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The Culture Of Calamity : Disaster And The Making Of Modern America

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Kevin Rozario
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Book, University of Chicago Press, 2007
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Turn on the news and it looks as if we live in a time and place unusually consumed by the specter of disaster. Beginning with the Puritan view of disaster as God?s instrument of correction, Rozario explores how catastrophic events frequently inspired positive reactions. Terror alerts and duct tape represent the cynical politician?s attitude about 9/11, but Rozario focuses on how the attacks registered in the popular imagination?how responses to genuine calamity were mediated by the hyperreal thrills of movies; (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Disasters · United States · History · Social aspects · Psychological aspects · National characteristics, American · Civilization · Social conditions · Anecdotes · Rozario, Kevin
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Booknotes : On American Character

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[compiled by] Brian Lamb
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Book, 1st ed, PublicAffairs, 2004
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The bestselling Booknotes series celebrates C-SPAN’s 25th anniversary with a new collection examining our country and its character. Over the past fifteen years, Brian Lamb, the CEO of C-SPAN and host of Booknotes, has interviewed 765 authors on the program, and these deep and wide-ranging interviews have been the basis for three bestselling Booknotes books. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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National characteristics, American · Anecdotes · Authors, American · 20th century · Interviews · United States · Civilization · History · Politics and government · Biography · Lamb, Brian, 1941-
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Poplorica : A Popular History Of The Fads, Mavericks, Inventions, And Lore That Shaped Modern America

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Martin J. Smith and Patrick J. Kiger
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Book, 1st ed, HarperResource, 2004
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Pop culture meets pop reference in this irreverent tour of twenty unlikely events, innovations, and individuals that forever changed how we live today — the food we eat, the places we live, the love we make, the fads we follow, the clothes we wear, the products we buy, and much more. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Popular culture · United States · History · 20th century · Anecdotes · Civilization · Smith, Martin J., 1956- · Kiger, Patrick J
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(LOWER LEVEL) E169.1 .S63 2004 AVAILABLE

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The Debt : What America Owes To Blacks

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Randall Robinson
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Book, Dutton, 2000
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In Randall Robinson’s view, racial problems can’t be solved until America is willing to face up to the devastating effects of slavery and educate all Americans, black and white, about the history of Africa and its people. Now, in The Debt, he argues that reclaiming the lost history of Africa and African-Americans will help provide a much-needed springboard for solving many of today’s problems-from finding new leadership within the black community to developing meaningful educational programs to helping black people empower themselves economically. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)
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Robinson, Randall, · 1941- · Anecdotes · African Americans · Civil rights · Social conditions · Claims · United States · Race relations · Africa · Civilization · History · Robinson, Randall, 1941-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E185.615 .R525 2000 AVAILABLE

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The McLandress Dimension,

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by Mark Epernay. With illus. by James Stevenson
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Book, Houghton Mifflin, 1963
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Psychometrics · Anecdotes · United States · Civilization · Galbraith, John Kenneth, 1908-
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(LOWER LEVEL) E178.4 .E6 AVAILABLE

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The American Tradition : A Gallery Of Rogues

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by John Greenway
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Book, Mason/Charter, 1977
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United States · Civilization · 1945- · Anecdotes · Greenway, John
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(LOWER LEVEL) E169.12 .G73 AVAILABLE

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