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Further Reading

Being Jewish in Des Moines

  • Frank Rosenthal. The Jews of Des Moines. (1957)
  • Jack Wolfe. A Century with Iowa Jewry (1941)
  • Henry L. Feingold. A Time for Searching: Entering the Mainstream, 1920-1945 (1992)

Vaudeville, Comedy Teams, and Hollywood

  • Douglas Gilbert. American Vaudeville: Its Life and Times (1940)
  • Anthony Slide. The Encyclopedia of Vaudeville (1994)
  • Charles and Louise Samuels. Once Upon a Stage: The Merry World of Vaudeville (1974)
  • Bob Thomas. Bud & Lou: The Abbott & Costello Story (1977)
  • Ron Smith. The Stars of Stand-Up Comedy: A Bibliographical Encyclopedia (1986)
  • Otto Friedrich. City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s (1986)
  • John P. Springer. Hollywood Fictions: The Dream Factory in American Popular Literature (2000)
  • Steve Fuller. "The Cherry Sisters," The Palimpsest 60 (July/August 1979): 121-29.  (Click on link for article.)
  • Norma Jane Langford. "Cherries Ripe, Cherries Red," Iowan, Fall 1969, pg. 8-11+

Radio and Television History

  • Arthur Frank Wertheim. Radio Comedy (1979)
  • Ray Barfield. Listening to Radio, 1920-1950 (1996)
  • Jeff Greenfield. Television: The First Fifty Years (1977)
  • Jeff Kisseloff. The Box: An Oral History of Television, 1920-1961 (1995)
  • James Von Schilling. The Magic Window: American Television, 1939-1953 (2003)

Home Front During World War II

  • Robert Heide and John Gilman. Home Front America: Popular Culture of the World War II Era (1995)
  • John W. Jeffries. Wartime America: The World War II Home Front (1996)

Male Friendships

  • Peter M. Nardi, ed. Men’s Friendships (1992)
  • Frank B. Leib. Friendly Competitors, Fierce Companions: Men’s Ways of Relating (1997)

Fiction

  • John Steinbeck. Of Mice and Men (1937)
  • Paul Auster. Mr. Vertigo (1994)
  • Rupert Holmes. Where the Truth Lies (2003)
  • James Dickey. Deliverance (1970)
  • Ted Heller. Funnymen (2002)
  • Susan Richards Shreve. Plum & Jaggers (2000)
  • Gordon Lish. Extravaganza: A Joke Book (1997)
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