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by Dean Kuipers  Publisher Comments The gripping story of two marijuana advocates gunned down by the FBI after a five-day standoff. On a mission to build a peaceful, pot-friendly Shangri-La, Tom Crosslin and his lover Rollie Rohm founded Rainbow Farm, a well-appointed campground and... (read more)  List Price $24.95 Your price $13.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Tom Brokaw Publisher Comments "I first began to appreciate fully all we owed the World War II generation while I was covering the fortieth and fiftieth anniversaries of D-Day for NBC News. When I wrote in The Greatest Generation about the men and women who came out of the... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jeremy Iversen Publisher Comments It's spring semester at Mirador High in Southern California, and twenty-four-year-old Jeremy Iversen is going deep undercover to deliver the real deal about the dull classes and fast times of American teens today. Trading in his suit and tie for jeans... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Tom Lutz Publisher Comments From the author of Crying, a witty, wide-ranging cultural history of our attitudes toward work — and getting out of it. Couch potatoes, goof-offs, freeloaders, good-for-nothings, loafers, and loungers: ever since the Industrial Revolution, when... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mary P Ryan Publisher Comments Examines the emergence of the privatized middle-class family with its sharp division of male and female roles.... (read more) List Price $22.99 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Linda Wertheimer Publisher Comments No one listens to America better than National Public Radio, and for a quarter of a century NPR has broadcast an ongoing conversation about the boisterous life of our nation. Now Linda Wertheimer has collected the best parts of that conversation; the... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $2.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Patrick Moore Publisher Comments Traces the author's twenty-year stint as crystal meth addict, from his lonely childhood in Iowa with his grandmother, an alcoholic artist, to his wild acid trips and experiences navigating through the dark underworld of cookers, users, club kids, dealers,... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nelson George Publisher Comments One of the foremost chroniclers of the contemporary black experience offers an undeluded perspective on the 1980s. Here are crack, AIDS, and the Reagan rollback of the major advances of the civil rights movement. But Nelson George also shows how black... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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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 $16.00 Your price $10.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gary Cross Publisher Comments To sort out who's who and what's what in the enchanting, vexing world of Barbiesandreg; and Ninja Turtlesandreg;, Tinkertoysandreg; and teddy bears, is to begin to see what's become of childhood in America. It is this changing world, and what it unveils... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $19.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Douglas Brinkley Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 508-522).... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Studs Terkel 
Powells.com Staff Pick "One of this country's finest journalistic rabble-rousers has a new volume of oral history, around the theme of activism. A typical Chicago-centric cross-section is represented: secular and religious, young and old, spanning the ideological... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price $9.71 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Dominick J Cavallo Publisher Comments Few events during that whirlwind of movements, conflicts and upheaval known as "the sixties" took Americans more by surprise, or were more likely to inspire their rage, than the rebellion of those who were young, white, and college educated. Perhaps none... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.88 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Margot Adler Book News Annotation This memoir unfolds along two unique coming-of-age paths: the correspondence between a Berkeley antiwar activist, now the New York bureau chief for National Public Radio and authority on feminist spirituality, and an American soldier in Vietnam in the... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Michael Kammen Publisher Comments Awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his People of Paradox (1973), and the Francis Parkman Prize for A Machine That Would Go of Itself (1987), Michael Kammen is widely regarded as one of our most important, and most diversely talented, cultural historians... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Nancy A Denton Synopsis Presenting important work by well-known demographers, American Diversity focuses on U.S. population changes in the twenty-first century, emphasizing the nation's increasing racial and ethnic diversity. Rather than focusing on separate groups sequentially,... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Wayne Franklin Synopsis What connections can be drawn between oral history and the shopping mall? Gospel music and the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant? William Carlos Williams's Paterson and the Manhattan Project's secret cities? The answers lie in this insightful collection... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Gore Vidal Publisher Comments Like his National Book Award—winning United States, Gore Vidal’s scintillating ninth collection, The Last Empire, affirms his reputation as our most provocative critic and observer of the modern American scene. In the essays collected here... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Lawr Miller Publisher Comments The war on drugs is a war on ordinary people. Using that premise, historian Richard Lawrence Miller analyzes America's drug war with passion seldom encountered in scholarly writing. Miller presents numerous examples of drug law enforcement gone amok, as... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $22.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Edward Walter Publisher Comments Walter analyzes the history of American radicals of the left (socialists, communists, and radical liberals) from their emergence as an opinion-shaping force during the Great Depression to the present, and concludes that theirs is a fundamentally negative... (read more) List Price $85.00 Your price $6.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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