The recent controversy over country singer Luke Combs’s surprise hit cover obscures the deeper history of Chapman and her cultural movement in powerful ways.
1980s
Nixon long portrayed himself as a victim of the press. However, from the 1952 Checkers speech to his post-presidency PR offensives, Nixon proved himself an able manipulator of the media.
Before beanie babies and Pogs, small rectangles of cardboard were the errant investments of a stratifying American society.
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