United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
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United States -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
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United States
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Incoming Resources
- Hooking up, Tom Wolfe
- Babylon revisited, and other stories, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- The cool school, writing from America's hip underground, edited by Glenn O'Brien
- Fame at last, who was who according to the New York times obituaries, John C. Ball and Jill Jonnes
- Don't make me pull over!, an informal history of the family road trip, Richard Ratay
- South and West, from a notebook, Joan Didion ; foreword by Nathaniel Rich
- Kick, the true story of JFK's sister and the heir to Chatsworth, Paula Byrne
- Notes of a dirty old man, Charles Bukowski
- The 40s, the story of a decade, The New Yorker ; edited by Henry Finder with Giles Harvey ; introduction by David Remnick
- Nights in White Castle, A memoir, Steve Rushin
- Postwar United States, 1945 to the 1970s, by Maggie Combs
- Christmas memories, gifts, activities, fads, and fancies, 1920s-1960s, Susan Waggoner
- American life and celebrity icons from Marilyn Monroe to Taylor Swift, Cathleen Small
- Five sisters, the Langhornes of Virginia, James Fox
- The year of fear, Machine Gun Kelly and the manhunt that changed the nation, Joe Urschel
- The end of victory culture, cold war America and the disillusioning of a generation, Tom Engelhardt
- The glitter and the gold, the American duchess-- in her own words, Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
- Going, going, gone, vanishing Americana, Susan Jonas & Marilyn Nissenson
- The lost art of dress, the women who once made America stylish, Linda Przybyszewski
- Atlas of the baby boom generation, Neil A. Hamilton [and others]
- Battleground of desire, the struggle for self-control in modern America, Peter N. Stearns
- A long way from home, growing up in the American heartland, Tom Brokaw
- The American novel and the way we live now, John W. Aldridge
- Blonde like me, the roots of the blonde myth in our culture, Natalia Ilyin
- Artifacts from modern America, Helen Sheumaker
- Our century, 1980-1990
- Activist, [portraits of courage], KK Ottesen
- The GI generation, a memoir, Frank F. Mathias
- The American dream, pop to the present, Stephen Coppel, Catherine Daunt, Susan Tallman ; with contributions from Isabel Seligman and Jennifer Ramkalawon ; [forewords by] Robert Rooney [and] Hartwig Fisher
- Everyday life in twentieth century America, by John W. Dodds ; edited by Louis B. Wright
- U.S. 1, America's original main street, Andrew H. Malcolm ; photographs by Roger Straus III
- The Vanderbilt women, dynasty of wealth, glamour, and tragedy, by Clarice Stasz
- Squandered fortune, the life and times of Huntington Hartford, Lisa Rebecca Gubernick
- The glitter and the gold, [the American duchess-- in her own words], Consuelo Vanderbilt Balsan
- Follies and foibles, a view of 20th century fads, by Andrew Marum and Frank Parise
- Reminisce extra
- A long way from home, [growing up in the American heartland], Tom Brokaw
- Wasn't the grass greener?, a curmudgeon's fond memories, Barbara Holland
- The Rockefeller women, dynasty of piety, privacy, and service, Clarice Stasz
- Are we there yet?, the golden age of American family vacations, Susan Sessions Rugh
- A nation of outsiders, how the white middle class fell in love with rebellion in postwar America, Grace Elizabeth Hale
- The cultural creatives, how 50 million people are changing the world, Paul H. Ray, and Sherry Ruth Anderson
- A grand complication, the race to build the world's most legendary watch, Stacy Perman
- The way it was in the U.S.A., a pictorial panorama of America, 1850 to 1890, Clarence P. Hornung
- The girl who fell to Earth, a memoir, by Sophia Al-Maria
- Maynard L. Parker, modern photography and the American dream, edited by Jennifer A. Watts
- Jazz in American culture, Peter Townsend
- Make love, not war, the sexual revolution : an unfettered history, David Allyn
- Take the cannoli, stories from the New World, Sarah Vowell
- Esquire-- the meaning of life, wit, wisdom, and wonder from 65 extraordinary people, edited by Brendan Vaughan
Outgoing Resources
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