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Product Description: What is the "American Dream"? This book's author argues that contrary to what many believe, it is not achieving the wealth necessary to enter the top one percent but rather becoming members of the great middle class by dint of hard work and self-discipline...read more
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9781610697576 | Greenwood Pub Group, October 31, 2016, cover price $189.00 | About this edition: What is the "American Dream"?
Product Description: American Fatherhood: A Cultural History traces changes in what it means to be a dad in America, from the 1960s through today. The book begins with an overview of fatherhood in America from the âfounding fathersâ through the 1950s and progresses to the role of fathers as they were encouraged to move beyond being simply providers to becoming more engaged parents, navigating complex and changing gender and family expectations...read more
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9781442248106 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, November 5, 2015, cover price $36.00 | About this edition: American Fatherhood: A Cultural History traces changes in what it means to be a dad in America, from the 1960s through today.
Product Description: American history is ubiquitous, underscoring everything from food to travel to architecture and design. It is also emotionally charged, frequently crossing paths with political and legal issues. In Remembering America, Lawrence R...read more
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9780803254336 | 1 edition (Univ of Nebraska Pr, November 1, 2015), cover price $29.95 | About this edition: American history is ubiquitous, underscoring everything from food to travel to architecture and design.
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9780533136254, titled "The Mystic Bridge of Time" | Vantage Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $8.95 | also contains The Mystic Bridge of Time
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9780786479818 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, March 14, 2014, cover price $35.00
Product Description: The notion of one day disappearing from the earth forever is contrary to many of Americaâs defining cultural values, with death and dying viewed as âun-Americanâ experiences. Arguing that death and dying may be our last major taboo, this book shows how death and dying became almost unmentionable words over the course of the last century...read more
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9781442222236 | Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, July 5, 2013, cover price $44.00 | About this edition: The notion of one day disappearing from the earth forever is contrary to many of Americaâs defining cultural values, with death and dying viewed as âun-Americanâ experiences.
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9780415831864 | Routledge, July 30, 2013, cover price $135.00
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9780415831871 | Routledge, June 24, 2013, cover price $34.95
Product Description: âPsychology has stepped down from the university chair into the marketplaceâ was how the New York Times put it in 1926. Another commentator in 1929 was more biting. Psychoanalysis, he said, had over a generation, âconverted the human scene into a neurotic...read more
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9780803244764 | Univ of Nebraska Pr, April 1, 2013, cover price $34.95 | About this edition: âPsychology has stepped down from the university chair into the marketplaceâ was how the New York Times put it in 1926.
Product Description: Sexidemic is the first real cultural history of sexuality in the United States since the end of World War II. For a people who supposedly love sex, the author argues, Americans have had no shortage of problems with it. Since the end of World War II, in fact, weâve had a contentious relationship with sexuality, the subject a source of considerable tension and controversy on both an individual and societal level...read more
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9781442220409 | 1 edition (Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc, February 7, 2013), cover price $42.00 | About this edition: Sexidemic is the first real cultural history of sexuality in the United States since the end of World War II.
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9780812242515 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, April 22, 2010, cover price $29.95
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9780812222265 | Univ of Pennsylvania Pr, January 24, 2013, cover price $22.50
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9780815610076 | Syracuse Univ Pr, September 15, 2012, cover price $24.95
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9780313398995 | Praeger Pub Text, August 31, 2011, cover price $49.00
Product Description: From April 1964 to October 1965, some 52 million people from aroundthe world flocked to the New York Worldâs Fair, an experience that liveson in the memory of many individuals and in Americaâs collective consciousness.Taking a perceptive look back at âthe last of the great worldâsfairs,â Samuel offers a vivid portrait of this seminal event and of thecultural climate that surrounded it...read more
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9780815609568, titled "The End of the Innocence: The 1964-1965 New York Worldâs Fair" | Reprint edition (Syracuse Univ Pr, August 31, 2010), cover price $19.95 | About this edition: From April 1964 to October 1965, some 52 million people from aroundthe world flocked to the New York Worldâs Fair, an experience that liveson in the memory of many individuals and in Americaâs collective consciousness.
Product Description: The future is not a fixed idea but a highly variable one that reflects the values of those who are imagining it. By studying the ways that visionaries imagined the future-particularly that of America-in the past century, much can be learned about the cultural dynamics of the time...read more
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9780292719149 | Univ of Texas Pr, June 1, 2009, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: The future is not a fixed idea but a highly variable one that reflects the values of those who are imagining it.
Product Description: As Americans, we have been taught to be obsessed with money and the people who have it. We are curious about what they buy, where they vacation, and what separates them from the rest of us. Rich puts the American obsession with all things money into much-needed perspective and context, exposing the origins of the upper class...read more
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9780814413623 | 1 edition (Amacom Books, July 1, 2009), cover price $24.95 | About this edition: As Americans, we have been taught to be obsessed with money and the people who have it.
Product Description: From April to October in 1964 and 1965, some 52 million people from around the world flocked to the New York Worldâs Fair, an experience that lives on in the memory of many individuals and in Americaâs collective consciousness...read more
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9780815608905 | Syracuse Univ Pr, August 30, 2007, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: From April to October in 1964 and 1965, some 52 million people from around the world flocked to the New York Worldâs Fair, an experience that lives on in the memory of many individuals and in Americaâs collective consciousness.
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