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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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by Lewis Lapham Publisher Comments AMERICA'S MAINSTREAM DISSIDENT DEBUNKS THE "WAR ON TERRORISM." In the two years since September 11, finding skeptics in the battle against evil has been a rare achievement. Unpopular opinions seldom make an appearance on the network news, and voices of... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.21 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Louis Menand Publisher Comments At each step of this journey through American cultural history, Louis Menand has an original point to make: he explains the real significance of William James's nervous breakdown, and of the anti-Semitism in T. S. Eliot's writing. He reveals the reasons... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Diane Pecknold Publisher Comments Few expressions of popular culture have been shaped as profoundly by the relationship between commercialism and authenticity as country music has. While its apparent realism, sincerity, and frank depictions of everyday life are country's most obvious... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Christopher Clausen Publisher Comments We are not a multi-cultural nation but a post-cultural society, Mr. Clausen argues, with enormous implications for all aspects of American life.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James Sullivan Publisher Comments The story of America's best-loved garment, from the humble pants Levi Strauss sold to California miners in the 1870s to big-city socialites spending big money — $300 and up—for premium jeans today. Since their emergence over a century and a... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $14.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Ann Powers Publisher Comments There is a feeling of nostalgia that surrounds the idea of bohemia, that place where art and ideas and alternative thinking become the focal point of life. To most, bohemia is gone -- erased by the lifestyle of the 1990s and the too many, too fast... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $7.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Jason Kaufman Publisher Comments The Golden Age of Fraternity was a unique time in American history. Joining clubs, fraternities, militias, and mutual benefit societies between the Civil and First World Wars was so prevalent that many contemporaries see it as a model for a... (read more) List Price $36.75 Your price $10.50 (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 Emily Jenkins Publisher Comments A smart, humorous exploration of bodily thrills and paranoia from aerobics to acupuncture, strip shows to sensory deprivation. Your perception of your body will change when you read this book. You will be pulling on your boxer shorts or your black lace... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Stephen L Carter Publisher Comments In a climate where whites who criticize affirmative action risk being termed racist and blacks who do the same risk charges of treason and self hatred, a frank and open discussion of racial preference is difficult to achieve. But, in the first book on... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $2.60 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Miriam Cohen Synopsis Discusses the scientific, social, and personal aspects of marijuana, examining its history, cultural impact, psychological and physical effects, dangers, and legal status.... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $6.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Gregg Easterbrook 
Powells.com Staff Pick Here's a pick sure to shake up your next book club. Despite his sometimes sanctimonious tone, Easterbrook poses some very interesting questions about modern society and its inhabitants. Why does the middle class feel so discontented? Long on theories and... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Arlene Stein Publisher Comments With strong on-the-ground research and lucid analysis, Arlene Stein sets out to discover why the people of a town with no apparent queer population were hell-bent on getting rid of those individuals' "special rights." The Stranger Next Door's... (read more) List Price $19.00 Your price $10.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Saul Landau Synopsis When President Bush promoted shopping as a patriotic duty, the American culture of consumption hit a new low. But a quiet revolution is growing in the developing world and in a new generation of Americans, fighting the advance of the shopping malls and... (read more) List Price $45.50 Your price $4.46 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments Here is the raw material for one thousand novels....incomparable.--Margaret Atwood In this unique look at one of our most pervasive national myths, Studs Terkel persuades an extraordinary range of Americans to articulate their version of The American... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Bertha Thompson as told to Ben L. Reitman
Publisher Comments Another raging slab of real American history you're not likely to find in the textbooks. This is second title in the new (and best-selling!) Nabat series that debuted with Jack Black's You Can't Win. It's a window into a wildly under-appreciated dropout... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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