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Reflections on a Disruptive Decade: Essays from the Sixties Reflections on a Disruptive Decade: Essays from the Sixties
by Eugene Davidson

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As editor of Modern Age, in the 1960s, Eugene Davidson introduced each quarterly issue with a thought-provoking contemplation of one or another of the decade's dizzying events. Gathered together here for the first time, the essays in Reflections on a... (read more)

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American Characters: Selections from the National Portrait Gallery, Accompanied by Literary Portraits American Characters: Selections from the National Portrait Gallery, Accompanied by Literary Portraits
by R W B Lewis

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Portraits of 160 famous American figures--selected from the National Portrait Gallery--are highlighted and presented through paintings, sculptures, photos and cartoons. 160 illustrations, 69 in color.... (read more)

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Buy, Buy Baby: How Consumer Culture Manipulates Parents and Harms Young Minds Buy, Buy Baby: How Consumer Culture Manipulates Parents and Harms Young Minds
by Susan Thomas

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'It's no secret that toy and media corporations manipulate the insecurities of parents to move their products, but Buy, Buy Baby unveils the chilling fact that these corporations are using—and often funding—the latest research in child... (read more)

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Entertainment Weekly Yearbook Entertainment Weekly Yearbook
by Entertainment Weekly

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165 pages of the years best in Entertainment. A wondrous collection of the years best movies, music, and favorite artists. This collector's edition includes the scenes from favorite TV shows, pictures of all the years most popular celebrities. A look at... (read more)

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Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
by Barbara Ehrenreich

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Our sharpest and most original social critic goes "undercover" as an unskilled worker to reveal the dark side of American prosperity. Millions of Americans work full time, year round, for poverty-level wages. In 1998, Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join... (read more)

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Consuming Desires, C Consuming Desires, C
by Roger Rosenblatt

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Consider this paradox: Ecologists estimate that it would take three planets Earth to provide an American standard of living to the entire world. Yet it is that standard of living to which the whole world aspires. In Consuming Desires, award-winning... (read more)

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Growing Old in America: The Bland-Lee Lectures Delivered at Clark University (Bland-Lee Lectures Delivered at Clark University) Growing Old in America: The Bland-Lee Lectures Delivered at Clark University (Bland-Lee Lectures Delivered at Clark University)
by David H Fischer

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A history of aging in America surveys and compares actualities and attitudes in the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries and suggests practical improvements on the current inadequate system of pensions, social security, medicare, and other... (read more)

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The Long Road Home The Long Road Home
by Danielle Steel

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Bestselling novelist Danielle Steel takes us on a harrowing journey into the heart of America's hidden shame in a novel that explores the power of forgiveness, the dark side of childhood, and one woman's unbreakable spirit. From her secret perch at the... (read more)

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The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World
by Mark Hertsgaard

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What America looks like to the rest of the world Americans rarely used to think about the outside world. As the mightiest nation in history, the United States could do as it pleased. Now Americans have learned the hard way that what outsiders think... (read more)

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Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties Prime Green: Remembering the Sixties
by Robert Stone

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Prime Green opens during Robert Stone's last year in the Navy, when he took part in operation Deep Freeze 3, an Anarctic trip that involved circumnavigating the globe. Once out of the Navy, Stone worked for the old New York Daily News and started school... (read more)

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Why Marijuana Should Be Legal Why Marijuana Should Be Legal
by Ed Rosenthal

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Marijuana hit mainstream America over 30 years ago and has been accepted by a large segment of society ever since. Despite government efforts to isolate and eliminate its use, it is more popular now than ever. Why Marijuana Should Be Legal analyzes the... (read more)

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Huerfano: A Memoir of Life in the Counterculture Huerfano: A Memoir of Life in the Counterculture
by Roberta Price

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In the late 1960s, new age communes began springing up in the American Southwest with names like Drop City, New Buffalo, Lama Foundation, Morning Star, Reality Construction Company, and the Hog Farm. In the summer of 1969, Roberta Price, a recent college... (read more)

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Confessions from the Velvet Ropes: The Glamorous, Grueling Life of Thomas Onorato, New York's Top Club Doorman Confessions from the Velvet Ropes: The Glamorous, Grueling Life of Thomas Onorato, New York's Top Club Doorman
by Thomas Onorato

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New York's top doorman, Thomas Onorato, raises the ropes and gives readers a sneak peak into some of the world's most exclusive parties. "If you are not on the guest list or if I don't know you or if I don't like you, you are NOT GETTING INTO THIS PARTY!"... (read more)

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Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole Consumed: How Markets Corrupt Children, Infantilize Adults, and Swallow Citizens Whole
by Benjamin R Barber

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A piercing and vital look at how capitalism is consuming U.S. society. An apt sequel to Benjamin R. Barber's best-selling Jihad vs. McWorld, Consumed offers a wrenching portrait of how adult consumers are infantilized in a global economy that... (read more)

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My Pilgrim's Progress: Media Studies, 1950-1997 My Pilgrim's Progress: Media Studies, 1950-1997
by George W S Trow

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In My Pilgrim's Progress, George W. S. Trow gives us a brilliantly original and provocative look at what's happened to America in our time -- a guided tour of the media, the politics, and the personalities of the last half-century by one of our most... (read more)

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Is American Culture in Decline? Is American Culture in Decline?
by Auriana Ojeda

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Authors in this anthology discuss issues that relate to America's moral fiber. Topics include popular culture, the family, marriage and homosexuality.... (read more)

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A Perfect Fit: Clothes, Character, and the Promise of America A Perfect Fit: Clothes, Character, and the Promise of America
by Jenna Weiss Joselit

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A striking and inventive social history of the role of clothing in the making of modern Americans. While fashions of the rich and famous have been lessly chronicled, little attention has been paid to the meaning of clothes for everyone else. Yet between... (read more)

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Crusoe's Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America Crusoe's Footprints: Cultural Studies in Britain and America
by Patrick Brantlinger

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"Cultural Studies" has emerged in Britain and America higher education as a movement that challenges the traditional humanities and social science disciplines. Influenced by the New Left, feminism, and poststructualist literary theory, cultural studies... (read more)

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The Copycat Effect: How the Media and Popular Culture Trigger the Mayhem in Tomorrow's Headlines The Copycat Effect: How the Media and Popular Culture Trigger the Mayhem in Tomorrow's Headlines
by Loren Coleman

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VIOLENCE BEGETS VIOLENCE BEGETS VIOLENCE... A disturbed student shoots up his classroom -- and suddenly a wave of mass murder is sweeping through our nation's schools. A young child is taken from her home -- and for months afterward child abductions are... (read more)

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Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture Authentic Fakes: Religion and American Popular Culture
by David Chidester

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"In this dazzling book, Chidester moves effortlessly and insightfully between the serious and solemn and the playful and humorous. The case studies are so very fresh and interesting, and he brings a wonderfully nuanced eye to the material."--Edward T... (read more)

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