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'''''In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash''''' is a collection of short stories by American [[humorist]] [[Jean Shepherd]]. It was first published in October 1966.
A best-seller at the time of its publication, it is considered Shepherd's most important published work. The work inspired several films in the [[Parker Family Saga]], including ''[[A Christmas Story]]'' (1983) and ''[[My Summer Story]]'' (1994). Shepherd is the narrator in both films.
==Background==
Jean Shepherd was a well-known American humorist who performed on [[radio]] in the decades after World War II. Beginning in June 1964, he began adapting many of his radio stories for publication in ''[[Playboy]]'' magazine. He focused primarily on those which depicted his childhood in the fictional town of Hohman, [[Indiana]] (a stand-in for Shepherd's home town of [[Hammond, Indiana]]).<ref name="Bergmann320">Bergmann, p. 320.</ref>
According to ''Playboy'' founder [[Hugh Hefner]], author [[Shel Silverstein]] had long encouraged Shepherd to write down his radio stories, but Shepherd was reluctant to do so because he was not a writer. Eventually, Silverstein recorded Shepherd's stories on [[Tape recorder|tape]], [[Transcription (service)|transcribed]] them, and then together with Shepherd edited and developed the most popular.<ref name="Bergmann320" /> Fellow [[WOR AM]] radio personality [[Barry Farber]] said Shepherd came to enjoy writing, as it allowed him to develop themes, and Shepherd began to work on written stories by himself.<ref>Bergmann, pp. 320–21.</ref> Shepherd claimed it took him three years to complete ''In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash''.<ref>Bergmann, p. 322.</ref> Some of its stories were the first of Shepherd's work to appear in ''Playboy''.<ref name="Bergmann320" />
Shepherd's stories are a mix of fact and fiction. Although they are often described as [[nostalgia|nostalgic]] or [[memoir]]s, Shepherd described them simply as fictional stories about childhood,<ref>Bergmann, p. 321.</ref><ref>Bergmann, pp. 324–26.</ref> a view seconded by scholars Penelope Joan Fritzer and Bartholomew Bland.<ref name="Fritzer1">Fritzer and Bland, p. 1.</ref> However, drawn as they were from his radio storytelling, Shepherd wove elements of real life into his tales (such as names of some of the characters being found in his high school yearbook,<ref>Bergmann, p. 325.</ref> having a younger brother Randy,<ref>Froelich, Janis D. "Humorist Jean Shepherd's Tall Tales". ''St. Petersburg Times''. May 31, 1989.</ref> and Hammond being home to a Warren G. Harding Elementary School, a Cleveland Street, and a Hohlman Avenue)<ref name="Herrmann">Herrmann, Andrew. "Love-Hate Affair With Hometown". ''Chicago Sun-Times''. December 15, 1999.</ref>) and certainly took artistic license in exaggerating any real-life events that may have served as seeds for his yarns. As Mark Skertic put it for the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'': [the city of] "Hohman doesn't really exist, but the sights, sounds and events Mr. Shepherd described happening there grew out of his experiences growing up in and around real-life Hammond, Ind."<ref>Skertic, Mark. "Jean Shepherd, humorist, storyteller". ''Chicago Sun-Times''. October 18, 1999.</ref>
==Title==
The title of the novel is a play on the motto "[[In God We Trust]]", a foundational belief of the American Founding Fathers adopted by both the nation's coinage and paper currency in the 19th century.<ref>[http://www.treasury.gov/about/education/Pages/in-god-we-trust.aspx "U.S. Treasury - Fact Sheet on the History of 'In God We Trust'". U.S. Department of the Treasury. March 8, 2011.] Accessed 2013-12-14.</ref> The tacked-on "all others pay cash" became a popular witticism in America in the early decades of the 20th century, <ref>Niezgoda, p. 387.</ref> commonly seen as a form of "crackerbarrel philosophy" repudiating [[credit]] and [[cheques|checks]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/12/10/cash/|title = In God We Trust; All Others Cash – Quote Investigator}}</ref> as payment found on signs and carved placards hanging in bars, restaurants, and retail stores past its middle decades.
