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1) The fifties
Author
Publisher
Villard Books
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Social, political, economic, and cultural history of the 1950s in the United States.
2) After this
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 15
Language
English
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Description
Alice McDermott's powerful novel is a vivid portrait of an American family in the middle decades of the twentieth century. Witty, compassionate, and wry, it captures the social, political, and spiritual upheavals of those decades through the experiences of a middle-class couple, their four children, and the changing worlds in which they live.
While Michael and Annie Keane taste the alternately intoxicating and bitter first fruits of the sexual revolution,...
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Series
Language
English
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Description
Finally returned to print in a beautiful paperback edition, a haunting gothic tale of a nineteenth-century immigrant family of confidence artists-a story of morality, duplicity, and retribution that explores the depths of human manipulation and vulnerability. The patriarch of the Licht family, Abraham has raised a brood of talented con artists, children molded in his image, and experts in The Game, his calling and philosophy of life. Traveling from...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
The distinguished political historian's journals provide an intimate history of post-war America, the writer's contributions to multiple presidential administrations, and his relationships with numerous cultural and intellectual figures.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
Emily Post was a daughter of high society, one of Manhattan's most sought-after dutantes. After a scandalous divorce forced her to become her own person, she became an emblem of a new kind of manners in which etiquette and ethics were forever
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