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1	The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World more books like this by A J Jacobs add to wishlist Alarmed and more than a little chagrined at the massive gaps in his personal knowledge base, Jacobs sets for himself a suitably daunting, and some might say insane, task: to fill in the holes in his Ivy-league education by reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica from A to Z. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.25! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
2	Soul of a People: The Wpa Writers' Project Uncovers Depression America more books like this by David A Taylor add to wishlist "Soul of a People" is about a handful of people who were on the Federal Writer's Project in the 1930s and a glimpse of America at a turning point. This particular handful of characters went from poverty to great things later, and included John Cheever, Ralph Ellison, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and Studs Terkel. In the 1930s they were all ... see all copies from $2.27! new only from $2.40! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	American Studies more books like this by Louis Menand, III add to wishlist Polymath and critic Louis Menand's collection of essays covers, among other topics, Maya Lin's Vietnam memorial, popular music, Norman Mailer, and sex. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Popular Culture & High Art: An Analysis & Evaluation of Taste more books like this by Professor Herbert Gans add to wishlist Is NYPD Blue a less valid form of artistic expression than a Shakespearean drama? Who is to judge and by what standards?In this new edition of Herbert Ganss brilliantly conceived and clearly argued landmark work, he builds on his critique of the universality of high cultural standards. While conceding that popular and high culture have converged ... see all copies from $3.69! new only from $9.41! \| SVS
5	Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals more books like this by Joy James, Lewis Gordon, James Joy add to wishlist The role of black public intellectuals is being passionately debated both within and outside academia. Now Transcending the Talented Tenth offers an expansive examination of African-American intellectuals, both historically and in contemporary life. Joy James explores the work and politics of thinkers, activists, and topics from W.E.B. Du Bois ... see all copies from $3.78! new only from $34.81! \| SVS
6	Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945-1970 more books like this by Morris Dickstein add to wishlist The 25 years after World War II were a fertile period for the American novel and an era of transformation in American society. Offering a social as well as literary history, Morris Dickstein provides a wide-ranging and frank assessment of more than 20 key figures. see all copies from $11.05! new only from $15.45! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Notes on Sontag more books like this by Phillip Lopate add to wishlist "Notes on Sontag" is a frank, witty, and entertaining reflection on the work, influence, and personality of one of the 'foremost interpreters of...our recent contemporary moment.' Adopting Sontag's favorite form, a set of brief essays or notes that circle around a topic from different perspectives, renowned essayist Phillip Lopate considers the ... see all copies from $5.99! new only from $14.68! \| SVS
8	From the Briarpatch File: On Context, Procedure, and American Identity more books like this by Albert Murray add to wishlist The 17 pieces collected here regard many aspects of African-American arts and letters, including the music of Duke Ellington and the literature of the Harlem Renaissance. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	The Conservative Turn: Lionel Trilling, Whittaker Chambers, and the Lessons of Anti-Communism more books like this by Michael Kimmage add to wishlist "The Conservative Turn" tells the story of postwar America's political evolution through two fascinating figures: Lionel Trilling and Whittaker Chambers. Born at the turn of the twentieth century, they were college classmates who went on to intellectual prominence, sharing the questions, crises, and challenges of their generation. A spy for the ... see all copies from $28.50! new only from $28.50! \| first editions \| SVS
10	A Year in Place more books like this by W Scott Olsen (Editor), Bret Lott (Editor) add to wishlist A selection of essays on the idea of "place," including work by Rick Bass, Michael Martone, and John Lane--and an interview with George W. Bush by Naomi Shihab Nye. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.95! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	Hands: Physical Labor, Class, and Cultural Work more books like this by Janet Zandy add to wishlist In linking forms of cultural expression to labour, occupational injuries and deaths, this title centres what is usualyy decentred - the complex culture of working class people. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $26.54! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Gore Vidal's America more books like this by Dennis Altman add to wishlist Gore Vidal is one of the most significant American writers of the second half of the twentieth century, having produced a large number of best selling novels, essays, plays and pamphlets which have impacted on major political and social debates for fifty years. He is both a serious writer and a television and movie celebrity, whose increasingly ... see all copies from $5.85! new only from $13.19! \| SVS
13 view cover	A Concise Companion to Twentieth-Century American Poetry more books like this by Stephen Fredman (Editor) add to wishlist This "Concise Companion" gives readers a rich sense of how the poetry produced in the United States during the twentieth century is connected to the country's intellectual life more broadly. It helps readers to fully appreciate the poetry of the period by tracing its historical and cultural contexts. It is written by prominent specialists in the ... see all copies from $17.28! new only from $37.38! \| SVS
14 view cover	Beautiful Enemies: Friendship and Postwar American Poetry more books like this by Andrew Epstein add to wishlist Despite the deep-seated notion that the archetypal American poet sings a solitary "Song of Myself," much of the most enduring American poetry has actually been preoccupied with friendship and its pleasures, contradictions, and discontents. Beautiful Enemies examines this obsession with the problems and paradoxes of friendship, tracing its eruption ... see all copies from $16.31! new only from $27.34!
