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Analyzing Mad Men Analyzing Mad Men Scott Frederick Stoddart "The 12 critical essays in this collection offer a broad, interdisciplinary approach to this highly relevant television show, examining Mad Men as a cultural barometer for contemporary concerns with … OL16142019W
This Is Who We Were in the 1940s - 1940-1949 This Is Who We Were in the 1940s - 1940-1949 Mars, Laura This is Who We Were: In the 1940s provides the reader with a deeper understanding of what life was like in America in 1940-1949 and how it compares statistically to life today. Using original materia… OL17213816W
American mojo, lost and found American mojo, lost and found Peter D. Kiernan Argues that America's might lies in its middle class and calls for a focused directive to reinvigorate the class in order to return the nation to greatness. Award-winning author Peter D. Kiernan foc… OL17875707W
The presidential papers The presidential papers Norman Mailer Norman Mailer’s Presidential Papers is a collection of much of his occasional writing of years 1960-1963. There are the epic essays on the 1960 Democratic convention and the first Patterson-Liston fi… OL1822222W
Shame Shame Shelby Steele "Part memoir and part meditation on the failed efforts to achieve racial equality in America, [this book] advances Shelby Steele's provocative argument that 'new liberalism' has done more harm than g… OL19994866W
The 50s The 50s Henry Finder A look back at the 1950s chronicles the tensions and innovations that lay behind the decade's more placid surface during a time of prosperity and contradiction. OL20035776W
Gates of Eden Gates of Eden Morris Dickstein American culture of the 1960s. OL2684072W
Making people's music Making people's music Peter David Goldsmith "As the founder of Folkways Records in 1948 and its director for nearly forty years, Moe Asch was committed to preserving the entire range of the world's musical and oral traditions. By his death in … OL2710170W
Backfire Backfire Loren Baritz Discusses what led us into Vietnam, how it has changed our culture today and how it may change our culture in the future. This is the only book to examine the myths of the American culture that led … OL2754114W
Generation of vipers Generation of vipers Philip Wylie "Perhaps the most vitriolic attack ever launched on the American way of living - from politicians to professors to businessmen to Mom to sexual mores to religion - Generation of Vipers ranks with the… OL31045W
Trivializing America Trivializing America Norman Corwin 286 p. ; 24 cm OL3460670W
Statistical panic Statistical panic Kathleen M. Woodward "In this moving and thoughtful book, Kathleen Woodward explores the politics and poetics of the emotions, focusing on American culture since the 1960s. She argues that we are constrained in terms of … OL4442931W
The Sixties The Sixties Arthur Marwick "A monumental study of social and political change in Europe and the United States during this period of cultural revolution. Paying particular attention to the impact of the sixties on the lives of … OL480776W