The American Way of Life : A Cultural History 9781683930839, 9781683930822

Telling the full story of the American Way of Life (or more simply the American Way) in the United States over the cours

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The American Way of Life : A Cultural History
9781683930839, 9781683930822

Although they entered the world as pure science fiction, robots are now very much a fact of everyday life. Whether a spa

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The clich� of the Ugly American--loud, vulgar, materialistic, chauvinistic--still expresses what people around the world

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Icons of Life tells the engrossing and provocative story of an early twentieth-century undertaking, the Carnegie Institu

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In 1929, a small group of men and women threw off their clothes and began to exercise in a New York City gymnasium, mark

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In this pioneering work of cultural history, historian Anthony Harkins argues that the hillbilly-in his various guises o

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There is no better way to understand America than by understanding the cultural history of the American Dream. Rather th

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