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Cheever, Ben. Selling Ben Cheever: Back to Square One in a Service Economy. Bloomsbury, dist. by St. Martin's. Oct. 2001. c.312p. ISBN 1-58234-158-3. $25.95. SOC SCI You've heard the moral [...]

Rose, Kenneth D. One Nation Underground: A History of the Fallout Shelter. New York Univ. 2001. 301p. permanent paper. photogs. index. ISBN 0-8147-7522-5. $28.95. HIST Although Rose (history, California State [...]

* Schulman, Bruce J. The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics. Free Pr. 2001. c.492p. ISBN 0-684-82814-6. $26. HIST Last year, conservative polemicist David Frum asserted [...]

Christiansen, Rupert. The Victorian Visitors: Culture Shock in Nineteenth-Century Britain. Atlantic Monthly. May 2001. c.288p. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-87113-790-9. $24. HIST This well-written, selectively episodic examination of the experiences of [...]

Beckert, Sven. The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie, 1850-1896. Cambridge Univ. Apr. 2001. c.468p. illus. maps. index. LC 00-058605. ISBN 0-521-79039-5. $34.95. HIST [...]

Yalom, Marilyn. A History of the Wife. HarperCollins. Feb. 2001. c.480p. illus. index. ISBN 0-06-019338-7. $27.50. SO SCI Cultural historian Yalom (Inst. for Women and Gender, Stanford Univ.) has apparently [...]

Stephan, Alexander. 'Communazis': FBI Surveillance of German Emigre Writers. Yale Univ. 2000. 350p. permanent paper. tr. by Jan van Heurck. illus, bibliog, index. ISBN 0-300-08202-9. $29.95. HIST Communazis was the [...]

Miller, Benjamin. Fat of the Land: Garbage in New York; The Last Two Hundred Years. Four Walls Eight Windows. 2000. c.420p, illus, index. ISBN 1-56858-1726. pap. $18. HIST Miller, former [...]

starBellesiles, Michael A. Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture. Knopf. 2000. c.640p. index. ISBN 0-375-40210-1. $30. POLITICS Bellesiles (history, Emory Univ.; Revolutionary Outlaws), a historian of Colonial [...]

Wheen, Francis. Karl Marx: A Life. Norton. 2000. c.448p. photogs. index. ISBN 0-393-04923-X. $27.95. BIOG Little about Marx was left undiscovered by David McLellan's highly regarded Karl Marx: His Life [...]

Isserman, Maurice. The Other American: The Life of Michael Harrington. PublicAffairs: Perseus. 2000. c.464p. photogs. index. LC 99-056654. ISBN 1-891620-30-4. $27.50. BIOG Michael Harrington (1928-89), easily the most prominent non-Stalinist [...]

Gross, Michael. My Generation: Fifty Years of Sex, Drugs, Rock, Revolution, Glamour, Greed, Valor, Faith and Silicon Chips. HarperCollins. 2000. c.416p. illus. bibliog. ISBN 0-06-017594-X. $25. HIST This oral biography [...]

Frum, David. How We Got Here: The 1970s; The Decade That Brought You Modern Life (for Better or Worse). Basic Bks: Perseus. Feb. 2000. c.432p. illus, bibliog, index. ISBN 0-465-04195-7. [...]

Miller, Timothy. The 60s Communes: Hippies and Beyond. Syracuse Univ. 1999. c.576p, permanent paper, photogs, maps. index. LC 99-37768. ISBN 0-8156-2811-0. $49.95; pap. ISBN 0-8156-0601 -X. $29.95. HIST As a [...]

Isserman, Maurice & Michael Kazin. America Divided: The Civil War of the 1960s. Oxford Univ. Nov. 1999. c.368p. permanent paper. photogs. ISBN 0-19-5091906. $30. HIST Isserman (If I Had a [...]

Lemann, Nicholas. The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy. Farrar. Oct. 1999. c.368p, index. ISBN 0-374-29984-6. $27. HIST This book treats two distinctive but distinctly interrelated themes [...]

Kammen, Michael. American Culture, American Tastes: Social Change and the 20th Century. Knopf. Aug. 1999. c.352p. illus. index. ISBN 0-679-42740-6. $30. HIST The prize-winning Kammen (American history, Cornell; Mystic Chords [...]

Shields, David. Black Planet: Facing Race During an NBA Season. Crown. Nov. 1999. c.240p. ISBN 0-609-60452-X. $23. SPORTS Shields works from the intriguing premise that the national racial crisis plays [...]

Gottschall, Jonathan. The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human. Houghton Harcourt. Apr. 2012. c.272p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780547391403. $24. SOC SCI Gottschall (English, Washington & Jefferson Coll..; Literature, [...]

Meeink, Frank as told to Jody M. Roy. An Autobiography of a Recovering Skinhead: The Frank Meeink Story. Hawthorne. 2010. c.352p. ISBN 978-0-9790188-2-4. pap. $15.95. AUTOBIOG Meeink, a south Philadelphia [...]

Wolfe, Alan. The Future of Liberalism. Knopf. Feb. 2009. c.352p. bibliog. index. ISBN 978-0-307-26677-4. $25.95. POL SCI Wolfe (political science, Boston Univ.; The Transformation of American Religion), a political sociologist [...]

