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These United States: A Portrait of America by John Leonard Publisher Comments In 1922, The Nation launched a series of forty-nine articles by a distinguished group of writers—novelists, journalists, educators, social workers, lawyers, unionists, and maverick intellectuals—each of whom was asked to contemplate his or... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 66 Frames by Gordon Ball Synopsis "This book made me want to take acid and have sex with lots of people. It also made me want to stay up all night in the company of my genius friends in the mid-sixties in New York's Lower East Side." -- Andrei Codrescu Part hip expose of the New York... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Hip: The History (P.S.) by John Leland Publisher Comments Hip: The History is the story of how American pop culture has evolved throughout the twentieth century to its current position as world cultural touchstone. How did hip become such an obsession? From sex and music to fashion and commerce, John Leland... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The 1980s (American Popular Culture Through History) by Bob Batchelor Publisher Comments The eighties are seen by many as a time of excess and extremes. From Boy George to Madonna, metal heads to valley girls, and workout clothes to shoulder pads, many pushed the boundaries of what was was conventional. After a decade of war, disillusionment... (read more) List Price $61.75 Your price $49.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Widening Gap: Why America's Working Families Are in Jeopardy and What Can Be Done about It by Jody Heymann Publisher Comments This hard-hitting book draws on the first systematic national research on how the need to meet family obligations is affecting working Americans of all social classes and ethnic groups. What happens when kids get sick? When an elderly parent is... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $6.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Closing: The Life and Death of an American Factory (Lyndhurst Series on the South) by William L Bamberger Synopsis The story of the White Furniture Company--a century-old family-owned business that was bought out by a huge corporation and later closed--puts a human face on the economic realities of the 1990s. 92 photos, 31 in color. National TV & radio features.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.96 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Transnational America: Cultural Pluralist Thought in the Twentieth Century (American Intellectual Culture) by Everett Helmut Akam Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-211) and index.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fame Junkies: The Hidden Truths Behind America's Favorite Addiction by Jake Halpern Publisher Comments A prismatic portrait of our national obsession with celebrity, in the tradition of Fast Food Nation and Blink. For several years, Jake Halpern has reported on Hollywood for NPR's "All Things Considered." In his new book, he explores the fascinating... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Abandoned: The Betrayal of the American Middle Class Since World War II by William J Quirk Synopsis Do you consider yourself a member of the middle class? Eighty percent of Americans describe themselves in those terms; working-class citizens who are neither rich nor poor. Has the government addressed the needs of the middle class to your satisfaction... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $2.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Consumer Society (Consumer Society, 1996) by Neva R Goodwin Publisher Comments The developed countries, particularly the United States, consume a disproportionate share of the world's resources, yet high and rising levels of consumption do not necessarily lead to greater satisfaction, security, or well-being, even for affluent... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price $32.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

Sign up for our Recently Arrived Used Books newsletter service and find great used titles in American Studies on the very day they're added to our shelves. email address   Street Trends: How Today's Alternative Youth Cultures Are Creating Tomorrow's Mainstream by Jani Lopiano-misdom Book News Annotation Sputnik is a marketing research firm that interviews and videotapes members of alternative youth cultures in order to identify trends before they reach mainstream youth. The authors describe several microcultures identified by Sputnik, making frequent... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Long Time Gone: Sixties America Then and Now (Viewpoints on American Culture) by Alexander Bloom Publisher Comments With remarkable speed, the Sixties have gone from lived history to mythology. They remain alive in our culture in a manner different from any previous era. At the dawn of a new century, we are still debating the issues that emerged during that decade... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Who Are We: The Challenges to America's National Identity by Samuel P Huntington Publisher Comments In his seminal work The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, Samuel Huntington argued provocatively and presciently that with the end of the cold war, "civilizations" were replacing ideologies as the new fault lines in international... (read more) List Price $27.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America (Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies) by Alan Mintz Book News Annotation Protesting that he is a specialist neither in Holocaust studies nor American studies, Mintz (Hebrew literature, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York City) speaks as a cultural critic and an American Jew who is concerned for the future of Holocaust... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list In the Know: The Classic Guide to Being Cultured and Cool by Nancy Macdonell Synopsis From the author of The Classic Ten comes the ultimate crash course for every aspiring woman There are still a few things money canat buy. Love is one, cool is another. The good news is that cool isnat inherent, itas a code, and the code can be cracked... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Pot Planet: Adventures in Global Marijuana Culture by Brian Preston Review "...Among the most fascinating aspects of his book, which is a mix of travelog, cultural history, and screed, are his investigations of the arcana of marijuana culture,...."Library Journal... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Redneck Manifesto: How Hillbillies, Hicks, and White Trash Became America's Scapegoats by Jim Goad Publisher Comments Culture maverick Jim Goad presents a thoroughly reasoned, darkly funny, and rampagingly angry defense of America's most maligned social group -- the cultural clan variously referred to as rednecks, hillbillies, white trash, crackers, and trailer trash... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Luxury Fever: Money and Happiness in an Era of Excess by Robert Frank Review is an important book. . . . It's admirable that an economist makes use of the research of behavioral biologists and evolutionary psychologists to explain why consumers spend as they do.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cynicism and the Evolution of the American Dream by Wilber W. Caldwell Publisher Comments Today we face America??'s most terrifying enemy ever: an indigenous insurgent army made up of millions of our own citizens. We snipe at each other from behind impregnable barricades of cynicism, mocking efforts to move ahead and scoffing at once... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list America Reborn: A Twentieth-Century Narrative in Twenty-Six Lives (Vintage) by Martin Walker Synopsis In America Reborn, journalist and historian Martin Walker defines twentieth-century America through the portraits of twenty-six American individuals whose accomplishments, innovations and ideals propelled the United States to a position of global... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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