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DEATH, HEAVEN AND THE VICTORIANS. By John Morley. THE AMERICAN HISTORICAL CATALOG COLLECTION. PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY: THE PYNE PRESS, 1971. ELVIS: A BIOGRAPHY. By Jerry Hopkins. TEACH-IN: VIABILITY OF CHANGE. Edited by B. D. Owens and Ray B. Browne. APPLEHOOD AND MOTHER PIE: NOTES ON “AMERICAN” VALUES. By Andrew R. Sisson.     

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THE IMAGE EMPIRE: A HISTORY OF BROADCASTING IN THE UNITED STATES FROM 1953. By Erik Barnouw. THE MUSTACHE GANG. By Ron Bergman. THE SUITORS OF SPRING. By Pat Jordan. KISS IT GOODBYE. By Shelby Whitfield. RIGHTEOUS CONQUEST: WOODROW WILSON AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE NEW DIPLOMACY. By Sidney Bell. A CASEBOOK ON RALPH ELLISON'S INVISIBLE MAN. Edited by Joseph E. Trimmer. WAYS OF SEEING. By John Berger.     

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Books reviewed:
Mark Rank, One nation, underprivileged: why American poverty affects us all
August Osterle, Equity choices and long-term care policies in Europe
Chiara Saraceno (ed), Social assistance dynamics in Europe. National and local poverty regimes
Di Guransky, Judy Harvey and Rosemary Kennedy, Case management: policy, practice, and professional business
Chris Warren-Adamson (ed), Family centres and their international role in social action. Social work as informal education     

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Benjamin O. Fordham, Building the Cold War Consensus: The Political Economy of U.S. National Security Policy, 1949-51.
Saskia Sassen, Globalization and Its Discontents: Essays on the New Mobility of People and Money
Arnold Fleischmann and Carol Pierannunzi, Politics in Georgia
Marian Meyers, News Coverage of Violence Against Women: Engendering Blame
Frank Levy, The New Dollars and Dreams     

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Gustaf Berglund and Erik Abrahamsson, Creative Conversations: Meetings with Family Therapists and Their Ideas
Julia Brannen and Peter Moss, Rethinking Children's Care     

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The Life and Cuisine of Elvis Presley. David Adler. Creepers: British Horror and Fantasy in the Twentieth Century, edited by Clive Bloom Deathtraps: The Postmodern Comedy Thriller. Marvin Carlson. The Book of Fairs. Helen Augur. Church Symbolism. F.R. Webber. The Easter Book of Legends and Stories. Alice Isabel Hazeltine and Elva Sophronia Smith. Festivals, Holy Days and Saints's Days. Ethel L. Urlin. American Popular Culture/La Culture populaire américaine. John Dean. Street Gallery: Guide to 1000 Los Angeles Murals. Robin J. Dunitz. Pornography: Women, Violence, and Civil Liberties. A Radical View. Catherine Itzin, ed. Dirty Looks: Women, Pornography, Power. Pamela Church Gibson and Roma Gibson, eds. Dark Knights: The New Comics in Context. Greg S. McCue, with Clive Bloom. Sound and Vision: The Music Video Reader. Simon Frith, Andrew Goodwin, and Lawrence Grossberg, eds.     

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Rock On Almanac: The First Four Decades Of Rock ‘N’ Roll—A Chronology. Complied by Norm N. Nite. The Harmony Illustrated Encyclopedia Of Rock (sixth edition). Pete Frame, John Tobler, Ed Hanel, Roger St. Pierre, Chris Trengove, John Beecher, Clive Richardson, Gary Cooper, Marsha Hanlon, and Linda Sandahl. The Old Time Rock And Roll: A Chronicle Of An Era, 1954–1963. Richard Aquila. Ayres' The Rock Music Source Book (Doubleday, 1980), Jeff Green's The 1987 Green Book: Songs Classified By Subject (Professional Desk References, 1986), and B. Lee Cooper's A Resource Guide To Themes In Contemporary American Song Lyrics, 1950–1985 (Greenwood Press, 1986). Inside The Music Business: Music In Contemporary Life. Michael Fink. Review of Simply Cinema. Perry F. Mills. Warrior Women and Popular Balladry, 1650–1850. Dianne Dugaw. Handbook Of American Popular Culture—Three Volumes (second edition, revised and enlarged). M. Thomas Inge, editor. Dictionnaire de la bande dessinée. Henri Filippini. Politics in Familiar Places: Projecting Politics through Popular Media. Robert L. Savage and Dan Nimmo, editors. Conversations with Tom Wolfe. Dorothy M. Scura, editor. Television And The Quality Of Life: How Viewing Shapes Everyday Experience. Robert Kubey and Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi. Major Film Directors of the American and British Cinema. Gene D. Phillips. Constructing a Sociology of the Arts Vera L. Zolberg.     

