No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880–1920
By: T.J. Jackson Lears
4.05
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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1. The Age of Reform
By: Richard Hofstadter
3.91
Format: 352 pages, Paperback
WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • From the two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning author and preeminent histo… read more
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- american history
- history
- politics
- united states
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- 20th century
- sociology
"Third parties are like bees: once they have stung, they die."-Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform
"Major parties have lived more for patronage than for principles; their goal has been to bind together a sufficiently large coalition of diverse interests to get into power; and once in power, to arra…"-Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform
"What came in the end was only a small war and a quick victory; when the farmers and the gentlemen finally did coalesce in politics, they produced only the genial reforms of Progressivism; and the man…"-Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform
2. The Moviegoer
By: Walker Percy
3.65
Format: 242 pages, Paperback
When "The Moviegoer" was first published in 1961, it won the National Book Award and established Wa… read more
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- philosophy
- 20th century
"Peklo nemůže být plné ohně - existují daleko horší věci."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"Have you noticed that only in time of illness or disaster or death are people real?"-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"I have discovered that most people have no one to talk to, no one, that is, who really wants to listen."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
"This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground."-Walker Percy, The Moviegoer
3. Masscult and Midcult: Essays Against the American Grain
By: John Summers , Dwight Macdonald , Louis Menand
3.24
Format: None pages, Paperback
A New York Review Books Original An uncompromising contrarian, a passionate polemicist, a man of qu… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
- nonfiction
- cultural studies
4. Mating
By: Norman Rush
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
The narrator of this splendidly expansive novel of high intellect and grand passion is an American … read more
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5. Das Kapital
By: Karl Marx , Friedrich Engels , Serge L. Levitsky
4.22
Format: None pages, Paperback
Das Kapital, Karl Marx's seminal work, is the book that above all others formed the twentieth centu… read more
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6. The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America
By: Leo Marx
3.72
Format: 374 pages, Paperback
For over four decades, Leo Marx's work has focused on the relationship between technology and cultu… read more
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- philosophy
- nonfiction
- history
7. Means of Ascent (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, #2)
By: Robert A. Caro
4.20
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
Robert A. Caro's life of Lyndon Johnson, which began with the greatly acclaimed The Path to Power, … read more
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- politics
- american history
- history
- nonfiction
8. Patriotic Gore: Studies in the Literature of the American Civil War
By: Edmund Wilson
4.00
Format: 10 pages, Paperback
Critical/biographical portraits of such notable figures as Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, … read more
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- american history
- history
- nonfiction
9. The Kennedy Imprisonment: A Meditation on Power
By: Garry Wills
4.54
Format: 380 pages, Paperback
From one of America's foremost historians, The Kennedy Imprisonment is the definitive historical an… read more
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10. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
11. Speedboat
By: Renata Adler
5.00
Format: 120 pages, Paperback
Won the Ernest Hemingway Prize for Best First Novel in 1976 It has been over 35 years since Renata … read more
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12. After Virtue
By: Alasdair MacIntyre
4.18
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
When After Virtue first appeared in 1981, it was recognized as a significant and potentially contro… read more
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- philosophy
- politics
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- nonfiction
"All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
"At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
"The introduction of the word ‘intuition’ by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something has gone badly wrong with an argument."-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
"Man is ... essentially a story-telling animal. That means I can only answer the question 'what am I to do?' if I can answer the prior question of 'what story or stories do I find myself a part of?"-Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue
13. The Symposium
By: Plato , Christopher Gill
4.09
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the … read more
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"The truth about eros is terrifying."-Plato, The Symposium
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet"-Plato, The Symposium
"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."-Plato, The Symposium
"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"-Plato, The Symposium
14. The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
By: Bernard Bailyn
3.69
Format: 496 pages, Paperback
In this 25th anniversary edition, Bailyn has added a substantial essay, Fulfillment, as a Postscrip… read more
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15. The Republic
By: Plato , Desmond Lee
3.96
Format: 416 pages, Paperback
Presented in the form of a dialogue between Socrates and three different interlocutors, this classi… read more
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"Appearance tyrannizes over truth."-Plato, The Republic
"The comprehensive mind is always dialectical."-Plato, The Republic
"Those who don't know must learn from those who do."-Plato, The Republic
"Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance"-Plato, The Republic
16. The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex/Oedipus at Colonus/Antigone (The Theban Plays, #1–3)
By: Sophocles , Robert Fitzgerald , Dudley Fitts , None
5.00
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
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17. The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
By: Christopher Lasch
3.98
Format: 368 pages, Paperback
When The Culture of Narcissism was first published in 1979, Christopher Lasch was hailed as a “bibl… read more
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- politics
- philosophy
- nonfiction
- sociology
"Since “the society"-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
"We demand too much of life, too little of ourselves."-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
"Imprisoned in his self-awareness modern man longs for the lost innocence of spontaneous feeling."-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
"When the images of power overshadow the reality, those without power find themselves fighting phantoms."-Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in An Age of Diminishing Expectations
18. Great Expectations
By: Vinson Cunningham
3.35
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly a… read more
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"For him, identity had been a kind of curation or collation—he picked up aspects as he went, freestyle."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
"It had always struck me as a place to be lost, experienced passage by passage in a series of unfolding images—not something you could take in in one possessive glance."-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations
19. No Place of Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880–1920
By: T.J. Jackson Lears
4.05
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
Jackson Lears draws on a wealth of primary sources (sermons, diaries, letters) as well as novels, p… read more
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- the united states of america
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- nonfiction
- 20th century
- cultural studies
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20. When the Clock Broke: Con Men, Conspiracists, and How America Cracked Up in the Early 1990s
By: John Ganz
4.23
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
A lively, revelatory look back at the convulsions at the end of the Reagan era―and their dark legac… read more
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- the united states of america
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21. Freud: The Mind of the Moralist
By: Philip Rieff
4.18
Format: 464 pages, Paperback
Now a classic, this book was hailed upon its original publication in 1959 as "An event to be acclai… read more
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"Whether or not a monarch or a mass leader has great executive ability or power, modern politics suggests that his primary function may well be psychological; he acts as a center around which otherwis…"-Philip Rieff, Freud: The Mind of the Moralist
