XIV. The Age of Anxiety

A. The Good Life and Its Discontents

1. The Lethal Center
a. The Truman Administration
i. The Bernsteins

Bernstein, Carl. Loyalties: A Son's Memoir. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1989: Ch. 24.
Havill, Adrian. Deep Truth: The Lives of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Secaucus, N.J.: Birch Lane Press, 1993: Appendix C.
ii. Geoffrey Perret
(1) A Country Made by War: From the Revolution to Vietnam – the Story of America’s Rise to Power. New York City: Random House, 1989: Ch. 17.
(2) Commander in Chief: How Truman, Johnson, and Bush Turned a Presidential Power Into a Threat to America's Future. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007: Ch. 4-5, 8-9.
iii. Other
Adams, James Ring, and Douglas Frantz. A Full Service Bank: How BCCI Stole Billions Around the World. New York City: Pocket Books, 1992: Ch. 6.
Collins, Max Allan. Majic Man: A Nathan Heller Novel. New York City: Dutton, 1999: Ch. 4.
Drinnon, Richard. Keeper of Concentration Camps: Dillon S. Myer and American Racism. Berkeley, Calif.: U of California P, 1987: Ch. 8-9, 10.
Evans, M. Stanton. Blacklisted by History: The Untold Story of Senator Joe McCarthy and His Fight Against America’s Enemies. New York City: Crown Forum, 2007: Ch. 24.
Fleming, Harold. Ten Thousand Commandments: A Story of the Antitrust Laws. 1951. Rpt. New York City: Arno Press, 1972: Ch. 2-3, 8, 10-12, 14, 21, 25.
Garrett, Garet [Edward Peter Garrett]. The American Story. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1955: Pt. 6, Ch. 1.
Groseclose, Elgin. America’s Money Machine: The Story of the Federal Reserve, rev. ed. 1980. Rpt. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009: Ch. 29.
Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel 's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 1993: Ch. 8.
Hunter, Stephen and John Bainbridge Jr. American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman – and the Shoot-Out That Stopped It. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2005: Ch. 1, 6-14, 16, 18, 20-22, 24-25, 28-29, 31, 33-39, 41-48.
McClanahan, Brion. 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America, and Four Who Tried to Save Her. Washington, D.C.: Regnery History, 2016: Ch. 6.
Offner, Arnold. Another Such Victory: President Truman and the Cold War, 1945-1953. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford UP, 2002: Ch. 3-7, 16.
Parker, Robert, and Richard L. Rashke. Capitol Hill in Black and White. 1986. Rpt. New York City: Jove Books, 1989: Ch. 4.
Perloff, James. The Shadows of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline, rev. ed. Appleton, Wis.: Western Islands, 1989: Ch. 6.
Powell, Gene. Tom's Boy Harry: The First Complete, Authentic Story of Harry Truman's Connection With the Pendergast Machine. Jefferson City, Mo.: Hawthorn Publishing Co., 1948: Ch. 21-26.
Prados, John. Keepers of the Keys: A History of the National Security Council from Truman to Bush. New York City: William Morrow and Co., 1991: Pt. 1.
Raico, Ralph. Great Wars and Great Leaders: A Libertarian Rebuttal. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2010: Ch. 3.
Ritter, Scott. Scorpion King: America's Suicidal Embrace of Nuclear Weapons From FDR to Trump, rev. ed. Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2020: Ch. 2.
b. The Congress
i. Richard M. Nixon, R-Calif.

Allen, Gary. Richard Nixon: The Man Behind the Mask. Boston: Western Islands, 1971: Ch. 2.
Baker, Russ. Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years, corr. ed. New York City: Bloomsbury Press, 2009: Ch. 9.
Fulsom, Don. Nixon’s Darkest Secrets: The Inside Story of America’s Most Troubled President. New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2012: Ch. 2, 4, 15-16.
Greenberg, David. Nixon’s Shadow: The History of an Image. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003: Ch. 1-2, 6.
Nixon, Richard. In the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat, and Renewal. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1990: Ch. 19, 27.
Perloff, Ch. 9.
Sale, Kirkpatrick. Power Shift: The Rise of the Southern Rim and Its Challenge to the Eastern Establishment. 1975. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 1976: Ch. 5.
Stone, Roger J., and Mike Colapietro. Nixon’s Secrets. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing Co., 2014: Ch. 3.
Summers, Anthony, and Robyn Swan. The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon. 2000. Rpt. New York City: Penguin Books, 2001: Ch. 5-11, 18.
Thomas, Evan. Being Nixon: A Man Divided. New York City: Random House, 2015: Ch. 3-4.
White, Theodore H. Breach of Faith: The Fall of Richard Nixon. 1975. Rpt. New York City: Dell, 1976: Ch. 4.
Wicker, Tom. One of Us: Richard Nixon and the American Dream. New York City: Random House, 1991: Ch. 1-2.
ii Lyndon B. Johnson, D-Texas
(1) Robert A. Caro
(a) The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. II: Means of Ascent, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 1991: Ch. 7, 16, 18.
(b) The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. III: Master of the Senate. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002: Introduction, Ch. 5-6, 11-14, 17, 19, 21-22, 24-27, 29, 33-34, 36-42.
(2) Other
Baker, Bobby, and Larry L. King. Wheeling and Dealing: Confessions of a Capitol Hill Operator. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1978: Ch. 4, 6-7.
Bradford, M.E. Against the Barbarians, and Other Reflections on Familiar Themes. Columbia, Mo.: U of Missoui P, 1992: Ch. 24.
Daugherty, Tracy. Leaving the Gay Place: Billy Lee Brammer and the Great Society. Austin, Texas: U of Texas P, 2018: Ch. 6-9.
Evans, Rowland and Robert Novak. Lyndon B. Johnson: The Exercise of Power: A Political Biography. New York City: New American Library, 1966: Ch. 3-11.
Haley, J. Evetts. A Texan Looks at Lyndon: A Study in Illegitimate Power. 1964. Rpt. Midland, Texas: N.S. Haley Memorial Library Trust, 1990: Ch. 7.
McClellan, Barr. Blood, Money & Power: How LBJ Killed JFK. 2003. Rpt. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011: Ch. 9.
R. Parker & Rashke, Ch. 3, 6, 8-10.
Prados, John. The Hidden History of the Vietnam War. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1995: Ch. 2.
R.J. Stone & Colapietro. The Man Who Killed Kennedy: The Case Against LBJ, rev. ed. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2014: Ch. 1, 11.
Vladeck, Stephen L. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic. New York City: Basic Books, 2023: Ch. 6.
iii. U.S. Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy, R-Wis.
(1) Jack Anderson et al.
Anderson, Jack, and James Boyd. Confessions of a Muckraker: The Inside Story of Life in Washington During the Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson Years. 1979. Rpt. New York City: Ballentine Books, 1980: Ch. 3-5.
J. Anderson, and Ronald W. May. McCarthy: The Man, the Senator, the "Ism." 1952. Rpt. London: Victor Gollancz, 1953: Ch. 14-25, 27, 39.
(2) Other
Griffith, Robert. The Politics of Fear: Joseph R. McCarthy and the Senate, rev. ed. Boston: U of Massachusetts P, 1987: Ch. 3-5, 8-9.
iv. J. Anderson et al.
J. Anderson & Boyd, Ch. 3-5.
J. Anderson & R.W. May, Ch. 47, 49-50.
Pearson, Drew, and J. Anderson. The Case Against Congress: A Compelling Indictment of Corruption on Capitol Hill. 1968. Rpt. New York City: Pocket Books, 1969: Ch. 2, 8-9, 14-15.
v. Others
B. Baker & L.L. King, Ch. 5, 8-9.
Cramer, Richard Ben. What It Takes: The Way to the White House, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 1993: Ch. 29.
Edwards, Lee. Missionary for Freedom: The Life and Times of Walter Judd. New York City: Paragon House, 1990: Ch. 10-11, 14.
Hardeman, D.B., and Donald C. Bacon. Rayburn: A Biography. Austin, Texas: Texas Monthly Press, 1987: Ch. 16-21.
Kaiser, Robert G. Act of Congress: How America’s Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn’t. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013: Ch. 5.
Kelley, Kitty. The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty, rev. ed. New York City: Anchor Books, 2005: Ch. 9-10.
Kessler, Ronald. Inside Congress: The Shocking Scandals, Corruption, and Abuse of Power Behind the Scenes on Capitol Hill. New York City: Pocket Books, 1997: Ch. 1, 11.
Leamer, Laurence. Playing for Keeps: In Washington. New York City: The Dial Press, 1977: Ch. 2.
Novak. The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington. New York City: Crown Forum, 2007: Ch. 7.
Piper, Michael Collins. Final Judgment: The Missing Link in the JFK Assassination Conspiracy, 4th rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: American Free Press, 2004: Ch. 6.
Remini, Robert V. The House: The History of the House of Representatives. New York City: The Library of Congress/Smithsonian Books/Collins, 2006: Ch. 15.
Ryskind, Allan H. Hubert: An Unauthorized Biography of the Vice President. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1968: Ch. 12-16, 18, 22-24.
Seldes, George. Never Tire of Protesting. New York City: Lyle Stuart, 1968: Ch. 12.
Smith, Hedrick. The Power Game: How Washington Works. 1988. Rpt. New York City: Ballentine Books, 1996: Ch. 14.
Talbot, David. Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love. New York City: Free Press, 2012: Ch. 3.
c. The Kennedy Dynasty
i. John F. Kennedy, D-Mass.
(1) James Piereson
(a) Camelot and the Cultural Revolution: How the Assassination of John F. Kennedy Shattered American Liberalism. New York City: Encounter Books, 2007: Ch. 2.
(b) Shattered Consensus: The Rise and Decline of America's Postwar Political Order. New York City: Encounter Books, 2015: Ch. 14.
(2) Others
Caro. The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Vol. IV: The Passage of Power. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012: Ch. 2.
Davis, John H. The Kennedys: Dynasty and Disaster, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: S.P.I. Books, 1992: Ch. 21-24, 25-26, 31-32.
DiEugenio, James. Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case, rev. ed. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2012: Ch. 1.
Ellroy, James [Lee Earle Ellroy]. American Tabloid. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1995: Ch. 14, 28, 38.
Fay, Paul B. Jr. The Pleasure of His Company. 1966. Rpt. New York City: Dell, 1967: Ch. 16-17.
Jacqueline Kennedy: Historic Conversations on Life With John F. Kennedy: Interviews With Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., 1964. Ed. Caroline Kennedy Schlossberg and Michael Beschloss. New York City: Hyperion, 2011.
Kaplan, Fred M. 1959: The Year Everything Changed. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2009: Ch. 25.
Keeley, Joseph. The China Lobby Man: The Story of Alfred Kohlberg. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1969: Appendix O.
Kup: A Man, an Era, a City: Irv Kupcinet’s Autobiography With Paul Neimark. Chicago: Bonus Books, 1988: Ch. 19.
Lasky, Victor. J.F.K.: The Man and the Myth, rev. ed. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1966: Ch. 6-11, 13-15, Appendix A.
Leamer. The Kennedy Men, 1901-1963: The Laws of the Father. New York City: William Morrow, 2001: Ch. 15.
R. Parker & Rashke, Ch. 11.
Reeves, Thomas C. A Question of Character: A Life of John F. Kennedy. 1991. Rpt. New York City: Crown Forum, 1997: Ch. 6-8.
A. Summers & Swan. Sinatra: The Life. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005: Ch. 24.
Vidal, Gore [Eugene Luther Vidal Jr.]. Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir, 1964-2006. New York City: Doubleday, 2006: Ch. 11.
ii. Other
J.H. Davis, The Kennedys, Ch. 24, 66.
Gill, William J. The Ordeal of Otto Otepka. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1969: Ch. 5.
Kessler. The Sins of the Father: Joseph P. Kennedy and the Dynasty He Founded. New York City: Warner Books, 1996: Ch. 20-24.
Leamer, The Kennedy Men, Ch. 13-14, 16-18.
Pietrusza, David. 1960 – LBJ vs. JFK vs. Nixon: The Epic Campaign That Forged Three Presidencies. New York City: Union Square Press, 2008: Ch. 6.
d. The Bush Dynasty
i. Dubya
Draper. Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush. New York City: Free Press, 2007: Ch. 2.
Minutaglio, Bill. First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty, rev. ed. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2001: Ch. 4.
Sammon, Bill. The Evangelical President: George Bush's Struggle to Spread a Moral Democracy Throughout the World. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2007: Ch. 1.
R.J. Stone, and St. John Hunt. The Bush Crime Family: The Inside Story of an American Dynasty, rev. ed. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing Co., 2017: Ch. 16-17.
ii. R.J. Stone et al.
R.J. Stone & Colapietro, The Man Who Killed Kennedy, Ch. 17.
R.J. Stone & St. J. Hunt, Ch. 13.
iii. Others
R. Baker, Ch. 1.
Cramer, Ch. 8.
Drummey, James J. The Establishment’s Man. Appleton, Wis.: Western Islands, 1991: Ch. 1.
Kelley, Ch. 6-8, 11.
Phillips, Kevin. American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush. New York City: Viking, 2004: Ch. 3.
Piereson, Camelot and the Cultural Revolution, Ch. 1.
Unger, Craig. House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties, rev. ed. New York City: Scribner, 2004: Ch. 3.
e. The Red Menace
i. Espionage
(1) Christopher M. Andrew et al.
Andrew, Christopher M., and Oleg Gordievsky. KGB: The Inside Story of Its Foreign Operations From Lenin to Gorbachev. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 1990: Ch. 11.
Andrew, and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB. New York City: Basic Books, 1999: Ch. 1, 9-11, 17, 21, 24, 26-27.
(2) Howard Blum
(a) In the Enemy’s House: The Secret Saga of the FBI Agent and the Code Breaker Who Caught the Russian Spies. New York City: Harper, 2018: Ch. 8, 10, 19, 24, 31, 34, 38.
(b) The Spy Who Knew Too Much: An Ex-CIA Officer's Quest Through a Legacy of Betrayal. New York City: Harper, 2022: Ch. 23-25, 32-34.
(3) M.S. Evans
M.S. Evans, Blacklisted by History, Ch. 10, 25-32.
M.S. Evans, and Herbert Romerstein. Stalin’s Secret Agents: The Subversion of Roosevelt’s Government. New York City: Threshold Editions, 2012: Ch. 20-21.
(4) Others
Albright, Joseph, and Marcia Kunstel. Bombshell: The Secret Story of America's Unknown Atomic Spy Conspiracy. New York City: Times Books/Random House, 1997: Ch. 1, 18-21, 24-26.
Bittman, Lasislav. The KGB and Soviet Disinformation: An Insider’s View. McLean, Va.: Pergamon-Brassey's International Defense Publishers, 1985: Ch. 1.
Costello, John. Mask of Treachery, rev. ed. London: Pan Books, 1989: Ch. 10, 18-20.
"Deacon, Richard" [Donald McCormick], and Nigel West [Rupert Allason]. Spy! London: British Broadcasting Corp., 1980: Ch. 5.
Donovan, James B. Strangers on a Bridge: The Case of Colonel Abel and Francis Gary Powers. 1964. Rpt. New York City: Scribner, 2015.
Dzhirkvelov, Ilya. Secret Servant: My Life With the KGB and and the Soviet Elite, rev. ed. Trans. Richard Lourie. New York City: Touchstone, 1989: Ch. 3, 8-9.
Earley, Pete. Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War. New York City: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2007: Ch. 2.
Epstein, Edward Jay [Edward Levinson]. Deception: The Invisible War Between the KGB and the CIA. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1989: Ch. 11.
Fineberg, S. Andhil. The Rosenberg Case: Fact and Fiction. 1953. Rpt. Buffalo, N.Y.: William S. Hein & Co., 2008.
Fleming, Ian. From Russia With Love. 1957. Rpt. London: Penguin, 2002: Ch. 1-10.
W.J. Gill, Ch. 18.
Hart, Ch. 6.
Irving, Clifford, and Herbert Burkholz. Spy: The Story of Modern Espionage. New York City: The Macmillan Co., 1969: Ch. 3, 7.
Jacobsen. Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins. New York City: Little, Brown and Co., 2019: Ch. 7.
Mangold, Tom. Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton: The CIA's Master Spy Hunter. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1991: Ch. 12, 14-15.
McCarry, Charles. Lucky Bastard. New York City: Random House, 1998.
McKnight, Gerald D. Breach of Trust: How the Warren Commission Failed the Nation and Why. Lawrence, Kan.: UP of Kansas, 2005: Ch. 12.
Mortimer, Lee [Mortimer Lieberman]. Women Confidential. New York City: Julian Messner, 1960: Ch. 39.
Nixon. Six Crises, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Touchstone, 1990: Ch. 1.
Pacepa, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihail, and Ronald Rychlak. Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism. Washington, D.C.: WND Books, 2013: Ch. 5, 11-13, 15-17.
Perry, Roland. Last of the Cold War Spies: The Life of Michael Straight -- the Only America in Britain's Cambridge Spy Ring. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2005: Ch. 12-14, 16, 18-21.
Philbrick, Herbert A. I Led 3 Lives: Citizen, “Communist,” Counterspy, rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: The Capitol Hill Press, 1972: Ch. 10, 14, 26.
Reinhardt, Guenther [Karl Hess Sr.]. Crime Without Punishment: The Secret Soviet Terror Against America. 1952. Rpt. New York City: New American Library, 1953: Ch. 11-14, 16.
Rossiter, Mike. The Spy Who Changed the World: Klaus Fuchs, Physicist and Soviet Double Agent. 2014. Rpt. New York City; Skyhorse Publishing 2017: Ch. 2, 13-27.
Seagrave, Sterling. Yellow Rain: A Journey Through the Terror of Chemical Warfare. 1981. Rpt. London: Abacus, 1982: Ch. 8.
Soley, Lawrence C., and John S. Nichols. Clandestine Radio Broadcasting: A Study of Revolutionary and Counterrevolutionary Electronic Communication. New York City: Praeger, 1987: Ch. 10.
Strausbaugh, John. Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers During World War II. New York City: Twelve, 2018: Ch. 51.
Trento, Joseph J. The Secret History of the CIA, rev. ed. 2005. Rpt. New York City: MJF Books/Fine Communications, 2007: Ch. 8, 27, 29, 35.
Wilcox, Laird M. Crying Wolf: Hate Crime Hoaxes in America, 2nd rev. ed. Olathe, Kan.: Laird Wilcox, 1996: Ch. 10.
ii. Cuba
(1) Humberto Fontova
(a) Fidel: Hollywood’s Favorite Tyrant. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2005: Ch. 2, 13.
(b) Exposing the Real Che Guevara: And the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him, rev. ed. New York City: Sentinel, 2008: Ch. 4-5, 7.
(2) Nathaniel Weyl
Martino, John, and Nathaniel Weyl. I Was Castro’s Prisoner: An American Tells His Story. 1963. Rpt. Southlake, Texas: JFK Lancer, 2008: Ch. 1-9.
Weyl. Red Star Over Cuba, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Devin-Adair, 1961.
(3) Others
Bethel, Paul D. The Losers: The Definitive Report, by an Eyewitness, of the Communist Conquest of Cuba and the Soviet Penetration in Latin America. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1969: Ch. 4, 7, 9-10.
Block, Lawrence. Killing Castro, rev. ed. New York City: Open Road Integrated Media, 2010: Ch. 4, 6, 8, 10.
Catholicism and Politics in Communist Societies. Ed. Pedro Ramet. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 1990: Ch. 12.
Estrada, Alfredo José. Havana: Autobiography of a City. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007: Ch. 11.
Fursenko, Aleksandr, and Timothy Naftali. "One Hell of Gamble": Khrushchev, Castro, and Kennedy, 1958-1964. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1997: Ch. 1-4.
W.J. Gill, Ch. 7.
Goldwater, U.S. Sen. Barry M. Sr., R-Ariz. Why Not Victory?: A Fresh Look at American Foreign Policy. 1962. Rpt. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1980: Ch. 4.
Huddy, John. Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down the Strip to the Tune of Five World-Class Hotels, Three Armored Cars, and Millions of Dollars. New York City: Ballantine Books, 2008: Ch. 3-4.
Kushner, Rachel. Telex From Cuba. New York City: Scribner, 2008: Ch. 1, 14, 17-20, 22, 24-27.
Latell, Brian. Castro’s Secrets: The CIA and Cuba’s Intelligence Machine, rev. ed. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013: Ch. 2-3.
Niemietz, Kristian. Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies. London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2019: Ch. 4.
Rodriguez, Felix I., and John Weisman. Shadow Warrior. 1989. Rpt. New York City: Pocket Books, 1990: Ch. 2.
Smith, Earl E.T. The Fourth Floor: An Account of the Castro Communist Revolution. 1962. Rpt. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Cuba Press, 2000: Ch. 5, 15, 20.
Soley & Nichols, Ch. 7.
Sterling, Claire. The Terror Network: The Secret War of International Terrorism. 1981. Rpt. New York City: Berkley Books, 1986: Ch. 13.
Veciana, Antonio, and Carlos Harrison. Trained to Kill: The Inside Story of CIA Plots Against Castro, Kennedy, and Che. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2017: Ch. 2-3, 6.
Waldron, Lamar, and Thom Hartmann. Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK, rev. ed. Berkeley, Calif.: Counterpoint, 2006: Ch. 13.
iii. Asia
(1) China
Bradley, James. The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia. New York City: Little, Brown and Co., 2015: Ch. 12.
Catholicism and Politics in Communist Societies, Ch. 11.
Chen, Yuan-Tsung. The Secret Listener: An Ingenue in Mao's Court. New York City: Oxford UP, 2022: Ch. 6-13.
Dicker, Herman. Wanderers and Settlers in the Far East: A Century of Jewish Life in China and Japan. New York City: Twayne Publishers, 1962: Ch. 5.
Goldwater Sr., Why Not Victory?, Ch. 9.
Higgs, Robert. Against Leviathan: Government Power and a Free Society. Oakland, Calif.: The Independent Institute, 2004: Ch. 22.
Hollander, Paul. Political Pilgrims: Western Intellectuals in Search of the Good Society, 3rd rev. ed. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1998: Ch. 7.
Hunter, Edward. Brain-Washing in Red China: The Calculated Destruction of Men's Minds, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: The Vanguard Press, 1971.
Jacobsen, Annie. Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government’s Investigations Into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokenesis. 2017. Rpt. New York City: Back Bay Books, 2018: Ch. 15.
Jenner, W.J.F. The Tyranny of History: The Roots of China’s Crisis, rev. ed. London: Penguin Books, 1994: Ch. 8.
Keeley, Ch. 8-10, Appendix D, G-H, L, N.
Kinter, William R., and Joseph Z. Kornfeder. The New Frontier of War: Political Warfare, Present and Future. 1962. Rpt. London: Frederick Muller, 1963: Ch. 11.
Kubek, Anthony. How the Far East Was Lost: American Policy and the Creation of Communist China, 1941-1949. 1963. Rpt. Taipei, R.O.C.: China Academy, 1979: Ch. 18.
Meredith, Robyn. The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us, rev. ed. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008: Ch. 1.
Niemietz, Ch. 3.
Parry, Albert. Terrorism: From Robspierre to the Weather Underground. 1976. Rpt. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2006: Ch. 19.
Reinhardt, Ch. 10.
Senger, Michael P. Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World. San Francisco: Michael P. Senger, 2021: Ch. 3.
Utley, Freda. Last Chance in China. Indianapolis: The Bobbs-Merrill Co., 1947: Ch. 3, 6.
Wedemeyer, Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer Reports! 1958. Rpt. San Francisco: Tannenberg Publishing, 2015: Ch. 23-25.
(2) Korea
Stéphane Courtois et al. The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, rev. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1999: Ch. 22.
Fehrenbach, T.R. The Fight for Korea: From the War of 1950 to the Pueblo Incident. New York City: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 1969: Ch. 8-9.
Harden, Blaine. The Great Leader and the Fighter Pilot: The True Story of the Tyrant Who Created North Korea and the Young Lieutenant Who Stole His Way to Freedom. New York City: Viking, 2015: Ch. 2-3.
Higgs, Against Leviathan, Ch. 21.
Munz, Eva, Lukas Nikol, and Christian Kracht. The Ministry of Truth: Kim Jong-Il’s North Korea, rev. ed. Los Angeles: Feral House, 2007.
Niemietz, Ch. 5.
Stang, Alan. The Actor: The True Story of John Foster Dulles, Secretary of State, 1953-1959. Boston: Western Islands, 1968: Ch. 13.
(3) Western Asia
Sayegh, Fayez A. Communism in Israel. New York City: Arab Information Center, 1958.
Totah, Khalil. Dynamite in the Middle East. New York City: Philosophical Library, 1955: Ch. 8.
(4) Indochina
L. Berman, Ch. 4.
Fall, Bernard B. Street Without Joy: The French Debacle in Indochina, rev. ed. Harrisburg, Pa.: The Stackpole Co., 1964: Ch. 15.
Kinter & Kornfeder, Ch. 12.
Schwarz, Frederick. Beating the Unbeatable Foe: One Man’s Victory Over Communism, Leviathan, and the Last Enemy*. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1996: Ch. 36.
Stone, Gary. Elites for Peace: The Senate and the Vietnam War, 1964-1968. Knoxville, Tenn.: U of Tennessee P, 2007: Ch. 1.
(5) Other
A. Parry, Ch. 31.
Tomsen, Peter. The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2011: Ch. 5.
iv. Hollywood
Reagan, Ronald Wilson, and Richard G. Hubler. Where’s the Rest of Me? 1965. Rpt. New York City: Dell Publishing Co., 1981: Ch. 10.
Schweizer, Peter. Reagan’s War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism. New York City: Doubleday, 2002: Ch. 1-2.
v. The Soviet Union
(1) The Prison System
(a) John Noble & Glenn D. Everett
(i) I Was a Slave in Russia: An American Tells His Story. 1960. Rpt. London: Brown Watson, 1963: Ch. 2-23.
(ii) I Found God in Soviet Russia. 1959. Rpt. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Publishing House, 1972: Ch. 3-22.
(b) Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
(i) One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich. 1962. Trans. Harry T. Willets. 1991. Rpt. New York City: Everyman's Library, 1995.
(ii) The Gulag Archipelago, 1918-1956: An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Vol. III, rev. ed. Trans. Willetts. New York City: Harper & Row Publishers, 1978: Pt. 5, Ch. 3, 5-9, 11-12.
(iii) Two Hundred Years Together: On Russian-Jewish Relations, 1795-1995, Vol. II. 2002. Rpt. Brisbane, Qld.: The Incorrect Library, 2008: Ch. 23-25.
(2) Nikita Khrushchev
Hearst, William Randolph Jr., Frank Conniff, and Bob Considine. Khrushchev and the Russian Challenge, rev. ed. New York City: Avon Book Division/The Hearst Corp., 1961: Ch. 1, 3-6, 9-11, 13.
Pacepa & Rychlak, Ch. 30.
Zubok, Vladislav, and Constantine Pleshakov. Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War: From Stalin to Khruschev. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1996: Ch. 7.
(3) Paul R. Gregory
(a) Behind the Façade of Stalin’s Command Economy: Evidence From the Soviet State and Party Archives. Gregory. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 2001: Ch. 8.
(b) Lenin’s Brain and Other Tales From the Secret Soviet Archives. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institute Press, 2008: Ch. 13.
(4) Other
Atkinson, James D. The Politics of Struggle: The Communist Front and Political Warfare. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1966: Ch. 7, 13.
Avtorkhanov, Ahbdurakhman. The Communist Party Apparatus. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1966: Ch. 9-10.
Barron, John. MiG Pilot: The Final Escape of Lt. Belenko. 1980. Rpt. New York City: Avon Books, 1981: Ch. 2.
Birmingham, Stephen. “The Rest of Us”: The Rise of America’s Eastern European Jews. 1984. Rpt. New York Open Road Integrated Media, 2015: Ch. 17.
Bissonnette, The Rev. Georges. Moscow Was My Parish. 1956. Rpt. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1978.
Bukovsky, Vladimir. To Build a Castle: My Life As a Dissenter. 1977. Trans. Michael Scammell. 1978. Rpt. Washington, D.C.: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1988: Ch. 3-4.
Bundy, Edgar C. How the Communists Use Religion. 1966. Rpt. Wheaton, Ill.: Church League of America, 1969: Ch. 4, 6-8.
Chaubin, Frédéric. CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed. Trans. Charles Penwarden. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2011: Ch. 1.
Collins, Barbara, and M.A. Collins. Bombshell. Waterville, Maine: Five Star, 2004: Ch. 4.
Considine. It’s All News to Me: A Reporter’s Deposition. New York City: Duell, Sloan and Pearce/Meredith Press, 1967: Ch. 8.
Cronkite, Walter, and Don Carleton. Conversations With Cronkite. Austin, Texas: Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin, 2010: Ch. 7.
Courtois, Ch. 13-15.
Dzhirkvelov, Ch. 11-12.
The Education of Lev Navrozov: A Life in the Closed World Once Called Russia. New York City: Harper's Magazine Press, 1975: Ch. 3-6.
E.J. Epstein. The Rise and Fall of Diamonds: The Shattering of a Brilliant Illusion. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1982: Ch. 17.
Fish, Hamilton S. III. Memoir of an American Patriot. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1991: Ch. 26-27.
Frazier, Robert. Malenkov. New York City: Lion Books, 1953: Ch. 7-13, 17-18.
Gellately, Robert. Stalin’s Curse: Battling for Communism in War and Cold War. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013: Ch. 7, 12, 20-21.
Gilison, Jerome M. The Soviet Image of Utopia. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1975: Ch. 3-4.
Hanson, Philip. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy: An Economic History of the USSR From 1945. 2003. Rpt. London: Routledge, 2014: Ch. 1-3, 9.
Hoffman, David E. The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy. New York City: Doubleday, 2009: Ch. 6.
Jacobsen, Phenomena, Ch. 5.
Johnson, Frank J. No Substitute for Victory. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1962: Ch. 4.
Johnson, Nicholas L. The Soviet Reach for the Moon: The L-1 and L-3 Manned Lunar Programs and the Story of the N-1 "Moon Rocket", rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: Cosmos Books, 1995: Ch. 1-2.
F.M. Kaplan, 1959, Ch. 2, 13.
Keller, Werner. East Minus West = Zero: Russia's Debt to the Western World, 862-1962. 1960. Trans. Constantine Fitzgibbon and Sybil Welch. 1961. Rpt. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1962: Ch. 19, 22, 24-26.
Limonov, Edward [Eduard Veniaminovich Savenko]. Memoir of a Russian Punk. 1983. Trans. Judson Rosengrant. New York City: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990.
Lowe, Keith. The Fear and the Freedom: Why the Second World War Still Matters. 2017. Rpt. London: Penguin Books, 2018: Ch. 14.
Manning, Clarence A. Ukraine Under the Soviets. New York City: Bookman Associates, 1953: Ch. 23-24.
Melvern, Linda, Nick Anning, and David Hebditch. Techno-Bandits. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1984: Ch. 3.
Myagkov, Aleksei. Inside the KGB. 1976. Rpt. New York City: Ballentine Books, 1981: Ch. 2.
Pacepa & Rychlak, Ch. 36.
A People Passing Rude: British Responses to Russian Culture. Ed. Anthony Cross. Cambridge, U.K.: OpenBook Publishers, 2012: Ch. 19.
Savodnik, Peter. Interloper: Lee Harvey Oswald Inside the Soviet Union. New York City: Basic Books, 2013: Ch. 2-8.
Tzouliadis, Tim. The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia. New York City: The Penguin Press, 2008: Ch. 20-25, 28.
Unger, Craig. House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia. New York City: Dutton, 2018: Ch. 7.
Weyl. The Jew in American Politics. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1968: Ch. 15.
Wilson, Dwight. Armageddon Now!: The Premillenarian Response to Russia and Israel Since 1917, rev. ed. Tyler, Texas: Institute for Christian Economics, 1991: Ch. 8.
Zubok & Pleshakov, Ch. 2, 5.
vi. The Eastern Bloc
(1) Germany
Catholicism and Politics in Communist Societies, Ch. 4.
Niemietz, Ch. 8.
Reinhardt, Ch. 15, 18-19.
Utley. The High Cost of Vengeance. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1949: Ch. 5.
Wyden, Peter. Wall: The Inside Story of Divided Berlin. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1989: Ch. 2, 18-19, 54.
(2) Czechoslovakia
Catholicism and Politics in Communist Societies, Ch. 6.
Miles, Jonathan. The Nine Lives of Otto Katz: The Remarkable Story of a Communist Super-Spy. London: Bantam Press, 2010: Ch. 1-2, 13-15.
C. Sterling. The Masaryk Case. New York City: Harper & Row Publishers, 1969: Ch. 1-7, 9-11, 14-18, 20-23.
(3) Hungary
Kecskemeti, Paul. The Unexpected Revolution: Social Forces in the Hungarian Uprising. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford UP, 1961: Ch. 1, 3-10.
Kornai, János [János Kornhauser]. By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey, rev. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2006: Ch. 3-8.
(4) R.H. Markham
(a) Tito’s Imperial Communism. Chapel Hill, N.C.: U of North Carolina P, 1947: Ch. 22, 24-25.
(b) Rumania Under the Soviet Yoke. Boston: Meador Publishing Co., 1949: Ch. 1, 4, 13-32.
(5) Other
B. Collins & M.A. Collins, Ch. 3.
Mortimer, Women Confidential, Ch. 29.
Niemietz, Ch. 7.
Zubok & Pleshakov, Ch. 4.
vii. The Bernsteins
Bernstein, Ch. 9-14, 19-23, 25-32.
Havill, Appendix A.
viii. The Obamas
Corsi, Jerome R. The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality. New York City: Threshold Editions, 2008: Ch. 1-2, 4.
Maraniss, David. Barack Obama: The Story. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2012: Ch. 6.
Wolffe, Richard. Renegade: The Making of a President, rev. ed. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2010: Ch. 2.
ix. The Black Reds
Klein, Aaron, and Brenda J. Elliott. The Manchurian President. Washington, D.C.: WND Books, 2010: Ch. 10.
A. Parry, Ch. 34.
Wright, Richard. The Outsider, corr. ed. Later Works. Ed. Arnold Rampersad. New York City: Library of America, 1991: 367-841.
x. Saul Alinsky
Horwitt, Sanford D. Let Them Call me Rebel: Saul Alinsky – His Life and Legacy. 1989. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 1992: Ch. 16.
Schlafly, Phyllis, and George Neumayr. No Higher Power: Obama’s War on Religious Freedom. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2012: Ch. 5.
xi. Lee Harvey Oswald
Newman, John M. Oswald and the CIA: The Documented Truth About the Unknown Relationship Between the U.S. Government and the Alleged Killer of JFK, rev. ed. New York City: Herman Graf/Skyhorse Publishing, 2008: Ch. 1-7, 9-13.
Posner, Gerald L. Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Anchor Books, 2003: Ch. 2.
Savodnik, Ch. 1.
D. Talbot. The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America’s Secret Government. 2015. Rpt. New York City: HarperPerennial, 2016: Ch. 19.
Waldron & Hartmann, Ultimate Sacrifice, Ch. 39.
xii. The Neoconservatives
Chernus, Ira. Monsters To Destroy: The Neoconservative War on Terror and Sin. Boulder, Colo.: Paradigm Publishers, 2006: Ch. 1.
Dorrien, Gary. Imperial Designs: Neoconservatism and the New Pax America. New York City: Routledge, 2004: Ch. 2.
xiii. Roy Cohn
Von Hoffman, Nicholas. Citizen Cohn. 1988. Rpt. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2023: Pt. 3.
Zion, Sidney. The Autobiography of Roy Cohn. Secaucus, N.J.: Lyle Stuart, 1988: Ch. 3-4.
xiv. Armand Hammer
E.J. Epstein. Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer. New York City: Random House, 1996: Ch. 12.
Finder, Joseph. Red Carpet. 1983. Rpt. Fort Worth, Texas: American Bureau of Economic Research, 1987: Ch. 9.
xv. The Rev. Jim Jones
Cashill, Jack. What’s the Matter With California?: Cultural Rumbles From the Golden State and Why the Rest of Us Should Be Shaking. New York City: Threshold Editions, 2007: Ch. 15.
Reiterman, Tim, and John Jacobs. Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People, rev. ed. New York City: J.P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2008: Ch. 3-7.
xvi. J.T. Flynn
(1) The Road Ahead: America’s Creeping Revolution. New York City: The Devin-Adair Co., 1949: Ch. 1, 3, 6, 9-13.
(2) While You Slept: Our Tragedy in Asia and Who Made It. 1951. Rpt. Boston: Western Islands, 1965: Ch. 2, 7.
xvii. Other
J.D. Atkinson, Ch. 12.
Black, Bob. Beneath the Underground. Portland, Ore.: Feral House, 1994: Ch. 5.
Bowart, Walter H. [Walter Howard Kirby]. Operation Mind Control, rev. ed. Fort Bragg, Calif.: Flatlands Editions, 1994: Ch. 3.
Bundy, Ch. 6, 9-10.
Burleigh, Michael. Sacred Causes: The Clash of Religion and Politics, From the Great War to the War on Terror. 2006. Rpt. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007: Ch. 6.
M.A. Collins. Better Dead. New York City: Tom Doherty Associates, 2016: Ch. 1-2, 4-9, 11-13.
Coogan, Kevin. Dreamer of the Day: Francis Parker Yockey and the Postwar Fascist International. New York City: Autonomedia, 1999: Ch. 44.
Courtois, Ch. 25.
Dewart, Gilbert. Antarctic Comrades: An American With the Russians in Antartica. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State UP, 1989: Ch. 2-9.
Diggins, John Patrick. The Rise and Fall of the American Left. New York City: W.W. Norton, 1992: Ch. 6.
Dinsmore, Herman H. The Bleeding of America, 2nd rev. ed. Belmont, Mass.: Western Islands, 1977: Ch. 5.
The FBI and Religion: Faith and National Security Before and After 9/11. Ed. Sylvester A. Johnson and Steven Weitzman. Oakland, Calif.: U of California P, 2017: Ch. 7.
Feldman, Noah. Scorpions: The Battles and Triumphs of FDR’s Great Supreme Court Justices. New York City: Twelve, 2010: Ch. 36.
Freeland, Richard M. The Truman Doctrine and the Origins of McCarthyism, rev. ed. New York City: New York UP, 1985: Pt 3, 5; Pt. 7, Ch. 1.
Friedman, Murray. The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge UP, 2005: Ch. 4.
Gellately, Ch. 13-19.
W.J. Gill, Ch. 4.
Gordon, Rosalie M. Nine Men Against America: The Supreme Court and Its Attack on American Liberties, rev. ed. 1961. Rpt. Boston: Western Islands, 1966: Ch. 23.
Gottfried, Paul Edward. The Strange Death of Marxism: The European Left in the New Millennium. Columbia, Mo.: U of Missouri P, 2005.
Greenberg, Andy. This Machine Kills Secrets: Julian Assange, the Cypherpunks, and Their Fight to Empower Whistleblowers, rev. ed. New York City: Plume, 2013: Ch. 6.
Griffin, G. Edward. The Fearful Master: A Second Look at the United Nations. Boston: Western Islands Publishers, 1964: Ch. 7-13, 15-18.
Harding, Earl. The Untold Story of Panama. New York City: Athene Press, 1959: Ch. 14.
Hearst, Conniff & Considine, Ch. 7.
Hollander, Ch. 6.
F.J. Johnson, Ch. 5.
Kamp, Joseph P. Behind the Lace Curtains of the YWCA: A Report on the Extent and Nature of Infiltration by Communist, Socialist and Other Left Wing Elements, and the Resultant Red Complexion of Propaganda Disseminated in, by and Through the Young Women's Christian Association. New York City: Constitutional Educational League, 1948.
Kampelman, Max M. The Communist Party vs. the C.I.O.: A Study in Power Politics. 1957. Rpt. New York City: Arno Press, 1971: Ch. 4-13, 15.
F.M. Kaplan, 1959, Ch. 12.
Kazin, Michael. The Populist Persuasion: An American History, rev. ed. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell UP, 1998: Ch. 7.
Kessler. The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI, rev. ed. New York City: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2003: Ch. 6-7.
Kinter & Kornfeder, Ch. 4, 6-10.
Lilla, Mark. The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics. New York City: New York Review Books, 2001: Ch. 5-6.
Manly, Chesly. The Twenty-Year Revolution: From Roosevelt to Eisenhower. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1954: Ch. 2, 13.
Marshall, Jonathan. Drug Wars: Corruption, Counterinsurgency and Covert Operations in the Third World. Forestville, Calif: Cohan & Cohen Publishers, 1991: Ch. 3.
McDowell, Edwin. Barry Goldwater: Portrait of an Arizonan. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1964: Ch. 10.
McMillian, John. Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America. New York City: Oxford UP, 2011: Ch. 1.
Nixon, Six Crises, Ch. 5.
A. Parry, Ch. 20.
Philbrick, Ch. 1, 11-13, 15-20.
Piereson, Camelot and the Cultural Revolution, Ch. 6.
Polin, Raymond. Marxian Foundations of Communism: An Introduction to the Study of Communist Theory. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1966: Ch. 6.
G.L. Posner. Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America. New York City: Avid Reader Press, 2020: Ch. 11.
Roth, Philip. I Married a Communist, corr. ed. 1999. Rpt. The American Trilogy 1997-2000: American Pastoral/I Married a Communist/The Human Stain. Ed. Ross Miller. New York City: The Library of America, 2011: 397-699.
F. Schwarz, Ch. 31.
Seldes, Ch. 21-22.
Snyder, Timothy. Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin, rev. ed. New York City: Basic Books, 2012: Ch. 11.
Stang. It's Very Simple: The True Story of Civil Rights. Boston: Western Islands Publishers, 1965: Ch. 2, 10.
Sutton, Antony C. The Best Enemy Money Can Buy. Billings, Mont.: Liberty House Press, 1986: Ch. 5, 7, Appendix F.
Waldron & Hartmann. Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination, rev. ed. Berkeley, Calif.: Counterpoint, 2009: Ch. 6.
Welch, Robert. The Politician, rev. ed. 1963. Rpt. Appleton, Wis.: Robert Welch UP, 2002: Ch. 9.
Wilcox, Robert K. Target: JFK: The Spy Who Killed Kennedy? Washington, D.C.: Regnery History, 2016: Ch. 21.
f. Foreign Intrigues
i. Europe
(1) Germany
(a) Berlin
Adam, Hans Christian et al. Berlin: Portrait of a City. Ed. Benedikt Taschen. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2007: Ch. 4.
Kerr, Philip. Field Gray: A Bernie Gunther Novel. New York City: Marian Wood/G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 2011: Ch. 29, 32.
Offner, Ch. 10.
Smith, Jean Edward. The Defense of Berlin. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1963: Ch. 5-11.
Wyden, Ch. 17, 28.
(b) Other
Bird, Kai. The Chairman: John J. McCloy: The Making of the American Establishment. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1992: Ch. 15-19.
Breitman, Richard, and Norman J.W. Goda. Hitler's Shadow: Nazi War Criminals, U.S. Intelligence, and the Cold War. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2010: Ch. 4.
Coogan, Ch. 39-41.
Jacobsen. Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program That Brought Nazi Scientists to America, rev. ed. Boston: Back Bay Books, 2015: Ch. 17.
Ganser, Daniele. NATO’s Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe. London: Frank Cass, 2004: Ch. 15.
Gottfried. Antifascism: The Course of a Crusade. Ithaca, N.Y.: Northern Illinois UP, 2021: Ch. 3.
Johnson, Ian. A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA, and the Muslim Brotherhood in the West. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010: Ch. 4-6, 9.
Kerr, Ch. 10, 26, 30-31, 33-40.
Marrs, Jim. The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America. New York City: William Morrow, 2008: Ch. 7.
Mayer, Milton. They Thought They Were Free: The Germans, 1933-45, rev. ed. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1966: Ch. 26-34.
Müller, Ingo. Hitler's Justice: The Courts of the Third Reich. 1987. Trans. Deborah Lucas-Schneider. Cambridge, Mass. Harvard UP, 1991: Ch. 22-23, 25-26, 28-31.
Payne, James L. Opposing the Crusader State: Alternatives to Global Intervention. Ed. Higgs and Carl P. Close. Oakland, Calif.: The Independent Institute, 2007: Ch. 7.
Peterson, Edward N. The American Occupation of Germany: Retreat to Victory. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1977.
Puzo, Mario. The Dark Arena. 1955. Rpt. London: Arrow, 2011.
Sayer, Ian, and Douglas Botting. Nazi Gold: The Story of the World's Greatest Robbery ̶ and Its Aftermath. 1984. Rpt. Edinburgh, U.K.: Mainstream Publishing, 2003: Ch. 7, 10, 12-21.
Simpson, Christopher. Blowback: America's Recruitment of Nazis and Its Effects on the Cold War, rev. ed. New York City: Open Road Integrated Media, 2014: Ch. 1, 5.
E. Thomas. Ike’s Bluff: President Eisenhower’s Secret Battle to Save the World From Nuclear Annihilation. 2012. Rpt. London: Gibson Square, 2013: Ch. 21.
Utley, High Cost of Vengeance, Ch. 2-4, 7-11.
(2) Other
Cummings, Richard. The Pied Piper: Allard Lowenstein and the Liberal Dream. 1985. Rpt. New York City: InPrint.com, 2000: Ch. 14.
Finder, Ch. 7-8, 10.
Ganser, Ch. 4-14, 16-17.
Gup, Ted. The Book of Honor: The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives, rev. ed. New York City: Anchor Books, 2001: Ch. 3.
Hearst, Conniff & Considine, Ch. 12.
Hunt, E. Howard, and Greg Aunapu. American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate, and Beyond. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2007: Ch. 5, 8.
Janis, Irving L. Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes, rev. ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1982: Ch. 7.
Kerr, Ch. 27-28.
Krüger, Henrik, and Jerry Meldon. The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence & International Fascism, 2nd rev. ed. Trans. Meldon. Walterville, Ore.: TrineDay, 2015: Ch. 2.
Irving & Burkholz, Ch. 6.
Layne, Christopher. The Peace of Illusions: American Grand Strategy From 1940 to the Present. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell UP, 2006: Ch. 4-5.
Melvern, Anning & Hebditch, Ch. 8.
Offner, Ch. 8-9, 15.
Parker, Robert B. Passport to Peril. 1951. Rpt. London: Hard Case Crime, 2009.
The Raven of Zürich: The Memoirs of Felix Somary, rev. ed. Trans. A.J. Sherman. London: C. Hurst & Co., 1986: Ch. 58.
Simpson, Howard R. Bush Hat, Black Tie: Adventures of a Foreign Service Officer. Washington, D.C.: Brassey’s, 1998: Ch. 4.
E. Thomas. The Very Best Men: The Daring Early Years of the CIA. 1995. Rpt. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2006: Ch. 10.
ii. Western Asia
(1) Iran
(a) E.J. Epstein
(i) Cartel. 1978. Rpt. New York City: Berkley Books, 1980.
(ii) Assume Nothing: Encounters With Assassins, Spies, Presidents, and Would-Be Masters of the Universe. New York City: Encounter Books, 2023: Ch. 18.
(b) Stephen Kinzer
(i) All the Shah’s Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror, rev. ed. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2008: Ch. 1, 5-12.
(ii) Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America’s Future, rev. ed. New York City: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2011: Ch. 4.
(iii) The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War. New York City: Times Books, 2013: Ch. 5.
(c) Others
Garwood, Darrell. Under Cover: Thirty-Five Years of CIA Deception, rev. ed. New York City: Grove Press, 1985: Ch. 9.
Heikal, Mohamed. Iran: The Untold Story: An Insider's Account of America's Iranian Adventure and Its Consequences for the Future, rev. ed. New York City: Pantheon Books, 1982: Ch. 4-5.
Segev, Samuel. The Iranian Triangle: The Untold Story of Israel’s Role in the Iran-Contra Affair. Trans. Haim Watzman. New York City: Free Press, 1988: Ch. 2.
Shawcross, William. The Shah’s Last Ride: The Fate of an Ally. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1988: Ch. 4.
Yaghmaian, Behzad. The World According to TomDispatch: America in the New Age of Empire. Ed. Tom Engelhardt. London: Verso, 2008: Ch. 19.
(2) Israel
Ball, George W., and Douglas B. Ball. The Passionate Attachment: America’s Involvement With Israel, 1947 to the Present. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1992: Ch. 2, 13.
Barr, James. A Line in the Sand: The Anglo-French Struggle for the Middle East, 1914-1948. 2011. Rpt. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2012: Ch. 26-29.
M.A. Collins, Majic Man, Ch. 5.
Green, Stephen. Taking Sides: America’s Secret Relations With a Militant Israel. 1984. Rpt. Brattleboro, Vt.: Amana Books, 1988: Ch. 1-5, 6-7, 10.
Judis, John B. Genesis: Truman, American Jews, and the Origins of the Arab/Israeli Conflict. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014: Ch. 11, 13-15.
Keay, John. Sowing the Wind: The Seeds of Conflict in the Middle East. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003: Ch. 14.
Labévière, Richard. Dollars for Terror: The United States and Islam, rev. ed. Trans. Martin DeMers. New York City: Algora Publishing, 2000: Ch. 11.
Loftus, John and Mark Aarons. The Secret War Against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 1994: Ch. 9.
Offner, Ch. 11.
Rose, Norman. ‘A Senseless, Squalid War’: Voices From Palestine 1890s to 1948. 2009. Rpt. London: Pimlico, 2010: Ch. 6-9.
Smith, Grant F. Big Israel: How Israel’s Lobby Moves America. Washington, D.C.: Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, 2016: Ch. 4.
(3) Egypt
Johnson, Paul. The Suez War. London: MacGibbon & Kee, 1957.
Stadiem, William. Too Rich: The High Life and Tragic Death of King Farouk. 1991. Rpt. London: Parkway, 2009: Ch. 1, 12.
(4) Saudi Arabia
Baer, Robert. Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude, rev. ed. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2004: Ch. 7.
Evans, Peter. Nemesis: The True Story: Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O, and the Love Triangle That Brought Down the Kennedys. New York City: ReganBooks, 2004: Ch. 2.
(5) Miles A. Copeland Jr.
(i) The Game of Nations: The Amorality of Power Politics. 1969. Rpt. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1970: Ch. 1-12.
(ii) The Game Player: Confessions of the CIA’s Original Political Operative. London: Aurum Press, 1989: Ch.12, 15-16, 19.
(6) Others

