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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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The long shadow
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Reynolds, David |
One of the most violent conflicts in the history of civilization, World War I has been strangely forgotten in American culture. It has become a ghostly war fought in a haze of memory, often seen mere… |
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Bohemians, bootleggers, flappers, and swells
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Graydon Carter,Friend, David |
For the magazine's centenary celebration, an anthology of pieces from the early golden age of Vanity Fair. Editor Graydon Carter introduces these fabulous pieces written between 1913 and 1936, when t… |
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The Education of John Reed
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John Reed |
Selections from Reed's lively, passionate writing in the decade 1910 to his untimely death in 1920. Partisan of workers and peasants, a fighter for fundamental change in the social order. Introductio… |
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Culture as history
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Warren Susman |
"Bringing together for the first time the best of twenty-five years of unique critical work, Warren Susman takes Us on a startling tour through the conflicts and events which have transformed the soc… |
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Poplorica
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Martin J. Smith |
Extra 1 - Poplorica quizPop culture meets pop reference in this irreverent tour of twenty unlikely events, innovations, and individuals that forever changed how we live today -- the food we eat, the … |
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