15 view cover	Klezmer America: Jewishness, Ethnicity, Modernity more books like this by Jonathan Freedman add to wishlist Klezmer is a continually evolving musical tradition that grows out of Eastern European Jewish culture, and its changes reflect Jews' interaction with other groups as well as their shifting relations to their own history. But what happens when, in the klezmer spirit, the performances that go into the making of Jewishness come into contact with ... see all copies from $21.95! new only from $22.50! \| SVS
16 view cover	Warning, Nonsense Is Destroying America more books like this by Vincent Ryan Ruggiero, Thomas Nelson Publishers add to wishlist It's true that nonsense is hazardous, and this eye-opening, intensely logical book powerfully argues that the most important first steps in dealing with our nation's problems involve seeing things clearly and then talking about them honestly. It's reassuring to welcome another candle in the darkness, another lighthouse of light focused on the ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.49!
17 view cover	Quick Studies: The Best of Lingua Franca more books like this by Alexander Star (Editor) add to wishlist From the pages of the now defunct journal Lingua Franca, a variety of articles and essays loosely tied to academia, including a gossipy and revealing piece about Milan Kundera and his translators and the story of a classicist's perjury involving Plato. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.95! \| first editions
18 view cover	Americans All: The Cultural Gifts Movement more books like this by Diana Selig add to wishlist From the 1920s - a decade marked by racism and nativism - through World War II, hundreds of thousands of Americans took part in a vibrant campaign to overcome racial, ethnic, and religious prejudices. They celebrated the "cultural gifts" that immigrant and minority groups brought to society, learning that ethnic identity could be compatible with ... see all copies from $28.75! new only from $38.80! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Intellectual Vagabondage more books like this by Floyd Dell, Douglas Clayton (Designer) add to wishlist The widely debated challenge to modern literary and intellectual life by one of its most celebrated figures. see all copies from $7.00! new only from $9.65! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	American Cultural Studies more books like this by Catherine A Warren add to wishlist "American Cultural Studies" is a conversation among scholars about the sometimes contentious issue of what a specifically American cultural studies might look like. Assembling some of the field's most eloquent commentators, this volume stresses the importance of a historically informed cultural studies and delves into the discipline's roots in ... see all copies from $11.00! new only from $14.06!
21	Halfway to Revolution: Investigation and Crisis in the Work of Henry Adams, William James and Gertrude Stein more books like this by Clive Bush add to wishlist "Halfway to Revolution" is a cultural portrait of possibly the most important American literary epoch, that of the years between 1865 and 1945, focusing on the work and lives of three of its central personalities - Henry Adams, William James and Gertrude Stein. The featured writers are treated as representative of certain bodies of knowledge and ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $70.02! \| first editions
22 view cover	Where the World Is Not: Cultural Authority and Democratic Desire in Modern American Literature more books like this by Kim Savelson add to wishlist How do novels that literally discuss invention and inventors engage through such discussions an array of critically important conversations and issues beyond invention? And to where and how can we trace and follow such discourses? In "Where the World Is Not: Cultural Authority and Democratic Desire in Modern American Literature, " Kim Savelson ... see all copies from $21.00! new only from $32.86! \| SVS
23 view cover	The Great Depression in America: A Cultural Encyclopedia more books like this by Nancy K Young, William H Young add to wishlist Everything from "Amos n' Andy" to zeppelins is included in this two-volume encyclopedia of popular culture during the Great Depression era. Two hundred entries explore the entertainments, amusements, and people of the United States during the difficult years of the 1930s. In spite of, or perhaps because of, such dire financial conditions, the ... see all copies from $118.00! new only from $154.16! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Voices of Our Time: The Original Live Interviews more books like this by Studs Terkel (Performed by), Various (Performed by) add to wishlist From the 1950s through 1997, "Studs" Terkel, author of "Working, The Good War, Coming of Age" and eight other books, hosted a daily show on WFMT in Chicago. These interviews provide unparalleled insights into the ideas and events that have shaped our lives. Unabridged. 6 CDs. see all copies from $16.99! new only from $18.76! \| SVS
25	Critics of Culture: Literature and Society in the Early Twentieth Century more books like this by Alan Trachtenberg add to wishlist see all copies from $6.77! first editions

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