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Here, There and Everywhere by Reinhol Wagnleitner Publisher Comments Essays analyzing the stunning global success of American popular culture from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Shows to the Internet as the new American frontier.... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Heterodoxy Handbook by David Horowitz Publisher Comments A collection of the most worthy pieces from Heterodoxy, an irreverent monthly journal combating the folly of political correctness.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Abbie Hoffman: American Rebel by Marty Jezer Publisher Comments The author takes a look into the life of Abbie Hoffman. The focus is on Abbie's life as an activist: the social, cultural, and political milieu in which he worked; the ideas that inspired his work; and what happened to America when he put his ideas into... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 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... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Democracy Is in the Streets: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago by James Miller Publisher Comments On June 12, 1962, sixty young student activists drafted a manifesto for their generation--"The Port Huron Statement"--that ignited a decade of dissent. "Democracy Is in the Streets" is the definitive history of the major people and ideas that shaped the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Signs and Wonders: The Secrets of Mystical Marketing by Tama Starr Publisher Comments Signs and Wonders is a richly detailed history of the giant animated signs known as spectaculars, the evolution of which has mirrored the evolution of American commerce and society throughout the twentieth century. Although the book concentrates on Times... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Savage Pastimes: A Cultural History of Violent Entertainment by Harold Schechter Publisher Comments Does violence in movies, on television and in comic strips and cartoons rot our children's brains and make zombies-or worse, criminals-of adults at the fringes? In this cogent, well-researched book, American pop-culture expert Harold Schechter argues... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list In Glory's Shadow: The Citadel, Shannon Faulkner, and a Changing America by Catherine Manegold Publisher Comments In Glory's Shadow explores the history of The Citadel, an institution set on preserving tradition in the face of profound change. Established by Charleston, South Carolina's fearful white majority in 1822 as protection against slave insurrections, a... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $4.43 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir by Janice Erlbaum Publisher Comments Just two hours ago, I had been heating up some lentil soup at my mom's in Brooklyn, thinking I'd eat it and maybe read some Edith Wharton before bed. Now here I was at a runaway shelter, staring at a nun's mustache and wondering where I was going to... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $9.25 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Greater Generation: In Defense of the Baby Boom Legacy by Leonard Steinhorn Publisher Comments The Greatest Generation gets credit for winning World War II and braving the Depression. But the Baby Boomers? All they get credit for is knowing how to order a tall skim double latte. What really is the true legacy of the Boomers? Summoning the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) 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   Exodus to the Virtual World: How Online Fun Is Changing Reality by Edward Castronova Publisher Comments Virtual worlds have exploded out of online game culture and now capture the attention of millions of ordinary people: husbands, wives, fathers, mothers, workers, retirees. Devoting dozens of hours each week to massively multiplayer virtual reality... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture by Michael Bellesiles Publisher Comments Michael A. Bellesiles' Arming America is a stunning and seminal book that challenges everything we've previously been taught about America's history with guns. Painstakingly examining the historical record, Bellesiles shatters the myth of our gun... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Great Funk: Falling Apart and Coming Together (on a Shag Rug) in the Seventies by Thomas Hine Publisher Comments Hines history of the 1970s maps a complex era by looking at its ideas, feelings, sex, fashions, textures, gestures, colors, demographic forces, artistic expressions, and other phenomena that had shaped an era.... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $19.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Fatherless America: Confronting Our Most Urgent Social Problem by David Blankenhorn Publisher Comments A compelling and controversial exploration of absentee fathers and their impact on the nation.... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Religion Race & Justice in a Changing by Gary Orfield Publisher Comments In many respects, religion was a bedrock of the civil rights movement during the 1950s and 1960s. Theology infused the spirit and rhetoric of the movement, churches served as the gathering place for its followers, and men of the cloth--foremost among... (read more) Your price $10.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Off Ramp: Adventures and Heartache in the American Elsewhere by Hank Stuever Publisher Comments "I'm the one they send to the trailer park outside Chimayo, New Mexico, to see the place where the guy went crazy and shot somebody. I'm the one who gets sent to the monster truck show, Lollapalooza concerts, the world's biggest bridal fair. Readers warm... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Saboteurs: The Nazi Raid on America by Michael Dobbs Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-304) and index.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Practical LSD Manufacture by Uncle Fester Synopsis This book contains the most detailed, comprehensive and concise descriptions ever compiled of several innovative procedures for extracting LSD from natural sources, as well as a stunning breakthrough in psychedelic drug preparation: a simple process for... (read more) Your price $26.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Gathering Storm Americas Militia Threat by Morris Dees Publisher Comments On October 26, 1994, Morris Dees wrote Attorney General Janet Reno to alert her to the danger posed by the growing number of radical militia groups. He warned the Attorney General that the "mixture of armed groups and those who hate is a recipe for... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list American Bee: The National Spelling Bee and the Culture of Word Nerds; The Lives of Five Top Spellers as They Compete for Glory and by James Maguire Publisher Comments Every spring after a starting pool of 10 million kids narrows to 250 finalists, America's top young spellers face off in a nail-biting contest. This narrative book immerses the reader in a unique subculture, portraying the endearing fraternity of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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