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The Business of America; How Consumers Have Replaced Citizens and How We Can Reverse the Trend (Paths for the Twenty-First Century) The Business of America; How Consumers Have Replaced Citizens and How We Can Reverse the Trend (Paths for the Twenty-First Century)
by Saul Landau

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When President Bush promoted shopping as a patriotic duty, the American culture of consumption hit a new low. But a quiet revolution is growing in the developing world and in a new generation of Americans, fighting the advance of the shopping malls and... (read more)

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Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920 Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920
by Kristin L Hoganson

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Histories of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era tend to characterize the United States as an expansionist nation bent on Americanizing the world without being transformed itself. In Consumers Imperium, Kristin Hoganson reveals the other half of... (read more)

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Weird Like Us: A Bohemian America Weird Like Us: A Bohemian America
by Ann Powers

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There is a feeling of nostalgia that surrounds the idea of bohemia, that place where art and ideas and alternative thinking become the focal point of life. To most, bohemia is gone -- erased by the lifestyle of the 1990s and the too many, too fast... (read more)

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Pills-A-Go-Go: A Fiendish Investigation Into Pill Marketing, Art, History, and Consumption Pills-A-Go-Go: A Fiendish Investigation Into Pill Marketing, Art, History, and Consumption
by Jim Hogshire

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Observing our society's constant desire for a quick fix, Hogshire writes this book as both a celebration of the wonders of modern pharmacology and a study of the propensity to take a pill as an antidote for virtually all of life's problems.... (read more)

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Boomer Nation: The Largest and Richest Generation Ever, and How It Changed America Boomer Nation: The Largest and Richest Generation Ever, and How It Changed America
by Steven M Gillon

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The Baby Boomers, born between 1946 and 1964, form the single largest demographic spike in American history. Never before or since have birth rates shot up and remained so high so long, with some obvious results: when the Boomers were kids, American... (read more)

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Lead Us Into Temptation: The Triumph of American Materialism Lead Us Into Temptation: The Triumph of American Materialism
by James B Twitchell

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Coke adds life. Just do it. Yo quiero Taco Bell. We live in a commercial age, awash in a sea of brand names, logos, and advertising jingles -- not to mention commodities themselves. Are shoppers merely the unwitting stooges of the greedy producers who... (read more)

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For the Common Good?: American Civic Life and the Golden Age of Fraternity For the Common Good?: American Civic Life and the Golden Age of Fraternity
by Jason Kaufman

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The Golden Age of Fraternity was a unique time in American history. Joining clubs, fraternities, militias, and mutual benefit societies between the Civil and First World Wars was so prevalent that many contemporaries see it as a model for a... (read more)

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The Delicious Grace of Moving One's Hand: The Collected Sex Writings The Delicious Grace of Moving One's Hand: The Collected Sex Writings
by Timothy Leary

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Timothy Leary (1920-1997) was one of the most controversial figures of the 1960s, the man who urged a generation to turn on, tune in, and drop out. Now, nearly two years after his death, this manuscript has emerged comprising his best writings about... (read more)

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American Cultural Studies: An Introduction to American Culture American Cultural Studies: An Introduction to American Culture
by Neil Campbell

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A interdisciplinary introduction to American culture, American Cultural Studies examines the tensions that exist within the multifaceted and multicultural mix of American life. Exploring the changing debates throughout the century, specific consideration... (read more)

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Migrations to Solitude Migrations to Solitude
by Sue Halpern

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Why do we often long for solitude but dread loneliness? What happens when the walls we build around ourselves are suddenly removed--or made impenetrable? If privacy is something we count on as a basic right, why are our laws, technology and life-styles... (read more)

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Prisoner of X: Twenty Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine Prisoner of X: Twenty Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine
by Allan MacDonell

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Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine is a savagely funny odyssey through the bizarro world of Larry Flynt's cracker-rich X-rated empire. During his tenure in the Hustler trenches, punk-rock dropout Allan MacDonell ascends from... (read more)

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Landscape in Sight: Looking at America Landscape in Sight: Looking at America
by John Brinck Jackson

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Focusing not on nature but on landscape -- land shaped by human presence -- Jackson invites us to see the everyday places of the American countryside and city. This appealing anthology, illustrated with Jackson's sketches and photographs, brings together... (read more)

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The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character, Abridged and Revised Edition (Yale Nota Bene) The Lonely Crowd: A Study of the Changing American Character, Abridged and Revised Edition (Yale Nota Bene)
by David Riesman

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Abridged and revised with a Forward by professor Todd Gitlin, "The Lonely Crowd" is indispensable reading for anyone who wishes to understand the social character of the United States. Its now-classic analysis of the "new middle class" opens exciting new... (read more)

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The Twenty-First Century Will Be American The Twenty-First Century Will Be American
by Alfredo G A Valladao

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Valladao refutes allegations that America is in decline, arguing that it will dominate the next century because it alone has the power - and the will - to do so. 'Valladao's imaginative and thought-provoking study is well worth attention.' Foreign... (read more)

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Fierce Communion: Family & Community in Early America Fierce Communion: Family & Community in Early America
by Helena M Wall

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Helena Wall shows what life was like in colonial America, a culture where individuals and family were subordinated to the demands of the community. Using local town, church, and especially court records from every colony, she examines the division of... (read more)

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American Monsters: 44 Rats, Blackhats, and Plutocrats American Monsters: 44 Rats, Blackhats, and Plutocrats
by Jack Newfield

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With specially commissioned essays by veteran chroniclers such as Pete Hamill and Jimmy Breslin, this collection spotlights 40 profiles of history's most celebrated and notorious Americans: the corrupt, greedy, power-mad, and vicious betrayers of the... (read more)

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Hiroshima in America: A Half Century of Denial Hiroshima in America: A Half Century of Denial
by Robert Jay Lifton

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A half century after the bombing of Hiroshima, two distinguished writers look at the impact of the use of the A-bomb, and the supression of debate, on American life. Lifton and Mitchell question why Hiroshima still touches such a raw nerve, and explore... (read more)

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The Burden of Bad Ideas The Burden of Bad Ideas
by Heather Macdonald

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Critics have attacked the foolishness of some of today's elite thought from many angles, but few have examined the real-world consequences of those ideas. In this book, Heather Mac Donald reports on their disasterous effects throughout our society.... (read more)

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Hello Gorgeous!: Beauty Products in America, '40s - '60s Hello Gorgeous!: Beauty Products in America, '40s - '60s
by Rachel Weingarten

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Beginning in the 1940s, women?s increased buying power allowed them the luxury of beautification, and beautify they did! Showcasing over 300 illustrated advertisements of the time, Hello Gorgeous! looks at the products that became staples for generations... (read more)

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American Social Experience #28: Bad Habits: Drinking, Smoking, Taking Drugs, Gambling, Sexual Misbehavior, and Swearing in American History American Social Experience #28: Bad Habits: Drinking, Smoking, Taking Drugs, Gambling, Sexual Misbehavior, and Swearing in American History
by John Burnham

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The vast majority of Americans have, at one point or another, gotten drunk, smoked, dabbled with drugs, gambled, sworn, or engaged in adultery. During the 1800s, "respectable" people struggled to control these behaviors, labeling them "bad" and the... (read more)

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