Baer. See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism, rev. ed. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2002: Ch. 11.
Birch, Will. Cruel to Be Kind: The Life and Music of Nick Lowe. New York City: Da Capo Press, 2019: Ch. 2.
Brendon, Piers. The Decline and Fall of the British Empire, 1781-1997. 2007. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 2010: Ch. 17.
Bromell, Henry. Little America. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001.
Byrnes, James F. Speaking Frankly. 1947. Rpt. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1974: Ch. 5-8, 10, 12, 15.
Chamish, Barry. The Stinger, Not the Stung: Israel's Not So Civil War. Raleigh, N.C.: Lulu Press, 2012: Ch. 6.
Chandrasekaran, Rajiv. Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan. 2012. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 2013: Ch. 1.
Coogan, Ch. 38.
S.M. Hersh, Samson Option, Ch. 4.
Jacobsen, Surprise, Kill, Vanish, Ch. 6.
Keay, Ch. 15-16.
Kwitny, Endless Enemies, Ch. 11.
Lilienthal, Alfred M. The Other Side of the Coin: An American Perspective of the Arab-Israeli Conflict. New York City: The Devin-Adair Co., 1965: Ch. 11.
Loftus & Aarons, Ch. 11.
Margolis, Eric S. American Raj: Liberation or Domination? Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2008: Ch. 4-5.
Oren, Michael B. [Michael Bornstein]. Power, Faith and Fantasy: America and the Middle East: 1776 to the Present, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2011: Ch. 26-27.
A. Parry, Ch. 33.
Pelletière, Stephen C. Israel in the Second Iraq War: The Influence of Likud. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2010: Ch. 6.
Perret, Commander in Chief, Ch. 7.
Quigley, John. The Ruses for War: American Interventionism Since World War II, rev. ed. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2007: Ch. 8.
Shulimson, Jack. Marines in Lebanon, 1958. Washington, D.C.: United States. Marine Corps. G-3 Division Headquarters. Historical Branch, 1966.
Stang, The Actor, Ch. 20-21.
Tyler, Patrick. A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East – From the Cold War to the War on Terror. New York City: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2009: Ch. 1.
Utley. Will the Middle East Go West? Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1957: Ch. 2, 4-5.
Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Ch. 9, 14.
iii. East Asia
(1) China
(a) Utley
(i) Last Chance in China, Ch. 10.
(ii) The China Story. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1951: Ch. 2, Appendix B, D.
(b) Other
Brown, Constantine. The Coming of the Whirlwind. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1964: Ch. 34.
Fish. FDR: The Other Side of the Coin: How We Were Tricked Into World War II. 1976. Rpt. Murrieta, Calif.: Life & Liberty Publishing, 2005: Ch. 22.
Gup, Ch. 1-2.
Hung, Ho-Fung. City on the Edge: Hong Kong Under Chinese Rule. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge UP, 2022: Ch. 3.
Keeley, Ch. 11, Appendix E-F.
Kubek, Ch. 13-17.
Offner, Ch. 12.
Stang, The Actor, Ch. 18.
Seagrave. The Soong Dynasty. New York City: Harper & Row, 1985: Ch. 20.
E. Thomas. Ike’s Bluff, Ch. 10.
White, T.H., and Annalee Jacoby. Thunder Out of China, rev. ed. New York City: Da Capo Press, 1980: Ch. 2, 19-21.
(2) The Indochina War
(a) Christian G. Appy
(i) Patriots: The Definitive Oral History, Told From All Sides. 2003. Rpt. London: Ebury Press, 2007: Pt. 2.
(ii) American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity. New York City: Viking, 2015: Ch. 1, 4.
(b) Kinzer
(i) Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change From Hawaii to Iraq. New York City: Times Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2006: Ch. 7.
(ii) The Brothers, Ch. 7.
(c) Prados
(i) The Hidden History of the Vietnam War, Ch. 1, 3.
(ii) Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 3rd rev. ed. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2006: Ch. 15.
(iii) Vietnam: The History of an Unwinnable War, 1945-1975. Lawrence, Kan.: UP of Kansas, 2009: Ch. 2.
(c) Others
Adams, James. Secret Armies, rev. ed. London: Pan Books, 1989: Ch. 7.
“Benson, Ragnar.” Modern Weapons Caching: A Down-to-Earth Approach to Beating the Government Gun Grab. Boulder, Colo.: Paladin Press, 1990: Ch. 3.
Bergerud, Eric M. The Dynamics of Defeat: The Vietnam War in Hau Nghia Province. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1991: Ch. 1-2, 12.
Berman, Larry. Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent. New York City: Smithsonian Books/Collins, 2007: Ch. 2.
Byrnes, Ch. 11.
Fall, Ch. 2-12.
W.J. Gill, Ch. 9.
Hastings, Max. Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975. New York City: Harper, 2018: Ch. 2-4.
Higgins, Marguerite. Our Vietnam Nightmare. New York City: Harper & Row, 1965: Ch. 9.
F.M. Kaplan, 1959, Ch. 14.
Knightley, Phillip. The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker From the Crimea to Iraq, 2nd rev. ed. 2003. Rpt. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2004: Ch. 16-17.
May, Ernest R. “Lessons” of the Past: The Use and Misuse of History in American Foreign Policy. New York City: Oxford UP, 1973: Ch. 4.
McCoy, Alfred W. The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade: Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, Central America, Columbia, 2nd rev. ed. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2003: Ch. 4.
Perloff, Ch. 8.
Reasoner, Harry. Before the Colors Fade: A Look Back. 1981. Rpt. New York City: Quill, 1983: Ch. 10.
Shrake, Ch. 1-2, 4-7.
H.R. Simpson, Ch. 1.
Price, David H. Cold War Anthropology: The CIA, the Pentagon, and the Growth of Dual Use Anthropology. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 2016: Ch. 12.
Stang, The Actor, Ch. 17.
Valentine, Douglas. The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam, rev. ed. New York City: Open Road Integrated Media, 2014: Ch. 2-3.
Wise, David, and Thomas B. Ross. The Invisible Government. 1964. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 1974: Ch. 10.
(3) Korea
Birtle, U.S. Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine, Ch. 3.
Fehrenbach. The Fight for Korea, Ch. 3.
Halliday, Jon, and Bruce Cummings. Korea: The Unknown War. 1988. Rpt. London: Penguin Books, 1990: Ch. 1.
Harden, Ch. 4-11.
E.R. May, Ch. 3.
(4) The Philippines
(a) The Seagraves
(i) The Marcos Dynasty. New York City: Harper & Row, 1988: Ch. 6-7, 19.
(ii) Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold, rev. ed. London: Verso, 2005: Ch. 10-11.
(b) Other
Karnow, Stanley. In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines. 1989. Rpt. New York City: Ballentine Books, 1990: Ch. 12-14.
McCoy, Alfred W. Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State. Madison, Wis.: U of Wisconsin P, 2009: Ch. 11.
Smith, Joseph Burkholder. Portrait of a Cold Warrior. 1976. Rpt. New York City: Ballentine Books, 1981: Ch. 7, 15-17.
(5) Japan
Conner, Howard M. The Spearhead: The World War II History of the 5th Marine Division. 1950. Rpt. Chicago: Barakaldo Books, 2020: Ch. 14-16.
Hunt, E. Howard, and Greg Aunapu. American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate, and Beyond. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2007: Ch. 9.
Russell, Dick. The Man Who Knew Too Much, rev. ed. New York City: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2003: Ch. 4-6.
S. Seagrave & P. Seagrave. The Yamato Dynasty: The Secret History of Japan's Imperial Family. New York City: Broadway Books, 1999: Ch. 9-10, 13.
(6) Kwitny
(1) Endless Enemies, Ch. 16.
(2) The Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money, and the CIA, corr. ed. New York City: Touchstone, 1988: Ch. 6.
(7) Prados
(a) William Colby and the CIA: The Secret Wars of a Controversial Spymaster. 2003. Rpt. Lawrence, Kan.: UP of Kansas, 2009: Ch. 3.
(b) Safe for Democracy, Ch. 7, 10.
(8) Other
Bosiljevac, T.L. SEALs: UDT/SEAL Operations in Vietnam. 1990. Rpt. New York City: Ivy Books, 1991: Ch. 1.
Cousins, Norman. The Pathology of Power. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1987: Ch. 4.
Doenecke, Ch. 9.
Dower, John W. Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor/Hiroshima/9-11/Iraq. New York City: W.W.Norton/The New Press, 2010: Pt. 3.
Fall, Ch. 13-14.
From MAD to Madness: Inside Pentagon Nuclear War Planning: A Memoir by Paul H. Johnstone, With Commentary by Diana Johnstone. Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2017: Pt. 3, Ch. 1.
Garwood, Ch. 8.
Gentile, Gian. Wrong Turn: America’s Deadly Embrace of Counterinsurgency. New York City: The New Press, 2013: Ch. 1-2.
Hastings, Vietnam, Ch. 5.
F.J. Johnson, Ch. 7.
"Kestrel, James" [Jonathan Moore]. Five Decembers. London: Hard Case Crime, 2021: Ch. 40-53.
Kinzer, The Brothers, Ch. 8.
Krüger & Meldon, Ch. 14.
Lederer, William J., and Eugene Burdick. The Ugly American. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1958.
A.W. McCoy, The Politics of Heroin, Ch. 5, 7.
McClintock, Ch. 4.
Night Stick: The Autobiography of Lewis J. Valentine. New York City: The Dial Press, 1947: Ch. 18.
G.L. Posner. Warlords of Crime: Chinese Secret Societies – The New Mafia. 1988. Rpt. Penguin Books, 1990: Ch. 3.
Perret, Commander in Chief, Ch. 6.
J. Quigley, Ch. 7, 10-11.
S. Seagrave & P. Seagrave, Gold Warriors, Ch. 7-9.
Shrake, Bud. Night Never Falls. New York City: Random House, 1987: Ch. 9-11.
J.B. Smith, Ch. 6, 8-14.
E. Thomas, Very Best Men, Ch. 19.
Thompson, Leroy. De Oppresso Liber: The Illustrated History of the U.S. Army Special Forces. Boulder, Colo.: Paladin Press, 1987: Ch. 3.
Trento, Ch. 14, 42.
Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Ch. 12, 15.
R.K. Wilcox. Japan’s Secret War: How Japan's Race to Build Its Own Atomic Bomb Provided the Groundwork for North Korea's Nuclear Program, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Permuted Press, 2019: Ch. 22-24.
Wise & T.B. Ross, Ch. 7-9.
Wormser, René A. The Myth of the Good and Bad Nations. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1954: Ch. 9-10.
iv. Latin America
(1) Cuba
(a) Waldron et al.
Waldron. The Hidden History of the JFK Assassination: The Definitive Account of the Most Controversial Crime of the Twentieth Century. Berkeley, Calif.: Counterpoint, 2013: Ch. 6.
Waldron & Hartmann. Ultimate Sacrifice, Ch. 14, 29-34.
(b) Others
Bethel, Ch. 3, 5-6, 8.
Davis, John H. Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. New York City: McGraw-Hill, 1989: Ch. 15.
Espaillat, Arturo R. Trujillo: The Last Caesar. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1963: Ch. 14.
Fontova, Fidel, Ch. 9.
Fulsom, Ch. 9.
Kaiser, David E. The Road to Dallas: The Assasination of John F. Kennedy. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 2008: Ch. 2.
Kinzer, The Brothers, Ch. 10.
Maier, Thomas. Mafia Spies: The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castro. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2019: Ch. 3, 5, 9-11, 13, 17.
Morley, Jefferson. Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA. Lawrence, Kan.: UP of Kansas, 2008: Ch. 8.
J.M. Newman, Oswald and the CIA, Ch. 8.
Prados, Safe for Democracy, Ch. 11.
Rodriguez & J. Weisman, Ch. 3-4.
E.E.T. Smith, Ch. 1-4, 6-14, 16-19, 21-22.
Stang, The Actor, Ch. 22.
E. Thomas, Very Best Men, Ch. 14, 16.
Veciana & C. Harrison, Ch. 4-5.
R.K. Wilcox, Target: JFK, Ch. 29-31.
Wise & T.B. Ross, Ch. 3.
(2) Guatemala
Jacobsen, Surprise, Kill, Vanish, Ch. 5.
Kinzer, Overthrow, Ch. 6.
Kinzer, The Brothers, Ch. 6.
J. Morley, Our Man in Mexico, Ch. 5.
Schlesinger, Stephen, and Kinzer. Bitter Fruit: The Story of the American Coup in Guatemala, rev. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP/David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, 2005: Ch. 1, 6-15.
(3) Elsewhere
Agee, Philip. Inside the Company: CIA Diary, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Bantam Books, 1981: Pt. 2.
Ellroy, American Tabloid, Ch. 24.
Espaillat, Ch. 1, 7-8, 10-13, 15.
Garwood, Ch. 3-4.
Harding, Ch. 13-16.
E.H. Hunt & Aunapu, Ch. 7, 10.
S. Hunter & Bainbridge Jr., Ch. 40.
Kwitny, Endless Enemies, Ch. 13.
J. Morley, Our Man in Mexico, Ch. 7.
Nixon, Six Crises, Ch. 4.
Prados, Safe for Democracy, Ch. 17.
Quigley, Bill. The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse. Ed. Marjorie Cohn. New York City: New York UP, 2011: Ch. 2.
J. Quigley, Ch. 6, 9.
Trento, Ch. 46.
Vidal. Dark Green, Bright Red. New York City: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1950.
Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Ch. 10.
Wise & T.B. Ross, Ch. 11, 24.
v. Africa
(1) Algeria
Anselme, Daniel [Daniel Rabinovitch]. On Leave. 1957. Trans. David Bellos. New York City: Faber and Faber, 2014.
Horne, Alistair. A Savage War of Peace: Algeria 1954-1962, 3rd rev. ed. New York City: New York Review Books, 2006: Ch. 2-20.
Knightley, The First Casualty, Ch. 15.
Morgan, Ted [Sanche Armand Gabriel de Gramont]. My Battle of Algiers: A Memoir. New York City: Smithsonian Books/Collins, 2005: Ch. 4-9.
Shrake, Ch. 17-20.
(2) The Congo
Devlin, Larry. Chief of Station, Congo: A Memoir of 1960-67. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2007: Ch. 1-10.
Kinzer, The Brothers, Ch. 9.
Kwitny, Endless Enemies, Ch. 4-5.
J. Quigley, Ch. 13.
Wrong, Michela. In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu’s Congo. 2000. Rpt. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2001: Ch. 3.
Thomas, Gordon. Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad, 6th rev. ed. New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin, 2015: Ch. 13.
(3) Other
Cummings, Ch. 15.
H.R. Simpson, Ch. 2-3.
vi. I. Fleming
(a) Live and Let Die. 1954. Rpt. Toronto: Joe Books, 2015.
(b) Moonraker. 1955. Rpt. London: Penguin Books, 2002.
(c) From Russia With Love, Ch. 11-28.
(d) Goldfinger. 1959. Rpt. New York City: Penguin Books, 2002.
(e) Thunderball. 1961. Rpt. Las Vegas: Thomas & Mercer, 2012.
(f) Quantum of Solace: 007, the Complete James Bond Short Stories. New York City: Penguin Books, 2008.
vii. Kinzer
(1) Overthrow, Ch. 9.
(2) The Brothers, Ch. 4, 11.
viii. Utley
(a) The China Story. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1951: Ch. 6, Appendix A, C.
(b) Will the Middle East Go West?, Ch. 6.
ix. Other
James Adams, Secret Armies, Ch. 5.
Allan, Chantal. Bomb Canada and Other Unkind Remarks in the American Media. Edmonton, Alb.: AU Press, 2009: Ch. 3.
G. Allen. The Rockefeller File. 1976. Rpt. Cutchogue, N.Y.: Buccaneer Books, 1994: Ch. 8.
Beckley, Michael. “The Myth of Entangling Alliances: Reassessing the Security Risks of U.S. Defense Pacts.” International Security Spring 2015: 7-48.
Birtle, Andrew J. U.S. Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine 1942-1976. Washington, D.C.: United States. Army. Center of Military History, 2006: Ch. 2, 5, 7.
Boot, Max. The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power. New York City: Basic Books, 2002: Ch. 13.
Buruma, Ian. Year Zero: A History of 1945. New York City: The Penguin Press, 2013: Ch. 5, 9.
Chamberlin, William Henry. America’s Second Crusade. 1950. Rpt. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2008: Ch. 13.
Clarridge, Duane R., and Digby Diehl. A Spy for All Seasons: My Life in the CIA. New York City: Scribner, 1997: Ch. 4-5.
Cold War Critics: Alternatives to American Foreign Policy in the Truman Years. Ed. Thomas G. Paterson. Chicago: Quadrangle Books, 1971.
Dewart, Ch. 1.
Cole, Wayne S. An Interpretive History of American Foreign Relations, rev. ed. Homewood, Ill.: The Dorsey Press, 1974: Ch. 37.
Doenecke, Justus D. Not to the Swift: The Old Isolationists in the Cold War Era. Lewisburg, Pa.: Bucknell UP, 1979: Ch. 7-8, 10.
Findley, Paul. The Federal Farm Fable. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1968: Ch. 7.
Freeland, Pt. 1, Ch. 4-5; Pt. 2, 4, 6; Pt. 8, Ch. 1.
Hackworth, U.S. Army Col. David. H. (ret.), and Julie Sherman. About Face. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1989: Ch. 2, 11.
Garrett, American Story, Pt. 6, Ch. 2-4.
W.J. Gill, Ch. 38.
Government of the Shadows: Parapolitics and Criminal Sovereignty. Ed. Eric Wilson and Tim Lindsey. London: Pluto Press, 2009: Ch. 13.
Grose, Peter. Gentleman Spy: The Life of Allen Dulles. 1994. Rpt. London: André Deutsch, 1995: Ch. 14.
Groseclose, Ch. 30.
Hersh, Burton. The Old Boys: The American Elite and the Origins of the CIA, rev. ed. St. Petersburg, Fa.: Tree Farm Books, 2002: Ch. 18, 20-21.
Isaacson, Walter, and E. Thomas. The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made: Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloy. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1986: Ch. 9-19.
Jacobsen, Surprise, Kill, Vanish, Ch. 8-9.
Kwitny, Jonathan. Endless Enemies: The Making of an Unfriendly World, corr. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 1986: Ch. 20.
Layne, Ch. 3.
Levine, Yasha. Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2018: Ch. 7.
Linebarger, Paul M.A. Psychological Warfare, rev. ed. 1954. Rpt. Landisville, Pa.: Coachwhip Publications, 2012: Ch. 14-16.
Loftus & Aarons, Ch. 13.
Lowe, Ch. 15.
Marchetti, Victor, and John D. Marks. The CIA and the Cult of Intelligence, corr. ed. New York City: Dell Publishing Co., 1980: Ch. 2, 4-5.
Maren, Michael The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity. New York City: The Free Press, 1997: Ch. 11.
Marrs, Jim. The Rise of the Fourth Reich, Ch. 11.
Martin, David C. Wilderness of Mirrors: The Intrigue, Deception, and the Secrets That Destroyed Two of the Cold War's Most Important Agents, rev. ed. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2018: Ch. 3-5.
E.R. May, Ch. 2.
McClintock, Michael. Instruments of Statecraft: U.S. Guerrilla Warfare, Counterinsurgency, and Counter-Terrorism, 1940-1990. New York City: Pantheon Books, 1992: Ch. 5, 8-10, 12.
A.W. McCoy. In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power. Chicago: Dispatch Books/Haymarket Books, 2017: Ch. 2, 5.
McSherry, J. Patrice. Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005: Ch. 2.
Moynahan, Brian. The French Century: An Illustrated History of Modern France. Paris: Flammarion, 2007: Ch. 12.
Napoleoni, Loretta. Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Seven Stories Press, 2005: Ch. 2.
Nisbet, Robert A. Foreign Policy and the American Mind. 1961. Menlo Park, Calif.: Institute for Humane Studies, 1978.
Nitze, Paul H., Ann M. Smith, and Steven L. Rearden. From Hiroshima to Glastnost: At the Center of Decision — a Memoir. New York City: Grove Weidenfeld, 1989: Ch. 3, 7, 9-10.
Marshall, Peter Dale Scott, and Jane Hunter. The Iran-Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era. Boston: South End Press, 1987: Ch. 3.
Perpetual War for Perpetual Peace: A Critical Examination of the Foreign Policy of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Its Aftermath, rev. ed. Ed. Harry Elmer Barnes. Torrance, Calif: Institute for Historical Review, 1982: Ch. 1.
Perret, Commander in Chief, Ch. 13.
Prouty, L. Fletcher. The Secret Team: The CIA and Its Allies in Control of the United States and the World, 2nd rev. ed. 1997. Rpt. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2008: Ch. 20, Appendix 3.
Schweizer, Reagan’s War, Ch. 3.
C. Simpson. Ch. 8-12, 17.
Snyder, Alvin A. Warriors of Disinformation: How Lies, Videotape, and the USIA Won the Cold War. 1995. Rpt. New York City: Arcade Publishing, 2012: Ch. 2.
Soley & Nichols, Ch. 1, 3-4.
Stang, The Actor, Ch. 16, 19.
D. Talbot, The Devil’s Chessboard, Ch. 10.
E. Thomas. Ike’s Bluff, Ch. 14-15, 19, 24.
Trento, Ch. 9, 12-13, 15-21, 24.
Weiner, Tim. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, rev. ed. New York City: Anchor Books, 2008: Ch. Ch. 2, 16.
Wicker, Ch. 4.
Wise & T.B. Ross, Ch. 23.
g. The Korean War
i. The North Korean Invasion
Cowdrey, Albert E. The Medics’ War. Washington, D.C.: United States. Army. Center of Military History, 1987: Ch. 3.
G.E. Griffin, Ch. 14.
Hanley, Charles J. et al. The Bridge at No Gun Ri: A Hidden Nightmare From the Korea War. New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 2001: Ch. 3-9.
Ridgway, Gen. Matthew B. (ret.). The Korean War. 1967. Rpt. New York City: Da Capo Press, 1986: Ch. 2.
Ward, Orlando. Korea – 1950. 1952. Rpt. Washington, D.C.: United States. Army. Center of Military History, 1982: Ch. 2.
Webb, William J. The Korean War: The Outbreak, 27 June-15 September, 1950. Washington, D.C.: United States. Army. Center of Military History, 2000.
ii. The United Nations Response
(1) The Battle of Inchon
Geer, Andrew. The New Breed: The Story of the U.S. Marines in Korea. 1952. Rpt. Nashville, Tenn.: Battery Press, 1989: Ch. 9-10.
Hoffman, USMCR Lt. Col. Jon T. Chesty: The Story of Lieutenant General Lewis B. Puller, USMC. New York City: Random House, 2001: Ch. 17.
James, D. Clayton, and Anne Sharp Wells. Refighting the Last War: Command and Crisis in Korea, 1950-1953. New York City: The Free Press, 1993: Ch. 7.
Simmons, USMC Brig. Gen. Edwin H. (ret.). Over the Seawall: U.S. Marines at Inchon. Washington, D.C.: Marine Corps Historical Center, 2000.
(2) Other
Cowdrey, Ch. 4.
Gammons, Stephen L.Y. The Korean War: The UN Offensive, 16 September-2 November 1950. Washington, D.C.: United States. Army. Center of Military History, 2000.
Geer, Ch. 1-8, 11-14, 16.
J.T. Hoffman, Ch. 18-19.
D.C. James & Wells, Ch. 6, 8.
Lee, Robert W. The United Nations Conspiracy. Belmont, Mass.: Western Islands Publishers, 1981: Ch. 5.
Ridgway, Ch. 3.
Russ, Martin. Breakout: The Chosin Reservoir Campaign, Korea, 1950. 1999. Rpt. New York City: Penguin Books, 2000: Ch. 1-24.
Villahermosa, Col. Gilberto N. Honor and Fidelity: The 65th Infantry in Korea, 1950-1953. Washington, D.C.: United States. Army. Center of Military History, 2009: Ch. 2.
O. Ward, Ch. 3-4.
iii. The Chinese Counterattack
Garner, James [James Bumgarner], and Jon Winokur. The Garner Files. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2011: Ch. 2.
Geer, Ch. 15, 17-22.
Halberstam, David. The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War. New York City: Hyperion, 2007: Ch. 1-2, 5-6, 10, 18-25, 27-53.
J.T. Hoffman, Ch. 20-21.
Miller, John Jr., Maj. Owen J. Curroll, and Margaret E. Tackley. Korea, 1951-1953. Washington, D.C.: United States. Department of the Army. Center of Military History, 1982: Ch. 1-3.
Ridgway, Ch. 4.
Russ, Ch. 25-78.
Stewart, Richard W. The Korean War: The Chinese Intervention, 3 November 1950-24 January 1951. Washington, D.C.: United States. Army. Center of Military History, 2000.
Villahermosa, Ch. 3.
O. Ward, Ch. 5.
iv. The Stalemate
Birtle, A.J. The Korean War: Years of Stalemate, July 1951-July 1953. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Center for Military History, 2000.
Caine, Michael [Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr.]. What's It All About?: An Autobiography. 1992. Rpt. New York City: Ballantine Books, 1994: Ch. 5-6.
Cowdrey, Ch. 7.
Herbert, Anthony B., and Robert L. Niemann. Conquest to Nowhere. Herminie, Pa.: Keystone Publishing Co., 1955.
James, D. Clayton. Command Crisis: MacArthur and the Korean War. Colorado Springs, Colo.: United States. Air Force Academy, 1982.
D.C. James & Wells, Ch. 9-11.
Kahn, E.J. Jr. The Peculiar War: Impressions of a Reporter in Korea. New York City: Random House, 1952: Ch. 1-8, 10-14
J. Miller, Curroll & Tackley, Ch. 4-10.
Oliver, Robert Tarbell. Verdict in Korea. State College, Pa.: Bald Eagle Press, 1952: Ch. 1-11, 13-14.
Ridgway, Ch. 5-8.
Villahermosa, Ch. 4-11.
v. Aerial Warfare
Airpower: The Decisive Force in Korea. Ed. USAF Col. James T. Stewart. 1957. Rpt. New York City: Arno Press, 1980.
Harden, Ch. 4-11.
Millar, USAF Capt. Ward M. [and Clay Blair Jr.]. Valley of the Shadow. New York City: David McKay Co., 1955: Ch. 1.
Salter, James [James A. Horowitz]. The Hunters, rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 1997.
Steadfast and Courageous: FEAF Bomber Command and the Air War in Korea, 1950-1953. Washington, D.C.: Air Force History and Museums Program, 2000.
Thompson, Wayne, and Bernard C. Nalty. Within Limits: The U.S. Air Force and the Korean War. 1996. Rpt. Honolulu: UP of the Pacific, 2005.
vi. Prisoners of War
J. Anderson. Washington Exposé, rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1967: Ch. 17.
Benard, Cheryl et al. The Battle Behind the Wire: U.S. Prisoner and Detainee Operations From World War II to Iraq. Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND National Defense Research Institute, 2011: Ch. 3.
Millar, Ch. 2-10.
vii. Fehrenbach
(1) This Kind of War: A Study in Unpreparedness. 1963. Rpt. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's, 1994: Ch. 1, 3-39.
(2) The Fight for Korea, Ch. 3-7.
viii. Ridgway
Ridgway, Ch. 9-10.
D.C. James & Wells, Ch. 3.
ix. Other
James Adams, Secret Armies, Ch. 6.
Biggs, Barton. Wealth, War, and Wisdom. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2008: Ch. 14.
Constantine Brown, Ch. 35.
Caro, Lyndon Johnson, Vol. III, Ch. 16.
Coram, Robert. Brute: The Life of Victor Krulak, U.S. Marine. New York City: Little, Brown and Co., 2010: Ch. 10-11.
Cowdrey, Ch. 5-6, 8-11.
Feldman, Ch. 38-39.
J.T. Flynn, While You Slept, Ch. 1.
Hackworth & J. Sherman, Ch. 1, 3-9.
Haig, Alexander M. Jr., and McCarry. Inner Circles: How America Changed the World: A Memoir. New York City: Warner Books, 1992: Ch. 2-4.
Halliday & Cummings, Ch. 2-6.
Hastings. The Korean War. 1987. Rpt. Basingstoke, U.K.: Papermac, 1993: Ch. 2-18.
Jacobsen, Surprise, Kill, Vanish, Ch. 2.
D.C. James & Wells, Ch. 1-2, 5.
Janis, Ch. 3.
F.M. Kaplan. The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2013: Ch. 7.
Kirchner, Paul. The Deadliest Men: The World's Deadliest Combatants Through the Ages. Boulder, Colo.: Paladin Press, 2001: Ch. 35.
Knightley, The First Casualty, Ch. 14.
McGrath, John J. The Korean War: Restoring the Balance, 25 January-8 July 1951. Washington, D.C.: United States. Army. Center of Military History, 2000.
Millar, Ch. 11-18.
Nitze et al., Ch. 6.
Offner, Ch. 13-14.
Parsson, Jens O. Dying of Money: Lessons of the Great German and American Inflations. Boston: Wellspring Press, 1974: Ch. 9.
Perret, Commander in Chief, Ch. 10-12.
Perry, Ch. 17.
J. Quigley, Ch. 3-5.
Rehnquist, William H. The Supreme Court, rev. ed. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001: Ch. 8-9.
Somary, Ch. 60-61.
Stang, The Actor, Ch. 14.
"Stone, Eddie" [Carlton Hollander]. Donald Writes No More: A Biography of Donald Goines, rev. ed. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1988: Ch. 4.
Stone, I.F. [Isadore Feinstein]. The Hidden History of the Korean War, rev. ed. New York City: Monthly Review Press, 1969.
E. Thomas. Ike’s Bluff, Ch. 5.
Utley, The China Story, Ch. 4.
Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Ch. 6.
Westover, Capt. John G. Combat Support in Korea. 1955. Rpt. Washington, D.C.: United States. Army. Center of Military History, 1987.
Woods, Thomas E. Jr., and Kevin R.C. Gutzman. Who Killed the Constitution? The Fate of American Liberty from World War I to George W. Bush. New York City: Crown Forum, 2008: Ch. 2, 11.
h. The Executive Police Agencies
i. The CIA
(1) LSD Experiments
Bowart, Ch. 6-7.
Cummings, Ch. 9.
Jacobsen. Operation Paperclip, Ch. 19.
Knightley. The Second Oldest Profession: Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century, rev. ed. London: Pimlico, 2003: Ch. 11.
Lee, Martin A. and Bruce Shlain. Acid Dreams: The Complete Social History of LSD: The CIA, the Sixties, and Beyond, rev. ed. 1992. Rpt. London: Pan Books, 2001: Ch. 2.
O'Neill, Tom, and Dan Piepenbring. Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties. New York City: Little, Brown and Co., 2019: Ch. 11.
Ronson, Jon. The Men Who Stare at Goats. London: Picador, 2004: Ch. 14-15.
D. Valentine. The Strength of the Wolf: The Secret History of America’s War on Drugs. London: Verso, 2004: Ch. 9.
(2) Agee
(a) Inside the Company, Pt. 1.
(b) On the Run. 1987. Rpt. London: Bloomsbury, 1988: Ch. 1.
(3) James J. Angleton
Mangold, Ch. 4-5, 9, 11, 18.
J. Morley. The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 2017: Pt. 1.
(4) Allen Dulles
Grose, Ch. 11-13, 15-18.
Mosley, Leonard. Dulles: A Biography of Eleanor, Allen, and John Foster Dulles and Their Family Network. 1978. Rpt. New York City: Dell Publishing Co., 1979: Ch. 14, 16, 21.
D. Talbot. Devil’s Chessboard, Ch. 7, 11-13.
(5) Jacobsen
(a) Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base, rev. ed. New York City: Back Bay Books, 2012: Ch. 3, 8, 15.
(b) Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins. New York City: Little, Brown and Co., 2019: Ch. 2.
(6) Kessler
(a) Inside the CIA: Revealing the Secrets of the World's Most Powerful Spy Agency, rev. ed. New York City: Pocket Books, 1994: Ch. 2, 5-6, 8-10, 13-14, 17-18, 21, 25-26.
(b) The CIA at War: Inside the Secret Campaign Against Terror, rev. ed. New York City: St. Martin's Griffin, 2004: Ch. 4-5, 12.
(7) Peter Maas
(a) Manhunt. 1986. Rpt. New York City: Ibooks, 2002: Ch. 3.
(b) Killer Spy: The Inside Story of the FBI’s Pursuit and Capture of Aldrich Ames, America’s Deadliest Spy. New York City: Warner Books, 1995: Ch. 2.
(8) John D. Marks et al.
The CIA File. Ed. Robert L. Borosage and John Marks. New York City: Grossman Publishers, 1976: Ch. 5, 7-8.
Marchetti & Marks, Ch. 1, 6-11.
Marks, John D. The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: The CIA and Mind Control, rev. ed. New York City: W.W. Norton, 1992: Ch. 2-5, 7-11.
(9) A.W. McCoy
(a) The United States and Torture, Ch. 1.
(b) A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror, rev. ed. New York City: Owl Books, 2007: Ch. 2.
(c) Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation. Madison, Wis.: U of Wisconsin P, 2012: Ch. 1-2.
(10) Prados
(a) The Hidden History of the Vietnam War, Ch. 4.
(b) William Colby, Ch. 4-5.
(c) Safe for Democracy, Ch. 4-6, 8-9.
(d) The Family Jewels: The CIA, Secrecy, and Presidential Power, rev. ed. Austin, Texas: U of Texas P, 2014: Ch. 4, 6-7.
(e) The Ghosts of Langley: Into the CIA's Heart of Darkness. New York City: The New Press, 2017: Ch. 4, 6.
(11) Other
Bird, Kai. The Color of Truth: McGeorge Bundy and William Bundy: Brothers in Arms. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1998: Ch. 9.
Block, Alan A. Masters of Paradise: Organized Crime and the Internal Revenue Service in the Bahamas, rev. ed. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1998: Ch. 6.
Blum, The Spy Who Knew Too Much, Ch. 4-7.
Bowart, Ch. 16, 36.
Brewton, Pete. The Mafia, CIA, and George Bush. New York City: S.P.I. Books, 1992: Ch. 7-8.
Clarridge & Diehl, Ch. 3.
M.A. Collins, Better Dead, Ch. 15, 17-22.
Copeland, Game Player, Ch. 10-11, 13-14, 17-18.
Dean, Josh. The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History. New York City: Dutton, 2017: Ch. 6.
Earley. Confessions of a Spy: The Real Story of Aldrich Ames. 1997. Rpt. New York City: Berkley Books, 1998: Ch. 1-2.
Garwood, Ch. 1-2, 10-12, 14-15.
Goldwater Sr., Why Not Victory?, Ch. 3.
Gup, Ch. 4-5.
Hart, John. The Monster Plot. McLean, Va.: United States. Central Intelligence Agency, 1978: Ch. 11.
B. Hersh, The Old Boys, Ch. 11-17, 19.
E.H. Hunt & Aunapu, Ch. 6.
Irving & Burkholz, Ch. 8.
Johnson, Chalmers. Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope. New York City: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2010: Ch. 2.
D.E. Kaiser, Ch. 3.
Kinzer. Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control. New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 2019: Ch. 3-10.
Loftus & Aarons, Ch. 10.
Mackenzie, Angus. Secrets: The CIA’s War at Home. Berkeley, Calif.: U of California P, 1997: Ch. 1.
Maier, Ch. 2, 4.
Marshall, Drug Wars, Ch. 4.
McGehee, Ralph W. Deadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA. New York City: Sheridan Square Publications, 1983: Ch. 2-4.
Meyer, Cord. Facing Reality: From World Federalism to the CIA. 1980. Rpt. Washington, D.C.: UP of America, 1982: Ch. 4-7.
J. Morley, Our Man in Mexico, Ch. 4, 6, 9.
Paglen, Trevor. Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World. New York City: Dutton, 2009: Ch. 12.
Parry, Robert. Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & ‘Project Truth.’ Arlington, Va.: The Media Consortium, 1999: Ch. 8, 12.
Piper, Ch. 8-9, 15.
Price, Ch. 1-11, 13-14.
Prouty, Ch. 1, 3, 5, 6-19, 21, 23, Appendix 1-2.
Ruppert, Michael C. Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil. Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers, 2004: Ch. 3.
D. Russell, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Ch. 7-8.
Shackley, Ted, and Richard A. Finney. Spymaster: My Life in the CIA. Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books, 2005: Ch. 1-3.
C. Simpson, Blowback, Ch. 14-15.
J.B. Smith, Ch. 3-4, 6.
Smith, Richard Harris. OSS: The Secret History of America’s First Central Intelligence Agency. 1972: Rpt. Guildford, Conn.: Lyons Press, 2005: Ch. 11.
R. Stone & Colapietro, The Man Who Killed Kennedy, Ch. 6.
Sweet, Matthew. Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves. New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 2018: Ch. 14.
E. Thomas, Very Best Men, Ch. 2, 4, 7-9, 11-13, 15.
Trento, Ch. 6, 10-11, 22, 28, 30.
Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Ch. 3-5, 7-8, 11, 13.
Wise & T.B. Ross, Ch. 16-17.
Wyden, Ch. 8.
ii. The FBI
Albright & Kunstel, Ch. 23.
J. Anderson, and Daryl Gibson. Peace, War, and Politics: An Eyewitness Account. New York City: Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, 1999: Ch. 10.
Blum, In the Enemy’s House, Ch. 12, 20-21, 25, 27-30, 32-33, 35-37.
Bovard, James. Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice and Peace to Rid the World of Evil, rev. ed. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004: Ch. 12.
Ellroy, American Tabloid, Ch. 11.
E.J. Epstein. Agency of Fear: Opiates and Political Power in America, rev. ed. London: Verso, 1990: Ch. 3.
The FBI and Religion, Ch. 4.
Gentry, Curt. J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets. W.W. Norton & Co., 1991: Ch. 23-27.
B. Hersh. Bobby and J. Edgar: The Historic Face-Off Between the Kennedys and J. Edgar Hoover That Transformed America. New York City: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2007: Ch. 22.
Kessler, The Bureau, Ch. 10.
Medsger, Betty. The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014: Ch. 19.
Nelson, Phillip F. Who Really Killed Martin Luther King Jr.?: The Case Against Lyndon B. Johnson and J. Edgar Hoover. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2018: Ch. 2.
Overstreet, Harry, and Bonaro Overstreet. The FBI in Our Open Society. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1969: Ch. 13-14, 26.
Porter, Darwin. J. Edgar Hoover & Clyde Tolson: Investigating the Sexual Secrets of America’s Most Famous Men and Women. New York City: Blood Moon Productions, 2012: Ch. 7-11.
Scott, Joseph L. No Left Turns. New York City: Praeger Publishers, 1975: Ch. 2-4, 6-13, 15.
Weiner. Enemies: A History of the FBI. New York City: Random House, 2012: Ch. 17-25.
R.K. Wilcox, Target: JFK, Ch. 20, 23.
Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy, rev. ed. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 1997: Ch. 7-9.
iii. The Secret Service
Blaine, Gerald, and Lisa McCubbin. The Kennedy Detail: JFK’s Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence. New York City: Gallery Books, 2010: Ch. 2.
M.A. Collins, Majic Man, Ch. 3.
iv. The British
Knightley, The Second Oldest Profession, Ch. 12.
Macintyre, Ben. A Spy Among Friends: Philby and the Great Betrayal. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014: Ch. 8-15.
Wright, Peter, and Paul Greengrass. Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intellgence Officer, rev. ed. New York City: Dell, 1988: Ch. 1, 3-11.
v. Marshall
(1) The Iran-Contra Connection, Ch. 10.
(2) Dealing With Drugs: Consequences of Government Control. Ed. Ronald Hamowy. San Francisco: Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy/Lexington Books, 1987: Ch. 4.
vi. Others
Blum, In the Enemy’s House, Ch. 11, 14-18, 22-23, 26.
B. Collins & M.A. Collins, Ch. 2.
Goulden, Joseph C. Truth Is the First Casualty: The Gulf of Tonkin Affair – Illusion and Reality. Chicago: James B. Adler/Rand McNally & Co., 1969: Ch. 4.
Hager, Nicky. Secret Power, rev. ed. Nelson, New Zealand: Craig Potton Publishing, 2007: Ch. 14, Appendix, A, C.
Jacboson, Sid, and Ernie Colón. The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation. New York City: Hill and Wang, 2006: Ch. 3.
Knightley, The Second Oldest Profession, Ch. 13.
Moynihan, U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick, D-N.Y. Secrecy: The American Experience, rev. ed. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 1999: Ch. 6-7.
Prados, Keeper of the Keys, Pt. 9.
Rothmiller, Mike, and Ivan G. Goldman. L.A. Secret Police: Inside the LAPD Elite Spy Network. New York City: Pocket Books, 1992: Ch. 1, 8.
Schwarz, Frederick A.O. Jr. and Aziz Huq. Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror. New York City: New Press/Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, 2007: Ch. 2.
Shorrock, Tim. Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2008: Ch. 3, 9.
G. Thomas, Ch. 11.
N. West. Games of Intelligence: The Classified Conflict of International Espionage. New York City: Crown Publishers, 1989: Ch. 3.
Wise & T.B. Ross, Ch. 1, 13-14, 18, 26.
i. The Schools
Bird, The Color of Truth, Ch. 7.
L. Block. Step by Step: A Pedestrian Memoir. New York City: William Morrow, 2009: Ch. 7.
Blumenfeld, Samuel, and Alex Newman. Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America's Children. Washington, D.C.: WND Books, 2015: Ch. 19.
Clarridge & Diehl, Ch. 2.
Cummings, Ch. 6-7.
Damerell, Reginald G. Education's Smoking Gun: How Teachers Colleges Have Destroyed Education in America. New York City: Freundlich Books, 1985: Ch. 11.
M.S. Evans. Revolt on the Campus. 1961. Rpt. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1979: Ch. 8.
Grossinger, Tania. Growing Up at Grossinger's. 1975. Rpt. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2008: Ch. 15.
Hurlburd, David. This Happened in Pasadena. New York City: The Macmillan Co., 1951.
Leslie, W. Bruce. Images of America: Princeton University: The First 275 Years. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2022: Ch. 7.
Nisbet. The Degradation of the Academic Dogma. 1971. Rpt. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1997: Pt. 2-3.
Piereson, Shattered Consensus, Ch. 17.
Scribner, Campbell F. The Fight for Local Control: Schools, Suburbs, and American Democracy. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell UP, 2016: Ch. 3-5.
J.B. Smith, Ch. 2.
Smith, Ken. Mental Hygiene: Classroom Films 1945-1970. New York City: Blast Books, 1999.
Tenney, Edward A. The Highway Jungle: The Story of the Public Safety Movement and of the Failure of "Driver Education" in the Public Schools. New York City: Exposition Press, 1962: Ch. 5-11.
Vidich, Arthur J. With a Critical Eye: An Intellectual and His Times. Ed. Robert Jackall. Knoxville, Tenn.: Newfound Press/U of Tennessee Libraries, 2009: Ch. 5-8, 10.
Whyte, William H. The Organization Man. 1956. Rpt. Philadelphia: U of Pennsylvania P, 2002: Ch. 7-8.
Wolters, Raymond. Race and Education, 1954-2007. Columbia, Mo.: U of Missouri P, 2008: Ch. 2-3.
j. The Clintons
i. Christopher P. Andersen
(1) Bill and Hillary: The Marriage. New York City: William Morrow and Co., 1999: Ch. 2-3.
(2) American Evita: Hillary Clinton’s Path to Power. New York City: William Morrow, 2004: Ch. 1.
ii. Other
Klein, Edward. The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She’ll Go to Become President. New York City: Sentinel, 2005: Ch. 6.
k. The Intellectuals
i. The Council on Foreign Relations
(1) G. Allen
(a) Kissinger: The Secret Side of the Secretary of State. Seal Beach, Calif.: '76 Press, 1976: Ch. 4.
(b) Rockefeller File, Ch. 5.
(2) Other
Courtney, Kent, and Phoebe Courtney. America’s Unelected Rulers: The Council on Foreign Relations. New Orleans: Conservative Society of America, 1962: Ch. 1-2, 5, 8.
ii. The Foundations
Whyte, Ch. 18.
Wormser. Foundations: Their Power and Influence. 1958. Rpt. Sevierville, U.K.: Covenant House, 1993.
iii. Other
Aron, Raymond. The Opium of the Intellectuals, 3rd rev. ed. Somerset, U.K.: Taylor and Francis, 2001.
Bacevich, Andrew J. Twilight of the American Century, Notre Dame, Ind.: U of Notre Dame P, 2018: Ch. 17.
Bird, The Color of Truth, Ch. 6.
Broughel, James. "The Unlikely Story of American Regulatory Socialism." Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Spring 2021: 147-165.
Coleman, Peter. The Liberal Conspiracy: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Struggle for the Mind of Postwar Europe. New York City: The Free Press, 1989: Ch. 1-10, 12-13, 16, Appendix A-D.
Cummings, Ch. 8, 10-13.
Gelernter, David. America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats). New York City: Encounter Books, 2012: Ch. 1, 4-5.
F.M. Kaplan, 1959, Ch. 8.
McCraw, Thomas K. Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 2007: Ch. 24, 27-28.
Molnar, Thomas. The Decline of the Intellectual, rev. ed. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1994: Ch. 9-10.
Poundstone, William. Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb. 1992. Rpt. New York City: Anchor Books, 1993: Ch. 5-6, 8-9.
Schiebla, Shirley. Poverty Is Where the Money Is. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1968: Ch. 1.
Siegel. The Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class, rev. ed. New York City: Encounter Books, 2015: Ch. 7.
Smith, James Allen. The Idea Brokers: Think Tanks and the Rise of the New Policy Elite. New York City: The Free Press, 1991: Ch. 6.
l. The U.S. Armed Forces
i. The Army

