Written by: Nancy Snow, Inthefray.com Contributor

Propaganda, Inc.: Selling America's Culture to the World
By Nancy Snow | Seven Stories Press | 1998
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Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir
By D.J. Waldie | St. Martin's Press | 1997 (reprint)
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City of Quartz : Excavating the Future in Los Angeles
By Mike Davis | Verso | 1990
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Ecology of Fear : Los Angeles and the Imagination of Disaster
By Mike Davis | Vintage Books | 1999 (reprint)
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Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the U.S. City
By Mike Davis and Roman de la Campa | Verso | 2000
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Public Opinion
By Walter Lippman | Free Press | 1997 (reprint)
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