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Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"Couch potatoes, goof-offs, freeloaders, good-for-nothings, loafers, and loungers: ever since the Industrial Revolution, when the work ethic as we know it was formed, a chorus of slackers has held the pretensions of hardworking respectability up to scorn. Reviled by many, heroic to others, these layabouts stretch and yawn their way through life and literature while the rest of society sweats. Their history is the history of labor in negative. From...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
From Irving Berlin to Cy Coleman, from "Alexander's Ragtime Band" to "Big Spender," from Tin Pan Alley to the MGM soundstages, the Golden Age of the American song embodied all that was cool, sexy, and sophisticated in popular culture. For four glittering decades, geniuses like Jerome Kern, George Gershwin, Cole Porter, and Harold Arlen enticed unforgettable melodies out of thin air. Gershwin, in his brief but incandescent career, straddled Tin Pan...
Author
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
"American Swastika leads readers through hidden enclaves of hate in America, exploring how white supremacy movements thrive nationwide, even as the country voices the rhetoric of racial equality. Drawing on more than a decade of research and interviews, Pete Simi and Robert Futrell explain the differences between various hate groups, then show readers how white supremacy groups cultivate their membership and core values through Aryan homes, parties,...