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      Country & Western Dance

      Ralph G. Giordano

      A fun, fact-filled, and thoroughly researched journey of country and western dancing from the roots of Western Swing to Hank Williams, the Urban Cowboy two-step of John Travolta, and the…

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      Fun and Games in Twentieth-Century America: A Historical Guide to Leisure

      Ralph G. Giordano

      This book describes how political, economic, and cultural events influenced America’s leisure habits throughout the 20th century.

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      Italian Culture in America: How a Founding Father Introduced Italian Art, Architecture, Food, Wine, and Liberty to the American People

      Ralph G. Giordano

      While Thomas Jefferson’s affinity for Italy is well known, studying his role in assimilating Italian culture into the American project is a new venture. Surveying Jefferson as an Italophile reveals…

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      Satan in the Dance Hall: Rev. John Roach Straton, Social Dancing, and Morality in 1920s New York City

      Ralph G. Giordano

      Satan in the Dance Hall explores the overwhelming popularity of social dancing in the 1920s, examining its close relationship to America’s rapidly changing society. The book also focuses on the…

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      Pop Goes the Decade: The Fifties

      Ralph G. Giordano

      Covering significant historical and cultural moments, public figures and celebrities, art and entertainment, and technology that influenced life during the decade, this book documents the 1950s through the lens of…

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      Italian Culture in America

      Ralph G. Giordano

      Describes the nationwide anti-Italian discrimination, and often violent retribution, experienced by millions of immigrants during the formative years of an industrializing United States, from 1880 to 1930.

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      The Architectural Ideology of Thomas Jefferson

      Ralph G. Giordano

      In contrast to his enormous political influence, Thomas Jefferson’s vast cultural contributions, especially in the realm of American architecture, remain relatively unknown to mainstream Americans. Among architectural professionals, however, Jefferson…

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