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Tsagaris Sandra Parker 1998 1998 Victims or Villains Flying for the Air Service Jewish Images in Classic English The Hughes Brothers in World War I Detective Fiction David K. Vaughan Malcolm J. Turnbull 1998 1998 Coming after Oprah Leon Forrest Cultural Fallout in the Age of the TV Talk Introductions and Interpretations Show John G. Cawelti Vicki Abt, Leonard Mustazza 1997 1997 The Reader and the Detective Story In the Eye of the Beholder George N. Dove Critical Perspectives in Popular Film and 1997 Television Edited by Gary R. Edgerton, Michael T. Marsden, and Jack Nachbar 1997 Family Matters in the British and Mutilating the Body American Novel Identity in Blood and Ink Edited by Andrea O’Reilly Herrera, Kim Hewitt Elizabeth Nollen and, Sheila Reitzel Foor 1997 1997 Life in the Shadows of the Crystal From Moonshine to Madison Avenue Palace 1910–1927 A Cultural History of the NASCAR Ford Workers in the Model T Era Winston Cup Series Clarence Hooker Mark D. 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