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American Icons
An Encyclopedia of the People, Places, and Things that Have Shaped Our Culture
 Dennis R. Hall, ed., Susan Grove Hall, ed.

0-275-98421-4/978-0-275-98421-2

Description
More than one hundred essays spotlight American icons ranging from Marilyn Monroe to Betty Crocker, the banjo to the tattoo, the Golden Gate Bridge to Coney Island.

Reviews:
-"The 116 entries assigned iconic status in these volumes represent a tapestry of American life and experience, e.g., John Wayne, the Harley-Davidson motorcycle, Coney Island, the Crayola crayon, Martin Luther King Jr., antiperspirant, and more. Each approximately seven-page essay traces the history of the person, place, or thing, focusing on the previously discussed elements constituting its iconic status. This encyclopedia is targeted to a general readership, but scholars of American culture and popular culture can profitably use it. Recommended. Lower-level undergraduates through faculty/researchers; general readers." —Choice
-"America is icon crazy; any person, place, or thing that grabs our collective attention for more than a week becomes a potential icon, a cultural emblem of our society. This encyclopedia by editors Dennis Hall and independent scholar Susan Grove Hall and their academic contributors has winnowed the vast field down to 100 icons, chosen by surveying current iconographic research and testing for relevance with various age groups....Iconographic issues are touched on in many other reference works on popular culture, such as American Decades and the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture, but none treats them so specifically. This entertaining and informative reference work is recommended for high school, college, and public libraries." —Library Journal
About the Author
Dennis R. Hall is a Professor of English at University of Louisville and co-editor of The Greenwood Guide to American Popular Culture. He is a former editor of Studies in Popular Culture.

Susan Grove Hall is an independent scholar and author of dozens of journal articles, as well as poetry, fiction, literature, popular culture criticism, and a history, Appalachian Ohio and the Civil War, 1862-1863 . She earned a PhD in English from University of Louisville.
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