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Short Stories on The History & Power
of Popular Culture
— Stories by Jack Doyle —
“Pearl White”1910s-1920s A daredevil heroine |
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“Wall Street’s Gekko”1980s-2010 A fictional Wall Street |
“FDR & Vanity Fair”1930s Magazine cover art & |
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“1968 Presidential Race”Democrats Paul Newman & friends |
“Paint It Black”1966-2000s A Rolling Stones tune has |
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“Dinah Shore & Chevrolet”1951-1963 “See-the-U.S.A.” tune |
“I’m A Dole Man”1996 A 1960s’ soul song |
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“Celebrity Buffett”1960s-2010 Billionaire Warren Buffett |
“Four Dead in O-hi-o”1970 A protest song recalls |
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“RFK in Brooklyn”1966-1972 A Robert F. Kennedy |
“Taylor Swift, Rising”2003-2009 A 19-yr-old singer/ |
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Sting: “Russians”1985 A song about the Cold |
“The Sound of Money”2009 A Dutch pension fund |
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“Be My Baby”1960s-2010 The Ronettes & Phil Spector produce a game- |
“American Bandstand”1956 - 2007 How Dick Clark & TV |
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“The Bourne Profitability”1985 - 2007 How Jason Bourne & Co. |
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“Ted Turner & CNN”1980s & 1990s Media pioneer shakes up |
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“Stones Gather Dollars”1989-2008 The Rolling Stones’ |
“JFK, Pitchman?”2009 A popular ex-President is |
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“Legs: Cyd Charisse”1950s-1990s Statuesque beauty of MGM |
“Beatles in America”1963-1964 New rock ‘n roll group |
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“Dear Prudence”1967-1968 The history of a beautiful |
“Baseball, 1929″Jimmie Foxx One of baseball’s |
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“Rosie The Riveter”1942-1945 A WWII-era image |
“The Jackson Statues”1995 Nine giant Michael Jackson statues help promote |
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“Michael & McCartney”1980s-2009 Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney & The Beatles’ |
“Do You Love Me?”1962 & 1988 A 1962 Motown hit song |
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“Motown’s Heat Wave”1963-1967 Martha & the Vandellas’ |
“Joplin’s Shooting Star”1966-1970 Janis Joplin’s last |
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“I Guarantee It.”1960-1970s Joe Namath of the NY Jets |
“Beatles’ Closed-Circuit Gig”March 1964 The Beatles’ first-ever, live U.S. |
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“Disney Dollars”1930s Walt & Mickey become |
“Of Bridges & Lovers”1992 - 1995 A best-selling love story, |
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“Bette Davis Eyes”1981 A top song of the 1980s |
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Music, Marketing, Technology
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“The Story In
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“Big Chill Marketing”1980s & 1990s How a 1983 movie named |
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“Big Chill Promo”1983 & 1998 Trailer for 1983’s The Big Chill provides overview of story, music & characters. |
For More Story Choices & Thumbnail Descriptions
Please see “More Stories, p. 2.” — Click here.


































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