==Contents==
Most of the stories in the novel are domestic in nature, discussing life in the home.<ref name="Fritzer1" /> Rather than focus on the family, however, they paint a portrait for the reader of an "amusingly old-fashioned society".<ref name="Fritzer1" />
Shepherd said on his radio show after turning in his collection: "I did something today that you don't do very often in your life. I delivered to my publisher - I delivered to him the completed, edited, done manuscript of a novel I have been working on for over three years..."<ref>Bergmann, pp. 321–22.</ref>
While Shepherd's publisher, [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]], promoted the collection of stories as a novel,<ref name="Bergmann323">Bergmann, p. 323.</ref> Shepherd biographer Eugene Bermann, however, observes the work lacks either an overriding theme or consistent characters to be regarded as one.<ref name="Bergmann323" /> Michael Sragow, writing for [[Salon.com]], called the book "memoirlike".<ref>Sragow, Michael. "'You'll Shoot Your Eye Out, Kid'". Salon.com December 14, 2000.</ref>
===Stories===
There are 31 chapters in the book, each its own story. They are told by the fictional character Ralph, who has returned to his home town of Hohman as an adult, to his friend, Flick, who runs the bar where Ralph drinks away the day. The longer stories are linked by one- or two-page chapters in which Ralph and Flick discuss their childhood or the present state of Hohman, exchanges which trigger Ralph's next reminiscence.<ref name="Herrmann" /><ref name="Bergmann323" />
The 2010 [[Broadway Books]] reprint of the 2000 Doubleday paperback version of the book lists the following longer stories:<ref>Shepherd, pp. 9–10.</ref>
* "Duel in the Snow, ''or'' Red Ryder Nails the Cleveland Street Kid"
* "The Counterfeit Secret Circle Member Gets the Message, ''or'' The Asp Strikes Again"
* "The Endless Streetcar Ride Into the Night, and the Tinfoil Noose"
* "Hairy Geertz and the Forty-Seven Crappies"
* "My Old Man and the Lascivious Special Award That Heralded the Birth of Pop Art"
* "The Magic Mountain"
* "Grover Dill and the Tasmanian Devil"
* "Ludlow Kissel and the Dago Bomb That Struck Back"
* "Uncle Ben and the Side-Splitting Knee-Slapper, or Some Words Are Loaded"
* "Old Man Pulaski and the Infamous Jawbreaker Blackmail Caper"
* "The Perfect Crime"
* "Wilbur Duckworth and His Magic Baton"
* "Miss Bryfogel and the Frightening Case of the Speckle-Throated Cuckold"
* "'Nevermore', Quoth the Assessor, 'Nevermore ...'"
* "Leopold Doppler and the Great Orpheum Gravy Boat Riot"
==Critical reception==
Eugene Bergmann, who published a study of Shepherd's published works, has called the novel his most important work,<ref name="Bergmann320" /> and anthology editor Gardner Dozois noted in 2002 that it is also Shepherd's best known work.<ref>Dozois, p. xlvii.</ref> Decades after its publication, the novel was claimed to have been a [[The New York Times Best Seller list|''New York Times'' best-seller]] in 1966.<ref name="Herrmann" /><ref>Ramirez, Anthony. "Jean Shepherd, a Raconteur And a Wit of Radio, Is Dead". ''New York Times''. October 18, 1999.</ref> At the time of Shepherd's death in 1999, it had been through 10 printings.<ref>"Jean Shepherd, Radio Humorist, Author". ''Los Angeles Times''. October 17, 1999.</ref>
''In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash'' was the 142nd best-selling novel on [[Amazon.com]] the week after Shepherd died, when the novel was 33 years old.<ref>Colford, Paul D. "In Shep They Thrust, and Pay Cash". ''Newsday''. October 21, 1999.</ref>
==Adaptations==
Four of the short stories ("Duel in the Snow", "The Counterfeit Secret Circle Member Gets the Message", "My Old Man and the Lascivious Special Award That Heralded the Birth of Pop Art", and "Grover Dill and the Tasmanian Devil") were used as the basis for the 1983 film ''[[A Christmas Story]]''. Some phrases and small elements of other stories were also incorporated. Another short story, "The Grandstand Passion Play of Delbert and the Bumpus Hounds", was drawn from Shepherd's second book of them, ''Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories''.<ref>* Gaines, p. xvi.</ref>
The five short stories that were used as the basis for ''A Christmas Story'' were collected under the title ''A Christmas Story'' and published as a stand-alone book in 2003.<ref>Feran, Tom. "Tales That Inspired 'A Christmas Story' Now a Book". ''Cleveland Plain Dealer''. December 2, 2003.</ref>
Other short stories in the book were used for the 1994 sequel ''[[My Summer Story]]''.<ref>Hartl, John. "Sequels to Box-Office Hits Head Straight to Videotape". ''Seattle Times''. July 6, 1995.</ref>
==See also==
* [[Parker Family Saga (franchise)]]
==References==
{{reflist|2}}
==Bibliography==
* Bergmann, Eugene B. ''Excelsior, You Fathead!: The Art and Enigma of Jean Shepherd''. New York: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2005.