J. Anderson & Boyd, Ch. 7.
Bakken, Tim. The Cost of Loyalty: Dishonesty, Hubris, and Failure in the U.S. Military. New York City: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020: Ch. 2, 4-5.
Binelli, Mark. Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ All-Time Greatest Hits: A Novel. New York City: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt & Co., 2016: Ch. 5.
Birtle, U.S. Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine, Ch. 4.
Capeci, and Tom Robbins. Mob Boss: The Life of Little Al D’Arco, the Man Who Brought Down the Mafia. 2013. Rpt. New York City: St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2015: Ch. 3.
Chepesiuk, Ron. Sergeant Smack: The Legendary Life and Times of Ike Atkinson, Kingpin, and His Band of Brothers. Rock Hill, S.C.: Strategic Media, 2010: Ch. 2.
Cowdrey, Ch. 1-2.
DeYoung, Karen. Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell. 2006. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 2007: Ch. 3.
Kennedy, William. Very Old Bones. New York City: Viking, 1992: Pt. 1, Ch. 3-4.
Hackworth & J. Sherman, Ch. 10.
Haig & McCarry, Ch. 5.
Hanley, Charles J. et al. The Bridge at No Gun Ri: A Hidden Nightmare From the Korea War. New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 2001: Ch. 1.
Hawes, Hampton, and Dan Asher. Raise Up Off Me. 1974. Rpt. New York City: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2001: Ch. 9-12.
Hewes, James E. Jr. From Root to McNamara: Army Organization and Administration. Washington, D.C.: United States. Army. Center of Military History, 1975: Ch. 4-7.
Jacobsen, Surprise, Kill, Vanish, Ch. 4.
Kalb, Marvin, and Bernard Kalb. Kissinger. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1974: Ch. 4.
Liddy, Ch. 5-6.
D. Russell, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Ch. 3.
Seagrave, Yellow Rain, Ch. 5.
Scheips, Paul J. The Role of the Federal Military Forces in Domestic Disorders, 1945-1992. Washington, D.C.: United States. Army. Center of Military History, 2012: Ch. 1-3.
Talese, Gay. Bartleby & Me: Reflections of an Old Scrivener. New York City: Mariner Books, 2023: Ch. 2-5, 7.
L. Thompson, Ch. 2.
R.K. Wilcox, Target: JFK, Ch. 22.
ii. The Air Force
(1) Experimental Aircraft
(a) Jacobsen
(i) Area 51, Ch. 4-5, 7, 12-13, 21.
(ii) Operation Paperclip, Ch. 21.
(b) Paglen
(i). I Could Tell You but Then You Would Have to Be Destroyed by Me: Emblems From the Pentagon's Black World. New York City: Melville House Publishing, 2007.
(ii) Blank Spots on the Map, Ch. 7.
(c) Others
Burton, Fred, and John R. Bruning. Chasing Shadows: A Special Agent’s Lifelong Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011: Ch. 6.
M.A. Collins, Majic Man, Ch. 7, 11-16, 20-21.
Cook, Nick. The Hunt for Zero Point: Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology. 2001. Rpt. New York City: Broadway Books, 2002: Ch. 1-2, 14, 22, 24.
Jacobs, David Michael. The UFO Controversy in America. 1975. Rpt. New York City: Signet/New American Library, 1976: Ch. 2-7.
Jacobson, Mark. Pale Horse Rider: William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the Fall of Trust in America. New York City: Blue Rider Press, 2018: Ch. 4, 6.
Keith, Jim. Saucers of the Illuminati, rev. ed. 1999. Rpt. Kempton, Ill.: Adventures Unlimited Press, 2004: Ch. 5.
Mahaffey, James. Atomic Adventures: Secret Islands, Forgotten N-Rays, and Isotopic Murder -- A Journey Into the Wild World of Nuclear Science. New York City: Pegasus Books, 2017: Ch. 11.
Marrs. Alien Agenda: Investigating the Extraterrestrial Presence Among Us. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 1997: Ch. 4-8.
(2) Future Astronauts
Borman, Frank, and Robert J. Serling. Countdown: An Autobiography. New York City: Silver Arrow Books/William Morrow, 1988: Ch. 2-4.
Collins, Michael. Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Journeys, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2019: Ch. 1.
(3) Other
Bain, Donald. Murder, HE Wrote: A Successful Writer’s Life. 2002. Rpt. West Lafayette, Ind.: NotaBell Books, 2006: Ch. 2-3.
Baraka, Amiri. The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones, rev. ed. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 1997: Ch. 5.
Ekirch, Arthur A. Jr. The Civilian and the Military: A History of the American Antimilitarist Tradition. 1956. Rpt. Oakland, Calif.: Independent Institute, 2010: Ch. 17.
From MAD to Madness. Pt. 1, Ch. 1.
McKeen, William. Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson. New Yor City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008: Ch. 2.
Paglen, Blank Spots on the Map, Ch. 10.
Salter. Cassada. 2000. Rpt. London: Vintage, 2004.
iii. The Navy
Graham, Bradley. By His Own Rules: The Ambitions, Successes, and Ultimate Failures of Donald Rumsfeld. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2009: Ch. 2.
G.L. Posner. Citizen Perot: His Life and Times. New York City: Random House, 1996: Ch. 2.
iv. Advanced Research Projects Agency
Jacobsen. The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top Secret Military Research Agency. New York City: Little, Brown and Co., 2015: Ch. 2-4.
Y. Levine, Ch. 1.
Lysiak, Matthew. The Drudge Revolution: The Untold Story of How Talk Radio, Fox News, and a Gift Shop Clerk With an Internet Connection Took Down the Mainstream Media. Dallas: BenBella Books, 2020: Ch. 5.
v. Adam Gorightly
(1) The Prankster and the Conspiracy: The Story of Kerry Thornley and How He Met Oswald and Inspired the Counterculture. New York City: Paraview Press, 2003: Ch. 2.
(2) Caught in the Crossfire: Kerry Thornley, Lee Oswald, and the Garrison Investigation. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2014: Ch. 1, 19.
vi. Jacobsen
(1) Operation Paperclip, Ch. 12-13, 15-16, 20.
(2) Phenomena, Ch. 2-4, 12.
vii. A.W. McCoy
McCoy. Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State. Madison, Wis.: U of Wisconsin P, 2009: Ch. 1-8, 17.
McCoy, In the Shadows of the American Century, Ch. 6.
viii. Other
Bailey, F. Lee, and Harvey Aronson. The Defense Never Rests. New York City: Stein and Day, 1971: Pt. 1, Ch. 1.
Beer, Francis A. Integration and Disintegration in NATO: Processes of Alliance Cohesion and Prospects for Atlantic Community. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State UP, 1969.
Biddle, Wayne. Barons of the Sky: From Early Flight to Strategic Warfare: The Story of the American Aerospace Industry. 1991. Rpt. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2001: Ch. 10.
M.A. Collins, Majic Man, Ch. 1, 8-10, 18-19.
Conner, Ch. 17.
Coram, Ch. 8-9, 12-13.
Cousins, Ch. 8.
Earley. Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring. New York City: Bantam Books, 1988: Ch. 7-9, 23.
Ellsberg, Daniel. The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. New York City: Bloomsbury, 2017: Ch. 5-6.
Halter, Ed. From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games. New York City: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006: Pt. 2.
Harris, Shane. The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State. New York City: The Penguin Press, 2010: Ch. 2.
J.T. Hoffman, Ch. 22-26.
Melman, Seymour. Pentagon Capitalism: The Political Economy of War. New York City: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1970: Appendix A.
Nowak, Peter. Sex, Bombs, and Burgers: How War, Pornography, and Fast Food Have Shaped Modern Technology. 2010. Rpt. Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press, 2011: Ch. 7, 10.
Perret, Country Made by War, Ch. 18.
Prados. Pentagon Games: Wargames and the American Military. New York City: Harper & Row Publishers, 1987: Ch. 2-3.
Pringle, Peter, and James Spigelman. The Nuclear Barons. 1981. Rpt. New York City: Avon Books, 1983: Ch. 10.
Robb, David L. Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2004: Ch. 37-39, 41, 43-49.
Simpson, Christopher. Science of Coercion: Communication Research & Psychological Warfare, 1945-1960, rev. ed. New York City: Open Road Integrated Media, 2015: Ch. 1, 3-8.
Teresa, Vincent "Fat Vinnie," and Thomas C. Renner. My Life in the Mafia. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1973: Ch. 3.
Tuccille, Jerome. The Roughest Riders: The Untold Story of the Black Soldiers in the Spanish-American War. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2015: Ch. 37.
Turse, Nick. The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives. New York City: Metropolitan Books, 2008: Ch. 1.
Vogel, Steve. The Pentagon: A History: The Untold Story of the Race to Build the Pentagon – and to Restore It Sixty Years Later. New York City: Random House, 2007: Ch. 17.
Webb, James. Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America, rev. ed. New York City: Broadway Books, 2007: Pt. 7. Ch. 1.
Wolfe, Tom. The Right Stuff, rev. ed. New York City: Bantam Books, 1983: Ch. 1-2.
m. The Chicago Machine
Demaris, Ovid [Ovide E. Desmarais]. Captive City. New York City: Lyle Stuart, 1969: Pt. 2, Ch. 9-11; Pt. 3, Ch. 7.
Dyja, Thomas. The Third Coast: When Chicago Built the American Dream. New York City: The Penguin Press, 2013: Ch. 12, 22.
O’Connor, Len. Clout: Mayor Daley and His City. 1975. Rpt. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1984: Ch. 6-9.
Royko, Mike. Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago, rev. ed. New York City: Plume, 1988: Ch. 5-6.
n. The News Media
i. "Washington Merry-Go-Round"
(1) J. Anderson et al.
J. Anderson & Boyd, Ch. 1-2, 9-10.
J. Anderson & Gibson, Ch. 3-4, 18.
(2) Others
M.A. Collins, Majic Man, Ch. 2, 6.
Drew Pearson. Diaries, 1949-1959. Ed. Tyler Abell. New York City: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1974.
ii. CBS
(1) Walter Cronkite
Brinkley, Douglas. Cronkite. New York City: Harper, 2012: Ch. 10-14.
Cronkite & Carleton, Ch. 8.
(2) Reasoner
Daniel, Douglass K. Harry Reasoner: A Life in the News. Austin, Texas: U of Texas P, 2007: Ch. 4.
Reasoner, Ch. 1-2, 5, 9.
(3) Others
Dickerson, Nancy [Nancy Hanschman]. Among Those Present: A Reporter’s View of 25 Years in Washington. 1976. Rpt. New York City: Ballentine Books, 1977: Ch. 4.
Halberstam. The Powers That Be. 1979. Rpt. Urbana, Ill.: U of Illinois P, 2000: Ch. 4, 7.
Hewitt, Don. Tell Me a Story: Fifty Years and 60 Minutes in Television. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2001: Ch. 3.
Smith, Sally Bedell. In All His Glory: The Life of William S. Paley: The Legendary Tycoon and His Brilliant Circle. Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1990: Ch. 29-30, 35-36.
iii. The Press
(1) Washington, D.C.
(a) The Washington Post
Davis, Deborah. Katharine the Great: Katharine Graham and Her Washington Post Empire, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Sheridan Square Press, 1991: Ch. 9-10.
Halberstam, The Powers That Be, Ch. 9.
(b) Other
J. Anderson & R.W. May, Ch. 42.
Bernstein, Carl. Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom. New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 2022: Ch. 1-9.
Dalton, Joseph. Washington’s Golden Age: Hope Ridings Miller, the Society Beat, and the Rise of Women Journalists. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018: Ch. 12.
(2) Chicago
Kup, Ch. 25.
Michaeli, Ch. 15-17.
(3) The New York Times
(a) Talese
i. The Kingdom and the Power: Behind the Scenes at The New York Times: The Institution That Influences the World. 1969. Rpt. New York City: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007: Ch. 10, 13, 19.
ii. Bartleby & Me, Ch. 2-5, 7.
(b) Others
Halberstam, The Powers That Be, Ch. 6.
Tifft, Susan E., and Alex S. Jones. The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1999: Ch. 16-23.
(4) Other
L. Berman, Ch. 3.
Daniel, Ch. 3.
Hughes, Frank. Prejudice and the Press: A Restatement of the Principle of Freedom of the Press With Specific Reference to the Hutchins-Luce Commission. New York City: The Devin-Adair Co., 1950.
iv. Other
S.M. Hersh. Reporter: A Memoir. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018: Ch. 2-3.
Lilienthal, Ch. 6-7.
McKeen, Ch. 3-4.
Nofziger, Lyn. Nofziger. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1992: Ch. 1.
Novak, Ch. 5-6.
Raymond, Allen. The People's Right to Know; A Report on Government News Suppression. New York City: American Civil Liberties Union, 1955.
D. Talbot, Season of the Witch, Ch. 9.
Ungar-Sargon, Batya. Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy. New York City: Encounter Books, 2021: Ch. 3.
o. The Medical Profession
(1) LSD Experiments
M.A. Lee & Shlain, Ch. 3.
Stevens, Jay. Storming Heaven: LSD and the American Dream. 1987. Rpt. New York City: Grove Press, 1998: Ch. 3.
(2) The Psychiatrists
(a) Thomas S. Szasz
(i) Cruel Compassion: Psychiatric Control of Society's Unwanted. New York City: John Wiley & Sons, 1994: Ch. 10-11.
(ii) Coercion as Cure: A Critical History of Psychiatry. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2007: Ch. 7-8.
(b) Others
Grant, George. The Dispossessed: Homelessness in America. Fort Worth, Texas: Dominion Press, 1986: Ch. 4.
Greenburg, Michael M. The Mad Bomber of New York: The Extradordinary True Story of the Manhunt That Paralzed a City. New York City: Union Square Press, 2011: Ch. 19-21, 24.
Scull, Andrew. Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, From the Bible to Freud, From the Madhouse to Modern Medicine. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 20215: Ch. 12.
(3) Other
Bowart, Ch. 27.
Duesberg, Dr. Peter, and Bryan J. Ellison. Inventing the AIDS Virus. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1996: Ch. 2.
Grant. Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood, rev. ed. Franklin, Tenn.: Adroit Press, 1992: Ch. 4.
King, Rufus. The Drug Hang-Up: America’s Fifty-Year Folly. 1972. Rpt. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas, 1974: Ch. 19.
Lynes, Barry. The Cancer Cure That Worked!: Fifty Years of Suppression, rev. ed. Queensville, Ont.: Marcus Books, 1997: Ch. 16, 19.
Rhinehart, Luke [George Cockcroft]. The Dice Man. 1971. Rpt. London: Flamingo, 2003: Ch. 1-72.
Starr, Douglas. Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce. 1998. Rpt. New York City: Perennial, 2002: Ch. 10-11.
Whitaker, Robert. Anatomy of an Epidemic: Magic Bullets, Psychiatric Drugs, and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America, rev. ed. Broadway Paperbacks, 2010: Ch. 1, 4, 9.
p. The Eisenhower Administration
i. Vice President Nixon
(1) Nixon
(a) Six Crises, Ch. 3.
(b) In the Arena, Ch. 13, 16, 18, 26, 28, 30.
(2) Others
G. Allen, Richard Nixon, Ch. 7.
E.J. Epstein, Agency of Fear, Ch. 24.   
Haldeman, H.R., and Joseph DiMona. The Ends of Power. New York City: Times Books, 1978: Pt. 2, Ch. 1.
Hanania, Richard. The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics. New York City: Broadside Books, 2023: Ch. 4.
Hearst, Conniff & Considine, Ch. 8.
Lott, Jeremy. The Warm Bucket Brigade: The Story of the American Vice Presidency. Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, 2007: Ch. 13.
R.J. Stone & Colapietro, Nixon’s Secrets, Ch. 5.
Summers & Swan, The Arrogance of Power, Ch. 14-17.
E. Thomas, Being Nixon, Ch. 6.
ii. Others
J. Anderson & Boyd, Ch. 11.
Bird, The Chairman, Ch. 21-22.
Brugioni, Dino A. Eyeball to Eyeball: The Inside Story of the Cuban Missile Crisis, rev. ed. Ed. Robert F. McCort New York City: Random House, 1991: Ch. 1-2.
Cousins, Ch. 5.
Dueck, Colin. Hard Line: The Republican Party and U.S. Foreign Policy Since World War II. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2010: Ch. 3.
Groseclose, Ch. 33.
Kahn. Jock: The Life and Times of John Hay Whitney. New York City: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1981: Ch. 14.
Manly, Ch. 1.
Martin Dies’ Story. New York City: Bookmailer, 1963: Ch. 16.
Melman, Appendix B.
Mosley, Ch. 22-23, 26.
Nitze et al., Ch. 8.
Prados, Keeper of the Keys, Pt. 2.
Snead, David L. The Gaither Committee, Eisenhower, and the Cold War. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State UP, 1999.
Stang, The Actor, Ch. 24.
Stockman, David. The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2013: Ch. 5, 11.
E. Thomas. Ike’s Bluff, Ch. 1-4, 6, 8-9, 11-13, 16-18, 22-23, 25-26.
Unger, David C. The Emergency State: America’s Pursuit of Absolute Security at All Costs. New York City: The Penguin Press, 2012: Ch. 4.
R. Welch, The Politician, Ch. 8, 10-18.
Wicker, Ch. 5.
q. Puerto Rico
Odishelidze, Alexander, and Arthur B Laffer. Pay to the Order of Puerto Rico. Fairfax, Va.: Allegiance Press, 2004: Ch. 6.
Thompson, Hunter S. The Rum Diary. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
Vidich, Ch. 9.
r. Money Manipulation
Auerbach, Robert D. Deception and Abuse at the Fed: Henry B. Gonzalez Battles Alan Greenspan’s Bank. Austin, Texas: U of Texas P, 2008: Ch. 1.
Bird, The Chairman, Ch. 14.
Brookes, Warren T. The Economy in Mind. New York City: Universe Books, 1982: Ch. 4.
Groseclose, Ch. 31-32.
Hazlitt, Henry. The Inflation Crisis, and How to Resolve It. 1978. Rpt. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009: Ch. 5.
Meltzer, Allen H. A History of the Federal Reserve, Vol. II, Book One: 1951-1969. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2009: Ch. 1-2.
Rueff, Jacques. The Monetary Sin of the West, rev. ed. Trans. Roger Glément. New York City: The Macmillan Co., 1972: Ch. 3, 9.
Schuettinger, Robert L., and Eamonn F. Butler. Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls: How Not to Fight Inflation. 1979. Rpt. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009: Ch. 13.
Weber, Christopher. Good as Gold?: How We Lost Our Gold Reserves and Destroyed the Dollar, rev. ed. Charleston, S.C.: CreateSpace, 2011: Ch. 2-3.
Weiher, Kenneth E. America’s Search for Economic Stability: Monetary and Fiscal Policy Since 1913. New York City: Twayne Publishers, 1992: Ch. 7.
s. The Labor Unions
i. The Teamsters
Hoffa, James R., and Donald I. Rogers. The Trials of Jimmy Hoffa: An Autobiography. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1970: Ch. 16-18, 21.
Neff, James. Mobbed Up: Jackie Presser’s High-Wire Life in the Teamsters, the Mafia, and the F.B.I. New York City: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989: Ch. 5, 7.
ii. Sidney Lens [Sidney Okun]
(1) Left, Right & Center: Conflicting Forces in American Labor. Hinsdale, Ill.: Henry Regnery Co., 1949: Ch. 1, 20-21.
(2) The Crisis of American Labor. 1959. Rpt. New York City: Barnes & Noble, 1961: Ch. 1, 4, 8-11.
iii. Other
Griffith, Barbara S. The Crisis of American Labor: Operation Dixie and the Defeat of the CIO. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1988.
Leiter, Robert D. The Musicians and Petrillo. 1953. Rpt. New York City: Octagon Books, 1974: Ch. 10-11.
Moreno, Paul D. Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State UP, 2006: Ch. 6.
Petro, Sylvester. The Kohler Strike: Union Violence and Administrative Law. 1961. Rpt. Boston: Western Islands, 1965.
Ryskind, Ch. 6-7.
t. The 1952 Election
Cronkite & Carleton, Ch. 9.
Dyja, Ch. 19.
L. Edwards, Missionary for Freedom, Ch. 12.
Patterson, James T. Mr. Republican: A Biography of Robert A. Taft. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1972: Ch. 32-36.
Ryskind, Ch. 17.
R.J. Stone & Colapietro, Nixon’s Secrets, Ch. 4.
Storms, Roger C. Partisan Prophets: A History of the Prohibition Party, 1854-1972. Denver: National Prohibition Foundation, 1972: Ch. 10.
Summers & Swan, The Arrogance of Power, Ch. 12-13.
R. Welch, The Politician, Ch. 9.
E. Thomas, Being Nixon, Ch. 5.
Wicker, Ch. 3.
u. The Space Race
Chambers, Mark A. Images of Modern America: NASA Kennedy Space Center. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2016: Ch. 2.
Ferguson, Robert G. NASA’s First A: Aeronautics From 1958 to 2008. Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Communications. Public Outreach Division. History Program Office, 2013: Ch. 1-3.
Jacobsen, Area 51, Ch. 14.
F.M. Kaplan, 1959, Ch. 9, 17.
MacDonald, Alexander. The Long Space Age: The Economic Origins of Space Exploration From Colonial America to the Cold War. Hew Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2017: Ch. 4.
Vladimirov, Leonid. The Russian Space Bluff. Trans. David Floyd. London: Tom Stacey, 1971: Pt. 1.
Wise & T.B. Ross, Ch. 22.
T. Wolfe, The Right Stuff, Ch. 4-9.
Wolverton, Mark. The Depths of Space: The Story of the Pioneer Planetary Probes. Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, 2004: Ch. 2.
v. The Courts
Eisler, Kim Isaac. The Last Liberal: William J. Brennan, Jr., and the Decisions That Transformed America. 1993. Rpt. Washington, D.C.: Beard Books, 2005: Ch. 6-12.
M.S. Evans, and Margaret Moore. The Lawbreakers: America’s Number One Domestic Problem. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1968: Pt. 1, Ch. 8.
Feldman, Ch. 33, 37, 41-46.
R.M. Gordon, Ch. 1, 11-13, 18-22, 24.
Keynes, Edward, and Randall K. Miller. The Court vs. Congress: Prayer, Business and Abortion. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 1989: Ch. 8.
Murphy, Bruce Allen. The Brandeis/Frankfurter Connection: The Secret Political Activities of Two Supreme Court Justices. 1982. Rpt. Garden City, N.Y.: Anchor Books, 1983: Ch. 9.
Rehnquist, Ch. 10.
Roberts, Paul Craig, and Lawrence M. Stratton. The New Color Line: How Quotas and Privilege Destroy Democracy. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1995: Ch. 4.
Toobin, Jeffrey. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, rev. ed. New York City: Anchor Books, 2008: Ch. 1.
Wolters, Ch. 1.
w. France
De Marenches, Count Alexandre, and David A.Andelman. The Fourth World War: Diplomacy and Espionage in the Age of Terrorism, rev. ed. New York City: William Morrow and Co., 1992: Ch. 3.
Moynahan, Ch. 13.
Morgan, Ch. 3.
x. Nuclear Matters
Boyer, Paul S. By the Bomb’s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age, rev. ed. Chapel Hill, N.C.: U of North Carolina P, 1994: Ch. 2-27.
Ellsberg, Ch. 2-4, 16, 20-21.
From MAD to Madness. Pt. 1, Ch. 3; Pt. 2.
Jacobsen, The Pentagon’s Brain, Ch. 1.
Nelson, Craig. The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era. New York City: Scribner, 2014: Ch. 9-13, 16.
Ritter, Ch. 3-4.
Schlosser, Eric. Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety. New York City: The Penguin Press, 2013.
Rosenbaum, Ron. How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2011: Ch. 1, 8.
E. Thomas. Ike’s Bluff, Ch. 7.
Wasserman, Harvey et al. Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America’s Experience With Atomic Radiation. New York City: Delta, 1982: Ch. 2-5, 8, 11.
y. Law Firms
i. Edward Bennett Williams
Eisler. Masters of the Game: Inside the World's Most Powerful Law Firm. New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2010: Ch. 3.
Leamer, Playing for Keeps, Ch. 5.
E. Thomas. The Man to See: Edward Bennett Williams: Ultimate Insider; Legendary Trial Lawyer. 1991. Rpt. New York City: Touchstone/Simon and Schuster, 1992: Ch. 4-5, 7, 11.
ii. Others
Eisler. Shark Tank: Greed, Politics, and the Collapse of Finley Kumble, One of America’s Largest Law Firms. 1990. Rpt. New York City: Plume, 1991: Ch. 4.
Lisagor, Nancy, and Frank Lipsius. A Law Unto Itself: The Untold Story of the Law Firm Sullivan & Cromwell. New York City: William Morrow and Co., 1988: Ch. 14.
z. The Rockefeller Dynasty
G. Allen, Rockefeller File, Ch. 10.
Bruner, Seamus. Controligarchs: Exposing the Billionaire Class, Their Secret Deals, and the Globalist Plot to Dominate Your Life. New York City: Sentinel, 2023: Ch. 5, 10.
Finder, Ch. 11.
Smith, Richard Norton. On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller. New York City: Random House, 2014: Ch. 10-15.
D. Talbot, Devil’s Chessboard, Ch. 20.
aa. The Globalists
i. The United Nations
Jasper, William F. Global Tyranny … Step by Step: The United Nations and the Emerging New World Order. Appleton, Wis.: Western Islands, 1992: Ch. 1-2, 11, 14.
R.W. Lee, Ch. 4, 8, 10, 12, 14, 21, 23, Appendix C.
Stang, It's Very Simple, Ch. 8.
ii. Other
Belien, Paul. A Throne in Brussels: Britain, the Saxe-Coburgs and the Belgianisation of Europe. Exeter, U.K.: Imprint Academic, 2005: Ch. 6.
Jim Tucker’s Bilderberg Diary: One Reporter’s 25-Year Battle to Shine the Light on the World Shadow Government. Washington, D.C.: American Free Press, 2005: Ch. 1.
Josephson, Emanuel M., and Fred H. Johnson. Rockefeller, “Internationalist”: The Man Who Misrules the World. New York City: Chedney Press, 1952: Ch. 2-12, 22-23.
Schulzinger, Robert D. The Wise Men of Foreign Affairs: The History of the Council on Foreign Relations. New York City: Columbia UP, 1984: Ch. 6-7.
ab. Howard Hughes
Drosnin, Michael. Citizen Hughes, rev. ed. New York City: Broadway Books, 2004: Ch. 2, 5.
Hack, Richard. Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters – the Definitive Biography of the First American Billionaire. Beverly Hills, Calif.: New Millennium Press, 2001: Ch. 9-14.
ac. The Dulleses
Mosley, Ch. 15, 17-20, 24-25, 27.
D. Talbot, Devil’s Chessboard, Ch. 8-9.
ad. Bacevich
i. The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War, rev. ed. New York City: Oxford UP, 2013: Ch. 6.
ii. Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War. New York City: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2010: Ch. 1, 6.
iii. Twilight of the American Century, Ch. 30.
ae. Caro
i. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. 1974. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 1975: Ch. 33-46.
ii. Lyndon Johnson, Vol. III: Ch. 20, 35.
af. Jacobsen
i. Area 51, Ch. 6.
ii. Phenomena, Ch. 23.
ag. E.J. Kahn
i. The World of Swope. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1965: Ch. 23.
ii. Jock, Ch. 11-13.
ah. D. Livingstone
i. Terrorism and the Illuminati: A Three Thousand Year History. Charleston, S.C.: BookSurge, 2007: Ch. 21.
ii. Black Terror, White Soldiers: Islam, Fascism and the New Age. Scotts Valley, Calif.: Sabilillah Publicatons, 2013: Ch. 27.
ii. Transhumanism: The History of a Dangerous Idea. Scotts Valley, Calif.: Sabilillah Publicatons, 2015: Ch. 24.
ai. Nixon
i. Six Crises, Ch. 2, 6.
ii. In the Arena, Ch. 17, 29.
aj. Vidal
i. Washington, D.C. Boston: Little, Brown, 1967: Ch. 3-6.
ii. The Golden Age. New York City: Doubleday, 2000: Ch. 10-16.
ak. Billy Lee Brammer
Brammer, Billy Lee. The Gay Place: Being Three Related Novels. 1961. Rpt. Austin, Texas: U of Texas P, 1995.
Daugherty, Ch. 11-12.
al. Higgs
i. Against Leviathan, Ch. 17.
ii. Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy. New York City: Oxford UP, 2006: Ch. 5-6.
am. Other
Adams, Samuel Hopkins. Plunder. New York City: Random House, 1948.
Alego, Matthew. Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure: The True Story of a Great American Road Trip. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2009.
J. Anderson, and George Clifford. The Anderson Papers, rev. ed. New York City: Ballantine Books, 1974.
Attarian, John. Social Security: False Consciousness and Crisis. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2002: Ch. 8.
Bacon, James. Hollywood Is a Four Letter Town. 1976. Rpt. New York City: Avon, 1977: Ch. 32.
Bagus, Philipp. The Tragedy of the Euro. Auburn, Ala.: The Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2010: Ch. 1.
Balko, Radley. Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces, rev. ed. PublicAffairs, 2021: Ch. 4.
Baltzell, E. Digby. The Protestant Establishment Revisited. Ed. Howard G. Schneiderman. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1991: Ch. 4.
Bartlett, Bruce R. Reaganomics: Supply-Side Economics in Action, rev. ed. New York City: Quill, 1982: Ch. 7.
Bell, Roger. Last Among Equals: Hawaiian Statehood and American Politics. Honolulu: U of Hawaii P, 1984: Ch. 4-9.
Bird, The Chairman, Ch. 20.
Bowart, Ch. 9, 13, 15, 37, 41.
Bresler, Robert J. "The End of New Deal Liberalism and the Rise of Populism." Telos Summer 1995: 13-26.
Bruner, Ch. 2, 4.
Buckley, Christopher. Losing Mum and Pup: A Memoir. New York City: Twelve, 2009.
Burch, Philip H. Jr. Elites in American History, Vol. III: The New Deal to the Carter Administration. New York City: Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1980: Ch. 4.
Burk, Kathleen. Old World, New World: Great Britain and America From the Beginning. New York City: Grove Press, 2007: Ch. 8.
Burnham, David. A Law Unto Itself: Power, Politics, and the IRS. New York City: Random House, 1990: Ch. 13.
Cadava, Geraldo. The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, From Nixon to Trump, rev. ed. New York City: Ecco, 2021: Ch. 1.
Cannon, Lou. Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2003: Ch. 13.
Cantor, Paul A. Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream: Con Men, Gangsters, Drug Lords, and Zombies. Lexington, Ky.: UP of Kentucky, 2019: Ch. 5.
Carroll, Michael Christopher. Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory. New York City: William Morrow, 2004: Ch. 4-5.
Cashill, What’s the Matter With California?, Ch. 13.
Chernus, Ch. 13.
Collingham, Lizzie. The Taste of War: World War II and the Battle for Food. 2011. Rpt. New York City: Penguin Press, 2012: Ch. 18.
M.A. Collins, Majic Man, Ch. 17, 22.
Connett, Paul H.et al. The Case Against Fluoride: How Hazardous Waste Ended Up in Our Drinking Water and the Bad Science and Powerful Politics That Keep It There. White River Junction, Vt.: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2010: Ch. 10.
Coover, Robert. The Public Burning. 1977. Rpt. New York City: Grove Press, 1997.
Courtwright, David T. No Right Turn: Conservative Politics in a Liberal America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2010: Ch. 3.
Cox, Stephen D. The Big House: Image and Reality of the American Prison. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2009: Ch. 9.
Deacon. Spyclopedia: A Comprehensive Handbook of Espionage. New York City: Silver Arrow Books/William Morrow, 1988: Pt. 3.
Dean, John W., and Barry M. Goldwater Jr. Pure Goldwater. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008: Ch. 11.
DeConde, Alexander. Gun Violence in America: The Struggle for Control. Boston: Northeastern UP, 2001: Ch. 10.
Denton, Sally, and Roger Morris. The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America, 1947-2000. 2001. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 2002: Ch. 6.
Dickerson, Ch. 1-3.
Donner, Frank J. The Age of Surveillance: The Aims and Methods of America’s Political Intelligence System, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 1981: Ch. 9.
Ekirch. The Decline of American Liberalism. 1955. Rpt. Oakland, Calif.: Independent Institute, 2009: Ch. 17-18.
Ellroy, American Tabloid, Ch. 6.
E.J. Epstein, Dossier, Ch. 13, 15.
Erie, Steven P. Rainbow's End: Irish-Americans and the Dilemmas of Urban Machine Politics, 1840-1985. Berkeley, Calif.: U of California P, 1988: Ch. 5.
The Essential Mae Brussell: Investigations of Fascism in America. Ed. Alex Constantine. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2014: Ch. 18.
M.S. Evans. The Liberal Establishment. New York City: The Devin-Adair Co., 1965: Pt. 3, Ch. 4.
Feldman, Ch. 31, 33, 40.
Feldstein, Mark. Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington’s Scandal Culture. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010: Ch. 2-3, 11.
J.T. Flynn. The Decline of the American Republic: And How to Rebuild It. 1955. Rpt. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007: Ch. 16.
Frieden, Bernard J., and Lynne B. Sagalyn. Downtown, Inc.: How America Rebuilds Cities. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1989: Ch. 2-3, 13.
Friedman, George. America’s Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between American and Its Enemies, rev. ed. New York City: Broadway Books, 2005: Ch. 4.
M. Friedman, Ch. 1.
W.J. Gill, Ch. 35.
Greenburg, Ch. 22.
R. Griffith, Ch. 7.
Halberstam, David. The Best and the Brightest, rev. ed. 1992. Rpt. Norwalk, Conn.: Easton Press, 2005: Ch. 2.
Hancock, Graham. Lords of Poverty. 1989. Rpt. Nairobi, Kenya: Camerapix Publishers, 2004: Pt. 2.
Hanrahan, John. Government by Contract. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1983: Ch. 5.
Harris, Robert, and Jeremy Paxman. A Higher Form of Killing: The Secret Story of Gas and Germ Warfare, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2002: Ch. 8.
Hartung, William D. Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex, rev. ed. New York City Nation Books, 2012: Ch. 3, 6.
Healy, Gene. The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power. Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2008: Ch. 3.
Helms, Harry L. Inside the Shadow Government: National Emergencies and the Cult of Secrecy. Los Angeles: Feral House, 2003: Ch. 4.
B. Hersh, Bobby and J. Edgar, Ch. 6-8, 10.
S.M. Hersh, Samson Option, Ch. 18.
Holmes, Stephen. The Anatomy of Antiliberalism. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1993: Ch. 5.
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R.G. Kaiser, Ch. 2.
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R. King, Ch. 14-16, 18.
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Ryskind, Ch. 9-11.
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Wicker, Ch. 6.
R.K. Wilcox, Target: JFK, Ch. 18.
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2. The Rightful Oppposition
a. The Bricker Amendment
Stang, The Actor, Ch. 15.
Tananbaum, Duane. The Bricker Amendment Controversy: A Test of Eisenhower's Political Leadership.; Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell UP, 1988.
b. U.S. Sen. Barry M. Goldwater Sr., R-Ariz.
Dean & Goldwater Jr., Ch. 5-8.
Dueck, Ch. 4.
L. Edwards. Goldwater: The Man Who Made a Revolution. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Pub., 1995: Ch. 3-6.
Goldwater Sr., Why Not Victory?, Ch. 1-2, 5-8.
McDowell, Ch. 6-8.
Shadegg, Stephen. What Happened to Goldwater?: The Inside Story of the 1964 Republican Campaign. New York City: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965: Ch. 1-3.
c. McCarthy
J. Anderson & R.W. May, Ch. 1, 28-30, 32-33, 36-37, 40-41, 48, 51-55.
Caro, Lyndon Johnson, Vol. III, Ch. 23.
M.A. Collins, Better Dead, Ch. 3, 23.
M.S. Evans, Blacklisted by History, Ch. 1-5, 14-23, 33-44.
R. Griffith, Ch. 6.
Zion, Ch. 5-8.
d. Murray N. Rothbard
i. The Betrayal of the American Right. Ed. Thomas E. Woods Jr. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007: Ch. 12.
ii. Never a Dull Moment: A Libertarian Look at the Sixties. Ed. Justin Raimondo [Dennis Raimondo]. Auburn, Ala.: Mises Institute, 2016: Ch. 61-62.
e. Utley
i. Last Chance in China, Ch. 1, 16.
ii. The China Story, Ch. 8.
f. Other
J. Anderson & R.W. May, Ch. 31, 43-46.
Antle, W. James III. Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped? Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2013: Ch. 8.
Attarian, Ch. 7.
Buckley, William F. Jr. Getting It Right. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishers, 2003: Ch. 1-11.
Burrough, Bryan. The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes. New York City: The Penguin Press, 2009: Ch. 10-11.
Doenecke, Ch. 4, 6, 11-12.
L. Edwards, Missionary for Freedom, Ch. 13.
M.S. Evans, Revolt on the Campus, Ch. 1-4, 7, 9.
The FBI and Religion, Ch. 5.
Francis, Samuel T. "Beautiful Losers: The Failure of American Conservatism." Beautiful Losers: Essays on the Failure of American Conservatism. Columbia, Mo.: U of Missouri P, 1993: 222-231.
Freeland, Pt. 7, Ch. 2; Pt. 8, Ch. 2.
M. Friedman, Ch. 5.
Gottfried. The Conservative Movement, rev. ed. New York City: Twayne Publishers, 1993: Ch. 3.
Hazlitt. Illusions of Point Four. Irvington-on-Hudson, N.Y.: The Foundation for Economic Education, 1950.
Hawley, George. Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism. Lawrence, Kan.: UP of Kansas, 2016: Ch. 1, 4-5.
Higgs. Neither Liberty Nor Safety: Fear, Ideology, and the Growth of Government. Oakland, Calif.: The Independent Institute, 2007: Ch. 7.
F.J. Johnson, Ch. 1-2, 6, 8-9.
Jones, E. Michael. The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit and Its Impact on World History. Sound Bend, Ind.: Fidelity Press, 2008: Ch. 23.
Kauffman, Bill. Ain’t My America: The Long, Noble History of Antiwar Conservatism and Middle American Anti-Imperialism. New York City: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2008: Ch. 4.
Keeley, Ch. 1, 13, 15-17, Appendix M.
Kuhn, David Paul. The Neglected Voter: White Men and the Democratic Dilemma. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007: Ch. 1.
Lukacs. Confessions of an Original Sinner. New York City: Ticknor & Fields, 1990: Ch. 7, 9.
Manly, Ch. 12, 14.
McDonald, W. Wesley. Russell Kirk and the Age of Ideology. Columbia, Mo.: U of Missouri P, 2004.
Murphy, Paul V. The Rebuke of History: The Southern Agrarians and American Conservative Thought. Chapel Hill, N.C.: U of North Carolina P, 2001: Ch. 5.
Nash, George H. The Conservative Intellectual Movement in American Since 1945, 2nd rev. ed. Wilmington, Del.: Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006: Ch. 1-9.
Patterson, Mr. Republican, Ch. 21-31, 37-38.
Piereson, Shattered Consensus, Ch. 7-8.
Pinkerton, Stewart. The Fall of the House of Forbes: The Inside Story of the Collapse of a Media Empire. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2011: Ch. 16.
Plain Talk: An Anthology From the Leading Anti-Communist Magazine of the 40s. Ed. Isaac Don Levine. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House Publishers, 1976: Pt. 1-3.
Popowski, Mark D. The Rise and Fall of Triumph: The History of a Radical Roman Catholic Magazine, 1966-1976. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2012: Ch. 1-2.
Rand, Ayn [Alissa Rosenbaum O'Connor]. Atlas Shrugged. 1957. Rpt. New York City: Dutton, 1992.
The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980. Ed. Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 1989: Ch. 9.
Sale, Ch. 3.
Sandbrook, Dominic. Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011: Ch. 18.
Schulman, Daniel. Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America’s Most Powerful and Private Dynasty. New York City: Grand Central Publishing, 2014: Ch. 3.
F. Schwarz, Ch. 4-5, 7, 9-18, 32, 34.
Scotchie, Joseph. Revolt From the Heartland: The Struggle for an Authentic Conservatism, rev. ed. London: Taylor and Francis, 2017: Ch. 3.
Scribner, Ch. 6.
Skousen, W. Cleon. The Naked Communist, 2nd rev. ed. Salt Lake City: The Ensign Publishing Co., 1962.
Smith, Richard Norton. The Colonel: The Life and Legend of Robert R. McCormick, 1880-1955. 1997. Rpt. Evanston, Ill.: Northwest UP, 2003: Ch. 15-16.
Smoot, Ch. 12.
Speaking Out: The Autobiography of Lester Garfield Maddox. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1975: Ch. 3-4.
Stripling, Robert E. The Red Plot Against America. Ed. Considine. 1949. Rpt. Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger, 2007: Ch. 1, 13-14.
J. Taylor, Appendix D.
E. Thomas, The Man to See, Ch. 6.
Tuccille. Kingdom: The Story of the Hunt Family of Texas. 1984. Rpt. Washington, D.C.: Beard Books, 2003: Ch. 35-37, 40.
The Vanishing Tradition: Perspectives on American Conservatism. Ed. Gottfried. Ithaca, N.Y.: Northern Illinois UP, 2020: Ch. 3, 5, 9.
Viguerie Richard A., and David Franke. America’s Right Turn: How Conservatives Used New and Alternative Media to Take Power. Chicago: Bonus Books, 2004: Ch. 4-5.
Watkins, Ronald J. High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Term and Trials of Former Governor Evan Mecham. New York City: William Morrow and Co., 1990: Ch. 2.
R. Welch, The Life of John Birch, Ch. 18-19.
Weyl, The Jew in American Politics, Ch. 11, 20.
Wolters, Ch. 4.
3. Arts and Entertainment
a. The Rat Pack
(1) Dean Martin
J. Bacon, Ch. 6.
Martin, Ricci, and Christopher Smith. That’s Amore: A Son Remembers Dean Martin. Lanham, Md.: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2002: Ch. 1-7.
Schoell, William. Martini Man: The Life of Dean Martin. Dallas: Taylor Publishing, 1999: Ch. 4-9, 11.
Tosches, Nick. Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams, corr. ed. New York City: Delta, 1999: Ch. 9-12.
(2) Frank Sinatra
(a) James Kaplan
(i) Frank: The Voice. New York City: Doubleday, 2010: Ch. 18-40.
(ii) Sinatra: The Chairman. New York City: Doubleday, 2015: Ch. 1-12.
(b) Others
J. Bacon, Ch. 24.
Jacobs, George, and Stadiem. Mr. S: My Life with Frank Sinatra. New York City: HarperEntertainment, 2003: Ch. 2-4.
Lanza. The Cocktail: The Influence of Spirits on the American Psyche. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 1995: Ch. 11.
Levinson, Peter J. September in the Rain: The Life of Nelson Riddle. 2001. Rpt. Lanham, Md.: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2005: Ch. 6.
Otash, Fred [and Dave Gerrity]. Investigation Hollywood!: Memoirs of Hollywood’s Top Private Detective. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1976: Ch. 11.
A. Summers & Swan, Sinatra: The Life, Ch. 12, 14-16, 18-22.
Taraborrelli. Sinatra: Behind the Legend, rev. ed. New York City: Grand Central Publishing, 2015: Ch. 10-20, 45.
(3) Other
Cahn, Sammy [Samuel Cohen][, and Jerry Tallmer]. I Should Care: The Sammy Cahn Story. New York City: Arbor House, 1974: Ch. 12.
Davis, Sammy Jr., Jane Boyar, and Burt Boyar. Sammy: An Autobiography: With Material Newly Revised From Yes I Can and Why Me?. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000: Ch. 1, 8-30.
Van Meter, Jonathan. The Last Good Time: Skinny D’Amato, the Notorious 500 Club, and the Rise and Fall of Atlantic City. New York City: Crown Publishers, 2003: Ch. 4, 6, 8.
b. Music
(1) R&B
(a) Ray Charles
Charles, Ray [Ray Charles Robinson], and Ritz. Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Da Capo Press, 2003.
Lydon, Michael. Ray Charles: Man and Music, rev. ed. New York City: Routledge, 2004: Pts. 2-3.
(b) Other
Dr. John [Malcom "Mac" Rebennack Jr.], and Jack Rummel. Under a Hoodoo Moon: The Life of the Night Tripper. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 1994: Ch. 1-5.
Friedman, Josh Alan. Tell the Truth Until They Bleed: Coming Clean in the Dirty World of Blues and Rock ‘n’ Roll. 2008. Rpt. Monrovia, Calif.: New Texture, 2015: Ch. 6.
(c) Other
Arnold, Billy Boy, and Kim Field. The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2021: Ch. 2-8, 10.
Benson, George, and Al Goldsher. Benson: The Autobiography. Boston: Da Capo Press, 2014: Ch. 1-3.
Bergsman, Steve. I Put a Spell on You: The Bizarre Life of Screamin' Jay Hawkins. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2019: Ch. 2.
Birnbaum, Larry. Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Lanham, Md.: The Scarecrow Press, 2013: Ch. 7.
Bronson, Harold. The Rhino Records Story: Revenge of the Music Nerds. New York City: SelectBooks, 2013: Ch. 12.
Chilton, John. Let the Good Times Roll: The Story of Louis Jordan and His Music. 1992. Rpt. Ann Arbor, Mich.: U of Michigan P, 1994: Ch. 9-14.
Clinton, George, and Ben Greenman. Brothas Be, Yo Like George, Ain’t That Funkin’ Kinda Hard on You?: A Memoir. New York City: Atria Books, 2014.
Coleman, Rick. Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2006: Ch. 3-6.
Dance, Helen Oakley. Stormy Monday: The T-Bone Walker Story. 1987. Rpt. New York City: Da Capo Press, 1990: Ch. 10-15.
Davis, Francis. The History of the Blues. 1995. Rpt. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2003: Pt. 2, Ch. 8.
De Visé, Daniel. King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King. New York City: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2021: Ch. 5-10, 12.
Dyja, Ch. 8, 10, 14, 17, 29-30.
Evans, Joe, and Christopher Brooks. Follow Your Heart: Moving With the Giants of Jazz, Swing, and Rhythm and Blues. Urbana, Ill.: U of Illinois P, 2008: Ch. 10.
Farley, Charles. Soul of the Man: Bobby “Blue” Bland. Jackson, Miss.: UP of Mississippi, 2011: Ch. 1-2, 4-6.
Fox, Jon Hartley. King of the Queen City: The Story of King Records. Urbana, Ill.: U of Illinois P, 2009: Ch. 3, 5, 8, 11-12, 17.
J.A. Friedman, Ch. 11-13.
George, Nelson. The Death of Rhythm & Blues. New York City: Pantheon Books, 1988: Ch. 3.
Gillett, Charlie. The Sound of the City: The Rise of Rock and Rock, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Da Capo Press, 1996: Ch. 6, 8-10.
Gordon, Robert. Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2002: Ch. 6-10.
Guy, Buddy [George Guy], and David Ritz. When I Left Home: My Story. New York City: Da Capo Press, 2012.
James, Etta [Jamesetta Hawkins], and Ritz. Rage to Survive: The Etta James Story. New York City: Villard Books, 1995: Ch. 6-12.
F.M. Kaplan, 1959, Ch. 23.
Lauterbach, Preston. The Chitlin’ Circuit and the Road to Rock ‘n’ Roll. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2011: Ch. 8-11, 13-16.
Leiber, Jerry et al. Hound Dog: The Leiber & Stoller Autobiography. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2009: Ch. 3-10, 12-13, 15.
Parker, Maceo. 98% Funky Stuff: My Life in Music. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2013: Ch. 1-2.
G.L. Posner. Motown: Music, Money, Sex, and Power. 2002. Rpt. New York City: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2005: Ch. 3-7.
Romano, Will. Big Boss Man: The Life and Music of Bluesman Jimmy Reed. San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2006: Ch. 2-3.
Segrest, James, and Mark Hoffman. Moanin’ at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin’ Wolf. New York City: Pantheon Books, 2004: Ch. 5-9.
Selvin, Joel. Sly and the Family Stone: An Oral History. Ed. Dave Marsh. New York City: Avon Books, 1998: Ch. 1.
Shaw, Arnold [Arnold Shukotoff]. Honkers and Shouters: The Golden Years of Rhythm and Blues. New York City: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1978: Ch. 3, 6.
Smith, R.J. The One: The Life and Music of James Brown. New York City: Gotham Books, 2012: Ch. 4-6.
Ward, Ed. The History of Rock & Roll, Vol. I: 1920-1963. New York City: Flatiron Books, 2016: Ch. 4.
Whitall, Susan, and Kevin John. Fever: Little Willie John: A Fast Life, Mysterious Death and the Birth of Soul: The Authorized Biography. London: Titan Books, 2011.
Whiteis, David. Southern Soul-Blues. Urbana, Ill.: U of Illinois P, 2013: Ch. 1, 4, 12-13.
Yagoda, Ben. The B Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song. New York City: Riverhead Books, 2015: Ch. 7.
(2) Jazz
Costello, Elvis [Declan Patrick Aloysius McManus]. Unfaitful Music & Disappearing Ink. New York City: Blue Rider Press, 2015: Ch. 25.
Fernández, Raúl. Latin Jazz: The Perfect Combination/La Combinación Perfecta. San Francisco: Chronicle Books/Smithsonian Institute, 2002: Ch. 4.
J.H. Fox, Ch. 18.
J.A. Friedman, Ch. 7.
Gavin. Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker, corr. ed. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2003: Ch. 2-10.
Gennari, John. Blowin' Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006: Ch. 4-5.
Gioia, Ted. West Coast Jazz: Modern Jazz in California, 1945-1960. 1992. Rpt. Berkeley, Calif.: U of California P, 1998: Ch. 4-5, 7-13, 17.
Kahn, Ashley. The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2006: Ch. 1.
F.M. Kaplan, 1959, Ch. 15.
Litweiler, John. The Freedom Principle: Jazz After 1958. New York City: William Morrow, 1984.
Myers, Marc. Why Jazz Happened. Berkeley, Calif.: U of California P, 2013: Ch. 4-7.
O’Day, Anita [Anita Belle Colton], and George Eells. High Times, Hard Times. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1981: Ch. 7-8, 10-11.
Reynolds, Simon. Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past. London: Faber and Faber, 2011: Ch. 7.
Rosenthal, David. Hard Bop: Jazz and Black Music, 1955-1965. New York City: Oxford UP, 1992: Ch. 2-5, 7-8.
Russell, Ross. The Sound. 1961. Rpt. London: Jazz Book Club, 1964.
Shipton, Allyn. Hi-De-Ho: The Life of Cab Calloway. New York City: Oxford UP, 2010: Ch. 10.
Thiele, Bob, and Bob Golden. What a Wonderful World: A Lifetime of Recordings. New York City: Oxford UP, 1995: Ch. 10.
Tormé, Ch. 22.
Wesley, Fred Jr. Hit Me, Fred: Recollections of a Sideman. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 2002: Ch. 1.
(3) Latin
(a) Brazilian
Castro, Ruy. Bossa Nova: The Story of the Brazilian Music That Seduced the World, rev. ed. Trans. Lysa Salsbury. Chicago: A Cappella, 2000: Ch. 1-12.
McGowan, Chris, and Ricardo Pessanha. The Brazilian Sound: Samba, Bossa Nova, and the Popular Music of Brazil, 2nd rev. ed. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2009: Ch. 3, 5.
(b) Other
Fletcher, Tony. All Hopped Up and Ready to Go: Music From the Streets of New York 1927-77. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2009: Ch. 5.
Molina, Ruben. Chicano Soul: Recordings and History of an American Culture. 2007. Rpt. Lubbock, Texas: Texas Tech UP, 2017.
Morales, Ed. The Latin Beat: The Rhythms and Roots of Latin Music From Bossa Nova to Salsa and Beyond. New York City: Da Capo Press, 2003: Ch. 9.
Padura Fuentes, Leonardo. Faces of Salsa: A Spoken History of the Music. 1997. Trans. Stephen J. Clark. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 2003: Ch. 4-5
Reig, Teddy, and Edward Berger. Reminiscing in Tempo: The Life and Times of a Jazz Hustler. Metuchen, N.J.: The Scarecrow Press/Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers University, 1990: Ch. 7.
Rondón, César Miguel. The Book of Salsa: A Chronicle of Urban Music From the Caribbean to New York City, rev. ed. Trans. Frances R. Aparicio and Jackie White. Chapel Hill, N.C.: U of North Carolina P, 2008: Ch. 1.
Salazar, Max. Mambo Kingdom: Latin Music in New York. New York City: Schirmer Trade Books, 2002: Ch. 20, 22-23, 25-27, 31-35, 37, 42.
Yglesias, Pablo Ellicott. ¡Cocinando! Fifty Years of Latin Album Cover Art. New York City: Princeton Architectural Press, 2005.
(4) Rock 'n' Roll
(a) Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Bergsman, Ch. 4-5, 7, 9.
Binelli, Ch. 1, 6-11.
(b) Elvis Presley
J. Bacon, Ch. 25.
Leiber et al., Ch. 11.
Strausbaugh. E: Reflections on the Birth of the Elvis Faith. New York City: Blast Books, 1995.
Young, Shawn David. Cult Pop Culture: How the Fringe Became Mainstream, Vol. II: Literature and Music. Ed. Bob Batchelor. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, 2012: Ch. 8.
(c) Others
Barker, Hugh, and Yuval Taylor. Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2007: Ch. 4.
Chuck Berry: The Autobiography, rev. ed. London: Faber and Faber, 2001: Ch. 6-8, 10-11.
R. Coleman, Ch. 7-12.
Dio, Ronnie James [Ronald Padavona], Mick Wall, and Wendy Dio. Rainbow in the Dark: The Autobiography. New York City: Permuted Press, 2021: Ch. 3.
Dyja, Ch. 23.
D. Evanier, Roman Candle, Ch. 4.
J.H. Fox, Ch. 16.
Gillett, Ch. 1-3.
C. McGowan & Pessanha, Ch. 9.
Pollack, Neal. Never Mind the Pollacks: A Rock and Roll Novel. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003: Pt. 1.
Wald, Elijah. How the Beatles Destroyed Rock ‘n’ Roll: An Alternative History of American Popular Music. New York City: Oxford UP, 2009: Ch. 13, 16.
E. Ward, Vol. I, Ch. 6-7, 9-11.
(5) The Crooners
(a) D. Evanier
(1) Making the Wise Guys Weep: The Jimmy Roselli Story. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998: Ch. 6.
(2) Roman Candle, Ch. 6.
(3) All the Things You Are: The Life of Tony Bennett. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2011: Ch. 3-5.
(b) Other
Akkerman, Gregg. The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman Story. Lanham, Md.: The Scarecrow Press, 2012: Ch. 5-6.
Anka, Paul, and David Dalton. My Way. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 2013: Ch. 1-3.
Damone, Vic [Victor Farinola], and Chanoff. Singing Was the Easy Part. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 2009: Ch. 1-9.
Friedwald, Will. Straighten Up and Fly Right: The Life and Music of Nat King Cole. New York City: Oxford UP, 2020: Ch. 5-8.
Hayes, Elaine M. Queen of Bebop: The Musical Lives of Sarah Vaughan. New York City: Ecco, 2017: Ch. 5, 8.
Lanza, The Cocktail, Ch. 8.
P.J. Levinson, Ch. 5.
Tormé, Ch. 16.
(6) The Labels
Broven, John. Record Makers and Breakers: Voices of the Independent Rock ‘n’ Roll Pioneers. Urbana, Ill.: U of Illinois P, 2009: Ch. 7, 9-10, 12-13, 16-20, 22-25.
J.H. Fox, Ch. 13, 15.
Gillett, Ch. 4-5.
Knoedelseder, William. Stiffed: A True Story of MCA, the Music Business, and the Mafia. 1993. Rpt. New York City: HarperPerennial, 1994: Ch. 7.
Leiber et al., Ch. 7.
Trow, George W.S. Within the Context of No Context, rev. ed. New York City: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1997.
(7) Pop
Adinolfi, Francesco. Mondo Exotica: Sounds, Visions, Obsessions of the Cocktail Generation, rev. ed. Ed. And Trans. Karen Pinkus and Jason Vivrette. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 2008: Ch. 8-9, 11.
Bacharach, Burt, and Robert Greenfield. Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music. New York City: HarperCollins, 2013: Ch. 2-5, 26.
Boulard, Garry. "Just a Gigolo": The Life and Times of Louis Prima. Lafayette, La.: U of Southwestern Louisiana. The Center for Louisiana Studies, 1989: Ch. 5-7, 10.
Cahn, Ch. 11, 16.
Gavin. Is That All There Is?: The Strange Life of Peggy Lee. New York City: Atria Books, 2014: Ch. 5-10.
Henderson, Jason, and Adam Foshko. California Tiki: A History of Polynesian Idols, Pineapple Cocktails and Coconut Palm Trees. Charleston, S.C.: The History Press, 2018: Ch. 3.
P.J. Levinson, Ch. 4, 7.
Thiele & Golden, Ch. 6-9, 11-12.
Wald, Ch. 14-15.
Yagoda, Ben. The B Side: The Death of Tin Pan Alley and the Rebirth of the Great American Song. New York City: Riverhead Books, 2015: Ch. 5-6.
(8) Mood Music
Adinolfi, Ch. 10.
Lanza, Joseph. Elevator Music: A Surreal History of Muzak®, Easy-Listening, and Other Moodsong®, rev. ed. Ann Arbor, Mich.: U of Michigan P, 2004: Ch. 1, 8-9, 13, 16.
(9) Van Halen
Christe, Ian. Everybody Wants Some: The Van Halen Saga, rev. ed. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2008: Ch. 1.
Tolinski, Brad, and Chris Gill. Eruption: Conversations With Eddie Van Halen. New York City: Hatchette Books, 2021: Ch. 1.
(10) Other
Adinolfi, Ch. 12.
Baraka, The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones, Ch. 3.
Bergreen, Laurence. As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin. New York City: Viking, 1990: Ch. 17-20.
Bernard, Shane K. Swamp Pop: Cajun and Creole Rhythm and Blues. Jackson, Miss.: U of Mississippi P, 1996.
Blackwell, Chris, and Paul Morley. The Islander: My Life in Music and Beyond. New York City: Gallery Books, 2022: Ch. 2.
Broven, Ch. 11, 14.
J. Evans & C. Brooks, Ch. 8.
T. Fletcher, Ch. 6.
Gillett, Ch. 7.
Halberstadt, Alex. Lonely Avenue: The Unlikely Life and Times of Doc Pomus. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2007.
Leiber et al., Appendix A-B.
Milkowski, Bill. Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius, rev. ed. San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2005: Ch. 2.
Moldea, Dan E. Dark Victory: Ronald Reagan, MCA, and the Mob, rev. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 1987: Ch. 6-7.
Randall & Mindlin, Ch. 16.
Seibert, Brian. What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015: Ch. 13, 16.
Sublette, Ned. Cuba and Its Music: From the First Drums to the Mambo. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2004: Ch. 34.
Tau, Michael. Extreme Music: Silence to Noise and Everything in Between. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2022: Pt. 2, Ch. 1.
Templeman, Ted, and Greg Renoff. Ted Templeman: A Platinum Producer's Life in Music. Toronto: ECW Press, 2020: Ch. 2.
Tolinski, and Alan di Perna. Play It Loud: The Epic History of the Style, Sound, and Evolution of the Electric Guitar. New York City: Doubleday, 2016: Ch. 6, 12.
Veal, Michael E. Fela: The Life & Times of an African Musical Icon. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2000: Ch. 3.
E. Ward, Vol. I, Ch. 3, 5.
Wexler, Jerry, and Ritz. Rhythm and the Blues: A Life in American Music. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993.
Womack, Bobby and Robert Ashton. Midnight Mover: My Autobiography: The True Story of the Greatest Soul Singer in the World. London: John Blake, 2006: Ch. 2-3.
c. Publishing
i. Fiction
Auchincloss, Louis. A Voice From Old New York: A Memoir of My Youth. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010: Ch. 22.
L. Block. A Writer Prepares. New York City: Lawrence Block, 2021: Ch. 1-11, 13.
Cochran, David. American Noir: Underground Writers and Filmmakers of the Postwar Period. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institute Press, 2000: Ch. 3-6, 9.
Dickstein. Leopards in the Temple: The Transformation of American Fiction, 1945-1970. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2002: Ch. 1, 4-5.
Hemingway, Ernest. Across the River and Into the Trees. New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1950.
Hughes, Michael. Beyond Holy Russia: The Life and Times of Stephen Graham. Cambridge, U.K.: Open Book Publishers, 2014: Ch. 9.
Karl, Frederick. American Fictions 1940-1980: A Comprehensive History & Critical Evaluation. New York City: Harper & Row, 1983: Ch. 1-3, 5-7.
L’Amour, Louis [Louis LaMoure]. Education of a Wandering Man: New York City: Bantam Books, 1989: Ch. 19.
Martians and Madness: The Complete SF Novels of Fredric Brown. Ed. Ben Yalow. Framingham, Mass.: The NESFA Press, 2002.
North, Gary. The War on Mel Gibson: The Media vs. The Passion. Powder Springs, Ga.: American Vision, 2004: Ch. 8.
Pelecanos. Hard Revolution. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 2004: Pt. 1.
Sallis, James. Chester Himes: A Life. New York City: Walker & Co., 2000: Ch. 7, 9-15, 17.
Together We Kill: The Uncollected Stories of Mickey Spillane. Ed. Max Allan Collins. Waterville, Maine: Five Star, 2001.
Vargas-Cooper, Natasha et al. Mad Men Unbuttoned: A Romp Through 1960s America. New York City: CollinsDesign, 2010: Ch. 7.
Vidal, Point to Point Navigation, Ch. 19-21, 29.
Whyte, Ch. 19-20.
Williams, John A. The Man Who Cried I Am, rev. ed. Woodstock, N.Y.: Tusk Ivories, 2004: Ch. 11-13, 15-16, 18-22.
Wilson, Sloan. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, rev. ed. 1983. Rpt. New York City: Four Walls Eight Windows, 2002: Ch. 1-11, 13-24, 26-41.
ii. Periodicals
(1) Magazines
(a) Men's Adventure
M.A. Collins, George Hagennauer, and Steve Heller. Men's Adventure Magazines in Postwar America. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2004.
The Naked and the Deadly: Lawrence Block in Men's Adventure Magazines. Ed. Robert Deis and Wyatt Doyle. Monrovia, Calif.: New Texture, 2023.
Parfrey, Adam et al. It’s a Man’s World: Men’s Adventure Magazines, the Postwar Pulps, rev. ed. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2015.
Weasels Ripped My Flesh!: Two-Fisted Stories From Men’s Adventure Magazines of the 1950s, ‘60s & ‘70s. Ed. Robert Deis, and Wyatt Doyle. Monrovia, Calif.: New Texture, 2013.
(b) Mad
Reidelbach, Maria C. Completely Mad: A History of the Comic Book and Magazine. 1991. Rpt. New York City: MJF Books, 1997: Ch. 3-8, 10.
Schelly, Bill. Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor in America: A Biography. Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2015: Ch. 17.
Weisman, Mary-Lou, and Al Jaffee. Al Jaffee’s Mad Life. New York City: It Books, 2010: Ch. 6.
(c) Playboy
Talese. Thy Neighbor’s Wife, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Ecco, 2009: Ch. 5.
Watts, Ch. 4-8, 12.
(d) Other
Barbas, Samantha. Confidential Confidential: The Inside Story of Hollywood’s Notorious Scandal Magazine. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2018: Ch. 5-25.
Covering the ‘60s: George Lois, the Esquire Era. New York City: The Monacelli Press, 1996.
Eggleston, George T. Roosevelt, Churchill and the World War II Opposition: A Revisionist Autobiography. Old Greenwich, Conn.: The Devin-Adair Co., 1979: Ch. 20, 22.
Howlett, Mike. The Weird World of Eerie Publications: Comic Gore That Warped Millions of Young Minds! Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2010: Ch. 4.
Schelly, Ch. 18-19, 21.
Simon, Joe. My Life in Comics. London: Titan Books, 2011: Ch. 15.
Yagoda, Ben. About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made. New York City: Scribner, 2000: Ch. 5.
(2) Newspapers
Corry, Ch. 1.
Hogshire, Jim. Grossed-Out Surgeon Vomits Inside Patient!: An Insider's Look at Supermarket Tabloids. Venice, Calif.: Feral House, 1997: Ch. 2, 8-9.
E.J. Kahn, Jock, Ch. 15.
Leamer. The Paper Revolutionaries: The Rise of the Underground Press. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1972: Ch. 2.
Millett, Larry. Strange Days, Dangerous Nights: Photos From the Speed Graphic Era. St. Paul, Minn.: Minnesota Historical Society, 2004.
(3) Comic Books
(a) Marvel

(i) Stan Lee
Fingeroth, Danny. A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2019: Ch. 5-6.
Lee, Stan [Stanley Martin Lieber], and George Mair. Excelsior!: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee. New York City: Fireside, 2002: Ch. 4-8.
(ii) Other
Bell, Blake. Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko. Seattle: Fantagraphic Books, 2008: Ch. 3.
Howe, Sean. Marvel Comics: The Untold Story. 2012. Rpt. Harper Perennial, 2013: Ch. 2.
(b) DC
Lepore, Jill. The Secret History of Wonder Woman. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014: Ch. 30.
Levitz, Paul, and Josh Baker. The Silver Age Of DC Comics, 1956-1970. Cologne, Germany, Taschen, 2012.
(c) The Comic Book Scare
M.A. Collins, and T. Beatty. Seduction of the Innocent. London: Hard Case Crime, 2013.
Fingeroth, Ch. 4.
Hajdu, David. The Ten-¢ent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008: Ch. 5-16.
Lepore, Ch. 29.
Simon, Joe, and Jim Simon. The Comic Book Makers, rev. ed. Lebanon, N.J.: Vanguard Productions, 2003: Ch. 17-21, 23-25.
(d) Mad
Reidelbach, Ch. 2, 9.
Schelly, Ch. 12, 14-16.
(e) Joe Simon
(i) Joe Simon, Ch. 11-14.
(ii) Joe Simon & Jim Simon, Ch. 22.
(f) General
B. Bell, Ch. 2, 9, 13.
M.A. Collins, and T. Beatty. A Killing in Comics. New York City: Berkley Prime Crime, 2007.
Evanier, Mark. Kirby: King of Comics. New York City: Abrams, 2008: Ch. 3-4.
Jones, Gerard. Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters and the Birth of the Comic Book. New York City: Basic Books, 2004: Ch. 11-13.
Kamen, Jack et al. Three for the Money & Other Stories. Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2021.
Schelly, Ch. 5-7, 9-11, 13.
Schumer, Arlen. The Silver Age of Comic Book Art. Portland, Ore.: Collectors Press, 2003.
Setting the Standard: Comics by Alex Toth, 1952-54. Ed. Greg Sadowski. Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2011.
(5) Charles M. Schulz
Johnson, Rheta Grimsley. Good Grief: The Story of Charles M. Schulz, 2nd rev. ed. Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews and McMeel, 1995: Ch. 5-9, 10-16, 19.
Michaelis, David. Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography. New York City: Harper, 2007: Ch. 10-18.
(6) H.S. Thompson
Carroll, E. Jean. Hunter: The Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson, rev. ed. Warwick, N.Y.: 1500 Books, 2010: Ch. 5.
Wenner, Jann, and Corey Seymour. Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson. New York City: Little, Brown and Co., 2007: Ch. 2.
iii. The Beatniks
F.M. Kaplan, 1959, Ch. 4.
Miles, Barry. The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso in Paris, 1957-1963. New York City: Grove Press, 2000: Ch. 1-9.
iv. Children's Books
Marcus, Leonard S. et al. Golden Legacy: How Golden Books Won Children's Hearts, Changed Publishing Forever, and Became an American Icon Along the Way. New York City: Golden Books, 2007: Ch. 4-5.
Retan, Walter, and Ole Risom. The Busy, Busy World of Richard Scarry. New York City: Harry N. Abrams, 1997.
v. Other
Bain. Murder, HE Wrote, Ch. 5-7.
Child & Prud'homme, Ch. 6.
F.M. Kaplan, 1959, Ch. 6.
Korda, Michael. Another Life: A Memoir of Other People. New York City: Random House, 1999: Ch. 3-9.
Schelly, Ch. 20.
Sin-A-Rama: Sleaze Sex Paperbacks of the Sixties, rev. ed. Ed. Brittany A. Daley and Parfrey. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2016.
d. Hollywood
(1) The Studios
(a) MCA

Bruck, Connie. When Hollywood Had a King: The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent Into Power and Influence. New York City: Random House, 2003: Ch. 2.
McDougal, Dennis. The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA and the Hidden History of Hollywood. New York City: Crown Publishers, 1998: Ch. 15-18, 20-21.
Moldea, Dark Victory, Ch. 16-17, 20.
b. MGM
J. Bacon, Ch. 15.
Crowther, Bosley. Hollywood Rajah: The Life and Times of Louis B. Mayer. 1960. Rpt. New York City: Dell Publishing Co., 1961: Ch. 17-19.
c. Other
Bach, Steven. Final Cut: Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven's Gate, the Film That Sank United Artists, rev. ed. New York City: Newmarket Press, 1999: Ch. 2.
J. Bacon, Ch. 14.
McClintick, David. Indencent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street, rev. ed. New York City: HarperBusiness, 2002: Ch. 10.
Thomson, David. Warner Bros: The Making of an American Movie Studio. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2017: Ch. 16-17.
(2) The Talent
(a) Samuel Fuller
Cochran, Ch. 7.
Fuller, Samuel, Christa Lang Fuller, and Jerome Henry Rudes. A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmaking. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002: Ch. 23-27, 29-30, 32-37.
D. Thompson, David. Rosebud: The Story of Orson Welles. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996: Pt. 3, Ch. 17.
(b) Robert Mitchum
Server, Lee. Robert Mitchum: “Baby, I Don’t Care”. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 2001: Ch. 5-12.
E. Wilson, Ch. 14.
(c) The Reagans
(i) Cannon
Governor Reagan, Ch.8-9.
President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime, rev. ed. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2000: Ch. 6, 13.
(ii) Other
Colacello, Bob. Ronnie & Nancy: Their Path to the White House, 1911 to 1980. New York City: Warner Books, 2004: Ch. 9-12.
Eliot, Marc. Reagan: The Hollywood Years. New York City: Harmony Books, 2008: Ch. 8, 10-11.
Reagan & Hubler, Ch. 11-18.
(d) Paar
(i) Paar, Jack, and John Reddy. I Kid You Not. 1960. Rpt. New York City: Pocket Books, 1961: Ch. 5-6.
(ii) P.S. Jack Paar, Ch. 7.
(e) The Collinses
B. Collins & M.A. Collins, Ch. 1, 6-15.
M.A. Collins. Chicago Confidential: A Nathan Heller Novel. 2002. Rpt. New York City: Signet, 2003: Ch. 1.
(f) James Robert Parish
i. The Tough Guys. 1976. Rpt. Carlstadt, N.J.: Rainbow Books, 1977: Ch. 2-3.
ii. It’s Good to Be the King: The Seriously Funny Life of Mel Brooks. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2007: Ch. 18.
(g) Others
J. Bacon, Ch. 16-18, 26-28, 33-34, 36.
Bailey, Mark. Of All the Gin Joints: Stumbling Through Hollywood History. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2014: Pt. 4.
Base, Ron. “If the Other Guy Isn’t Jack Nicholson, I’ve Got the Part”: Hollywood Tales of Big Breaks, Bad Luck, and Box-Office Magic. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1994: Ch. 6-7.
Biskind, Peter. Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2010: Ch. 1.
Cahn, Ch. 10.
Cantor. The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture: Liberty vs. Authority in American Film and TV. Lexington, Ky.: UP of Kentucky, 2012: Ch. 1.
Cassini, Ch. 7.
Cochran, Ch. 8, 10.
Corman, Roger, and Jim Jerome. How I Made a Hundred Moves in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime. New York City: Random House, 1990: Ch. 2-6.
Epstein, Dwayne, and Christopher Marvin. Lee Marvin: Point Blank. Tucson, Ariz.: Schaffner Press, 2013: Ch. 5-7.
E.J. Epstein. The Big Picture: Money and Power in Hollywood, rev. ed. New York City: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006: Ch. 1.
Evans, Robert [Robert Shapera][and Charles Michener]. The Kid Stays in the Picture. Ed. Marinka Peschmann. 1994. Rpt. London: Faber & Faber, 2003: Ch. 5-7, 9, 12.
Garfield, Brian. Western Films: A Complete Guide. 1982. Rpt. New York City: Da Capo Press, 1988: Appendix A.
J. Garner & Winokur, Ch. 3.
Graham, Don. No Name on the Bullet: A Biography of Audie Murphy. 1989. Rpt. New York City: Penguin Books, 1990: Ch. 5-12.
Kashner, Sam, and Jennifer MacNair. The Bad & the Beautiful: Hollywood in the Fifties. 2002. Rpt. London: Time Warner Paperbacks, 2005.
King, Alan [Irwin Alan Kniberg], and Chris Chase. Name Dropping: The Life and Lies of Alan King. New York City: Scribner, 1996: Ch. 13.
Kup, Ch. 13.
Lake, Veronica [Constance Ockleman], and Donald Bain. Veronica. 1969. Rpt. New York City: Bantam Books, 1972: Ch. 18-21.
McCarty, John. Bullets Over Hollywood: The American Gangster Picture From the Silents to "The Sopranos." Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2004: Ch. 10.
Messick. The Mob in Show Business. 1973. Rpt. New York City: Pyramid Books, 1975: Ch. 9-10, 14.
Moldea, Dark Victory, Ch. 14, 19, 24.
Otash, Ch. 22.
Puzo. The Godfather. New York City: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1969: Ch. 12-13, 26.
Randall & Mindlin, Ch. 4-5, 7, 9-12.
J. Schwartz, Ch. 4.
Shavelson, Melville. How to Succeed in Hollywood Without Really Trying: P.S. – You Can’t. Albany, Ga.: BearManor Media, 2007: Ch. 7, 11.
Sklar, Robert. City Boys: Cagney, Bogart, Garfield. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 1992; Ch. 9-12.
Stadiem. Jet Set: The People, the Planes, the Glamour, and the Romance in Aviation’s Glory Years. New York City: Ballantine Books, 2014: Ch. 13.
Sudhalter, Richard M. Stardust Melody: The Life and Music of Hoagy Carmichael. New York City: Oxford UP, 2002: Ch. 15-16.
Sumner, Robert L. Hollywood Cesspool: A Startling Survey of Movieland Lives and Morals, Pictures, and Results. 1955. Rpt. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Publishing House, 1958.
Tormé, Ch. 21.
Vargas-Cooper, Ch. 8.
Vidal, Point to Point Navigation, Ch. 17.
Wallach, Ch. 9, 11, 14.
E. Wilson, Ch. 8.
Youngkin, Stephen D. The Lost One: A Life of Peter Lorre. Lexington, Ky.: The UP of Kentucky, 2005: Ch. 8-10.
Zuckoff, Mitchell. Robert Altman: The Oral Biography. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009: Ch. 7-8.
(3) Other
Pizzitola, Louis. Hearst Over Hollywood: Power, Passion and Propaganda in the Movies. New York City: Columbia UP, 2002: Ch. 17.
Russo, Gus. Supermob: How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became America’s Hidden Power Brokers. New York City: Bloomsbury, 2006: Ch. 7.
Tuccille. Dillerland: The Story of Media Mogul Barry Diller. New York City: Alyson Books, 2009: Ch. 4.
R.K. Wilcox, Target: JFK, Ch. 19.
e. The Comedians
i. Groucho Marx

(1) Groucho and Hector Arce
(a) The Groucho Phile: An Illustrated Life. 1976. Rpt. New York City: Galahad Books, 1979: Ch. 7.
(b) The Secret Word Is Groucho. 1976. Rpt. New York City: Berkley Publishing Corp., 1977.
(2) Others
Arce. Groucho. New York City: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1979: Ch. 11.
Marx, Arthur. My Life With Groucho: A Son’s Eye View, rev. ed. 1988. Rpt. Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, 1992: Ch. 1, 26-31.
ii. Steve Allen
a. Mark it and Strike It, Ch. 17.
b. Hi-Ho, Steverino!: My Adventures in the Wonderful Wacky World of TV. Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, 1992: Ch. 13.
Alba, Ben. Inventing Late Night: Steve Allen and the Original Tonight Show. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2005: Ch. 9.
iii. Lenny Bruce [Leonard Alfred Schneider]
Goldman, Albert, and Lawrence Schiller. Ladies and Gentlemen — Lenny Bruce!! New York City: Random House, 1974: Ch. 4-8.
Zoglin, Richard. Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-Up in the 1970s Changed America. New York City: Bloomsbury, 2008: Ch. 1.
iv. Others
Abraham, Jeff, and Burt Kearns. The Show Won't Go On: The Most Shocking, Bizarre, and Historic Deaths of Performers Onstage. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2019: Ch. 3.
J. Bacon, Ch. 3, 5, 7-8.
Berger, Phil. The Last Laugh: The World of Stand-Up Comics, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Cooper Square Press, 2000: Pt. 1.
Berle, Milton [Mendel Berlinger], and Haskel Frankel. Milton Berle: An Autobiography. 1974. Rpt. New York City: Applause Theatre & Cinema Books, 2002: Ch. 20-21, 23-25.
Brooks, Mel [Melvin Kaminsky]. All About Me: My Remarkable Life in Show Business. New York City: Ballantine Books, 2021: Ch. 4-5.
Carter, Bill. The Late Shift: Letterman, Leno, and the Network Battle for the Night, rev. ed. New York City: Hyperion, 1995: Ch. 2.
Dangerfield, Rodney [Jacob Cohen]. It’s Not Easy Bein’ Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs. New York City: HarperEntertainment, 2004: Ch. 3, 11.
Epstein, Lawrence J. The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2001: Pt. 3.
Fleming, Michael. The Three Stooges: An Illustrated History: Amalgamated Morons to American Icons. 1999. Rpt. New York City: Broadway Books, Pt. 1, Ch. 12-16.
Gordon, Max. Live at the Village Vanguard. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 1980: Ch. 9.
F.M. Kaplan, 1959, Ch. 7.
A. King & Chase, Ch. 5-8.
Kup, Ch. 8.
Marx, Harpo [Adolph Marx], and Rowland Barber. Harpo Speaks! New York City: B. Geis Associates, 1961: Ch. 24.
Nachman, Gerald. Seriously Funny: The Rebel Comedians of the 1950s and 1960s. New York City: Pantheon Books, 2003.
Nesteroff, Kliph. The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy. New York City: Grove Press, 2015: Ch. 4-7.
Newhart, Bob [George Robert Newhart]. I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This!: And Other Things That Strike Me as Funny. New York City: Hyperion, 2006: Ch. 1, 4-6, 10, 12-13, 15.
Paar & Reddy, I Kid You Not, Ch. 17, 19.
Parish, It’s Good to Be the King, Ch. 8-12, 14-16.
Randall & Mindlin, Ch. 15.
Rickles, Don, and Ritz. Rickles’ Book: A Memoir. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2007.
Sullivan, James. Seven Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2010: Ch. 2.
Youngman, Henny, and Neal Karlen. Take My Life, Please! New York City: William Morrow & Co., 1991: Ch. 13.
f. Nightclubs
i. Toots Shor's Restaurant

Bainbridge, John. The Wonderful World of Toots Shor. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1951.
Considine. Toots. New York City: Meredith Press, 1969: Ch. 4-7.
ii. Sven A. Kirsten
(1) The Book of Tiki: The Cult of Polynesian Pop in Fifties America. Köln, Germany: Taschen, 2000: Ch. 9-11, 14-15.
(2) Tiki Pop: America Imagines Its Own Polynesian Paradise. Cologne, Germany: Musée du Quai Branly/Taschen, 2014: Ch. 24.
ii. Other
Adinolfi, Ch. 17.
Blumenthal, Ralph. Stork Club: America’s Most Famous Nightspot and the Lost World of Café Society, rev. ed. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2001: Ch. 3-5, 24-27, 29-40.
Colby, Paul, and Martin Fitzpatrick. The Bitter End: Hanging Out at America’s Nightclub. New York City: Cooper Square Press, 2002: Ch. 2.
Gavin. Intimate Nights: The Golden Age of New York Cabaret, rev. ed. New York City: Back Stage Books, 2006: Ch. 3-8.
Max Gordon, Ch. 8, 11.
Lait, Jack [Jacquin Leonard Lait], and Mortimer. New York: Confidential!, rev. ed. New York City: Crown Publishers, 1951: Ch. 5.
Lanza, The Cocktail, Ch. 7.
Podell-Raber, Mickey, and Charles Pignone. The Copa: Jules Podell and the Hottest Club North of Havana. New York City: Collins, 2007: Ch. 3-7.
Van Meter, Ch. 7.
g. Theater
Caine, What's It All About?, Ch. 7-8, 10-11.
Dyja, Ch. 25.
Edelman, Rob, and Audrey Kupferberg. Matthau: A Life. Lanham, Md.: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2002: Ch. 6-8.
D. Epstein & Marvin, Ch. 3.
Hirsch, Foster. Kurt Weill on Stage: From Berlin to Broadway. 2002. Rpt. New York City: Limelight Editions, 2003: Ch. 13-17.
Klugman, Jack, and Burton Rocks. Tony and Me: A Story of Friendship. West Linn, Ore.: Good Hill Press, 2005: Ch. 2.
Kostelanetz, Richard. SoHo: The Rise and Fall of an Artist’s Colony. New York City: Routledge, 2003: Ch. 18.
Kup, Ch. 14.
Lait & Mortimer, New York: Confidential!, Ch. 4.
Meyerson, Harold, Ernie Harburg, and Arthur Perlman. Who Put the Rainbow in the Wizard of Oz?: Yip Harburg, Lyricist. Ann Arbor, Mich.: U of Michigan P, 1993: Ch. 9.
Mordden, Ethan. Beautiful Mornin’: The Broadway Musicial in the 1940s. New York City: Oxford UP, 1999: Ch. 10-11.
Parish, It’s Good to Be the King, Ch. 7, 13.
Randall & Mindlin, Ch. 3, 14.
Rodgers, Richard. Musical Stages: An Autobiography. New York City: Random House, 1975: Ch. 18-22.
J. Schwartz, Ch. 5.
Sheed, Wilfrid. The House That George Built, With a Little Help from Irving, Cole, and a Crew of About Fifty. New York City: Random House, 2007: Pt. 5.
Strausbaugh, The Village, Ch. 24.
Vidal, Point to Point Navigation, Ch. 30, 49.
Wallach, Ch. 6-8, 10, 15.
Young, Steve, and Mike "Sport" Murphy. Everything’s Coming Up Profits: The Golden Age of Industrial Musicals. New York City: Blast Books, 2013.
h. Fashion
i. Italian
Forden, Sara Gay. House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour and Greed, rev. ed. New York City: Perennial 2021: Ch. 3.
Levy, Shawn. Dolce Vita Confidential: Fellini, Loren, Pucci, Paparazzi, and the Swinging High Life of 1950s Rome. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2016: Ch. 17, 26.
Steele, Valerie. Fashion, Italian Style. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2003.
ii. Tropical
Hope, Dale et al. The Aloha Shirt: Spirit of the Islands, rev. ed. Ventura, Calif.: Patagonia Books, 2016: Ch. 11-12.
Miller, Tom. The Panama Hat Trail, rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: Adventure Press/National Geographic, 2001: Ch. 25.
iii. French
Hesse, Jean-Pascal, and Pierre Pelegry. Pierre Cardin: Making Fashion Modern. Trans. Inge Laino. Paris: Flammarion, 2022.
Martin, Richard, and Harold Koda. Christian Dior. New York City: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996.
iv. Other
Dyer, Rod, and Ron Sparks. Fit to Be Tied: Vintage Ties of the '40s and Early '50s. New York City: Abbeville Press, 1987.
50s Fashion: Vintage Fashion and Beauty Ads. Ed. Jim Heimann. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2007.
Gross, Michael. Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: It Books, 2011: Pt. 2.
Vargas-Cooper, Ch. 2.
i. Television
(1) "The Tonight Show"
Alba, Ch. 2-8.
Galanoy, Terry. Tonight! 1972. Rpt. New York City: Warner Books, 1974: Ch. 1-7.
(2) Paar
(a) Paar & Reddy, I Kid You Not, Ch. 7-16, 18, 20-25.
(b) P.S. Jack Paar, Ch. 2, 7-9, 12-13, 20.
(3) Johnny Carson

