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- The Dropkick Murphys album Rock Against Bush Volume 2 includes the song "We Got the Power" about the Boston police strike.
- Dennis Lehane's novel The Given Day is partly set during the Boston police strike. The book strongly suggests that Coolidge sabotaged efforts to keep peace during the strike in order to improve his "law&order" status when crushing the crime spree.
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