Middle Class
by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments A brilliant and insightful work that examines the insecurities of the middle class in an attempt to explain its turn to the right during the past two decades, Fear of Falling traces the myths about the middle class to their roots in the ambitions and...
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Working: People Talk about What They Do All Day and How They Feel about What They Do
by Studs Terkel 
Publisher Comments Studs Terkel records the voices of America. Men and women from every walk of life talk to him, telling him of their likes and dislikes, fears, problems, and happinesses on the job. Once again, Terkel has created a rich and unique document that is as...
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The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid of the Wrong Things
by Barry Glassner
Publisher Comments There has never been another era in modern history, even during wartime or the Great Depression, when so many people have feared so much. Three out of four Americans say they feel more fearful today then they did twenty years ago. The Culture of Fear...
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Spring Forward: The Annual Madness of Daylight Saving
by Michael Downing Publisher Comments Michael Downing is obsessed with Daylight Saving, a loopy idea that became the most persistent political controversy in American history. Almost one hundred years ago, lawmakers across the country first debated, ridiculed, and then passionately embraced...
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Hail Babylon
by Andrei Codrescu Publisher Comments Andrei Codrescu takes us cross-country through the withered, yet alluring American urban landscape, visiting New York, Baltimore, New Orleans, Little Rock, San Antonio, Albuquerque, Las Vegas, and Portland, Oregon. He discovers that cities are at the...
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Grit Beneath the Glitter: Tales from the Real Las Vegas
by Hal Rothman Synopsis Long-time residents and professionals reflect on the transformation of one of the fastest-growing and most famous cities on Earth, Las Vegas. They offer a portrait of the other side of the city - the people and institutions that support the glitter of...
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Something Happened: A Political and Cultural Overview of the Seventies
by Edward D Berkowitz Publisher Comments In both the literal and metaphorical senses, it seemed as if 1970s America was running out of gas. The decade not only witnessed long lines at gas stations but a citizenry that had grown weary and disillusioned. High unemployment, runaway inflation, and...
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Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
by Rebecca Solnit Publisher Comments Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. Storming the Gates of Paradise, an anthology of her essential essays from the past...
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Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace (Russell Sage Foundation Books at Harvard University Press)
by Nancy Maclean Publisher Comments In the 1950s, the exclusion of women and of black and Latino men from higher-paying jobs was so universal as to seem normal to most Americans. Today, diversity in the workforce is a point of pride. How did such a transformation come about? In this bold...
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Tale of Two Utopias : the Political Journey of the Generation of 1968 (96 Edition)
by Paul Berman Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-343) and index....
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The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice
by Greil Marcus Publisher Comments A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year A London Times Literary Supplement Best Book of the Year In this exhilarating and kaleidoscopic investigation of American identity, Greil...
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You Have No Rights: Stories of America in an Age of Repression
by Matthew Rothschild Publisher Comments Chilling true stories of ordinary Americans whose everyday liberties have been violated since September 11. "I'm very liberal and sometimes my friends say I'm giving them some kind of paranoid, nutty stuff, and I agree, but then the FBI show up."—...
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Lost and Found: My Life in a Group Marriage Commune (Counterculture Series)
by Margaret Hollenbach Publisher Comments In 1970 Margaret Hollenbach, an idealistic twenty-five-year-old graduate school dropout, changed her name and gave up her possessions to join a commune known as The Family, located in Taos, New Mexico. The Family believed in group marriage and practiced...
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Snobbery: The American Version
by Joseph Epstein
Publisher Comments 'A national bestseller, Snobbery examines the discriminating qualities in all of us. With dishy detail, Joseph Epstein skewers all manner of elitism in contemporary America. He offers his arch observations of the new footholds of snobbery: food, fashion,...
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Branded Nation: The Marketing of Megachurch, College, Inc., and Museumworld
by James B Twitchell Publisher Comments Branding has become so successful and so ubiquitous that even cultural institutions have embraced it. In this witty and trenchant social analysis, James Twitchell shows how churches, universities, and museums have learned to embrace Madison Avenue rather...
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Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America
by Steve Almond
Powells.com Staff Pick Here's a great recipe: Take one often-obsessed-upon food item, one aptly named author, and an enormous amount of writing talent. Mix them all together and you have Candyfreak. A great book that melts in your mind, not in your hand. Danielle, Powells...
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Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
by Barbara Ehrenreich
Powells.com Staff Pick Bait and Switch, Barbara Ehrenreich's remarkable follow-up to Nickel and Dimed, examines life in the ever-increasing population of the white-collar unemployed. Veering from the absurd (Wizard of Oz dolls) to the unsettling (Christian prayer breakfasts...
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The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy
by Nicholas Lemann
Publisher Comments A major work of social history that asks profound moral and political questions about what is right for American society. This brilliant book shows us for the first time the ideas, the people, and the politics behind a fifty-year-old utopian social...
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