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Lives Together/World Apart: Mothers and Doughters in Popular Culture. Suzanna Danuta Walters. Melodramatic Formations: American Theatre and Society, 1820-1870. Bruce McConachie. Mass Communications in the Caribbean. John A. Lent. Audacious Kids: Coming of Age in America's Classic Children's Books. Jerry Griswold. Private Screenings: Television, and the Female Consumer. Lynn Spigel and Denise Mann, editors. Lynda S. Boren and Sara DeSaussure Davis, eds. Kate Chopin Reconsidered: Beyond the Bayou Nazi-Retro Film. Robert C. and Carol J. Reimer. Prime Time and Misdemeanors: Investigating the 1950s TV Quiz Scandal—A D.A.'s Account. Joseph Stone and Tim Yohn. Changing Channels: America in TV Guide. Glenn Co. Altschuler and David I. Grossvogel. The Ideological Octopus: An Exploration of Television and Its Audience. Lewis Justin. Popular Television in Britain: Studies in Cultural History. John Corner (editor). Acts of Supremacy: The Britsh Empire and the Stage, 1790-1930. J.S. Bratton, Richard Allen Cave, Breandon Gregory, Heidi J. Holder, and Michael Pickering. Sports and Recreation Fads. Frank W. Hoffmann and William G. Bailey. World Encyclopedia of Organized Crime. Jay Robert Nash. Dictionary of Crime, Criminal Justice, Criminolgoy & LAw Enforcement. Compiled by Jay Robert Nash. Popular Culture in Modern France: A Study of Cultural Discourse. Brian Rigby. The Making of Middle Brow Culture. Joan Shelley Rubin. The Printed Image and the Transformation of Popular Culture 1790–1860. Patricia Anderson. Haven't I See You Somewhere Before? Remakes, Sequels, and Series in Motion Pictures, Videos and Television, 1896–1990. James L. Limbacher. On Coon Mountain: Scenes from a Childhood in the Oklahoma Hills. Glen Ross. Listening to Old Voices: Folklore, Life Stories, and the Elderly. Patrick B. Mullen. James Stewart: A Bio-Bibliography. Gerard Molyneaux. Popular Fiction in England 1914–1918. Harold Orel. Partial Visions: Culture and Politics in Britain, Canada and the United States. Richard M. Merelman.     

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TELEVISION AND THE RED MENACE: THE VIDEO ROAD TO VIETNAM, by J. Fred MacDonald. THE TV ARAB. By Jack G. Shaheen. TY COBB. By Charles Alexander. SAD CLOWNS AND PALE PIERROTS: LITERATURE AND THE POPULAR COMIC ARTS IN 19TH-CENTURY FRANCE. By Louisa E. Jones. ARTHUR SULLIVAN: A VICTORIAN MUSICIAN. By Arthur Jacobs. CLASS, CULTURE AND SOCIAL CHANGE: A NEW VIEW OF THE 1930s. Edited by Frank Gloversmith. ADOLF HITLER: THE UNKNOWN ARTIST. By Billy F. Price. SPORT, CULTURE AND IDEOLOGY. By Jennzjer Hargreaves. HOME REMEDIES. By Martin Pops. THE AMAZING ARMADILLO: GEOGRAPHY OF A FOLK CRITTER. By Larry L. Smith and Robin W. Doughty.     

