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Hoover's library materials encompass nearly 300,000 titles, with the total number of volumes well over half a million. These holdings include books, periodicals, newspapers, and other distinctive and rare publications that support research on war, revolution, and peace in the 20th and 21st centuries. This section lists some of our library materials related to Popular Culture.

Library Materials

The book cover for Paret, Lewis, and Paret's book, Persuasive Images. A sleeved arm reaches over a book, hand gripped around the hilt of a knife stabbing into the Holy Bible. The Nazi swastika is embroidered onto the sleeve.The book cover for Skinner, Anderson, and Anderson's Stories in His Own Hand. Ronald Reagan sits in a lounge chair, holding a pen to his mouth in concentration while looking at a notepad in his lap.

Book covers of Persuasive Images (1992) and Stories In His Own Hand (2001).

Hollywood Goes to War: Films and American Society, 1939-1952: A look into the relationship between American history and the film industry, with a particular focus on the years following the Second World War up to the end of the Korean War. 

Persuasive Images: Posters of War and Revolution: Analyzes and discusses posters produced in Russia, Central and Western Europe, and the United States during times of political and military conflict. 

Richard Nixon: The Man Behind the Mask: Former President Nixon's political career and time as President of the United States, as told by conservative journalist Gary Allen. 

Russia Accursed: Ivan Vladimirov: Red Terror Through the Eyes of an Artist: An exploration of Ivan Vladimirov's art in the period of 1917-1925 -- also known as Russia's "Accursed Years". 

Stories In His Own Hand: The Everyday Wisdom of Ronald Reagan: A selection of Reagan's personal anecdotes, chosen from a discovery of over 650 of Reagan's handwritten manuscripts from the late 1970s. 

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