Leamer. King of the Night: The Life of Johnny Carson, rev. ed. New York City: Avon Books, 2005: Ch. 4-8.
McMahon, Ed. Here's Johnny!: My Memories of Johnny Carson, the Tonight Show, and 46 Years of Friendship. 2005. Rpt. New York City: Berkley Boulevard Books, 2006: Ch. 3-6, 12, 18.
(4) Mike Wallace
(a) Wallace and Gary Paul Gates
(i) Close Encounters. 1984. Rpt. New York City: Berkley Books, 1985: Ch. 2-5, 13.
(ii) Between You and Me: A Memoir. New York City: Hyperion, 2005: Ch. 1-6, 8-9.
(b) Other
Rader, Peter. Mike Wallace: A Life. New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2012: Ch. 5-7.
(5) Others
S. Allen, Hi-Ho, Steverino!, Ch. 1, 4-5, 7-12, 14-15, 18.
Bergreen. Look Now, Pay Later: The Rise of Network Broadcasting. 1980. Rpt. New York City: New American Library, 1981: Ch. 12-17, 19-20.
Berle & H. Frankel, Ch. 22.
Blanc, Mel [Melvin Jerome Blank], and Philip Bashe. That's not all Folks! New York City: Warner Books, 1988: Ch. 9.
Burke, Timothy, and Kevin Burke. Saturday Morning Fever. New York City: St. Martin's Griffin, 1999: Ch. 1.
Cantor, The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture, Ch. 2.
Cronkite & Carleton, Ch. 10-13.
Dyja, Ch. 13, 15.
Edelman & Kupferberg, Ch. 9-10.
Fowles, Jib. Why Viewers Watch: A Reappraisal of Television's Effects, rev. ed. Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage Publications, 1992: Ch. 2.
Henderson & Foshko, Ch. 6.
Kirsten, Tiki Pop, Ch. 23.
Korda, Ch. 2.
Kup, Ch. 23.
McMahon, Ed, and David Fisher. When Television Was Young: The Inside Story With Memories by Legends of the Small Screen. Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, 2007: Ch. 2-13.
Mullen, Megan. The Rise of Cable Programming in the United States: Revolution or Evolution? Austin, Texas: U of Texas P, 2003: Ch. 1-2, 7.
O’Brien, Timothy L. TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald, rev. ed. New York City: Grand Central Publishing, 2016: Ch. 1.
Seibert, Ch. 12.
Shulman, Arthur, and Roger Youman. How Sweet It Was Television: A Pictorial Commentary. 1966. Rpt. New York City: Bonanza Books, 1976.
S.B. Smith, In All His Glory, Ch. 26, 37.
Wilson, Ch. 2-3, 19.
Zuckoff, Ch. 9.
j. Radio
S. Allen, Hi-Ho, Steverino!, Ch. 6.
Earl, Bill. Dream-House: The History of a Major Radio Station and Southern California's 50 Years of "Radio Eleven-Ten"!, rev. ed. Montebello, Calif.: Desert Rose Productions/Research Archives, 1991: Ch. 1.
Fong-Torres, Ben. The Hits Just Keep on Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio, corr. ed. San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2001: Ch. 1, 3-6, 8-10, 12-13, 15.
“Lujack, Larry” [Larry Lee Blankenburg], and Daniel A. Jedlicka. Superjock: The Loud, Frantic, Nonstop World of a Rock Radio DJ. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1975.
Milner, Greg. Perfecting Sound Forever: The Story of Recorded Music. 2009. Rpt. London: Granta, 2010: Ch. 7.
Settel, Irving. A Pictoral History of Radio, rev. ed. New York City: Grosset & Dunlap, 1967: Pt. 5.
Sklar, Rick. Rocking America: An Insider’s Story: How the All-Hit Radio Stations Took Over. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 1984: Ch. 2-8.
A. Shaw, Ch. 7.
S.B. Smith, In All His Glory, Ch. 25.
Walker, Jesse. Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America. New York City: New York UP, 2001: Ch. 4.
k. Visual Arts
i. Charlotte Fiell and Peter Fiell
(1) Modern Furniture Classics: Postwar to Post-Modernism. 1991. Rpt. New York City: Thames & Hudson, 2001: Ch. 1-2.
(2) 50s Decorative Art: A Source Book. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2000.
ii. Kirsten
(1) Book of Tiki, Ch. 23.
(2) Tiki Modern, Ch. 3-4.
(3) Tiki Pop, Ch. 18-19, 22, 31.
iii. Gary Monroe
(1) The Highwaymen: Florida’s African-American Landscape Painters. Gainesville, Fla.: UP of Florida, 2001.
(2) Harold Newton: The Original Highwayman. Gainesville, Fla.: UP of Florida, 2007.
iv. Robert Frank
Greenough, Sarah et al. Looking In: Robert Frank's The Americans, expanded ed. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art/Steidl, 2009.
F.M. Kaplan, 1959, Ch. 20.
v. Other
Bockris, Victor. Warhol: The Biography, 2nd rev. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2003.
Manso, Peter. Ptown: Art, Sex, and Money on the Outer Cape. New York City: Lisa Drew/Scribner, 2002: Ch. 8.
Osterwold, Tilman. Pop Art. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 1990.
Jennifer McKnight-Trontz, and Alex Steinweiss. For the Record: the Life and Work of Alex Steinweiss. New York City: Princeton Architectural Press, 2000: Ch. 3-4.
Nason, Douglas et al. Rat Fink: The Art of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth. Ed. Nason. San Francisco: Last Gasp Publishing, 2003.
Nelson, Cletus, and Adam Parfrey. Citizen Keane: The Big Lies Behind the Big Eyes. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2014: Ch. 1-5.
Nelson, George. Living Spaces. New York City: Whitney Publications, 1952.
l. Off-Hollywood Cinema
(1) Italy
Brunetta, Gian Piero. The History of Italian Cinema: A Guide to Italian Film From Its Origins to the Twenty-First Century, 2nd rev. ed. Trans. Jeremy Parzen. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2009: Ch. 2-3.
Frayling, Christopher. Sergio Leone: Something to Do With Death. London: Faber and Faber, 2000: Ch. 2-3.
Gundle, Stephen. Death and the Dolce Vita: The Dark Side of Rome in the 1950s. Edinburgh, U.K.: Cannogate, 2011: Ch. 5, 19.
S. Levy, Dolce Vita Confidential, Ch. 8.
(2) Hong Kong
Logan, Bey. Hong Kong Action Cinema. 1995. Rpt. Woodstock, N.Y.: The Overlook Press, 1996: Ch. 1-3.
Polly, Matthew. Bruce Lee: A Life. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2018: Ch. 2.
(2) Other
Base, Ch. 8.
Caine, What's It All About?, Ch. 9.
Garfield, Western Films, Appendix C.
F.M. Kaplan, 1959, Ch. 21.
Messick, The Mob in Show Business, Ch. 11.
Zuckoff, Ch. 4-6.
m. Cuisine
Child, Julia, and Alex Prud'homme. My Life in France. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006: Ch. 1-5.
Kamp, David. The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation. New York City: Broadway Books, 2006: Ch. 3-4.
Liske, Dave. The Flint Coney: A Savory History. Charleston, S.C.: American Palate, 2022: Ch. 4-5.
Mariani, John F. How Italian Food Conquered the World. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011: Ch. 5-6, 8, 15, 17.
n. Architecture
Dyja, Ch. 6.
Heimann. California Crazy and Beyond: Roadside Vernacular Architecture, rev. ed. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2001: Ch. 4.
Hess, Alan. Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture, rev. ed. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2004: Ch. 2-5, 7-10.
Langdon, Philip. Orange Roofs, Golden Arches: The Architecture of American Chain Restaurants. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986: Ch. 5.
Kirsten, Tiki Pop, Ch. 27-30.
o. Las Vegas Casinos
Smith, John L. Sharks in the Desert: The Founding Fathers and Current Kings of Las Vegas. Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, 2005: 34.
E. Wilson, Ch. 1.
p. Polynesiana
i. Kirsten
(1) Book of Tiki, Ch. 1, 6-7, 18-21.
(2) Tiki Modern, Ch. 1, 6-10, 12, 14.
(3) Tiki Pop, Ch. 1, 11, 14-16, 26, 32-33.
ii. Other
Henderson & Foshko, Ch. 1-2, 5, 9.
Reichek, Jordan. Oceanic Arts: The Godfathers of Tiki. Pasadena, Calif.: Peekaboo Press, 2022.
Tadey, Renee. Detroit Tiki: A History of Polynesian Palaces & Tropical Cocktails. Charleston, S.C.: The History Press, 2022: Ch. 3-4.
q. The Borscht Belt
Joey Adams, and Henry Tobias. The Borscht Belt. 1966. Rpt. New York City: Bentley Publishing Co., 1973: Ch. 15.
Grossinger, Ch. 2-14, 16-20.
r. Graphic Design
Colacello. Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 2014: Ch. 1.
Müller, Jens. The History of Graphic Design, Vol. II: 1960-Today. Ed. Julius Wiedemann. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2018.
s. Amusement Parks
Geffken, Rick, and George Severini. Images of America: Lost Amusement Parks of the North Jersey Shore. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2017: Ch. 5.
Santa Cruz Seaside Co. The Santa Cruz Boardwalk: A Century by the Sea. Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press, 2007: Ch. 5.
t. Games
Hennessey, Jonathan, and Jack McGowan. The Comic Book Story of Video Games: The Incredible History of the Electronic Gaming Revolution. New York City: Ten Speed Press, 2017: Ch. 2-3.
McManus, James. Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009: Ch. 30.
Orbanes, Philip E. Monopoly®: The World’s Most Famous Game – and How It Got That Way. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2006: Ch. 9-10.
u. Hoagy Carmichael
Carmichael, Hoagy, and Stephen Longstreet. Sometimes I Wonder: The Story of Hoagy Carmichael. 1965. Rpt. New York City: Da Capo Press, 1976: Ch. 28.
Sudhalter, Ch. 17.
v. Jim Henson
Finch, Christopher, and Justine Strasberg. Jim Henson: The Works: The Art, the Magic, the Imagination. New York City: Random House, 1993: Ch. 1, 6.
Jones, Brian Jay. Jim Henson: The Biography. New York City: Ballantine Books, 2013: Ch. 2-4.
w. Norman Mailer
Hamilton, William. On Taking God Out of the Dictionary. New York City: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1974: Ch. 5.
F.M. Kaplan, 1959, Ch. 3.
Lennon, J. Michael. Norman Mailer: A Double Life. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2013: Ch. 4-6.
Manso. Mailer: His Life and Times, rev. ed. New York City: Washington Square Press, 2008: Ch. 4-7.
x. Billy Rose [William Samuel Rosenberg]
Conrad, Earl [Earl Cohen]. Billy Rose, Manhattan Primitive. 1968. Rpt. New York City: Paperback Library, 1969: Ch. 5-7.
Gottlieb, Peggy Rose. The Nine Lives of Billy Rose. 1968. Rpt. New York City: New American Library, 1969: Ch. 13-14.
y. Gore Vidal
Kaplan, Fred. Gore Vidal: A Biography. New York City: Doubleday, 1999: Ch. 7-12, 37.
Vidal, Point to Point Navigation, Ch. 14.
z. Walter Winchell
Otash, Ch. 6.
Stuart, Lyle [Lionel Simon]. The Secret Life of Walter Winchell, rev. ed. Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, 2003: Ch. 21, 23, 25, 28-35.
aa. S. Levy
i. The Last Playboy: The High Life of Porfiro Rubirosa. New York City: Fourth Estate, 2005: Ch. 7-9, 12-15.
ii. Dolce Vita Confidential, Ch. 20-22.
ab. McDougal
i. Fatal Subtraction: The Inside Story of Buchwald v. Paramount, rev. ed. West Hollywood, Calif.: Dove Books, 1996: Ch. 3, 8.
ii. Last Mogul, Ch. 12-14, 19.
ac. Other
Abbott, Karen. American Rose: A Nation Laid Bare: The Life and Times of Gypsy Rose Lee. New York City: Random House, 2010: Ch. 26, 29, 32, 34.
Adinolfi, Ch. 1, 13-14.
S. Allen. Mark It and Strike It: An Autobiography. 1960. Rpt. New York City: Bartholomew House, 1961: Ch. 6-12, 15, 18.
Amis, Kinglsey. Collected Poems, 1944-1979. 1979. Rpt. New York City: New York Review Books, 2016.
Anderson, Chris, Sharon McGehee, and Jake La Motta. Raging Bull II. Secaucus, N.J.: Lyle Stuart, 1986: Ch. 3-4.
Armstrong, Elizabeth et al. Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at Midcentury. Newport Beach, Calif.: Orange County Museum of Art/Prestel Publishing, 2007.
J. Bacon, Ch. 12-13, 29.
Baraka, The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones, Ch. 6.
Blanc & Bashe, Ch. 10-11.
Caine. The Elephant to Hollywood: The Autobiography. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2010: Ch. 3-4.
Cassini, Oleg [Oleg Cassini Loiewski, and Joe Klein]. In My Own Fashion: An Autobiography. 1987. Rpt. New York City: Pocket Books, 1990: Ch. 8-10, 12.
M.A. Collins, and Terry Beatty. Strip for Murder. New York City: Berkeley Prime Crime, 2008.
Considine. Ripley, the Modern Marco Polo. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1961: Ch. 11-13.
Corry, John. My Times: Adventures in the News Trade. New York City: Grosset/Putnam, 1993: Ch. 11.
Damone & Chanoff, Ch. 12.
Davis, Michael. Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street. New York City: Viking, 2008: Ch. 3, 5, 8-10.
Davis, Ronald L. Zachary Scott: Hollywood’s Sophisticated Cad. Jackson, Miss: U of Mississippi P, 2006: Ch. 6-7.
Dickstein, Morris. Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties, rev. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1997: Ch. 2-3.
Dyja, Ch. 16, 20.
Edelman & Kupferberg, Ch. 11-13, 25.
Evanier, David. Roman Candle: The Life of Bobby Darin. Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale, 2004: Ch. 7.
Falk, Peter. Just One More Thing: Stories From My Life. 2006. Rpt. London: Arrow Books, 2008.
Featherstone, Don, and Tom Herzing. The Original Pink Flamingos: Splendor on the Grass. Atglen, Pa.: Schiffer Publishing, 1999.
Fearon, Peter. Hamptons Babylon: Life Among the Super-Rich on America's Riviera. Secaucus, N.J.: Birch Lane Press, 1998: Ch. 2-4.
Fitzpatrick, Kevin C. A Journey Into Dorothy Parker’s New York. Berkeley, Calif.: Roaring Forties Press, 2005: Ch. 6.
Fox, Ted. Showtime at The Apollo, rev. ed. Rhinebeck, N.Y.: Mill Road Enterprises, 2003: Ch. 5.
Frishberg, Dave. My Dear Departed Past. Milwaukee: Backbeat Books, 2017: Ch. 2.
Gardner, Hy. Champagne Before Breakfast. New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 1954: Ch. 1-4, 7-8, 11, 16, 20.
Gavin, James. Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne. New York City: Atria Books, 2009: Ch. 9-13.
Granlund, Nils Thor, Sid Feder and Ralph Hancock. Blondes, Brunettes and Bullets. New York City: David McKay Co., 1957: Ch. 22.
Grippo, Robert M., and Christopher Hoskins. Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2004: Ch. 4.
Hammarstrom, David Lewis. Fall of the Big Top: The Vanishing American Circus. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2008: Ch. 1.
Holmes, Rupert [David Holdstein]. Where the Truth Lies. 2003. Rpt. London: Allison & Busby, 2006: Ch. 6, 11, 30.
Houseman, John [Jacques Haussmann]. Unfinished Business: Memoirs, 1902-1988. New York City: Applause Theatre Books, 1989: Ch. 15-25.
Hoyt, Edwin P. That Wonderful A & P! New York City: Hawthorn Books Publishers, 1969: Ch. 27-29.
Kup, Ch. 12.
Lake, Veronica [Constance Ockleman], and Donald Bain. Veronica. 1969. Rpt. New York City: Bantam Books, 1972: Ch. 22-23.
Lanza, The Cocktail, Ch. 10, 12.
Leiber et al., Ch. 2, 14.
Lertzman, Richard A., and William J. Birnes. Dr. Feelgood: The Shocking Story of the Doctor Who May Have Changed History by Treating and Drugging JFK, Marilyn, Elvis, and Other Prominent Figures. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2013: Ch. 6, 9.
Lois, George. $ellebrity: My Angling and Tangling With Famous People. London: Phaidon, 2003.
Longstreet. The Flesh Peddlers. 1962. Rpt. London: Panther Books, 1964.
Manso, Ptown, Ch. 7.
Mortensen, Chris. Playing for Keeps: How One Man Kept the Mob From Sinking Its Hooks Into Pro Football. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1991: Ch. 8.
P.C. Newman. The Canadian Establishment, Vol. II: The Acquisitors. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1981: Ch. 6.
Perrin, Dennis. Mr. Mike: The Life and Work of Michael O’Donoghue. New York City: Avon Books, 1998: Ch. 2.
P.S. Jack Paar, Ch. 14-15.
Rader, Ch. 3-4.
Randall, Tony [Arthur Leonard Rosenberg], and Michael Mindlin. Which Reminds Me. 1989. Rpt. New York City: Dell, 1990: Ch. 13.
Reynolds, Mack. The Expatriates. Evanston, Ill.: Regency Books, 1963: Ch. 4.
S. Reynolds, Ch. 11.
Schwartz, Jonathan. All in Good Time: A Memoir. New York City: Random House, 2004: Ch. 6, 9, 11-12.
Schlatter, George, and Jon Macks. Still Laughing: A Life in Comedy From the Creator of Laugh-In. Los Angeles: Unnamed Press, 2023: Ch. 1.
Sinatra, Barbara, and Wendy Holden. Lady Blue Eyes: My Life With Frank. New York City: Crown Archetype, 2011: Ch. 2-4.
Spielman, Ed. The Mighty Atom: The Life and Times of Joseph L. Greenstein. 1979. Rpt. London: Secker & Warburg, 1980: Ch. 10.
Stadiem, Jet Set, Ch. 1.
Strausbaugh. The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues: A History of Greenwich Village. New York City: Ecco, 2013: Ch. 16-18, 22, 27.
Susann, Jacqueline. Valley of the Dolls. New York City: Grove Press, 1966.
D. Thompson, Pt. 3, Ch. 9, 11-16, 18; Pt. 4.
Tormé, Mel. It Wasn’t All Velvet. New York City: Viking, 1988: Ch. 13-15, 17-20, 23-24.
Traub, James. The Devil’s Playground: A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square. New York City: Random House, 2004: Ch. 8.
Tuohy, Brian. The Fix Is Still In: More Corruption and Conspiracies the Pro Sports Leagues Don't Want You to Know. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2019: Ch. 12.
Wallace, David Foster. "E Unibus Plurum: Television and U.S. Fiction." Review of Contemporary Fiction Summer 1993: 151-194.
Wallach, Eli. The Good, the Bad and Me: In My Anecdotage. Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 2005: Prologue, Ch. 12-13.
Watts, Steven. Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2008: Ch. 3.
Wilson, Earl. The Show Business Nobody Knows. Chicago: Cowles Book Co., 1971: Ch. 17.
Wilson, Kristi M. Cult Pop Culture: How the Fringe Became Mainstream, Vol. I: Film and Television. Ed. Batchelor. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, 2012: Ch. 9.
Wilson, Sunnie, and John Cohassey. Toast of the Town: The Life and Times of Sunnie Wilson. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1998: Ch. 6-7.
4. The Crime Scene
a. The Mafia
i. Frank Sinatra
A. Summers & Swan, Sinatra: The Life, Ch. 13, 17, 23.
Taraborrelli, Sinatra, Ch. 9.
ii The Five Families
(1) The Columbo Family
Franzese, Michael [Michael Grillo]. Blood Covenant, 2nd rev. ed. New Kensington, Pa.: Whitaker House, 2018: Pt. 1, Ch. 4-5, 7, 11, 15.
Harmon, Sandra. Mafia Son: The Scarpa Mob Family, the FBI, and a Story of Betrayal. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 2009: Ch. 2.
Hoffman, William, and Lake Headley. Contract Killer: The Explosive Story of the Mafia's Most Notorious Hit Man, Donald "Tony the Greek" Frankos. New York City: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1992: Ch. 3-5.
Mortensen, Ch. 10.
Raab, Selwyn. Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin, 2016: Ch. 19, 29.
(2) The Lucchese Family
(a) Henry Hill
Hill, Henry, and Gus Russo. Gangsters and Goodfellas: The Mob, Witness Protection, and Life on the Run. New York City: M. Evans & Co., 2004: Ch. 2.
Pileggi, Nicholas. Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1985: Ch. 1-3, 7.
(b) Other
Capeci & Robbins, Ch. 4-5.
Raab, Ch. 40.
(3) The Gambino Family
Eppolito, Lou, and Bob Drury. Mafia Cop. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1992: Ch. 4-7.
Roberts, Jon [Jon Riccobono], and Evan Wright. American Desperado: My Life – From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset. New York City: Crown Publishers, 2011: Ch. 2-3.
(4) Others
Breslin, Jimmy. The Good Rat: A True Story. New York City: HarperCollins, 2008: Ch. 20.
Knoedelseder, Stiffed, Ch. 14.
Nash, Arthur. New York City Gangland. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2010: Ch. 5-6.
Murtagh, John M., and Sara Harris. Who Live in Shadow. 1959. Rpt. London: W.H. Allen, 1960: Pt. 2.
Raab, Ch. 46.
Teresa & Renner, Ch. 17.
iii. The Outfit
(1) M.A. Collins
(a) Neon Mirage. 1988. Rpt. New York City: Bantam, 1991: Ch. 1-10, 15.
(b) Chicago Confidential, Ch. 2-7, 9-17.
(2) Demaris
(a) Captive City, Pt. 1, Ch. 6-8, 10-11; Pt. 3, Ch. 1, 9.
(b) The Boardwalk Jungle. New York City: Bantam Books, 1986: Ch. 13.
(3) G. Russo
(a) The Outfit: The Role of Chicago’s Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America. New York City: Bloomsbury, 2001: Ch. 11, 14-15.
(b) Supermob, Ch. 6, 8.
(4) Others
Corbitt, Michael, and Sam Giancana. Double Deal: The Inside Story of Murder, Unbridled Corruption, and the Cop Who Was a Mobster. New York City: William Morrow, 2003: Ch. 2-7.
S. Giancana and Chuck Giancana. Double Cross: The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America, rev. ed. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2014: Ch. 10-16.
Griffin, Dennis N., and Frank Cullotta. Cullotta: The Life of a Chicago Criminal, Las Vegas Mobster, and Government Witness. Las Vegas: Huntington Press, 2007: Ch. 2-3.
Lait & Mortimer. Chicago Confidential. New York City: Crown Publishers, 1950: Ch. 22-25.
Maier, Ch. 6-7, 14-15, 19.
Otash, Ch. 15.
iv. The Carribbean
(1) T.J. English
(a) Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba – and Then Lost It to the Revolution. 2007. Rpt. New York City: William Morrow, 2008.
(b) The Corporation: An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld. New York City: William Morrow. 2018: Ch. 3.
(2) Messick
(a) Syndicate Abroad. New York City: The Macmillan Co., 1969: Ch. 4.
(b) John Edgar Hoover, Ch. 12.
(3) Moldea
(a) Interference: How Organized Crime Influences Professional Football, rev. ed. New York City: Open Road Integrated Media, 2014: Ch. 7.
(b) The Hoffa Wars: The Rise and Fall of Jimmy Hoffa, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Open Road Integrated Media, 2015: Ch. 4-7.
(4) Others
A.A. Block. Space, Time, and Organized Crime, rev. ed. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1994: Ch. 11.
Burdick, Thomas, and Charlene Mitchell. Blue Thunder: How the Mafia Owned and Finally Murdered Cigarette Boat King Donald Aronow. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1990: Ch. 8.
Deitche, Scott. Cigar City Mafia: A Complete History of the Tampa Underworld, rev. ed. Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, 2005: Ch. 9-13, 15-19, 21-22, 38.
Demaris, The Boardwalk Jungle, Ch. 13.
Eddy, Paul et al. The Cocaine Wars. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1988: Ch. 9.
Espaillat, Ch. 6.
Farris, John. Baby Moll. 1958. Rpt. New York City: Hard Case Crime, 2008.
Hougan, Jim [Jimmy Edwards]. Spooks: The Haunting of America – the Private Use of Secret Agents. 1978. Rpt. New York City: Bantam Books, 1979: Ch. 11.
Humphreys, Adrian. The Weasel: A Double Life in the Mafia. Mississauga, Ont.: John Wiley & Sons Canada, 2012: Ch. 7.
Krüger & Meldon, Ch. 15.
La Motta, Joseph Carter and Pete Savage [Pete Petrella]. Raging Bull: My Story. 1970. Rpt. New York City: Da Capo Press, 1997: Ch. 23-24.
Lernoux, Penny. In Banks We Trust, rev. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 1986: Ch. 6.
Maier, Ch. 8.
Parker, John. King of Fools. London: Macdonald Futura, 1988: Ch. 19.
Reid, Ed. The Grim Reapers: The Anatomy of Organized Crime in America. 1969. Rpt. New York City: Bantam, 1970: Ch. 6, 8.
Waldron & Hartmann. Ultimate Sacrifice, Ch. 25-26.
v. Northern New Jersey
Burdick & Mitchell, Ch. 3, 7.
Carlo, Philip. The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2006: Ch. 6-14.
Pantoliano, Joe, and D. Evanier. Who's Sorry Now: The True Story of a Stand-Up Guy. 2002. Rpt. New York City: Plume, 2003: Ch. 2-4.
Wolf & DiMona, Pt. 5, Ch. 1.
vi. Las Vegas
(1) Demaris
(a) The Last Mafioso: The Treacherous World of Jimmy Fratianno. 1981. Rpt. New York City: Ishi Press International, 2010: Ch. 2.
(b) The Boardwalk Jungle, Ch. 26.
(2) Messick
(a) The Silent Syndicate. New York City: The Macmillan Co., 1967: Ch. 16.
(b) Secret File. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1969: Ch. 16, 19-20.
(c) The Mob in Show Business, Ch. 6, 8.
(3) Others
Berman, Susan. Easy Street. 1981. Rpt. New York City: Bantam Books, 1983: Ch. 1-3, 11.
M.A. Collins, Neon Mirage, Ch. 16-21.
Denton & R. Morris, Ch. 1-2, 4-5, 7-10.
E. Reid & Demaris. The Green Felt Jungle, rev. ed. 1964. Rpt. Cutchogue, N.Y.: Buccaneer Books, 1991: Ch. 3-5, 11.
Wolf, George, and Joseph DiMona. Frank Costello: Prime Minister of the Underworld. 1974. Rpt. London: Futura Publications, 1976: Pt. 3, Ch. 15, 17.
vii. Cleveland
Messick, The Silent Syndicate, Ch. 17-18.
Neff, Ch. 4, 6.
Porrello, Rick. To Kill the Irishman: The War That Crippled the Mafia, rev. ed. Cleveland: Next Hat Press, 2001: Ch. 4-5.
viii. Los Angeles
J. Bacon, Ch. 20.
M.A. Collins, Neon Mirage, Ch. 11-14, 22-23.
In My Own Words: The Underworld Autobiography of Michael Mickey Cohen as Told to John Peer Nugent. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1975: Ch. 9-22.
Otash, Ch. 17.
Piper, Ch. 13.
ix. Philadelphia
Anastasia, George. Blood and Honor: Inside the Scarfo Mob, the Mafia’s Most Violent Family, rev. ed. Philadelphia: Camino Books, 2004: Ch. 2.
Pearson, Don, and Larry McShane. Last Don Standing: The Secret Life of Mob Boss Ralph Natale. New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2017: Ch 1-5.
x. Sports
P. Hoffman, Ch. 4.
Humphreys, Ch. 7, 9.
La Motta, J. Carter & Savage, Ch. 18-22, 25.
Moldea, Interference, Ch. 1, 14, 21.
Tuohy, Ch. 9, 13.
xi. Sicily
Dickie, John. Blood Brotherhoods: A History of Italy's Three Mafias, rev. ed. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2014: Ch. 34-35.
Lewis, Norman. The Honored Society: A Searching Look at the Mafia. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1964: Ch. 9-16.
Longrigg, Clare. Boss of Bosses: A Journey Into the Heart of the Sicilian Mafia. 2008. Rpt. New York City: Thomas Dunne Books, 2009: Ch. 1-2.
Newark, Timothy. The Mafia at War: Allied Collusion With the Mob. 2007. Rpt. Barnsley, U.K.: Frontline, 2012: Ch. 18-19.
Puzo. The Sicilian. New York City: Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, 1984: Ch. 1, 12-31.
Robb, Peter. Midnight in Sicily, rev. ed. New York City: Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007: Ch. 7.
C. Sterling. Octopus: The Long Reach of the International Sicilian Mafia. 1990. Rpt. London: Harper Collins, 1993: Ch. 4-5, 12.
xii. Meyer Lansky [Meier Suchowlański]
Lansky, Sandra, and Stadiem. Daughter of the King: Growing Up in Gangland. New York City: Weinstein Books, 2014: Ch. 4-9.
Messick, Lansky. New York City: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1971: Ch. 8-14.
xiii. Lucky Luciano [Salvatore Lucania]
Demaris. The Lucky Luciano Story: The Mafioso and the Violent 30's, rev. ed. New York City: Tower, 1969: Ch. 14-16.
Feder, and Joachim Joesten. The Luciano Story. 1954. Rpt. New York City: Da Capo Press, 1994: Ch. 10-13.
xiv. Carlos Marcello [Calogero Minacore]
J.H. Davis, Mafia Kingfish, Ch. 7-13.
Waldron & Hartmann, Legacy of Secrecy, Ch. 3.
xv. Jerry Capeci
(1) Murder Machine: A True Story of Murder, Madness, and the Mafia, rev. ed. New York City: Onyx, 1993: Ch. 2.
(2) The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Mafia, rev. ed. Indianapolis: Alpha, 2004: Ch. 14-15, 23
.
xvi. M.A. Collins
(1) Chicago Confidential, Ch. 8.
(2) Better Dead, Ch. 10.
(3) Eliot Ness and the Mad Butcher: Hunting America's Deadliest Unidentified Serial Killer at the Dawn of Modern Criminology. New York City: William Morrow, 2020: Ch. 24-27.
(4) The Big Bundle: A Nathan Heller Novel. London: Hard Case Crime, 2022.
xvii. Demaris
(1) The Last Mafioso, Ch. 1, 3-9.
(2) The Boardwalk Jungle, Ch. 22.
xviii. Dickie
(1) Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia, rev. ed. London: Stoddard and Houghton, 2007: Ch. 7, 9.
(2) Blood Brotherhoods, Ch. 38, 44-45.
xix. Ellroy
(1) American Tabloid, Ch. 23, 26, 32, 35.
(2) Shakedown: Freddy Otash Confesses. San Francisco: Byliner Fiction, 2012.
xx. Maas
(1) The Valachi Papers, rev. ed. New York City: Pocket Books, 1986: Ch. 10-12.
(2) Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano’s Story of Life in the Mafia. 1997. Rpt. New York City: HarperTorch, 2004: Ch. 1, 3.
xxi. Messick
(2) John Edgar Hoover, Ch. 10.
(3) The Mob in Show Business, Ch. 12.
(4) $yndicate Wife: The Story of Ann Drahmann Coppola, rev. ed. Covington, Ky.: For the Love of Books Publishing, 1995: Ch. 3, 5-10.
xxii. Moldea
(1) Dark Victory, Ch. 12, 15, 18.
(2) The Hoffa Wars, Ch. 4-7.
xxiii. Waldron & Hartmann
(1) Legacy of Secrecy, Ch. 4.
(2) Ultimate Sacrifice, Ch. 23, 27.
xxiv. Other
J. Anderson, Ch. 20.
Brandt, Charles. “I Heard You Paint Houses”: Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran, and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa, 2nd rev. ed. Hanover, N.H.: Steerforth Press, 2016: Ch. 8-10, 12-14, 19.
Cédilot, André, and André Noël. Mafia Inc.: The Long, Bloody Reign of Canada's Sicilian Clan, rev. ed. Trans. Michael Gilson. Toronto: Random House Canada, 2011: Ch. 2-4.
Cressey, Donald R. Theft of the Nation: The Structure and Operations of Organized Crime in America. 1969. Rpt. Piscataway, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2008: Ch. 5.
English, T.J. Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld. New York City: William Morrow, 2023: Ch. 11, 13.
E.J. Epstein, The Rise and Fall of Diamonds, Ch. 14.
Fountain, Kimber. The Maceos and the Free State of Galveston: An Authorized History. Charleston, S.C.: The History Press, 2020: Ch. 10.
Gundle, Ch. 15.
B. Hersh, Bobby and J. Edgar, Ch. 9.
Humphreys, Ch. 6, 8, 10-13.
D.E. Kaiser, Ch. 1.
Lance, Peter. Deal With the Devil: The FBI’s Secret Thirty-Year Relationship With a Mafia Killer. New York City: William Morrow, 2013: Ch. 1, 3, 21, Appendix A, C.
Lawson, Guy, and William Oldham. The Brotherhoods: The True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered for the Mafia, rev. ed. New York City: Pocket Books, 2007: Ch. 9.
Maier, Ch. 12.
Mazur, Robert. The Infiltrator: The True Story of One Man Against the Biggest Drug Cartel in History. 2009. Rpt. Boston: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Co., 2016: Ch. 1.
Krüger & Meldon, Ch. 16, 27.
North, Mark. Betrayal in Dallas: LBJ, the Pearl Street Mafia, and the Murder of President Kennedy. New York City: Herman Graf/Skyhorse Publishing, 2011: Ch. 2.
Otash, Ch. 24.
Ouseley, William. Mobsters in Our Midst: The Kansas City Crime Family. Kansas City, Mo.: Kansas City Star Books, 2011: Ch. 3, 5, 21.
Overstreet & Overstreet, Ch. 25.
Puzo, The Godfather, Ch. 2-11, 15-21, 23-25, 28-32.
G. Russo, The Outfit, Ch. 12.
Shnayerson, Michael. Bugsy Siegel: The Dark Side of the American Dream. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2021: Ch. 9-11.
Siciliano, Vincent "The Cat." [Hess]. Unless They Kill Me First. New York City: Hawthorn Books, 1970: Ch. 9-11.
Smith, Dwight C. Jr. The Mafia Mystique, rev. ed. Lanham, Md.: UP of America, 1990: Ch. 1, 5-7.
R. Stone & Colapietro, The Man Who Killed Kennedy, Ch. 7-8.
Summers, and J.M. Newman. Not in Your Lifetime: The Defining Book on the J.F.K. Assasination, 5th rev. ed. New York City: Open Road Integrated Media, 2013: Ch. 14.
Thiele & Golden, Ch. 13.
E. Thomas, The Man to See, Ch. 8-10, 14.
D. Valentine, Strength of the Wolf, Ch. 12, 16.
Westlake, Donald E. The Cutie. 1960. Rpt. New York City: Hard Case Crime, 2009.
Wolf & DiMona, Pt. 3, Ch. 11-14, 16, 18-21; Pt. 4; Pt. 5, Ch. 2-17.
b. The Drug Scene
Charbonneau, Jean-Pierre. The Canadian Connection. 1974. Trans. James Stewart. Ottawa, Ont.: Optimum Publishing Co., 1976: Ch. 2-7.
Dodge, David. It Ain’t Hay. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1946.
Farren, Mick. Speed-Speed-Speedfreak: A Fast History of Amphetamine. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2010: Ch. 4.
Hawes & Asher, Ch. 18-20.
Kinzer, Poisoner in Chief, Ch. 11.
Krüger & Meldon, Ch. 8.
Lait & Mortimer, Chicago Confidential, Ch. 20.
"McBain, Ed" [Salvatore Albert Lombino]. So Nude, So Dead. 1952. Rpt. London: Hard Case Crime, 2015.
Murtagh & Sara Harris, Pt. 1-3; Pt. 4, Ch. 2-3.
O'Day & Eells, Ch. 9, 12.
Siragusa, Charles, and Robert Wiedrich. The Trail of the Poppy: Behind the Mask of the Mafia. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1966: Ch. 1, 5-13.
Streatfeild, Dominic. Cocaine (An Unauthorized Biography). New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2001: Ch. 9.
Thomas, Donald. Villains’ Paradise: A History of Britain’s Underworld. 2005. Rpt. New York City: Pegasus, 2006: Ch. 11.
Torgoff, Martin. Bop Apocalypse: Jazz, Race, the Beats, and Drugs. Boston: Da Capo Press, 2017: Ch. 15, 17, 19-22, 24, 26-27, 29-30.
D. Valentine, Strength of the Wolf, Ch. 5-8, 10-11, 13-14.
c. The Negroes
i. Frank Lucas
Chepesiuk, Gangsters of Harlem, Ch. 10.
Lucas, Frank, and Aliya S. King. Original Gangster: My Life As NYC’s Biggest, Baddest Drugs Baron. 2009. Rpt. London: Ebury, 2012: Ch. 3-6.
ii. Chester Himes
(a) For Love of Imabelle (a.k.a., A Rage in Harlem). 1957. Rpt. Edinburgh, U.K.: Cannongate, 2000.
(b) The Crazy Kill. 1959. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 1989.
(c) The Real Cool Killers, corr. ed. Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1950s. Ed. Robert Polito. New York City: Library of America, 1997: 731-876.
(d) All Shot Up. 1960. Rpt. London: Penguin Books, 2011.
(e) The Big Gold Dream. 1960. Rpt. New York City: Pegasus Books, 2008.
Sallis, Ch. 18.
iii. Donald Goines
Goines, Donald. Whoreson: The Story of a Ghetto Pimp. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1972: Ch. 2-18.
E. Stone, Ch. 5-6.
iv. Iceberg Slim [Robert Lee Moppins Jr.]
(1) Pimp. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1967: Ch. 15-22.
(2) Mama Black Widow. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1969: Ch. 15.
(3) Doom Fox. New York City: Grove Press, 1998: Ch. 1-13.
Gifford, Justin. Street Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim. New York City: Doubleday, 2015: Ch. 6.
v. Charles Willeford
(1) Pick-Up. 1955. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 1990.
(2) The Black Mass of Brother Springer. 1958. Rpt. Berkeley, Calif.: Black Lizard Books, 1989.
vi. Others
Chepesiuk. Gangsters of Harlem: The Gritty Underworld of New York’s Most Famous Neighborhood. Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, 2007: Ch. 8.
English. Savage City: A Generation on the Edge. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011: Ch. 1.
Forman, James Jr. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. New York City: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017: Ch. 3.
Ianni, Francis A.J. Black Mafia: Ethnic Succession in Organized Crime. 1974. Rpt. London: New English Library, 1975: Ch. 5.
Joseph, Arthur. Volcano in Our Midst. New York City: Pageant Press, 1952.
Lait & Mortimer, Chicago Confidential, Ch. 4.
Lucas, Curtis. Forbidden Fruit. New York City: Beacon, 1953.
Simmons, Herbert. Corner Boy. 1957. Rpt. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1996.
X, Malcolm [Malcolm Little], and Alex Haley. The Autobiography of Malcolm X. 1965. Rpt. New York City: Ballantine Books, 1973: Ch. 8-10.
Whitehead, Colson. Harlem Shuffle. New York City: Doubleday, 2021: Pt. 1.
d. The Jews
S. Berman, Ch. 4.
Dalla, Nolan, and Peter Alson. One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stuey "The Kid" Unger, the World's Greatest Poker Player. New York City: Atria Books, 2005: Ch. 2.
Konigsberg, Eric. Blood Relation. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005: Ch. 6, 8-9, 14-15.
Simon, Michael. The Last Jew Standing. New York City: Viking, 2007.
D. Talbot, Season of the Witch, Ch. 13.
e. The Sex Fiends
i. L. Block
"Emerson, Jill." Shadows, rev. ed. New York City: Lawrence Block, 2016.
Hellcats and Honeygirls: The Collected Collaborative Novels of Lawrence Block and Donald E. Westlake. Burton, Mich.: Subterranean Press, 2010.
ii. Lait & Mortimer
Lait & Mortimer, Chicago Confidential, Ch. 12-15, 21.
Lait & Mortimer, New York: Confidential!, Ch. 27-33.
Mortimer, Women Confidential, Ch. 1-25, 40.
iii. Others
Bowers, Scotty, and Lionel Friedberg. Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars. New York City: Grove Press, 2012: Ch. 1-2, 4, 6, 10-23, 28.
Crumrin, Tim. Terre Haute's Notorious Red-Light District. Charleston, S.C.: History Press, 2022: Ch. 7.
Cunningham, George Jr. Lily-Skin Lover: His Passion for Light-Complexioned Women Leads Him to Destruction. New York City: Exposition Press, 1960.
M.A. Collins, Better Dead, Ch. 14, 16.
E.M. Jones. Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control. South Bend, Ind.: St. Augustine’s Press, 2000: Pt. 3, Ch. 4-8.
Levin, Ira. A Kiss Before Dying. 1953. Rpt. London: Corsair, 2011.
Manso, Ptown, Ch. 11, 13.
Martin, Paul. Villains, Scoundrels, and Rogues: Incredible True Tales of Mischief and Mayhem. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2014: Ch. 9.
Otash, Ch. 5.
E. Reid & Demaris, Ch. 6.
T. Russell, Ch. 15.
Stadiem. Madame Claude: Her Secret World of Pleasure, Privilege, and Power. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2018: Ch. 3, 5-6, 8.
Strausbaugh, The Village, Ch. 30.
Szasz. The Manufacture of Madness: A Comparative Study of the Inquisition and the Mental Health Movement, rev. ed. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse UP, 1997: Ch. 13.
Talese, Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Ch. 15.
Teresa & Renner, Ch. 4-10.
W. Whitney, Vol. I, Ch. 10.
Wright, Richard. Savage Holiday. 1954. Rpt. Jackson, Miss.: U of Mississippi P, 1994.
Yoe, Craig. Secret Identity: The Fetish Art of Superman’s Co-Creator Joe Schuster. New York City: Abrams ComicArts, 2009.
f. The Motorcycle Gangs
Farren, Ch. 6.
Queen, William. Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang. New York City: Random House, 2005: Ch. 3.
Zito, Chuck, and Joe Layden. Street Justice. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 2002: Ch. 10.
g. The Mexican Mafia
Farren, Ch. 9.
Rafael, Tony. The Mexican Mafia, rev. ed. New York City: Encounter Books, 2009: Ch. 17.
h. Greater Boston
Goddard, Donald. The Insider: The FBI’s Undercover “Wiseguy” Goes Public. New York City: Pocket Books, 1992: Ch. 3.
Lehr, Dick, and Gerard O’Neill. Black Mass: The Irish Mob, the FBI, and a Devil's Deal, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2015: Ch. 2.
O'Keefe, Joseph James, and Considine. The Men Who Robbed Brink's: The Inside Story of the One of the Most Famous Holdups in the History of Crime. 1961. Rpt. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Publications, 1964: Ch. 1, 4-19.
i. Southern California
i. The Black Dahlia Murder
M.A. Collins. Angel in Black. New York City: New American Library, 2001.
Dunne, John Gregory. True Confessions. 1977. Rpt. New York City: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006.
E.J. Epstein, Annals of Unsolved Crime, Ch. 17.
Wolfe, Donald H. The Black Dahlia Files: The Mob, the Mogul, and the Murder That Transfixed Los Angeles. 2005. Rpt. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2006.
ii. Otash
Ellroy. Widespread Panic. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
Otash, Ch. 1-3, 7-10, 12-13, 15, 18-21, 23, 25-27, 31.
iii. Ellroy
(1) L.A. Quartet
(a) The Big Nowhere. New York City: The Mysterious Press, 1988.
(b) White Jazz. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.
(2) Other
(a) American Tabloid, Ch. 1, 4, 7, 10, 12-13, 16, 19, 27.
(b) Clandestine. New York City: Avon Books, 1982.
(c) Destination: Morgue!: L.A. Tales. New York City: Vintage Books, 2004.
(d) LAPD ’53. New York City: Abrams Image, 2015.
iv. "Ross Macdonald" [Kenneth Millar]
(1) The Way Some People Die. 1951. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2007.
(2) The Barbarous Coast. 1956. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2007.
v. Other
Bloch, Robert. Shooting Star/Spiderweb. New York City: Hard Case Crime, 2008.
Brown, Fredric. The Wench Is Dead. 1955. Rpt. Lakewood, Colo.: Centipede Press, 2017.
Demaris. The Slasher. 1959. Rpt. San Francisco: Pickle Partners Publishing, 2016.
Hughes, Dorothy B. In a Lonely Place. 1947. Rpt. New York City: New York Review Books, 2017.
Phillips, Max. Fade to Blonde. New York City: Hard Case Crime, 2004.
Rice, Craig [Georgiana Craig Rice], and "Ed McBain" [Lombino]. The April Robin Murders. 1958. Rpt. New York City: New American Library, 1977.
Silverberg, Robert. The Hot Beat, rev. ed. London: Hard Case Crime, 2022.
j. Philadelphia
Ellroy, American Tabloid, Ch. 2.
Silverberg. Blood on the Mink. London: Hard Case Crime, 2012.
k. Tokyo
Mortimer. Around the World Confidential. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1956: Ch. 22.
Whiting, Robert. Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan. 1999. Rpt. London: Constable & Robinson, 2012: Ch. 1-3, 5.
l. Chinese Crime Syndicates
Booth, Martin. The Dragon Syndicates: The Global Phenomenon of the Triads, rev. ed. 1999. Rpt. New York City: Carroll & Graf, 2000: Pt. 4, Ch. 2, 4.
Lait & Mortimer, Chicago Confidential, Ch. 10.
m. Other Crime Syndicates
English. The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob, rev. ed. New York City: St. Martin's Griffin, 2006: Ch. 2.
Higdon, James. The Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate’s Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in America History. Gilford, Conn.: Lyons Press, 2012: Ch. 3.
n. The Gypsies
Maas. King of the Gypsies. 1975. Rpt. New York City: Bantam Books, 1976: Pt. 4.
Mortimer, Women Confidential, Ch. 38.
o. Scientology
Evans, Christopher. Cults of Unreason. 1973. Rpt. New York City: Delacorte, 1975: Pt. 1.
Wright, Lawrence. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013: Ch. 3-4.
p. New York City
i. Mike Hammer
Spillane, Mickey [Frank Morrison Spillane]. One Lonely Night. New York City: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1951.
Spillane & M.A. Collins. Kill Me, Darling. London: Titan Books, 2015.
Spillane & M.A. Collins. Kill Me if You Can. London: Titan Books, 2022.
ii. Other
English, Savage City, Ch. 3, 5-14.
Grogan, Emmett [Eugene Leo Grogran]. Ringolevio: A Life Played for Keeps. 1972. Rpt. New York City: New York Review Books, 2008: Ch. 1.
Pileggi. Blye, Private Eye. 1976. Rpt. New York City: Pocket Books, 1987: Ch. 10.
Thomas, Piri. Down These Mean Streets, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 1997: Ch. 11-35.
q. Serial Killers
Hodel, Steve, and Ralph Pezzullo. Most Evil: Avenger, Zodiac, and the Further Serial Murders of Dr. George Hill Hodel. New York City: Dutton, 2007: Ch. 2-3, 5-7.
Vronsky, Peter. American Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years, 1950-2000. New York City: Berkley, 2021: Ch. 4.
q. L. Block
1. Cinderella Sims, rev. ed. Burton, Mich.: Subterranean Press, 2002.
2. One Night Stands and Lost Weekends, rev. ed. New York City: Harper, 2008.
r. F. Brown
i. The Far Cry. 1951. Rpt. Berkeley, Calif.: Black Lizard Books, 1987.
ii. The Lenient Beast. 1956. Rpt. New York City: Carroll & Graf, 1988.
iii. One for the Road. New York City: Dutton, 1958. Rpt. New York City: Mysterious Press/Open Road Integrated Media, 2021.
iv. The Bloody Moonlight, rev. ed. Rockville, Md.: Blackmask.com, 2005.
s. Dodge
i. The Long Escape. 1948. Rpt. New York City: Diversion Books, 2015.
ii. To Catch a Thief. 1952. Rpt. New York City: Diversion Books, 2015.
iii. Angel’s Ransom. 1956. Rpt. New York City: Dell, 1959.
iv. The Last Match. New York City: Hard Case Crime, 2006.
t. David Goodis
i. The Blonde on the Street Corner. 1954. Rpt. London: Serpent's Tail, 1997.
ii. The Wounded and the Slain. 1955. Rpt. New York City: Hard Case Crime, 2007.
iii. Shoot the Piano Player. 1956. Rpt. London: Prion Books, 1999.
u. "Ed Lacy" [Leonard S. Zinberg]
i. Sin in Their Blood. 1952. Rpt. New York City: Macfadden-Bartell, 1966.
ii. The Best That Ever Did It. 1955. Rpt. London: Hutchinson, 1957.
v. Phil Stanford
i. Portland Confidential: Sex, Crime, and Corruption in the Rose City, rev. ed. 2004. Rpt. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2018: Ch. 1.
ii. Rose City Vice: Portland in the ‘70s – Dirty Cops and Dirty Robbers. Port Towsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2017.
w. Westlake
i. Levine. 1984. Rpt. New York City: TOR/Tom Doherty Associates, 1985.
ii. A Good Story and Other Stories. Unity, Maine: Five Star, 1999.
x. Other
C. Anderson, S. McGehee & La Motta, Ch. 2.
Ardai, Charles [and M. Phillips]. Fifty-to-One. New York City: Hard Case Crime, 2008.
Axelrod, George. Blackmailer. 1952. Rpt. New York City: Hard Case Crime, 2007.
F.L. Bailey & Aronson, Pt. 1, Ch. 3; Pt. 2, Ch. 1, 3.
"Black, Joey" [Max Kurschner], and D. Fisher. Joey the Hitman: The Autobiography of a Mafia Killer, rev. ed. New York City: Adrenaline Classics, 2002: Ch. 2-19.
A.A. Block, Masters of Paradise, Ch. 3-4.
Brewer, Gil. The Vengeful Virgin. 1958. Rpt. New York City: Hard Case Crime, 2007.
Browne, Howard. Thin Air. 1954. Rpt. New York City: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1983.
Burrough, Bryan. Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence. New York City: Penguin Press, 2015: Ch. 12.
Bustos, Sergio, and Luisa Yanez. Miami’s Criminal Past: Uncovered. Charleston, S.C.: The History Press, 2007: Ch. 1.
Carlo, Ch. 4-5.
Chepesiuk, Gangsters of Harlem, Ch. 13.
M.A. Collins. Triple Play: A Nathan Heller Casebook. Las Vegas: Thomas & Mercer, 2012.
Demaris, The Boardwalk Jungle, Ch. 4.
Dickie, Blood Brotherhoods, Ch. 35-37, 39-43.
Edelman & Kupferberg, Ch. 4.
Ellison, Harlan. Web of the City, rev. ed. London: Hard Case Crime, 2013.
Ellroy, American Tabloid, Ch. 3, 5, 8-9, 12-13, 15, 17-18, 20-22, 25, 29-31, 33, 36-37, 39-40.
Fisher, Steve. No House Limit. 1958. Rpt. New York City: Hard Case Crime, 2008.
Friedman, David D., Peter Leeson, and David Skarbek. Legal Systems Very Different From Ours. Santa Clara, Calif.: David D. Friedman, 2019: Ch. 8.
Gardner, Erle Stanley. The Count of 9. 1958. Rpt. London: Hard Case Crime, 2018.
A. Goldman & Schiller, Ch. 2.
Greenburg, Michael M. The Mad Bomber of New York: The Extradordinary True Story of the Manhunt That Paralzed a City. New York City: Union Square Press, 2011: Ch. 5-6, 8-18, 23.
Gundle, Ch. 1, 10, 21.
Heller, Joseph. Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here. 1998. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 1999: Ch. 10.
Hoffman, Paul. "What the Hell Is Justice?": The Life and Trials of a Criminal Lawyer. Chicago: Playboy Press, 1974: Ch. 2-3, 8.
W. Hoffman & Headley, Ch. 6.
Hougan, Ch. 4, 7, 10.
Hunt, E. Howard. House Dick. 1961. Rpt. New York City: Hard Case Crime, 2009.
Ianni, Ch. 4.
Iceberg Slim. Trick Baby. 1967. Rpt. New York City: Cash Money Content, 2014: Ch. 1-5, 13-25.
Jenkins, Philip. Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History. New York City: Oxford UP, 2000: Ch. 8.
E.J. Kahn. Fraud: The United States Postal Inspection Service and Some of the Fools and Knaves It Has Known. New York City: Harper & Row Publishers, 1973: Ch. 18.
Kerr, Ch. 1-2.
Koenig, Joseph. False Negative. London: Hard Case Crime, 2012.
Krüger & Meldon, Ch. 5.
Lait & Mortimer, Chicago Confidential, Ch. 1-3, 5-9, 11, 16-19, 26-33, Appendix A-I.
Latzer, Barry. The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America. New York City: Encounter Books, 2016: Ch. 2.
Leamer. Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 2021: Ch. 13.
Lens, Crisis of American Labor, Ch. 5.
Maas. Serpico, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Harper Perennial, 2005: Ch. 3.
Malcolm, Joyce Lee. Guns and Violence: The English Experience. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2002: Ch. 6.
Manchester, William. The City of Anger. 1953. Rpt. New York City: Laurel, 1986.
“McBain.” The Gutter and the Grave, corr. ed. New York City: Hard Case Crime, 2005.
R. Morris. Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America. New York City: John Macrae/Henry Holt and Co., 1996: Ch. 2-3.
Mortimer, Around the World Confidential, Ch. 1-21.
O'Connor, D'Arcy, and Miranda O'Connor. Montreal's Irish Mafia: The True Story of the Infamous West End Gang. Mississauga, Ont.: John Wiley & Sons Canada, 2011: Ch. 5-9, 17.
Pelecanos, George P. The Big Blowdown. New York City: St. Martins' Press, 1996: Pt. 3-6.
G.L. Posner. Killing the Dream: James Earl Ray and the Assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., rev. ed. San Diego: Harvest/Harcourt Brace & Co., 1999: Ch. 13-16.
Porrello. $uperthief: A Master Burglar, the Mafia, and the Great California Bank Heist. Novelty, Ohio: Next Hat Press, 2006: Ch. 2.
Powell, Richard. Say It With Bullets. 1953. Rpt. New York City: Hard Case Crime, 2006.
Preston, T.A. "Amarillo Slim," and Greg Dinkin. Amarillo Slim in a World of Fat People: The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived. New York City: HarperEntertainment, 2003: Ch. 2-3, 5, 8.
Redden, Jim. Snitch Culture: How Citizens Are Turned Into the Eyes and Ears of the State, rev. ed. Venice, Calif.: Feral House, 2001: Ch. 11.
Rome, Florence. The Tattooed Men: An American Woman Reports on the Japanese Criminal Underworld. New York City: Delacorte Press, 1975: Ch. 8-9.
Sanders, Ed. The Family, 3rd rev. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2002: Ch. 1.
Spillane. The Last Stand. Ed. M.A. Collins. London: Hard Case Crime, 2018.
Terrell, Jack, and Ron Martz. Disposable Patriot: Revelations of a Soldier in America’s Secret Wars. Washington, D.C.: National Press Books, 1992: Ch. 8.
D. Thomas, Ch. 2-10, 12-15, 18.
Traub, Ch. 9.
West, John B. Bullets Are My Business. New York City: Signet Books/New American Library, 1960.
Willeford. Wild Wives. 1956. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2006.
Williams, Charles. A Touch of Death. 1954. Rpt. New York City: Hard Case Crime, 2006.
Younger, Richard D. The People's Panel: The Grand Jury in the United States, 1634-1941. Providence, R.I.: American History Research Center/Brown UP, 1963: Ch. 14.
5. Business
a. Finance
i. J.R. Adams
(1) The Big Fix: Inside the S&L Scandal, rev. ed. New York City: John Wiley & Sons, 1991: Ch. 5.
(2) A Full Service Bank: How BCCI Stole Billions Around the World. New York City: Pocket Books, 1992: Ch. 2.
ii. John Brooks
(1) Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales From the World of Wall Street. 1963. Rpt. New York City: Open Road Integrated Media, 2014: Ch. 4.
(2) The Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's Bullish 60s. 1973. Rpt. New York City: Allworth Press, 1998: Ch. 2-4.
iii. William D. Cohan
(1) The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. New York City: Broadway Books, 2007: Ch. 1.
(2) Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World. 2011. Rpt. New York City: Anchor Books, 2012: Ch. 4.
iv. Others
Ammann, Daniel. The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich. New York City: St. Martin ’s Press, 2009: Ch. 4.
Bird, The Chairman, Ch. 13.
A.A. Block, Ch. 5.
Brewton, Ch. 2, 17, 19.
Chernow, Ron. The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Grove Press, 2010: Ch. 25-28.
Dorman, Michael L. Vesco: The Infernal Money Making Machine. New York City: Berkeley Medallion, 1975: Ch. 4.
Elias, Christopher. Fleecing the Lambs. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1971: Ch. 4, 15.
Herzog, Arthur. Vesco: From Wall Street to Castro’s Cuba: The Rise, Fall, and Exile of the King of White Collar Crime. 1987. Rpt. New York City: Authors Choice, 2003: Ch. 8.
Levy, Leon, and Eugene Linden. The Mind of Wall Street. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2002: Ch. 1, 3-7.
Malkiel, Burton G. A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing, 10th rev. ed. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2015: Ch. 3.
Messick, Syndicate Abroad, Ch. 6-7.
Nocera, Joseph. A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994: Ch. 1.
Regan, Donald T. For the Record: From Wall Street to Washington, rev. ed. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 1989: Ch. 7.
Smith, Roy C. The Money Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Great Buyout Boom of the 1980s. 1990. Rpt. Washington, D.C.: BeardBooks, 2000: Ch. 3.
Thomas, Dana L. The Plungers and the Peacocks: 170 Years of Wall Street, rev. ed. 1989. Rpt. New York City: Texere, 2001: Ch. 12.
b. The Computer Industry
Ceruzzi, Paul E. A History of Modern Computing, rev. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2003: Ch. 2-4.
Cringely, Robert X. [Mark Stephens] Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date, rev. ed. New York City: HarperBusiness, 1996: Ch. 2-3.
F.M. Kaplan, 1959, Ch. 10.
Y. Levine, Ch. 5.S
Markoff, John. What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry. 2005. Rpt. New York City: Penguin Books, 2006: Ch. 1-3.
G.L. Posner. Citizen Perot: His Life and Times. New York City: Random House, 1996: Ch. 3.
Segaller, Stephen. Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet, rev. ed. New York City: TV Books, 1999: Ch. 1.
Updike, Villages, Ch. 7.
c. The Automotive Industry
Dorman, Ch. 1.
Hess, Ch. 6.
Knoedelseder. Fins: Harley Earl, the Rise of General Motors, and the Glory Days of Detroit. New York City: Harper Business, 2018: Ch. 13-18.
Lamm, Michael, and David Holls, A Century of Automotive Style: 100 Years of American Car Design. Stockton, Calif.: Lamm-Morada Publishing, 1997: Ch. 10.
Peters, Eric. Road Hogs: Detroit’s Big, Beautiful Luxury Performance Cars of the 1960s. Minneapolis: Motorbooks, 2011.
Vuic, Jason. The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History. New York City: Hill and Wang, 2010: Ch. 6.
d. General Manufacturing
i. Robert Vesco
Herzog, Ch. 1.
Hougan, Ch. 6.
ii. Other
J. Brooks, Business Adventures, Ch. 2, 7.
Meabon, Linda L. Zippo Manufacturing Company. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2003: Ch. 4.
Wasser, Frederick. Veni, Vidi, Video: The Hollywood Empire and the VCR. Austin, Texas: U of Texas P, 2001: Ch. 2.
Weaver, Paul H. The Suicidal Corporation: How Big Business Fails America. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1988: Ch. 14.
d. Peter C. Newman
i. The Canadian Establishment, Vol. I: The Old Order. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975: Ch. 4, 6, Appendix J.
ii. Canadian Establishment, Vol. II, Ch. 2-4.
e. Advertising
i. Heimann
(1) The Golden Age of Advertising -- the 50s. Ed. Heimann. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2001.
(2) 50s All-American Ads. Ed. Heimann. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2002.
(3) Mid-Century Ads: Advertising From the Mad Men Era, Vol. I: The Fifties. Ed. Heimann. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2012.
ii. Others
Daniels, Draper. Giants, Pigmies, and Other Advertising People. Chicago: Crain Communications, 1974: Pt. 2.
Hey, Skinny!: Great Advertisements From the Golden Age of Comic Books. Ed. Miles Beller and Jerry Leibowitz. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1995.
Kosareff, Steve. Window to the Future: The Golden Age of Television Marketing and Advertising. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2005: Ch. 2-8.
Lilly, Robert, and Lois Allen Lilly. William Helburn, Seventh and Madison: Mid-Century Fashion and Advertising Photography. London: Thames & Hudson, 2014.
Vargas-Cooper, Ch. 1.
f. Food
i. Fast Food
(1) Josh Ozersky
(a) The Hamburger: A History. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2008: Ch. 4-5.
(b) Colonel Sanders and the American Dream. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2012: Ch. 2.
(2) Other
Hogan, David Gerard. Selling ‘em by the Sack: White Castle and the Creation of American Food. New York City: New York UP, 1997: Ch. 5.
ii. Grocers
Hoyt, Ch. 23-26.
Walsh, William I. The Rise and Decline of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company. Secaucus, N.J.: Lyle Stuart, 1986: Ch. 5-6.
Zimmerman, M.M. The Super Market: A Revolution in Distribution, rev. ed. New York City: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1955: Ch. 7-15.
iii. Other
Balinska, Maria. The Bagel: The Surprising History of a Modest Bread. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2008: Ch. 6.
Coe, Andrew. Chop Suey: A Cultural History of Chinese Food in the United States. New York City: Oxford UP, 2009: Ch. 7.
Cohen, Rich. Sweet and Low: A Family Story. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006: Ch. 8, 11, 14.
Considine, Bob. Larger Than Life: A Biography of the Remarkable Dr. Armand Hammer. 1975. Rpt. London: W.H. Allen, 1976: Ch. 13, Appendix C.
Hamilton, Shane. Trucking Country: The Road to America’s Wal-Mart Economy. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2008: Ch. 5-6.
Langdon, Ch. 6.
Mariani, John F. America Eats Out: An Illustrated History of Restaurants, Taverns, Coffee Shops, Speakeasies, and Other Establishments That Have Fed Us for 350 Years. New York City: William Morrow and Co., 1991: Ch. 11-12.
Nowak, Ch. 5.
Sammarco, Anthony Mitchell. A History of Howard Johnson's: How a Massachusetts Soda Fountain Became an American Icon. Charleston, S.C.: American Palate, 2013: Ch. 9.
g. Sweets
i. Coca-Cola
Allen, Frederick. Secret Formula: How Brilliant Marketing and Relentless Salesmanship Made Coca-Cola the Best-Known Product in the World. 1994. Rpt. New York City: Open Road Integrated Media, 2015: Ch. 10.
E.J. Kahn. The Big Drink: The Story of Coca-Cola. New York City: Random House, 1960: Ch. 1, 3-5, 8, 13-14.
ii. Other
Brenner, Joël Glenn. The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars. 1999. Rpt. New York City: Broadway Books, 2000: Ch. 14.
Finder, Ch. 12.
McGowen, Lauren, and Jennifer Dempsey. Images of America: Carvel Ice Cream. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2009: Ch. 2-4.
Peterson, Shawn. PEZ: From Austrian Invention to American Icon. Charleston, S.C.: The History Press, 2016: Ch. 2, 12.
h. Publishing
Exman, Eugene. The House of Harper: The Making of a Modern Publisher. 1967. Rpt. New York City: Harper Perennial, 2010: Ch. 22.
Pinkerton, Ch. 18.
i. Pharmaceuticals
E.J. Kahn. All in a Century: The First 100 Years of Eli Lilly and Company. Indianapolis: Eli Lilly and Co., 1976: Ch. 9, 12-13.
Mann, Charles C., and Mark L. Plummer. The Aspirin Wars: Money, Medicine, and 100 Years of Rampant Competition. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991: Ch. 14, 18.
G.L. Posner, Pharma, Ch. 6-7, 9-10, 12-15, 24.
j. Libations
Knoedelseder. Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America’s King of Beers. New York City: HarperBusiness, 2012: Ch. 4-6.
Mitenbuler, Reid. Bourbon Empire: The Past and Future of America’s Whiskey. 2015. Rpt. New York City: Penguin Books, 2016: Ch. 14, 16.
k. Transportation
Cudahy, Brian J. Box Boats: How Container Ships Changed the World. New York City: Fordham UP, 2006: Ch. 4.
Hamilton, Ch. 4.
l. Consultancies
Bogdanich, Walt, and Michael Forsythe. When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm. New York City: Doubleday, 2022: Ch. 2.
E.J. Kahn. The Problem Solvers: A History of Arthur D. Little, Inc. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1986: Ch. 9.
m. Other
Abbott, Karl P. Open for the Season. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1950: Ch. 15.
Auchincloss, Louis. A Voice From Old New York: A Memoir of My Youth. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010: Ch. 18-19.
Burrough, and John Helyar. Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Collins Business, 2008: Ch. 1.
Chuck Berry, Ch. 9.
Chamberlain, John. The Enterprising Americans: A Business History of the United States, rev. ed. Tyler, Texas: Institute for Christian Economics, 1991: Ch. 13.
Cohan. Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon. New York City: Portfolio/Penguin, 2022: Ch. 4-5.
Considine, Larger Than Life, Ch. 15, 22.
Copeland, Game Player, Ch. 20.
Dorman, Ch. 2.
Earley. Super Casino: Inside the "New" Las Vegas. New York City: Bantam Books, 2000: Ch. 2, 4.
E.J. Epstein, The Rise and Fall of Diamonds, Ch. 18-19.
H. Fleming, Ch. 19-20.
Frank, Thomas. The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1997: Ch. 2-3.
Frieden & Sagalyn, Ch. 4.
Gross. House of Outrageous Fortune: Fifteen Central Park West, the World’s Most Powerful Address. New York City: Atria Books, 2014: Pt. 4, 7.
Grossinger, Ch. 21-25.
Hazlett, Thomas Winslow. The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, From Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2017 Ch. 6-7.
Hemingway, Wayne. Cocktail Shakers, Lava Lamps, and Tupperware: A Celebration of Lifestyle Design From the Last Half of the 20th Century. Gloucester, Mass.: Rockport Publishing, 2003.
Karp, Josh. A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2006: Ch. 3.
Kessler. The Richest Man in the World: The Story of Adnan Khashoggi, rev. ed. New York City: Warner Books, 1988: Ch. 5.
S. Levy, Dolce Vita Confidential, Ch. 4-5.
Manning, Matthew J. “The Death and Life of Great American Strip Malls: Evaluating and Preserving a Unique Cultural Resource.” M.A. Thesis. U of Georgia, 2009: Ch. 2.
Persico, Joseph E. Casey: From the OSS to the CIA. 1990. Rpt. New York City: Penguin, 1991: Ch. 8.
G.L. Posner, Pharma, Ch. 33.
McKenna, Christopher D. The World’s Newest Profession: Management Consulting in the Twentieth Century. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge UP, 2006: Ch. 5-7.
Pizzo, Stephen, Mary Fricker, and Paul Muolo. Inside Job: The Looting of America’s Savings and Loans, rev. ed. New York City: HarperPerennial, 1991: Ch. 20.
G. Russo, Supermob, Ch. 5, Appendix A-C.
D. Schulman, Ch. 4.
Sheehan, Fred. Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession. New York City: McGraw-Hill, 2010: Ch. 2.
Simmons, Matty. Fat, Drunk, and Stupid: The Inside Story Behind the Making of Animal House. 2012. Rpt. New York City: St. Martin's Griffin, 2014: Ch. 2.
S.B. Smith, In All His Glory, Ch. 22, 28, 38-39.
Tosches. Power on Earth. New York City: Arbor House, 1986: Ch. 3-4.
Whyte, Ch. 1-6, 9-17.
Woodford, Frank B., and Arthur M. Woodford. All Our Yesterdays: A Brief History of Detroit. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1969: Ch. 15.
6. Greater Chicago
a. Chicago
i. Alinsky
Horwitt, Ch. 14, 19-22, 24.
Kupcinet, Irv. Kup's Chicago: A Many-Faceted and Affectionate Portrait of Chicago. 1962. Rpt. Lanham, La.: Garrett County Press, 2012: Ch. 10.
Von Hoffman. Radical: A Portrait of Saul Alinsky. New York City: Nation Books, 2010: Ch. 4.
ii. The Newspapermen
Ciccone, F. Richard. Royko: A Life in Print. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2001: Ch. 3.
Kup, Ch. 7.
iii. Other
Cohan, William D. House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street, rev. ed. New York City: Anchor Books, 2010: Ch. 15.
Dyja, Ch. 5, 7, 11, 18, 21, 24, 27-28, 31-32.
Epstein, Joseph. Fabulous Small Jews. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2003.
Huddy, Ch. 11.
E. Klein. The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House, rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2013: Ch. 11.
Kup, Ch. 6, 15, 18.
Newhart, Ch. 3.
Singer, Matt. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023: Ch. 1-2.
b. Ohio
Davies, Richard O. Main Street Blues: The Decline of Small-Town America. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State UP, 1998: Ch. 6-7.
Meckler, Laura. Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity. New York City: Henry Holt and Co.. 2023: Ch. 3-4, 8.
Painter, Sue Ann et al. Architecture in Cincinnati: An Illustrated History of Designing and Building an American City. Athens, Ohio: Ohio UP, 2006: Ch. 8.
7. The British Commonwealth
a. The British Isles
Beckett Francis, and David Hencke, The Blairs and Their Court, rev. ed. London: Aurum, 2005: Ch. 1.
Bill Bruford: The Autobiography, rev. ed. London: Foruli Classics, 2013: Ch. 1.
Birch, Ch. 3.
Burleigh, Ch. 7.
Caine, What's It All About?, Ch. 3-4.
Cleese, John. So, Anyway…. 2014. Rpt. London: Arrow Books, 2015: Ch. 3-6.
E. Costello, Ch. 2, 4, 6, 15.
Green, Henry [Henry Vincent Yorke]. Doting. 1952. Rpt. New York City: New York Review Books, 2017.
Household, Geoffrey. Fellow Passenger. 1955. Rpt. London: Orion, 2013.
P. Johnson. Churchill. New York City: Viking, 2009: Ch. 7.
Kirk, Russell. Old House of Fear, rev. ed. New York City: Fleet Publishing Corp., 1965.
Kup: A Man, an Era, a City: Irv Kupcinet’s Autobiography With Paul Neimark. Chicago: Bonus Books, 1988: Ch. 5.
Lee, Hermione. Tom Stoppard: A Life. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021: Ch. 3-5.
Lemmy [Ian Kilminster], and Janiss Garza. White Line Fever: The Autobiography. New York City: Citadel Press, 2002: Ch. 1.
Moorcock, Michael. King of the City. New York City: William Morrow, 2000: Ch. 4-5, 13-16.
Mortimer, Women Confidential, Ch. 27.
J. Parker, Ch. 20.
Patch, Harry, and Richard van Emden. The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, Last Veteran of the Trenches, 1898-2009, 2nd rev. ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2009: Ch. 10.
Powell, Anthony. A Dance to the Music of Time: Fourth Movement. 1976. Rpt. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1995.
Wheatcroft, Geoffrey. The Strange Death of Tory England, rev. ed. London: Penguin Books, 2005: Ch. 2.
b. Canada
Hoffmann, Felix et al. Fred Herzog Photographs. Berlin: Hatje Cantz Verlag, 2011.
D'A. O'Connor & M. O'Connor, Ch. 2.
c. Africa
Pierce, Steven. Moral Economies of Corruption: State Formation and Political Culture in Nigeria. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 2016: Ch. 2.
Smith, Ian Douglas. Bitter Harvest: Zimbabwe and the Aftermath of Its Independence, 2nd rev. ed. London: John Blake, 2001: Ch. 3-4.
d. Other
England, Vaudine. Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong. New York City: Scribner, 2023: Ch. 13-14.
C. James, Unreliable Memoirs, Ch. 3-13, 15-17. Rpt. Always Unreliable, 26-136, 146-167.
Shrake, Ch. 3, 12-14.
8. Central Asia
Ansary, Tamim. West of Kabul, East of New York: An Afghan American Story, rev. ed. New York City: Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.
Burke, Jason. Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam, rev. ed. London: I.B. Tauris, 2004: Ch. 6.
Cooley, John K. Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America, and International Terrorism, 2nd rev. ed. London: Pluto Press, 2002: Ch. 1, 3.
Margolis. War at the Top of the World: The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir, and Tibet, rev. ed. New York City: Routledge, 2002: Ch. 8.
Musharraf, Pervez. In the Line of Fire: A Memoir. New York City: Free Press, 2006: Ch. 1-5, 17.
Riedel, Bruce. Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2011: Ch. 4.
9. Latin America
a. Cuba
Bethel, Ch. 2.
Dos Passos, John. The Great Days. New York City: Sagamore Press, 1958: Ch. 1-2, 4, 6, 8-9, 11, 13-20.
Estrada, Ch. 10.
Garvin, Glenn. Everybody Had His Own Gringo: The CIA and the Contras. Washington, D.C.: Brassey’s (U.S.), 1992: Ch. 5.
Kushner, Ch. 2-13, 15-16, 21, 23, 28.
Sublette, Ch. 33.
b. Guatemala
Dodge. How Lost Was My Weekend: A Greenhorn in Guatemala. 1948. Rpt. London: Arthur Baker, 1957.
Schlesinger & Kinzer, Ch. 4.
c. Mario Vargas Llosa
i. Conversation in the Cathedral. 1969. Trans. Gregory Rabassa. 1975. Rpt. New York City: Rayo, 2005.
ii. The Bad Girl. 2006. Trans. Edith Grossman. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007: Ch. 1.
d. Elsewhere
Coogan, Appendix D.
Hazlitt. Man vs. the Welfare State. 1969. Rpt. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2007: Ch. 18.
Heinlein, Robert A. Tramp Royale. New York City: Ace Books, 1992: Ch. 2-6.
Preston, Julia, and Sam Dillon. Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004: Ch. 7, 14.
10. Western Asia
a. Israel
i. The First Arab-Israeli War

