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  • Red-Blooded American Male

    Photographs

    by Robert Trachtenberg ...
    A collection of 100 inspired and surprising portraits of celebrities and everymen alike from the award-winning photographer Robert Trachtenberg.Paul Rudd checking out the merchandise; Jimmy Kimmel playing dress up; Jack Black getting a one-of-a-kind pedicure; Elon Musk unveiling his newest Tesla; Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David taking a coffee break.From leading men to comedians, ballet dancers to ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • Horrible Prettiness

    Burlesque and American Culture

    by Robert Allen ...
    Series series Cultural Studies of the United States
    Robert Allen’s compelling book examines burlesque not only as popular entertainment but also as a complex and transforming cultural phenomenon. When Lydia Thompson and her controversial female troupe of “British Blondes” brought modern burlesque to the United States in 1868, the result was electric. Their impertinent humor, streetwise manner, and provocative parodies of masculinity brought them ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Genteel Tradition and the Sacred Rage

    High Culture vs. Democracy in Adams, James, and Santayana

    by Robert Dawidoff ...
    Series series Cultural Studies of the United States
    Asking why many American intellectuals have had such difficulty accepting wholeheartedly the cultural dimensions of democracy, Robert Dawidoff examines their alienation and ambivalence, a tradition of detachment he identifies as “Tocquevillian.” In the work of three towering American literary figures - Henry Adams, Henry James, and George Santayana — Dawidoff explores fully this distancing and ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

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  • Rudeness & Civility

    Manners in Nineteenth-Century Urban America

    by John F. Kasson ...
    With keen insight and subtle humor, John F. Kasson explores the history and politics of etiquette from America's colonial times through the nineteenth century. He describes the transformation of our notion of "gentility," once considered a birthright to some, and the development of etiquette as a middle-class response to the new urban and industrial economy and to the excesses of democratic ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Flapper

    A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, and the Women Who Made America Modern

    by Joshua Zeitz ...
    Flapper is a dazzling look at the women who heralded a radical change in American culture and launched the first truly modern decade.The New Woman of the 1920s puffed cigarettes, snuck gin, hiked her hemlines, danced the Charleston, and necked in roadsters. More important, she earned her own keep, controlled her own destiny, and secured liberties that modern women take for granted.Flapper is an ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

    by Richard Hofstadter ...
    Winner of the 1964 Pulitzer Prize in NonfictionAnti-Intellectualism in American Life is a book which throws light on many features of the American character. Its concern is not merely to portray the scorners of intellect in American life, but to say something about what the intellectual is, and can be, as a force in a democratic society."As Mr. Hofstadter unfolds the fascinating story, it is no ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Careless People

    Murder, Mayhem, and the Invention of The Great Gatsby

    by Sarah Churchwell ...
    "Churchwell... has written an excellent book... she’s earned the right to play on [Fitzgerald's] court. Prodigious research and fierce affection illumine every remarkable page.”—Kirkus (STARRED review)The autumn of 1922 found F. Scott Fitzgerald at the height of his fame, days from turning twenty-six years old, and returning to New York for the publication of his fourth book, Tales of the Jazz Age ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • Ideas Have Consequences

    by Richard M. Weaver ...
    A foundational text of the modern conservative movement, this 1948 philosophical treatise argues the decline of Western civilization and offers a remedy.Originally published in 1948, at the height of post–World War II optimism and confidence in collective security, Ideas Have Consequences uses "words hard as cannonballs" to present an unsparing diagnosis of the ills of the modern age. Widely read ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Gay New York

    by George Chauncey ...
    The “monumental” (The Washington Post), field-defining history of gay life in New York City in the early to mid-20th centuryGay New York brilliantly shatters the myth that before the 1960s gay life existed in the closet, where all gay men were isolated, invisible, and ashamed. Based on years of research in diaries, letters, newspaper stories, and police reports, George Chauncey describes the ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD

  • The Liberal Tradition in America

    The Classic on the Causes and Effects of Liberal Thought in the U.S.

    by Louis Hartz ...
    This "brilliantly written" look at the original meaning of the liberal philosophy has become a classic of political science ( American Historical Review).Winner of the Woodrow Wilson Foundation AwardAs the word "liberal" has been misused and its meaning diluted in recent decades, this study of American political thought since the Revolution is a valuable look at the "liberal tradition" that has ... Read more

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  • The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics

    by Christopher Lasch ...
    "A major and challenging work. . . . Provocative, and certain to be controversial. . . . Will add important new dimension to the continuing debate on the decline of liberalism." —William Julius Wilson, New York Times Book ReviewCan we continue to believe in progress? In this sobering analysis of the Western human condition, Christopher Lasch seeks the answer in a history of the struggle between ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Collecting Himself

    James Thurber on Writing and Writers, Humor and Himself

    Edited by Michael J. Rosen ...
    " Collecting Himself is a charmer. The old Thurber is back among us again—and some of the pieces even reveal a new Thurber. Great fun." —Clifton FadimanJames Thurber spent most of his career at the New Yorker magazine, drawing cartoons and writing essays and stories. Collecting Himself is a one-of-a-kind compilation of James Thurber's vintage writings, featuring previously unanthologized articles ... Read more

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