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This Land Is Their Land: Reports from a Divided Nation
by Barbara Ehrenreich  Publisher Comments America in the 'aughts — hilariously skewered, brilliantly dissected, and darkly diagnosed by the bestselling social critic hailed as "the soul mate"* of Jonathan Swift. Barbara Ehrenreich's first book of satirical commentary, The Worst Years of...
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Anglophilia: Deference, Devotion, and Antebellum America
by Elisa Tamarkin Review "Anglophilia takes a commonsensical subject-nineteenth-century adulation for and emulation of British culture-and shows us both why it doesn't mean what we thought and why it's worthy of closer study and more careful attention. This is a rare gem of a...
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Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art Out of Desperate Times
by Susan Quinn Publisher Comments A vivid portrait of the turbulent 1930s and the Roosevelt administration as seen through the WPA’s Federal Theater Project.Under the direction of a five-foot redheaded firecracker, Hallie Flanagan, the Federal Theater Project managed to turn a WPA...
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Graffiti Paris
by Fabienne Grevy Publisher Comments Graffiti artists in Paris, much like in New York and Los Angeles, have transformed urban spaces—sidewalks, metro stations, staircases, abandoned buildings—into showrooms that exhibit their work in all of its many mediums, from a proliferation...
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California World History Library #8: Island World: A History of Hawai'i and the United States
by Gary Y Okihiro Synopsis "This quirky, brilliant book gives the reader the thrill of cultural history done well. Okihiro undertakes a conventional topic in a jarring way, avoiding the assumption of set boundaries of nations and human societies."--Henry Yu, author of "Thinking...
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Americans All: The Cultural Gifts Movement
by Diana Selig Publisher Comments From the 1920sandmdash;a decade marked by racism and nativismandmdash;through World War II, hundreds of thousands of Americans took part in a vibrant campaign to overcome racial, ethnic, and religious prejudices. They celebrated the andldquo;cultural...
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American Mediterranean: Southern Slaveholders in the Age of Emancipation
by Matthew Prat Guterl Publisher Comments How did slave-owning Southern planters make sense of the transformation of their world in the Civil War era? Matthew Pratt Guterl shows that they looked beyond their borders for answers. He traces the links that bound them to the wider fraternity of...
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Richistan: A Journey Through the American Wealth Boom and the Lives of the New Rich
by Robert Frank Publisher Comments THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER RICH-I-STAN n. 1. a new country located in the heart of America, populated entirely by millionaires, most of whom acquired their wealth during the new Gilded Age of the past twenty years. 2. a country with a population...
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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting by in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich Publisher Comments The bestselling, landmark work of undercover reportage, now updated Acclaimed as an instant classic upon publication, Nickel and Dimed has sold more than 1.5 million copies and become a staple of classroom reading. Chosen for “one book”...
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The Nazi Connection: Eugenics, American Racism, and German National Socialism
by Stefan Kuhl Publisher Comments When Hitler published Mein Kampf in 1924, he held up a foreign law as a model for his program of racial purification: The U.S. Immigration Restriction Act of 1924, which prohibited the immigration of those with hereditary illnesses and entire ethnic...
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