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MIDCENTURY SNAPSHOTS: The time Disneyland Became a Cold War Battleground
Once upon a time in Postwar America… the ultimate Midcentury American theme park became the scene of a superpower showdown…
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The Golden Age of Celebrity Authors
Once upon a time in Postwar America… some of the biggest celebrities were book authors, at a moment in history when ordinary Americans loved their books
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TUBE OF COOL: Rocky and Bullwinkle, The Flintstones, and the Origins of Cartoons for Grown-Ups
Once upon a time in Postwar America, network television experimented with a winning recipe of animation aimed primarily at adults...
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TUBE OF COOL: In Praise of Honey West, Television's Ultimate Sixties Badass!
10 Reasons Why Honey West is TV’s Ultimate Action Gem from the 1960s
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Midcentury Memoirs: Tales of Heroin, Edgy Fifties Jazz Clubs, and JFK: Exploring Hampton Hawes’s classic memoir ‘Raise Up Off Me’
Weighing in at slightly under 200 pages, Raise Up Off Me (1974) by Hampton Hawes and Don Asher is arguably the greatest jazz memoir of all time
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SIXTIES FLASHBACK NO. 2: Dennis Hopper versus the Killer Mermaid
A hidden history of the fascinating indie horror film that helped to launch Dennis Hopper’s remarkable career
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American Originals: Top 10 Surprising Facts About Phyllis McGinley, America’s Postwar Suburban Poet Laureate
One of America’s greatest poets is waiting to be rediscovered
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SIXTIES FLASHBACK NO. 1: Japanese sensation Kyu Sakamoto conquers America, August 1963
The story of a 21-year-old Japanese singer who won the hearts of listeners in North America with his number one hit “Sukiyaki” in 1963 – which helped…
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Once Upon a Time in Bigfoot Country...
How the OG Swiss-Canadian Sasquatch seeker René Dahinden helped turn the famous hairy cryptid into a worldwide sensation
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Blue Room Dispatches has a new name . . . Welcome to Postwar Pop!
Postwar Pop will have the same look and vibe as Blue Room Dispatches . . . the only thing changing will be the name
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The Oswald Detectives
Chronicling the Enigma of Lee Harvey Oswald, One Book at a Time…
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Norma Jeane, the Ghost Writer, and the White Piano: The Making and Unmaking (and Re-Making) of Marilyn Monroe’s Autobiography
It took 20 years for Marilyn Monroe’s autobiography, My Story, to come to light with the help of a prolific screenwriter and playwright, Ben Hecht, who…
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Postwar Pop
Postwar Pop
Tales of Postwar American pop culture history, including movies, books, TV, music, biographical sketches, consumerism, and other things. By Andrew Hunt, U.S. history prof, University of Waterloo.
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