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Social Darwinism in American Thought
by Richard Hofstadter  Publisher Comments Tracing the impact of Darwin on thinkers throughout the gilded Age and the Progressive era, 'Social Darwinism' shows how a politically neutral scientific theory has been adapted with skillful rhetoric to contradictory purposes....
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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...
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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...
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Born Losers: A History of Failure in America
by Scott A Sandage Publisher Comments What makes somebody a Loser, a person doomed to unfulfilled dreams and humiliation? Nobody is born to lose, and yet failure embodies our worst fears. The Loser is our national bogeyman, and his history over the past two hundred years reveals the dark...
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Declaring Independence: Jefferson, Natural Language and the Culture of Performance
by Jay Fliegelman Publisher Comments This book sets the Declaration of Independence and the American Revolution in general in the context of a revolution in rhetorical theory and practice that sought to discover a new language, a natural language equivalent to natural law that would permit,...
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Life as We Know It: A Collection of Personal Essays from Salon.com
by Jennifer Foote Sweeney Publisher Comments "...these essays are jewels of the unexpected, and in introducing them, I don't want to steal any of their surprise. Suffice it to say that family life...is alive and well, but it is not like anything you ever read about before in your life." -- Jane...
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Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream
by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments The New York Times bestselling investigation into white-collar unemployment from “our premier reporter of the underside of capitalism”—The New York Times Book Review Americans’ working lives are growing more precarious every day...
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Highbrow Lowbrow: The Emergence of Cultural Hierarchy in America
by Lawrence W Levine Publisher Comments In this unusually wide-ranging study, spanning more than a century and covering such diverse forms of expressive culture as Shakespeare, Central Park, symphonies, jazz, art museums, the Marx Brothers, opera, and vaudeville, a leading cultural historian...
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Rejuvenile: Kickball, Cartoons, Cupcakes, and the Reinvention of the American Grown-Up
by Christopher Noxon Publisher Comments Witty, big-hearted, and razor smart, this text describes and analyzes a new breed of adult who sees growing up as winding down--as trading playfulness, wonderment, and openness to change for a stultifying life of order....
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A Hundred Little Hitlers: The Death of a Black Man, the Trial of a White Racist, and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in America
by Elinor Langer 
Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-381) and index....
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Gun Show Nation: Gun Culture and American Democracy
by Joan Burbick Publisher Comments From the floor of American gun shows, this fascinating historical expos shows how guns have burrowed into the heart of American democracy....
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Obit.: Inspiring Stories of Ordinary People Who Led Extraordinary Lives
by Jim Sheeler Publisher Comments Like Everything I Really Needed to Know, I Learned in Kindergarten, or Tuesdays with Morrie, Obit is a wise and deeply moving book that illuminates the human condition. For ten years, Jim Sheeler has scoured Colorado looking for subjects whose stories he...
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Cosmopolitanism and Solidarity: Studies in Ethnoracial, Religious, and Professional Affiliation in the United States (Studies in American Thought and Culture)
by David Hollinger Publisher Comments "Who are we?" is the question at the core of these fascinating essays from one of the nation's leading intellectual historians. With old identities increasingly destabilized throughout the world--the result of demographic migration, declining empires...
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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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My Misspent Youth
by Meghan Daum
Publisher Comments An essayist in the tradition of Joan Didion, Meghan Daum is one of the most celebrated nonfiction writers of her generation, widely recognized for her fresh, provocative approach with which she unearths the hidden fault lines in the American landscape...
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Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
by Neil Postman Publisher Comments In this witty, often terrifying work of cultural criticism, the author of Amusing Ourselves to Death chronicles our transformation into a Technopoly: a society that no longer merely uses technology as a support system but instead is shaped by it--with...
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Fat Land: How Americans Became the Fattest People in the World
by Greg Critser Publisher Comments In this astonishing expose, journalist Greg Critser looks beyond the sensational headlines to reveal why nearly 60 percent of Americans are now overweight. Critser's sharp-eyed reportage and sharp-tongued analysis make for a disarmingly funny and truly...
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Horsemen of the Esophagus : Competitive Eating and the Big Fat American Dream (06 Edition)
by Jason Fagone Publisher Comments A young journalist follows a year in the life of competitive eating, the quintessential sport of 21st century America, and explores the big American appetite--for food, for fame, for competition, for money, for love--through the prism of this luridly...
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Sleeping With Extra-terrestrials : the Rise of Irrationalism and Perils of Piety (99 Edition)
by Wendy Kaminer Publisher Comments In Sleeping with Extra-Terrestrials, social critic Wendy Kaminer illuminates the various ways in which society has come to value emotion over reason, faith over fact, and argues that declarations of intense belief have largely taken the place of rational...
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Community and Social Change in America
by Thomas Bender Publisher Comments Did urbanization kill communities in the 19th century, or even earlier? Many historians proclaim that it did, but author Bender says otherwise. Here he argues that community survived the trials of industrialization and urbanization and remains a...
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