Cohen, Benyamin

Summary: "Albert Einstein's face is still one of the most recognizable in the world and he's widely considered to be the first modern-day celebrity. While many of his discoveries continue to define our daily lives, it's not just his genius that continues to shape our world. Today, more people know Einstein as an icon rather than a theorist-decades after his death, he's a celebrity with a massive online...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2023

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Beck, Glenn.

Summary: "The new nonfiction from #1 bestselling author and popular radio and television host Glenn Beck"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Threshold Editions/Mercury Radio Arts 2014

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1 available in Adult, Call number: 305.9 BEC

Hsu, Hua

Summary: "From the New Yorker staff writer Hua Hsu, a gripping memoir on friendship, grief, the search for self, and the solace that can be found through art. In the eyes of 18-year-old Hua Hsu, the problem with Ken-with his passion for Dave Matthews, Abercrombie & Fitch, and his fraternity-is that he is exactly like everyone else. Ken, whose Japanese American family has been in the United States for...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2022

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 HSU, HUA HSU

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Brownstein, Ronald

Summary: Documents the kaleidoscopic year during which transformative talents from Hollywood, Sunset Boulevard, and Beverly Hills heavily influenced pop culture, politics, and social movements.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2021

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 979.4 BRO

Summary: In the 1970s, disco dominated American pop music. Originating in nightclubs that featured record players instead of live bands, disco was a major stylistic departure from rock, and its rise to the top of the music charts signaled a cultural shift that some found threatening. Disco's roots lay in a gay urban subculture, and the artists who created it were largely African American and Latino. In...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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Lepore, Jill

Summary: A history of American ideas about life and death discusses how the age of discovery, Darwin's theories of evolution, and the space age changed ideas about life on Earth.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2012

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Summary: The big bang: At the height of the Roaring Twenties, music scouts armed with cutting-edge recording technology set out across America to capture the unsung voices of everyday folk. Blood and soil: America's poor--cotton field slaves, mine workers, sharecroppers--find freedom through music, creating gospel, protest songs, and Delta blues. Out of the many, the one: Exotic cultures spanning...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Zeitz, Joshua.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Crown Publishers 2006

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 813.52 ZEI

Lord, M. G.

Summary: A cultural critic and investigative journalist uncovers the full history of the Barbie doll, from her introduction in 1959 through countless transformations, makeovers and career changes to its emergence as an international pop culture icon.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation, a division of W.W. Norton & Company 2024

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Gates, Henry Louis

Summary: "A profound new rendering of the struggle by African-Americans for equality after the Civil War and the violent counter-revolution that resubjugated them, as seen through the prism of the war of images and ideas that have left an enduring racist stain on the American mind. The abolition of slavery in the aftermath of the Civil War is a familiar story, as is the civil rights revolution that...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019

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National Museum of American History (U.S.)

Summary: "U.S. history gets the star treatment with this essential guide to the Smithsonian's first permanent exhibition on pop culture"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Smithsonian Books 2022

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Klosterman, Chuck

Summary: "Essays about 1990s popular culture, politics, sports, literature, music"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2022

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Dickstein, Morris.

Summary: Shows how our worst economic crisis, as it eroded American individualism and punctured the American dream, produced in the 1930s some of the greatest writing, photograhy, and mass entertainment ever seen in this country.

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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 DIC

Berkowitz, Edward D.

Summary: FROM THE PUBLISHER : In both the literal and metaphorical senses, it seemed as if 1970s America was running out of gas. The decade not only saw long lines at gas stations but a citizenry that had grown weary and disillusioned. High unemployment, runaway inflation, and the energy crisis, caused in part by U.S. dependence on Arab oil, characterized an increasingly bleak economic situation. As...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia University Press 2006

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Menand, Louis

Summary: "A history of the thinkers, writers, and artists who shaped intellectual culture in Cold War Europe and America"--

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2021

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Kasson, John F.

Summary: Her image appeared in periodicals and advertisements roughly twenty times daily; she rivaled FDR and Edward VIII as the most photographed person in the world. Her portrait brightened the homes of countless admirers: from a black laborer's cabin in South Carolina to FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover's recreation room in Washington, DC. A few years later her smile cheered the secret bedchamber of Anne...

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Publisher / Publication Date: W W Norton & Co Inc 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 TEMPLE, SHIRLEY KAS

Summary: A documentary of the Rolling Stones' 1969 tour of the United States, focusing on a free concert at the Altamont Speedway in California where a young man was killed during violence between the crowd and the Hell's Angels hired to "keep order." A disturbing portrait of one aspect of the rock and drug culture of the late 60's.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2000

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC GIM

Kaiser, Charles

Summary: 1968 was the year that defined the decade--Martin Luther King, Jr. and Bobby Kennedy were assassinated, unprecedented antiwar riots disrupted the Democratic National Convention, and the Tet Offensive in Vietnam changed the course of the war. With this political unrest came a breakthrough of American counterculture into the mainstream led by students and protesters alongside the voices of Aretha...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Grove Press, an imprint of Grove Atlantic 2018

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Kaiser, Charles.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1988

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Mackrell, Judith.

Summary: The forefront British dance critic and award-nominated author of Bloomsbury Ballerina presents a revisionist assessment of the movement that shattered the boundaries of conventional femininity through the lives of six figures that exemplified it, including Lady Diana Cooper, Nancy Cunard, Tallulah Bankhead, Zelda Fitzgerald, Josephine Baker and Tamara de Lempicka.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus & Giroux 2014

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920.72 MAC

Beam, Alex.

Summary: Explores the Great Books mania, in an entertaining and strangely poignant portrait of American popular culture on the threshold of the television age.

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Publisher / Publication Date: PublicAffairs 2008

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.91 BEA

Rieppel, Lukas

Summary: A lively account of how dinosaurs became a symbol of American power and prosperity and gripped the popular imagination during the Gilded Age, when their fossil remains were collected and displayed in museums financed by North America's wealthiest businesstycoons. Although dinosaur fossils were first found in England, a series of dramatic discoveries during the late 1800s turned North America...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Harvard University Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 560.75 RIE

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Publisher / Publication Date: Time-Life Books 1991

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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 973.9 THI