(1) Jerusalem
Cline, Eric H. Jerusalem Besieged: From Ancient Canaan to Modern Israel. Ann Arbor, Mich.: U of Michigan P, 2004: Ch. 9.
Montefiore, Simon Sebag. Jerusalem: The Biography. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011: Ch. 51.
(2) Uri Avnery [Helmut Ostermann]
(a) Israel Without Zionism: A Plan for Peace in the Middle East. 1968. Rpt. New York City: Collier Books, 1971: Ch. 12.
(b) 1948: A Soldier’s Tale/The Bloody Road to Jerusalem, rev. ed. 2005. Trans. Christopher Costello. Oxford, U.K: Oneworld, 2008.
(3) Benny Morris et al.
(a) Morris, Benny. 1948 and After: Israel and the Palestinians, rev. ed. Oxford, U.K.: Clarendon Press, 1994.
(b) Making Israel. Ed. Benny Morris. Ann Arbor, Mich.: U of Michigan P, 2007.
(c) 1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2008: Ch. 2-11.
(4) Other
Ben-Eliezer, Josef. My Search. Rifton, N.Y.: Plough Publishing House of the Bruderhof Foundation, 2004: Ch. 11.
Friedman, Thomas L. From Beirut to Jerusalem, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Anchor Books, 1995: Ch. 5.
Margolis, American Raj, Ch. 7.
Penslar, Derek J. Jews and the Military: A History. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2013: Ch. 7.
Perlmutter, Amos. The Life and Times of Menachem Begin. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1987: Ch. 18-21.
Peters, Joan. From Time Immemorial: The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine. 1984. Rpt. Chicago: JKAP, 2002: Ch. 2, 7, 18.
N. Rose, Ch. 10.
Shapiro, Yonathan. The Road to Power: Herut Party in Israel. 1989. Trans. Ralph Mandel. Albany, N.Y.: State University of New York Press, 1991: Ch. 4-7.
Sharon, Ariel [Ariel Scheinermann], and David Chanoff. Warrior: The Autobiography of Ariel Sharon, rev. ed. 1989. Rpt. New York City: Touchstone Books, 2001: Ch. 4-5.
Sniegoski, Stephen J. The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel. Norfolk, Va.: Engima Editions, 2008: Ch. 4.
Van Creveld. The Land of Blood and Honey: The Rise of Modern Israel. New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2010: Ch. 2.
ii. Espionage
Avnery, Israel Without Zionism, Ch. 7.
Bergman, Ronen. Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations. New York City: Random House, 2018: Ch. 2-4.
Black, Ian, and B. Morris. Israel's Secret Wars: A History of Israel 's Intelligence Services, rev. ed. New York City: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992: Ch. 2-6.
Raviv, Dan, and Yossi Melman. Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel 's Intelligence Community, rev. ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991: Ch. 2-6.
Steven, Stewart. The Spymasters of Israel. 1980. Rpt. New York City: Ballentine Books, 1982: Ch. 1-9.
G. Thomas, Ch. 4-5, 7.
iii. Israel's Nuclear Program
Doron, Meir, and Joseph Gellman. Confidential: The Life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon Arnon Milchan. Lynbrook, N.Y.: Gefen Books, 2011: Ch. 5.
S.M. Hersh, Samson Option, Ch. 2-3, 5-6, 15.
iv. Perlmutter et al.
Perlmutter, Ch. 14-17, 22-27.
Perlmutter, Michael I. Handel, and Uri Bar-Joseph. Two Minutes Over Baghdad, rev. ed. London: Frank Cass, 2003: Ch. 1-2.
v. Tom Segev
(1) One Palestine, Complete: Jews and Arabs Under the British Mandate. 1999. Trans. Haim Watzman. New York City: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2000: Ch. 21-22.
(2) Elvis in Jerusalem: Post-Zionism and the Americanization of Israel. Trans. Watzman. New York City: Metropolitan Books, 2002.
vi. Other
G.W. Ball & D.W. Ball, Ch. 10.
Be’er, Haim. Feathers. 1980. Trans. Hillel Halkin. Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis UP, 2004: Ch. 1-12.
Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin. The Israeli Connection: Who Israel Arms and Why. 1987. Rpt. London: Tauris, 1988: Ch. 1-3, 5.
Ben-Eliezer, Ch. 10.
Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. New York City: Sheridan Square Press, 1992: Ch. 13.
Bovard, Ch. 7.
Chafets, Ze'ev [William Chafets]. Heroes and Hustlers, Hard Hats and Holy Men: Inside the New Israel. New York City: William Morrow and Co., 1986: Ch. 6-7, 9.
Cramer. How Israel Lost: The Four Questions. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2004: Ch. 1, 3.
Golan, Matti. The Road to Peace: A Biography of Simon Peres. Trans. Akiva Ron. New York City: Warner Books, 1989: Ch. 2-4.
Kolsky, Thomas A. Jews Against Zionism: The American Council for Judaism, 1942-1948. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1990: Ch. 6-7.
Kup, Ch. 4.
Lilienthal, Ch. 2, 10, 14.
Marshall, P. D. Scott & J. Hunter, Ch. 5.
Melman and Raviv. Behind the Uprising: Israelis, Jordanians and Palestinians. New York City: Greenwood Press, 1989: Ch. 5.
B. Morris. Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001, rev. ed New York City: Vintage Books, 2001: Ch. 5-6.
Mortimer, Women Confidential, Ch. 37.
Oz, Amos [Amos Klausner]. Judas. 2014. Trans. Nicholas de Lange. New York City: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016.
Piper, Ch. 3.
Pringle & Spigelman, Ch. 18.
Shabi, Rachel. We Look Like the Enemy: The Hidden Story of Israel’s Jews From Arab Lands. New York City: Walker & Co., 2008: Ch. 3, 6-9.
Sharon & Chanoff, Ch. 6-12.
Shlaim, Avi. The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2014: Ch. 1-5.
Waxman, Chaim I. American Aliya: Portrait of an Innovative Migration Movement. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1989: Ch. 9.
D. Wilson, Ch. 7, 9.
b. Iran
Caryl, Christian. Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century. New York City: Basic Books, 2013: Ch. 4.
Cooper, Andrew Scott. The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran. New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 2016: Ch. 3-5.
Heikal, Ch. 10.
Shawcross, Ch. 5-6, 11.
c. Egypt
Aciman, André. Out of Egypt: A Memoir. 1994. Rpt. London: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2008: Ch. 3-6.
Heyworth-Dunne, James. Religious and Political Trends in Modern Egypt. Washington, D.C.: J. Heyworth-Dunne, 1950: Ch. 10-12.
St. John, Robert. The Boss: The Story of Gamel Abdel Nasser. New York City: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1960: Ch. 1-2, 5-24.
Stadiem, Too Rich, Ch. 12.
Totah, Ch. 3.
d. Turkey
Baran, Zeyno. Torn Country: Turkey Between Secularism and Islamism. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 2010: Ch. 2.
Dodge. Time Out for Turkey. New York City: Random House, 1955: Ch. 13.
e. Michael Scheuer
i. Through Our Enemies’ Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America, rev. ed. Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books, 2006: Ch. 6.
ii. Osama bin Laden. New York City: Oxford UP, 2011: Ch. 2.
f. Fouad Ajami
i. The Vanished Iman: Musa al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell UP, 1986: Ch. 3.
ii. The Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation’s Odyssey. 1998. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 1999: Ch. 3.
g. Other
James Adams. The Financing of Terror: The PLO, IRA, Red Brigades, and M-19, and Their Money Supply. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1986: Ch. 3.
G.W. Ball & D.W. Ball, Ch. 11-12.
Bergman, Ch. 7.
Burr, J. Millard, and Robert O. Collins. Alms for Jihad: Charity And Terrorism In The Islamic World. New York City: Cambridge UP, 2006: Ch. 9.
Esposito, John L. Islam: The Straight Path, 4th rev. ed. New York City: Oxford UP, 2011: Ch. 5.
Labévière, Ch. 7.
Lamb, David. The Arabs: Journeys Beyond the Mirage, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 2002: Ch. 4, 12.
Matthiesen, Toby. The Other Saudis: Shiism, Dissent and Sectarianism. New York City: Cambridge UP, 2015: Ch. 3.
Melman & Raviv, Ch. 4.
Miniter, Richard. Mastermind: The Many Faces of the 9/11 Architect, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. New York City: Sentinel, 2011: Ch. 1.
Montefiore, Ch. 52.
Mortimer, Women Confidential, Ch. 34.
Parsi, Trita. Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the United States, rev. ed. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2008: Ch. 2.
Piper, Ch. 18.
Posner, Steve. Israel Undercover: Secret Warfare and Hidden Diplomacy in the Middle East. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse UP, 1987: Ch. 6-7, 10, 17-18.
Sterling, The Terror Network, Ch. 15.
Totah, Ch. 1-2, 4-7, 9.
L. Wright. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 2011: Ch. 2, 4.
11. The Southwest
a. Southern California
i. The Chicanos
Acosta, Oscar Zeta. The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo. 1972. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 1989: Ch. 7, 9.
Bag, Alice [Alicia Armendariz]. Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Story. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2011.
Vaca, Nicolás C. The Presumed Alliance: The Unspoken Conflict Between Latinos and Blacks and What It Means for America. New York City: Rayo, 2004: Ch. 6.
Willeford. The Woman Chaser. 1960. Rpt. London: Orion Books, 2015.
ii. Ellroy
(1) Killer on the Road. 1986. Rpt. New York City: Perennial, 2002: Ch. 2-3.
(2) My Dark Places: An L.A. Crime Memoir. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996: Ch. 1-3, 5-8, 15-24, 27-29, 31.
(3) The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010: Ch. 1-2.
iii. Other
Babitz, Eve. Eve’s Hollywood. 1974. Rpt. New York City: New York Review Books, 2015.
Gorightly, The Prankster and the Conspiracy, Ch. 1.
Halberstam, The Powers That Be, Ch. 8, 11.
Hoskyns, Barney. Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits. London: Faber and Faber, 2009: Pt. 1, Ch. 1.
Heimann, David L. Ulin, and Kevin Starr. Los Angeles: Portrait of a City. Ed. Heimann. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2009: Ch. 5.
Kaplan, Sam Hall. L.A. Lost & Found: An Architectural History of Los Angeles. New York City: Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1987: Ch. 7.
Lindsey, Robert. The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage. 1979. Rpt. New York City: Open Road Media, 2016: Ch. 2.
Sides, Josh. L.A. City Limits: African American Los Angeles From the Great Depression to the Present. Berkeley, Calif.: U of California P, 2003: Ch. 4.
Stein, Jean. Edie: An American Biography. Ed. George Plimpton. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982: Ch. 8-9, 11.
Stevens, Ch. 5.
Talese, Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Ch. 8.
Tuccille, Dillerland, Ch. 2.
b. Las Vegas
S. Berman, Ch. 12.
Caen, Herb. Only in San Francisco. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1960: Ch. 36.
Demaris, The Boardwalk Jungle, Ch. 21.
Denton & R. Morris, Ch. 3.
Eisler. Revenge of the Pequots: How a Small Native American Tribe Created the World’s Most Profitable Casino. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2001: Ch. 8.
Puzo, Ch. 22, 27.
E. Reid & Demaris, Ch. 7.
J.L. Smith, Ch. 2-4, 7, 11, 17, 19, 24, 31.
c. Other
Bowden, Charles. Down by the River: Drugs, Money, Murder and Family. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2002.
Daloian, Oscar “Shorty.” From Chickens to Prospecting. New York City: Vantage Press, 1958.
12. Greater San Francisco
a. Caen
i. Baghdad by the Bay. 1949. Rpt. Sausalito, Calif.: Comstock Editions, 1989: Ch. 1-9, 11-12, 14-18, 20-37.
ii. Don’t Call It Frisco. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1953.
iii. Only in San Francisco, Ch. 1-18, 20-35, 37-38, 40-60.
iv. The Best of Herb Caen, 1960-1975. Ed. Irene Mecchi. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1991.
b. Others
Isaacson. Steve Jobs, rev. ed. New York City: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2013: Ch. 1-2.
E. James & Ritz, Ch. 4.
Willeford. High Priest of California. 1953. Rpt. Los Angeles: IndoEuropeanPublishing.com, 2011.
13. Africa
a. Kenya
i. Barack Hussein Obama Sr.

Corsi. Where’s the Birth Certificate?: The Case That Barack Obama Is Not Eligible to Be President. Los Angeles: WND Books, 2011: Ch. 9.
Maraniss, Ch. 4.
Sailer, Steve. America's Half-Blood Prince: Barack Obama's Story of Race and Inheritance. Washington, Conn.: VDARE Foundation, 2008: Ch. 3.
ii. Other

Anderson, David. Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya and the End of Empire. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2005: Ch. 2, 4-8.
Elkins, Caroline. Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya. New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 2005: Ch. 2-10.
b. South Africa
Bunting, Brian Percy. The Rise of the South African Reich, rev. ed. 1969. Rpt. London: International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa, 1986: Ch. 8-13.
Heinlein, Ch. 8.
Hutt, W.H. The Economics of the Colour Bar: A Study of the Economic Origins and Consequences of Racial Segregation in South Africa. London: The Institute for Economic Affairs/André Deutsch, 1964: Ch. 12, 15.
Malan, Rian. My Traitor's Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience. 1990. Rpt. New York City: Grove Press, 2000: Pt. 3.
Weyl. Traitors’ End: The Rise and Fall of the Communist Movement in Southern Africa. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1970: Ch. 7.
c. Elsewhere
D.D. Friedman, Leeson & Skarbek, Ch. 11.
Mamdani, Mahmood. Saviours and Survivors: Darfur, Politics and the War on Terror. Cape Town, South Africa: HSRC Press, 2009: Ch. 6.
Schuyler, Philippa. Who Killed the Congo? New York City: The Devin-Adair Co., 1962: Ch. 6, 8-14, Appendix B-H.
14. The South
a. Kentucky
Denton. The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs and Murder, rev. ed. Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse Star, 2001: Ch. 2-3, 5.
Wenner & Corey Seymour, Ch. 1.
b. Louisiana
Biguenet, John. Oyster. New York City: Ecco, 2002.
G.L. Posner, Case Closed, Ch. 18.
c. Other
Bartley, Numan V., and Hugh D. Graham. Southern Politics and the Second Reconstruction. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1975: Ch. 2-3, 8.
Coski, John. The Confederate Battle Flag: America’s Most Embattled Emblem. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 2005: Ch. 5-13.
Haas, Ben. KKK. Evanston, Ill.: Regency Books, 1963: Ch. 9-10.
Irving. Final Argument. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1993: Ch. 5.
Jones, Carter Brooke. The White Band. New York City: Funk & Wagnalls Co., 1959.
O'Neil, Tyler. Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center. New York City: Bombadier Books, 2020: Ch. 2.
Reasoner, Ch. 3.
Sandbrook, Ch. 19.
R.J. Stone, and Robert Morrow. The Clintons’ War on Women, rev. ed. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2016: Ch. 20.
Wessel, David. In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic, rev. ed. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2010: Ch. 4.
Workman, William D. Jr. The Case for the South. New York City: The Devin-Adair Co., 1960.
15. The Caribbean
a. Cuba
Pérez, Louis A. Jr. Army Politics in Cuba, 1898-1958. Pittsburgh: U of Pittsburgh P, 1976: Ch. 11-13.
Roberts, W. Adolphe. Havana: The Portrait of a City. New York City: Coward-McCann, 1953: Ch. 1, 21-50.
Rodriguez & J. Weisman, Ch. 1.
b. Other
Abbott, Elizabeth. Haiti: A Shattered Nation, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Overlook Duckworth, 2011: Ch. 4.
Anderson, William A., and Russell R. Dynes. Social Movements, Violence, and Change: The May Movement in Curaçao. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State UP, 1975: Ch. 3.
Kusche, Larry. The Bermuda Triangle Mystery -- Solved, rev. ed. 1986. Rpt. Edison, N.J.: Galahad Books, 2006: Ch. 22-36.
White, Timothy. Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley, 8th rev ed. New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 2006: Ch. 4-6.
16. East Asia
a. Japan
Johnson, Chalmers. MITI and the Japanese Miracle: The Growth of Industrial Policy, 1925-1975. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford UP, 1982: Ch. 6.
Kaplan, David E., and Alec Dubro. Yakuza: Japan’s Criminal Underworld, 2nd rev. ed. Berkeley, Calif.: U of California P, 2012: Ch. 2-3.
S. Seagrave & P. Seagrave, The Yamato Dynasty, Ch. 12.
b. Other
Booth. Golden Boy: Memories of a Hong Kong Childhood. 2004. Rpt. New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2005: Ch. 2-11.
Heinlein, Ch. 9-10.
Mortimer, Women Confidential, Ch. 36.
Polly, Ch. 3-4.
Soeharto’s New Order and Its Legacy: Essays in Honour of Harold Crouch. Ed. Edward Aspinall and Greg Fealy. Canberra, A.C.T.: Australian National University E Press, 2010: Ch. 1, 3.
Yim, Louise [Yong-Sin Im]. My Forty Year Fight for Korea. Ed. Emanuel H. Demby. 1951. Rpt. Seoul: Chungang University. International Research Center, 1959: Ch. 17-18.
17. The Buchwalds
Buchwald, Ann, and Art Buchwald. Seems Like Yesterday. 1980. Rpt. New York City: Berkely Books, 1981: Ch. 1-7.
Hill, Michael. Funny Business: The Legendary Life and Political Satire of Art Buchwald. New York City: Random House, 2022: Pt. 1.
O’Donnell, Pierce, and D. McDougal, Fatal Subtraction, Ch. 24.
18. Western Europe
a. West Germany
Böll, Heinrich. The Clown. 1963. Trans. Leila Vennewitz. New York City: McGraw-Hill, 1965.
I. Johnson, Ch. 7.
Kulish, Simon, and Souad Mekhennet. The Eternal Nazi: From Mauthausen to Cairo, the Relentless Pursuit of SS Doctor Aribert Heim. New York City: Doubleday, 2014: Ch. 13.
Petropoulos, Jonathan. Royals and the Reich: The Princes von Hessen in Nazi Germany. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford UP, 2006: Ch. 8.
b. France
i. Paris
Gordon, Mel. Horizontal Collaboration: The Erotic World of Paris, 1920-1946. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2015: Ch. 9.
Johnson, Paul. Left of Centre. 1959. Rpt. Sydney: Four Square Books and Horwitz, 1964.
Paris: Portrait of a City. Ed. Jean-Claude Gautrand. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2012: Ch. 5.
M. Reynolds, Ch. 8.
ii. Other
Del Boca, Angelo, and Mario Giovana. Fascism Today: A World Survey. 1965. Trans. R.H. Boothroyd. 1969. Rpt. London: Heinemann, 1970: Ch. 7.
Huddleston, Sisley. France: The Tragic Years, 1939-1947: An Eyewitness Account of War, Occupation, and Liberation. 1955. Rpt. Boston: The Americanist Library/Western Islands, 1965: Ch. 24-25.
Moynahan, Ch. 11.
c. Italy
i. Dickie
(1) Delizia!: The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food. 2007. Rpt. New York City: Free Press, 2008: Ch. 17.
(2) The Craft: How Freemasons Made the Modern World. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2020: Ch. 1-2, 4-5, 9-10.
ii. Others
Day, Michael. Being Berlusconi: The Rise and Fall From Cosa Nostra to Bunga Bunga. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015: Ch. 1.
Gundle, Ch. 2-4, 6-9, 11-14, 16-18, 20.
Mariani, John F. How Italian Food Conquered the World. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011: Ch. 4.
Dodge, Time Out for Turkey, Ch. 1, 15-16.
S. Levy, Dolce Vita Confidential, Ch. 1-2, 9-10, 19.
d. Spain
Constantine Brown, Ch. 33.
E. Hemingway. The Dangerous Summer. New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1985.
R. Wright. Pagan Spain. 1957. Rpt. New York City: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2008.
e. Other
Caen, Only in San Francisco, Ch. 39.
Caldwell, Christopher. Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West. 2009. Rpt. New York City: Anchor Books, 2010: Ch. 2, 11.
Halbrook, Stephen P. Target Switzerland: Swiss Armed Neutrality in World War II. 1998. Rpt. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2003: Ch. 11.
Mortimer, Women Confidential, Ch. 26, 28, 30-31.
Murray, Douglas. The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam, rev. ed. London: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2018: Ch. 1-2.
Roth, Byron M. Immigration and Human Nature: The Perils of Diversity, Genetics, and Society, 1st ed. Augusta, Ga.: Radix/Washington Summit Publishers, 2010: Ch. 7.
Tuccille, Heretic, Ch. 19.
Weyr, Thomas. The Setting of the Pearl: Vienna Under Hitler. New York City: Oxford UP, 2005: Ch. 12.
19. Dar al-Islam
a. Pakistan
Beaty, Jonathan, and S. C. Gwynne. The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride Into the Secret Heart of BCCI. 1993. Rpt. Washington, D.C.: Beard Books, 2004: Ch. 7.
Mahaffey, Ch. 6.
Rashid, Ahmed. Descent Into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. 2008. Rpt. London: Penguin Books, 2009: Ch. 3.
b. D. Livingstone
i. Terrorism and the Illuminati, Ch. 23.
ii. Black Terror, White Soldiers: Islam, Fascism and the New Age. Scotts Valley, Calif.: Sabilillah Publicatons, 2013: Ch. 32.
c. Others
“Kay, Cameron” [Vidal]. Thieves Fall Out. 1953. Rpt. London: Hard Case Crime, 2015.
Kulish & Mekhennet, Ch. 14.
Hourani, Albert. A History of the Arab Peoples. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 1991: Ch. 22-24.
I. Johnson, Ch. 15.
Mayne, Peter. A Year in Marrakesh. 1953. Rpt. London: Eland Books, 1982.
G.L. Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom: The Inside Story of the Saudi-U.S. Connection. New York City: Random House, 2005: Ch. 4.
"Warraq, Ibn." The Islam in Islamic Terrorism: The Importance of Beliefs, Ideas, and Ideology. Nashville, Tenn.: New English Review Press, 2017: Ch. 19.
20. The Rest of the World
Bartlett, Ch. 17.
Ben-Eliezer, Ch. 12-15.
Berman, Paul. Terror and Liberalism. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003: Ch. 4.
Booth, Golden Boy, Ch. 1.
Burr & R.O. Collins, Ch. 6.
Caen, Only in San Francisco, Ch. 19.
Cashill, What’s the Matter With California?, Ch. 3-4, 6, 11.
Fuller, Fuller & Rudes, Ch. 31.
Heinlein, Ch. 7, 11-12.
Del Boca & Giovana, Ch. 8-9, 13.
Dodge, Time Out for Turkey, Ch. 2-12, 14.
Guillermoprieto, Alma. Samba. 1990. Rpt. London: Bloomsbury, 1991: Ch. 4.
Jacobsen, Phenomena, Ch. 6.
Kwitny, Endless Enemies, Ch. 9.
Laqueur, Ch. 8.
Llorente, Segundo. Memoirs of a Yukon Priest. Washington, D.C.: Georgetown UP, 1990: Ch. 14-20.
Messick, Syndicate Abroad, Ch. 5.
Mortimer, Women Confidential, Ch. 32, 35.
Muravchik, Josha. Making David Into Goliath: How the World Turned Against Israel. New York City: Encounter Books, 2014: Ch. 5.
M. Reynolds, Ch. 5-6.
Shrake, Ch. 15.
21. The Negroes
a. The Obamas

Cashill. Barack Obama's Promised Land: Deplorables Need Not Apply. New York City: Post Hill Press, 2021.
Sailer, Ch. 9.
Scott, Janny. A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother. New York City: Riverhead Books, 2011: Ch. 3.
b. The Black Muslims
Brown, Claude. Manchild in the Promised Land. 1965. Rpt. New York City: Scribner, 2011: Ch. 14.
Malcolm X, Ch. 11-15.
c. Lait & Mortimer
Lait & Mortimer, New York: Confidential!, Appendix E.
Mortimer, Women Confidential, Ch. 33.
d. Other
Malcolm X, Ch. 11-15.
Baraka, The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones, Ch. 4.
Baram, Marcus. Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 2014: Ch. 1-3.
Bernstein, Ch. 9.
Claude Brown, Ch. 1-13, 15-17.
Browne, Theodore. The Band Will Not Play Dixie: A Novel of Suspense. New York City: Exposition Press, 1955.
Burrough, Days of Rage, Ch. 2.
Dyja, Ch. 26.
Edwards, Gavin. Bad Motherfucker: The Life and Times of Samuel L. Jackson, the Coolest Man in Hollywood. New York City: Hachette Books, 2021: Ch. 1.
M.S. Evans & M. Moore, Pt. 1, Ch. 9.
F.M. Kaplan, 1959, Ch. 16.
Knight, Peter. Conspiracy Culture: From the Kennedy Assassination to The X-Files. London: Routledge, 2000: Ch. 4.
Kavaler, Lucy. The Private World of High Society. 1960. Rpt. New York City: Pyramid Books, 1961: Ch. 14.
Mayfield, Julian. The Hit. 1957. Rpt. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2020.
McDowell, Ch. 9.
Pappas, Theodore. Plagarism and the Culture War: The Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Other Prominent Americas, rev. ed. Tampa, Fla.: Hallberg Publishing Corp., 1998: Ch. 2-7.
A. Parry, Ch. 24.
G.L. Posner. Motown, Ch. 2.
Seabrook, Ch. 6.
Sides, Ch. 5.
E. Stone, Ch. 3.
Von Hoffman, Radical, Ch. 3.
Williams, Robert F. Negroes With Guns, rev. ed. 1998. Rpt. Mansfield Centre, Conn.: Martino Publishing, 2013: Ch. 2-3.
Womack & Ashton, Ch. 1.
22. The Boomers
a. Hillary Rodham Clinton
Henwood, Doug. My Turn: Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency, rev. ed. New York City: Seven Stories Press, 2016: Ch. 1.
E. Klein. Unlikeable: The Problem With Hillary. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2015: Ch. 5.
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr. Boy Clinton: The Political Biography. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1996: Ch. 9.
b. Others
Anderson, Patrick. High in America: The True Story Behind NORML and the Politics of Marijuana. New York City: The Viking Press, 1981: Ch. 2.
Andrews, Helen. Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster. New York City: Sentinel, 2021: Ch. 1.
Bernstein, Ch. 7-8, 16-18.
Blizter, Wolf. Territory of Lies: The Exclusive Story of Jonathan Jay Pollard: The American Who Spied on His Country for Israel and How He Was Betrayed. New York City: Harper & Row Publishers, 1989: Ch. 2.
Broder, David S., and Bob Woodward. The Man Who Would Be President: Dan Quayle. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1992: Ch. 2.
Bronson, Ch. 3.
Burrough, Days of Rage, Ch. 18.
M.A. Collins. The Baby Blue Rip-Off: A Mallory Novel. 1983. Rpt. Las Vegas: Thomas & Mercer, 2012: Ch. 12.
Coryell, Larry [Lorenz Albert Van Delinder III]. Improvising: My Life in Music. New York City: Backbeat Books, 2007: Ch. 2-3.
Cursed From Birth: The Short, Unhappy Life of William S. Burroughs Jr. Ed. David Ohle. 2001. Rpt. New York City: Soft Skull Press, 2006: Ch. 1.
Fischl, Eric, and Michael Stone. Bad Boy: My Life on and Off the Canvas. 2012. Rpt. New York City: Arcade Publishing, 2016: Ch. 2.
Ford, Don Henry Jr. Contrabando: Confessions of a Drug-Smuggling Texas Cowboy. El Paso, Texas: Cinco Puntos Press, 2005.
Frank, Josh, and Charlie Buckholtz. In Heaven Everything Is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of “New Wave Theatre”. 2008. Pt. Berkeley, Calif.: Soft Skull Press, 2010: Ch. 1.
Grathwohl, Larry, and Frank Reagan. Bringing Down America: An FBI Informer With the Weathermen. 1976. Rpt. Kirkland, Wash.: CreateSpace, 2013: Ch. 2.
Green, Joshua. Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency. New York City: Penguin Press, 2017: Ch. 3.
Haas, Roland W. Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2007: Ch. 2, 4.
Hamlin, Harry. Full Frontal Nudity: The Making of an Accidental Actor. New York City: Scribner, 2010.
Iglauer, Bruce, and Patrick A. Roberts. Bitten by the Blues: The Alligator Records Story. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2018: Ch. 1.
James, Tommy [Thomas Gregory Jackson], and Martin Fitzpatrick. Me, the Mob, and the Music: One Helluva Ride With Tommy James and the Shondells. New York City: Scribner, 2010: Ch. 1.
Kasarda, John D., and Greg Lindsay. Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011: Ch. 5.
Kranish, Michael, and Scott Helman. The Real Romney, rev. ed. New York City: Harper, 2012: Ch. 1.
Kovic, Ron. Born on the Fourth of July, rev. ed. New York City: Akashic Books, 2005: Ch. 3.
Leonard, Chris. The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2022: Ch. 2.
Maas, Manhunt, Ch. 5.
McNamee, Thomas. Alice Waters and Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution. The Penguin Press, 2007: Ch. 2.
Perkins, John. The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, 3rd rev. ed. Oakland, Calif.: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2023: Ch. 5.
Reid, Tim [Timothy Isabel Jr.], Tom Dreesen, and Ron Rapoport. Tim & Tom: An American Comedy in Black and White. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2008: Ch. 3.
Shapiro, Marc. Passion and Pain: The Life of Hector Lavoe. New York City: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2007: Ch. 2.
Stanton, Mike. The Prince of Providence: The True Story of Buddy Cianci, America's Most Notorious Mayor, Some Wiseguys, and the Feds. New York City: Random House, 2003: Ch. 1.
Stockman. The Triumph of Politics: The Inside Story of the Reagan Revolution, rev. ed. New York City: Avon Books, 1987: Ch. 1.
Tracy, Kathleen. Jerry Seinfeld: The Entire Domain. Secaucus, N.J.: Birch Lane Press, 1998: Ch. 1.
Whyte, Ch. 28.
Wise. The Spy Who Got Away: The Inside Story of the CIA Agent Who Betrayed His Country. 1988. Rpt. London: Fontana, 1989: Ch. 3.
Woolever, Laurie. Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography. New York City: Ecco, 2021: Ch. 1.
23. Southern Florida
a. Architecture

Giller, Norman M., and Sarah Giller Nelson. Designing the Good Life: Norman M. Giller and the Development of Miami Modernism. Gainesville, Fla.: UP of Florida, 2007.
Kirsten, Tiki Modern, Ch. 17.
Nash, Eric P., and Randall C. Robinson Jr. MiMo: Miami Modern Revealed. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2004: Ch. 3-7, 9.
b. Edna Buchanan
i. The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat.1987. Rpt. New York City: Berkeley Books, 1991: Ch. 2.
ii. Never Let Them See You Cry: More From Miami, America's Hottest Beat. 1992. Rpt. New York City: Berkeley Books, 1993: Ch. 18.
c. Other
Allman, T.D. Miami: City of the Future. New York City: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987: Ch. 11.
Bramson, Seth H. Miami: The Magic City. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2007: Ch. 7.
Leamer, Laurence. Madness Under the Royal Palms: Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach, rev. ed. New York City: Hyperion, 2009: Ch. 3, 7, 9.
G.L. Posner. Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth, and Power – a Dispatch From the Beach. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2009: Ch. 6.
24. Baltimore
Levinson, Barry. Sixty-Six. New York City: Broadway Books, 2003: Ch. 1.
Silverman, Chip. Diner Guys. New York City: Birch Lane Press, 1989: Ch. 1, 4, Appendix A.
25. The Dunhams
Maraniss, Ch. 5.
Janny Scott, Ch. 2.
26. Christianity
a. The Roman Catholic Church
C. Bernstein, and Marco Politi. His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of Our Time. 1996: Rpt. New York City: Penguin Books, 1997: Pt. 2.
Bottum, Joseph. An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America. New York City: Image, 2014: Ch. 10, 15.
Frattini, Eric. The Entity: Five Centuries of Secret Vatican Espionage, rev. ed. Trans. Dick Cluster. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2008: Ch. 17.
P. Johnson. Pope John XXIII. 1974. Rpt. London: Hutchinson, 1975: Ch. 4-5, 7-9, 11.
Jones, E. Michael. The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit and Its Impact on World History. Sound Bend, Ind.: Fidelity Press, 2008: Ch. 24.
Norwich, John Julius [John Julius Cooper]. Absolute Monarchs: A History of the Papacy. 2011. Rpt. New York City: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2012: Ch. 28.
Pacepa & Rychlak, Ch. 14.
G.L. Posner. God’s Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2015: Ch. 13-15.
Seldes, Ch. 28.
b. Other
P.S. Boyer. When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 1992: Ch. 8.
Douthat, Ross. Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics. New York City: Free Press, 2012: Ch. 2.
Wenger, John Christian. Glimpses of Mennonite History and Doctrine, rev. ed. 1947. Rpt. Eugene, Ore.: Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2001: Ch. 15.
Whyte, Ch. 27.
27. The Beatniks
Di Prima, Diane. Memoirs of a Beatnik, rev. ed. 1988. Rpt. London: Marion Boyars, 2002.
Holmes, John Clellon. Nothing More to Declare. New York City: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1967.
How I Became Hettie Jones. 1990. Rpt. New York City: Grove Press, 1997: Ch. 2-11.
Strausbaugh, The Village, Ch. 15.
28. Greater New York
a. Greenwich Village
Lait & Mortimer, New York: Confidential!, Ch. 8.
Strausbaugh, The Village, Ch. 23, 29.
b. Brooklyn
Campanella, Thomas J. Brooklyn: The Once and Future City. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2019: Ch. 17.
Cudahy. How We Got to Coney Island: The Development of Mass Transportation in Brooklyn and Kings County. New York City: Fordham UP, 2002: Ch. 9.
Osman, Suleiman. The Invention of Brownstone Brooklyn: Gentrification and the Search for Authenticity in Postwar New York. New York City: Oxford UP, 2011: Ch. 1-4.
c. The Bronx
Klein, Robert. The Amorous Busboy of Decatur Avenue: A Child of the Fifties Looks Back. New York City: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 2005: Ch. 1-7.
Schroth, Raymond A. Fordham: A History and Memoir, rev. ed. New York City: Fordham UP, 2008: Ch. 10-12.
d. New Jersey
Harry, Debbie [Angela Trimble], and Sylvie Simmons. Face It. Ed. Rob Roth. New York City: Dey Street, 2019: Ch. 1-2.
Lapolla, Michael, and Thomas A. Suszka. Images of America: The New Jersey Turnpike. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2005.
e. William Kennedy
i. Very Old Bones, Pt. 1, Ch. 3-4; Pt. 3, Ch. 2-4; Pt. 4, Ch. 1-3; Pt. 5.
ii. Roscoe. New York City: Viking, 2002.
f. Tuccille
i. Trump, 3rd rev. ed. New York City: Jove Books, 1988: Ch. 2.
ii. Alan Shrugged: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan, the World’s Most Powerful Banker. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2002: Ch. 5-7.
iii. Heretic: Confessions of an Ex-Catholic Rebel. New York City: iUniverse, 2006: Ch. 13-14, 16, 18, 20-26, 28.
g. Others
Anbinder, Tyler. City of Dreams: The 400-Year Epic History of Immigrant New York. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016: Ch. 21.
Bain. Murder, HE Wrote, Ch. 1, 4.
L. Block, Step by Step, Ch. 2-6.
Byron. Martha Inc.: The Incredible Story of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, rev. ed. New York City: John Wiley & Sons, 2003: Ch. 1.
Cannato, Vincent J. American Passage: The History of Ellis Island. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2009: Ch. 18.
Carlucci, Phil. Images of America: Long Island Golf. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2015: Ch. 4-5.
Cashill. Untenable: The True Story of White Ethnic Flight From America's Cities. New York City: Post Hill Press, 2023.
R. Cohen, Ch. 9.
R.J. Dio, Wall & W. Dio, Ch. 1-2.
Eisler, The Last Liberal, Ch. 5.
E.J. Epstein [Edward Levinson]. Assume Nothing: Encounters With Assassins, Spies, Presidents, and Would-Be Masters of the Universe. New York City: Encounter Books, 2023: Ch. 1.
Fisher, William. The Waiters. 1953. Rpt. New York City: New American Library, 1954.
Fowler, Gene. Beau James: The Life & Times of Jimmy Walker. New York City: The Viking Press, 1949: Ch. 35.
Frommer, Myrna Katz, and Harvey Frommer. It Happened in Manhattan: An Oral History of Life in the City During the Mid-Twentieth Century. New York City: Berkley Books, 2001.
Gottfried. Revisions and Dissents: Essays. DeKalb, Ill.: NIU Press, 2017: Ch. 1.
Grimes, William. Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York. New York City: North Point Press, 2009: Ch. 14.
Grogan, Ringolevio, Ch. 2.
Heller, Steven. Growing Up Underground: A Memoir of Counterculture New York. New York City: Princeton Architectural Press, 2022: Ch. 2.
How I Became Hettie Jones. 1990. Rpt. Grove Press, 1997: Ch. 1-11.
Irving. The Losers. 1957. Rpt. London: Pan Books, 1961.
Jaffe, Rona. The Best of Everything. 1958. Rpt. New York City: Penguin Books, 2014.
Lait & Mortimer, New York: Confidential!, Ch. 1-2, 6-7, 9-10, 12-20, 22-23, Appendix A-D, F.
Moore, Deborah Dash. At Home in America: Second Generation New York Jews. New York City: Columbia UP, 1981: Ch. 9.
New York Unbound: The City and the Politics of the Future. Ed. Peter D. Salins. New York City: Basil Blackwell, 1988: Ch. 4-5.
Strausbaugh, Victory City, Ch. 50.
Sweet, Brian. Steely Dan: Reelin’ in the Years, 4th rev. ed. London: Omnibus Press, 2018: Ch. 1.
Zabar, Lori. Zabar's: A Family Story, With Recipes. New York City: Schocken Books, 2022: Ch. 5-6.
Talese, Gay. The Bridge: The Building of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, rev. ed. New York City: Bloomsbury, 2014: Ch. 1-3.
Zito & Layden, Ch. 1-2.
29. The Jews
Birmingham, Ch. 14-15, 18-19.
R. Cohen, Ch. 10.
Imagining the American Jewish Community. Ed. Jack Wertheimer. Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis UP, 2007: Ch. 4.
P. Johnson. A History of the Jews. New York City: Harper & Row, 1987: Pt. 7.
Laskin, David. The Family: Three Journeys Into the Heart of the Twentieth Century. New York City: Viking, 2013: Ch. 25.
Lilienthal, Ch. 1, 5, 8-9, 13.
Mirsky, Norman B. Unorthodox Judaism. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State UP, 1978: Ch. 3.
Reinharz, Jehuda, and Yaacov Shavit. Glorious, Accursed Europe: An Essay on Jewish Ambivalence, rev. ed. Trans. Michelle Engel. Lebanon, N.H.: Brandeis UP, 2010: Ch. 10.
Sanua, Marianne R. Let Us Prove Strong: The American Jewish Committee, 1945-2006. Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis UP, 2007: Ch. 3.
A Second Exodus: The American Movement to Free Soviet Jews. Ed. Murray Friedman and Albert D. Chernin. Hanover, N.H.: Brandeis UP, 1999.
W. Webb, Vol. II, Ch. 14.
Weyl, The Jew in American Politics, Ch. 18.
30. High Society
a. Leamer
i. Madness Under the Royal Palms, Ch. 10.
ii. Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 2021: Ch. 7, 9, 11.
b. Others
Auchincloss, Ch. 17.
E.J. Epstein, Assume Nothing, 2023: Ch. 2.
P. Evans, Ch. 1, 3-6.
Guggenheim, Peggy. Confessions of an Art Addict, rev. ed. 1960. Rpt. Hopewell, N.J.: Ecco Press, 1997: Ch. 6-10.
Kavaler, Ch. 1-13, 15-16.
Lait & Mortimer, New York: Confidential!, Ch. 24.
Oppenheimer, Jerry. Crazy Rich: Power, Scandal, and Tragedy Inside the Johnson & Johnson Dynasty. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2013: Ch. 16-18, 31-32, 39, 52.
J. Parker, Ch. 16-18.
S.B. Smith, In All His Glory, Ch. 32-34.
Stadiem, Too Rich, Ch. 2-3.
31. R. Cohn
Von Hoffman, Citizen Cohn, Pt. 4.
Zion, Ch. 17.
32. Neo-Nazis
Bell, Leland V. In Hitler's Shadow: the Anatomy of American Nazism. Port Washington, N.Y.: National University Publications/Kennikat Press, 1973: Ch. 7.
Gillespie, J. David. Challengers to Duopoly: Why Third Parties Matter in American Two-Party Politics. Columbia, S.C.: U of South Carolina P, 2012: Ch. 12.
33. Conspiracy Theory
Knight, Ch. 5.
Pipes, Daniel. Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From. New York City: Free Press, 1997: Ch. 6.
Rectenwald, Michael. The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty: Unraveling the Global Agenda. Nashville, Tenn.: New English Review Press, 2023: Ch. 18.
34. Lukacs
a. Confessions of an Original Sinner, Ch. 5-6, 8.
b. Democracy and Populism: Fear and Hatred. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2005: Ch. 3.
35. Joyce Carol Oates
a. The Wonderland Quartet
i. A Garden of Earthly Delights, rev. ed. New York City: Modern Library, 2003: Pt. 3.
ii. them, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Modern Library, 2000: Pt. 2.
iii. Wonderland, 2nd rev. ed. 1992. Rpt. New York City: Modern Library, 2006: Pt. 2.
b. Other
i. Because It is Bitter, and Because It is My Heart. New York City: E.P. Dutton, 1990.
ii. Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories, rev. ed. New York City: William Abrahams/Dutton, 1996: Pt. 2.
iii. Broke Heart Blues. New York City: Dutton, 1999.
iv. Small Avalanches and Other Stories. New York City: HarperTempest, 2003.
v. I Am No One You Know: Stories. New York City: Ecco, 2004: Pt. 4.
vi. The Female of the Species: Tales of Mystery and Suspense. Orlando, Fla.: Otto Penzler/Harcourt, 2006.
vii. The Museum of Dr. Moses: Tales of Mystery and Suspense. Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 2007.
viii. Sourland: Stories. New York City: Ecco, 2010: Pt. 2.
36. P. Roth
a. Goodbye, Columbus, and Five Short Stories. 1959. Rpt. Novels & Stories 1959-1962. Ed. R. Miller. New York City: Library of America, 2005: 7-225.
b. When She Was Good. 1967. Rpt. Novels 1967-1972. Ed. R. Miller. New York City: Library of America, 2005: 1-276.
c. American Pastoral, corr. ed. 1998. Rpt. The American Trilogy 1997-2000: American Pastoral/I Married a Communist/The Human Stain. Ed. R. Miller. New York City: The Library of America, 2011: Ch. 2, 7.
Bailey, Blake. Philip Roth: The Biography. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2021: Ch. 4-16.
Pierpont, Claudia Roth. Roth Unbound: A Writer and His Books. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
37. Rousas John Rushdoony
a. This Independent Republic: Studies in the Nature and Meaning of American History. 1963. Rpt. Vallecito, Calif.: Ross House Books, 2001: Ch. 9.
b. The Nature of the American System. 1965. Rpt. Vallecito, Calif.: Ross House Books, 2001: Ch. 7.
c. Bread Upon the Waters: Columns From the "California Farmer." 1969. Rpt. Fairfax, Va.: Thoburn Press, 1974: Ch. 45.
38. Updike
a. The Rabbit Novels, Vol. I. New York City: Ballantine Books, 2003.
b. Villages. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004: Ch. 4-6.
c. Collected Early Stories. Ed. Christopher Carduff. New York City: Library of America, 2013.
Begley, Adam. Updike. New York City: Harper, 2014: Ch. 2-4.
Fromer, Yoav. The Moderate Imagination: The Political Thought of John Updike and the Decline of New Deal Liberalism. Lawrence, Kan.: UP of Kansas, 2020: Ch. 1-4.
39. Vidal
a. In a Yellow Wood. 1947. Rpt. London: New English Library, 1967.
b. Clouds and Eclipses: The Collected Short Stories. New York City: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2006.
40. Kauffman
a. America First!: Its History, Culture, and Politics, rev. ed. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2016: Ch. 9.
b. Ain’t My America, Ch. 3.
41. Other
Acosta, Ch. 11, 13.
Aldridge, John W. In the Country of the Young. New York City: Harper's Magazine Press, 1970: Ch. 1-3.
Alford, Mimi. Once Upon a Secret: My Affair With President John F. Kennedy and Its Aftermath. New York City: Random House, 2013.
S. Allen. The Man Who Turned Back the Clock, and Other Short Stories. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1995.
J. Anderson & R.W. May, Ch. 13.
Ashenburg, Katherine. The Dirt on Clean: An Unsanitized History. 2007. Rpt. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014: Ch. 9.
Baker, Peter. Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House. 2013. Rpt. New York City: Anchor Books, 2014: Ch. 1.
Baldwin, Peter. The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2014: Ch. 6.
Barbas, Ch. 2-3.
Bennett, Larry. Fragments of Cities: The New American Downtowns and Neighborhoods. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State UP, 1990: Ch. 1-2, 5.
Bethell, Tom. The Noblest Triumph: Property and Prosperity Through the Ages. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 1998: Ch. 13-14, 21.
Blumenthal, Ch. 28.
Breslin. Damon Runyon. New York City: Ticknor & Fields, 1991: Ch. 20.
Bromfield, Louis. A New Pattern for a Tired World. 1954. Rpt. New York City: Arno Press, 1972.
Byron, Christopher. Testosterone Inc.: Tales of CEOs Gone Wild. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2004: Ch. 2, 12.
Carducci, Joe. Enter Naomi: SST, L.A. and All That …. Centennial, Wyo.: Redoubt Press, 2007: Ch. 1.
E.J. Carroll, Ch. 4.
Castles in the Air, by Irene Castle, As Told to Bob and Wanda Duncan. 1958. Rpt. New York City: Da Capo Press, 1980: Ch. 28.
Chang, Jeff. Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2005: Ch. 1, 12.
Cross, Charles R. Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix. New York City: Hyperion, 2005: Ch. 3-7.
Chuck Berry, Ch. 5.
Considine. Innocents at Home. New York City: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1950.
Coogan, Ch. 1-4, 18-19, 22-29, 42-43, 45-50.
Coupland, Douglas. Bit Rot: Stories + Essays, rev. ed. New York City: Blue Rider Press, 2016.
Courtwright, Ch. 2, 6.
Cramer, Richard Ben. What It Takes: The Way to the White House, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 1993: Ch. 7, 12-13, 15-16, 19-20, 22, 28.
Cutler, Ian. Jim Christy: A Vagabond Life. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2019: Ch. 1-2.
Dangerfield, Ch. 5, 15.
Davidson, Bill R. To Keep and Bear Arms. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1969: Ch. 12.
DeGrandpre, Richard. The Cult of Pharmacology: How America Became the World’s Most Troubled Drug Culture. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 2006: Ch. 7-8.
Earley, Family of Spies, Ch. 5-6.
Eszterhas, Joe. Hollywood Animal: A Memoir. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004: Ch. 5, 9, 11, 13, 17, 22, 24.
D. Evanier, Roman Candle, Ch. 3.
C. Evans, Pt. 2-3.
Robert Evans, Ch. 3-4, 8.
Ferris, Joshua. A Calling for Charlie Barnes. New York City: Little, Brown and Co., 2021: Ch. 11-15, 19, 22.
Ferris, Timothy. The Red Limit: The Search for the Edge of the Universe, rev. ed. 1983. Rpt. New York City: HarperCollins, 2002: Ch. 7, 9.
Fiennes, Ranulph. Killer Elite, rev. ed. New York City: Ballantine Books, 2011: Ch. 1.
T. Frank, Ch. 1.
H. Gardner, Ch. 10.
Gautrand. Robert Doisneau, 1912-1994, rev. ed. Trans. Chris Miller. Cologne, Germany, Taschen, 2014: Ch. 3.
George, John, and L.M. Wilcox. American Extremists: Militias, Supremacists, Klansmen, Communists and Others, rev. ed. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1996: Ch. 9-10, 13-14, 23-25.
Gordon, Lorraine, and Barry Singer. Alive at the Village Vanguard: My Life in and out of Jazz. Milwaukee. Hal Leonard, 2006: Ch. 6, 8-9.
A. Greenberg, Ch. 2.
Heinlein, Ch. 1, 13.
Herzog, Ch. 6, 9-10.
Horn, Richard. Fifties Style: Then and Now. New York City: Beech Tree Books, 1985.
Horwitt, Ch. 15, 17-18.
S. Hunter & Bainbridge Jr., Ch. 2, 4-5.
Irwin, Phil (The Whiskey Rebel). Jobjumper, rev. ed. Philadelphia: Steel Cage Books, 2008: Ch. 2.
Jackson, Kenneth T. Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of the United States. New York City: Oxford UP, 1985: Ch. 13-14, 16.
Jaffe, Eric. A Curious Madness: An American Combat Psychiatrist, a Japanese War Crimes Suspect, and an Unsolved Mystery From World War II. New York City: Scribner, 2014: Ch. 12.
C. James. Fame in the 20th Century. New York City: Random House, 1993: Ch. 5.
E. James & Ritz, Ch. 5.
Jeansonne, Glen. Gerald L.K. Smith: Minister of Hate, rev. ed. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State UP, 1997: Ch. 10.
I. Johnson, Ch. 11.
Johnson, Nelson. Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City. Medford, N.J.: Plexus Publishing, 2002: Ch. 8.
P. Johnson. Modern Times: The World From the Twenties to the Nineties, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: HarperPerennial, 2001: Ch. 13-17.
E.J. Kahn. A Reporter Here and There. New York City: Random House, 1961.
D.E. Kaiser, Ch. 8.
F.M. Kaplan, 1959, Ch. 1.
Kirsch, Jonathan. A History of the End of the World: How the Most Controversial Book in the Bible Changed the Course of Western Civilization. New York City: HarperSanFrancisco, 2006: Ch. 7.
Kirsten, Tiki Pop, Ch. 21.
Konigsberg, Ch. 1, 5.
Korda, Ch. 1.
Lanza, The Cocktail, Ch. 9.
Lawrenson, Helen. Stranger at the Party: A Memoir. 1975. Rpt. New York City: Popular Library, 1977: Ch. 1, 12.
Leamer, Madness Under the Royal Palms, Ch. 19.
Leland, John. Hip: The History, rev. ed. New York City: HarperPerennial, 2005: Ch. 13.
Lienhard, John H. Inventing Modern: Growing Up With X-Rays, Skyscrapers, and Tailfins. New York City: Oxford UP, 2003: Ch. 15-16.
D. Livingstone. Black Terror, White Soldiers: Islam, Fascism and the New Age. Scotts Valley, Calif.: Sabilillah Publicatons, 2013: Ch. 20, 34.
Manso, Ptown, Ch. 9, 12, 16.
Marciano, John Bemelmans. Whatever Happened to the Metric System?: How America Kept Its Feet. New York City: Bloomsbury, 2014: Ch. 16.
McCorduck, Pamela. This Could Be Important: My Life and Times With the Artificial Intelligentsia. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University/ETC Press/Signature, 2019: Ch. 2-3, 7, 9-10, 12.
McKenna, George. The Puritan Origins of American Patriotism. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2007: Ch. 7.
McLeod, Michael. Anatomy of a Beast: Obsession and Myth on the Trail of Bigfoot. Berkeley, Calif.: U of California P, 2009: Ch. 3, 12.
Moldea, Dark Victory, Ch. 29.
Montville, Leigh. Evel: The High-Flying Life of Evel Knievel: American Showman, Daredevil, and Legend. New York City: Doubleday, 2011: Ch. 4.
Mullis, Kary. Dancing Naked in the Mind Field. 1998. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 2000: Ch. 3.
Nelkin, Dorothy, and Michael Pollak. The Atom Beseiged: Extraparliamentary Dissent in France and Germany. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1981: Ch. 2, 4.
Novak, Ch. 3-4.
Pistone, Joseph D., and Brandt. Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business: Shocking Declassified Details From the FBI’s Greatest Undercover Operation and a Bloody Timeline of the Fall of the Mafia. Philadelphia: Running Press, 2007: Ch. 6.
Prerau, David. Seize the Daylight: The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time. 2005. Rpt. New York City: Basic Books, 2009: Ch. 7.
The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, Ch. 6.
Russo, Richard. Empire Falls. 2001. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 2001: Ch. 8.
Salter. Light Years. 1975. Rpt. London: Penguin, 2007.
Samuelson, Robert J. The Good Life and Its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement 1945-1995, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 1997.
Sandbrook, Ch. 15.
Schaeffer, Francis A. How Should We Then Live?: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture. 1976. Rpt. Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 1983: Ch. 11-12.
J. Schwartz, Ch. 7-8, 10.
Sedgwick, Mark. Against the Modern World: Traditionalism and the Secret Intellectual History of the Twentieth Century. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford UP, 2004: Ch. 9-10.
Shaffer, Paul, and Ritz. We’ll Be Here for the Rest of Our Lives: A Swingin’ Show-Biz Saga. New York City: Doubleday/Flying Dolphin Press, 2009: Ch. 2-3, 5-7.
Shrake, Ch. 16.
Stadiem, Jet Set, Ch. 15.
Stein, Ch. 10.
Stevens, Ch. 6-7, 9.
Strauss, William, and Neil Howe. The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy. New York City: Broadway Books, 1997: Ch. 6.
Sublette, Ch. 36.
Talese, Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Ch. 9.
Teaford, Jon C. Post-Suburbia: Government and Politics in the Edge Cities. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1997: Ch. 3-4.
There & Then: The Travel Writing of James Salter. Emeryville, Calif.: Shoemaker & Hoard, 2005.
Tosches, Power on Earth, Ch. 7.
Tuccille, Heretic, Ch. 27.
Utley, Last Chance in China, Ch. 2, 4-5, 13-14.
Vargas-Cooper, Ch. 3-5.
Vaughan, Joe H. Images of America: Kansas City, Kansas. Charleston, S.C., 2012: Ch. 6.
Vidich, and Joseph Bensman. Small Town in Mass Society: Class, Power, and Religion in a Rural Community, 2nd rev. ed. Urbana, Ill.: U of Illinois P, 2000.
Von Hoffman, Radical, Ch. 12, 14-15, 18.
Walker, Ch. 11.
Whyte, Ch. 21-26, 29.
Wilson, Colin. The Quest for Wilhelm Reich. 1981. Rpt. London: Granada, 1982: Ch. 8.
Wolff, Michael. The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch, rev. ed. New York City: Broadway Books, 2010: Ch. 10.
Wylie, Philip. Opus 21: Descriptive Music for the Lower Kinsey Epoch of the Atomic Age, a Concerto for a One-Man Band, Six Arias for Soap Operas, Fugues, Anthems & Barrelhouse. 1949. Rpt. Whitefish, Mont.: Kessinger Publishing, 2012.
Young, Kevin. Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2017: Ch. 9.

