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BOOKS

Andrews, Bart. The "I Love Lucy" Book. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1985.

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Brooks, Tim. The Complete Dictionary of Prime Time TV Stars. New York: Ballantine Books, 1987.

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Calabro, Marian. Zap!: A Brief History of Television. New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1992.

Clifford, Mike. The Illustrated History of Black Music. New York: Harmony Books, 1982.

Daily, Robert. Elvis Presley: The King of Rock 'n' Roll. New York: Franklin Watts, 1996.

Denenberg, Barry. All Shook Up! The Life and Death of Elvis Presley. New York: Scholastic Press, 2001.

Epstein, Dan. The 50s (20th Century Pop Culture). Broomall, PA: Chelsea House, 2000.

Falkenburg, Claudia, and Andrew Solt. A Really Big Show: A Visual History of the Ed Sullivan Show. New York: Viking Studio Books, 1992.

Fidelman, Geoffrey Mark. The Lucy Book. Los Angeles: Renaissance Books, 1999.

Finkelstein, Norman H. With Heroic Truth: The Life of Edward R. Murrow. New York: Clarion Books, 1997.

Gourley, Catherine. Media Wizards: A Behind-the-Scenes Look at Media Manipulations. Brookfield, CT: Twenty-First Century Books, 1999.

Gourse, Leslie. Blowing on the Changes: The Art of the Jazz Horn Players. New York: Franklin Watts, 1997.

Halliwell, Sarah, ed. The 20th Century: Post-1945 Artists, Writers, and Composers. Austin, TX: Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1998.

Katz, Ephraim. The Film Encyclopedia. 4th ed. New York: HarperResource, 2001.

Knapp, Ron. American Legends of Rock. Springfield, NJ: Enslow Publishers, 1996.

Krohn, Katherine E. Marilyn Monroe: Norma Jean's Dream. Minneapolis, MN: Lerner Publications, 1997.

Maltin, Leonard, ed. Leonard Maltin's Movie Encyclopedia. New York: Dutton, 1994.

Maltin, Leonard, ed. Movie & Video Guide, 22nd ed. New York: Signet, 2001.

McCrohan, Donna. The Honeymooners' Companion: The Kramdens and the Nortons Revisited. New York: Workman Publishing Company, 1978.

McNeil, Alex. Total Television. 4th ed. New York: Penguin Books, 1996.

Oleksy, Walter. The Importance of James Dean. San Diego: Lucent Books, 2001.

Schultz, Charles M. Peanuts: A Golden Celebration. New York: Harper Resource, 1999.

Shirley, David. The History of Rock & Roll. New York: Franklin Watts, 1987.

Vaughan, William H. T. Encyclopedia of Artists. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.

WEB SITES

Cinema History: The 1950s—Focus on American Films. (accessed on August 9, 2002).

Pop Art. http://www.artchive.com/artchive/pop_art.html (accessed on August 9, 2002).

Rebels: Painters and Poets of the 1950s. http://www.npg.si.edu/exh/rebels/poets.htm (accessed on August 9, 2002).

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