* Dozois, Gardner R., ed. ''The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection''. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2002.
* Fritzer, Penelope Joan and Bland, Bartholomew. ''Merry Wives and Others: A History of Domestic Humor Writing''. Jefferson, N.C. McFarland & Co., 2002.
* Gaines, Caseen. ''A Christmas Story: Behind the Scenes of a Holiday Classic''. Toronto: ECW Press, 2013.
* Niezgoda, Frank. ''Fish Food: Teach Us to Fish Lord''. Maitland, Fla.: Xulon Press, 2009.
* Shepherd, Jean. ''In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash''. New York: Broadway Books, 2010.
{{A Christmas Story}}
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[[Category:Works by Jean Shepherd]]
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{{Infobox book | <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject_Novels or Wikipedia:WikiProject_Books -->
| name = In God We Trust
| translator =
| image = In god we trust
| caption = First edition, 1966
| author = [[Jean Shepherd]]
| illustrator =
| cover_artist =
| country = United States
| language = English
| series =
| genre = [[Comic novel|Humor]]
| publisher = [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]] <br /> [[Broadway Books]]
| release_date = 1966
| media_type = Print (hardback & paperback)
| pages =
| isbn = 0-385-02174-7
| oclc= 4583520
| preceded_by =
| followed_by =
}}
'''''In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash''''' is a collection of short stories by American [[humorist]] [[Jean Shepherd]]. It was first published in October 1966.
A best-seller at the time of its publication, it is considered Shepherd's most important published work. The work inspired several films in the [[Parker Family Saga]], including ''[[A Christmas Story]]'' (1983) and ''[[My Summer Story]]'' (1994). Shepherd is the narrator in both films.
==Background==
Jean Shepherd was a well-known American humorist who performed on [[radio]] in the decades after World War II. Beginning in June 1964, he began adapting many of his radio stories for publication in ''[[Playboy]]'' magazine. He focused primarily on those which depicted his childhood in the fictional town of Hohman, [[Indiana]] (a stand-in for Shepherd's home town of [[Hammond, Indiana]]).<ref name="Bergmann320">Bergmann, p. 320.</ref>
According to ''Playboy'' founder [[Hugh Hefner]], author [[Shel Silverstein]] had long encouraged Shepherd to write down his radio stories, but Shepherd was reluctant to do so because he was not a writer. Eventually, Silverstein recorded Shepherd's stories on [[Tape recorder|tape]], [[Transcription (service)|transcribed]] them, and then together with Shepherd edited and developed the most popular.<ref name="Bergmann320" /> Fellow [[WOR AM]] radio personality [[Barry Farber]] said Shepherd came to enjoy writing, as it allowed him to develop themes, and Shepherd began to work on written stories by himself.<ref>Bergmann, pp. 320–21.</ref> Shepherd claimed it took him three years to complete ''In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash''.<ref>Bergmann, p. 322.</ref> Some of its stories were the first of Shepherd's work to appear in ''Playboy''.<ref name="Bergmann320" />
Shepherd's stories are a mix of fact and fiction. Although they are often described as [[nostalgia|nostalgic]] or [[memoir]]s, Shepherd described them simply as fictional stories about childhood,<ref>Bergmann, p. 321.</ref><ref>Bergmann, pp. 324–26.</ref> a view seconded by scholars Penelope Joan Fritzer and Bartholomew Bland.<ref name="Fritzer1">Fritzer and Bland, p. 1.</ref> However, drawn as they were from his radio storytelling, Shepherd wove elements of real life into his tales (such as names of some of the characters being found in his high school yearbook,<ref>Bergmann, p. 325.</ref> having a younger brother Randy,<ref>Froelich, Janis D. "Humorist Jean Shepherd's Tall Tales". ''St. Petersburg Times''. May 31, 1989.</ref> and Hammond being home to a Warren G. Harding Elementary School, a Cleveland Street, and a Hohlman Avenue)<ref name="Herrmann">Herrmann, Andrew. "Love-Hate Affair With Hometown". ''Chicago Sun-Times''. December 15, 1999.