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The Rise of the Creative Class: And How It's Transforming Work, Leisure, Community, and Everyday Life
Florida, Richard

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The Rise of the Creative Class" gives a provocative new way to think about why people live as they do today—and where they might be headed. Weaving storytelling with masses of new and updated research, Florida traces the growing role of creativity in... [More...]

The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
Hirsch, E. D., Jr.

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This updated edition serves up a delicious concoction of information, becoming the most definitive and comprehensive family source book for anyone who wants to stay ahead of the cultural curve.

A Consumers' Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America
Cohen, Lizabeth

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In this signal work of history, Bancroft Prize winner and Pulitzer Prize finalist Lizabeth Cohen shows how the pursuit of prosperity after World War II fueled our pervasive consumer mentality and transformed American life.

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Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics, and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia
Smith, J. Douglas

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Tracing the erosion of white elite paternalism in Jim Crow Virginia, Douglas Smith reveals a surprising fluidity in southern racial politics in the decades between World War I and the Supreme Court's 1954 "Brown v. Board of Education decision.
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Cruel Years: American Voices at the Dawn of the Twentieth Century
Katz, William Loren

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"Hearing the words of these people is a requirement for a truly democratic society."
—from the Preface by Howard Zinn
What was life like for a working person one hundred years ago? The Cruel Years offers readers a poignant and candid glimpse of... [More...]

The Legacy: The Vietnam War in the American Imagination
Shafer, D. Michael

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"Fourteen essays documenting the Vietnam War's impact and continuing influence on American life, particularly on cinema, literature, the black community, and the combat veteran." —Booklist

Twilight of Press Freedom PR
Merrill, John C.

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This volume offers a historical, philosophical, and practical critique of public and civic journalism—a movement that gained momentum in the final decade of the 20th century. During that period, proponents of the movement have published nearly a dozen... [More...]

Twilight of Press Freedom CL
Merrill, John C.

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The Middling Sorts: Explorations in the History of the American Middle Class
Bledstein, Burton J.

Paperback: $46.74 [56,090₩]

According to our national myth, all Americans are "middle class", but rarely has such a widely-used term been so poorly defined, past and present. Do we identify the middle class by a house in the suburbs, a white collar job, or a political outlook that is... [More...]

The World of Caffeine: The Science and Culture of the World's Most Popular Drug
Weinberg, Bennett Alan

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In a natural, cultural, and artistic history of our favorite mood enhancer, the authors show how caffeine was discovered, its early uses, and the unexpected parts it has played in medicine, religion, painting, poetry, learning, and love. 50 halftones & line... [More...]

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