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Frost, Jennifer. “‘Good Riddance to Bad Company’: Hedda Hopper, Hollywood Gossip, and the Campaign against Charlie Chaplin, 1940–1952.” Australasian Journal of American Studies (Ipswich) 26 (December 2007): 74–88.
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Gendzel, Glen. “Pride, Wrath, Glee, and Fear: Emotional Responses to Senator Joseph McCarthy in the Catholic Press, 1950–1954.” American Catholic Studies 120: 2 (Summer 2009): 27-52.
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Gilbert, James B. A Cycle of Outrage: America’s Reaction to the Juvenile Delinquent in the 1950s. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
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Grierson, Don. “Battling Censors, Chiding Home Office: Harrison Salisbury’s Russian Assignment.” Journalism Quarterly 64 (1987): 313-16.
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