</ref>) and certainly took artistic license in exaggerating any real-life events that may have served as seeds for his yarns. As Mark Skertic put it for the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'': [the city of] "Hohman doesn't really exist, but the sights, sounds and events Mr. Shepherd described happening there grew out of his experiences growing up in and around real-life Hammond, Ind."<ref>Skertic, Mark. "Jean Shepherd, humorist, storyteller". ''Chicago Sun-Times''. October 18, 1999.</ref>
==Title==
The title of the novel is a play on the motto "[[In God We Trust]]", a foundational belief of the American Founding Fathers adopted by both the nation's coinage and paper currency in the 19th century.<ref>[http://www.treasury.gov/about/education/Pages/in-god-we-trust.aspx "U.S. Treasury - Fact Sheet on the History of 'In God We Trust'". U.S. Department of the Treasury. March 8, 2011.] Accessed 2013-12-14.</ref> The tacked-on "all others pay cash" became a popular witticism in America in the early decades of the 20th century, <ref>Niezgoda, p. 387.</ref> commonly seen as a form of "crackerbarrel philosophy" repudiating [[credit]] and [[cheques|checks]]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/12/10/cash/|title = In God We Trust; All Others Cash – Quote Investigator}}</ref> as payment found on signs and carved placards hanging in bars, restaurants, and retail stores past its middle decades.
==Contents==
Most of the stories in the novel are domestic in nature, discussing life in the home.<ref name="Fritzer1" /> Rather than focus on the family, however, they paint a portrait for the reader of an "amusingly old-fashioned society".<ref name="Fritzer1" />
Shepherd said on his radio show after turning in his collection: "I did something today that you don't do very often in your life. I delivered to my publisher - I delivered to him the completed, edited, done manuscript of a novel I have been working on for over three years..."<ref>Bergmann, pp. 321–22.</ref>
While Shepherd's publisher, [[Doubleday (publisher)|Doubleday]], promoted the collection of stories as a novel,<ref name="Bergmann323">Bergmann, p. 323.</ref> Shepherd biographer Eugene Bermann, however, observes the work lacks either an overriding theme or consistent characters to be regarded as one.<ref name="Bergmann323" /> Michael Sragow, writing for [[Salon.com]], called the book "memoirlike".<ref>Sragow, Michael. "'You'll Shoot Your Eye Out, Kid'". Salon.com December 14, 2000.</ref>
===Stories===
There are 31 chapters in the book, each its own story. They are told by the fictional character Ralph, who has returned to his home town of Hohman as an adult, to his friend, Flick, who runs the bar where Ralph drinks away the day. The longer stories are linked by one- or two-page chapters in which Ralph and Flick discuss their childhood or the present state of Hohman, exchanges which trigger Ralph's next reminiscence.<ref name="Herrmann" /><ref name="Bergmann323" />
The 2010 [[Broadway Books]] reprint of the 2000 Doubleday paperback version of the book lists the following longer stories:<ref>Shepherd, pp. 9–10.</ref>
* "Duel in the Snow, ''or'' Red Ryder Nails the Cleveland Street Kid"
* "The Counterfeit Secret Circle Member Gets the Message, ''or'' The Asp Strikes Again"
* "The Endless Streetcar Ride Into the Night, and the Tinfoil Noose"
* "Hairy Geertz and the Forty-Seven Crappies"
* "My Old Man and the Lascivious Special Award That Heralded the Birth of Pop Art"
* "The Magic Mountain"
* "Grover Dill and the Tasmanian Devil"
* "Ludlow Kissel and the Dago Bomb That Struck Back"
* "Uncle Ben and the Side-Splitting Knee-Slapper, or Some Words Are Loaded"
* "Old Man Pulaski and the Infamous Jawbreaker Blackmail Caper"
* "The Perfect Crime"
* "Wilbur Duckworth and His Magic Baton"
* "Miss Bryfogel and the Frightening Case of the Speckle-Throated Cuckold"
* "'Nevermore', Quoth the Assessor, 'Nevermore ...'"
