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When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put ... More
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A book of shrewd historical analysis and clear anecdotal prose...[Schulman's] argument is utterly persuasive.-- New York Times Book Review More
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In the title essay of this extraordinary keepsake of childhood in America, John Edgar Wideman pays fierce tribute to a complex mother who "used to dream me home safely by ... More
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The beautiful Langhorne sisters lived at the pinnacle of society from the end of the Civil War through the Second World War. Born in Virginia to a family impoverished by the ... More
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Presents for the first time in English travel essays by Arabic writers who visited America during the period 1895-1995. Writers hail from a variety of regions, backgrounds, ... More
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The 19 essays of this collection consider various aspects of American cities from the 19th century through the present. Among the topics are the impact of theorist Lewis ... More
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When TV celebrity Dinah Shore sang "See the USA in your Chevrolet," 1950s America took her to heart. Every summer, parents piled the kids in the back seat, threw the luggage ... More
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America has gotten into ugly moods before, but never as today. In taking us on a guided tour of American acrimony, Peter Wood traces the roots of anger's triumph in our ... More
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In this irreverent, unsparing, and witty look at our cultural obsession with blonde, Natalia Ilyin shows us that our apparently modern fixation has truly primeval roots. ... More
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