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Baym, Geoffrey. From Cronkite to Colbert: The Evolution of Broadcast News. Boulder, CO: Paradigm Publishers, 2010.
Brownstein, Ronald. The Power and the Glitter: The Hollywood-Washington Connection. New York: Vintage Books, 1992.
Faith, William Robert. Bob Hope: A Life in Comedy. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2003.
Hope, Bob. Bob Hope’s Dear Prez, I Wanna Tell Ya! Ward Grant, ed. Los Angeles: General Publishing Group, 1996.
________. Five Women I Love: Bob Hope’s Vietnam Story. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1966.
________. I Never Left Home. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1944.
________. I Owe Russia $1200. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1963.
Hope, Bob, with Melville Shavelson. Don’t Shoot, It’s Only Me: Bob Hope’s Comedy History of the United States. New York: Putnam, 1990.
Jones, Jeffrey P. Entertaining Politics: Satiric Television and Political Engagement. 2d ed. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 2010.
Kercher, Stephen E. Revel with a Cause: Liberal Satire in Postwar America. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Schroeder, Alan. Celebrity-in-Chief: How Show Business Took Over the White House. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2004.
Von Eschen, Penny M. Satchmo Blows Up the World: Jazz Ambassadors Play the Cold War. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004.
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