* "Leopold Doppler and the Great Orpheum Gravy Boat Riot"
==Critical reception==
Eugene Bergmann, who published a study of Shepherd's published works, has called the novel his most important work,<ref name="Bergmann320" /> and anthology editor Gardner Dozois noted in 2002 that it is also Shepherd's best known work.<ref>Dozois, p. xlvii.</ref> Decades after its publication, the novel was claimed to have been a [[The New York Times Best Seller list|''New York Times'' best-seller]] in 1966.<ref name="Herrmann" /><ref>Ramirez, Anthony. "Jean Shepherd, a Raconteur And a Wit of Radio, Is Dead". ''New York Times''. October 18, 1999.</ref> At the time of Shepherd's death in 1999, it had been through 10 printings.<ref>"Jean Shepherd, Radio Humorist, Author". ''Los Angeles Times''. October 17, 1999.</ref>
''In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash'' was the 142nd best-selling novel on [[Amazon.com]] the week after Shepherd died, when the novel was 33 years old.<ref>Colford, Paul D. "In Shep They Thrust, and Pay Cash". ''Newsday''. October 21, 1999.</ref>
==Adaptations==
Four of the short stories ("Duel in the Snow", "The Counterfeit Secret Circle Member Gets the Message", "My Old Man and the Lascivious Special Award That Heralded the Birth of Pop Art", and "Grover Dill and the Tasmanian Devil") were used as the basis for the 1983 film ''[[A Christmas Story]]''. Some phrases and small elements of other stories were also incorporated. Another short story, "The Grandstand Passion Play of Delbert and the Bumpus Hounds", was drawn from Shepherd's second book of them, ''Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories''.<ref>* Gaines, p. xvi.</ref>
The five short stories that were used as the basis for ''A Christmas Story'' were collected under the title ''A Christmas Story'' and published as a stand-alone book in 2003.<ref>Feran, Tom. "Tales That Inspired 'A Christmas Story' Now a Book". ''Cleveland Plain Dealer''. December 2, 2003.</ref>
Other short stories in the book were used for the 1994 sequel ''[[My Summer Story]]''.<ref>Hartl, John. "Sequels to Box-Office Hits Head Straight to Videotape". ''Seattle Times''. July 6, 1995.</ref>
==See also==
* [[Parker Family Saga (franchise)]]
==References==
{{reflist|2}}
==Bibliography==
* Bergmann, Eugene B. ''Excelsior, You Fathead!: The Art and Enigma of Jean Shepherd''. New York: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2005.
* Dozois, Gardner R., ed. ''The Year's Best Science Fiction: Nineteenth Annual Collection''. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2002.
* Fritzer, Penelope Joan and Bland, Bartholomew. ''Merry Wives and Others: A History of Domestic Humor Writing''. Jefferson, N.C. McFarland & Co., 2002.
* Gaines, Caseen. ''A Christmas Story: Behind the Scenes of a Holiday Classic''. Toronto: ECW Press, 2013.
* Niezgoda, Frank. ''Fish Food: Teach Us to Fish Lord''. Maitland, Fla.: Xulon Press, 2009.
* Shepherd, Jean. ''In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash''. New York: Broadway Books, 2010.
