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Greatest Books About America
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Its All Your Fault: How To Make It As A Hollywood AssistantIts All Your Fault: How To Make It As A Hollywood Assistant by Bill Robinson
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Hollywood seems to a nice lense to examine America.
Air Guitar: Essays on Art & DemocracyAir Guitar: Essays on Art & Democracy by Dave Hickey
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Read the online reviews. A college student from Texas hated it.
Purple America: A NovelPurple America: A Novel by Rick Moody
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Moody is the master of the the really bad American day
Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla : Biography of a Genius (Citadel Press Book)Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla : Biography of a Genius (Citadel Press Book) by Marc Seifer
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Tesla Was very smart, but He just couldn't figure out what it meant to get business done in America. Compare him to Edison, who did.
Going All the Way: Teenage Girls' Tales of Sex, Romance, and PregnancyGoing All the Way: Teenage Girls' Tales of Sex, Romance, and Pregnancy by Sharon Thompson
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The truth about popular girls is indispensable.
Fast Food NationFast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser
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Very Good, Very Very Scary and Very Sad.
American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the NationAmerican Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for Chicago and the Nation by Adam Cohen
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I live in Chicago and I really like it. Unfortunately, many of the reasons I like it are a result of the facist and racist actions of the late Mayor Daley.
Houdini!!!: The Career of Ehrich WeissHoudini!!!: The Career of Ehrich Weiss by Kenneth Silverman
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American to the core.
Theremin: ETHER MUSIC AND ESPIONAGE (Music in American Life)Theremin: ETHER MUSIC AND ESPIONAGE (Music in American Life) by Albert Glinsky
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Compare to the Tesla book. Both were inventors from Europe who came to america, changed it forever and then messed up totally.
The Bell Jar: A Novel (Perennial Classics)The Bell Jar: A Novel (Perennial Classics) by Sylvia Plath
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One of the Philosophy prof. at my undergrad, told Plath that she should kill herself with a gun.
The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City NeighborhoodThe Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood by David Simon
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Tne of the best examples of super painful writing in recent memory.
NakedNaked by David Sedaris
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If you haven't seen America as a very funny short gay man. You haven't seen America.