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Product Description: Children choose their heroes more carefully than we think. From Pokémon to the rapper Eminem, pop-culture icons are not simply commercial pied pipers who practice mass hypnosis on our youth. Indeed, argues the author of this lively and persuasive paean to the power of popular culture, even violent and trashy entertainment gives children something they need, something that can help both boys and girls develop in a healthy way...read more
By Gerard Jones and Ponton (foreword by)
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Hardcover:

9780756778637 | Diane Pub Co, April 2, 2004, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Children choose their heroes more carefully than we think.
9780465036950 | Basic Books, April 1, 2002, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: An apologist for comic book and video game violence argues that both are essential for young people as they seek to develop a powerful sense of self in the modern era.

Paperback:

9780465036967 | Basic Books, May 5, 2003, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: An apologist for comic book and video game violence argues that both are essential for young people as they seek to develop a powerful sense of self in the modern era.

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