{{A Christmas Story}}
[[Category:1966 American novels]]
[[Category:Works by Jean Shepherd]]
[[Category:Doubleday (publisher) books]]
[[Category:American comedy novels]]
[[Category:American novels adapted into films]]
[[Category:Parker Family Saga]]
[[Category:A Christmas Story]]' |
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line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Publication date</div></th><td class="infobox-data">1966</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Publication place</th><td class="infobox-data">United States</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Media type</th><td class="infobox-data">Print (hardback & paperback)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-385-02174-7" title="Special:BookSources/0-385-02174-7">0-385-02174-7</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/OCLC_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="OCLC (identifier)"><abbr title="Online Computer Library Center number">OCLC</abbr></a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/4583520">4583520</a></td></tr></tbody></table>
<p><i><b>In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash</b></i> is a collection of short stories by American <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Humorist" title="Humorist">humorist</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jean_Shepherd" title="Jean Shepherd">Jean Shepherd</a>. It was first published in October 1966.
</p><p>A best-seller at the time of its publication, it is considered Shepherd's most important published work. The work inspired several films in the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Parker_Family_Saga" title="Parker Family Saga">Parker Family Saga</a>, including <i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/A_Christmas_Story" title="A Christmas Story">A Christmas Story</a></i> (1983) and <i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/My_Summer_Story" title="My Summer Story">My Summer Story</a></i> (1994). Shepherd is the narrator in both films.
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<p>Jean Shepherd was a well-known American humorist who performed on <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Radio" title="Radio">radio</a> in the decades after World War II. Beginning in June 1964, he began adapting many of his radio stories for publication in <i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Playboy" title="Playboy">Playboy</a></i> magazine. He focused primarily on those which depicted his childhood in the fictional town of Hohman, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Indiana" title="Indiana">Indiana</a> (a stand-in for Shepherd's home town of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hammond,_Indiana" title="Hammond, Indiana">Hammond, Indiana</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-Bergmann320_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bergmann320-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>According to <i>Playboy</i> founder <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hugh_Hefner" title="Hugh Hefner">Hugh Hefner</a>, author <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Shel_Silverstein" title="Shel Silverstein">Shel Silverstein</a> had long encouraged Shepherd to write down his radio stories, but Shepherd was reluctant to do so because he was not a writer. Eventually, Silverstein recorded Shepherd's stories on <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tape_recorder" title="Tape recorder">tape</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Transcription_(service)" title="Transcription (service)">transcribed</a> them, and then together with Shepherd edited and developed the most popular.<sup id="cite_ref-Bergmann320_1-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bergmann320-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Fellow <a href="/enwiki/wiki/WOR_AM" class="mw-redirect" title="WOR AM">WOR AM</a> radio personality <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Barry_Farber" title="Barry Farber">Barry Farber</a> said Shepherd came to enjoy writing, as it allowed him to develop themes, and Shepherd began to work on written stories by himself.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shepherd claimed it took him three years to complete <i>In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some of its stories were the first of Shepherd's work to appear in <i>Playboy</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-Bergmann320_1-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bergmann320-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Shepherd's stories are a mix of fact and fiction. Although they are often described as <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Nostalgia" title="Nostalgia">nostalgic</a> or <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Memoir" title="Memoir">memoirs</a>, Shepherd described them simply as fictional stories about childhood,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a view seconded by scholars Penelope Joan Fritzer and Bartholomew Bland.<sup id="cite_ref-Fritzer1_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fritzer1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, drawn as they were from his radio storytelling, Shepherd wove elements of real life into his tales (such as names of some of the characters being found in his high school yearbook,<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> having a younger brother Randy,<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Hammond being home to a Warren G. Harding Elementary School, a Cleveland Street, and a Hohlman Avenue)<sup id="cite_ref-Herrmann_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Herrmann-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>) and certainly took artistic license in exaggerating any real-life events that may have served as seeds for his yarns. As Mark Skertic put it for the <i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Chicago_Sun-Times" title="Chicago Sun-Times">Chicago Sun-Times</a></i>: [the city of] "Hohman doesn't really exist, but the sights, sounds and events Mr. Shepherd described happening there grew out of his experiences growing up in and around real-life Hammond, Ind."<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>The title of the novel is a play on the motto "<a href="/enwiki/wiki/In_God_We_Trust" title="In God We Trust">In God We Trust</a>", a foundational belief of the American Founding Fathers adopted by both the nation's coinage and paper currency in the 19th century.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The tacked-on "all others pay cash" became a popular witticism in America in the early decades of the 20th century, <sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> commonly seen as a form of "crackerbarrel philosophy" repudiating <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Credit" title="Credit">credit</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cheques" class="mw-redirect" title="Cheques">checks</a><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as payment found on signs and carved placards hanging in bars, restaurants, and retail stores past its middle decades.
