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The Clothes Have No Emperor: A Chronicle of the American '80s

10 best books like The Clothes Have No Emperor: A Chronicle of the American '80s (Paul Slansky): Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture, You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times, Brotherhood of the Revolution: How America's Founders Forged a New Nation, Back in the World, Dirty Sexy Politics, Heavy Water and Other Stories, Selected Poems, Founding America: Documents from the Revolution to the Bill of Rights, The People's Almanac

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America
AuthorRick Perlstein
ISBN0743243021
Politically insightful, Nixonland recaptures the turbulent 60s & early 70s, revealing how Dick Nixon rose from the political grave to seize & hold the presidency. Perlstein's account begins with the '65 Watts riots, nine months after Johnson's landslide victory over Goldwater appeared...
The Secret Knowledge: On the Dismantling of American Culture
AuthorDavid Mamet
ISBN1595230769
David Mamet has been a controversial, defining force in nearly every creative endeavor-now he turns his attention to politics.
In recent years, David Mamet realized that the so-called mainstream media outlets he relied on were irredeemably biased, peddling a hypocritical and deeply flawed...
You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train: A Personal History of Our Times
AuthorHoward Zinn
ISBN0807071277
Howard Zinn, author of A People's History of the United States, tells his personal stories about more than thirty years of fighting for social change, from teaching at Spelman College to recent protests against war.
A former bombardier in WWII, Zinn emerged in the civil rights movement as a powerful...
Brotherhood of the Revolution: How America's Founders Forged a New Nation
AuthorJoseph J. Ellis
ISBN1402545509
Mount Holyoke College professor Joseph Ellis delivers a course that is a chronological survey of the period from 1763 to 1800 and discusses the single most consequential event in all of American history, the American Revolution. The key figures during this time, or the brotherhoood of the revolution,...
Back in the World
AuthorTobias Wolff
ISBN0679767967
To American soldiers in Vietnam, "back in the world" meant America and safety. To Tobias Wolff's characters, Back in the World is where lives that have veered out of control just might become normal again. Unfortunately, the men and women in these gripping, pungent, and wonderfully skewed stories...
Dirty Sexy Politics
AuthorMeghan McCain
ISBN1401323774
Meghan McCain came to prominence as the straight-talking, progressive daughter of the 2008 Republican presidential candidate Senator John McCain. And her profile has only risen since the election ended in favor of the other guy.

What makes Meghan so appealing? As a new role model for young,...
Heavy Water and Other Stories
AuthorMartin Amis
"Martin Amis is a stone-solid genius...a dazzling star of wit and insight." --The Wall Street Journal

In this wickedly delightful collection of stories, Martin Amis once again demonstrates why he is a modern master of the form. In "Career Move," screenwriters struggle for their art, while...
Selected Poems
AuthorCarl Sandburg
ISBN0156003961
This new collection of Sandburg's finest and most representative poetry draws on all of his previous volumes and includes four unpublished poems about Lincoln. The Hendricks' comprehensive introduction discusses how Sandburg's life and beliefs colored his work and why it continues to resonate...
Founding America: Documents from the Revolution to the Bill of Rights
AuthorJack N. Rakove
ISBN1593082304
Founding America: Documents from the Revolution to the Bill of Rights, by Various, is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully...
The People's Almanac
AuthorDavid Wallechinsky
ISBN0385040601
A perfect a snapshot of the remains of the American counterculture in the mid-1970s. The Almanac was compiled to be a one-stop source for the informed, progressive citizen's informational needs, and in that spirit covers basic facts about world history and geography. But reflecting the expansive,...
Reagan's America: Innocents at Home
AuthorGarry Wills
ISBN0140296077
Ronald Reagan achieved magical accord with the American people, attuning them to his moral vision of a nation made up of optimistic individualists, tough yet God-fearing, blessed with a special destiny. In Reagan's America, Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian Garry Wills seeks to understand...
Gob's Grief
AuthorChris Adrian
ISBN0375726241
In the summer of 1863, Gob and Tomo Woodhull, eleven-year-old twin sons of Victoria Woodhull, agree to together forsake their home and family in Licking County, Ohio, for the glories of the Union Army. But on the night of their departure for the war, Gob suffers a change of heart, and Tomo is forced to leave...
Devil's Dream
AuthorMadison Smartt Bell
ISBN0375424881
From the author of All Souls’ Rising which The Washington Post called “A serious historical novel that reads like a dream,” comes a powerful new novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the most reviled, celebrated, and legendary, of Civil War generals.

