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The Devil in Babylon: Fear of Progress and the Birth of Modern Life by Allan Levine Publisher Comments What should the modern world look like? Who should be its leaders? And what values should it embrace? We have never wrestled over these questions more than in the first three decades of the twentieth century. Allan Levine’s newest book chronicles... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price $13.75 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Branded for Life: How Americans Are Brainwashed by the Brands We Love by Howard J Blumenthal Publisher Comments Written by a senior marketing and media executive, Branded for Life makes sense of a world where Wal-Mart is richer than 85% of the nations on earth; where well-informed, obese consumers continue to drink Coke and eat at McDonalds; where rabbis discuss... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture by Jon Savage Publisher Comments From the author of the critically acclaimed Englands Dreaming, a landmark cultural history of youth Teenagersas we have come to define themwere not, award-winning author Jon Savage tells us, born in the 1950s of rockers and Beatniks, when most histories... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Nobrow: The Culture of Marketing, the Marketing of Culture by John Seabrook Synopsis From John Seabrook, one of our most incisive and amusing cultural critics, comes Nobrow, a fascinatingly original look at the radical convergence of marketing and culture. In the old days, highbrow was elite and unique and lowbrow was commercial and mass-... (read more) List Price $12.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Carried Away: The Invention of Modern Shopping by Rachel Bowlby Publisher Comments Asserting that a history of shopping was, until recently, a history of women, Rachel Bowlby trains her eye on the evolution of the modern shopper. She uses a compelling blend of history, literary analysis, and cultural criticism to explore the rise of... (read more) List Price $31.50 Your price $6.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The American Revelation: Ten Ideals That Shaped Our Country from the Puritans to the Cold War by Neil Baldwin Publisher Comments In The American Revelation, Neil Baldwin, one of our most exciting and provocative intellectual historians, applies his formidable energies to the story of how the American Spirit developed over four centuries, through an inspiring—and unsparing... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.25 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town by Nate Blakeslee Publisher Comments In the summer of 1999, in the tiny west Texas town of Tulia, thirty-nine people, almost all of them black, were arrested and charged with dealing powdered cocaine. The operation, a federally-funded investigation performed in cooperation with the local... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list A Hundred Little Hitlers: The Death of a Black Man, the Trial of a White Racist, and the Rise of the Neo-Nazi Movement in America by Elinor Langer Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [363]-381) and index.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $6.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Good War by Studs Terkel Publisher Comments PULITZER PRIZE WINNER OVER FIVE MONTHS ON THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER... (read more) Your price $3.95 (Used - Mass Market) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Busted: Stoned Cowboys, Narco-Lords, and the Failure of Washington's War on Drugs by Mike Gray Publisher Comments Thirty years ago Richard Nixon called drugs "the modern curse of youth" and launched the modern "War on Drugs" as we know it. Thirty years later, even the conservative National Review has said, "The War on Drugs has failed." Spanning three decades... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price $7.95 (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   No Duty to Retreat: Violence and Values in American History and Society by Richard Maxwe Brown Synopsis Not only is it an authoritative and engrossing examination of violence on the American frontier and in American society at large, but in American jurisprudence as well.... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Gore Vidal's America by Dennis Altman Synopsis Gore Vidal is one of the most significant American writers of the second half of the twentieth century, having produced a large number of best selling novels, essays, plays and pamphlets which have impacted on major political and social debates for fifty... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $13.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The cocktail :the influence of spirits on the American psyche by Joseph Lanza Book News Annotation Combines history, subjective rumination, a dash of the occult, and a full measure of sardonic humor to expose the cocktail as an American religious ceremony that has impacted politics, movies, popular songs, architecture, circadian rhythms, social... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $2.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Born Losers: A History of Failure in America by Scott A Sandage Publisher Comments What makes somebody a Loser, a person doomed to unfulfilled dreams and humiliation? Nobody is born to lose, and yet failure embodies our worst fears. The Loser is our national bogeyman, and his history over the past two hundred years reveals the dark... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $11.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Western Pursuit of the American Dream: Selections from the Collection of Kenneth W. Rendell by Kenneth W Rendell Synopsis The migration of the American people to the West has often been associated with the quest for the American Dream. In The Western Pursuit of the American Dream, Kenneth W. Rendell, renowned dealer in Americana, draws on his extensive collection to tell... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price $22.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Take Back Your Time: Fighting Overwork and Time Poverty in America by John De Graaf Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-253) and index.... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $7.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Style Bible: An A-Z of Global Youth Culture by Alon Shulman Publisher Comments The Style Bible is the definitive A-Z compendium of the most significant trends in music, arts, club culture, fashion, film, food, products, drugs, technology and personalities influencing the tastes of youth culture around the world.... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price $3.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Within the Context of No Context by George W S Trow Publisher Comments Written originally for a special issue of The New Yorker and reissued here with a new forward by the author, Within the Context of No Context is George W. S. Trow's brilliant exposition on the state of American culture and twentieth-century life... (read more) List Price $11.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Sex Seen by Sharon Ullman Publisher Comments Sex Seen provides a complex and intriguing account of the changes that have taken place in the social construction of sexuality during the past century. Focusing on Sacramento, California, at the dawn of the twentieth century, Sharon Ullman juxtaposes... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $4.40 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list The Connection Gap: Why Americans Feel So Alone by Laura Pappano Book News Annotation Pappano, a journalist who writes an education column for , draws on personal experience as well as academic studies and observations of media and consumer habits to ponder modern life, when people are hyperconnected through e-mail, voice mail, cell... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $6.73 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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