Bob Batchelor, PhD, is assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Kent State University and academic coordinator of its online master's program in public relations. Batchelor is the author or editor of 21 books, including 3 volumes in Greenwooda s a Popular Culture through Historya ? series: "The 1900s", "The 1980s", and "The 2000s". In addition, he edited Greenwood's four-volume "American Pop: Popular Culture Decade by Decade"; Praeger's three-volume "Cult Pop Culture: How the Fringe Became Mainstream"; and Praeger's three-volume "American History through Americ...