B. Camelot

1. The 1960 Election
a. Nixon
Drosnin, Ch. 10.
Ehrlichman, John. Witness to Power: The Nixon Years. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1982: Ch. 1, 4.
Fulsom, Ch. 6-7.
Pietrusza, Ch. 21, 25, 29.
R.J. Stone & Colapietro, Nixon’s Secrets, Ch. 6, 9.
E. Thomas, Being Nixon, Ch. 7.
b. LBJ
Caro, Lyndon Johnson, Vol. IV, Ch. 3-5.
Daugherty, Ch. 10.
Dickerson, Ch. 5-6.
P.F. Nelson. LBJ: From Mastermind to “The Colossus”: The Lies, Treachery, and Treasons Continue. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2014: Ch. 2.
Pietrusza, Ch. 19.
Rowland Evans & Novak, Ch. 12-14.
c. JFK
i. Lasky
(1) J.F.K., Ch. 12, 16-19.
(2) It Didn’t Start With Watergate. 1977. Rpt. New York City: Dell Publishing Co., 1978: Ch. 3-5.
ii. Others
J.H. Davis, The Kennedys, Ch. 32-35.
Fay, Ch. 2-7.
Kessler, Sins of the Father, Ch. 25.
Leamer, The Kennedy Men, Ch. 19-20.
Pietrusza, Ch. 1, 10-11, 14, 20, 23, 26.
Reeves, Ch. 9-10.
S.B. Smith. Grace and Power: The Private World of the Kennedy White House. New York City: Random House, 2004: Ch. 1.
d. Nelson A. Rockefeller
G. Allen, Rockefeller File, Ch. 13.
R.N. Smith, Ch. 16.
e. CBS
Cronkite & Carleton, Ch. 16.
Halberstam, The Powers That Be, Ch. 10.
f. L. Edwards
i. Missionary for Freedom, Ch. 15.
ii. Goldwater, Ch. 7.
g. Others
J. Anderson & Boyd, Ch. 12.
Brennan, Mary C. “A Step in the ‘Right’ Direction: Conservative Republicans and the Election of 1960.” Presidential Studies Quarterly Winter 1992: 73-87. Rpt. Turning Right in the Sixties: The Conservative Capture of the GOP. Chapel Hill, N.C.: U of North Carolina P, 1995: Ch. 1-2.
Brownstein, Ronald. The Power and the Glitter: The Hollywood-Washington Connection, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 1992: Ch. 5.
Buckley, U.S. Sen. James L., CON-R-N.Y. If Men Were Angels: A View From the Senate. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1975: Ch. 1.
Crouse, Timothy. The Boys on the Bus. 1973. Rpt. New York City: Ballentine Books, 1974: Ch. 8.
Cummings, Ch. 16.
Demaris, Captive City, Pt. 2, Ch. 14.
Ellroy, American Tabloid, Ch. 34, 41, 43, 47, 52, 54.
M.S. Evans, Revolt on the Campus, Ch. 5.
S. Giancana & C. Giancana, Ch. 18.
Hardeman & D.C. Bacon, Ch. 22.
B. Hersh, Bobby and J. Edgar, Ch. 1.
Lasky, J.F.K., Appendix B.
Maier, Ch. 16.
Martin, William. With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America, rev. ed. New York City: Broadway Books, 2005: Ch. 2.
Mears, Walter R. Deadlines Past: Forty Years of Presidential Campaigning: A Reporter's Story. Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2003: Ch. 1.
Morrow, Lance. "Of Myth and Memory: Dreaming of 1960 in the New World." Time 24 Oct. 1988: 21-27.
M. North. Act of Treason: The Role of J. Edgar Hoover in the Assassination of President Kennedy. 1991. Rpt. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011: Ch. 8.
Novak, Ch. 8-9.
Otash, Ch. 32.
Paar & Reddy. My Saber Is Bent. 1961. Rpt. New York City: Pocket Books, 1962: Ch. 5-7.
Pietrusza, Ch. 5, 8-10, 15-18, 24, 27, 30-36.
Ryskind, Ch. 19-20.
Shesol, Jeff. Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud That Defined a Decade. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1997: Ch. 1-2.
H. Smith, Ch. 19.
R. Stone & Colapietro, The Man Who Killed Kennedy, Ch. 9.
A. Summers & Swan, Sinatra: The Life, Ch. 25.
Taraborrelli, After Camelot, Pt. 1.
Varieties of Progressivism in America. Ed. Peter Berkowitz. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 2004: Ch. 3.
Vidal, Point to Point Navigation, Ch. 12.
J.A. Williams, Ch. 23-24.
Wise & T.B. Ross, Ch. 25.
2. The Kennedy Administration
a. Cuba
i. The Bay of Pigs Invasion
(1) Fontova
(a) Fidel, Ch. 1, 6, 10.
(b) Exposing the Real Che Guevara, Ch. 6, 9-11.
(2) Others
Allman, Ch. 12.
Bethel, Ch. 11.
J.H. Davis, The Kennedys, Ch. 38.
DiEugenio, Destiny Betrayed, Ch. 3.
Ellroy, American Tabloid, Ch. 59, 67, 69-70.
English, The Corporation, Ch. 1.
Fay, Ch. 18.
Fontova, Fidel, Ch. 11.
Fulsom, Ch. 10.
Fursenko & Naftali, Ch. 5.
Garwood, Ch. 7.
E.H. Hunt & Aunapu, Ch. 11.
Jacobsen, Surprise, Kill, Vanish, Ch. 28.
Janis, Ch. 2.
Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri. Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence, rev. ed. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2003: Ch. 11.
Leamer, The Kennedy Men, Ch. 22.
Livingstone, Harrison Edward, and Robert J. Groden. High Treason: The Assassination of JFK & The Case for Conspiracy, 3rd rev. ed. New York City: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1998: Pt. 7.
Maier, Ch. 20, 26-27, 31-33.
Marshall, P. D. Scott & J. Hunter, Ch. 6.
J. Morley, Our Man in Mexico, Ch. 10, 13.
P.S. Jack Paar, Ch. 10.
Prados, Safe for Democracy, Ch. 12.
Prouty, Ch. 2.
D. Russell, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Ch. 12.
Sayles, John. Los Gusanos. 1991. Rpt. New York City: Nation Books, 2004.
J.B. Smith, Ch. 18.
D. Talbot, Devil’s Chessboard, Ch. 15.
E. Thomas, Very Best Men, Ch. 17-18.
Veciana & C. Harrison, Ch. 1, 7, 11.
Waldron & Hartmann. Ultimate Sacrifice, Ch. 2, 15, 37, 55.
Wise & T.B. Ross, Ch. 2, 4-5, 12, 20.
ii The Cuban Missile Crisis
Brugioni, Ch. 3-27.
Fursenko & Naftali, Ch. 9-15.
Janis, Ch. 6.
Shackley & Finney, Ch. 5.
iii Bird
(1) The Chairman, Ch. 24.
(2) The Color of Truth, Ch. 10.
iv. Waldron et al.
Waldron, Ch. 7, 9-10.
Waldron & Hartmann, Legacy of Secrecy, Ch. 2.
Waldron & Hartmann, Ultimate Sacrifice, Ch. 1, 3, 5-12, 16, 19.
v. Other
Allman, Ch. 13-14.
Bethel, Ch. 12-15.
L. Block, Killing Castro, Ch. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11.
Corbett, Ben. This is Cuba: An Outlaw Culture Survives. Cambridge, Mass.: Westview Press, 2002.
J.H. Davis, The Kennedys, Ch. 41, 44, 49.
Deitche, Ch. 20.
DiEugenio, Destiny Betrayed, Ch. 4.
Ellroy, American Tabloid, Ch. 72.
Ellsberg, Ch. 12-13.
English, The Corporation, Ch. 2.
Estrada, Ch. 12.
Fursenko & Naftali, Ch. 6-8, 16.
S. Giancana & C. Giancana, Ch. 19.
Haig & McCarry, Ch. 7-8.
Kessler, The CIA at War, Ch. 8.
Latell, Ch. 5, 8-10.
Leamer, The Kennedy Men, Ch. 27.
Martino & Weyl, Ch. 10-21.
McKnight, Ch. 13.
D.E. Kaiser, Ch. 4-5, 7, 13.
Maier, Ch. 1, 21, 23.
Mosley, Ch. 28.
Nitze, Ch. 13.
Prados, Safe for Democracy, Ch. 14.
Poundstone, Ch. 10.
Reeves, Ch. 16.
Rodriguez & J. Weisman, Ch. 5-8.
Ruppert, Appendix A.
Shackley & Finney, Ch. 4, 6-7.
S.B. Smith, Grace and Power, Ch. 23.
Summers & J.M. Newman, Ch. 13.
Trento, Ch. 26, 32.
Twyman, Noel. Bloody Treason: On Solving History's Greatest Murder Mystery: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy, rev. ed. Rancho Santa Fe, Calif.: Laurel Mystery Books, 2010: Ch. 21.
Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Ch. 19.
Wise & T.B. Ross, Ch. 21.
Wyden, Ch. 26.
b. Southeast Asia
i. Jacobsen
(1) The Pentagon’s Brain, Ch. 7-9.
(2) Surprise, Kill, Vanish, Ch. 6.
ii. Prados
(1) The Hidden History of the Vietnam War, Ch. 5, 22.
(2) William Colby, Ch. 7-8.
(3) Keeper of the Keys, Pt. 5.
(4) Vietnam, Ch. 3.
iii. D. Valentine
(1) Phoenix Program, Ch. 5.
(2) The CIA As Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World. Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2017: Ch. 4.
iv. Others
Adams, Joey [Joseph Abramowitz]. On the Road for Uncle Sam. New York City: Bernard Geis Associates, 1963: Ch. 18.
Appy, American Reckoning, Ch. 3, 5.
Babbs, Ken. Who Shot the Water Buffalo? New York City: The Overlook Press, 2011: Ch. 4-24.
Bacevich, Twilight of the American Century, Ch. 24.
Baritz, Loren. Backfire: A History of How American Culture Led Us Into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did. 1985. Rpt. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1998: Ch. 3.
Cummings, Ch. 35.
J.H. Davis, The Kennedys, Ch. 45.
DeYoung, Ch. 4.
Goulden, Ch. 3.
Halberstam, Best and Brightest, Ch. 10-11, 14-15.
Hastings, Vietnam, Ch. 6-7.
Higgins, Ch. 1-7, 10-12, 14.
Logevall, Fredrik. Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam. Berkeley, Calif.: U of California P, 1999: Ch. 1-2.
J. Mann. Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet. New York City: Viking, 2004: Ch. 3.
McCoy, Torture and Impunity, Ch. 3.
Moore, Robin. The Green Berets: The Amazing Story of the U.S. Army’s Elite Special Forces Unit, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2007.
Neer, Ch. 7.
J.M. Newman. JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power, rev. ed. North Charleston, S.C.: CreateSpace, 2017.
Nitze, Ch. 15.
Perret, Country Made by War, Ch. 19.
M. Wallace & Gates, Ch. 11.
Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Ch. 20.
Wilson, James R. Landing Zones: Southern Veterans Remember Vietnam. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 1990.
c. Berlin
J.E. Smith, Ch. 1, 12-14.
Wyden, Ch. 4-6, 22-24, 64.
d. The Assassination
i. Oswald
Mailer. Oswald’s Tale: An American Mystery. New York City: Random House, 1995.
Mey, Flip de. The Lee Harvey Oswald Files: Why the CIA Killed Kennedy. Tielt, Belgium: Lannoo, 2015: Ch. 11-18.
J. Morley, Our Man in Mexico, Ch. 14-15.
Newcomb, Fred T., and Perry Adams. Murder From Within: Lyndon Johnson's Plot Against President Kennedy, rev. ed. Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, 2011: Ch. 7.
J.M. Newman, Oswald and the CIA, Ch. 14-20.
Popkin, Richard. The Second Oswald, rev. ed. Raleigh, N.C.: Boson Books, 2006.
Savodnik, Ch. 12.
Twyman, Ch. 17-19.
Weisberg, Harold. Oswald in New Orleans: A Case for Conspiracy With the CIA. 1967. Rpt. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2013.
ii. Jack Ruby [Jacob Leon Rubenstein]
Hurt, Henry. Reasonable Doubt: An Investigation Into the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 1986: Ch. 8.
Mey, Ch. 3-10.
Wills, Garry, and Demaris. Jack Ruby. 1968. Rpt. New York City: Ishi Press International, 2011.
iii. The Autopsy
Crenshaw, Dr. Charles A. et al. JFK Has Been Shot, rev. ed. New York City: Pinnacle Books/Kensington Publishing Corp., 2013.
Hurt, Ch. 3.
Twyman, Ch. 13-14.
iv. LBJ
Caro, Lyndon Johnson, Vol IV, Ch. 11-15.
P.F. Nelson, LBJ, Ch. 3.
Twyman, Ch. 31.
v. The Warren Report
Caro, Lyndon Johnson, Vol IV, Ch. 17.
DiEugenio, James. The JFK Assassination, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2018: Ch. 11.
E.J. Epstein, Assume Nothing, 2023: Ch. 4-8.
Hurt, Ch. 2.
McKnight, Ch. 1-11, Appendix A-B.
Meagher, Sylvia. Accessories After the Fact: The Warren Commission, the Authorities, & the Report on the JFK Assassination, rev. ed. 1976. Rpt. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2013.
P.F. Nelson, Who Really Killed Martin Luther King Jr.?, Appendix D.
M. North, Betrayal in Dallas, Ch. 16.
G.L. Posner, Case Closed, Ch. 17.
Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. 1964. Rpt. Buffalo, N.Y.: William S. Hein, 2005.
Roffman, Howard. Presumed Guilty: Lee Harvey Oswald in the Assassination of President Kennedy. 1975. Rpt. South Brunswick, N.J.: A.S. Barnes, 1976.
Shenon, Philip. A Cruel and Shocking Act: The Secret History of the Kennedy Assassination New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 2013.
Waldron & Hartmann, Legacy of Secrecy, Ch. 22-23, 27.
vi. The Garrison Investigation
E.J. Epstein, Assume Nothing, 2023: Ch. 9.
Flammonde, Paris. The Kennedy Conspiracy: An Uncommissioned Report on the Jim Garrison Investigation. New York City: Meredith Press, 1969.
Garrison, Jim. On the Trail of the Assassins: My Investigation and Prosecution of the Murder of President Kennedy. 1988. Rpt. London: Penguin Books, 1992.
vii. The Novels
(1) M.A. Collins
(a) Target Lancer. New York City: Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, 2012.
(b) Ask Not. New York City: Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, 2013.
(2) Ellroy
(a) American Tabloid, Ch. 88-89, 96-100.
(b) The Cold Six Thousand. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2001: Ch. 1-13.
(3) Others
W.F. Buckley, Getting It Right, Ch. 36, 38-40.
DeLillo, Don. Libra, rev. ed. New York City: Library of America, 2022.
McCarry. The Tears of Autumn. 1975. Rpt. London: Duckworth Overlook, 2013: Ch. 3-15.
Yates, Richard. Disturbing the Peace. 1975. Rpt. New York City: Bantam Books, 2013: Ch. 7.
viii. The Mafia
J.H. Davis, Mafia Kingfish, Ch. 21-41, 44, 49-50, 59.
Deitche, Ch. 33-34.
ix. Vincent Bugliosi
Bugliosi, Vincent. Reclaiming History: The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2007.
DiEugenio, The JFK Assassination, Ch. 1-10, 12.
x. DiEugenio
(1) The Assassinations: Probe Magazine on JFK, MLK, RFK and Malcolm X. Ed. DiEugenio and Lisa Pease. Los Angeles: Feral House, 2003.
(2) Destiny Betrayed, Ch. 5-18.
(3) The JFK Assassination, Ch. 13, 15.
xi. E.J. Epstein
(1) Deception: The Invisible War Between the KGB and the CIA. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1989: Ch. 1.
(2) The Assassination Chronicles: Inquest, Counterplot, and Legend. New York City: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1992.
(3) Assume Nothing, 2023: Ch. 10, 12-14.
xii. James H. Fetzer
Assassination Science: Experts Speak Out on the Death of JFK, 5th corr. ed. Ed. Fetzer. Chicago: Catfeet Press, 2003.
Fetzer et al. Murder in Dealey Plaza: What We Know Now That We Didn’t Know Then About the Death of JFK, 6th corr. ed. Ed. Fetzer. Peru, Ill.: Catfeet Press, 2004.
xiii. Kessler
(1) In the President’s Secret Service: Behind the Scenes With Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect, rev. ed. New York City: Crown Publishers, 2010: Ch. 2.
(2) First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents, rev. ed. New York City: Crown Forum, 2015: Ch. 19.
xiv. Mark Lane et al.
(1) A Citizen's Dissent: Mark Lane Replies. 1968. Rpt. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Publications, 1969.
(2) Rush to Judgment, rev. ed. New York City: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1992.
(3) Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK?, rev. ed. New York City: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1992.
(4) Last Word: My Indictment of the CIA in the Murder of JFK. New York City: Herman Graf/Skyhorse Publishing, 2011.
xv. McCubbin et al.
Blaine & McCubbin, Ch. 11-18, 20-22.
Hill, Clint, and McCubbin. Five Days in November. New York City: Gallery Books, 2013.
xvi. M. North
(1) Act of Treason, Ch. 5-7.
(2) Betrayal in Dallas, Ch. 1, 11-15, 17-24.
xvii. Piereson
(1) Camelot and the Cultural Revolution, Ch. 4-5, 7.
(2) Shattered Consensus, Ch. 13.
xvii. D. Russell
(1) The Man Who Knew Too Much, Ch. 1-2, 16-28, Appendix A-B.
(2) On the Trail of the JFK Assassins: A Groundbreak Look at America's Most Famous Conspiracy. New York City: Herman Graf/Skyhorse Publishing, 2008.
xviii. R.J. Stone et al.
R. Stone & Colapietro, The Man Who Killed Kennedy, Ch. 13-16, 19-20.
R.J. Stone & St. J. Hunt, Ch. 18.
xix. Kerry Thornley
(1) Gorightly
(a) The Prankster and the Conspiracy, Ch. 5, 7-10, 14-16.
(b) Caught in the Crossfire, Ch. 4-18, 20, 23-25.
(2) Other
Thornley, Kerry Wendell. The Dreadlock Recollections, rev. ed. Ed. Sondra London And Trevor Blake. Portland, Ore.: OVO, 2007.
xx. Waldron et al.
Waldron, Ch. 1-3, 8, 11-18.
Waldron & Hartmann, Legacy of Secrecy, Ch. 5, 7-22, 25, 29-34, 37, 61.
Waldron & Hartmann. Ultimate Sacrifice, Ch. 20-22, 41-42, 47, 50-54, 56-61.
xxi. Other
Alford, Ch. 11.
Andrew & Mitrokhin, Ch. 14.
Anson, Robert Sam. "They've Killed the President!": The Search for the Murderers of John F. Kennedy. New York City: Bantam Books, 1975.
Armstrong, John. Harvey and Lee: How the CIA Framed Oswald. Arlington, Texas: Quasar, 2003.
R. Baker, Ch. 6-7, 10-11.
Bartlett, Ch. 10, Appendix B-D.
Benson, Michael. Who’s Who in the JFK Assassination: An A-to-Z Encyclopedia. New York City: Citadel Press/Carol Publishing Group, 1993.
Bird, The Chairman, Ch. 23.
Blum, The Spy Who Knew Too Much, Ch. 11-12.
Bolden, Abraham. The Echo From Dealey Plaza: The True Story of the First African American on the White House Secret Service Detail and His Quest for Justice After the Assassination of JFK. New York City: Harmony Books, 2008: Ch. 6.
Bowart, Ch. 21-22, 28.
Brinkley, Ch. 17.
Caldwell, Christopher. The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties. New York City:Simon & Schuster, 2020: Ch. 1.
Coogan, Appendix H.
J.H. Davis, The Kennedys, Ch. 50-58, 74.
Daugherty, Ch. 15.
DeConde, Ch. 12.
DeHaven-Smith, Lance. Conspiracy Theory in America. Austin, Texas: U of Texas P, 2013: Ch. 1, 4.
Dickerson, Ch. 11.
Essential Mae Brussell, Ch. 1-2, 13, 19.
P. Evans, Ch. 13.
Fursenko & Naftali, Ch. 17.
J.E. Haley, Ch. 9.
B. Hersh, Bobby and J. Edgar, Ch. 19.
E.H. Hunt & Aunapu, Ch. 12.
Hurt, Ch. 1, 4-7, 9-14.
Jacobsen, Surprise, Kill, Vanish, Ch. 10.
Jeffries, Donald. Hidden History: An Exposé of Modern Crimes, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups in American Politics. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2014: Ch. 1.
D.E. Kaiser, Ch. 9-12, 15-17.
Knight, Ch. 2.
Latell, Ch. 6-7, 11.
Leamer, The Kennedy Men, Ch. 32.
Lifton, David S. Best Evidence: Disguise and Deception in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy, 3rd rev ed. New York City: Signet, 1992.
H.E. Livingstone & Groden, Pt. 1-6.
Maier, Ch. 35-36.
Manchester. The Death of a President, November 20-November 25, 1963, rev. ed. New York City: Arbor House, 1985.
Marrs. Crossfire: The Plot That Killed Kennedy, rev. ed. New York City: Basic Books, 2013.
McClellan, Ch. 2, 13-15, 20.
Mellen, Joan. A Farewell to Justice: Jim Garrison, JFK’s Assasination, and the Case That Should Have Changed History, rev. ed. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2013.
Mey, Ch. 1-5, 19-24.
J. Morley, Our Man in Mexico, Ch. 16-19.
Newcomb & P. Adams, Ch. 1-6, 8-9, Appendix A-E.
Oglesby, Carl. The Yankee and Cowboy War: Conspiracies From Dallas to Watergate and Beyond, rev. ed. New York City: Berkeley Medallion, 1977: Ch. 1, 3-4, 9.
Overstreet & Overstreet, Ch. 4.
Pacepa & Rychlak, Ch. 29, 31-32.
Parsson, Ch. 10-13.
Piper, Ch. 1, 16-17.
G.L. Posner, Case Closed, Ch. 8-16, 19, Appendix A-B.
Rothbard, Never a Dull Moment, Ch. 31.
Ruppert, Ch. 11.
Shaw, J. Gary, and Larry R. Harris. Cover-Up: The Governmental Conspiracy to Conceal the Facts About the Public Execution of John Kennedy. 1976. Rpt. Austin, Texas: Collector's Editions, 1992.
Stone, Oliver et al. JFK: The Book of the Film: The Documented Screenplay. Ed. Jane Rusconi. New York City: Applause Books, 1992.
S.B. Smith, Grace and Power, Ch. 30.
Summers & J.M. Newman, Ch. 1-12, 15-25.
D. Talbot, Devil’s Chessboard, Ch. 21-22.
E. Thomas, Very Best Men, Ch. 21.
Thompson, Josiah, James Barger, and Richard Mullen. Last Second in Dallas, 2nd rev. ed. Lawrence, Kan.: UP of Kansas, 2021.
Trento, Ch. 34.
Tuccille, Kingdom, Ch. 43.
Twyman, Ch. 1-12, 15-16, 22-30, 32, Appendices A-G.
D. Valentine, Strength of the Wolf, Ch. 20.
Ventura, Jesse [James George Janos], and D. Russell. American Conspiracies: Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies That the Government Tells Us, rev. ed. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011: Ch. 3.
Vidal, Point to Point Navigation, Ch. 55.
Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Ch. 21.
Wheen, Francis. Strange Days Indeed: The 1970s: The Golden Age of Paranoia. 2009. Rpt. New York City: BBS/PublicAffairs, 2010: Ch. 13.
R.K. Wilcox, Target: JFK, Ch. 34-39.
e. LBJ
i. Caro
(1) Lyndon Johnson, Vol. III, Ch. 43.
(2) Lyndon Johnson, Vol IV, Ch. 6-10.
ii. Other
J. Anderson. Washington Exposé, rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1967: Ch. 7.
Rowland Evans & Novak, Ch. 15.
J.E. Haley, Ch. 10.
Lasky, It Didn’t Start With Watergate, Ch. 11.
Lott, Ch. 14.
McClellan, Ch. 10.
P.F. Nelson, LBJ, Ch. 1, 5.
M. North, Betrayal in Dallas, Ch. 7.
Shesol, Ch. 5.
D. Talbot, Devil’s Chessboard, Ch. 16.
f. The Executive Police Agencies
i. The CIA
(1) A. Dulles
Grose, Ch. 19.
D. Talbot, Devil’s Chessboard, Ch. 17-18.
(2) Marks
(a) The CIA File, Ch. 5, 9.
(b) Manchurian Candidate, Ch. 12.
(3) Waldron & Hartmann
Waldron & Hartmann, Legacy of Secrecy, Ch. 24.
Waldron & Hartmann, Ultimate Sacrifice, Ch. 4, 18, 44-46.
(4) Others
Blum, The Spy Who Knew Too Much, Ch. 8-10, 22, 26.
Bowen, Russell S. The Immaculate Deception: The Bush Crime Family Exposed. Carson City, Nev.: America West Publishers, 1991: Ch. 3, 6.
Cummings, Ch. 20-21, 23.
Dean, Ch. 7-8.
Devlin, Ch. 11-17.
Ellroy, American Tabloid, Ch. 76.
Fulsom, Ch. 11.
Garwood, Ch. 6.
Gup, Ch. 6-7.
Hart, Ch. 1, 3, 5, 7.
B. Hersh, The Old Boys, Ch. 22.
E.H. Hunt & Aunapu, Ch. 13.
Jacobsen, Area 51, Ch. 9-11.
Kessler, The CIA at War, Ch. 6.
Kinzer, Poisoner in Chief, Ch. 16.
Mangold, Ch. 6-8, 16.
D.C. Martin, Ch. 6-7.
McCarry. The Tears of Autumn, Ch. 1-2.
McCoy, A Question of Torture, Ch. 3.
R. McGehee, Ch. 5.
J. Morley, Our Man in Mexico, Ch. 11-12.
Prados, Safe for Democracy, Ch. 1, 13.
Prouty, Ch. 4, 22.
D. Russell, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Ch. 9-11.
Sutton. Trilaterals Over America, rev. ed. San Pedro, Calif.: GSG & Associates Publishers, 1995: Ch. 7.
E. Thomas, Very Best Men, Ch. 20, 22.
Trento, Ch. 23, 25, 30.
Tuccille, Heretic, Ch. 31.
Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Ch. 17-18.
Wyden, Ch. 9, 21.
ii. The FBI
Ellroy, American Tabloid, Ch. 78, 92.
The FBI and Religion, Ch. 10.
Gentry, Ch. 28-30.
Liddy, Ch. 10.
Messick, John Edgar Hoover, Ch. 11.
M. North, Act of Treason, Ch. 1-4.
H. Overstreet & B. Overstreet, Ch. 15, 19.
Porter, Ch. 12.
J.L. Scott, Ch. 14.
Weiner, Enemies, Ch. 26-29.
iii. The Secret Service
Blaine & McCubbin, Ch. 1, 3-10.
Bolden, Ch. 1, 3-5.
iv. Federal Bureau of Narcotics
Siragusa & Wiedrich, Ch. 14.
D. Valentine, Strength of the Wolf, Ch. 15, 19.
v. The British
Deighton, Len. The Ipcress File, rev. ed. London: Triad/Grafton, 1987.
Macintyre, A Spy Among Friends, Ch. 12-20.
P. Wright & Greengrass, Ch. 12-13.
vi. The Witness Protection Program
Earley, Pete, and Gerald Shur. WITSEC: Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program. New York City: Bantam Books, 2002: Pt. 1.
English. Whitey's Payback, and Other True Stories of Gangsterism, Murder, Corruption, and Revenge. New York City: Mysterious Press/Open Road Integrated Media, 2013: Pt. 1, Ch. 1.
vii. Others
Ellroy, American Tabloid, Ch. 63, 82, 84, 95.
E.J. Epstein, Deception, Ch. 4-5.
Jacobsen, Area 51, Ch. 17.
Maier, Ch. 25.
Prados, Keeper of the Keys, Pt. 3.
Redden, Ch. 12.
Wise & T.B. Ross, Ch. 15, 19.
g. The Space Program
Borman & Serling, Ch. 5-6.
Michael Collins, Ch. 2-3.
Chambers, Mark A. Images of Modern America: NASA Kennedy Space Center. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2016: Ch. 3.
Hoagland, Richard C., and Michael Bara. Dark Mission: The Secret History of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, rev. ed. Los Angeles: Feral House, 2009: Ch. 3.
T. Wolfe, The Right Stuff, Ch. 10-14.
h. The Chicago Machine
Demaris, Captive City, Pt. 3, Ch. 3.
Messick. The Politics of Prosecution: Jim Thompson, Marje Everett, Richard Nixon & the Trial of Otto Kerner. Ottawa, Ill.: Caroline House Books, 1978: Ch. 4-5.
L. O'Connor, Ch. 10.
i. Money Manipulation
Auerbach, Ch. 6, 9.
Duncan, Richard. The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures, rev. ed. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons (Asia), 2005: Ch. 3.
Mayer, Thomas. Monetary Policy and the Great Inflation in the United States: The Federal Reserve and the Failure of Macroeconomic Policy, 1965-1979. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 1999: Ch. 8.
Meltzer, Ch. 3.
Rozeff, Michael S. The U.S. Constitution and Money: Corruption and Decline. East Amherst, N.Y.: Michael S. Rozeff, 2010: Ch. 11.
Rueff, Ch. 10.
Salerno, Joseph T. "From Kennedy's 'New Economics' to Nixon's 'New Economic Policy': Monetary Inflation and the March of Economic Fascism." Reassessing the Presidency, Ch. 19.
Shelton, Judy. Money Meltdown: Restoring Order to the Global Currency System. New York City: The Free Press, 1994: Ch. 2.
Stockman, Great Deformation, Ch. 6.
Weber, Ch. 4-6.
Weiher, Ch. 8.
j. The Schools
Blumenfeld & A. Newman, Ch. 11, 15.
Cummings, Ch. 19.
Gottfried. Encounters: My Life with Nixon, Marcuse, and Other Friends and Teachers. Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2009: Ch. 2.
Iserbyt, Charlotte Thomson. The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America: A Chronological Paper Trail. Ravenna, Ohio: Conscience Press, 1999: Ch. 5.
Moreau, Joseph. Schoolbook Nation: Conflicts Over American History Textbooks From the Civil War to the Present. Ann Arbor, Mich.: The U of Michigan P, 2003: Ch. 4-5.
Piereson, Shattered Consensus, Ch. 19.
a href="https://archive.org/details/highwayjunglesto00tennrich/page/155/mode/1up">Tenney, Ch. 12.
Wolters, Ch. 6.
k. Marilyn Monroe
Capell, Frank. The Strange Death of Marilyn Monroe, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Herald of Freedom, 1967.
M.A. Collins. Bye Bye, Baby. New York City: Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, 2011: Ch. 1-3, 8-9, 13-14, 16-17, 19-21, 23-24.
E.J. Epstein. The Annals of Unsolved Crime. New York City: Melville House, 2013: Ch. 10.
P. Evans, Ch. 7.
l. The Pentagon
James Adams, Secret Armies, Ch. 11.
Atkinson, Rick. The Long Gray Line, rev. ed. New York City: Henry Holt, 2009: Ch. 1-3.
Babbs, Ch. 1-3.
Birtle, U.S. Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine, Ch. 6.
Bowart, Ch. 11.
Burton, James G. The Pentagon Wars: Reformers Challenge the Old Guard. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1993: Ch. 1.
Earley, Family of Spies, Ch. 10.
Ellsberg, Ch. 7-9.
Fay, Ch. 21.
Hackworth & J. Sherman, Ch. 12-13.
Haig & McCarry, Ch. 6.
Hewes, Ch. 8-10.
Kluckhohn, Ch. 3-4, 8-9, 12.
Lertzman & Birnes, Ch. 1, 7, 10, 13.
Melman, Ch. 9.
Nitze et al., Ch. 14.
McClintock, Ch. 6-7, 11.
Prados. The US Special Forces: What Everyone Needs to Know. New York City: Oxford UP, 2015: Ch. 2-3.
D.L. Robb, Ch. 40.
Rosenbaum, How the End Begins, Ch. 4.
S. Seagrave, Yellow Rain, Ch. 12.
Scheips, Ch. 4-6.
Vine, Ch. 4.
Woods. Rollback: Repealing Big Government Before the Coming Fiscal Collapse. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2011: Ch. 5.
m. The Media
i. The New York Times
Talese, The Kingdom and the Power, Ch. 15.
Talese, Bartleby & Me, Ch. 8.
Tifft & A.S. Jones, Ch. 24-26.
ii. CBS
Daniel, Ch. 5.
Halberstam, The Powers That Be, Ch. 14, 18.
Hewitt, Ch. 4.
iii. Other
Cooper, Clarence L. Jr. The Dark Messenger. Evanston, Ill.: Regency Books, 1962.
Halberstam, The Powers That Be, Ch. 12-13, 15, 17.
n. Otepka
W.J. Gill, Ch. 1, 10, 12-13, 15-16, 20-31, Appendix A.
Kluckhohn, Ch. 5.
o. J. Anderson
J. Anderson, Ch. 3.
J. Anderson & Gibson, Ch. 6.
p. Bacevich
i. Washington Rules, Ch. 2.
ii. Twilight of the American Century. Notre Dame, Ind.: U of Notre Dame P, 2018: Ch. 9-10.
q. J.H. Davis
i. Mafia Kingfish, Ch. 14.
ii. The Kennedys, Ch. 36-37, 40, 42-43, 46-47.
r. Eisler
i. The Last Liberal, Ch. 13-14.
ii. Masters of the Game, Ch. 4.
s. E.J. Epstein
i. Dossier, Ch. 16.
ii. Annals of Unsolved Crime, Ch. 9.
t. S.M. Hersh
i. Samson Option, Ch. 9.
ii. The Dark Side of Camelot. Boston: Little, Brown, 1997.
u. Lasky
i. J.F.K., Ch. 1, 20.
ii. It Didn't Start With Watergate, Ch. 2, 6-9.
v. Leamer
i. Playing for Keeps, Ch. 3.
ii. The Kennedy Men, Ch. 21, 23-26, 28-31.
iii. Sons of Camelot: The Fate of an American Dynasty. New York City: William Morrow, 2004: Ch. 1.
iv. Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 2021: Ch. 16.
w. Perret
i. Country Made by War, Ch. 20.
ii. Commander in Chief, Ch. 14.
x. Stadiem
i. Jet Set, Ch. 8-9.
ii. Madame Claude, Ch. 1.
y. Vidal
Point to Point Navigation, Ch. 24, 38-39, 54.
F. Kaplan, Ch. 13.
z. Other
Joey Adams, Ch. 1.
Alford, Ch. 1, 3-10, 13-14.
Attarian, Ch. 9.
B. Baker & L.L. King, Ch. 3.
G.W. Ball & D.W. Ball, Ch. 10-12.
Baltzell, Ch. 5.
Barber, Willard F., and C. Neale Ronning. Internal Security and Military Power: Counterinsurgency and Civic Action in Latin America. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State UP, 1966.
Bernstein, Chasing History, Ch. 10.
Bird, The Color of Truth, Ch. 9, 11.
Bowart, Ch. 19, 38.
W.F. Buckley. Getting It Right, Ch. 15, 35.
Burch, Vol. III, Ch. 5.
Buchwald & Buchwald, Ch. 8.
Burnham, Ch. 8.
Carr, Howie. The Brothers Bulger: How They Terrorized and Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century, rev. ed. New York City: Grand Central Publishing, 2013: Ch. 2.
Cassini, Ch. 11.
P. Coleman, Ch. 11.
M.A. Collins, Bye Bye, Baby, Ch. 6.
Coram, Ch. 14.
Corry, Ch. 8.
K. Courtney & P. Courtney, Ch. 4, 7, 9.
Crile, George. Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Covert Operation That Changed the History of Our Times. 2003. Rpt. London: Atlantic Books, 2007: Ch. 3, 8.
Cummings, Ch. 18, 22.
Dallek, Matthew. The Right Moment: Ronald Reagan’s First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point in American Politics, rev ed. New York City: Oxford, 2004: Ch. 3.
J. Dalton, Ch. 13.
Dickerson, Ch. 7-10.
L. Edwards, Missionary for Freedom, Ch. 16.
Ellroy, American Tabloid, Ch. 58.
Ellsberg, Ch. 19.
M.S. Evans, Liberal Establishment, Pt. 1, Ch. 1-2; Pt. 2, Ch. 2-7; Pt. 3, Ch. 2, 5-8.
P. Evans, Ch. 8-12, 15.
Fay, Ch. 1, 8-13, 19-20, 22-24.
Feldman, Ch. 47-48.
Feldstein, Ch. 4.
From MAD to Madness. Pt. 3, Ch. 2.
Gottfried. Leo Strauss and the Conservative Movement in America: A Critical Appraisal. New York City: Cambridge UP, 2012: Ch. 5.
Halberstam, Best and Brightest, Ch. 1, 3-6, 8-9, 12-13.
Hardeman & D.C. Bacon, Ch. 23-24.
Hazlett, Ch. 1, 19.
Hazlitt. Man vs. the Welfare State, Ch. 1.
B. Hersh, Bobby and J. Edgar, Ch. 11-12, 14-15, 17-18.
Hoffa & Rogers, Ch. 19-20, 22-29.
Irving & Burkholz, Ch. 1.
Isaacson & E. Thomas, Ch. 20-22.
Jacobsen, Area 51, Ch. 18.
Jeffries, Hidden History, Ch. 2.
Jones, Alex, and Kent Heckenlively. The Great Awakening: Defeating the Globalists and Launching the Next Great Renaissance. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2023: Ch. 7.
Kabaservice, Geoffrey. The Guardians: Kingman Brewster, His Circle, and the Rise of the Liberal Establishment. New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 2004: Ch. 4.
Kessler, Sins of the Father, Ch. 26.
Keynes & R.K. Miller, Ch. 7.
R. King, Ch. 1, 12, 22-23, 26.
E. Klein. The Kennedy Curse: Why America's First Family Has Been Haunted by Tragedy for 150 Years. New York City: St. Martin’s, 2003: Ch. 5.
Kinzer, Overthrow, Ch. 8.
Kluckhohn, Ch. 1-2, 6.
Kuhn, The Neglected Voter, Ch. 2.
Lawson & Oldham, Ch. 1.
Leebaert, Ch. 6.
D. Livingstone, Terrorism and the Illuminati, Ch. 22.
Llorente, Ch. 21.
Maier, Ch. 34.
Marshall, P. D. Scott & J. Hunter, Ch. 9.
R.L. Martin, Ch. 21.
Messick, John Edgar Hoover, Ch. 9.
Mortimer. Washington Confidential Today, rev. ed. New York City: Paperback Library, 1962.
Mosley, Ch. 29.
Nisbet. Tradition and Revolt. 1968. Rpt. New York City: Routledge, 2017: Ch. 13.
Nitze et al., Ch. 11-12.
R. Parker & Rashke, Ch. 12-13, 15.
Pietrusza, Ch. 37.
Piper, Ch. 5.
Reisner, Marc. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, rev. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 1993: Ch. 11.
Reeves, Ch. 1, 11-15, 17 -18.
Remini, The House, Ch. 16.
Ritter, Ch. 5-7.
P.C. Roberts & Stratton, Ch. 6.
Rose, Mark H., Bruce E. Seely, and Paul F. Barrett. The Best Transportation System in the World: Railroads, Trucks, Airlines, and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State UP, 2006: Ch. 5.
Russell, Jesse. The Vanishing Tradition, Ch. 6.
Sabin, Ch. 2.
Seabrook, Ch. 9.
Shesol, Ch. 3-4.
H. Smith, Ch. 2, 11, 16.
R.N. Smith, Ch. 17.
S.B. Smith, Grace and Power, Ch. 2-22, 24-29.
Sonenshein, Raphael J. Politics in Black and White: Race and Power in Los Angeles. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 1993: Ch. 3-4.
E. Thomas, The Man to See, Ch. 13, 20.
Troy, Tevi. Intellectuals and the American Presidency: Philosophers, Jesters, or Technicians? Lanham, Md. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002: Ch. 2.
Tucker, William. Vigilante: The Backlash Against Crime in America. Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.: Stein and Day, 1985: Ch. 5.
D.C. Unger, Ch. 5.
Whitaker, Ch. 13.
T. Wolfe, The Right Stuff, Ch. 15.
2. The Crime Scene
a. The Mafia
i. M. Lansky
S. Lansky & Stadiem, Ch. 10-11.
Messick, Lansky, Ch. 15.
ii. Carlos Marcello
J.H. Davis, Mafia Kingfish, Ch. 16-20.
Ellroy, American Tabloid, Ch. 65.
R. Stone & Colapietro, The Man Who Killed Kennedy, Ch. 10.
iii. The Outfit
(1) G. Russo
(a) The Outfit, Ch. 17-19.
(b) Supermob, Ch. 11.
(2) Others
Burdick & Mitchell, Ch. 18.
Demaris, Captive City, Pt. 3, Ch. 5, 8.
S. Giancana & C. Giancana, Ch. 21.
D.N. Griffin & Cullotta, Ch. 4.
Maier, Ch. 18, 21, 24, 29-30.
iv. Jimmy the Weasel
Demaris, The Last Mafioso, Ch. 10-12.
Zuckerman, Michael J. Vengeance Is Mine: Jimmy “The Weasel” Fratianno Tells How He Brought the Kiss of Death to the Mafia. New York City: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1987: Ch. 3.
v. Cleveland
Neff, Ch. 8-9.
Porrello, To Kill the Irishman, Ch. 6.
vi. L. Block
(1) Lucky at Cards, rev. ed. New York City: Open Road Integrated Media, 2010.
(2) Sinner Man, rev. ed. London: Hard Case Crime, 2016.
vii. Dickie
(1) Cosa Nostra, Ch. 8.
(2) Blood Brotherhoods, Ch. 54.
viii. Messick
(1) The Mobs and the Mafia: The Illustrated History of Organized Crime. 1972. Rpt. New York City: Galahad Books, 1974: Ch. 6.
(2) $yndicate Wife, Ch. 11-15.
ix. Moldea
(1) Dark Victory, Ch. 27.
(2) Interference, Ch. 12-13, 15, 17, 36.
(3) The Hoffa Wars, Ch. 8.
x. Other
Anka & D. Dalton, Ch. 6.
Brandt, Ch. 15-18.
Capeci, Ch. 24.
Carlo, Ch. 15-20.
Cressey, Ch. 11-12.
J.H. Davis, The Kennedys, Ch. 39, 48.
Deitche, Ch. 23-26, 31.
Demaris. The Extortioners. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Publications, 1960.
Ellroy, American Tabloid, Ch. 46, 53, 61, 65.
Eppolito & Drury, Ch. 10-12.
Franzese, Pt. 1, Ch. 12-14, 16, 18.
S. Harmon, Ch. 3.
B. Hersh, Bobby and J. Edgar, Ch. 13.
H. Hill & G. Russo, The Outfit, Ch. 3.
P. Hoffman, Ch. 7.
D.E. Kaiser, Ch. 6, 14.
Konigsberg, Ch. 2, 7.
Kup, Ch. 20.
Lance, Deal With the Devil, Ch. 2, 13, 16, Appendix D.
Lawson & Oldham, Ch. 6-7.
Maas, The Valachi Papers, Ch. 1.
Mickey Cohen, Ch. 23-25.
M. North, Betrayal in Dallas, Ch. 3-6, 8-10.
Ouseley, Ch. 9-10.
Pistone & Brandt, Ch. 21.
G.L. Posner, Miami Babylon, Ch. 10.
Raab, Five Families, Ch. 14-17.
E. Reid, Appendix 3.
Jon Roberts & E. Wright, Ch. 4-6.
C. Sterling, Octopus, Ch. 6-7, 11.
Taraborrelli, Sinatra, Ch. 24.
Teresa & Renner, Ch. 11-15, 18.
E. Thomas, The Man to See, Ch. 15-16.
United States. Department of the Treasury. Bureau of Narcotics. Mafia: The Government’s Secret File on Organized Crime. New York City: Collins, 2007.
Waldron & Hartmann. Ultimate Sacrifice, Ch. 35-36, 38, 48-49.
Wilson, Christopher P. Learning to Live With Crime: American Crime Narrative in the Neoconservative Turn. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State UP, 2010: Ch. 1.
Wolf & DiMona, Pt. 5, Ch. 18.
b. The Negroes
i. Harlem
Himes. Cotton Comes to Harlem. 1964. Rpt. Edinburgh, U.K.: Cannongate Crime, 2001.
Whitehead, Pt. 2.
ii. Goines
Goines, Whoreson, Ch. 19-22.
E. Stone, Ch. 7.
iii. Iceberg Slim
(1) Long White Con: The Biggest Score of His Life. 1977. Rpt. New York City: Cash Money Content, 2012.
(2) Doom Fox, Ch. 14-16.
Gifford, Ch. 7.
iv. Chepesiuk
(1) Black Gangsters of Chicago. Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, 2007: Ch. 5-7.
(2) Black Caesar: The Rise and Disappearance of Frank Matthews, Kingpin. Rock Hill, S.C.: Strategic Media, 2013: Ch. 1-2.
v. Others
Hughes, Dorothy B. The Expendable Man. 1963. Rpt. New York City: New York Review Books, 2012.
E. James & Ritz, Ch. 16.
F. Lucas & A.S. King, Ch. 7.
Stang, It's Very Simple, Ch. 5.
c. The Sex Fiends
i. L. Block
(1) The Sisterhood. 1963. Rpt. Austin, Texas: Automat.Press, 2019.
(2) Candy, rev. ed. New York City: Open Road Integrated Media, 2011.
(3) 69 Barrow Street, rev. ed. Burton, Mich.: Hard Case Crime/Subterranean Press, 2012.
(4) Strange Embrace, rev. ed. Burton, Mich.: Hard Case Crime/Subterranean Press, 2012.
(5) Borderline. London: Hard Case Crime, 2014.
ii. Other
Cooper, Dennis. Ugly Man: Stories. New York City: Harper Perennial, 2009.
Crumrin, Ch. 8.
Ford, Luke. A History of X: 100 Years of Sex in Film. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1999: Ch. 2.
Greenberg, David F. The Construction of Homosexuality. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1988: Ch. 11.
"Macdonald." The Zebra-Striped Hearse. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1962.
Stanford. White House Call Girl: The Real Watergate Story. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2013: Ch. 4-6.
d. The Drug Scene
i. The French Connection
R. Moore. The French Connection: A True Account of Cops, Narcotics, and International Conspiracy. 1969. Rpt. Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press, 2003.
D. Valentine, Strength of the Wolf, Ch. 18.
ii. Marijuana
C.L. Cooper Jr. Weed. Evanston, Ill.: Regency Books, 1961.
M.A. Lee. Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana: Medical, Recreational, and Scientific. New York City: Scribner, 2012: Ch. 3-4.
iii. L. Block
(1) A Diet of Treacle, rev. ed. New York City: Open Road Integrated Media, 2010.
(2) Grifter’s Game, rev. ed. New York City: Open Road Integrated Media, 2010.
iv. Other
Charbonneau, Ch. 8-9.
Chepesiuk, Hard Target: The United States War Against International Drug Trafficking, 1982-1997. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 1999: Ch. 4.
Clark, Claire D. The Recovery Revolution: The Battle Over Addiction Treatment in the United States. New York City: Columbia UP, 2017: Ch. 2-4.
Fahey, Todd Brendan. Wisdom’s Maw: The Acid Novel. Lafayette, La.: Far Gone Books, 1996: Ch. 1-2.
Friedkin, William. The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir. New York City: Harper, 2013: Ch. 5.
Lertzman & Birnes, Ch. 8.
Mullis, Ch. 17.
Pollack, Pt. 2.
Torgoff. Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2004: Ch. 3.
D. Valentine, Strength of the Wolf, Ch. 21.
e. East Asian Crime Syndicates
Booth, The Dragon Syndicates, Pt. 4, Ch. 5.
Chepesiuk, Hard Target, Ch. 13.
f. Greater Miami
Chepesiuk. Gangsters of Miami: True Tales of Mobsters, Gamblers, Hit Men, Con Men and Gang Bangers From the Magic City. Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, 2010: Ch. 6.
Farzad, Roben. Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami. New York City: New American Library, 2017: Ch. 2.
Messick. Syndicate in the Sun. New York City: The Macmillan Co., 1968: Ch. 4-5.
g. L.A. Private Eyes
(1) Otash
Ellroy. The Enchanters. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2023.
Otash, Ch. 28.
(2) Others
"R. Macdonald." The Wycherly Woman. 1961. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 2011.
Prather, Richard S. Dig That Crazy Grave. 1961. Rpt. New York City: Open Road Integrated Media, 2014.
h. Greater New York City
English, Savage City, Ch. 2.
Maas, Serpico, Ch. 4-5.
Pantoliano & D. Evanier, Ch. 5-6.
Pileggi, Wiseguy, Ch. 4.
Raab. Justice in the Back Room. Cleveland: The World Publishing Co., 1967: Ch. 1-5.
Riccio, Vincent, and Bill Slocum. All the Way Down: The Violent Underworld of Street Gangs. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1962.
i. L. Block
i. Coward’s Kiss, rev. ed. New York City: Open Road Integrated Media, 2010.
ii. You Could Call It Murder, rev. ed. New York City: Open Road Integrated Media, 2010.
j. Spillane
i. The Girl Hunters. 1962. Rpt. New York City: New American Library, 1963.
ii. The Snake. New York City: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1964.
iii. The Twisted Thing. New York City: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1966.
k. Westlake
i. "Richard Stark"
(1) The Man With the Getaway Face. 1963. Rpt. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2008.
(2) The Outfit. 1963. Rpt. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2008.
ii. Other
(1) Killing Time. 1961. Rpt. New York City: Charter, 1979.
(2) Killy. 1963. Rpt. Bath, U.K.: Chivers Press, 1995.
(3) The Curious Facts Preceding My Execution and Other Fictions. 1968. Rpt. New York City: Ballentine, 1973.
l. Other
F.L. Bailey & Aronson, Pt. 1, Ch. 2, 4; Pt. 2, Ch. 2; Pt. 3, Ch. 1-4; Pt. 4, Ch. 2-3, 5.
F. Brown. The Murderers. 1961. Rpt. New York City: Mysterious Press/Open Road Integrated Media, 2021.
Carr, David. The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2008: Ch. 13.
H. Carr, Ch. 3.
Chuck Berry, Ch. 12.
M.A. Collins, Bye Bye, Baby, Ch. 7, 18.
Corbitt & S. Giancana, Ch. 8-12.
Dr. John & Rummel, Ch. 6.
Fitch, Ken et al. Johnny Dynamite: Explosive Pre-Code Crime Comics — The Complete Adventures of Pete Morisi’s Wild Man of Chicago. San Diego: IDW Publishing, 2020.
E.S. Gardner. Shills Can't Cash Chips. 1961. Rpt. London: Hard Case Crime, 2020.
Goddard. The Insider, Ch. 4-5.
Goodis. Night Squad. 1961. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 1992.
Grant, George. Trial and Error: The American Civil Liberties Union and Its Impact on Your Family. 1989. Rpt. Franklin, Tenn.: Adroit Press, 1993: Ch. 8.
Harrison, Bob [Max Harrison][L. Block]. Naked New York. New York City: Paragon Associates, 1961.
P. Hoffman, Ch. 5.
W. Hoffman & Headley, Ch. 7.
E.J. Kahn. Fraud, Ch. 7, 12-14, 17.
Kwitny. The Mullendore Murder Case. 1974. Rpt. Mattituck, N.Y.: Amereon, 1990: Ch. 7.
Latzer, Ch. 3.
Lavergne, Gary M. Worse Than Death: The Dallas Nightclub Murders and the Texas Multiple Murder Law. Denton, Texas: U of North Texas P, 2003: Ch. 3.
McClintick, Indencent Exposure, Ch. 49.
D'A. O'Connor & M. O'Connor, Ch. 16.
Porrello. $uperthief, Ch. 3-4.
Powell, Richard. Say It With Bullets. 1953. Rpt. New York City: Hard Case Crime, 2006.
G.L. Posner, Killing the Dream, Ch. 17.
Preston, Douglas, and Mario Spezi. The Monster of Florence, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Grand Central, 2013: Ch. 18.
E. Reid & Demaris, Ch. 1.
G. Russo, Supermob, Ch. 12.
Teresa & Renner, Ch. 16.
D. Thomas, Ch. 19.
Tucker, William. Vigilante: The Backlash Against Crime in America. Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.: Stein and Day, 1985: Ch. 3.
Whiting, Tokyo Underworld, Ch. 4.
3. The Rat Pack
a. Frank
M.A. Collins, Bye Bye, Baby, Ch. 10.
Gennari. Flavor and Soul: Italian America at Its African American Edge. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2017: Ch. 1.
G. Jacobs & Stadiem, Ch. 5-6.
J. Kaplan, Sinatra, Ch. 13-20.
A. Summers & Swan, Sinatra: The Life, Ch. 26-27.
Taraborrelli, Sinatra, Ch. 21-23, 25-29.
Zehme, Bill. The Way You Wear Your Hat: Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin'. New York City: HarperCollins, 1997.
b. Dino
Schoell, Ch. 10, 12-15.
Tosches, Dino, Dino, Ch. 13.
c. S. Levy
i. Rat Pack Confidential: Frank, Dean, Sammy, Peter, Joey, and the Last Great Showbiz Party. New York City: Doubleday, 1998.
ii. The Rat Pack. Ed. Tony Nourmand. London: Reel Art Press, 2010.
d. Robert J. Randisi
i. Luck Be a Lady, Don’t Die: A Rat Pack Mystery. New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Minotaur, 2007.
ii. You’re Nobody ‘Til Somebody Kills You. New York City: Minotaur/Thomas Dunne, 2009.
e. Others
M.A. Collins, Bye Bye, Baby, Ch. 5, 11-12, 15.
Damone & Chanoff, Ch. 11.
S. Davis, J. Boyar & B. Boyar, Ch. 31-36.
Maier, Ch. 28.
Pietrusza, Ch. 22.
Schlatter & Macks, Ch. 5.
Sinatra & Holden, Ch. 5.
4. Arts and Entertainment
a. Music
(1) Pop
Bacharach & Greenfield, Ch. 6-8.
Chuck Berry, Ch. 13-14.
Boulard, Ch. 8.
E. Costello, Ch. 1, 14.
T. Fletcher, Ch. 10.
Harris, Larry, Curt Gooch, and Jeff Suhs. And Party Every Day: The Inside Story of Casablanca Records. New York City: Backbeat Books, 2009: Ch. 1.
Jackson, John A. A House on Fire: The Rise and Fall of Philadelphia Soul. New York City: Oxford UP, 2004: Ch. 2.
Leiber et al., Ch. 16-19, 24.
Lydon, Ch. 15-17.
Otash, Ch. 29.
Smith, Sid. In the Court of King Crimson. London: Helter Skelter Publishing, 2001: Ch. 1.
Templeman & Renoff, Ch. 3.
E. Ward, Vol. I, Ch. 12-14, 17.
(2) R&B
Chilton, Ch. 15.
R. Coleman, Ch. 13-15.
Cross, Ch. 7, 9.
Dance, Ch. 16.
De Visé, Ch. 11.
J. Evans & C. Brooks, Ch. 11.
Farley, Ch. 7-8.
R. Gordon, Ch. 11.
E. James & Ritz, Ch. 13-14.
Romano, Ch. 4.
M. Parker, Ch. 3.
G.L. Posner. Motown, Ch. 8-13.
Segrest & M. Hoffman, Ch. 10-11.
R.J. Smith, Ch. 7-10.
Wesley, Ch. 2-3.
Womack & Ashton, Ch. 4-7.
(3) Salsa
Morales, Ch. 3.
Padura Fuentes, Ch. 9.
Rondón, Ch. 2.
Salazar, Ch. 40, 43.
M. Shapiro, Ch. 3.
(4) Jazz
(a) Impulse! Records
A. Kahn, Ch. 2-3.
Thiele & Golden, Ch. 17.
(b) Other
Coryell, Ch. 5.
Flender, Harold. Paris Blues. 1957. Rpt. New York City: Manor Books, 1974.
Gavin, Deep in a Dream, Ch. 11.
Gennari, Blowin' Hot and Cool, Ch. 6.
Myers, Ch. 9.
Rosenthal, Ch. 9.
(5) The Crooners
(a) D. Evanier
(i) Jimmy Roselli, Ch. 5.
(ii) All the Things You Are, Ch. 6.
(b) Others
Anka & D. Dalton, Ch. 4.
Damone & Chanoff, Ch. 10.
Friedwald, Ch. 9-10.
J. Schwartz, Ch. 13.
(6) Other
Castro, Ch. 13-18.
T. Fox, Ch. 7.
J.A. Friedman, Ch. 5.
Frishberg, Ch. 3, 5.
Henderson & Foshko, Ch. 4.
Lanza, Elevator Music, Ch. 12.
Lemmy & Garza, Ch. 2.
T. White, Ch. 7-8.
b. Cinema
i. Hollywood
Biskind, Star, Ch. 2.
Cahn, Ch. 14.
Cantor, Paul A. Gilligan Unbound: Pop Culture in the Age of Globalization. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001: Pt. 1.
Corman & Jerome, Ch. 7-9.
D. Epstein & Marvin, Ch. 8.
Fuller, Fuller & Rudes, Ch. 38-41.
J. Garner & Winokur, Ch. 4.
Goldman, William. Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting, rev. ed. New York City: Warner Books, 1984: Ch. 3.
Kirsten, Tiki Pop, Ch. 35.
McDougal, Last Mogul, Ch. 24.
Newhart, Ch. 9.
M. Reynolds, Ch. 7.
ii. Italian
Brunetta, Ch. 4.
Hughes, Howard. Cinema Italiano: The Complete Guide From Classics to Cult. London: I.B. Tauris, 2011: Ch. 6-7, 11, 13.
iii. British
The James Bond Archives, 3rd rev. ed. Ed. Paul Duncan. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2021.
Caine, What's It All About?, Ch. 13.
iv. Other
Bordwell, David. Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment, rev. ed. Madison, Wis.: Irvington Way Institute Press, 2011: Ch. 6.
E.J. Epstein, Assume Nothing, 2023: Ch. 3.
A People Passing Rude, Ch. 21.
Vidal, Point to Point Navigation, Ch. 25.
c. Nightclubs
Blumenthal, Ch. 41-43.
Colby & Fitzpatrick, Ch. 3.
Considine, Toots, Ch. 8.
Gavin, Intimate Nights, Ch. 9.
Kirsten, Tiki Pop, Ch. 25.
d. The Comedians
i. Groucho Marx
Arce, Ch. 13.
A. Marx, Ch. 32-33.
ii. George Carlin
Sullivan, Ch. 3.
Zoglin, Ch. 2.
iii. Footlights
Cleese, Ch. 7.
Idle, Eric. Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography. New York City: Crown Archetype, 2018: Ch. 3-4.
iv. M. Brooks
M. Brooks, Ch. 8.
Parish, It’s Good to Be the King, Ch. 17, 20-21.
v. Others
Berle & H. Frankel, Ch. 26.
Cleese, Ch. 8-9.
Colby & Fitzpatrick, Ch. 5.
Dangerfield, Ch. 6-7.
M. Fleming, Pt. 1, Ch. 17.
A. Goldman & Schiller, Ch. 1, 9-11.
M. Hill, Ch. 3.
Nesteroff, Ch. 8, 10.
Newhart, Ch. 7, 11, 14.
Paar & Reddy, My Saber Is Bent, Ch. 13.
Joe Simon & Jim Simon, Ch. 27.
Zoglin, Ch. 3-4, 10.
e. The Theater
Edelman & Kupferberg, Ch. 14.
R. Klein, Ch. 10-11.
Klugman, Jack, and Burton Rocks. Tony and Me: A Story of Friendship. West Linn, Ore.: Good Hill Press, 2005: Ch. 3.
H. Lee, Ch. 6-7.
S. Levy. De Niro: A Life. New York City: Crown Archetype, 2014: Ch. 3.
Parish, It’s Good to Be the King, Ch. 19.
Perrin, Ch. 3.
Rodgers, Ch. 23-24.
f. Television
i. "The Tonight Show"
M. Brooks, Ch. 6.
Galanoy, Ch. 8-9, 11.
Leamer, King of the Night, Ch. 9-10.
McMahon, Ch. 7-11, 24.
Paar & Reddy, My Saber Is Bent, Ch. 1-3, 11-12, 16, 22, 28.
ii. Other
S. Allen, Hi-Ho, Steverino!, Ch. 16.
D. Kamp. Sunny Days: The Children's Television Revolution That Changed America. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2020: Ch. 1, 3-4.
Kupcinet, Ch. 11.
Paar & Reddy, My Saber Is Bent, Ch. 8, 10, 15.
Rader, Ch. 8-9.
S.B. Smith, In All His Glory, Ch. 41.
C.P. Wilson, Ch. 2.
g. Decorative Arts
C. Fiell & P. Fiell, Modern Furniture Classics, Ch. 3.
Rense, Paige. Architectural Digest: Autobiography of a Magazine 1920-2010. New York City: Rizzoli, 2018: Ch. 2.
h. Visual Arts
P. Garner, Ch. 3.
Gautrand, Robert Doisneau, Ch. 4.
Paglia, Camille. Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art From Egypt to Star Wars. New York City: Pantheon Books, 2012: Ch. 25.
Joe Simon & Jim Simon, Ch. 28.
Tavera, Maria Cristina, Bobbette Axelrod, and Ted Frankel. Mexican Pulp Art. Los Angeles: Feral House, 2007.
i. Cuisine
M. Brooks, Ch. 7.
Child & Prud'homme, Ch. 7.
D. Kamp, The United States of Arugula, Ch. 5-6.
j. Freedomland U.S.A.
McLaughlin, Robert. Images of Modern America: Freedomland 1960-1964. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2015.
McLaughlin, and Frank R. Adamo. Images of America: Freedomland. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2010.
k. Radio
Bain, Murder, HE Wrote, Ch. 15.
Earl, Ch. 2.
Fong-Torres, Ch. 7, 11, 14.
Lanza, Elevator Music, Ch. 11.
Settel, Pt. 6.
Rick Sklar, Ch. 9-11, 19.
Walker, Ch. 8.
l. Polynesiana
Kirsten, Tiki Modern, Ch. 15.
Tadey, Ch. 5.
m. Comic Books
Fingeroth, Ch. 1, 7-10.
Tye, Larry. Superman: The High-Flying History of America’s Most Enduring Hero. New York City: Random House, 2012: Ch. 7.
n. Fashion
Cassini, Ch. 13.
60s Fashion: Vintage Fashion and Beauty Ads. Ed. Heimann. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2007.
o. S. Levy
i. Last Playboy, Ch. 16.
ii. Dolce Vita Confidential, Ch. 27.
p. Other
Joey Adams, Ch. 2, 19.
J. Bacon, Ch. 2.
L. Block, A Writer Prepares, Ch. 12, 14-15, 17-19.
Caine, What's It All About?, Ch. 12.
Cashill. Sucker Punch: The Hard Left Hook That Dazed Ali and Killed King's Dream. Nashville, Tenn.: Nelson Current, 2006: Pt. 1.
M.A. Collins, Bye Bye, Baby, Ch. 4.
Denson, Charles. Images of America: Coney Island's Wonder Wheel Park. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2020: Ch. 3.
D. Evanier, Roman Candle, Ch. 8-10.
Garner, Philippe. Sixties Design. Cologne, Germany: Benedikt Taschen, 1994: Ch. 1-2, 4-5.
Gavin, Stormy Weather, Ch. 14.
Gottlieb, Ch. 16.
Greene, Eric. Planet of the Apes as American Myth: Race, Politics, and Popular Culture, rev ed. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan UP, 1998: Ch. 1.
Grippo & Hoskins, Ch. 5.
D. Hope, Ch. 9.
Houseman, Ch. 26.
Hoyt, Ch. 30.
B.J. Jones, Ch. 2-5.
Korda, Ch. 10-15.
Kostelanetz, Ch. 6, 26, 36.
Lennon, Ch. 8.
S. Levy. The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont. New York City: Doubleday, 2019: Pt. 4.
L.S. Marcus, Ch. 6.
McMahon, Ch. 20.
B. Miles, Ch. 10.
Moldea, Dark Victory, Ch. 21-23, 25-26.
E.P. Nash & R.C. Robinson, Ch. 8.
Paar & Reddy, My Saber Is Bent, Ch. 18-19.
A People Passing Rude, Ch. 20.
G. Russo, The Outfit, Ch. 20.
G. Russo, Supermob, Ch. 14.
Schlatter & Macks, Ch. 2.
Server, Ch. 13.
Talese, Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Ch. 24.
Tormé, Ch. 25.
Tuccille, Dillerland, Ch. 5.
Tucker, Jeffrey. Bourbon for Breakfast: Living Outside the Statist Quo. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2010: Ch. 46.
Vidal, Gore [Eugene Luther Vidal Jr.]. Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir, 1964-2006. New York City: Doubleday, 2006: Ch. 9.
E. Wilson, Ch. 21.
Sunnie Wilson & Cohassey, Ch. 8.
G. Wright, Ch. 6.
5. Las Vegas
Denton & R. Morris, Ch. 11-12.
A. King & Chase, Ch. 9.
J.L. Smith, Ch. 22.
6. The Republican Party
a. Nixon
Ehrlichman, Ch. 2.
Nixon, Ch. 2.
R.J. Stone & Colapietro, Nixon’s Secrets, Ch. 7-8.
Summers & Swan, The Arrogance of Power, Ch. 19-21, 23.
E. Thomas, Being Nixon, Ch. 8-9.
b. Others
Brennan, Ch. 3-5.
Chamish, Ch. 2.
Kelley, Ch. 12.
J. Mann, Ch. 1.
7. The Conservative Ferment
a. W.F. Buckley