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DON'T TOUCH THAT DIAL! RADIO PROGRAMMING IN AMERICAN LIFE FROM 1920 to 1960. By J. Fred MacDonald. ROCK ‘N” ROLL IS HERE TO PAY. THE HISTORY AND POLITICS OF THE MUSIC INDUSTRY . By Steven Chapple and Reebee Garofalo. TELEVISION: THE CRITICAL VIEW (Second Edition). Horace Newcomb, Editor. BROADCASTING: AN INTRODUCTION, by John R. Bittner.     

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I'll Take You There: An Oral and Photographic History of the Hines Farm Blues Club. Matthew A. Donahue. Forward through the Rearview Mirror: Reflections on and by Marshall McLuhan. Paul Benedetti and Nancy DeHart John Jakes: A Critical Companion. Mary Ellen Jones. The Cryptographic Imagination: Secret Writing from Edgar Poe to the Internet. Shawn James Rosenheim. The Archaeology of Ancient Arizona. Jefferson Reid and Stephanie Whittlesey. Entertaining Tsarist Russia. James von Geldern and Louise McReynolds, eds. The Language of Landscape. Anne Whiston Spirn. Hunting the Wren: Transformation of Bird to Symbol. Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence. The Lost Works of William Carlos Williams: The Volumes of Collected Poetry as Lyrical Sequences. Robert J. Cirasa. For the Time Being: Ethnography of Everyday Life. Richard Quinney. Britannia's Children: Reading Colonialism through Children's Books and Magazines. Kathryn Castle. A Taste for Pop: Pop Art, Gender, and Consumer Culture. Cecile Whiting. The Presence of the Past: Popular Uses of History in American Life. Roy Rosenzweig and David Thelen. Who Is Andy Warhol? Colin MacCabe, ed. Coming of Age in Cyberspace. David S. Bennahum. Masculinities, Spectatorship, and Contemporary Consumption. Sean Nixon. Ministry and Theology in Global Perspective. Don Pittman, Ruben Habito, Herry Much, eds. Fearless Girls, Wise Women and Beloved Sisters: Heroines in Folktales from Around the World. Kathleen Ragan, ed. Planet Diana: Cultural Studies and Global Mourning. Ien Agn, Ruth Barcan, Helen Grace, Elaine Laly, Justine Lloyd, and Zoe Sofoulis, eds.     

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The Guide to United States Popular Culture. Edited by Ray B. Browne and Pat Browne. The Detective as Historian: History and Art in Historical Crime Fiction. Edited by Ray B. Browne and Lawrence A. Kreiser, Jr. Preface by Robin W. Winks. Materialist Feminism: A Reader in Class, Difference, and Women's Lives. Rosemary Hennessy and Chrys Ingraham, eds. Popular Culture: Cavespace to Cyberspace. Marshall W. Fishwick. Great Cars of the Great Plains. Curt McConnell. Golden Arches East: McDonald's in East Asia. Ed. James L. Watson. The History of Jazz. Ted Gioia. Puppets and “Popular” Culture. Scott Cutler Shershow. Theater and Society: An Anthology of Contemporary Chinese Drama. Haiping Yan, ed. Armonk Teenage Nervous Breakdown: Music and Politics in the Post‐Elvis Age. David Walley. The Ignorance Explosion: Understanding Industrial Civilization. Julius Lukasiewicz. The Unofficial Encyclopedia of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Nick Talevski. Graphic Novels: A Bibliographic Guide to Book‐Length Comics. D. Aviva Rothschild. Elvis, Hank, and Me: Making Musical History on the Louisiana Hayride. Horace Logan with Bill Sloan. Women Imagine Change: A Global Anthology of Women's Resistance from 600 B.C.E. to Present. Eugenia DeLamotte, Natania Meeker, and Jean O'Barr, eds. We Mean to Be Counted: White Women and Politics in Antebellum Virginia. Elizabeth R. Varon. Gender and American Culture series. Subject to Change: Guerrilla Television Revisited. Deirdre Boyle. What Evil Means to Us. C. Fred Alford. A Sense of Place: Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Essays in Honor of William and Margery Vandament. Edited by Russell M. Magnaghi and Michael T. Marsden.     

