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Book cover for E. Melanie Dupuis: Nature's Perfect Food

Nature's Perfect Food : How Milk Became America's Drink

E. Melanie Dupuis
Hardcover - $128.95

For over a century, America's nutrition authorities have heralded milk as "nature's perfect food", as "indispensable" and "the most complete food". These milk "boosters" have ranged from consumer activists, to government nutritionists, to the America ...

Book cover for E. Melanie Dupuis: Nature's Perfect Food

Nature's Perfect Food : How Milk Became America's Drink

E. Melanie Dupuis
Paperback - $46.95

For over a century, America's nutrition authorities have heralded milk as "nature's perfect food", as "indispensable" and "the most complete food". These milk "boosters" have ranged from consumer activists, to government nutritionists, to the America ...

Book cover for Jill A. Edy: Troubled Pasts

Troubled Pasts : News and the Collective Memory of Social Unrest

Jill A. Edy
Hardcover - $145.95



Book cover for Jill A. Edy: Troubled Pasts

Troubled Pasts : News and the Collective Memory of Social Unrest

Jill A. Edy
Paperback - $51.95



Book cover for Melvin Patrick Ely: The Adventures of Amos 'n' Andy

The Adventures of Amos 'n' Andy : A Social History of an American Phenomenon

Melvin Patrick Ely
Paperback - $49.95

Forty million Americans indulged in a national obsession in 1930: they eagerly tuned in Amos 'n' Andy, the nightly radio comedy in which a pair of white actors portrayed the adventures of two black men making a new life in the big city. Meanwhile, so ...

Book cover for J. A. English-Lueck: Cultures@silicon Valley

Cultures@silicon Valley

J. A. English-Lueck
Paperback - $47.95

After Santa Clara county in California was labeled "Silicon Valley" in the 1970s, it attained a mythical quality in the public imagination. Although much of the myth is surely hyperbole, the region has experienced and continues to experience forces t ...

Book cover for Allen Eyles: Old Cinemas

Old Cinemas

Allen Eyles
Paperback - $20.95



Book cover for Barbara B. Feied: More Dredgings

More Dredgings : The 1950s and 1960s

Barbara B. Feied
Paperback - $38.95



Book cover for Barbara Bowen Feied: Dredged

Dredged : The 1970s

Barbara Bowen Feied
Paperback - $24.95

"DREDGED" is the third and final book in Barbara Bowen Feied's account of life in the United States from 1930 to 1980. The 1970s was a bridge decade between the social idealism of the 1960s and the materialistic "me"ism of the 1980s. But through rece ...

Book cover for David Hackett Fischer: Growing Old in America

Growing Old in America : The Bland-Lee Lectures Delivered at Clark University

David Hackett Fischer
Paperback - $63.95



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