a. Getting It Right, Ch. 13-14, 16-34.
b. The Reagan I Knew. New York City: Basic Books, 2008: Ch. 1.
b. Goldwater
Goldwater Sr., Why Not Victory?, Ch. 10-13.
McDowell, Ch. 11.
Shadegg, Ch. 4-7.
c. The Religious Right
W. Martin, Ch. 3.
McVicar, Michael J. Christian Reconstruction: R.J. Rushdoony and American Religious Conservatism. Chapel Hill, N.C. U of North Carolina P, 2015: Ch. 3.
d. Others
Colacello, Ch. 13.
L. Edwards. The Power of Ideas: The Heritage Foundation at 25 Years. Ottawa, Ill.: Jameson Books, 1997: Ch. 8.
M.S. Evans, Revolt on the Campus, Ch. 6, 10.
Farr, Finis. Fair Enough: The Life of Westbrook Pegler. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House Publishers, 1975: Ch. 7.
Gottfried, Conservative Movement, Ch. 2.
Hamilton, Ch. 7.
J. Mann, Ch. 2.
Pauken, Thomas W. The Thirty Years War: The Politics of the Sxities Generation. Ottawa, Ill.: Jameson Books, 1995: Ch. 4-5.
F. Schwarz, Ch. 1, 19-26, 28-30.
Tower, U.S. Sen. John G., R-Texas. A Program for Conservatives. New York City: McFadden-Bartell Corp., 1962.
Viguerie and Franke, Ch. 7.
R. Welch. "The Truth in Time." American Opinion Nov. 1966. Rpt. The New American. 17 Aug. 1987: 25-33.
8. Periodicals
a. Magazines
Schelly, Ch. 22.
Smiling Through the Apocalypse: Esquire’s History of the Sixties. Ed. Harold Hayes. 1969. Rpt. New York City: Crown Publishers, 1987.
Watts, Ch. 9-10.
M.-L. Weisman & Jaffee, Ch. 7.
Yagoda, About Town, Ch. 6.
b. Newspapers
i. Washington, D.C.
(1) Carl Bernstein
Bernstein, Chasing History, Ch. 11-19.
Havill, Ch. 4.
(2) Other
D. Davis, Ch. 1, 11-12.
ii. Chicago
Ciccone, Ch. 5.
Michaeli, Ch. 18.
Novak, Ch. 10-11.
iii. Elsewhere
E. Buchanan, Corpse Had a Familiar Face, Ch. 3-4.
E.J. Kahn, Jock, Ch. 16.
McKeen, Ch. 5-6.
Paar & Reddy, My Saber Is Bent, Ch.9.
c. Comic Books
i. General

G. Jones, Ch. 14.
ii. Marvel
B. Bell, Ch. 4-5.
S. Lee & Mair, Ch. 9-13.
Thomas, Roy. The Marvel Age of Comics, 1961-78. Ed. Josh Baker. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2017: Ch. 1.
Jeffrey Tucker, Ch. 66.
9. Los Angeles
Ellroy, My Dark Places, Ch. 12-13.
S.H. Kaplan, Ch. 8.
Lurie, Allison. The Nowhere City. 1965. Rpt. New York City: Henry Holt & Co., 1997.
Martin, Steve. Born Standing Up: A Comic’s Life. New York City: Scribner, 2007.
10. The Red Menace
a. The Obamas
i. Cashill
(1) "You Lie!": The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama. New York City: Broadside Books, 2014: Ch. 3.
(2) Unmasking Obama: The Fight to Tell the True Story of a Failed Presidency. New York City: Post Hill Press, 2020.
ii. Others
Brown, Floyd, and Lee Troxler. Obama Unmasked: Did Slick Hollywood Handlers Create the Perfect Candidate? Bellevue, Wash.: Merril Press, 2008: Ch. 1.
Corsi, Where's the Birth Certificate?, Ch. 7-8.
Jeffries, Hidden History, Ch. 11.
Maraniss, Ch. 7-8.
Sailer, Ch. 2.
b. The Soviet Union
i. The KGB
(1) Andrew et al.
Andrew & Gordievsky, Ch. 12.
Andrew & Mitrokhin, Ch. 12.
(2) Others
J.D. Atkinson, Ch. 11.
J. Costello, Ch. 21.
Perry, Ch. 23.
G.L. Posner, Case Closed, Ch. 3.
Trento, Ch. 31, 33.
Wyden, Ch. 10.
ii. The Gulags
Bukovsky, Ch. 5-6.
Solzhenitsyn, Gulag Archipelago, Vol. III, Pt. 7, Ch. 3.
iii. Other
J.D. Atkinson, Ch. 10.
Avtorkhanov, Ch. 8.
Considine, Larger Than Life, Ch. 18-19.
D.J. Flynn, Ch. 6. 13.
G.L. Posner, Case Closed, Ch. 4.
Rosenbaum, How the End Begins, Ch. 6.
Vaksberg, Arkady. The Soviet Mafia. Trans. John Roberts and Elizabeth Roberts. London: Weindenfeld and Nicolson, 1991: Ch. 2.
Zubok & Pleshakov, Ch. 8.
c. The Berlin Wall
W.F. Buckley. The Fall of the Berlin Wall. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2004: Ch. 1-3.
Ellsberg, Ch. 10.
Paar & Reddy, My Saber Is Bent, Ch. 27.
Wyden, Ch. 1, 3, 11-12, 14-15, 20, 25, 27, 61, 65.
d. Latin America
Latell, Ch. 1, 4.
Ray, Philip A. South Wind Red: Our Hemispheric Crisis. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1962: Ch. 1, 3-9.
Rufo, Ch. 10.
Whelan, James R. Out of the Ashes: Life, Death and Transfiguration of Democracy in Chile, 1833-1988. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1989: Ch. 4.
e. Oswald
D. Russell, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Ch. 13-15.
Savodnik, Ch. 9-11.
f. Waldron et al.
Waldron, Ch. 6.
Waldron & Hartmann. Ultimate Sacrifice, Ch. 17, 40.
g. Other
Albright & Kunstel, Ch. 27.
Bacevich, Twilight of the American Century, Ch. 14, 16.
Blum, The Spy Who Knew Too Much, Ch. 18.
Bundy, Ch. 1.
Burrough, Days of Rage, Ch. 17.
Chaubin, Ch. 3.
Chen, Ch. 14.
M.A. Collins, Bye Bye, Baby, Ch. 22.
Dewart, Ch. 10.
Dies, Ch. 18.
Dinsmore, Ch. 6.
Dracos, Ted. Ungodly: The Passions, Torments and Murder of Atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair. New York City: Free Press, 2003: Ch. 3-6.
M.S. Evans, Liberal Establishment, Pt. 3, Ch. 3.
Finder, Ch. 13.
W.J. Gill, Ch. 17, 19.
Gottfried, Encounters, Ch. 3.
G.E. Griffin, Ch. 1-6.
Higgins, Ch. 8, 13.
Knight, Ch. 3.
Larabee, Ann. The Wrong Hands: Popular Weapons Manuals and Their Historic Challenges to a Democratic Society. New York City: Oxford UP, 2015: Ch. 3.
O'Neill & Piepenbring, Ch. 7.
Pacepa & Rychlak, Ch. 19-22.
A. Parry, Ch. 25.
Perry, Ch. 22.
G.L. Posner, Case Closed, Ch. 5-7.
Reiterman & J. Jacobs, Ch. 8-13.
Siegel, The Revolt Against the Masses, Ch. 9.
Stang, It's Very Simple, Ch. 11-12, 14, 16-18.
C. Sterling, Terror Network, Ch. 1, 5, 8, 11-12.
Vladimirov, Pt. 2.
Vargas Llosa, The Bad Girl, Ch. 2.
Weyl, Traitors’ End, Ch. 8-12.
Wyden, Ch. 7, 13, 29.
11. The Business World
a. The Computer Industry

Ceruzzi, Ch. 5.
Freiberger, Paul, and Michael Swaine. Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer, rev. ed. New York City: McGraw-Hill, 1999: Ch. 7.
Markoff, Ch. 4, 6.
Segaller, Ch. 2.
b. Finance
J. Brooks, Business Adventures, Ch. 1.
Chernow, Ch. 29.
Cohan, The Last Tycoons, Ch. 5.
Elias, Ch. 6.
Herzog, Ch. 2, 4.
Mahar, Maggie. Bull!: A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004. New York City: HarperBusiness, 2003: Ch. 3.
Paar & Reddy. My Saber Is Bent, Ch. 4.
Schweikart, Larry, and Lynne Pierson Doti. American Entrepreneur: The Fascinating Story of the People Who Defined Business in the United States, rev. ed. New York City: AMACOM, 2010: Ch. 11.
R.C. Smith, Ch. 8.
Sterngold, James. Burning Down the House: How Green, Deceit, and Bitter Revenge Destroyed E.F. Hutton. New York City: Summit Books, 1990: Ch. 3.
c. Transportation
Lamm & Holls, Ch. 12.
Stadiem, Jet Set, Ch. 13.
Vuic, Ch. 2.
d. Food
i. Grocers
Ruhlman, Ch. 1.
W.I. Walsh, Ch. 7.
ii. Fast Food
Hogan, Ch. 6.
Ozersky, Colonel Sanders and the American Dream, Ch. 3.
e. Advertising
i. Heimann
(1) The Golden Age of Advertising -- the 60s. Ed. Heimann. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2002.
(2) Mid-Century Ads: Advertising From the Mad Men Era, Vol. II: The Sixties. Ed. Heimann. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2012.
ii. Others
T. Frank, Ch. 4, 8.
Pincas, Stéphane, and Marc Loiseau. A History of Advertising. 2006. Rpt. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2008: Ch. 4.
f. Other
G. Allen, Rockefeller File, Ch. 3.
J. Brooks, Business Adventures, Ch. 11.
Bruck. Master of the Game: Steve Ross and the Creation of Time Warner. 1994. Rpt. New York City: Penguin Books, 1995: Ch. 2.
Byron, Testosterone Inc., Ch. 4.
Demaris, The Boardwalk Jungle, Ch. 23.
E.J. Epstein, Annals of Unsolved Crime, Ch. 11.
Robert Evans, Ch. 11.
Hawley, Cameron. Executive Suite. 1952. Rpt. New York City: Open Road Integrated Media, 2015.
E.J. Kahn, The Problem Solvers, Ch. 10.
Lanza, Elevator Music, Ch. 10.
McClintick, Indencent Exposure, Ch. 12.
Montville, Ch. 6.
Persico, Ch. 9.
G.L. Posner, Pharma, Ch. 16-20.
Pringle & Spigelman, Ch. 16.
S.B. Smith, In All His Glory, Ch. 40, 42-43, 45-46.
Starbuck, Dane. The Goodriches: An American Family. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2001: Ch. 21.
Steinberg, Ted. American Green: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Lawn. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2006: Ch. 4.
W. Webb, Vol. II, Ch. 13.
12. The Negroes
a. The Black Muslims
Lincoln, C. Eric. Black Muslims in America, 2nd rev. ed. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans/Africa World Press, 1994: Ch. 1-2, 5, 8.
Malcolm X, Ch. 16.
Stang, It's Very Simple, Ch. 6.
b. Other
E. Abbott, Ch. 5.
Baraka, The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones, Ch. 7.
Baram, Ch. 4.
Caldwell, The Age of Entitlement, Ch. 2.
Cummings, Ch. 17, 27.
B. Hersh, Bobby and J. Edgar, Ch. 16.
Himes, Chester. Pinktoes. 1961. Rpt. London: Allison & Busby, 1997.
Lasch-Quinn, Elisabeth. Race Experts: How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training, and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2001: Ch. 1.
Maren, Ch. 2.
Masotti, Louis H., and Jerome R. Corsi. Shoot-Out in Cleveland: Black Militants and the Police: A Report to the National Commission on the Causes and Prevention of Violence. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1969: Ch. 1.
Pappas, Ch. 8.
R. Parker & Rashke, Ch. 14.
Rufo, Christopher F. America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything. New York City: Broadside Books, 2023: Ch. 14.
Sallis, Ch. 16.
Stang, It's Very Simple, Ch. 7.
R.F. Williams, Ch. 1, 4-7.
13. Latin America
a. The Dominican Republic
Espaillat, Ch. 2.
Vargas Llosa. The Feast of the Goat. 2000. Trans. Edith Grossman. New York City : Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2001.
b. Elsewhere
Ehrenfeld, Rachel. Funding Evil: How Terrorism Is Financed – and How to Stop It, 2nd rev. ed. New Rochelle, N.Y.: MultiEducator, 2011: Ch. 5.
J.B. Smith, Ch. 19-20.
Vidich, Ch. 11.
14. East Asia
a. Japan
C. Johnson, MITI and the Japanese Miracle, Ch. 1.
"Mishima, Yukio" [Kimitake Hiraoka]. The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With the Sea. 1963. Trans. John Nathan. 1965. Rpt. London: Vintage Books, 2006.
Whiting. Tokyo Junkie: 60 Years of Bright Lights and Back Alleys ... and Baseball. Berkeley, Calif.: Stone Bridge Press, 2021.
b. Other
Joey Adams, Ch. 7-13.
Paar & Reddy, My Saber Is Bent, Ch. 20-21.
G.L. Posner. Warlords of Crime: Chinese Secret Societies – The New Mafia. 1988. Rpt. Penguin Books, 1990: Ch. 11.
Samethini, Frank. The Sky Looked Down: A Memoir of the Burma Railway. Bondi Beach, N.S.W.: Frank Samethini, 1992: Ch. 24-27.
15. Western Asia
a. Israel
i. Melman & Raviv
(1) Behind the Uprising, Ch. 6.
(2) Every Spy an Prince, Ch. 7, 9.
ii. Other
Bergman, Ch. 5.
I. Black & B. Morris, Ch. 7.
F. Burton & Bruning, Ch. 7.
S. Green, Taking Sides, Ch. 8.
S.M. Hersh, Samson Option, Ch. 10.
B. Morris. The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge UP, 2004: Ch. 3-10.
Paar & Reddy, My Saber Is Bent, Ch. 26.
Shlaim, Ch. 6.
Steven, Ch. 10-16.
b. Iran
Heikal, Ch. 7.
Jerome, Carole. The Man in the Mirror. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1987: Pt. 2, Ch. 7.
c. Other
James Adams, The Financing of Terror, Ch. 2.
Burr & R.O. Collins, Ch. 4-5.
Hiro, Dilip. Cold War in the Islamic World: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Struggle for Supremacy. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford UP, 2018: Ch. 3.
Mackey, Sandra. The Saudis: Inside the Desert Kingdom, rev. ed. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2002: Ch. 12.
Musharraf, Ch. 6.
Perlmutter, Handel & Bar-Joseph, Ch. 3, 5.
S. Seagrave, Yellow Rain, Ch. 6.
Trifkovic, Serge. The Sword of the Prophet: Islam: History, Theology, Impact on the World. Boston: Regina Orthodox Press, 2002: Ch. 5-6.
16. The British Commonwealth
a. The Caribbean
Hercules, Frank. Where the Hummingbird Flies. New York City: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1961.
Naipaul, V.S. The Middle Passage: The Carribbean Revisited, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 2002: Ch. 2-3, 6.
b. Africa
Hanley, Gerald. Gilligan’s Last Elephant. 1962. Rpt. London: Mayflower, 1970.
I. Smith, Ch. 5-6.
c. Other
Joey Adams, Ch. 14-17.
E. Costello, Ch. 7.
C. James. Falling Toward England. 1985: Ch. 1-8. Rpt. Always Unreliable, 169-246.
P.C. Newman, Vol. III, Ch. 16.
17. Western Europe
Caldwell, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Ch. 1.
Dodge. Carambola: A Novel of Pursuit. 1961. Rpt. Eugene, Ore.: Bruin Books, 2016.
Houellebecq, Michel [Michel Thomas]. The Elementary Particles. 1998. Trans. Frank Wynne. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000: Pt. 1, Ch. 7.
D. Preston & Spezi, Ch. 8.
Theodoracopulos, Taki. The Greek Upheaval: Kings, Demogogues and Bayonets. London: Stacey International, 1976: Ch. 7-8.
Tuccille, Heretic, Ch. 15, 17, 19.
18. The Rest of the World
Joey Adams, Ch. 3-6, 20-23.
W.A. Anderson & Dynes, Ch. 1, 4-6, Appendix A-B.
Del Boca & Giovana, Ch. 19.
Horne, Ch. 21-25.
I. Johnson, Ch. 12.
Labévière, Ch. 13.
"Lacy." South Pacific Affair. 1961. Rpt. Chicago: Phocion Publishing, 2019.
Kasarda & Lindsay, Ch. 6.
Kusche, Ch. 37-41.
Naipaul, Ch. 1, 4-5.
Paar & Reddy, My Saber Is Bent, Ch. 22-25.
M. Reynolds, Ch. 9.
Rothbard, Never a Dull Moment, Ch. 28.
Schuyler, Ch. 1, 15-24.
H.R. Simpson, Ch. 5-7.
Viorst, Milton. In the Shadow of the Prophet: The Struggle for the Soul of Islam. 1998. Rpt.: Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 2001: Ch. 9.
19. Bob Woodward and C. Bernstein
Havill, Ch. 3.
Shepard, Alicia. Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley and Sons, 2007: Ch. 1.
20. Greater New York City
a. Donald Trump
Talese, The Bridge, Ch. 4-8.
Leamer. The President's Butler. Washington, D.C.: Foggy Bottom Books, 2016: Ch. 20.
Tuccille, Trump, Ch. 8.
b. Others
Byron, Martha Inc., Ch. 2.
Clay, Andrew “Dice” [Andrew Silverstein], and Ritz. The Filthy Truth. New York City: Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 2014.
“Emerson, Jill” [L. Block]. A Week As Andrea Benstock, rev. ed. New York City: Open Road Integrated Media, 2010.
Flaherty, Joe. Managing Mailer. 1970. Rpt. New York City: Berkley Publishing, 1971.
R. Klein, Ch. 8-9.
Hettie Jones, Ch. 12-20.
Lowenstein, Steven M. Frankfurt on the Hudson: The German-Jewish Community of Washington Heights, 1933-1983, Its Structure and Culture. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1989: Ch. 10.
Maas, Peter. Father and Son. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1989: Ch. 3.
Oppenheimer. Seinfeld: The Making of an American Icon. New York City: HarperCollins, 2002: Ch. 7-9.
Osman, Ch. 5.
Scott-Heron, Gil. The Last Holiday: A Memoir. New York City: Grove Press, 2012: Ch. 10-13.
Tuccille, Heretic, Ch. 29-30, 32-33.
Wallant, Edward Lewis. The Pawnbroker. New York City: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1961.
Zabar, Ch. 7.
21. The Mercenaries
Hoare, Mike. The Road to Kalamata: A Congo Mercenary's Personal Memoir, rev. ed. Boulder, Colo.: Paladin Press, 2008.
Mockler, Anthony. The Mercenaries. 1969. Rpt. Sugarland, Texas: Free Companion Press, 1981: Ch. 7-8.
22. The Clergy
a. The Roman Catholic Church
i. P. Johnson
(1) Pope John XXIII, Ch. 10.
(2) Pope John Paul II and the Catholic Restoration. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 1981: Ch. 2.
ii. Other
Catholicism and Politics in Communist Societies, Ch. 14.
Martin, Malachi. The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church. New York City: Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, 1987: Ch. 11, 16.
b. The Protestants
Murch, James DeForest. Christians Only: A History of the Restoration Movement. 1962. Rpt. Eugene, Ore.: Wipf and Stock, 2004: Ch. 23.
Singer, C. Gregg. The Unholy Alliance: The Definitive History of the National Council of Churches and Its Leftist Policies — From 1908 to the Present. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1975: Ch. 7.
23. The Jews
Fuchs, Lawrence H. Beyond Patriarchy: Jewish Fathers and Families. Hanover, N.H.: Brandeis UP, 2000: Ch. 11.
Sanua, Ch. 4.
24. TV News
Brinkley, Ch. 15-16.
Donaldson, Sam. Hold on, Mr. President!, rev. ed. New York City: Fawcett Crest, 1988: Ch. 3.
Reasoner, Ch. 4, 6-7.
25. Ellroy
a. The Underworld U.S.A. Trilogy
i. American Tabloid, Ch. 42, 48-51, 55-57, 60, 62, 64, 66, 68, 71, 73-75, 77, 79-81, 83, 85-87, 90-91, 93-94.
ii. Cold Six Thousand, Ch. 14-41.
b. My Dark Places, Ch. 9, 14.
26. E. Buchanan
a. Corpse Had a Familiar Face, Ch. 12.
b. Never Let Them See You Cry, Ch. 6.
27. Mailer
Lennon, Ch. 7.
Mailer. The Presidential Papers, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Berkley Publishing Corp., 1976.
Manso, Mailer, Ch. 8.
28. Ken Kesey
Kesey, Ken. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. New York City: Viking Press, 1962.
Stevens, Ch. 18.
29. Alinsky
Horwitt, Ch. 23.
Von Hoffman, Radical, Ch. 6, 13.
30. Oates
a. Will You Always Love Me?, Pt. 3.
b. A Widow’s Story: A Memoir. New York City: Ecco, 2011: Ch. 74.
31. Paar
a. My Saber Is Bent, Ch. 14, 17.
b. Three on a Toothbrush. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1965.
32. P. Roth
B. Bailey, Ch. 17-20.
P. Roth, American Pastoral, Ch. 4.
33. Updike
Updike, Villages, Ch. 8.
Begley, Ch. 5.
Fromer, Ch. 5.
34. E.M. Jones
a. Libido Dominandi, Pt. 3, Ch. 9.
b. The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit, Ch. 25-26.
35. Adam Gorightly
a. The Prankster and the Conspiracy, Ch. 3.
b. Caught in the Crossfire, Ch. 2-3.
36. Kessler
a. The Richest Man in the World, Ch. 12.
b. The Spy in the Russian Club: How Glenn Souther Stole America's Nuclear War Plans and Escaped to Moscow. New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990: Ch. 2-3.
37. Other
Baer, Ch. 2.
Baker, Sgt. John R., and Stephen J. Rivele. Vice: One Cop’s Story of Patrolling America’s Most Dangerous City. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 2011: Ch. 2.
R. Baker, Ch. 4, 8.
F.L. Bailey, and John Greenya. For the Defense. New York City: Atheneum, 1975.
Bamford, James. A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America’s Intelligence Agencies, rev. ed. New York City: Anchor Books, 2005: Ch. 11.
Bennett, Ch. 6.
Brewton, Ch. 20.
Byron, Testosterone Inc., Ch. 8.
Caldwell, The Age of Entitlement, Ch. 3, 6.
Carlson, Allan. The New Agrarian Mind: The Movement Toward Decentralist Thought in Twentieth-Century America. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2000: Ch. 8.
H. Carr, Ch. 4.
Coogan, Ch. 53-55.
A.S. Cooper, Ch. 7.
Coryell, Ch. 4.
Cronkite & Carleton, Ch. 15, 21-22.
Cramer, Ch. 24, 27.
Cross, Ch. 8.
Daugherty, Ch. 13-14.
Eddy, Ch. 4.
Edison, Mike. You Are a Complete Disappointment: A Triumphant Memoir of Failed Expectations. New York City: Sterling, 2016: Ch. 14.
Eisler, Revenge of the Pequots, Ch. 3.
"Eisner, Simon" [Cyril M. Kornbluth]. The Naked Storm. New York City: Lion, 1952.
Eliot, Ch. 12.
M.S. Evans & M. Moore, Pt. 2.
Robert Evans, Ch. 10.
T. Ferris, Ch. 8.
Fischl & M. Stone, Ch. 3.
Fleisher, David, and David Freedman. Death of an American: The Killing of John Singer. New York City: Continuum, 1983: Ch. 3.
L. Gordon & B. Singer, Ch. 11.
Hack, Ch. 15.
Haas, Ch. 11-13.
S.M. Hersh, Reporter, Ch. 4.
C. James. Fame in the 20th Century, Ch. 6.
E. James & Ritz, Ch. 15, 17.
Kupcinet, Ch. 1, 7-9.
R.W. Lee, Ch. 13, 16, 18, 20.
Liddy, Ch. 11.
Lilienthal, Ch. 3-4.
R. Lindsey, Ch. 3.
Maxwell, William. Later Novels and Stories. Ed. Carduff. New York City: Library of America, 2008.
McCorduck, Ch. 4, 27.
McDougal, Last Mogul, Ch. 22-23.
McIver, Joel. To Live Is to Die: The Life and Death of Metallica's Cliff Burton, 2nd rev. ed. London: Jawbone Press, 2023: Ch. 1.
McLeod, Ch. 5.
Meckler, Ch. 5, 10-11.
Moldea, Dark Victory, Ch. 28.
G.H. Nash, Ch. 11.
Odishelidze & Laffer, Ch. 3.
Oppenheimer, Crazy Rich, Ch. 19.
Painter, Ch. 9.
Patterson. The Dread Disease: Cancer and Modern American Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1987: Ch. 9.
Pinkerton, Ch. 7.
Polly, Ch. 6-7.
Pynchon, Thomas. Slow Learner: Early Stories. Boston: Little, Brown, 1984.
Renoff. Van Halen Rising: How a Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal. Toronto: ECW Press, 2015: Ch. 1.
Rose, Matthew. A World After Liberalism: Philosophers of the Radical Right. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2021: Ch. 4.
R. Russo, The Outfit, Ch. 14.
Sale, Ch. 1-2, 4.
J. Schwartz, Ch. 14.
O. Scott, Ch. 15.
Shaffer & Ritz, Ch. 9, 11.
Sharon & Chanoff, Ch. 13.
Shydner, Ritch. Kicking Through the Ashes: My Life As a Stand-Up in the 1980s Comedy Boom. St. Petersburg, Fla.: Mr. Media Books, 2016: Ch. 1.
Silverman, Ch. 5.
J. Stein, Ch. 12-14.
Stevens, Ch. 12-15.
Storms, Ch. 11.
Talese. The Overreachers. New York City: Harper & Row, 1965.
Teaford, Ch. 5.
Tosches, Power on Earth, Ch. 6.
Tuccille, Heretic, Ch. 1, 5, 10.
Vargas-Cooper, Ch. 9.
Willeford, Charles. Understudy for Death. 1961. Rpt. London: Hard Case Crime, 2018.
J.A. Williams, Ch. 26-27.
R. Yates, Ch. 1-6.
Zion, Ch. 9, 11.
Zuckerman, Gregory. The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History, rev ed. New York City: Crown Business, 2010: Ch. 1.

