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Claims to Fame: Celebrity in Contemporary America.
Joshua Gamson. Berkeley: University of California
Press, 1994.
This insightful study is timely and informative. Gamson's question is the conventional one now, Why do Americans want so much to live in a world filled with stars, celebrities and "heroes" and one in which we all know that the spin-doctors are ever willing to manufacture these celebrities for the benefit of the stars and the doctors? He perhaps doesn't recognize that, contrary to...