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by David Hollinger  Publisher Comments "Who are we?" is the question at the core of these fascinating essays from one of the nation's leading intellectual historians. With old identities increasingly destabilized throughout the world—the result of demographic... (read more)  List Price $29.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies 
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by Annie Nocenti Publisher Comments Since its launch in 1974 by cultural outlaw and international drug smuggler Thomas King Forçade, High Times magazine has served as a preeminent showcase of the American counterculture. Conceived to "bring a new consciousness into the media," the... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $7.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Adrian Nicole LeBlanc 
Publisher Comments In her extraordinary bestseller, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc immerses readers in the intricacies of the ghetto, revealing the true sagas lurking behind the headlines of gangsta glamour, gold-drenched drug dealers, and street-corner society. Focusing on two... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Virginia Ingra Burr Publisher Comments The journal of Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, spanning the years from 1848 to 1889, is rare for its treatment of both the Civil War and postbellum years and for its candor and detail in treating these eras. Thomas, who was born to wealth and privilege and... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Hall Publisher Comments Is the United States a nation of materialistic loners whose politics are dictated by ethnic, racial, religious, or sexual identities? This is what America has become in the eyes of many commentators. Americans seem to fear that their society is breaking... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $4.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by John Harmon Mcelroy Publisher Comments Why do so many different people with widely dissimilar ideas and customs get along as Americans? In American Beliefs, John McElroy identifies and explains those essential ideas that promote the unity of a vast nation and a diverse people--because they... (read more) List Price $16.90 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by James Davis Publisher Comments Commerce in Color explores the juncture of consumer culture and race by examining advertising, literary texts, mass culture, and public events in the United States from 1893 to 1933. James C. Davis takes up a remarkable range of subjects—including... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $14.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Richard Lawr Miller Publisher Comments On the 75th anniversary of the Harrison Narcotic Act that unleashed the federal anti-drug crusade, historian Richard Lawrence Miller explores the origins, purposes, and effects of America's drug war. Thoroughly documented, this book assembles diverse... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $13.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Philip Scranton Synopsis "Until recently, business historians have not yielded to beauty - at least as a subject of scholarly inquiry. But beauty is big business." -- Kathy Peiss, from the Introduction Beauty seems simple; we know it when we see it. But of course our ideas about... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price $12.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Rachel Sherman Publisher Comments In this lively study, Rachel Sherman goes behind the scenes in two urban luxury hotels to give a nuanced picture of the workers who care for and cater to wealthy guests by providing seemingly unlimited personal attention. Drawing on in-depth interviews... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Christopher Lasch Synopsis 'An extraordinary book by one of our wisest social and political observers, Lasch's brilliant analysis of our secular dreams and hopes, our blind spots and foolishness, ought to help us all figure out what we believe and where we are headed as this... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price $4.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Anna Cypra Oliver Publisher Comments Anna Cypra Oliver's strikingly original book offers both a moving story of self-discovery and a vivid record of a turbulent era. In the late 1960s, Anna's father—a charismatic man from a cultivated Jewish background—and her equally... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $10.50 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Louis Chunovic Publisher Comments Positive but not jingoistic, enthusiastic but not naive, Why Do People Love America? is a celebration of American pop culture as a direct reflection of the country's infinite opportunities. Featuring a wide array of key media and entertainment... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $8.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Mark Valeri Publisher Comments This study of religious thought and social life in early America focuses on the career of Joseph Bellamy (1719-1790), a Connecticut Calvinist minister noted chiefly for his role in originating the New Divinity--the influential theological movement that... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price $40.00 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Paul S Boyer Synopsis Originally published in 1985, "By the Bomb's Early Light" is the first book to explore the cultural 'fallout' in America during the early years of the atomic age. Paul Boyer argues that the major aspects of the long-running debates about nuclear armament... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price $11.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Ron Jacobs Synopsis "You don't need a Weaterman to know which way the wind blows". Bob Dylan. In its first comprehensive history author Ron Jacobs chronicles the origins, development and ultimate demise of the 1960's radical organization Weatherman. Jacobs fuses the... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Thomas Hine From Powells.com Read an exclusive essay from Thomas Hine: Even Prophets Have to Shop.... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Greil Marcus Publisher Comments From the critic who knows music and culture like no other, a fascinating look at two outsiders who epitomize America's fractured self-image In June of 1992, when all polls showed Bill Clinton didn't have a chance, he took his saxophone onto the Arsenio... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $4.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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by Rosalyn Baxandall Publisher Comments Picture Windows chronicles how suburbia sprawled, proving to be a hothouse for scores of disaffected artistic types and mopey teens.-Vanity Fair... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price $7.98 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies
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by Eric Burns Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 321-326) and index.... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price $12.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies
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