Fascination with the Borden murders remains high and Lizzie herself still looms large in American popular culture.

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And, by virtue of Hollywood, Los Angeles was the home of a large part of American popular culture.

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You'll never read a more stimulating book about American popular culture in the 1930s or a more excitingly written one.

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He held the gavel that day with the same enthusiasm for excellence that made his voice a force in American popular culture.

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IR You miss two points about Mr Rocker's role in American popular culture.

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This plays on two deep-seated worries about American popular culture: that it is hard to filter so that you just get the good bits (download Bob Dylan on to your son's iPod, and Snoop Dogg soon pops up as well) and that popular culture spawns social change.

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Who knew that Sunday NFL viewing would become not only popular, but part of the American culture?

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There's a lot of energy in American culture about class, and about a tension between popular art and less popular art.

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