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The Radical Will: Selected Writings, 1911-1918 by Randolph Bourne Synopsis Randolph Bourne was only thirty-two when he died in 1918, but he left a legacy of astonishingly mature and incisive writings on politics, literature, and culture, which were of enormous influence in shaping the American intellectual climate of the 1920s... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Coming of Age: The Story of Our Century by Those Who've Lived It by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments "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) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Under the Influence: The Disinformation Guide to Drugs by Preston Peet Publisher Comments 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) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Devil Never Sleeps by Andrei Codrescu Publisher Comments The Devil is alive and well and living in America, Andrei Codrescu tells us, and with good reason. Nowhere else in the world--not even in Codrescu's native Transylvania--is he taken quite as seriously. When Codrescu gently derided the fundamentalist... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $7.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list American Vertigo: Traveling America in the Footsteps of Tocqueville by Bernard-Henri Levy Powells.com Staff Pick Hoping to gauge the success of America's experiment in democracy, France's leading journalist follows Tocqueville's journey across our once nascent nation to rediscover what it means to be an American. Here in opposing and quick succession, we meet... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sixties Going on Seventies (Perspectives on the Sixties) by Nora Sayre Synopsis Now back in print, this revised edition contains the best of the original volume and brings the commentary up to date, allowing us to view the period with hindsight from the nineties. Nora Sayre guides us through our nation's transformation during an... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $9.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A is for American: Letters and Other Characters in the Newly United States by Jill Lepore Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references and index.... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $5.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Zombification: Stories from National Public Radio by Andrei Codrescu Publisher Comments "The world is undergoing zombification. It was gradual for a while, a few zombies here and there, mostly in high office, where being a corpse in a suit was de rigueur . . . The worst part about zombies raging unchecked is the slow paralysis they induce... (read more) List Price $14.00 Your price $3.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Disco Divas: Women and Popular Culture in the 1970s by Sherrie A Inness Publisher Comments Wedged between the idealism and activism of the 1960s and the avarice of the 1980s, the 1970s tend to be allocated a slender role in American cultural and social history. Only now have scholars begun to examine the suspect decade--perhaps in part because... (read more) List Price $22.50 Your price $13.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Artificial Happiness: The Dark Side of the New Happy Class by Ronald W Dworkin Publisher Comments Ronald Dworkin, Fellow at the Hudson Institute, has written a book of social commentary that combines the politics of healthcare and medical ethics with several momentous changes that have dramatically altered the relationship among doctors and patients,... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $10.95 (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   The Age of Missing Information by Bill McKibben Publisher Comments “Highly personal and original . . . McKibben goes beyond Marshall McLuhan’s theory that the medium is the message.” ——The New York Times Imagine watching an entire day’s worth of television on every single channel... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Huerfano: A Memoir of Life in the Counterculture by Roberta Price Publisher Comments In the late 1960s, new age communes began springing up in the American Southwest with names like Drop City, New Buffalo, Lama Foundation, Morning Star, Reality Construction Company, and the Hog Farm. In the summer of 1969, Roberta Price, a recent college... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Age of Missing Information by Bill Mckibben Publisher Comments Highly personal and original . . . McKibben goes beyond Marshall McLuhan's theory that the medium is the message. ----The New York Times Imagine watching an entire day's worth of television on every single channel. Acclaimed environmental writer and... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cigarettes: Anatomy of an Industry from Seed to Smoke by Tara Parker Pope Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-172) and index.... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $5.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Drug Crazy: How We Got Into This Mess and How We Can Get Out by Mike Gray Publisher Comments Over the last fifteen years, American taxpayers have spent over $300 billion to wage the war on drugs--three times what it cost to put a man on the moon. In Drug Crazy, journalist Mike Gray offers a scathing indictment of this financial fiasco... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Chasing the Red, White, and Blue: A Journey in Tocqueville's Footsteps Through Contemporary America by David Cohen Publisher Comments In 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville his journey to America, traveling from New York to the frontier city of Flint, Michigan, down the Ohio River Valley and into Mississippi, then turning east through the Old South and concluding in Washington, D.C. His... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Community and Social Change in America by Thomas Bender Synopsis Did urbanization kill 'community' in the nineteenth century, or even earlier? In this highly regarded volume Bender argues not only that community survived the trials of industrialization and urbanization but that it remains a fundamental element of... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Genxegesis: Essays on Alternative Youth (Sub)Culture in the 1990s by John Mcallis Ulrich Synopsis Although most people think "Generation X" is a recently coined label for the post-Baby Boom generation, since the early 1950s the phrase has signified a seemingly identity-less group of young people trying to define themselves within an uncertain, even... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Colossus: How the Corporation Changed America by Jack Beatty Publisher Comments Big business has been the lever of big change over time in American life, change in economy, society, politics, and the envelope of existence--in work, mores, language, consciousness, and the pace and bite of time. Such is the pattern revealed by this... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Trust Us We're Experts: How Industry Manipulates Science and Gambles with Your Future by Sheldon Rampton Powells.com Staff Pick Trust Us, We're Experts! blows the lid off so-called "third party" experts, hirelings of the corporate elite's who do transnationals' bidding under the guise of independence. Every time you hear "W" say "I want to make policy based on 'sound... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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