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  • HOME OWNERSHIP IN AMERICA
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    HOME OWNERSHIP IN AMERICA
    LAWRENCE SAMUEL
    A wide-ranging cultural history centered around the concepts of real estate, the family home, and the American dream, and how they evolved over the years, Home Ownership in America: A Socio-Cultural History of Housing in the United States traces narratives around home ownership from the 1920s to today. As a product of the emergence of a large middle class during the Roaring Twe...

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  • DIVERSITY IN THE UNITED STATES
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    DIVERSITY IN THE UNITED STATES
    LAWRENCE R. SAMUEL
    Diversity in the United States: A Cultural History of the Past Century is a cultural history of diversity in the United States over the past 100 years. Diversity—defined here as Americans of different racial, ethnic, and religious backgrounds—is currently very much in the national conversation. The book explores diversity in a historical context, bringing a much-needed perspect...

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  • AGE FRIENDLY
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    AGE FRIENDLY
    LAWRENCE R. SAMUEL
    Age Friendly: Ending Ageism in America is a rallying call to make the United States a more equitable and just nation in terms of age. "Age friendliness" means being inclusive towards older people as workers, consumers, and citizens, something that can’t be said to exist today. The United States and, especially, Big Business, are notoriously age-unfriendly places, a result of ou...

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  • DEAD ON ARRIVAL IN MANHATTAN
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    DEAD ON ARRIVAL IN MANHATTAN
    LAWRENCE R. SAMUEL
    With more than one million people crammed into just over twenty-two square miles, Manhattan Island is a petri dish for the study of humanity. From murder and suicide to fatal accidents, death takes myriad forms among the hustle and bustle of the city that never sleeps. With the city always a hotbed of mob activity, gangsters have left victims of hits throughout the city. The bo...

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  • THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS
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    THE AMERICAN MIDDLE CLASS
    LAWRENCE SAMUEL
    The middle class is often viewed as the heart of American society, the key to the country’s democracy and prosperity. Most Americans believe they belong to this group, and few politicians can hope to be elected without promising to serve the middle class. Yet today the American middle class is increasingly seen as under threat. In The American Middle Class: A Cultural History, ...

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  • FUTURE
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    FUTURE
    LAWRENCE R. SAMUEL
    The history of our attitudes toward the possibilities of tomorrow: "A fascinating trek through American future visions from the 1920s to the present." —Lori C. Walters, Ph.D., University of Central Florida   The future is not a fixed idea but a highly variable one that reflects the values of those who are imagining it. By studying the ways that visionaries imagined the future—p...

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  • BROUGHT TO YOU BY
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    BROUGHT TO YOU BY
    LAWRENCE R. SAMUEL
    "A lively history" of how TV advertising became a defining force in American culture between 1946 and 1964 ( Technology and Culture).   The two decades following World War II brought television into homes and, of course, television commercials. Those commercials, in turn, created an image of the postwar American Dream that lingers to this day.   This book recounts how advertisi...

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