Heroes of popular culture / 
Edited by Ray B. Browne, Marshall Fishwick, Michael T. Marsden. 
 - Bowling Green, Ohio :  Bowling Green University Popular Press,  1972. 
 - 190 p.  ill. ;  23 cm. 
 - Probings in popular culture .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references. 
<br/><br/>Fishwick, M. Prologue.--Fishwick, M. Heroic style in America.--MacFadden, F. The pop pantheon.--Coad, B. E. The Alger hero.--Piper, H. D. Dick Whittington and the middle class dream of success.--Mehlmann, M. Hero of the 30's--the tenant farmer.--Smith, Jr., L. T. Ty Cobb, Babe Ruth and the changing image of the athletic hero.--O'Connor, G. Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio?--Cummings, R. The Superbowl society.--Hopkins, A. Contemporary heroism--vitality in defeat.--Kane, P. Perry Mason: modern culture hero.--McLuhan, M. The popular hero and anti-hero.--Rodnitzky, J. A pacifist St. Joan--the odyssey of Joan Baez.--Lohof, B. The Bacharach phenomenon.--Stupple, D. A hero for the times.--Stevens, J. The dog as hero.--Browne, R. B. Epilogue. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0879720441 087972045X (pbk) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Popular culture--United States.<br/>Heroes