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Rebels on the air : an alternative history of radio in America
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ISBN: 0814784771 0814795188 1429414898 Year: 2001 Publisher: New York : New York University Press,

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Boring DJs who never shut up, and who don't even pick their own records. The same hits, over and over. A constant stream of annoying commercials. How did radio get so dull? Not by accident, contends journalist and historian Jesse Walker. For decades, government and big business have colluded to monopolize the airwaves, stamping out competition, reducing variety, and silencing dissident voices. And yet, in the face of such pressure, an alternative radio tradition has tenaciously survived. Rebels on the Air explores these overlooked chapters in American radio, revealing the legal barriers e


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One nation underground : the fallout shelter in American culture
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ISBN: 0814769195 0814776787 0585480591 Year: 2001 Publisher: New York : New York University Press,

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For the half-century duration of the Cold War, the fallout shelter was a curiously American preoccupation. Triggered in 1961 by a hawkish speech by John F. Kennedy, the fallout shelter controversy-""to dig or not to dig,"" as Business Week put it at the time-forced many Americans to grapple with deeply disturbing dilemmas that went to the very heart of their self-image about what it meant to be an American, an upstanding citizen, and a moral human being. Given the much-touted nuclear threat throughout the 1960's and the fact that 4 out of 5 Americans expressed a preference for nuclear war over

The Churches of Christ.Student Edition
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ISBN: 0275970744 Year: 2001 Publisher: Westport, CT Praeger Publishers

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Groove tube : sixties television and the youth rebellion
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ISBN: 0822326450 Year: 2001 Volume: *1 Publisher: Durham, N.C. London Duke University Press

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