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Gun Show Nation: Gun Culture and American Democracy
by Joan Burbick
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From the floor of American gun shows, a fascinating historical exposé of how guns have burrowed into the heart of American democracy. "To understand gun talk, I had to understand what America means to millions of ordinary people and how these... ( read more)
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We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against
by Nichola Von Hoffman
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The classic account of the 1960s counterculture in San Francisco. A rare example of journalism that approaches art in one direction and the best of social science in another... ( read more)
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My Pilgrim's Progress : Media Studies, 1950-1998 (99 Edition)
by George W. S. Trow
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Trow takes us from 1950 to 1997 by reading newspapers, going to the movies, and watching television, and, in the end, is able to show us just how we got to where we are now. Trow takes the year 1950 as the year the Old World gave way to the New: Winston... ( read more)
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Maxed Out: Hard Times, Easy Credit, and the Era of Predatory Lenders
by James Scurlock
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How much money do you owe on your credit card bills? Paying off a mortgage, home equity loan, or college loan, too? Our culture has come to take debt for granted, but this hasn't always been the norm. Over the last generation in America, James Scurlock... ( read more)
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Magic of the Sixties
by Gene Anthony
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Relive one of the most magical times in history, a time that saw profound cultural and spiritual change throughout the world, but nowhere more than in the San Francisco Bay of the mid to late 1960's. Author and photographer Gene Anthony was there... ( read more)
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Blubberland: Dangers of Happiness (08 Edition)
by Elizabeth Farrelly
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I, like you, drive too much. I buy too muchandmdash;of which I keep too much and also throw too much away. I overindulge my children, and myself. Directly as well as indirectly I use too much water, energy, air and space. My existence, in short, costs... ( read more)
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The Secret Lives of Citizens: Pursuing the Promise of American Life
by Thomas Geoghegan
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In this witty combination of memoir and observation, Thomas Geoghegan addresses the widespread cynicism about our government and explores what it means to be a "national" civil servant and a "local" citizen. "This is unlike any public-policy book I've... ( read more)
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Patriotism and the American Land
by Richard Nelson and Barry Lopez and Terry Tempest Williams
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Terrorism. Homeland Security. Patriotism. Since September 11, 2001, these
terms have emerged as a fundamental part of our cultural lexicon, with their
unsaid assumptions and attendant emotions being used to inspire and buttress
a varied set of... ( read more)
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West of Emerson
by Kris Fresonke
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 183-195) and index.... ( read more)
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Reefer Madness: Sex, Drugs, and Cheap Labor in the American Black Market
by Eric Schlosser
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Americas 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 exacting... ( read more)
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The New Mainstream: How the Multicultural Consumer Is Transforming American Business
by Guy Garcia
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An economic revolution is transforming America: the New Mainstream. In this groundbreaking book, Guy Garcia explains how Americans will eat, work, play, learn, and spend money in the twenty-first century -- and why any organization that ignores the... ( read more)
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A Bee in the Mouth: Anger in America Now
by Peter Wood
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America has gotten into ugly moods before, but never as today. In taking us on a guided tour of American acrimony, Peter Wood traces the roots of anger's triumph in our social and political world. He examines the liberating bromides of psychotherapists... ( read more)
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Apocalypse Pretty Soon
by Alex Heard
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Over a ten-year period, intrepid cultural traveler Alex Heard has been sojourning among America's most intensely religious and political believers -- sometimes dark, sometimes joyful, usually bizarre, and very occasionally deadly groups who bring their... ( read more)
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The Long March: How the Cultural Revolution of the 1960s Changed America
by Roger Kimball
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Managing editor of the and art critic, Kimball
continues his tirade against the cultural revolution of the 1950s and
1960s. He argues that the upheaval caused by the war in Vietnam
allowed the ideology of the counterculture to escape from its... ( read more)
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A Cycle of Outrage: America's Reaction to the Juvenile Delinquent in the 1950s
by James B Gilbert
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The youth culture is on everyone's lips today, as pressures build to ban controversial song lyrics, reintroduce school prayer, and prohibit teenagers' access to contraceptives. It's not the first time Americans have been outraged over the "seuction of... ( read more)
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Coming of Age : Growing Up in the Twentieth Century (07 Edition)
by Studs Terkel
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"Inspired...the language spoken here is pure Terkel."—The New York Times Book Review A New York Times bestseller when it was first published in 1995, Coming of Age presents an astonishing portrait of American life and the experience of aging in the... ( read more)
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Sixties Chronicle
by David Farber
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The Sixties Chronicle explores those turbulent 10 years like no other book ever published. Hundreds of compelling photographs capture the drama and emotions of the era, both domestic and abraod. In-depth essays analyze the seirling currents of the times.... ( read more)
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Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation
by Nancy F Cott
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We commonly think of marriage as a private matter between two people, a personal expression of love and commitment. In this pioneering history, Nancy F. Cott demonstrates that marriage is and always has been a public institution. From the founding of the... ( read more)
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Under the Influence: The Disinformation Guide to Drugs
by Preston Peet
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In the latest in the oversize Disinformation Guide series of anthologies, editor Preston Peet assembles an all-star cast to lay to rest the specious misinformation peddled by prohibitionists who depend upon the "War on somedrugs and users"for their... ( read more)
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Loose Change: Three Women of the Sixties
by Sara Davidson
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This is a compelling story of the experiences of three young women who attended the University of California at Berkeley and became caught up in the tumultuous changes of the Sixties. Sara Davidson follows the three--Susie, Tasha, and Sara herself--from... ( read more)
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