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<p>Most of the stories in the novel are domestic in nature, discussing life in the home.<sup id="cite_ref-Fritzer1_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fritzer1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Rather than focus on the family, however, they paint a portrait for the reader of an "amusingly old-fashioned society".<sup id="cite_ref-Fritzer1_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fritzer1-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Shepherd said on his radio show after turning in his collection: "I did something today that you don't do very often in your life. I delivered to my publisher - I delivered to him the completed, edited, done manuscript of a novel I have been working on for over three years..."<sup id="cite_ref-14" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>While Shepherd's publisher, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Doubleday_(publisher)" title="Doubleday (publisher)">Doubleday</a>, promoted the collection of stories as a novel,<sup id="cite_ref-Bergmann323_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bergmann323-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shepherd biographer Eugene Bermann, however, observes the work lacks either an overriding theme or consistent characters to be regarded as one.<sup id="cite_ref-Bergmann323_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bergmann323-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Michael Sragow, writing for <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Salon.com" title="Salon.com">Salon.com</a>, called the book "memoirlike".<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>There are 31 chapters in the book, each its own story. They are told by the fictional character Ralph, who has returned to his home town of Hohman as an adult, to his friend, Flick, who runs the bar where Ralph drinks away the day. The longer stories are linked by one- or two-page chapters in which Ralph and Flick discuss their childhood or the present state of Hohman, exchanges which trigger Ralph's next reminiscence.<sup id="cite_ref-Herrmann_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Herrmann-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Bergmann323_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bergmann323-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The 2010 <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Broadway_Books" title="Broadway Books">Broadway Books</a> reprint of the 2000 Doubleday paperback version of the book lists the following longer stories:<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<ul><li>"Duel in the Snow, <i>or</i> Red Ryder Nails the Cleveland Street Kid"</li>
<li>"The Counterfeit Secret Circle Member Gets the Message, <i>or</i> The Asp Strikes Again"</li>
<li>"The Endless Streetcar Ride Into the Night, and the Tinfoil Noose"</li>
<li>"Hairy Geertz and the Forty-Seven Crappies"</li>
<li>"My Old Man and the Lascivious Special Award That Heralded the Birth of Pop Art"</li>
<li>"The Magic Mountain"</li>
<li>"Grover Dill and the Tasmanian Devil"</li>
<li>"Ludlow Kissel and the Dago Bomb That Struck Back"</li>
<li>"Uncle Ben and the Side-Splitting Knee-Slapper, or Some Words Are Loaded"</li>
<li>"Old Man Pulaski and the Infamous Jawbreaker Blackmail Caper"</li>
<li>"The Perfect Crime"</li>
<li>"Wilbur Duckworth and His Magic Baton"</li>
<li>"Miss Bryfogel and the Frightening Case of the Speckle-Throated Cuckold"</li>
<li>"'Nevermore', Quoth the Assessor, 'Nevermore ...'"</li>
<li>"Leopold Doppler and the Great Orpheum Gravy Boat Riot"</li></ul>
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<p>Eugene Bergmann, who published a study of Shepherd's published works, has called the novel his most important work,<sup id="cite_ref-Bergmann320_1-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bergmann320-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and anthology editor Gardner Dozois noted in 2002 that it is also Shepherd's best known work.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Decades after its publication, the novel was claimed to have been a <a href="/enwiki/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Best_Seller_list" title="The New York Times Best Seller list"><i>New York Times</i> best-seller</a> in 1966.<sup id="cite_ref-Herrmann_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Herrmann-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the time of Shepherd's death in 1999, it had been through 10 printings.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p><i>In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash</i> was the 142nd best-selling novel on <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Amazon.com" class="mw-redirect" title="Amazon.com">Amazon.com</a> the week after Shepherd died, when the novel was 33 years old.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<p>Four of the short stories ("Duel in the Snow", "The Counterfeit Secret Circle Member Gets the Message", "My Old Man and the Lascivious Special Award That Heralded the Birth of Pop Art", and "Grover Dill and the Tasmanian Devil") were used as the basis for the 1983 film <i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/A_Christmas_Story" title="A Christmas Story">A Christmas Story</a></i>. Some phrases and small elements of other stories were also incorporated. Another short story, "The Grandstand Passion Play of Delbert and the Bumpus Hounds", was drawn from Shepherd's second book of them, <i>Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>The five short stories that were used as the basis for <i>A Christmas Story</i> were collected under the title <i>A Christmas Story</i> and published as a stand-alone book in 2003.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
