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1	Understanding Public Policy more books like this by Thomas R Dye add to wishlist For undergraduate-level courses in Public Policy. Understanding Public Policy is not only an introduction to the study of public policy, but also an introduction to the models that political scientists use to describe and explain political life. This market-leading introduction to public policy is designed to provide undergraduate and graduate ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $24.87! \| first editions \| SVS
2	Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the 1990s more books like this by Michael Omi, Omi Michael, Howard Winant add to wishlist First published in 1986, "Racial Formation in the United States" is considered a classic in the literature on race and ethnicity. Critical of the reductionism and unidimensionality of paradigms through which race had long been understood, the authors developed a new theory that defines race as an "organizing principle" of American society, one ... see all copies from $11.99! new only from $36.94! \| SVS
3	The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism more books like this by Thomas Frank add to wishlist An evocative symbol of the 1960s was its youth counterculture. This study reveals that the youthful revolutionaries were augmented by such unlikely allies as the advertising industry and the men's clothing business. The ad industry celebrated irrepressible youth and promoted defiance and revolt. In the 1950s, Madison Avenue deluged the country ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $8.38! \| first editions \| SVS
4	America's Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon more books like this by Mark H Lytle add to wishlist In contrast with most histories of this period, America's Uncivil Wars: The Sixties Era from Elvis to the Fall of Richard Nixon does not treat the 1960s as a single historical moment or as successive waves of activism. Rather, it employs a chronological narrative to identify three distinct phases during which events of the era unfolded. The first ... see all copies from $2.86! new only from $18.19! \| SVS
5	Slouching Towards Bethlehem more books like this by Joan Didion add to wishlist This collection of essays takes the reader on a psychological tour of the intense, wayward, violent, not a little crazy America of the 1960s. Surfers, students, deadheads and druggies; Joan Baez, Dean Martin, Howard Hughes and John Wayne - all emerge from Didion's gaze just that little bit weirder, that little bit more American. Joan Didion has ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.78! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations more books like this by Christopher Lasch add to wishlist A larger format second edition of this work of social and cultural criticism concerning the narcissism and self-interest of the "Me Decade", which has a new "Afterword" in which the author comments on the 80s and New Age spirituality. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.50! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Blaming the victim more books like this by William Ryan add to wishlist The classic work that refutes the lies we tell ourselves about race, poverty and the poor Here are three myths about poverty in America: - Minority children perform poorly in school because they are "culturally deprived." - African-Americans are handicapped by a family structure that is typically unstable and matriarchal. - Poor people suffer ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	The Movement and the Sixties more books like this by Terry H Anderson add to wishlist It began in 1960 with the Greensboro sit-ins. By 1973, when a few Native Americans rebelled at Wounded Knee and the U.S. Army came home from Vietnam, it was over. In between came Freedom Rides, Port Huron, the Mississippi Summer, Berkeley, Selma, Vietnam, the Summer of Love, Black Power, the Chicago Convention, hippies, Brown Power, and Women's ... see all copies from $3.90! new only from $17.82! \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Way We'll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream more books like this by John Zogby add to wishlist Eminent pollster Zogby offers this illuminating, fact-filled look at the changing nature of the American Dream and how this is influencing everything--from the politicians people vote for to the goods and services they buy. see all copies from $2.62! new only from $8.28! \| first editions \| SVS
10	Promiscuities more books like this by Naomi Wolf add to wishlist Fresh from the success of "The Beauty Myth", cultural muckraker Naomi Wolf here trains her sights upon women's sexual rites of passage. For her research she relies upon her own memories, and those of her friends, of coming into womanhood during the 1970s and early 1980s--after The Pill and before AIDS. Wolf concentrates on the physical and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Crisis in American Institutions more books like this by Jerome H Skolnick add to wishlist Crisis in American Institutions provides readers with an array of engaging articles that reflect America's social problems and encourage critical thought. The text contains a breadth of articles that encompasses a review of the best of contemporary writing on American social problems. For the twelfth edition, approximately one-quarter of the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.00! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	We talk, you listen; new tribes, new turf more books like this by Vine Deloria add to wishlist "We Talk, You Listen" is strong, boldly unconventional medicine from Vine Deloria Jr. (1933-2005), one of the most important voices of twentieth-century Native American affairs. Here the witty and insightful Indian spokesman turns his penetrating vision toward the disintegrating core of American society. Written at a time when the traditions of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $11.