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Unwarranted Influence - Dwight D. Eisenhower And The Military-Industrial Complex

de Ledbetter James Ledbetter

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 Reveals how the government, military contractors, and the nation's overall economy have become inseparable. This book uncovers the surprising origins and the even more surprising afterlife of the military-industrial complex, an idea that arose as early as the 1930s, and shows how it gained traction during World War II, that continues even today.
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Small Wonder - The Little Red Schoolhouse In History And Memory

de Zimmerman Jonathan Zimmerman

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 The little red schoolhouse has all but disappeared in the United States, but its importance in national memory remains unshakable. This book examines the history of the one-room school and how successive generations of Americans have remembered - and just as often misremembered - this national icon.
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Big House

de Cox Stephen Cox

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 Tells the story of the American prison - its politics, its sex, its violence, its inability to control itself - and its idealization in American popular culture. This book investigates both the popular images of prison and the realities that lay behind them - problems of control and discipline, maintenance and reform, power and sexuality.
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Hamburger - A History

de Josh Ozersky

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 What do Americans think of when they think of the hamburger? A robust, succulent spheroid of fresh ground beef, the birthright of red-blooded citizens? Or a Styrofoam-shrouded Big Mac, mass-produced to industrial specifications and served by wage slaves to an obese, brainwashed population? Is it cooking or commodity? An icon of freedom or the quintessence of conformity?This fast-paced and entertaining book unfolds the immense significance of the hamburger as an American icon. Josh Ozersky shows how the history of the burger is entwined with American business and culture and, unexpectedly, how the burgers story is in many ways the story of the country that invented (and reinvented) it.Spanning the years from the nineteenth century with its waves of European immigrants to our own era of globalization, the book recounts how German hamburg steak evolved into hamburgers for the rising class of urban factory workers and how the innovations of the White Castle System and the McDonalds Corporation turned the burger into the Model T of fast food. The hamburger played an important role in Americas transformation into a mobile, suburban culture, and today, Americas favorite sandwich is nothing short of an irrepressible economic and cultural force. How this all happened, and why, is a remarkable story, told here with insight, humor, and gusto.
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Our Hero - Superman On Earth

de De Haven Tom De Haven

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 Created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in the midst of the Great Depression, Superman is both a transcendent figure and, when posing as his alter-ego, reporter Clark Kent, a humble working-class citizen. This title shares a personal history with the many Americans who came to this country in search of a better life.
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Alger Hiss And The Battle For History

de Jacoby Susan Jacoby

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 Books on Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss abound, as countless scholars have labored to uncover the facts behind Chambers’s shocking accusation before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in the summer of 1948—that Alger Hiss, a former rising star in the State Department, had been a Communist and engaged in espionage.In this highly original work, Susan Jacoby turns her attention to the Hiss case, including his trial and imprisonment for perjury, as a mirror of shifting American political views and passions. Unfettered by political ax-grinding, the author examines conflicting responses, from scholars and the media on both the left and the right, and the ways in which they have changed from 1948 to our present post-Cold War era. With a brisk, engaging style, Jacoby positions the case in the politics of the post-World War II era and then explores the ways in which generations of liberals and conservatives have put Chambers and Hiss to their own ideological uses. An iconic event of the McCarthy era, the case of Alger Hiss fascinates political intellectuals not only because of its historical significance but because of its timeless relevance to equally fierce debates today about the difficult balance between national security and respect for civil liberties.
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Diamonds - An Early History Of The King Of Gems

de Jack Ogden

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 A lavishly illustrated, in-depth early history covering two thousand years of diamond jewelry and commerce, from the Indian mines to European merchants, courts, and workshops
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Holocaust Odysseys - The Jews Of Saint-Martin-Vesubie And Their Flight Through France And Italy

de Susan Zuccotti

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 Describes the dangers to which Jewish refugees and immigrants were subjected in France and Italy as the Holocaust marched forward. This work uncovers a complex history of suffering and resilience through historical documents and personal testimonies from members of nine central and eastern European Jewish families, displaced to France.
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Small Wonder - The Little Red Schoolhouse In History And Memory

de Jonathan Zimmerman

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The Big House - Image And Reality Of The American Prison

de Stephen Cox

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The Brain - Big Bangs, Behaviors, And Beliefs

de Ian Tattersall e Rob Desalle; Ilustração: Patricia J. Wynne

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 After several million years of jostling for ecological space, only one survivor from a host of hominid species remains standing: us. Human beings are extraordinary creatures, and it is the unprecedented human brain that makes them so. This book presents step-by-step account of the evolution of the brain and nervous system.
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Captive Audience - The Telecom Industry And Monopoly Power In The New Gilded Age

de Susan Crawford

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 Why Americans are paying much more for Internet access, and getting much less
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The Poetry Of Kabbalah - Mystical Verse From The Jewish Tradition

