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The Greatest American Speeches: The Stories and Transcripts of the Words That Changed Our History by Quercus Synopsis This book contains 50 momentous and thought-provoking speeches from a wide range of historical eras and perspectives. Each chapter contains a biography of each speaker, the history of why each speech was significant, and what happened as a result. Iconic... (read more) List Price $12.99 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Homeland by Dale Maharidge Publisher Comments Homeland is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Maharidge's biggest and most ambitious book yet, weaving together the disparate and contradictory strands of contemporary American society-common decency alongside race rage, the range of dissenting voices, and... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $10.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Everything Bad Is Good for You: How Today's Pop Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter by Steven Johnson Publisher Comments The $10 billion video gaming industry is now the second-largest segment of the entertainment industry in the United States, outstripping film and far surpassing books. Reality television shows featuring silicone-stuffed CEO wannabes and bug-eating... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Troubling Minds: The Cultural Politics of Genius in the United States, 1840-1890 by Gustavus Stadler Publisher Comments The nature of genius has long been a subject of fascination and critique. Over the course of the mid- to late-nineteenth century, the representative capacities of the idea of genius in the United States shifted toward an increasingly detailed... (read more) List Price $30.25 Your price $15.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Waiting for My Cats to Die by Stacy Horn Publisher Comments When Stacy Horn--single, deeply addicted to television, and hopelessly attached to two diabetic cats--turned forty, she free-falled into a mid-life crisis. Waiting for My Cats to Die is a passionately and profoundly honest look at what happens the moment... (read more) List Price $13.95 Your price $5.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Expecting to Fly: A Sixties Reckoning by Martha Dudman Publisher Comments DO YOU REMEMBER WHAT IT FELT LIKE TO BE FIFTEEN? MARTHA TOD DUDMAN DOES. It starts with a blue hash pipe in a shabby field and a hot, tight dance at the Mayflower Hotel, and rapidly accelerates against the kaleidoscopic backdrop of the Sixties... (read more) List Price $23.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Socialism in America by John L Bowman Publisher Comments In 1835, Alexis de Tocqueville predicted a ...species of oppression...[with] which democratic nations are menaced...unlike anything which ever before existed in the world... It was a despotism that ...would be more extensive and...would degrade men... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $9.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Starstruck: When a Fan Gets Close to Fame by Michael Gross Publisher Comments Journalist Michael Joseph Gross takes us deep into the world of celebrities and the people who love them. Why are we so obsessed with fame? Even if we don't read People, we all crane our necks to see the stars. As a teenager, Michael Joseph Gross amassed... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price $7.50 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list America Reborn: A Twentieth-Century Narrative in Twenty-Six Lives by Martin Walker Synopsis In a superb work of narrative history, the story of America in the 20th century is told through the lives of 26 of its most remarkable men and women, from presidents and industrialists to entertainers, artists, activitists, spies, criminals, and... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price $6.80 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Apocalypse Culture by Adam Parfrey Publisher Comments Two thousand years have passed since the death of Christ and the world is going mad. Nihilist prophets, born-again pornographers, transcendental schizophrenics and just plain folks are united in their belief in an imminent global catastrophe. What are... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price $5.95 (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   Post Modernist Turn (Twayne's American Thought & Culture) by J David Hoeveler Synopsis This series examines major figures and movements that have influenced the development of American culture from the 16th century to the present. Each volume provides: -- A chronology of influential ideas and cultural trends, and associated historic events... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price $6.40 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Mississippi Women: Their Histories, Their Lives by Martha H Swain Synopsis Celebrating the achievements of Mississippi women. This collection of seventeen fascinating biographies, produced by the Mississippi Women's History Project, is an important step toward gaining the state's women their due place in its written record. The... (read more) List Price $22.95 Your price $5.93 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation (Princeton Studies in American Politics) by Jennifer Hochschild Publisher Comments The ideology of the American dream--the faith that an individual can attain success and virtue through strenuous effort--is the very soul of the American nation. According to Jennifer Hochschild, we have failed to face up to what that dream requires of... (read more) List Price $87.75 Your price $7.60 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the 1960s and '70s by Peter Braunstein Synopsis The counterculture of the 1960s and '70s remains a highly controversial topic in American society; virtually the only thing that can be agreed upon is its enormous impact on American life. Critics on the right complain of the shattering of cherished... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price $25.00 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list 50+: Igniting a Revolution to Reinvent America by William D Novelli Publisher Comments 50+ is a call to arms. It’s a groundbreaking look at the revolution that’s going on right now among seventy-eight million American baby boomers. From age 50+ on up, Americans are refusing to rock away their retirement. They’re starting... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $8.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list White-Collar Sweatshop by Jill Andresk Fraser Publisher Comments In the 1990s, before the bubble of the "miracle economy" burst, corporate America grew fat on the miseries of the American worker. Media attention has focused on dot-com disasters, massive layoffs, and explosions of corporate violence.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price $6.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Blue Sky Dream: A Memoir of America's Fall from Grace (Harvest Book) by David Beers Publisher Comments Beer’s “important...fascinating” book(Los Angeles Times) shows how suburban California came to epitomize the american Dream-until its affluent complacency was shattered by downsizing, anxiety, and distrust.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price $4.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Writing on Drugs by Sadie Plant Publisher Comments Through a series of close, fascinating examinations of writing on drugs via, among others, Coleridge on opium, Freud on cocaine, Michaux on mescaline, and Burroughs on all of them, Writing on Drugs combines literary criticism with both socio-cultural... (read more) List Price $13.00 Your price $8.95 (Used - Trade Paper) check for new and sale copies add to wish list American Studies by Louis Menand Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of The Metaphysical Club, brilliant illuminations of America yesterday and today. At each step of this journey through American cultural history, Louis Menand has an original point to make: he explains the real significance of... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price $9.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list Staying Up Much Too Late: Edward Hopper's Nighthawks and the Dark Side of the American Psyche by Gordon Theisen Publisher Comments A fasinating study of Edward Hopper's iconic Nighthawks painting and its deep significance for understanding American culture. Staying up Much Too Late discusses the painting Nighthawks and the painter Edward Hopper and their central importance to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price $16.95 (Used - Hardcover) check for new and sale copies add to wish list

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