Brent, Jonathan. Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia. Atlas & Co., dist. by Norton. Nov. 2008. c.352p. photogs. ISBN 978-1-9777433-3-9. $26. HIST Brent, Yale University Press's executive editor [...]

Judt, Tony. Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century. Penguin. Apr. 2008. c.464p, index. ISBN 978-1-59420-136-3. $29.95. HIST A Jewish East Ender by origin, Judt (Postwar: A History of Europe [...]

Smith, Virginia. Clean: A History of Personal Hygiene and Purity. Oxford Univ. 2007. 416p. illus, bibliog, index. ISBN 978-0-19-929779-5. $30. SOC SCI This smart and witty tour of the quest […]

Hunter, James Davison & Alan Wolfe. Is There A Culture War?: A Dialogue on Values and American Public Life. Brookings Inst. (Pew Forum Dialogues on Religion & Public Life). 2006. [...]

Bosmajian, Haig. Burning Books. McFarland. Jul. 2006. c.239p. illus. bibliog. index. ISBN 0-7884-2208-4. $39.95. HIST Bosmajian (communications, emeritus, Univ. of Washington; The Freedom Not To Speak) is a prolific historian--and [...]

Fukuyama, Francis. America at the Crossroads: Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy. Yale Univ. 2006. c.240p, index. ISBN 0-300-11399-4. $25. INT. AFFAIRS Fukuyama's (international politics, Johns Hopkins) The End of [...]

De Grazia, Victoria. Irresistible Empire: America's Advance Through Twentieth-Century Europe. Belknap: Harvard Univ. Apr. 2005. c.576p. illus. maps. index. ISBN 0-674-01672-6. $29.95. HIST Columbia history professor de Grazia, the highly [...]

HarperCollins. 2003. 720p. illus. index. ISBN 0-06-019247-X. $29.95. HIST Polemicists generally favor brevity, hitting their targets with surgically precise (or broad, near- slandering) bon mots. The prolific Murray (coauthor, The [...]

Public Affairs: Perseus. 2002. c.464p. photogs. index. LC 2002069681. ISBN 1-891620-98-3. $26. HIST Gutzon Borglum conceived and mostly executed one of the most monumental sculptures of the 20th century: the […]

Roffman, Roger. Marijuana Nation: One Man's Chronicle of America Getting High; From Vietnam to Legalization. Pegasus. Apr. 2014. 352p. illus. ISBN 9781605985466. $26.95; ebk. ISBN 9781605985886. SOC SCI This memoir […]

Knopf. Sept. 2002. c.528p. illus. ISBN 0-375-40192-X. $30. HIST This detailed examination of the representation as distinct from practice of American sexuality in the 19th century is the most thorough [...]

Chomsky, Noam. Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky. New Pr., dist. by Norton. 2002. c.432p. ed. by Peter R. Mitchell & John Schoeffel. index. ISBN 1-56584-703-2. pap. $19.95. POLITICS MIT-based Chomsky [...]

Chomsky, Noam. 9-11. Seven Stories. 2001. c.128p. ISBN 1-58322-489-0. pap. $8.95. MIT-based Chomsky revolutionized linguistics in the late Fifties, but for nearly as long he has been better known as [...]

Getman, Julius G. The Betrayal of Local 14: Paperworkers, Politics, and Permanent Replacements. ILR: Cornell Univ. Jul. 1998. c.256p. photogs. ISBN 0-8014-3476-9. $29.95. POLITICS The giant International Paper has dominated [...]

Foley, Michael Stewart. Front Porch Politics: The Forgotten Heyday of American Activism in the 1970s and 1980s. Hill & Wang. 2013. 432p. illus. notes. bibliog. index. ISBN 9780809054824. $28. HIST [...]

Wisse, Ruth R. No Joke: Making Jewish Humor. Princeton Univ. Jun. 2013. 256p. illus. notes. index. ISBN 9780691149462. $24.95. SOC SCI Wisse (Yiddish & comparative literature, Harvard Univ.; The Modern [...]

Cannadine, David. The Undivided Past: Humanity Beyond Our Differences. Knopf. Apr. 2013. 352p. notes. index. ISBN 9780307269072. $26.95. HIST Sir David Cannadine (history, Princeton Univ.; The Decline and Fall of [...]

Edmundson, Mark. Harvard Univ. Oct. 1997. c.224p. index. LC 97-20270. ISBN 0-674-87484-6. $22.95. SOC SCI Edmundson (English, Univ. of Virginia), who writes prolifically for both the 'lit-crit' elite and the [...]

Duberman, Martin. Howard Zinn: A Life on the Left. The New Press. Oct. 2012. c.384p. illus, bibliog, index. ISBN 9781595586780. $26.95. BIOG Duberman (History, emeritus, CUNY Grad. Sch.; A Saving [...]

Reinsch, Richard M., IlL Whittaker Chambers: The Spirit of a Counterrevolutionary. ISI. (Library of Modern Thinkers). 2010. c.224p. index. ISBN 978-1-935191-52-0. $24.95. POL SCI When Whittaker Chambers famously named U.S. [...]

Muller, Jerry Z. Capitalism and the Jews. Princeton Univ. 2010. c.272p, index. ISBN 978-0-691-14478-8. $24.95. HIST Muller (history, Catholic Univ.; Adam Smith in His Time and Ours), a well-established historian [...]