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      The Wrong Stuff

      John Strausbaugh

      A witty, deeply researched history of the surprisingly ramshackle Soviet space program, and how its success was more spin than science. In the wake of World War II, with America…

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      Rock ‘Til You Drop: The Decline from Rebellion to Nostalgia

      John Strausbaugh

      As the Rolling Stones drag themselves through yet another American tour and Cher once again makes a come-back, Strausbaugh reflects on a generation that started out as self-annointed world-changers and…

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      Black Like You: Blackface, Whiteface, Insult and Imitation in American Popular Culture

      John Strausbaugh

      A refreshingly clearheaded and taboo-breaking look at race relations reveals that American culture is neither Black nor White nor Other, but a mix-a mongrel.

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      Alone with the President

      John Strausbaugh

      The author discusses what he sees as the mutual attraction between presidents and celebrities from Kennedy to Reagan… . Kennedy, he argues, took celebrity politics ‘to a whole new level’…

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      E: Reflections on the Birth of the Elvis Faith

      John Strausbaugh

      Three quarters of a million people visit Graceland each year–40,000 of them during Elvis Week , the anniversary of his death in August. Strausbaugh describes the religious fervor of Elvis…

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      Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II

      John Strausbaugh

      A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II

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      City of Sedition: The History of New York City during the Civil War

      John Strausbaugh

      In a single, definitive narrative, CITY OF SEDITION tells the spellbinding story of the huge–and hugely conflicted–role New York City played in the Civil War.

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      The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues, a History of Greenwich Village

      John Strausbaugh

      Cultural commentator John Strausbaugh’s The Village is the first complete history of Greenwich Village, the prodigiously influential and infamous New York City neighborhood. From the Dutch settlers and Washington Square…

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      Alone with the President

      John Strausbaugh

      The author discusses what he sees as the mutual attraction between presidents and celebrities from Kennedy to Reagan… . Kennedy, he argues, took celebrity politics ‘to a whole new level’…

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      Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers During World War II

      John Strausbaugh

      From John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and The Village, comes the definitive history of Gotham during the World War II era.

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      Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers During World War II

      John Strausbaugh

      From John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and The Village, comes the definitive history of Gotham during the World War II era.

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      The Drug User: Documents 1840-1960

      John Strausbaugh

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      Playing Right Field: A Jew Grows in Greenwich

      George Tabb,John Strausbaugh

      Playing Right Field refers to an early experience of the author and his brother, Lloyd, who played Little League together; they were forced to share one team T-shirt because their…

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      Offbeats: Lower East Side Portraits

      Clayton Patterson,John Strausbaugh

      ABOUT THE BOOK Through much of the 19th and 20th centuries, Manhattan below 14th Street was a great cultural brain that dreamed up a fantastic wealth of art and entertainment…

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