MB Civic

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/books/review/Miles.t.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=books&pagewanted=print

The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America, by Allan M. Brandt

“A history of the cigarette’s place in American culture.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/books/review/Johnson.t.html?pagewanted=print

Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion, by Jeffrey J. Kripal

“A history of Esalen in its political as well as sybaritic guise…It was Esalen, strangely enough, that sponsored Boris Yeltsin’s 1989 maiden voyage to America.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/books/review/Paglia.t.html?ref=books&pagewanted=print

Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture, by Jon Savage

“How adolescence was invented, starting in the 19th century…Savage heralds the 1944 arrival of Seventeen magazine as a landmark in the cretion of teenage identity.”

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http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/books/review/Allen.t.html?pagewanted=print

The Feminine Mistake: Are We Giving Up Too Much?, by Leslie Bennett

“An argument against staying home with kids…Bennett portrays the stay-at-home mother as a disappointment to her gender, to society and to herself.”