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American Fantastic: Myths of Violence and Redemption by Derek J. Thiess 9780299355104
RRP: $124.80Booksplease Price: $102.16American Fantastic challenges readers to recognize an organizing myth in modern American culture's perception of its imperialist past: 'the myth of redemptive violence.' Derek J. Thiess persuasively... -
Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation by Jennifer L. Hochschild
RRP: $81.90Booksplease Price: $76.73The ideology of the American dream--the faith that an individual can attain success and virtue through strenuous effort--is the very soul of the American nation. According to Jennifer Hochschild, we... -
Almost Chosen People: Oblique Biographies in the American Grain by Michael Zuckerman 9780520066519
RRP: $103.35Booksplease Price: $93.50Few historians are bold enough to go after America's sacred cows in their very own pastures. But Michael Zuckerman is no ordinary historian, and this collection of his essays is no ordinary book. In... -
Holding the Center: In Defense of Political Trimming by Eugene Goodheart 9781138510630
RRP: $95.53Booksplease Price: $85.68Politicians and pundits often scorn polarization and compromise the intransigence of the former and the feebleness of the latter without suggesting an alternative way. Polarization, when opposing... -
Educational Resilience in inner-city America: Challenges and Prospects by Margaret C. Wang 9780805813258
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $71.49The story of life in inner-city America and the education of its people is often recounted as a tragedy; the ending is often predictable and usually dire, highlighting deficiency, failure, and... -
Approaches to Media Literacy: A Handbook: A Handbook by Art Silverblatt
RRP: $79.93Booksplease Price: $73.16Completely updated, with current examples and new coverage of digital media, this popular handbook provides a range of qualitative approaches that enable students to effectively decipher information... -
Children and Childhoods in L.M. Montgomery: Continuing Conversations by Rita Bode 9780228013891
RRP: $62.40Booksplease Price: $51.32From Jane Austen to contemporary fanfiction and adaptations, literary portrayals of the child and imaginings of childhood are particularly telling indicators of cultural values and when they shift... -
Pornography: The Production and Consumption of Inequality by Gail Dines
RRP: $91.63Booksplease Price: $83.19First published in 1998. No other issue has divided the feminist movement in the past two decades quite like pornography. By providing the first book to engage in an empirical investigation of the... -
Crack In America: Demon Drugs and Social Justice by Craig Reinarman 9780520202429
RRP: $56.55Booksplease Price: $52.61"Crack in America" is the definitive book on crack cocaine. In reinterpreting the crack story, it offers new understandings of both drug addiction and drug prohibition. It shows how crack use arose... -
Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film by Mia Mask
RRP: $40.93Booksplease Price: $35.57This insightful study places African American women's stardom in historical and industrial contexts by examining the star personae of five African American women: Dorothy Dandridge, Pam Grier, Whoopi... -
Divas on Screen: Black Women in American Film by Mia Mask 9780252034220
RRP: $195.00Booksplease Price: $165.73This insightful study places African American women's stardom in historical and industrial contexts by examining the star personae of five African American women: Dorothy Dandridge, Pam Grier, Whoopi... -
Staking Her Claim: Life Of Belinda Mulrooney by Melanie J. Mayer
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $52.47If Horatio Alger had imagined a female heroine in the same mold as one of the young male heroes in his rags-to-riches stories, she would have looked like Belinda Mulrooney. Smart, ambitious,... -
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Staking Her Claim: Life Of Belinda Mulrooney by Melanie J. Mayer 9780804010221 [USED COPY]
RRP: $60.45Booksplease Price: $6.53If Horatio Alger had imagined a female heroine in the same mold as one of the young male heroes in his rags-to-riches stories, she would have looked like Belinda Mulrooney. Smart, ambitious,... -
Homelessness in American Literature: Romanticism, Realism and Testimony by John Allen 9781138868908
