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Class Matters: Cross-Class Alliance Building for Middle-Class Activists by Bets Leondar Wright Publisher Comments Movements for social change could be more powerful if they had more class diversity-a factor that has limited their past size and clout. But attempting to cross class barriers has frequently left middle-class activists frustrated, with few resources to... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Not Keeping Up with Our Parents: The Decline of the Professional Middle Class by Nan Mooney Publisher Comments Drawing on more than a hundred interviews with diverse families across America, Nan Mooney explores the financial struggles of today's professional middle class, delving into their sense of economic security and their plans for and fears about the future.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Beleaguered Rulers by William F Jay Synopsis Social critic May asks professionals--whom he calls the leaders of culture in contemporary Western society--to abandon their self-interested pursuits and contribute to the common good.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Aged by Culture by Margaret M Gullette Publisher Comments Americans enjoy longer lives and better health, yet we are becoming increasingly obsessed with trying to stay young. What drives the fear of turning 30, the boom in anti-aging products, the wars between generations? What men and women of all ages have in... (read more) List Price $24.25 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Between Panic and Desire (American Lives) by Dinty W Moore Publisher Comments “Insouciant” and “irreverent” are the sort of words that come up in reviews of Dinty W. Moore’s books—and, invariably, “hilarious.” Between Panic and Desire, named after two towns in Pennsylvania, finds... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $17.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Dancing at Armageddon: Survivalism and Chaos in Modern Times by Richard G Mitchell Publisher Comments Richard G. Mitchell Jr. spent more than a dozen years among survivalists at public conferences, private meetings, and clandestine training camps across America. He takes us inside a compelling, hidden world more connected to the chaos of modern life many... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list What It Felt Like Living in the American by Henry Allen Synopsis This treasure of a book gives us a vivid and captivating evocation of the social, cultural, and spiritual tenor of the 20th century, decade by remarkable decade. Each of the ten chapters is a virtual time capsule which reminds, as we plunge headlong into... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Greatest Generation Speaks: Letters and Reflections by Tom Brokaw Synopsis Brokaw wrote the bestselling "The Greatest Generation" and now the subjects have written back. This book of letters and reflections allows members of the World War II generation and their families to speak for themselves.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Poisoned Nation: Pollution, Greed, and the Rise of Deadly Epidemics by Lore Schwartz Nobel Publisher Comments Poisoned Nation Reveals: - Americans are being denied urgent health information about the poisoning of our water, food, air, everyday products, and vaccines for the short-term profit of a reckless few. - The blood of every baby born today is already... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Intimate Strangers: The Culture of Celebrity in America by Richard Schickel Publisher Comments In explaining the power of celebrity in modern life, Richard Schickel ranges through every realm of our culture--film, theatre, television, literature, art, the media, pop music, politics--for examples of how celebrity shapes our world and bends our... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $6.95 (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   30 Satires by Lewis H Lapham Synopsis This first assemblage of Lapham's satires presents 30 pieces that hold their currency and humor against the tide of social and political change that has engulfed American society over the last 20 years.... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $13.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list American Silhouettes: Rhetorical Identities of the Founders by Albert Furtwangler Synopsis Franklin, John Adams, Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, John Marshall-all are familiar yet curiously distant American heroes, blurred by the similarities of their background and culture. In this engrossing book Albert Furtwangler looks at these... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Moksha: Aldous Huxley's Classic Writings on Psychedelics and the Visionary Experience by Aldous Huxley Publisher Comments Selected writings from the author of Brave New Worldand The Doors of Perceptionon the role of psychedelics in society." •Includes letters and lectures by Huxley never published elsewhere." In May 1953 Aldous Huxley took four-tenths of a gram of... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Rereading Sex by Helen Lefkowitz Horowitz Review "Rereading Sex brings marvelous order to the bewildering array of conflicting voices that spoke out and wrote about human sexuality in mid-19th-century America. Deftly separating the strands of argument, Helen Horowitz illuminates this fascinating... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Chiva: A Village Takes on the Global Heroin Trade by Chellis Glendinning Publisher Comments Its use as a narcotic is on a precipitous rise. Worldwide heroin production has doubled in the last decade, and the United Nations estimates more than 15 million users are addicted-up to 3 million in the United States. It's big business, too, with yearly... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list American Rhapsody by Joe Eszterhas Publisher Comments The setting . . . Washington, Hollywood, and the landscape of the American Republic. The writer . . . Joe Eszterhas, ex-Rolling Stone reporter, National Book Award nominee for Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse, and screenwriter of such blockbusters as Basic... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $4.13 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Branded the Buying & Selling of Teenager by Alissa Quart Synopsis This title takes the reader into the world of teen marketing, showing how teens are taught to market to each other and adults build careers out of insinuating their way into "friendships" with teens in order to monitor what they wear, eat, listen to and... (read more) Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Heath Street Stories: A Look Back at 1950's Innocence in Suburban America by Gehla S Knight Synopsis 1950, and the cookie-cutter houses in the slipstream of a paper mill promise new beginnings for the families moving to Heath Street. From the tragicomedy of Atom Bomb drills to the wonder of glitzy gadgetry, Dyanflow transmissions and automatic canasta... (read more) List Price $36.49 Your price $6.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Heartless Immensity: Literature, Culture, and Geography in Antebellum America by Anne Baker Publisher Comments As the size of the United States more than doubled during the first half of the nineteenth century, a powerful current of anxiety ran alongside the well-documented optimism about national expansion. Heartless Immensity tells the story of how Americans... (read more) Your price $59.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Guns in America: A Reader by Jan E Dizard Publisher Comments "A lively and interesting overview of guns in American life; past, present, and future...Guns in America: A Reader will serve most promisingly as a long-awaited introduction to a complex and controversial issue." —Left HistoryFirearms have long... (read more) List Price $32.50 Your price $12.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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