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The Fifties
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David Halberstam |
The Fifties is a sweeping social, political, economic, and cultural history of the ten years that Halberstam regards as seminal in determining what our nation is today. Halberstam offers portraits of… |
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The Lolita effect
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Meenakshi Gigi Durham |
Pop culture-and the advertising that surrounds it-teaches young girls and boys five myths about sex and sexuality: Girls don't choose boys, boys choose girls-but only sexy girls, There's only one kin… |
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Pugetopolis
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Knute Berger |
Knute "Skip" Berger's trenchant commentaries in his "Mossback" column for Seattle Weekly, and now Crosscut.com, have made him one of the most popular and prickly figures in Seattle journalism. This b… |
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Living Oprah
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Robyn Okrant |
eBook Bonus:New Photos plus Video, Blog and Interview links.What happens when a thirty-five-year-old average American woman spends one year following every piece of Oprah Winfrey's advice on how to … |
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Mexifornia: A State of Becoming
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VICTOR DAVIS HANSON |
Noted for his military histories and his social commentary on post-9/11 American life, Victor Davis Hanson is a fifth-generation Californian who teaches college classics courses and runs a family far… |
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Myths, lies, and downright stupidity
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John Stossel |
Myths and misconceptions covered in the book include: Is the media unbiased? Are our schools helping or hurting our kids? Do singles have a better sex life than married people? Do we have less free t… |
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The Importance of Being Famous
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Maureen Orth |
Vanity Fair's veteran special correspondent pulls back the curtain on the world of celebrity and those who live and die there
Vanity Fair's Maureen Orth always makes news. From Hollywood to murder… |
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It came from the 1950s!
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Jones, Darryl |
"It came from the 1950s is an eclectic, witty, and insightful collection of essays predicated on the hypothesis that popular cultural documents provide unique insights into the concerns, anxieties, a… |
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Hetty
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Charles Slack |
Challenges popular misconceptions about the nineteenth-century female tycoon's character to explore her considerable accomplishments in the world of finance at a time before women were legally able t… |
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American militarism and anti-militarism in popular media, 1945-1970
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Lisa M. Mundey |
"This study explores military images in television, film, and comic books from 1945 to 1970 to understand how popular culture made it possible for a public to embrace more militaristic national secur… |
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Commodify your dissent
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Editors - Thomas Frank, Matt Weiland |
A series of essays on consumerism, corporations and marketing in the culture of late twentieth-century America. Targets of these snarky and often smart "salvos" include malls, exurbs, business books… |
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Lowrider space
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Ben Chappell |
"This book explores how lowrider car culture allows Mexican Americans to alter the urban landscape and make a place for themselves in an often segregated society"-- |
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Black social dance in television advertising
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Carla Stalling Huntington |
"This work investigates the anthropologic aesthetic of black social dance in television advertising. Covering the 1950s through 2010 in the United States, each decade is explored as dance is shown to… |
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Things That Matter
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Charles Krauthammer |
From America’s preeminent columnist, named by the Financial Times the most influential commentator in the nation, the long-awaited collection of Charles Krauthammer’s essential, timeless writings.
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Outside the Gates of Eden
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Peter Bacon Hales |
The trajectory of American popular culture after the first (atomic detonations) and second (Levittown) steps. |
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West-fever
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Brian W. Dippie |
Published on the occasion of the 10th anniversary year of the Autry Museum of Western Heritage in Los Angeles, California, this book explores the mythical and factual West through the art, artifacts … |
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The feminization of American culture
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Douglas, Ann |
This is one of those rare books that let us see with a fresh and startling clarity the underlying causes, meaning, and influence through time of profound a cultural phenomenon. In it, a brilliant you… |
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Pop culture Florida
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James P. Goss |
Pop Culture Florida jiggles readers through recent Florida history like Jayne Mansfield on Disney’s Space Mountain. Ever wonder where the cult classic Caddyshack was filmed? Do you know why Burt Reyn… |
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Key Terms in Popular Music and Culture
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Bruce Horner,Thomas Swiss |
This work presents 18 essays by scholars in the field of popular music studies. They collectively address the question: "What are we talking about when we talk about popular music?" Each essay maps t… |
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Parasocial politics
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Jason Zenor |
Explores how consumers form complex relationships with media texts and characters, and how these readings exist in the nexus between real and fictional worlds. This collection of empirical studies us… |
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