RRP: $52.63Booksplease Price: $49.22This book analyzes the theme of homelessness in American literature from the Civil War through the depression. Drawing on the work of Harriet Beecher Stowe, Horatio Alger, Stephen Crane, Jacob Riis,... -
American Misfits and the Making of Middle-Class Respectability by Robert Wuthnow
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $64.58How American respectability has been built by maligning those who don't make the grade How did Americans come to think of themselves as respectable members of the middle class? Was it just by... -
American Misfits and the Making of Middle-Class Respectability by Robert Wuthnow 9780691210711
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $41.73How American respectability has been built by maligning those who don't make the gradeHow did Americans come to think of themselves as respectable members of the middle class? Was it just by earning... -
Staking Her Claim: Life Of Belinda Mulrooney by Melanie J. Mayer 9780804010214
Booksplease Price: $91.81If Horatio Alger had imagined a female heroine in the same mold as one of the young male heroes in his rags-to-riches stories, she would have looked like Belinda Mulrooney. Smart, ambitious,... -
Upward Mobility and the Common Good: Toward a Literary History of the Welfare State by Bruce Robbins 9780691146638
RRP: $78.00Booksplease Price: $64.00We think we know what upward mobility stories are about--virtuous striving justly rewarded, or unprincipled social climbing regrettably unpunished. Either way, these stories seem obviously concerned... -
The Machine Has a Soul: American Sympathy with Italian Fascism Katy Hull 9780691208138
RRP: $42.90Booksplease Price: $36.21A historical look at the American fascination with Italian fascism during the interwar periodIn the interwar years, the United States grappled with economic volatility, and Americans expressed... -
Irvin S Cobb by Lawson 9780879723002
RRP: $21.43Booksplease Price: $20.12The story of Irvin S. Cobb is a fascinating one for many reasons. His life was not unusual at the time: a Horatio Alger rise from poor boy to world authority through hard work. Associate of... -
The Machine Has a Soul: American Sympathy with Italian Fascism by Katy Hull
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $56.59A historical look at the American fascination with Italian fascism during the interwar periodIn the interwar years, the United States grappled with economic volatility, and Americans expressed... -
Happiness for All?: Unequal Hopes and Lives in Pursuit of the American Dream by Carol Graham 9780691204550
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $33.25How the optimism gap between rich and poor is creating an increasingly divided societyThe Declaration of Independence states that all people are endowed with certain unalienable rights. Among them is... -
Happiness for All?: Unequal Hopes and Lives in Pursuit of the American Dream by Carol Graham 9780691169460
RRP: $68.25Booksplease Price: $56.59How the optimism gap between rich and poor is creating an increasingly divided society The Declaration of Independence states that all people are endowed with certain unalienable rights, and that... -
Freemasonry and American Culture, 1880-1930 by Lynn Dumenil
RRP: $93.60Booksplease Price: $75.91As the United States moved from Victorian values to those of modern consumerism, the religious component of Freemasonry was increasingly displaced by a secular ideology of service (like that of... -
Intimate and Authentic Economies: The American Self-Made Man from Douglass to Chaplin by Tom Nissley
RRP: $103.33Booksplease Price: $93.21The story of the American self-made man carries a perennial interest in American literature and cultural studies. This book expands the study of such stories to include the writings of Frederick... -
Great Gatsby and Modern Times by Ronald Berman 9780252065897
RRP: $35.08Booksplease Price: $31.02"A stunning piece of work. If Fitzgerald could have wished for one reader of The Great Gatsby, it would have been Ronald Berman. Berman's criticism creates an ideal ... -
Clark Griffith: The Old Fox of Washington Baseball by Ted Leavengood 9780786463862
RRP: $42.88Booksplease Price: $38.20Famed Washington sportswriter Shirley Povich once said that Clark Griffith's life was a true Horatio Alger story. Born in a frontier log cabin in Missouri in 1869, Griffith enjoyed a successful... -
