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Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Examines the ways in which social organizations such as the PTA, church, recreation clubs, political parties, and bowling leagues reflect life satisfaction, and suggests ways to rebuild the quality of American culture by a return to these types of activities.
3) Golden age
Author
Series
Last hundred years trilogy volume 3
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The third book of a trilogy about a farm family from Iowa, which takes them from the late 1980s through the present and into the future.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016].
Language
English
Description
Michael Moore visits a host of nations to learn how the U.S. could improve its own prospects. The creator of Fahrenheit 9/11 and Bowling for Columbine is back with this hilarious and eye-opening call to arms. Turns out the solutions to America's most entrenched problems already exist in the world. They're just waiting to be co-opted.
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"When we think of the radical changes that transformed America during the twentieth century, our minds most often go to the fifties and sixties: the Civil Rights Movement, changing gender roles, and new economic opportunities all point to a decisive turning point. But these were not the only changes that shaped our world, and in Living on the Edge, we learn that rapid social change and uncertainty defined the lives of Americans born at the turn of...
Author
Publisher
HarperOne
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"With [this book], ... Oluo aims to show how people across America are working to create real positive change in our structures. Looking at many of our most powerful systems--like education, media, labor, health, housing, policing, and more--she highlights what people are doing to create change for intersectional racial equity. She also illustrates various ways in which the reader can find entryways into change in these same areas, or can bring some...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"More than 140 years ago, Mark Twain observed that the Civil War had 'uprooted institutions that were centuries old, changed the politics of a people, transformed the social life of half the country, and wrought so profoundly upon the entire national character that the influence cannot be measured short of two or three generations.' In fact, five generations have passed, and Americans are still trying to measure the influence of the immense fratricidal...
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of the Boston Post Road, which connected New York City and Boston and evolved into the nation's first major highway system, and describes the road's importance to the political, economic, and social development of the United States.
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
James Beard Foundation Book Award Winner From the author of the acclaimed 97 Orchard and her husband, a culinary historian, an in-depth exploration of the greatest food crisis the nation has ever faced -- the Great Depression -- and how it transformed America's culinary culture. The decade-long Great Depression, a period of shifts in the country's political and social landscape, forever changed the way America eats. Before 1929, America's relationship...
Author
Publisher
Diversion Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The wild, combative inside story of the most stunning upset in the history of presidential elections: Harry Truman's 1948 victory over Tom Dewey. Outstanding ... by far the best yet about the fateful [1948] election." -- Minneapolis Star-Tribune "Coherent, compelling ... A skillful, authoritative investigation." -- Kirkus Reviews Award-winning historian David Pietrusza unpacks the most ingloriously iconic headline in the history of presidential elections...
Author
Series
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Easily the most thorough and best-grounded account of the coal-based system of heating in the nineteenth-century United States...authoritative." -- The New England Quarterly Home Fires tells the fascinating story of how changes in home heating over the nineteenth century spurred the growth of networks that helped remake American society. Sean Patrick Adams reconstructs the ways in which the "industrial hearth" appeared in American cities, the methods...
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