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 Taking up Gershom Scholem's call to plumb the "tremendous poetic potential concealed" in the Kabbalistic tradition, this book provides dazzling English renderings of works composed on three continents over a period of some fifteen hundred years. It presents the texts in their original languages alongside the English translations.
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No Such Thing As Silence - John Cage'S 4'33"

de Kyle Gann

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 First performed at the midpoint of the twentieth century, John Cage's 4'33", a composition conceived of without a single musical note, is among the most celebrated and ballyhooed cultural gestures in the history of modern music. This title offers the reader both an expert's analysis and highly personal interpretation of Cage's most divisive work.
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A Dangerous Mind - Carl Schmitt In Post-War European Thought

de Jan-Werner Muller

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 In this account of Schmitt's life and career along with discussions of his key concepts, Muller assesses the uses of his thought in debates on globalization and the quest for a liberal world order, and offers insights into the liberalization of political thinking in post-authoritarian societies."
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Mutiny And Its Bounty - Leadership Lessons From The Age Of Discovery

de Patrick J. Murphy e Ray W. Coye

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 Mutinies in today's organizations are less violent than the shipboard rebellions of Columbus's day, but the challenges leaders face are very much the same
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The Collaborative Enterprise - Managing Speed And Complexity In Knowledge-Based Businesses

de Charles Heckscher

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 Presents an argument that, in a global network of creation and production, the dominant organizations will be those that master the still-uncodified skills of collaboration - replacing the giants of the past century who thrived on the mastery of bureaucratic systems. This book provides information on the subject using various research findings.
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Just Words - Lillian Hellman, Mary Mccarthy, And The Failure Of Public Conversation In America

de Alan Ackerman

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 A title that offers a many-faceted examination of Lillian Hellman's infamous suit and explores what it tells us about tensions between privacy and self-expression, freedom and restraint in public language, and what can and cannot be said in public in America.
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Joe Dimaggio - The Long Vigil

de Jerome Charyn

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 As the New York Yankees' star centre fielder from 1936 to 1951, Joe DiMaggio is enshrined in America's memory as the epitome in sports of grace, dignity, and that ineffable quality called 'class'. But his career after retirement, starting with his nine-month marriage to Marilyn Monroe, was far less auspicious. This title looks at DiMaggio's life.
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They Dared Return - The True Story Of Jewish Spies Behind The Lines In Nazi Germany

de Patrick O'Donnell

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 At the height of World War II, with the Third Reich's final solution in full operation, a small group of Jews who had barely escaped the Nazis did the unthinkable: They went back. Spies now, these men took on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines. They Dared Return is their story,a tale of adventure, espionage, love, and revenge.
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Black Gotham - A Family History Of African Americans In Nineteenth-Century New York City

de Carla L. Peterson

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 A Family History of African Americans in NineteenthCentury New York City. Black Gotham is an important account of the rarely acknowledged achievements of nineteenth-century African Americans.
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Hollywood Sign The - Fantasy And Reality Of An American Icon

de Leo Braudy

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 Fantasy and Reality of an American Icon. Mixing social history, urban studies, literature, and film, along with forays into such topics as the lure of Hollywood for utopian communities and the development of domestic architecture in Los Angeles, The Hollywood Sign is a fascinating account of how a temporary structure has become a permanent icon of American culture.
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The Liberty Bell

de Gary B. Nash

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 Since its original casting in England in 1751, the Liberty Bell has survived a precarious journey on the road to becoming a symbol of the American identity. A cultural history rooted in detailed research, this book explores the impetus behind the bell's creation, as well as its evolutions in meaning through successive generations.
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Andy Warhol

de Arthur C. Danto

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 Delivers a tour of Andy Warhol's personal, artistic, and philosophical transformations. This title traces the evolution of the pop artist, including his early reception, relationships with artists such as Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenberg, and the Factory phenomenon.
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