The Joseph Paradox: A Radical Reading of Genesis 37-50 by Hillel I. Millgram 9780786468508
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $49.12This book is a reader-friendly treatment of the Joseph story--one of the most popular tales in the Bible. Instead of the usual interpretation as an Horatio Alger success story, the text proposes... -
A Life On The Black River In Arkansas: A Pioneering Banker'S Memoir by 9781935106067
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $24.67The Black River flows from Missouri into Arkansas east of Branson and west of the Bootheel. It meanders where the foothills of the Ozarks begin to rise out of the Mississippi plain. The area was... -
Ragged Dick and Risen from the Ranks by Gary Scharnhorst 9781554812363
RRP: $38.90Booksplease Price: $31.22In Ragged Dick, Horatio Alger's most successful book, Alger codified the basic formula he would follow in nearly a hundred subsequent novels for boys: a young hero, inexperienced in the temptations... -
Everyone Communicates Few Connect by John C Maxwell 9780529116062
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.68The ability to connect with others is a major determining factor in reaching your full potential. It's no secret! Connecting is a skill you can learn and apply in your personal, professional, and... -
Eminent Victorian Soldiers: Seekers of Glory by Byron Farwell 9780393305333
RRP: $40.95Booksplease Price: $39.60They are: Hugh Gough, Charles Napier, Charles Gordon, Frederick Roberts, Garnet Wolseley, Evelyn Wood, Hector Macdonald, and Herbert Kitchener.About the AuthorDuring the Second World War, Byron... -
Gonzo Republic: Hunter S. Thompson's America by William Stephenson 9781441159229
Booksplease Price: $61.46This is the first academic book on Thompson in twenty years, designed for both students and scholars. "Gonzo Republic" looks at Hunter S. Thompson's complex relationship with America... -
My Business Life Cycle: How Innovation, Evolution, and Determination Made Paul Harris Great by Gerald Paul 9781557534262
RRP: $46.78Booksplease Price: $39.43What happened to Montgomery Ward, L.S. Ayers, Gimbels, Wanamaker's, and Marshall Fields? And what happened to the Paul Harris Stores? They were all casualties of the retail store battles in which the... -
Faster Company: Building the World's Nuttiest, Turn-on-a-Dime, Home-Grown, Billion-Dollar Business by Patrick C. Kelly 9780471242116
RRP: $68.23Booksplease Price: $50.52An unconventional management book by an unconventional businessman: how Patrick Kelly built a company where everybody works hard, has a great time, makes a ton of money--and leaves competitors... -
Slab Selah Saterstrom 9781566893954
RRP: $25.33Booksplease Price: $18.06On a slab that's all Katrina left of her Mississippi home, Tiger tells her story, and it is as American as Horatio Alger, Schwab's Pharmacy, and a tent revival. She was a stripper, but is she now a... -
Sink or Swim: Capitalist Selfhood and Nineteenth-Century American Literature Andrew Kopec 9781469690162
RRP: $154.05Booksplease Price: $123.88People living in the nineteenth-century United States saw shocking upheavals in both the economy and in ideas of selfhood in a commercial society. Narratives such as Horatio Alger's rags-to-riches... -
Passion-Driven Life: The Secrets of Success, Balance & Fulfillment in the 9 Key Areas of Life by Louis F Vargas 9781600377211
RRP: $31.18Booksplease Price: $25.86The Secrets of Going to the Next Level in Love, Life & Business! The Passion-Driven Life depicts amazing stories, including that of the author's Horatio Alger-like story, which will uplift and... -
August Garry Herrmann: A Baseball Biography by William A. Cook 9780786430734
RRP: $56.53Booksplease Price: $49.12This biography contains the life and times of August ""Garry"" Herrmann which is a true Horatio Alger story. Born in 1895 and rising up from humble beginnings in Cincinnati, he... -
Sink or Swim: Capitalist Selfhood and Nineteenth-Century American Literature Andrew Kopec 9781469690179
RRP: $44.83Booksplease Price: $39.70People living in the nineteenth-century United States saw shocking upheavals in both the economy and in ideas of selfhood in a commercial society. Narratives such as Horatio Alger's rags-to-riches...