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Who We Are Now: The Changing Face of America in the 21st Century by Sam Roberts Publisher Comments A revealing view of America and its citizens at the dawn of a new century, by the author of the New York Times Notable Book Who We Are For more than two centuries, America has taken stock every decade, producing a statistical self-portrait of our... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list One Market Under God: Extreme Capitalism, Market Populism, and the End of Economic Democracy by Thomas Frank Publisher Comments One Market Under God is a cogent, fiercely entertaining, and often scathing assault on the institutions and pretensions of the new capitalist order and the tyranny of the almighty market. At no other moment in American history have the values of business... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing--The Marketing of Culture by John Seabrook About the Author John Seabrook's articles appear regularly in The New Yorker. He has also written for Vanity Fair, Harper's, and The Nation and is the author of Deeper: My Two-Year Odyssey in Cyberspace. He lives in New York City.... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $5.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s by Maurice Isserman Publisher Comments America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s is the definitive interpretive survey of the political, social, and cultural history of 1960s America. Written by two top experts on the eraMaurice Isserman, a scholar of the Left, and Michael Kazin, a... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $15.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list My Job, My Self: Work and the Creation of the Modern Individual by Al Gini Synopsis Arguing that adults require work in the same way that children need play, Gini views work as a fundamental part of our humanity whose purpose is not merely to generate products but to produce emotionally healthy people.... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price $9.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Put Your Bodies Upon the Wheels: Student Revolt in the 1960s (American Ways Series) by Kenneth J Heineman Publisher Comments What began at colleges in the sixties as a rejection of parental authority and the Vietnam War rapidly evolved into a social movement, one with lasting influences in diverse areas of American life. As anti-Communist and Great Society Democrats lost... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price $8.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Orange Sunshine: The Party That Lasted a Decade by Jeremy Reed Publisher Comments "Until now the only true record we had of this amazing time was the music, the photos and our memories. Jeremy Reed's Orange Sunshinetakes a giant leap of faith that has succeeded in imaginatively recreating the times, and as such is an educative marvel.... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $14.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Anarchy, Protest & Rebellion: And the Counterculture That Changed America by Fred Mcdarrah Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-371) and index.... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list New Class Society Goodbye American D 2ND Edition by Robert Perrucci Publisher Comments Extensively revised, the second edition of The New Class Society includes innovative new sections and concepts throughout the book that identify and explore how complex organizational structures and actions create and perpetuate class, gender, and racial... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $20.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Pursuit of Loneliness: American Culture at the Breaking Point by Philip Ellio Slater Publisher Comments 'In a classic indictment of American individualism and isolationism, Philip Slater analyzes the great ills of modern society—violence, competitiveness, inequality, and the national \"addiction\" to technology.'... (read more) List Price $12.00 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   Dealing with Drugs: Consequences of Government Control by Ronald Hamowy Publisher Comments Discussion of drug policy enforcement, illegal drug market; urges private solutions for social control of drug use.... (read more) Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography by Dominic Streatfeild Publisher Comments The story of cocaine isn’t just about crime and profit; it’s about psychoanalysis, about empire building, about exploitation, emancipation, and, ultimately, about power. To tell the story of the twentieth century without reference to this... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Have a Nice Doomsday: Why Millions of Americans Are Looking Forward to the End of the World (P.S.) by Nicholas Guyatt Publisher Comments In Have a Nice Doomsday, Nicholas Guyatt searches for the truth behind a startling statistic: 50 million Americans have come to believe that the apocalypse will take place in their lifetime. They'reconvinced that, any day now, Jesus will snatch up his... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Manly Arts: Masculinity and Nation in Early American Cinema by David Gerstner Publisher Comments In this innovative analysis of the interconnections between nation and aesthetics in the United States during the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, David A. Gerstner reveals the crucial role of early cinema in consolidating a masculine... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $22.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Extremism in America: A Reader by Lyman Tower Sargent Publisher Comments "Disturbingly accessible...Presents the ideas, platforms and screeds of extremists of both left and right in their own words." —The Washington Post Book World "A demonstrative primer of the intricate complex of themes and views that make up the... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price $3.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture by Michae Bellesiles Publisher Comments How and when did Americans develop their obsession with guns? Is gun-related violence so deeply embedded in American historical experience as to be immutable? The accepted answers to these questions are "mythology," says Michael A. Bellesiles. Basing... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price $2.48 (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 In his unique, funny, and haunting reports, Steuver records the odd and touching realities of modern life in everyday places. Elsewhere might be revealed in tract-house adventures of a homedecor reality show, at a discount funeral home in a strip mall... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list White Weddings: Romancing Heterosexuality in Popular Culture by Chrys Ingraham Publisher Comments From sitcoms and soap operas to talk shows and movies, Americans are in love with the idea of a white wedding. The happy bride and groom smile from the covers of fashion and entertainment magazines, and appear in TV commercials to sell everything from... (read more) List Price $21.00 Your price $8.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Working Stiff's Manifesto: A Memoir by Iain Levison Publisher Comments Iain Levison can find work but not fulfillment. The frustration of dead-end, deadhead labor induces a kind of pink-slip payback syndrome as the realization sets in that his college degree will gain him little by way of psychic wages on the job. He is... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Defining a Nation: Our America and the Sources of Its Strength by David Halberstam Publisher Comments The freer we are ... the stronger we are, writes David Halberstam in this probing compilation of original essays which distill the essence of America, an evergreen subject rendered even more timely by recent world events that highlight cultural clashes... (read more) List Price $24.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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