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Land of Lincoln: Adventures in Abe's America
by Andrew Ferguson  
Publisher Comments Before he grew up and became one of Washington's most respected reporters and editors, Andrew Ferguson was, of all things, a Lincoln buff — with the photos hung on his bedroom wall to prove it. Decades later, Ferguson's latent buffdom is reignited...
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Take the Cannoli: Stories from the New World
by Sarah Vowell Publisher Comments Take the Cannoli is a moving and wickedly funny collection of personal stories stretching across the immense landscape of the American scene. Hailed by Newsweek as a "cranky stylist with talent to burn," Vowell has an irresistible voice -- caustic and...
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Chuck Klosterman, Volume 4: A Decade of Curious People and Dangerous Ideas
by Chuck Klosterman
Powells.com Staff Pick One of Klosterman's most "dangerous ideas" may be his assertion that Billy Joel is a fantastic songwriter, but, oddly enough, his profile on the singer is not only fascinating, it earned him the wrath of Mr. Joel himself. How ironic! And yet, perhaps...
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Going Postal: Rage, Murder, and Rebellion: From Reagan's Workplaces to Clinton's Columbine and Beyond
by Mark Ames Publisher Comments An eye-opening look at the phenomenon of school and workplace shootings in America, Going Postal explores the rage-murder phenomenon that has plagued — and baffled — America for the last three decades, and offers some provocative answers to the...
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The Average American: The Extraordinary Search for the Nation's Most Ordinary Citizen
by Kevin O'keefe Publisher Comments Send an e-card for The Average American! Click here. John Q Public. Plain Jane. The Average Joe. We think we know the type, but have we ever actually met the person? To be the perfectly average American is harder than it might seem: You must live within...
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Inspired Madness: The Gifts of Burning Man
by Dale Pendell Publisher Comments In part a nonfiction discussion of the Burning Man festival, in part a poetic romp through Nevada’s Black Rock desert, Inspired Madness is both an irreverent introduction for those curious about the notorious event and an exhilarating reminiscence for...
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Born to Buy: The Commercialized Child and the New Consumer Culture
by Juliet B. Schor Publisher Comments Ads aimed at kids are virtually everywhere — in classrooms and textbooks, on the Internet, even at slumber parties and the playground. Product placement and other innovations have introduced more subtle advertising to movies and television...
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Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
by Eric Schlosser
Publisher Comments Are we what we eat? To a degree both engrossing and alarming, the story of fast food is the story of postwar Amerca. Though created by a handful of mavericks, the fast food industry has triggered the homogenization of our society. Fast food has hastened...
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Bobos in Paradise: The New Upper Class and How They Got There
by David Brooks
Powells.com Staff Pick For the past two hundred years, bohemians and bourgeois have loved to hate one another. To the moneyed classes, concerned with stability and respectability, bohemians had dubious morals and unsightly hair. And for the artists and intellectuals...
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Building a Bridge to the 18th Century: How the Past Can Improve Our Future
by Neil Postman Publisher Comments At a time when we are reexamining our values, reeling from the pace of change, witnessing the clash between good instincts and "pragmatism," dealing with the angst of a new millennium, Neil Postman, one of our most distinguished observers of contemporary...
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Eating in the Dark: America's Experiment with Genetically Engineered Food
by Kathleen Hart
Publisher Comments Most Americans eat genetically modified food on a daily basis. Yet many of us are barely aware that we’re eating something that has been altered; food labels do not include information on ingredients that have been genetically modified, and the...
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Racial Diversity and Social Capital (07 Edition)
by Hero Publisher Comments This book connects and critically assesses two bodies of research - social capital and racial diversity....
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Honky
by Dalton Conley Publisher Comments As recalled in Honky, Dalton Conley’s childhood has all of the classic elements of growing up in America. But the fact that he was one of the few white boys in a mostly black and Puerto Rican neighborhood on Manhattan’s Lower East Side makes...
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Workers and the Wild: Conservation, Consumerism, and Labor in Oregon, 1910-30 (Working Class in American History)
by Lawrence M. Lipin Publisher Comments In an innovative blend of environmental and labor history, Workers and the Wild examines the changing terms on which battles over the proper use of nature were fought in the early twentieth century. Focusing on Oregon in the 1910s and 1920s, Lawrence M...
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American: Beyond Our Grandest Notions
by Chris Matthews Publisher Comments From Chris Matthews, host of MSNBC's Hardball and NBC's The Chris Matthews Show, and New York Times bestselling author of Now, Let Me Tell You What I Really Think, comes a definitive work on the lifeblood of America -- its enduring spirit. People have...
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Home: The Blueprints of Our Lives
by John Edwards Publisher Comments A popular former senator and 2004 vice presidential candidate presents an inspiring mosaic of how childhood homes and communities shape a person's adult life, in a collection of narratives by such figures as Stephen Spielberg, John Glenn, and Sugar Ray...
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Class : a Guide Through the American Status System (83 Edition)
by Paul Fussell Publisher Comments In Class Paul Fussell explodes the sacred American myth of social equality with eagle-eyed irreverence and iconoclastic wit. This bestselling, superbly researched, exquisitely observed guide to the signs, symbols, and customs of the American class...
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The Cheating Culture: Why More Americans Are Doing Wrong to Get Ahead
by David Callahan Publisher Comments Free cable television. Imaginary tax deductions. Do you take your chance to cheat? David Callahan thinks many of us would; witness corporate scandals, doping athletes, plagiarizing journalists. Why all the cheating? Why now? Callahan blames the dog-eat...
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The Gospel of Food: Everything You Think You Know about Food Is Wrong
by Barry Glassner Publisher Comments Enjoy what you eat. From the author of the national bestseller The Culture of Fear comes a rallying cry to abandon food fads and myths for calmer and more pleasurable eating. For many Americans, eating is a religion. We worship at the temples of...
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The Betrayal of Work: How Low-Wage Jobs Fail 30 Million Americans
by Beth Shulman Publisher Comments The book Newsweek's Anna Quindlen said should be required reading for every presidential candidate and member of Congress. Following its publication in hardcover, the critically acclaimed The Betrayal of Work became one of the most influential policy...
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