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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Outside the Gates of Eden Outside the Gates of Eden Peter Bacon Hales The trajectory of American popular culture after the first (atomic detonations) and second (Levittown) steps. OL17323036W
The long shadow The long shadow 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… OL19979946W
Bohemians, bootleggers, flappers, and swells Bohemians, bootleggers, flappers, and swells 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… OL19987063W
The Education of John Reed The Education of John Reed 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… OL2136255W
Culture as history Culture as history 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… OL5366922W
Poplorica Poplorica 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 … OL5802855W