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Books reviewed in this article: Peter Hanson, The Cinema of Generation X: A Critical Study Keith Scott, The Moose That Roared: The Story of Jay Ward, Bill Scott, a Flying Squirrel, and a Talking Moose Nicholson Baker, Double Fold: Libraries and the Assault on Paper Richard K. Sherwin, When Law Goes Pop: The Vanishing Line Between Law and Popular Culture Joseph Dorinson and Joram Warmund (eds.), Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports, and the American Dream Frederick Matthew Wiseman, The Voice of the Dawn: An Autohistory of the Abenaki Nation Reuben Ellis, Vertical Margins: Mountaineering and the Landscapes of Neoimperialism McKay Jenkins, The South in Black and White: Race, Sex, and Literature in the 1940s Pauline Maier, Merritt Roe Smith, Alexander Keyssar, and Daniel J. Kevles, Inventing America: A History of the United States Clifford Putney, Muscular Christianity: Manhood and Sports in Protestant America, 1880–1920 Irene Kacandes, Talk Fiction: Literature and the Talk Explosion Nikolas Schreck, The Satanic Screen: An Illustrated Guide to the Devil in Cinema     

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DECIDING WHAT'S NEWS: A STUDY OF CBS EVENING NEWS, NBC NIGHTLY NEWS, NEWSWEEK AND TIME . By Herbert J. Gans. THE JOHN WAYNE STORY . By Geroge Carpozi, Jr. HANK WILLIAMS: COUNTRY MUSIC'S TRAGIC KING . By Jay Caress. SOCIAL ASPECTS OF SPORT . By Eldon E. Snyder and Elmer Spreitzer. THE SEVENTIES: COUNTERFEIT DECADE . By Herbert London. THE CARTOON CONNECTION: THE ART OF PICTORIAL HUMOUR AS SEEN BY WILLIAM HEWISON . THE BLACK TOWNS . By Normal L. Crockett. IN THE LIFE OF A ROMANY GYPSY . By Manfri Frederick Wood. FANTASTIC WORLDS: MYTHS, TALES, AND STORIES . Edited by Eric S. Rabkin. COMPLETE DIRECTORY TO PRIME TIME NETWORK TV SHOWS: 1946 TO PRESENT . By Tim Brooks and Earle Marsh. AUTOMOBILE AGE ATLANTA: THE MAKING OF A SOUTHERN METROPOLIS . By Harward L. Preston. BUFFO: THE GENIUS OF VULGAR HUMOR . By Anthony Capulti. THE VICTORIAN THEATRE: 1792–1914 . By Geroge Rowell. RADIO COMEDY . By Arthur Frank Wertheim. SNAKES & LADDERS . By Dirk Bogarde. THE MOVIE BRATS–HOW THE FILM GENERATION TOOK OVER HOLLYWOOD . By Michael Pye and Lynda Myles. TV: FRIEND OR FOE: A PARENT'S HANDBOOK . By Paul Borgman. FEMALE COMPLAINTS: LYDIA PINKHAM AND THE BUSINESS OF WOMEN'S MEDICINE . By Sarah Stage. THE RISE OF THE VICTORIAN ACTOR . By Michael Baker. A NEW MYTHOS: THE NOVEL OF THE ARTIST AS HEROINE 1877–1977 . By Grace Stewart.     

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SUSANNA HASWELL ROWSON: AMERICA'S FIRST BEST—SELLING NOVELIST . By Ellen B. Brandt. DICKENS AND MESMERISM. By Fred Kaplan. LIFE AFTER LIFE. By Raymond A. Moody, Jr.     

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Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on Personal Identity in Early America. Ronald Hoffman, Mechal Sobel, and Fredrika J. Teute The Children's Culture Reader. Henry Jenkins Ancient Greek Popular Literature. William Hansen Finitude's Score: Essays for the End of the Millennium. Avital Ronell Celebrity Caricature in America. Wendy Wick Reaves Jean‐Luc Goddard. Interviews. David Sterritt Dead End Kids: Gang Girls and the Boys They Know. Mark S . Fleisher The Red Atlantis: Communist Culture in the Absence of Communism. J. Hoberman Hog Ties: Pigs, Manure, and Mortality in American Culture. Richard P. Horwitz. The Crowded Prairie: American National Identity in the Hollywood Western. Michael Coyne Tennis: A Cultural History. Heiner Gillmeister Meat Is Murder! An Illustrated Guide to Cannibal Culture. Mikita Brottman.