</p><p>Other short stories in the book were used for the 1994 sequel <i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/My_Summer_Story" title="My Summer Story">My Summer Story</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>
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<ul><li><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Parker_Family_Saga_(franchise)" class="mw-redirect" title="Parker Family Saga (franchise)">Parker Family Saga (franchise)</a></li></ul>
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<li id="cite_note-Bergmann320-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Bergmann320_1-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bergmann320_1-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bergmann320_1-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bergmann320_1-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Bergmann, p. 320.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bergmann, pp. 320–21.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bergmann, p. 322.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bergmann, p. 321.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bergmann, pp. 324–26.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-Fritzer1-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Fritzer1_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Fritzer1_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Fritzer1_6-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Fritzer and Bland, p. 1.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bergmann, p. 325.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Froelich, Janis D. "Humorist Jean Shepherd's Tall Tales". <i>St. Petersburg Times</i>. May 31, 1989.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-Herrmann-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Herrmann_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Herrmann_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Herrmann_9-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Herrmann, Andrew. "Love-Hate Affair With Hometown". <i>Chicago Sun-Times</i>. December 15, 1999.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Skertic, Mark. "Jean Shepherd, humorist, storyteller". <i>Chicago Sun-Times</i>. October 18, 1999.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.treasury.gov/about/education/Pages/in-god-we-trust.aspx">"U.S. Treasury - Fact Sheet on the History of 'In God We Trust'". U.S. Department of the Treasury. March 8, 2011.</a> Accessed 2013-12-14.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Niezgoda, p. 387.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-13">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://quoteinvestigator.com/2017/12/10/cash/">"In God We Trust; All Others Cash – Quote Investigator"</a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=In+God+We+Trust%3B+All+Others+Cash+%E2%80%93+Quote+Investigator&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fquoteinvestigator.com%2F2017%2F12%2F10%2Fcash%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIn+God+We+Trust%3A+All+Others+Pay+Cash" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-14">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Bergmann, pp. 321–22.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-Bergmann323-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Bergmann323_15-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bergmann323_15-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Bergmann323_15-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text">Bergmann, p. 323.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-16"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-16">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Sragow, Michael. "'You'll Shoot Your Eye Out, Kid'". Salon.com December 14, 2000.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Shepherd, pp. 9–10.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-18"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-18">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dozois, p. xlvii.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-19"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-19">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Ramirez, Anthony. "Jean Shepherd, a Raconteur And a Wit of Radio, Is Dead". <i>New York Times</i>. October 18, 1999.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-20"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-20">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">"Jean Shepherd, Radio Humorist, Author". <i>Los Angeles Times</i>. October 17, 1999.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Colford, Paul D. "In Shep They Thrust, and Pay Cash". <i>Newsday</i>. October 21, 1999.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-22">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">* Gaines, p. xvi.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Feran, Tom. "Tales That Inspired 'A Christmas Story' Now a Book". <i>Cleveland Plain Dealer</i>. December 2, 2003.</span>
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<li id="cite_note-24"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-24">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Hartl, John. "Sequels to Box-Office Hits Head Straight to Videotape". <i>Seattle Times</i>. July 6, 1995.</span>
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<ul><li>Bergmann, Eugene B. <i>Excelsior, You Fathead!: The Art and Enigma of Jean Shepherd</i>. New York: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2005.</li>
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