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Post-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans (Previously Known as Bl Post-Soul Nation: The Explosive, Contradictory, Triumphant, and Tragic 1980s as Experienced by African Americans (Previously Known as Bl
by Nelson George

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One of the foremost chroniclers of the contemporary black experience offers an undeluded perspective on the 1980s. Here are crack, AIDS, and the Reagan rollback of the major advances of the civil rights movement. But Nelson George also shows how black... (read more)

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Blues for Cannibals Blues for Cannibals
by Charles Bowden

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Blues for Cannibals continues the quest Bowden began in Blood Orchid-to discover the headwaters of the sickness that seeps through the American soul, and to consider what it might mean to come fully alive in a time of exalted consumption, global pillage,... (read more)

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Who Are We: The Challenges to America's National Identity Who Are We: The Challenges to America's National Identity
by Samuel P Huntington

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The author of "The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order" turns his attention to the cultural rifts in this country. The patriotic response to 9-11 only highlighted the loss of American identity here at home, says Huntington, and already... (read more)

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Kids' Stuff: Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood Kids' Stuff: Toys and the Changing World of American Childhood
by Gary Cross

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To sort out who's who and what's what in the enchanting, vexing world of Barbiesandreg; and Ninja Turtlesandreg;, Tinkertoysandreg; and teddy bears, is to begin to see what's become of childhood in America. It is this changing world, and what it unveils... (read more)

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Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture (Film and Culture) Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture (Film and Culture)
by Thomas Patr Doherty

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Conventional wisdom holds that television was a co-conspirator in the repressions of Cold War America, that it was a facilitator to the blacklist and handmaiden to McCarthyism. But Thomas Doherty argues that, through the influence of television, America... (read more)

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The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America The Unwanted Gaze: The Destruction of Privacy in America
by Jeffrey Rosen

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The Unwanted Gaze is an important book about one of the most pressing issues of our day: how changes in technology and the law have combined to demolish our rights of privacy, and what we can and must do to re-secure them. In a world in which Ken... (read more)

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Clubland the Nocturnal Carnival of Ecsta Clubland the Nocturnal Carnival of Ecsta
by Frank Owen

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In 1995, journalist Frank Owen began researching a story on “Special K,” a new designer drug that fueled the after-midnight club scene. He went to buy and sample the drug at the internationally-notorious Limelight, a decrepit church converted... (read more)

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The Rise and Fall of Leftist Radicalism in America The Rise and Fall of Leftist Radicalism in America
by Edward Walter

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Walter analyzes the history of American radicals of the left (socialists, communists, and radical liberals) from their emergence as an opinion-shaping force during the Great Depression to the present, and concludes that theirs is a fundamentally negative... (read more)

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Alcohol: The World's Favorite Drug Alcohol: The World's Favorite Drug
by Griffith Edwards

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Alcohol is everywhere. Walk down any street in the western world and before long your feet will kick against an empty beer can, or your attention will be captured by an alluring advertisement that suggests that alcohol can magically transform your life... (read more)

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To Have and to Hold: Marriage, the Baby Boom, and Social Change To Have and to Hold: Marriage, the Baby Boom, and Social Change
by Jessica Weiss

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Middle-class family life in the 1950s brings to mind images of either smugly satisfied or miserably repressed nuclear families with breadwinning husbands, children, and housewives, much like the families depicted in Ozzie and Harriet and Father Knows... (read more)

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Perfect Fit Perfect Fit
by Jenna Weiss Joselit

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While fashions of the rich and famous have been endlessly chronicled, little attention has been paid to the meaning of clothes for everyone else. Yet between 1890 and 1940, as ready-to-wear came into its own, fashion for ordinary Americans played an... (read more)

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Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby Reflections of an Affirmative Action Baby
by Stephen L Carter

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Has the time come to abandon these programs? No--but affirmative action must return to its simpler roots, Carter argues: to provide educational opportunities for those who might not otherwise have them. Then the beneficiaries should demand to be held to... (read more)

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Trips: How Hallucinogens Work in Your Brain Trips: How Hallucinogens Work in Your Brain
by Cheryl Pellerin

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In an informed and irreverent exploration of what hasn't been told about the brain's mysterious ability to hallucinate, an award-winning, independent science writer details what neuroscientists, psychopharmacologists, medicinal chemists, and... (read more)

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Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble about Language, Technology and Education Conscientious Objections: Stirring Up Trouble about Language, Technology and Education
by Neil Postman

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In a series of feisty and ultimately hopeful essays, one of America's sharpest social critics casts a shrewd eye over contemporary culture to reveal the worst -- and the best -- of our habits of discourse, tendencies in education, and obsessions with... (read more)

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Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond
by Martin A Lee and Bruce Shlain

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Few events have had a more profound impact on the social and cultural upheavals of the Sixties than the psychedelic revolution spawned by the spread of LSD. This book for the first time tells the full and astounding story — part of it hidden till... (read more)

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The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry (Refiguring American Music) The Selling Sound: The Rise of the Country Music Industry (Refiguring American Music)
by Diane Pecknold

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Few expressions of popular culture have been shaped as profoundly by the relationship between commercialism and authenticity as country music has. While its apparent realism, sincerity, and frank depictions of everyday life are country's most obvious... (read more)

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Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families Common Ground: A Turbulent Decade in the Lives of Three American Families
by J Anthony Lukas

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Winner of 3 different awards, this is a story of the busing crisis in Boston.... (read more)

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The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse The Progress Paradox: How Life Gets Better While People Feel Worse
by Gregg Easterbrook

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Here's a pick sure to shake up your next book club. Despite his sometimes sanctimonious tone, Easterbrook poses some very interesting questions about modern society and its inhabitants. Why does the middle class feel so discontented? Long on theories and... (read more)

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Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics
by Rebecca Solnit

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Rebecca Solnit has made a vocation of journeying into difficult territory and reporting back, as an environmentalist, antiglobalization activist, and public intellectual. Storming the Gates of Paradise, an anthology of her essential essays from the past... (read more)

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Faded Mosaic Faded Mosaic
by Christopher Clausen

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"Contrary to today's widespread emphasis on ""cultural diversity,"" the United States has become not a multicultural society but the world's first post-cultural society. Cultures, Christopher Clausen argues, have lost power over both public and private... (read more)

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