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New Titles - Arts & Photography
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Hollywood Eden: Electric Guitars, Fast Cars, and the Myth of the California Paradise
Joel Selvin · House of Anansi Press
Format: Hardcover
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From the Beach Boys and Jan & Dean to the Byrds and the Mamas & the Papas, acclaimed music journalist Joel Selvin tells the story of a group of young artists and musicians who came together at the dawn of the 1960s to create the lasting myth of the California dream.From surf music... |
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Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art
Robert Cozzolino · University of Chicago Press; First edition
Format: First Edition
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America is haunted. Ghosts from its violent history - the genocide of Indigenous peoples, slavery, the threat of nuclear annihilation, and traumatic wars - are an inescapable and unsettled part of the nation's heritage. Not merely in the realm of metaphor but present and tangible, urgently... |
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Out of Many, One: Portraits of America's Immigrants
George W. Bush · Crown
Format: Hardcover
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The issue of immigration stirs intense emotions today, as it has throughout much of American history. But what gets lost in the debates about policy are the stories of immigrants themselves, the people who are drawn to America by its promise of economic opportunity and political and religious... |
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