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Long Time Gone: Sixties America Then and Now more books like this by Alexander Bloom (Editor) add to wishlist This study examines the gulf between the history and mythology that has grown up around different aspects of the 1960s, ranging from the counterculture to gay rights, to the student and women's movements, and to the Johnson presidency. One of the volumes launching the "Viewpoints of American Culture" series, this collection of essays features ... see all copies from $5.60! new only from $14.25! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage more books like this by Professor Todd Gitlin add to wishlist With verve and brilliance, Gitlin vividly brings to life the years when an entire generation revelled in its power to shape history and society, as the New Left emerged from the disaffection of the '50s to take a powerful stand in the activism and violent upheavals of the '60s. Completely updated. see all copies from $5.95! new only from $12.06! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	The Columbia Guide to America in the 1960s more books like this by David Farber, Professor Beth Bailey add to wishlist The 1960s continue to be the subject of passionate debate and political controversy, a touchstone in struggles over the meaning of the American past and the direction of the American future. Amid the polemics and the myths, making sense of the Sixties and its legacies presents a challenge. This book is for all those who want to take it on. Because ... see all copies from $3.52! new only from $9.98! \| SVS
16 view cover	The Flamingo Rising more books like this by Larry Baker add to wishlist Abe's father builds an extravagant drive-in theater next door to an equally extravagant funeral parlor, beginning a rivalry that has repercussions for Abe when he falls in love with the daughter of his father's enemy. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	Greening of America more books like this by Charles A Reich add to wishlist A reissue of this controversial best-seller on the 25th anniversary of its original publication. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.55! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	The Sixties Papers: Documents of a Rebellious Decade more books like this by Judith Clavir Albert add to wishlist .,."[P]rovides a view straight from the source. This weighty anthology gives a year-by-year synopsis and presents dozens of articles penned during the era, ranging from Malcolm X's The Ballot or the Bullet' to Kate Millett's Sexual Politics: A Manifesto for Revolution.'" Utne Reader see all copies from $5.20! new only from $41.77! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Power and Protest: Global Revolution and the Rise of Detente more books like this by Jeremi Suri add to wishlist In this book Jeremi Suri puts the tumultuous 1960s into a truly international perspective in the first study to examine the connections between great power diplomacy and global social protest. Profoundly disturbed by increasing social and political discontent, Cold War powers united on the international front, in the policy of d?tente. Though ... see all copies from $17.87! new only from $17.87! \| signed copies \| SVS
20 view cover	Everyday Fashions of the Sixties as Pictured in Sears Catalogs more books like this by JoAnne Olian (Editor), Sears Roebuck and Company (Photographer) add to wishlist This compilation from a style-conscious decade features scores of illustrations with their original captions specifying colors, sizes, prices. Items include apparel for men, women, and children -- from lingerie and playclothes to bridal ensembles, Madras jackets, and vinyl slicker coats. Introduction. Over 300 black-and-white illustrations. see all copies from $8.09! new only from $8.09! \| SVS
21 view cover	First Things, Last Things more books like this by Eric Hoffer add to wishlist Eric Hofferone of America's most important thinkers and the author of The True Believerbegins with a macro view on the progress of civilization, ending with his crucible vision on the unique and transformative aspects of mankind. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.92! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
22 view cover	Fugitive Days more books like this by William C Ayers add to wishlist This memoir is by a '60s political activist who went underground after the famous Greenwich Village townhouse explosion in 1970. Ayers tells of the political and cultural influences that radicalized him, his life in the Weather Underground prior to the explosion, his life on the run, and what happened to him after he turned himself in in 1981. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.98! \| signed copies \| first editions
23 view cover	My Generation: Fifty Years of Sex, Drugs, Rock, Revolution, Glamour, Greed, Valor, Faith, and Silicon Chips more books like this by Michael Gross add to wishlist The story of the Baby Boom generation, the driving force of modern American culture--how it grew up, shaped the history of the 20th century, and set the course toward the 21st. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.95! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Worlds of Pain: Life in the Working Class Family more books like this by Lillian Rubin add to wishlist The classic that is widely acknowledged to be the most valuable and insightful book ever written on the dynamics of working-class family life by a renowned sociologist, psychotherapist, and bestselling author. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	The Hippies and American Values more books like this by Timothy Miller add to wishlist see all copies from $9.99! new only from $15.00! \| SVS

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