With the same eloquence, dramatic...
Mind Games
AuthorMichael Powell
ISBN0760762783
An amusing book filled with random pieces related to the brain (e.g. parts of the brain, brain health, study tips, etc.) Some of them are kind of useful and fun to read about it, but the book would sometimes take a sharp turn to the absurd and unscientific, such as the section on mind-bending spoons or how...
Hiding Man: A Biography of Donald Barthelme
AuthorTracy Daugherty
ISBN0312378688
In the 1960s Donald Barthelme came to prominence as the leader of the Postmodern movement. He was a fixture at the New Yorker, publishing more than 100 short stories, including such masterpieces as "Me and Miss Mandible," the tale of a thirty-five-year-old sent to elementary school by clerical...
The 37th Mandala
AuthorMarc Laidlaw
The mandalas have always been among us, unseen and uncalled. Those few occult masters who have encountered them have known to leave them alone, for to these unholy forces we are mere playthings, insignificant tools to be used, fed upon - and eventually discarded. — When New-Age charlatan Derek Crowe...
Third World America: How Our Politicians Are Abandoning the Middle Class and Betraying the American Dream
AuthorArianna Huffington
ISBN1400119316
It's not an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species and that the American Dream of a secure, comfortable standard of living has become as outdated as an Edsel with an eight-track player—that the United States of America is in danger of becoming a third world nation.

...
The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection
AuthorEllen Datlow
I'm not rating this as the story line is far from my normal genre but I happened on it and decided to give it a try. The characterization of Miss Carstairs was good and the development of the merman was interesting. But the rest of the story was more like a biology read as she's dissecting (not literally) and...
Letters
AuthorSaul Bellow
ISBN0670022217
A never-before-published collection of letters-an intimate self- portrait as well as the portrait of a century.

Saul Bellow was a dedicated correspondent until a couple of years before his death, and his letters, spanning eight decades, show us a twentieth-century life in all its richness...
What Just Happened: A Chronicle from the Information Frontier
AuthorJames Gleick
ISBN0375421777
Here's some of what just happened: Millions of ordinary, sensible people came into possession of computers. These machines had wondrous powers, yet made unexpected demands on their owners. Telephones broke free of the chains that had shackled them to bedside tables and office desks. No one was out...
The Great Depression: America 1929-1941
AuthorRobert S. McElvaine
ISBN0812923278
One of the classic studies of the Great Depression, featuring a new introduction by the author with insights into the economic crises of 1929 & today. In the 25 years since its publication, critics & scholars have praised historian Robert McElvaine's sweeping, authoritative history of the...
The Late Night with David Letterman Book of Top Ten Lists
AuthorDavid Letterman
ISBN0671726714
Read them at your own pace - the funniest Top Ten Lists from "Late Night with David Letterman." Plus, if you buy now, this special bonus list:
Top Ten Reasons to Buy This Book:
10. Serves as handy coaster for two jumbo beverages 9. Plentiful misprints sure to make it a valuable collector's item...
The Atlantic and Its Enemies: A History of the Cold War
AuthorNorman Stone
ISBN0465020437
After World War II, the former allies were saddled with a devastated world economy and traumatized populace. Soviet influence spread insidiously from nation to nation, and the Atlantic powers—the Americans, the British, and a small band of allies—were caught flat-footed by the coups, collapsing...
The Big Book of Conspiracies
AuthorDoug Moench
ISBN1563891867
Compiled by Doug Moench and 39 of the world's top comic artists, this collection presents some of the world's weirdest conspiracy theories. Did the Nazi Party help form the CIA? Did aliens form the Nazi Party? Are descendants of Jesus living in France? Is Jim Morrison still alive? The answers to these...
Weird Washington: Your Travel Guide to Washington's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets
AuthorJefferson D. Davis
ISBN1402745451
Ah, Washington: evergreens, coffee, rock, and rain. That's pretty much it, right? Well, no. There is a whole lot of weird going on in our state. Washington is home to some of the weirdest travel destinations, scariest legends, and most colorful folks in the United States.

Because there are...
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