C. The Great Freakout

1. The Establishment
a. The 1964 Election

(1) Ronald Reagan
Cannon, Governor Reagan, Ch. 10.
M. Dallek, Ch. 4.
Nofziger, Ch. 2.
J. Taylor, Ch. 7.
(2) W.F. Buckley
(a) Tucker's Last Stand. New York City: Random House, 1990: Ch. 2-3, 5, 9, 13, 17, 28, 32, 35.
(b) Getting It Right, Ch. 37, 42-46.
(3) Rowland Evans & Novak
Rowland Evans & Novak, Ch. 20-21.
Novak, Ch. 12-14.
(4) Others
G. Allen, Richard Nixon, Ch. 8.
Cadava, Ch. 2.
Cummings, Ch. 31-33.
Dean & Goldwater, Ch. 9.
L. Edwards, Goldwater, Ch. 8-11, 13-17.
Edsall, Thomas Byrne, and Mary D. Edsall. Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics, rev. ed. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1992: Ch. 1-2.
Ellroy, Cold Six Thousand, Ch. 61.
M.S. Evans, Liberal Establishment, Pt. 1, Ch. 3; Pt. 2, Ch. 8.
Lasky, It Didn’t Start With Watergate, Ch. 13-14.
McDowell, Ch. 1-2, 12.
Mears, Ch. 2.
Middendorf, J. William II. A Glorious Disaster: Barry Goldwater's Presidential Campaign and the Origins of the Conservative Movement. New York City: Basic Books, 2006.
R. Parker & Rashke, Ch. 19.
Rogge, Benjamin. Can Capitalism Survive? Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1979: Pt. 9, Ch. 2.
Ryskind, Ch. 1, 21.
Shadegg, Ch. 8-26.
Shesol, Ch. 8.
Viguerie and Franke, Ch. 6.
b. The Great Society
i. Rowland Evans & Novak
Rowland Evans & Novak, Ch. 1, 16-19, 22-23, 25.
Novak, Ch. 15.
ii. Kessler
(1) Inside the White House: The Hidden Lives of the Modern Presidents and the Secrets of the World's Most Powerful Institution. New York City: Pocket Books, 1995: Ch. 1.
(2) In the President’s Secret Service, Ch. 3.
(3) First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents, rev. ed. New York City: Crown Forum, 2015: Ch. 14.
iii. P.F. Nelson
(1) LBJ, Ch. 10.
(2) Who Really Killed Martin Luther King Jr.?, Ch. 4-5.
iv. Rothbard
(1) "The Great Society: A Libertarian Critique." The Great Society Reader: The Failure of American Liberalism. Ed. Marvin E. Gettleman and David Mermelstein. New York City: Random House, 1967: 502-511.
(2) Never a Dull Moment, Ch. 18-19, 24.
v. Others
J. Anderson, Ch. 6.
Auster, Lawrence. The Path to National Suicide: An Essay on Immigration and Multiculturalism. Monterey, Calif.: The American Immigration Control Foundation, 1990: Ch. 1.
Brinkley, Ch. 19.
Caro, Lyndon Johnson, Vol IV, Ch. 16, 20-21, 23, 25-26.
Cummings, Ch. 35.
J. Dalton, Ch. 14-15.
Daugherty, Ch. 18.
Dickerson, Ch. 12, 14-16.
Edsall & Edsall, Ch. 3.
Findley, Ch. 1, 3-5, 10.
Glazer, Nathan. Affirmative Discrimination: Ethnic Inequality and Public Policy, rev. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1987.
Gordon, Tammy S. The Spirit of 1976: Commerce, Community, and the Politics of Commemoration. Amherst, Mass.: U of Massachusetts P, 2013: Ch. 1.
H.D. Graham. Collision Course: The Strange Convergence of Affirmative Action and Immigration Policy in America. New York City: Oxford UP, 2002: Ch. 1, 4-7.
Grant, Grand Illusions, Ch. 7.
Hanania, Ch. 1-3.
Hazlett, Ch. 11.
Hazlitt, Man vs. the Welfare State, Ch. 4, 6, 8, 11, 13-14.
Hayward, Stephen F. The Age of Reagan, Vol. I: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964-1980. 2001. Rpt. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2009: Ch. 3.
Holcombe, Randall G. From Liberty to Democracy: The Transformation of American Government. Ann Arbor, Mich.: U of Michigan P, 2002: Ch. 11.
Lasky, It Didn’t Start With Watergate, Ch. 15.
Lott, Ch. 15.
McClanahan, Ch. 7.
Moreno, Ch. 7.
R. Parker & Rashke, Ch. 20, 22-23.
Reasoner, Ch. 8.
Reedy, George E. The Twilight of the Presidency: From Johnson to Reagan, rev. ed. New York City: New American Library, 1987: Ch. 10.
The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, Ch. 7.
Ryskind, Ch. 25.
Schiebla, Ch. 2-21.
Sharkey, Joe. Bedlam: Greed, Profiteering, and Fraud in a Mental Health System Gone Crazy. New York City: Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's Press, 1994: Ch. 16.
Shesol, Ch. 6-7.
J.A. Smith, Ch. 7.
Stang, It's Very Simple, Ch. 15.
Troy, Ch. 3.
Twight, Charlotte A. Dependent on D.C.: The Rise of Federal Control Over the Lives of Ordinary Americans. New York City: Palgrave/St. Martin's Press/Cato Institute, 2002: Ch. 5.
United States. House. Budget Committee. Majority Staff. The War on Poverty: 50 Years Later. corr. ed. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 2014.
Wicker, Ch. 11.
c. The Vietnam War
(1) The Gulf of Tonkin Incident
Goulden, Ch. 1-2, 5-8.
Hastings, Vietnam, Ch. 9.
Logevall, Ch. 7.
(2) The Phoenix Program
(a) Prados
(i) The Hidden History of the Vietnam War, Ch. 21.
(ii) William Colby, Ch. 11-12.
(b) D. Valentine
(i) Phoenix Program, Ch. 4, 6-18, 24-25.
(ii) The CIA As Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World. Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2017: Ch. 3.
(c) Other
Shackley & Finney, Ch. 20.
K. Thomas & Keith, Ch. 5.
(3) The Tet Offensive
Donohue, John "Chick," and J.T. Malloy. The Greatest Beer Run Ever: A Memoir of Friendship, Loyalty, and War, rev. ed. New York City: William Morrow, 2020: Ch. 19-29.
Hastings, Vietnam, Ch. 18.
Oberdorfer, Don. Tet!: The Story of a Battle and Its Historic Aftermath. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1971.
(4) The My Lai Massacre
Bilton, Michael, and Kevin Sims. Four Hours in My Lai. 1992. Rpt. New York City: Penguin Books, 1993.
S.M. Hersh, Reporter, Ch. 5, 9-10.
Taylor, Telford. Nuremberg and Vietnam: An American Tragedy. 1970. Rpt. Clark, N.J.: Lawbook Exchange, 2010: Ch. 6.
(5) Prisoners of War
Anton, Frank, and Tommy Denton. Why Didn’t You Get Me Out?: A POW's Nightmare in Vietnam. 1997. Rpt. New York City: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2000: Ch. 3-10.
Benard, Cheryl et al. The Battle Behind the Wire: U.S. Prisoner and Detainee Operations From World War II to Iraq. Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND National Defense Research Institute, 2011: Ch. 4.
(6) Christian G. Appy
(a) Patriots, Pts. 1, 3-4.
(b) American Reckoning, Ch. 6-7.
(7) W.F. Buckley
(a) Tucker's Last Stand, Ch. 1, 6-8, 10, 12, 14-16, 18-27, 29-31, 33-34, 36-40.
(b) Getting It Right, Ch. 50.
(8) Tommy Franks
Franks, Gen. Tommy (ret.), and Malcolm McConnell. American Soldier. New York City: ReganBooks/HarperCollins Publishers, 2004: Ch. 3.
Bacevich, Twilight of the American Century, Ch. 12.
(9) Hackworth
(a) About Face, Ch. 14-18.
(b) Hazardous Duty: One of America's Most Decorated Soldiers Reports From the Front With the Truth About the U.S. Military Today. 1996. Rpt. New York City: Perennial, 2001: Ch. 5.
(c) Steel My Soldiers’ Hearts: The Hopeless to Harcore Transformation of U.S. Army, 4th Battalion, 39th Infantry, Vietnam. New York City: Rugged Land, 2002.
(10) Gustav Hasford
(a) The Short-Timers, rev. ed. New York City: Bantam Books, 1983.
(b) The Phantom Blooper. New York City: Bantam Books, 1990.
(11) Jacobsen
(a) The Pentagon’s Brain, Ch. 10-13.
(b) Surprise, Kill, Vanish, Ch. 12-14.
(12) Kwitny
(a) Endless Enemies, Ch. 21.
(b) Crimes of Patriots, Ch. 4.
(13) Mailer
(a) Why Are We in Vietnam?, rev. ed. New York City: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1977.
(b) The Armies of the Night: History as a Novel, the Novel as History. 1968. Rpt. Four Books of the 1960s. Ed. Lennon. New York City: Library of America, 2018: 359-650.
(14) Tim O'Brien
(a) If I Die in a Combat Zone, Box Me Up and Ship Me Home. 1973. Rpt. London: Fourth Estate, 2015.
(b) Going After Cacciato. New York City: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1978.
(c) The Things They Carried. 1990. Rpt. New York City: Broadway Books, 1998.
(d) July, July. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002: Ch. 2, 21.
(15) Prados
(a) The Hidden History of the Vietnam War, Ch. 6-20, 26.
(b) William Colby, Ch. 10.
(c) Vietnam, Ch. 4-7.
(16) D. Valentine
(a) TDY. Lincoln, Neb.: Authors Choice Press, 2000.
(b) Strength of the Wolf, Ch. 26.
(c) The CIA As Organized Crime, Ch. 5, 7, 10, 15, 18.
(17) Other
J. Anderson, Ch. 14.
Anton & Denton, Ch. 1-2.
R. Atkinson, Ch. 8-11.
Bacevich, Washington Rules, Ch. 3.
Baritz, Ch. 1, 4, 6-8.
Bergerud, Ch. 3-9.
L. Berman, Ch. 1, 5.
Bird, The Color of Truth, Ch. 12-14, 16.
Birtle, U.S. Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine, Ch. 8.
L. Block. The Scoreless Thai, rev. ed. Burton, Mich.: Subterranean Press, 2000.
Bosiljevac, Ch. 2-6.
Brinkley, Ch. 22.
Broder & Woodward, Ch. 4.
Caldwell, The Age of Entitlement, Ch. 4.
Chepesiuk, Sergeant Smack, Ch. 3-4.
M.A. Collins. Quarry’s Ex. London: Hard Case Crime, 2011: Ch. 2.
Coram, Ch. 15-16.
Corson, William R. The Betrayal. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1968.
Cortright, David. Soldiers in Revolt: GI Resistance During the Vietnam War. 1975. Rpt. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2005: Ch. 1-6.
Cronkite & Carleton, Ch. 17.
Cummings, Ch. 41, 43, 45.
DeYoung, Ch. 5.
Dickerson, Ch. 17.
DiEugenio, The JFK Assassination, Ch. 14.
Donohue & Molloy, Ch. 1-18, 30-36.
Eisler, Masters of the Game, Ch. 5.
Ellroy, Cold Six Thousand, Ch. 60, 62-63, 65-67, 69-70, 72, 83, 85-86, 104, 106.
M.S. Evans & M. Moore, Pt. 1, Ch. 6-7.
Rowland Evans & Novak, Ch. 24.
Ewell, Lt. Gen. Julian J., and Maj. Gen. Ira A. Hunt Jr. Sharpening the Combat Edge: The Use of Analysis to Reinforce Military Judgment. Washington, D.C.: United States. Dept. of the Army, 1974.
Falk, Richard. The United States and Torture, Ch. 5.
Garfield, Brian. The Last Bridge. 1966. Rpt. New York City: Dale Books, 1978.
Gawthorpe, Andrew J. To Build As Well As Destroy: American Nation Building in South Vietnam. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell UP, 2018: Ch. 2-4, 6.
Gebhart, John J. LBJ’s Hired Gun: A Marine Corps Helicopter’s Gunner’s War in Vietnam. Havertown, Pa.: Casemate Publishing, 2007.
Gentile, Ch. 3.
L. Gordon & B. Singer, Ch. 10.
Gup, Ch. 14.
Halberstam, Best and Brightest, Ch. 17, 21-27.
Haig & McCarry, Ch. 9-12.
Harmon, Mark D., and Catherine Luther. Found, Featured, Then Forgotten: U.S. Network TV News and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Knoxville, Tenn.: Newfound Press, 2011: Ch. 1-2, 8.
Hastings, Vietnam, Ch. 8, 10-17, 19-21.
Heinemann, Larry. Paco's Story. New York City: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1986.
Herr, Michael. Dispatches. 1977. Rpt. New York City: Vintage International, 1991.
Isaacson & E. Thomas, Ch. 22-23.
Janis, Ch. 5.
Kovic, Ch. 1, 7.
Krogh, Egil "Bud," and Matthew Krogh. Integrity: Good People, Bad Choices, and Life Lessons from the White House. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2007: Ch. 6.
Kuhn, David Paul. The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution. New York City: Oxford UP, 2020: Ch. 4, 8.
Lang, Daniel. Casualties of War 1970. Rpt. New York City: Pocket Books, 1989.
Larsen, Lt. Gen. Stanley Robert, and Brig. Gen. James Lawton Collins. Allied Participation in Vietnam. Washington, D.C.: United States. Department of the Army, 1975.
Leamer, Sons of Camelot, Ch. 7.
Lembcke, Jerry. The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam. New York City: New York UP, 1998: Ch. 1-2, 5-7, 10.
Logevall, Ch. 3-6, 8-12.
R. McGehee, Ch. 6, 8, 10.
J. McManus, Ch. 33-34.
Medsger, Ch. 2.
Melman, Ch. 6.
Moore, Lt. Gen. Harold G. (ret.), and Joseph L. Galloway. We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young: Ia Drang: the Battle That Changed the War in Vietnam. New York City: Random House, 1992. Rpt. Norwalk, Conn.: Easton Press, 2008.
Musheno, Michael C., and Susan M. Ross. Deployed: How Reservists Bear the Burden of Iraq. Ann Arbor, Mich.: The U of Michigan P, 2008: Ch. 1.
Nagle, William L. The Odd Angry Shot. 1975. Rpt. Melbourne, Vic.: The Text Publishing Co., 2013.
Neer, Ch. 8-12.
P.F. Nelson, LBJ, Ch. 7.
Odishelidze & Laffer, Ch. 17.
Pauken, Ch. 1-2, 6-9.
Perret, Commander in Chief, Ch. 16-21.
Regan, David J. Mourning Glory: The Making of a Marine. Greenwich, Conn.: The Devin-Adair Co., 1981.
The Real War: The Classic Reporting on the Vietnam War With a New Essay by Jonathan Schell. New York City: Pantheon Books, 1987.
Jon Roberts & E. Wright, Ch. 9-10.
Rothbard, Never a Dull Moment, Ch. 21, 29, 32, 37, 39-40, 42, 46.
Rovere, Richard H. Waist Deep in the Big Muddy: Personal Reflections on 1968. Boston: Atlantic Monthly Press/Little, Brown and Co., 1968.
Safer, Morley. Flashbacks: On Returning to Vietnam. 1990. Rpt. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 1991.
Sallah, Michael, and Mitchell Weiss. Tiger Force: A True Story of Men and War. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2006.
Shackley & Finney, Ch. 9-19, 21-22.
Scheips, Ch. 9.
Shesol, Ch. 10-11.
H.R. Simpson, Ch. 8.
G. Stone, Ch. 2-9.
Stone, Oliver [William Oliver Stone]. Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020: Ch. 2.
Summers Col. Harry G. Jr. On Strategy: A Critical Analysis of the Vietnam War, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Dell Publishing Co., 1984.
Sutton. Two Faces of George Bush. Dresden, N.Y.: Wiswell Ruffin House, 1988: Appendix A.
M. Sweet, Ch. 1-9.
T. Taylor, Ch. 5, 7-8.
Terry, Wallace. Bloods: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Black Veterans. New York City: Random House, 1984.
Threadgill, Henry, and Brent Hayes Edwards. Easily Slip Into Another World: A Life in Music. New York City: Alfred A.. Knopf, 2023: Ch. 3-4.
Torgoff, Can’t Find My Way Home, Ch. 6.
Trento, Ch. 43-45.
Turse. Kill Anything That Moves: The Real American War in Vietnam, rev. ed. New York City: Picador, 2014.
D.C. Unger, Ch. 6.
Vogel, Ch. 18.
Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Ch. 22-25.
Wiest, Andrew. Vietnam's Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN. New York City: New York UP, 2008: Ch. 2-7.
d. The 1968 Election
i. Nixon
(1) Greenspan
Sheehan, Ch. 3.
Tuccille, Alan Shrugged, Ch. 12.
(2) Other
G. Allen, Richard Nixon, Ch. 9-10.
Buchanan, Patrick J. The Greatest Comeback: How Richard Nixon Rose From Defeat to Create the New Majority. New York City: Crown Forum, 2014: Ch. 7-10, 12.
Cadava, Ch. 3.
Cronkite & Carleton, Ch. 20.
Dallek, Robert. Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007: Ch. 3.
Ehrlichman, Ch. 3, 5.
Fulsom, Ch. 1, 12-13.
D. Greenberg, Ch. 3-4.
Kessler, The Richest Man in the World, Ch. 7.
McGinniss, Joe. The Selling of the President 1968. New York City: Trident Press, 1969.
Mailer. Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968. 1968. Rpt. Four Books of the 1960s, 651-731.
Nichter, Luke A. The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2023: Ch. 3, 6.
Persico, Ch. 11.
Rothbard, Never a Dull Moment, Ch. 57.
R.J. Stone & Colapietro, Nixon’s Secrets, Ch. 10-11.
Summers & Swan, The Arrogance of Power, Ch. 22, 24.
E. Thomas, Being Nixon, Ch. 7.
Whalen, Richard J. Catch the Falling Flag: A Republican's Challenge to His Party. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1972: Pt. 1.
ii. Reagan
W.F. Buckley, The Reagan I Knew, Ch. 5.
Cannon, Governor Reagan, Ch.19.
Edsall & Edsall, Ch. 7.
iii. RFK
M.A. Collins. Too Many Bullets: A Nathan Heller Novel. London: Hard Case Crime, 2023.
J.H. Davis, The Kennedys, Ch. 60-61.
Leamer, Sons of Camelot, Ch. 8-9.
iv. The Chicago Democratic National Convention
P.J. Buchanan, Ch. 11.
Dickerson, Ch. 19.
Ellroy. Blood’s a Rover. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009: Ch. 20, 25.
Connor, Ch. 11.
Kuhn, The Hardhat Riot, Ch. 3.
Mailer, Miami and the Siege of Chicago, 732-868.
Nichter, Ch. 7.
Perlstein, Ch. 15.
Royko, Ch. 9.
v. Ellroy
(a) Cold Six Thousand, Ch. 117, 119.
(b) Blood’s a Rover, Ch. 49.
vi. Other
Barnes, Ben, and Lisa Dickey. Barn Burning Barn Building: Tales of a Political Life, From LBJ Through George W. Bush and Beyond. Albany, Texas: Bright Sky Press, 2006: Ch. 7-8.
Cramer, Ch. 54.
Cummings, Ch. 44, 46-47.
DeConde, Ch. 13.
Dickerson, Ch. 18.
Drosnin, Ch. 8-9.
Edsall & Edsall, Ch. 4.
W.J. Gill, Ch. 43.
Gillespie, Ch. 8.
S.M. Hersh, Reporter, Ch. 7.
Lasky, It Didn’t Start With Watergate, Ch. 16.
Mears, Ch. 3.
Michener, James A. Presidential Lottery: The Reckless Gamble in Our Electoral System. New York City: Random House, 1969: Ch. 1-2.
Nichter, Ch. 1-2, 4-5, 8-15.
Novak, Ch. 16-17.
Perlstein, Ch. 14, 16.
The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, Ch. 10.
Rothbard, Never a Dull Moment, Ch. 45, 49, 55, 58.
Shesol, Ch. 16-18.
R.N. Smith, Ch. 18.
Waldron & Hartmann, Legacy of Secrecy, Ch. 46, 54.
Wicker, Ch. 8-9.
e. The Bush Dynasty
Kelley, Ch. 13-16.
Minutaglio, Ch. 5-7.
R.J. Stone & St. J. Hunt, Ch. 2, 19-20, 28.
Sutton, Two Faces of George Bush, Ch. 5.
C. Unger, House of Bush, House of Saud, Ch. 7.
f. The Executive Police Agencies
i. The CIA
(1) The Capture of Che Guevara
Garwood, Ch. 5.
Rodriguez & J. Weisman, Ch. 9-12.
Veciana & C. Harrison, Ch. 8.
(2) James J. Angleton
Mangold, Ch. 13, 17.
J. Morley, The Ghost, Pt. 3.
(3) Other
Agee, Pt. 3-4.
J. Anderson, Ch. 15.
L. Block. Such Men Are Dangerous, rev. ed. New York City: Open Road Integrated Media, 2010.
Blum, The Spy Who Knew Too Much, Ch. 13-16.
Brewton, Ch. 14, 16.
Clarridge & Diehl, Ch. 6, 8.
P. Coleman, Ch. 14-15, Appendix E.
Dean, Ch. 10-14.
Devlin, Ch. 18-21.
Earley. Confessions of a Spy: The Real Story of Aldrich Ames. 1997. Rpt. New York City: Berkley Books, 1998: Ch. 3-4.
E.J. Epstein, Assume Nothing, 2023: Ch. 11.
Garwood, Ch. 13.
Gup, Ch. 8.
Hart, Ch. 4, 8-9.
S.M. Hersh, Samson Option, Ch. 11.
Jacobsen, Area 51, Ch. 16.
Kinzer, Poisoner in Chief, Ch. 12.
Maas, Manhunt, Ch. 4.
Mackenzie, Ch. 2.
Maier, Ch. 38.
Marchetti & Marks, Ch. 3.
Marrs. The Trillion-Dollar Conspiracy: How the New World Order, Man-Made Diseases, and Zombie Banks Are Destroying America. New York City: William Morrow, 2010: Pt. 3.
D.C. Martin, Ch. 8-9.
R. McGehee, Ch. 7, 9, 11.
Mendez, Antonio J., and McConnell. The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA. 1999. Rpt. New York City: HarperPerennial, 2000: Ch. 2-4.
Cord Meyer, Ch. 8.
J. Morley, Our Man in Mexico, Ch. 20-23.
O'Neill & Piepenbring, Ch. 6.
Prados, The Family Jewels, Ch. 3, 5, 10.
Cheri Seymour, Ch. 16.
Shackley & Finney, Ch. 8.
Trento, Ch. 36-41.
D. Valentine, The CIA As Organized Crime, Ch. 19.
Waldron & Hartmann, Legacy of Secrecy, Ch. 26, 35-36.
Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Ch. 26-28.
ii. The FBI
Ellroy, Blood’s a Rover, Ch. 3, 13, 16, 33, 38, 44, 56, 59.
Gentry, Ch. 31.
S. Harmon, Ch. 8, 14.
Kessler, The Bureau, Ch. 31-32.
H. Overstreet & B. Overstreet, Ch. 20.
Weiner, Enemies, Ch. 30-32.
iii. The Secret Service
Blaine & McCubbin, Ch. 19, 23.
Bolden, Ch. 7-15.
iv. The British
Faulks, Sebastian. Devil May Care. New York City: Doubleday, 2008.
P. Wright & Greengrass, Ch. 15-21.
v. Other
J. Anderson, Ch. 12.
Dodge. Hooligan. New York City: The Macmillan Publishing Co., 1969.
Earley & Shur, Pt. 2.
Krüger & Meldon, Ch. 6.
Kwitny, Crimes of Patriots, Ch. 9.
Prados, Keeper of the Keys, Pt. 4.
Spillane. The By-Pass Control. 1966. Rpt. London: Orion, 2015.
D. Valentine, Strength of the Wolf, Ch. 27-28.
g. New York
Caro, Power Broker, Ch. 47-50.
Corry, Ch. 7.
Kuhn, The Hardhat Riot, Ch. 7, 10.
h. The Red Menace
i. The Soviet Union
(1) The KGB
Andrew & Mitrokhin, Ch. 13, 15-16, 18-19, 23.
J. Anderson, Ch. 16.
Bittman, Ch. 4-5, 8.
Cherkashin, Victor, and Gregory Feifer. Spy Handler – Memoir of a KGB Officer: The True Story of the Man Who Recruited Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames. New York City: Basic Books, 2005: Ch. 3.
Earley, Family of Spies, Ch. 11-16.
Irving & Burkholz, Ch. 4.
Macintyre. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War, rev. ed. New York City: Broadway Books, 2019: Ch. 2, 6.
Mangold, Ch. 1.
Myagkov, Ch. 4-6, 8.
Pacepa & Rychlak, Ch. 33.
Perry, Ch. 24.
(2) The Soviet Military
James Adams, Secret Armies, Ch. 8.
Barron, Ch. 3.
Dean, Ch. 1.
"Suvorov, Viktor" [Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun]. My Life in the Soviet Army: “The Liberators”. 1981. Rpt. New York City: Berkley Books, 1988.
(3) Other
Amalrik, Andrei. Will the Soviet Union Survive Until 1984?, 2nd rev. ed. Ed. Hilary Sternberg. 1980. Rpt. New York City: Harper Colophon Books, 1981.
Gilison, Ch. 5.
Arnold, Anthony. The Fateful Pebble: Afghanistan’s Role in the Fall of the Soviet Empire. Novato, Calif.: Presidio, 1993: Ch. 4.
Finder, Ch. 14.
Hanson, Ch. 4.
Kornai, Ch. 10-11, 15.
Solzhenitsyn, Two Hundred Years Together, Vol. II, Ch. 26.
Spillane & M.A. Collins. Complex 90, corr. ed. London: Titan Books, 2014.
Sutton, Best Enemy Money Can Buy, Ch. 3.
ii. Terrorists
Bittman, Ch. 9.
Demaris, Ovid [Ovide E. Desmarais]. Brothers in Blood: The International Terrorist Network. New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977: Pt. 1, 3.
Posobiec, Jack. The Antifa: Stories From Inside the Black Bloc. Washington, D.C.: The Calamo Press, 2021: Ch. 9-10.
C. Sterling, The Terror Network, Ch. 9.
iii. The Chinese Cultural Revolution
Chen, Ch. 15-18.
Cheng, Nien. Life and Death in Shanghai, rev. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 1988: Ch. 1-10.
Posobiec, Ch. 11.
iv. Fontova
(1) Fidel, Ch.12.
(2) Exposing the Real Che Guevara, Ch. 1-3, 12-13.
v. Rothbard
(1) Economic Controversies. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2011: Ch. 50.
(2) Never a Dull Moment, Ch. 59.
vi. Other
Berlet, Chip. Clouds Blur the Rainbow: The Other Side of the New Alliance Party, rev. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Political Research Associates, 1992.
Bethel, Ch. 1, 17-18.
Borman & Serling, Ch. 13.
Bukovsky, Ch. 7-8.
Burrough, Days of Rage, Ch. 1.
Chesler, Phyllis. A Politically Incorrect Feminist: Creating a Movement With Bitches, Lunatics, Dykes, Prodigies, Warriors, and Wonder Women. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2018: Ch. 2, 11.
Corry, Ch. 12.
Dzhirkvelov, Ch. 13.
Ellroy, Blood’s a Rover, Ch. 10, 27.
Fehrenbach. The Fight for Korea, Ch. 1, 10.
W.J. Gill, Ch. 42.
A. Klein & Elliott, Ch. 12.
Kornai, Ch. 9.
Kristeva, Julia. The Samurai. 1990. Trans. Barbara Bray. New York City: Columbia UP, 1992: Ch. 1-11.
M. Martin, Ch. 15.
Mehnert, Klaus. Moscow and the New Left, rev. ed. Trans. Helmut Fischer and Luther Wilson. Berkeley, Calif.: U of California P, 1975: Ch. 3-10.
Melvern, Anning & Hebditch, Ch. 4.
Monahan, Ch. 2.
Pacepa & Rychlak, Ch. 24.
A. Parry, Ch. 23, 30.
Rufo, Ch. 2, 5, 11-12.
F. Schwarz, Ch. 33, 35.
Schweizer, Reagan's War, Ch. 4.
S. Seagrave, Yellow Rain, Ch. 11.
Sedgwick, Ch. 12.
Soley & Nichols, Ch. 8.
C. Sterling, The Masaryk Case, Ch. 19.
C. Unger, House of Trump, House of Putin, Ch. 6.
Van Altena, John Jr. A Guest of the State. 1967. Rpt. London: Spearman, 1968.
Weyl, Traitors’ End, Ch. 2.
L.M. Wilcox. The Watchdogs: A Close Look at Anti-Racist “Watchdog” Groups, rev. ed. Olathe, Kan.: Editorial Research Service, 1999: Ch. 3.
i. The Space Race
(1) The Astronauts
Borman & Serling, Ch. 7-12.
Michael Collins, Ch. 4-14.
O’Leary, Brian. The Making of an Ex-Astronaut. 1970. Rpt. New York City: Pocket Books, 1971.
(2) Cronkite
Brinkley, Ch. 24.
Cronkite & Carleton, Ch.19.
(3) Jacobsen
(a) Area 51, Ch. 19.
(b) Phenomena, Ch. 7.
(4) Others
Chambers, Ch. 4.
G. Hancock et al. The Mars Mystery: The Secret Connection Between Earth and the Red Planet, rev. ed. 1998. Rpt. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2010: Ch. 6.
N.L. Johnson, Ch. 3-8.
Kirkpatrick, Ch. 12.
Mailer. Of a Fire on the Moon. Boston: Little, Brown, 1970.
Vladimirov, Pt. 3-4.
Wolverton, Ch. 3-4.
j. The Schools
(1) The Ivy League
E.J. Epstein, Assume Nothing, 2023: Ch. 15.
A. Greenberg, Ch. 3.
Kabaservice, Ch. 5-10.
E.J. Kahn. Harvard: Through Change and Through Storm. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1969: Ch. 2-5, 7, 10-23.
Leslie, Ch. 8.
Rothbard, Never a Dull Moment, Ch. 50.
(2) Other
Andrews, Ch. 5.
Damerell, Ch. 4, 12.
Piereson, Shattered Consensus, Ch. 16.
Redden, Ch. 14.
Vidich, Ch. 12.
Westlake, Donald E. Up Your Banners. 1969. Rpt. London: Coronet, 1972.
Wolters, Ch. 5.
k. The Senate
B. Baker & L.L. King, Ch. 13.
Caro, Lyndon Johnson, Vol IV, Ch. 22.
Eisler, Shark Tank, Ch. 10.
W.J. Gill, Ch. 34.
Kirkpatrick, Ch. 13.
Leamer, Sons of Camelot, Ch. 4.
MacNeil, Neil, and Richard A. Baker. The American Senate: An Insider’s History. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford UP, 2013: Ch. 13.
Drew Pearson & J. Anderson, Ch. 3.
R. Parker & Rashke, Ch. 16-18, 24-26.
l. The Jews
Beinart, Peter. The Crisis of Zionism. New York City: Times Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2012: Ch. 5.
Bendavid, Naftali. The Thumpin’: How Rahm Emanuel and the Democrats Learned to Be Ruthless and Ended the Republican Revolution. New York City: Doubleday, 2007: Ch. 2.
Cuddihy, John Murray. The Ordeal of Civility: Freud, Marx, Lévi-Strauss, and the Jewish Struggle With Modernity. 1974. Rpt. Boston: Beacon Press, 1987: Ch. 22.
T.L. Friedman, Ch. 1, 16.
Goldberg, J.J. Jewish Power: Inside the American-Jewish Establishment. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1996: Ch. 6.
Mirsky, Ch. 9-11.
P. Roth, American Pastoral, Ch. 3.
Sanua, Ch. 6.
Waxman, Chaim I. American Aliya: Portrait of an Innovative Migration Movement. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1989: Ch. 7, 13.
m. Money Manipulation
i. Meltzer
Meltzer, Vol. II, Book 2, Ch. 4.
Meltzer, Allen H. A History of the Federal Reserve, Vol. II, Book Two: 1970-86. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2009: Ch. 5.
ii. Rothbard
(1) What Has Government Done to Our Money? 4th ed. Auburn, Ala. The Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1990: Pt. 4, Ch. 6.
(2) Never a Dull Moment, Ch. 33-34.
iii. Others
J. Brooks, Business Adventures, Ch. 12.
Hazlitt, Man vs. the Welfare State, Ch. 19.
T. Mayer, Ch. 1, 3-5, 7.
Rickards, James. Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis, rev. ed. New York City: Portfolio/Penguin, 2012: Ch. 5.
Rueff, Ch. 4-8, 11, 15-17.
Thornton, Mark. The Skyscraper Curse: And How Austrian Economists Predicted Every Major Economic Crisis of the Last Century. Auburn, Ala.: Mises Institute, 2018: Ch. 14.
Weber, Ch. 7-8.
n. The Kennedy Dynasty
i. RFK
(1) The Assassination
Bowart, Ch. 24.
Cummings, Ch. 59.
J.H. Davis, The Kennedys, Ch. 62-63.
P. Evans, Ch. 22-24.
Leamer, Sons of Camelot, Ch. 10.
Melanson, Philip H. The Robert F. Kennedy Assassination: New Revelations on the Conspiracy and Cover-Up, 1968-1991. New York City: Shapolsky Publishers, 1991.
P.F. Nelson, LBJ, Ch. 6.
O’Sullivan, Shane. Who Killed Bobby?: The Unsolved Murder of Robert F. Kennedy. 2008. Rpt. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2018.
Turner, William W., and John G. Christian. The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy: The Conspiracy and Cover-Up, rev. ed. New York City: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1993.
Waldron & Hartmann, Legacy of Secrecy, Ch. 55-60.
(2) Other
Caro, Lyndon Johnson, Vol IV, Ch. 24.
B. Hersh, Bobby and J. Edgar, Ch. 20.
ii. Chappaquiddick
Damore, Leo. Senatorial Privilege: The Chappaquiddick Cover-Up. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1988: Ch. 1-54.
Leamer, Sons of Camelot, Ch. 13.
iii. Other
J.H. Davis, The Kennedys, Ch. 64-65, 67.
P. Evans, Ch. 14.
Kessler, Sins of the Father, Ch. 27.
Leamer, Sons of Camelot, Ch. 2-3, 5-6, 11-12, 14, 16.
Taraborrelli, After Camelot, Pt. 13-15.
Ventura & D. Russell, Ch. 6.
o. The Courts
i. Gutzman
(1) The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2007: Ch. 12.
(2) Who Killed the Constitution?, Ch. 4.
ii. Others
F.L. Bailey & Aronson, Pt. 6-7.
Eisler, The Last Liberal, Ch. 15-16.
Feldman, Ch. 49.
Lash, Kurt T. The Lost History of the Ninth Amendment. New York City: Oxford UP, 2009: Ch. 1.
P.C. Roberts & Stratton, Ch. 5.
Shipler, David K. Rights at Risk: The Limits of Liberty in Modern America. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012: Ch. 8.
p. The U.S. Military
i. Ernest Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald, A. Ernest. The Pentagonists: An Insider’s View of Waste, Mismanagement, and Fraud in Defense Spending. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1989: Ch. 2.
Mackenzie, Ch. 12.
ii. Other
R. Atkinson, Ch. 6-7.
Birtle, U.S. Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine, Ch. 9.
Bowart, Ch. 29.
Dean, Ch. 2, 4-5.
DeYoung, Ch. 6.
Earley, Family of Spies, Ch. 24.
Jacobsen, Phenomena, Ch. 13.
Hartung, Ch. 4.
Herrington, Stuart A. Traitors Among Us: Inside the Spy Catcher’s World. 1999. Rpt. San Diego: Harcourt, 2000: Ch. 2.
S.M. Hersh, Reporter, Ch. 6, 8.
Maas, Underboss, Ch. 2.
Melman, Ch. 1-5, 7-8, Appendix C-H.
D.L. Robb, Ch. 36.
Jon Roberts & E. Wright, Ch. 8, 11.
Rothbard, Never a Dull Moment, Ch. 30, 54.
Scheips, Ch. 8, 12.
Vine, Ch. 5-6.
q. The Police
Ahern, James F. Police in Trouble: Our Frightening Crisis in Law Enforcement. New York City: Hawthorn Books, 1972.
Balko. Overkill: The Rise of Paramilitary Police Raids in America. Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2006.
M.S. Evans& M. Moore, Pt. 1, Ch. 10.
Maas, Serpico, Ch. 6-7, 9-14.
r. The Pueblo Incident
Cheevers, Jack. Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo. New York City: NAL Caliber, 2013: Ch. 1, 3-18.
Rothbard, Never a Dull Moment, Ch. 36.
s. The British Commonwealth
Burleigh, Ch. 8.
Meyer, Christopher. DC Confidential: The Controversial Memoirs of Britain's Ambassador to the U.S. at the Time of 9/11 and the Run-Up to the Iraq War, rev. ed. London: Phoenix, 2006: Ch. 1.
Stewart, Walter. Shrug: Trudeau in Power. Toronto: New Press, 1971.
West, Ed. The Diversity Illusion: How Immigration Broke Britain and How to Solve It. 2013. Rpt. London: Gibson Square: 2014: Ch. 2.
Westlake. Under an English Heaven. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1972: Ch. 26, 28, 30.
Wheatcroft, Geoffrey. The Strange Death of Tory England, rev. ed. London: Penguin Books, 2005: Ch. 4.
t. The United Nations
Jasper, Ch. 9.
R.W. Lee, Ch. 10, 17, 19, 24.
u. Chemical-Biological Warfare
R. Harris & Paxman, Ch. 10.
S. Seagrave, Yellow Rain, Ch. 1, 13.
v. The Medical Industry
Lynes. The Healing of Cancer: The Cures, the Cover-Ups and the Solution Now. Queensville, Ont.: Marcus Books, 1989: Ch. 2.
D. Starr, Ch. 12.
w. The Media
i. The New York Times
Talese, The Kingdom and the Power, Ch. 16-17, 20.
Talese, Bartleby & Me, Ch. 9.
Tifft & A.S. Jones, Ch. 27-31.
ii. CBS
Halberstam, The Powers That Be, Ch. 12-13, 15, 23.
Rosen, Ira. Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2021: Ch. 2.
iii. Other
Halberstam, The Powers That Be, Ch. 19-22.
Talese, Bartleby & Me, Ch. 10, 13.
Ungar-Sargon, Ch. 4.
x. H. Hughes
Drosnin, Ch. 1, 3-4, 6-7, 11, 13.
Hack, Ch. 17-18.
y. J. Anderson
J. Anderson, Ch. 1-2, 4-5, 8-11, 13, 21.
J. Anderson & Gibson, Ch. 8-9.
z. Bird
Bird, The Chairman, Ch. 25-26.
Bird, The Color of Truth, Ch. 15.
aa. Siegel
i. The Future Once Happened Here, Ch. 1, 3, 5-6, 14.
ii. The Revolt Against the Masses, 2015: Ch. 10-11.
aa. Other
Allan, Ch. 4.
G. Allen. Jimmy Carter/Jimmy Carter. Seal Beach, Calif.: '76 Press, 1976: Ch. 2.
Attarian, Ch. 3.
Bacevich, New American Militarism, Ch. 3.
B. Barnes and Dickey, Ch. 3-4, 6.
Barrett, Wayne, and Adam Fifield. Rudy!: An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani. New York City: Basic Books, 2000: Ch. 4.
Bartley & H.D. Graham, Ch. 5-6.
Bethel, Ch. 16.
Bock, Alan W. Ambush at Ruby Ridge: How Government Agents Set Randy Weaver Up and Took His Family Down. 1995. Rpt. New York City: Berkley Books, 1996: Ch. 2.
Bowart, Ch. 12.
Brennan, Ch. 6-7.
Brookes, Ch. 5-7.
J. Brooks. The Takeover Game: The Men, the Moves, and the Wall Street Money Behind Today’s Nationwide Merger Wars. 1987. Rpt. Washington, D.C.: Beard Books, 1999: Ch. 9.
Brownstein, Ch. 7.
P.J. Buchanan, Ch. 2-6.
Cannon, Governor Reagan, Ch. 1.
M.C. Carroll, Ch. 3.
Cashill, What’s the Matter With California?, Ch. 14.
Cheney, Dick, and Liz Cheney. In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir. New York City: Threshold Editions, 2011: Ch. 2.
Cowie, Jefferson. Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class. New York City: The New Press, 2010: Ch. 1-2.
Cramer, Ch. 18, 30, 43.
Crichton, Michael. Travels. 1988. Rpt. New York City: Perennial, 2002.
Cummings, Ch. 24-26, 36-40, 42, 48-54.
M. Davis, Ch. 1, 4.
De Borchgrave, Arnaud and Robert Moss. The Spike. New York City: Crown Publishers, 1980.
Dickerson, Ch. 13.
Eisler, Masters of the Game, Ch. 7, 10, 12.
M.S. Evans & M. Moore, Pt. 1, Ch. 11.
Findley, Ch. 8.
Flynn, Daniel J. Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas. 2004. Rpt. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2005: Ch. 3.
Franzen, Jonathan. Freedom. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
Fraser. The Limousine Liberal: How an Incendiary Image United the Right and Fractured America. New York City: Basic Books, 2016: Ch. 6.
M. Friedman, Ch. 6-7, 11.
Gatto, John Taylor. The Underground History of American Education: A Schoolteacher's Intimate Investigation Into the Prison of Modern Schooling, 3rd rev. ed. New York City: Oxford Village Press, 2006: Ch. 4.
Gelernter, Ch. 6.
W.J. Gill, Ch. 33, 37, 39-41, Appendix B-C.
Glazer, Myron Peretz, and Penina Migdal Glazer. The Whistleblowers: Exposing Corruption in Government and Industry. New York City: Basic Books, 1989: Ch. 1-2, 4-5, 7.
Haig & McCarry, Ch. 13.
Halberstam, Best and Brightest, Ch. 16, 18-20.
Havill, Ch. 5.
Hayward, Ch. 1-2, 4-5.
B. Hersh, Bobby and J. Edgar, Ch. 21.
S.M. Hersh, Samson Option, Ch. 12, 14.
Hewitt, Ch. 5.
Jeffries, Hidden History, Ch. 8.
E.M. Jones, The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit, Ch. 28.
E.J. Kahn, Jock, Ch. 17.
R. King, Ch. 27.
A. Klein & Elliott, Ch. 8.
Kovic, Ch. 2.
Krüger & Meldon, Ch. 7.
Kuhn, The Hardhat Riot, Ch. 5-6, 9.
Y. Levine, Ch. 3.
C.C. Mann & Plummer, Ch. 11.
M. Martin, Ch. 17-20.
Mitford, Jessica. The Trial of Dr. Spock, the Rev. Sloane Coffin Jr., Michael Ferber, Mitchell Goodman, and Marcus Raskin. 1969. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 1970.
O'Donnell, Pierce, and McDougal, Fatal Subtraction, Ch. 12.
Oppenheimer, Crazy Rich, 2.
Otash, Ch. 4.
Leamer, Playing for Keeps, Ch. 6.
Maier, Ch. 42.
Meyer, Karl E., and Shareen Blair Brysac. Kingmakers: The Invention of the Modern Middle East. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008: Ch. 12.
Mises, Ludwig von. Money, Method and the Market Process. Ed. Richard M. Ebeling. Auburn, Ala.: Praxeology Press of the Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1990: Ch. 17.
Monahan, Ch. 3.
P.C. Newman, Vol. III, Ch. 3.
Nitze et al., Ch. 16.
Norton, Anne. Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2004: Ch. 4.
M. Parker, Ch. 5.
Perkins, Ch. 4.
Perlstein, Ch. 1, 4-13, 18-21.
Perret, Commander in Chief, Ch. 15.
Pringle & Spigelman, Ch. 21.
J. Quigley, Ch. 12, 14-15.
Redden, Ch. 10.
Ritter, Ch. 8.
P.C. Roberts & Stratton, Ch. 7-9.
Rothbard, Never a Dull Moment, Ch. 2, 4-6, 8-10, 13, 20, 26, 35, 38, 43, 52.
Royko, Ch. 8.
Sabin, Ch. 3-5.
Schulzinger, Ch. 8.
Schweizer, Peter. Do As I Say (Not as I Do): Profiles in Liberal Hypocrisy. New York City: Doubleday, 2005.
Seabrook, Ch. 11.
Shesol, Ch. 9, 12-15.
H.R. Simpson, Ch. 9.
R.N. Smith, Ch. 19-22.
Sniegoski, Ch. 3.
Sonenshein, Ch. 1, 5-6.
Theodoracopulos, Ch. 9-13.
E. Thomas, The Man to See, Ch. 17-19, 24.
L. Thompson, De Oppresso Liber, Ch. 4.
Van Creveld, Men, Women and War. Ch. 19.
Wicker, Ch. 7.
L.M. Wilcox, Watchdogs, Ch. 1.
Yates, Lawrence A. U.S. Intervention in the Dominican Republic, 1965-1966. Fort Leavenworth, Kan.: U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. Combat Studies Institute, 1988: Ch. 2-9.
2. Arts & Entertainment
a. Hollywood
i. MCA
Bruck, When Hollywood Had a King, Ch. 3.
McDougal, Last Mogul, Ch. 25-27.
ii. Caine
i. What's It All About?, Ch. 20-25.
ii. Caine, The Elephant to Hollywood, Ch. 5-8, 12.
iii. Biskind
(1) Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1998: Ch. 1-2.
(2) Star, Ch. 3.
iii. Quentin Tarantino
(1) Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. New York City: Harper Perennial, 2021: Ch. 1-16, 18-21, 23-25.
(2) Cinema Speculation. New York City: Harper, 2022.
iv. Other
Bacharach & Greenfield, Ch. 9.
Base, Ch. 9-10.
Corman & Jerome, Ch. 10-12.
Dunne, John Gregory. The Studio, rev. ed. 1985. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 1998.
Edelman & Kupferberg, Ch. 16-20.
D. Epstein & Marvin, Ch. 9-11.
Robert Evans, Ch. 12-22.
J. Garner & Winokur, Ch. 6, 10.
W. Goldman, Adventures in the Screen Trade, Ch. 4-6.
Lembcke, Ch. 9.
McCarty, Ch. 11.
Polly, Ch. 9-15.
Sanders, Ch. 11-12, 25, 27, 38.
Server, Ch. 14.
Shavelson, Ch. 8-10.
Vidal, Point to Point Navigation, Ch. 23.
R. Yates, Ch. 8.
Zuckoff, Ch. 10-11.
b. Music
i. Salsa
Flores, Juan. From Bomba to Hip-Hop: Puerto Rican Culture and Latino Identity. New York City: Columbia UP, 2000: Ch. 6.
Padura Fuentes, Ch. 2.
Rondón, Ch. 3-4.
Salazar, Ch. 38, 41, 44.
M. Shapiro, Ch. 4-5.
ii. Jazz
(1) Fusion
Coryell, Ch. 17-23.
Freeman, Philip. Running the Voodoo Down: The Electric Music of Miles Davis. San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2005: Ch. 4-5, 8.
Myers, Ch. 10.
Nicholson, Stuart. Jazz Rock: A History. New York City: Schirmer Books, 1998: Ch. 7-10, 14.
(2) Other
Coryell, Ch. 6-16.
Gavin, Deep in a Dream, Ch. 12.
A. Kahn, Ch. 4, 6.
Myers, Ch. 9.
O'Day & Eells, Ch. 13.
Rosenthal, Ch. 10.
Tormé, Ch. 28.
iii. The Blues
Dance, Ch. 17-18.
De Visé, Ch. 13-15.
R. Gordon, Ch. 12-13.
Iglauer & P.A. Roberts, Ch. 2.
Romano, Ch. 5.
Segrest & M. Hoffman, Ch. 12.
iv. Soul
(1) Ray Charles
Lydon, Ch. 18-21.
Womack & Ashton, Ch. 9.
(2) James Brown and The Fabulous Flames
M. Parker, Ch. 4.
R.J. Smith, Ch. 11-13.
Wesley, Ch. 4.
(3) Others
Cross, Ch. 10-11.
Farley, Ch. 9-10.
N. George, Ch. 4.
J.A. Jackson, Ch. 3-6.
E. James & Ritz, Ch. 19-20, 24.
G.L. Posner. Motown, Ch. 14-25.
Selvin, Ch. 2.
Whiteis, Ch. 2-3, 9.
Womack & Ashton, Ch. 8, 10-12, 15.
v. Rock
(1) Jimi Hendrix
Cross, Ch. 12-26.
Shiner, Lewis. Glimpses, rev. ed. Burton, Mich.: Subterranean Press, 2008: Ch. 7-8.
(2) Others
Bergsman, Ch. 6.
Bronson, Ch. 5.
Bruford, Ch. 2, 4, 6, 9.
Chuck Berry, Ch. 15.
R. Coleman, Ch. 16.
R.J. Dio, Wall & W. Dio, Ch. 4-6.
Dr. John & Rummel, Ch. 7-8, 10.
J.A. Friedman, Ch. 9.
T. James & M. Fitzpatrick, Ch. 2.
Nicholson, Ch. 3-6, 13.
S. Reynolds, Retromania, Ch. 8-9.
S. Smith, Ch. 2-3, Appendix 1-3.
Tolinski & Di Perna, Ch. 9, 11.
Weigel, Dave. The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2017: Ch. 2-3.
Wiederhorn, Jon, and Katherine Turman. Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal. New York City: It Books, 2013: Ch. 1.
vi. Funk
M. Parker, Ch. 6.
Selvin, Ch. 3-6.
R.J. Smith, Ch. 13-16.
vii. Brazilian
Castro, Ch. 19-20.
C. McGowan & Pessanha, Ch. 4, 10.
viii. Tommy James and The Shondells
Bronson, Ch. 17.
T. James & M. Fitzpatrick, Ch. 3-9.
ix. D. Evanier
(1) Jimmy Roselli, Ch. 7-11.
(2) All the Things You Are, Ch. 7.
x. Gavin
(1) Deep in a Dream, Ch. 13.
(2) Is That All There Is?, Ch. 11-12.
xi. Other
Anka & D. Dalton, Ch. 5.
Bacharach & Greenfield, Ch. 10-12, 14.
Colby & Fitzpatrick, Ch. 6.
J.H. Fox, Ch. 19.
A. Kahn, Ch. 5.
Leiber et al., Ch. 20-22, 25-26.
P.J. Levinson, Ch. 8.
Meyerson, Harburg & Perlman, Who Put the Rainbow in the Wizard of Oz?, Ch. 10.
Milner, Ch. 8.
Shaffer & Ritz, Ch. 12.
Tau, Pt. 4, Ch. 4-5; Pt. 5, Ch. 1; Pt. 6, Ch. 2.
Templeman & Renoff, Ch. 4.
Thiele & Golden, Ch. 1.
Veal, Ch. 1, 8.
E. Ward. The History of Rock & Roll, Vol. II: 1964-1977: The Beatles, the Stones, and the Rise of Classic Rock. New York City: Flatiron Books, 2019: Ch. 4, 6.
T. White, Ch. 9-12.
c. The Rat Pack
(1) Dino
Schoell, Ch. 16-18.
Tosches, Ch. 14.
(2) Frank
G. Jacobs & Stadiem, Ch. 1, 7-9.
J. Kaplan, Sinatra, Ch. 21-27.
A. Summers & Swan, Ch. 28-31.
Taraborrelli, Sinatra, Ch. 30-34.
Talese, Bartleby & Me, Pt. 2.
(3) Other
S. Davis, J. Boyar & B. Boyar, Ch. 37-42.
d. Off-Hollywood Cinema
i. Spaghetti Westerns
Cox, Alex. 10,000 Ways to Die: A Director’s Take on the Spaghetti Western, 2nd rev. ed. Harpenden, U.K.: Kamera Books, 2020.
Frayling, Ch. 5-9, 11-12.
Tarantino, Ch. 22.
Wallach, Ch. 16.
ii. Other
M. Benson. Space Odyssey: Stanley Kubrick, Arthur C. Clarke, and the Making of a Masterpiece. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2018.
Caine, What's It All About?, Ch. 14-19, 26.
Crowder-Taraborrelli, Tomás F. Cult Pop Culture, Vol. I, Ch. 3.
Friedkin, Ch. 3-4.
Fuller, Fuller & Rudes, Ch. 42-44, 46.
Greene, Ch. 2-3.
H. Hughes, Ch. 8-10.
C. James. North Face of Soho: Unreliable Memoirs, Vol. IV. London: Picador, 2006: Ch. 3.
Kostelanetz, Ch. 32.
S. Levy, De Niro, Ch. 4-5.
Logan, Ch. 6, 9.
e. Literature
i. Fiction
(1) P. Roth
Avishai, Bernard. Promiscuous: Portnoy’s Complaint and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2012.
B. Bailey, Ch. 21-25.
(2) Others
L. Block, A Writer Prepares, Ch. 20-26.
Karl, Ch. 8-10, 12.
Scott-Heron, Ch. 18.
Updike. The Complete Henry Bech: Twenty Stories. New York City: Everyman's Library, 2001.
Westlake. Adios, Scheherezade. 1970. Rpt. New York City: Signet, 1971.
ii. Periodicals
(1) Comics
(a) Marvel

(i) S. Lee
Fingeroth, Ch. 11-14.
S. Lee & Mair, Ch. 14-15.
ii. Other
Bain. Murder, HE Wrote, Ch. 9-10.
B. Bell, Ch. 6.
S. Howe, Ch. 3.
R. Thomas, Ch. 2.
(b) General
B. Bell, Ch. 7-8.
S. Howe, Ch. 7.
G. Jones, Ch. 15.
Schelly, Ch. 23.
(c) Joe Simon
(i) Joe Simon, Ch. 16.
(ii) Joe Simon & Jim Simon, Ch. 29.
(2) Others
Corry, Ch. 3-5.
Howlett, Ch. 12.
C. James. North Face of Soho, Ch. 2, 4.
Kennedy, William. The Ink Truck, rev. ed. 1984. Rpt. Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin Books, 1985.
Korda, Ch. 17.
Kostelanetz, Ch. 28.
Nashawaty, Chris. Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story. New York City: Flatiron Books, 2018: Ch. 1.
Perrin, Ch. 4-5.
f. Nightclubs
Blumenthal, Ch. 44-48.
Colby & Fitzpatrick, Ch. 11.
Gavin, Intimate Nights, Ch. 10.
g. The Comedians
i. G. Marx
A. Marx, Ch. 34.
G. Marx & Arce, Ch. 8.
ii. M. Brooks
M. Brooks, Ch. 10.
Parish, It’s Good to Be the King, Ch. 22-23.
iii. Others
Abraham & Kearns, Ch. 4.
J. Bacon, Ch. 4.
P. Berger, Pt. 2.
Cleese, Ch. 10-16.
Colby & Fitzpatrick, Ch. 7.
Dangerfield, Ch. 9-10, 12.
Davis, Tom. Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss. New York City: Grove Press, 2009: Ch. 23.
Epstein, Lawrence J. The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2001: Pt. 4, Ch. 8-11.
M. Fleming, Pt. 1, Ch. 18.
A. Goldman & Schiller, Ch. 12-13.
Hill, Doug, and Jeff Weingrad. Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live. 1986. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 1987: Ch. 2-3.
M. Hill, Ch. 4.
Idle, Ch. 5-7.
Karp, Ch. 2.
A. King & Chase, Ch. 10, 15.
R. Klein, Ch. 13-15.
Nesteroff, Ch. 9.
Reid, Dreesen & Rapoport, Ch. 4.
Schlatter & Macks, Ch. 3.
M. Simmons, Ch. 3.
Sullivan, Ch. 4-5.
Zoglin, Ch. 5-7.
h. Schulz
R.G. Johnson, Ch. 3, 9, 17-18, 20.
Michaelis, Ch. 19-22.
i. Commercial Design
Kirsten, Tiki Modern, Ch. 13, 16.
Loyauté, Benjamin, Jérôme Faggiano, and Nils Herrmann. Pierre Cardin: Evolution, Furniture and Design. Paris: Flammarion, 2006.
Paulo, Joaquim. Funk & Soul Covers. Ed. Wiedemann. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2010.
j. Broadcast
i. Radio
Earl, Ch. 3-8.
Fong-Torres, Ch. 16-17.
Rick Sklar, Ch. 1, 12-16, 20.
ii. Television
a. "Sesame Street"
M. Davis, Ch. 11-13.
Finch & Strasberg, Ch. 3.
B.J. Jones, Ch. 6.
b. "The Tonight Show"
Galanoy, Ch. 10.
Leamer, King of the Night, Ch. 11-12.
McMahon, Ch. 14, 17, 19.
c. M. Wallace
Rader, Ch. 10-12.
M. Wallace & Gates, Ch. 6-9.
d. Other
M. Brooks, Ch. 9.
T. Burke & K. Burke, Ch. 5.
Burnett, Carol. In Such Good Company: Eleven Years of Laughter, Mayhem, and Fun in the Sandbox. New York City: Crown Archetype, 2016.
Friedkin, Ch. 2.
Galanoy, Ch. 12.
D. Kamp, Sunny Days, Ch. 2, 5-6, 8-9.
M. Mullen, Ch. 3.
Ozersky. Archie Bunker's America: TV in an Era of Change, 1968-78. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois UP, 2003: Ch. 1-2.
Tuccille, Dillerland, Ch. 6-7.
k. Theater
Bacharach & Greenfield, Ch. 13.
Edelman & Kupferberg, Ch. 15.
W. Goldman. The Season: A Candid Look at Broadway. 1969. Rpt. New York City: Limelight Editions, 1984.
C. James, North Face of Soho, Ch. 1.
H. Lee, Ch. 8-10.
l. Showmen
Gottlieb, Ch. 1-3, 17-19.
Montville, Ch. 7-12.
Polly, Ch. 8.
m. Games
Hennessey & J. McGowan, Ch. 4.
McManus, Ch. 35.
n. Andy Warhol [Andrew Warhola]
Colacello, Holy Terror, Ch. 1.
Warhol, Andy, and Pat Hackett. Popism: The Warhol Sixties. 1980. Rpt. London: Penguin, 2007.
o. Other
K. Abbott, Ch. 35-36.
Joey Adams, and Henry Tobias. The Borscht Belt. 1966. Rpt. New York City: Bentley Publishing Co., 1973: Ch. 11.
S. Allen, Hi-Ho, Steverino!, Ch. 17.
C. Anderson, S. McGehee & La Motta, Ch. 9-10.
Cotter, Bill. Montreal's Expo 67. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2016.
R.L. Davis, Ch. 8.
Dickstein, Ch. 4-8.
D. Evanier, Roman Candle, Ch. 11.
Finch & Strasberg, Ch. 2.
T. Frank, Ch. 9-10.
J. Frank & Buckholtz, Ch. 2-4.
P. Garner, Ch. 6.
Gavin, Stormy Weather, Ch. 15-16.
D. Graham, Ch. 13.
Hammarstrom, Ch. 5, 16-17.
Henderson & Foshko, Ch. 7.
D. Hope, Ch. 10.
Houseman, Ch. 27-29.
D. Kamp, Sunny Days, Ch. 7.
Kirkpatrick, Rob. 1969: The Year Everything Changed. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2009: Ch. 6.
Korda, Ch. 16, 18-20.
Kostelanetz, Ch. 3, 10, 19-20, 22, 24, 27.
Lake & Bain, Ch. 24-27.
Leamer, Capote's Women, Ch. 14.
Leiber et al., Ch. 23.
S. Levy, Last Playboy, Ch. 17.
Mariani, How Italian Food Conquered the World, Ch. 10-11.
Marks, Craig, and Rob Tannenbaum. I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution. New York City: Dutton, 2011: Ch. 2.
R. Martin & C. Smith, Ch. 8-9.
Cletus Nelson & Parfrey, Ch. 6.
S. Reynolds, Retromania, Ch. 6.
Schlatter & Macks, Ch. 4.
J. Schwartz, Ch. 15-16.
Sudhalter, Ch. 18.
Tadey, Ch. 6-8.
E. Thomas, The Man to See, Ch. 21.
Tormé, Ch. 26-27, 29-31.
Wallach, Ch. 17.
Watts, Ch. 11.
Willeford. The Burnt Orange Heresy. 1971. Rpt. New York City; Carroll & Graf, 2000.
Williams, Robert, and Mike LaVella. The Hot Rod World of Robt. Williams. St. Paul, Minn.: Motorbooks, 2006: Ch. 5.
E. Wilson, Ch. 22-23.
3. The Crime Scene
a. The Mafia
i. The Five Families
(1) The Columbo Family
(a) Gregory Scarpa Sr.
(i) Lance
1) Cover Up: What the Government Is Still Hiding About the War on Terror. New York City: ReganBooks, 2004: Ch. 1.
2) Deal With the Devil, Ch. 4-7, 9.
(ii) Other
S. Harmon, Ch. 4-7, 9-10.
(b) Sonny Franzese
Franzese, Pt. 1, Ch. 1, 6, 8-10, 17, 20-23.
W. Hoffman & Headley, Ch. 8, 10.
Mortensen, Ch. 9.
(c) Other
Raab, Five Families, Ch. 18.
Weiss, Gary. Born to Steal: When the Mafia Hit Wall Street. 2003. Rpt. New York City: Grand Central Publishing, 2014: Ch. 31.
(2) The Lucchese Family
(a) Henry Hill
H. Hill & G. Russo, Ch. 3.
Pileggi, Wiseguy, Ch. 5-6, 8-11.
(b) Other
Capeci & Robbins, Ch. 6.
Raab, Five Families, Ch. 2.
(3) Other
Lance, Deal With the Devil, Ch. 12, 19.
Jon Roberts & E. Wright, Ch. 7, 13-18.
Raab, Five Families, Ch. 12-13.
Talese. Honor Thy Father, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Harper Perennial, 2009: Ch. 1-11, 13-30.
ii. The Outfit
(1) G. Russo
(a) The Outfit, Ch. 20.
(b) Supermob, Ch. 13.
(2) Others
Corbitt & S. Giancana, Ch. 13-16.
Demaris, Captive City, Pt. 1, Ch. 2.
Ellroy, Cold Six Thousand, Ch. 78.
S. Giancana & C. Giancana, Ch. 22.
D.N. Griffin & Cullotta, Ch. 5.
“Hohimer, Frank” [John Seybold]. Thief. 1975. Rpt. New York City: Playboy Paperbacks, 1981: Ch. 1-11, 13.
Maier, Ch. 37, 39-41, 43.
iii. Philadelphia
(1) Anastasia
(a) Blood and Honor, Ch. 3, 8.
(b) Mobfather: The Story of a Wife and Son Caught in the Web of the Mafia, rev. ed. Philadelphia: Camino Books, 2006: Ch. 2-3.
(2) Other
Pantoliano & D. Evanier, Ch. 7-10.
iv. Carlos Marcello
J.H. Davis, Mafia Kingfish, Ch. 42-43, 45-46.
Ellroy, Cold Six Thousand, Ch. 80.
v. Cleveland
Neff, Ch. 10-11.
Porrello, To Kill the Irishman, Ch. 7-8.
vi. Sicily
Longrigg, Ch. 3.
C. Sterling, Octopus, Ch. 8, 10.
vii. Professional Sports
Moldea, Interference, Ch. 18-20, 22-23, 29.
Don Pearson & McShane, Ch. 6.
Stanford, White House Call Girl, Ch. 7.
Tuohy, Ch. 1, 6, 14, 15, 19.
viii. The Caribbean
Messick, Syndicate Abroad, Ch. 8, 10.
Teresa & Renner, Ch. 20.
ix. Capeci
(1) Complete Idiot's Guide, Ch. 21.
(2) Mob Star: The Story of John Gotti, 2nd rev. ed. Indianapolis: Alpha, 2002: Ch. 8-9.
x. Demaris
(1) The Last Mafioso, Ch. 13-27.
(2) The Boardwalk Jungle, Ch. 5, 11, 17, 19.
xi. Messick
(1) Syndicate in the Sun, Ch. 8.
(2) Lansky, Ch. 16.
xii. Don Pendleton
(1) The Executioner: War Against the Mafia. New York City: Pinnacle Books, 1969.
(2) Death Squad. New York City: Pinnacle Books, 1969.
xiii. Spillane
(1) Mike Hammer

(a) The Body Lovers. New York City: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1967.
(b) The Big Bang. Boston: Otto Penzler/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010: Ch. 5-6, 8-9, 12, 14.
(c) Dig Two Graves. London: Titan Books, 2023.
(2) Other
(a) The Delta Factor. 1967. Rpt. London: Orion, 2015.
(b) The Consummata. London: Hard Case Crime, 2011.
xiv. Westlake
“Coe, Tucker” [Westlake]. Kinds of Love, Kinds of Death, rev. ed. Unity, Maine: Five Star, 2000.
"Stark". The Score. 1964. Rpt. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2009.
Westlake. The Busy Body. New York City: Random House, 1966.
xv. Other
B. Baker & L.L. King, Ch. 14.
Brandt, Ch. 20-23.
Brewton, Ch. 4.
Dalla & Alson, Ch. 3-4.
Ellroy, Cold Six Thousand, Ch. 50, 89, 107.
L. Ford, Ch. 5.
Goddard. Undercover: The Secret Lives of a Federal Agent. 1988. Rpt. London: Grafton, 1991: Ch. 3.
Gorightly, The Prankster and the Conspiracy, Ch. 11.
Humphreys, Ch. 14-16.
Ianni, Appendix A.
Maas, The Valachi Papers, Ch. 2, 13.
Moldea, The Hoffa Wars, Ch. 9-13.
Don Pearson & McShane, Ch. 7-8.
E. Reid, Appendix 1.
P. Robb, Ch. 4.
Salerno, Ralph, and John S. Tompkins. The Crime Confederation: Cosa Nostra and Allied Operations in Organized Crime. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1969.
D.C. Smith, Pt. 3.
Teresa & Renner, Ch. 1, 19, 21-28.
D. Valentine, Strength of the Wolf, Ch. 22-25.
Waldron & Hartmann, Legacy of Secrecy, Ch. 28.
b. The Blacks
i. Ellroy
(1) Cold Six Thousand, Ch. 42, 44, 74-75, 79, 108, 110, 112-113.
(2) Blood’s a Rover, Ch. 19, 24, 34-35, 41-42, 46-47, 52-53, 55, 58.
ii. Goines
(1) Whoreson, Ch. 23-27.
(2) Black Gangster. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1972.
E. Stone, Ch. 8-9.
iii. Himes
(1) Run Man Run. 1966. Rpt. New York City: Carroll & Graf, 1995.
(2) Blind Man With a Pistol. 1969. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 1989.
(3) Plan B, corr. ed. Ed. Michel Fabre and Robert E. Skinner. Jackson, Miss.: UP of Mississippi, 1993: Ch. 10.
iv. Iceberg Slim
Iceberg Slim, Mama Black Widow, Ch. 1-3, 16.
Gifford, Ch. 8.
v. Others
Cashill, What’s the Matter With California?, Ch. 7.
Chepesiuk, Gangsters of Harlem, Ch. 9.
F. Lucas & A.S. King, Ch. 8-10.
Sallis, James. Black Hornet. New York City: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1994.
D. Talbot, Season of the Witch, Ch. 7.
Walker, David et al. Shaft, Vol. I: A Complicated Man. Mt. Laurel, N.J.: Dynamite Publications, 2015.
Whitehead, Pt. 3.
c. Drugs
i. Chepesiuk
(1) Black Caesar, Ch. 3.
(2) Sergeant Smack, Ch. 6.
ii. Others
Charbonneau, Ch. 10-14.
Ellroy, Blood’s a Rover, Ch. 21.
Fahey, Ch. 3-4.
F. Lucas & A.S. King, Ch. 11-13.
Shannon, Elaine. Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen, and the War America Can’t Win, rev. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 1989: Ch. 3-4.
Sokoloff, Boris. The Permissive Society. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1971: Ch. 7.
Streatfeild, Ch. 10.
Torgoff, Can’t Find My Way Home, Ch. 5.
d. White-Collar Crime
i. Frank Abagnale
Abagnale, Frank W. Jr., and Stan Redding. Catch Me if You Can: The Amazing True Story of the Youngest and Most Daring Con Man in the History of Fun and Profit!, rev. ed. New York City: Broadway Books, 2000: Ch. 2-10.
C.P. Wilson, Ch. 4.
ii. Other
Block. The Girl With the Long Green Heart. Rpt. New York City: Hard Case Crime, 2005.
Messick, Politics of Prosecution, Ch. 6.
Kwitny, Mullendore Murder Case, Ch. 5-6, 8-10.
e. The Sex Fiends
Bowers & Friedberg, Ch. 24-26.
Cashill, What’s the Matter With California?, Ch. 31.
Demaris. Poso del Mundo: Inside the Mexican-American Border, From Tijuana to Matamoros. 1970. Rpt. New York City: Pocket Books, 1971: Ch. 1.
S. Heller, Ch. 6-7, 9.
D. Preston & Spezi, Ch. 9-10, 34.
Stadiem, Madame Claude, Ch. 4.
Stanford, White House Call Girl, Ch. 10, 13.
W. Webb, Vol. I, Ch. 10.
Zion, Ch. 14.
f. Great Britain
Canning, Victor. The Python Project: A Rex Carver Mystery. 1967. Rpt. London: Arcturus, 2012.
D. Thomas, Ch. 17.
g. Southern California
J.R. Baker & Rivele, Ch. 3-9.
Bunker, Eddie. No Beast So Fierce. 1972. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 1993.
Grogan. Final Score. 1976. Rpt. London: Panther, 1978: Ch. 7.
Porrello. $uperthief, Ch. 8.
h. Greater New York City
i. English
(1) The Westies, Ch. 3-6.
(2) Savage City, Ch. 3-4.
ii. Others
Cook, Kevin. Kitty Genovese: The Murder, the Bystanders, the Crime That Changed America. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2014: Ch. 9-21.
Raab, Justice in the Back Room, Ch. 6-19.
Strausbaugh, The Village, Ch. 31.
Yurick, Sol. The Warriors, rev. ed. New York City: Grove Press, 2003.
i. L. Block
i. Deadly Honeymoon, rev. ed. 2010. Rpt. Drums, Pa.: Lawrence Block, 2016.
ii. The Specialists, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Open Road Integrated Media, 2010.
iii. A Writer Prepares, Ch. 16.
j. Ellroy
i. Cold Six Thousand, Ch. 43, 45-49, 51-59, 64, 68, 71, 73, 76-77, 81-82, 84, 87-88, 90-103, 105, 109, 111, 114-116, 118, 120-122.
ii. Blood’s a Rover, Ch. 1, 4-9, 11-12, 14-15, 17-18, 22-23, 26, 28-32, 36-37, 39-40, 43, 45, 48, 50-51, 54.
k. Spillane & M.A. Collins
i. Murder Never Knocks. London: Titan Books, 2016.
ii. The Will to Kill. London: Titan Books, 2017.
l. Westlake
i. "Stark"
(1) The Parker Series
(a) The Jugger. 1965. Rpt. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2009.
(b) The Seventh. 1966. Rpt. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2009.
(c) The Handle. 1966. Rpt. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2009.
(d) The Rare Coin Score. 1967. Rpt. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2009.
(e) The Green Eagle Score. 1967. Rpt. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2010.
(f) The Sour Lemon Score. 1969. Rpt. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2010.
(g) Slayground. 1971. Rpt. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2010.
(1) The Grofield Series
(a) The Damsel. 1967. Rpt. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2012.
(b) The Dame. 1969. Rpt. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2012.
ii. Other
(1) Pity Him Afterwards. 1964. Rpt. New York City: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 1996.
(2) Who Stole Sassi Manoon? New York City: Random House, 1968.
m. Other
F.L. Bailey & Aronson, Pt. 2, Ch. 4-8; Pt. 3, Ch. 5-10; Pt. 4, Ch. 1, 4, 6-10; Pt. 5.
B. Baker & L.L. King, Ch. 1, 15.
Bolden, Ch. 16-18.
Fredric Brown. Mrs. Murphy's Underpants. 1963. Rpt. London: American Bloodhound Mystery, 1965.
Davidson, Ch. 8.
Ellroy. Killer on the Road. 1986. Rpt. New York City: Perennial, 2002: Ch. 11.
English, The Corporation, Ch. 6.
M.S. Evans & M. Moore, Pt. 1, Ch. 1, 3.
Farren, Ch. 7.
Friedman, Robert I. Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2000: Ch. 3.
Goddard, The Insider, Ch. 6-7.
Goodis, David. Somebody’s Done For. 1967. Rpt. London: Xanadu, 1990.
D.N. Griffin & Cullotta, Ch. 6.
“Halliday, Bret” [Robert Terrell]. Violence Is Golden. New York City: Dell Publishing Co., 1968.
Hodel & Pezzullo, Ch. 9-12, 14-19.
P. Hoffman, Ch. 10-11.
W. Hoffman & Headley, Ch. 9, 11.
Hougan, Ch. 1, 3.
E.J. Kahn. Fraud, Ch. 3, 5, 15.
L'Amour, Louis [Louis LaMoore]. The Broken Gun. New York City: Bantam Books, 1966.
D. McGowan, Ch. 5, 11, 19.
McClintick. Swordfish: A True Story of Ambition, Savagery, and Betrayal. New York City: Pantheon Books, 1993: Ch. 4.
Messick, Syndicate in the Sun, Ch. 1-3, 6-7, 9-12.
D'A. O'Connor & M. O'Connor, Ch. 12-13.
Porrello. $uperthief, Ch. 5-7.
G.L. Posner, Killing the Dream, Ch. 18-27.
Rifkin, Shepard. The Murderer Vine. 1970. Rpt. New York City: Hard Case Crime, 2008.
Rothbard, Never a Dull Moment, Ch. 41.
Sokoloff, Ch. 6.
W. Tucker, Ch. 2, 8-9.
Waldron & Hartmann, Legacy of Secrecy, Ch. 38.
Winston, Ali, and Darwin BondGraham. The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-Up in Oakland. New York City: Atria Books, 2023: Ch. 6.
4. The Barbarians
a. Greater Los Angeles
i. The Manson Family
Bugliosi and Gentry. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders, rev. ed. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1994.
O'Neill & Piepenbring, Ch. 1-5, 8, 12.
Sanders, Ch. 3-9, 13-15, 17-24, 26, 28-37, 39-112, 114-116.
Terry, Maury. The Ultimate Evil: The Truth About the Cult Murders: Son of Sam & Beyond, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Barnes & Noble Books, 1999: Ch. 21, 23-24.
ii. Ellroy
(1) Killer on the Road. 1986. Rpt. New York City: Perennial, 2002: Ch. 4-10.
(2) My Dark Places, Ch. 10.
iii. Other
Cashill, What’s the Matter With California?, Ch. 5.
Hoskyns. Waiting for the Sun: A Rock ‘n’ Roll History of Los Angeles, rev. ed. New York City: Backbeat Books, 2009: Ch. 2-6.
R. Lindsey, Ch. 4-6.
Medved, Michael, and David Wallichinsky. Whatever Happened to the Class of '65? New York City: Random House, 1976.
Mustaine, Dave, and Layden. Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir, rev. ed. New York City: It Books, 2013: Ch. 1.
Talese, Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Ch. 13-14.
Wurlitzer. Quake. New York City: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1972.
b. The Clintons
Andersen, American Evita, Ch. 2.
Jeffreys-Jones, Ch. 14.
E. Klein, The Truth About Hillary, Ch. 7-9.
R. Morris. Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America. New York City: John Macrae/Henry Holt and Co., 1996: Ch. 4-8.
Poe, Richard. Hillary’s Secret War: The Clinton Conspiracy to Muzzle Internet Journalists. Nashville, Tenn.: World Net Daily, 2004: Ch. 4.
R.J. Stone & Morrow, Ch. 1, 19.
Tyrrell, Ch. 2-4.
c. Greater New York City
i. Harry et al.
Harry, Chris Stein, and Victor Bockris. Making Tracks: The Rise of Blondie, rev. ed. New York City: Da Capo Press, 1998.
Harry & S. Simmons, Ch. 3.
ii. Others
Abagnale & Redding, Ch. 1.
Burroughs, William S. Jr. Speed. 1970. Rpt. Woodstock, N.Y.: Overlook Press, 1984.
“T. Coe.” Murder Among Children, rev. ed. Unity, Maine: Five Star, 2000.
Chang, Ch. 3.
Eppolito & Drury, Ch. 13.
Fearon, Ch. 5.
Flanagan, Harley. Hard-Core: Life of My Own. Ed. Laura Lee Flanagan. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2016: Ch. 1.
Gill, Jonathan. Harlem: The Four Hundred Year History From Dutch Village to Capital of Black America. New York City: Grove Press, 2011: Ch. 11.
S. Heller, Ch. 3-4.
Hettie Jones, Ch. 21-23.
Kostelanetz, Ch. 35.
Kuhn, The Hardhat Riot, Ch. 2.
Kunen, James Simon. The Strawberry Statement: Notes of a College Revolutionary. 1969. Rpt. St. James, N.Y.: Brandywine Press, 1995.
Kunstler, James Howard. Thunder Island. New York City: Bantam Books, 1988.
MacDonnell, Allan. Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine. Los Angeles: Feral House, 2006: Ch. 2.
Manso, Ptown, Ch. 17.
Spillane & M.A. Collins, The Big Bang, Ch. 1-4, 7, 10-11.
Strausbaugh, The Village, Ch. 28.
d. Greater San Francisco
Cashill, What’s the Matter With California?, Ch. 27, 32.
McGowan, David. Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder. New York City: iUniverse, 2004: Ch. 13.
O'Neill & Piepenbring, Ch. 9-10.
A. Parry, Ch. 27.
Posobiec, Ch. 13.
D. Talbot, Season of the Witch, Ch. 1-2, 4-6, 11-12, 14-15, 17, 25.
Torgoff. Can’t Find My Way Home, Ch. 9.
Von Hoffman. We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against. 1968. Rpt. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1989.
e. The Brits
i. C. James

(1) Falling Toward England, Ch. 9-18. Rpt. Always Unreliable, 247-320.
(2) May Week Was in June. 1990. Rpt. Always Unreliable, 321-537.
ii. Others
Burgess, Anthony [John Burgess Wilson]. A Clockwork Orange, rev. ed. 1987: Rpt. New York City: Ballentine Books, 1988.
Moorcock, Ch. 6.
Simpson, John. Strange Places, Questionable People. London: Macmillan, 1998: Ch. 2, 4.
Vargas Llosa, The Bad Girl, Ch. 3.
f. Peter Collier & David Horowitz
(1) Deconstructing the Left: From Vietnam to the Persian Gulf. Lanham, Md.: Second Thoughts Books and Center for the Study of Popular Culture, 1991: Pt. 1, 3.
(2) Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the Sixties, rev. ed. New York City: Free Press Paperbacks, 1996: Ch. 1-2, 4, 6-10.
g. Hunter S. Thompson
(1) Hell’s Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga. 1967. Rpt. New York City: The Modern Library, 1999.
(2) The Great Shark Hunt: Strange Tales From a Strange Time. 1979. Rpt. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
(3) Screwjack. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Neville, 1991. Rpt. Screw-Jack. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2000.
(4) Fear and Loathing in America: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, 1968-1976. Ed. Brinkley. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2000.
(5) Ancient Gonzo Wisdom: Interviews With Hunter S. Thompson. Ed. Anita Thompson. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2009.
E.J. Carroll, Ch. 9, 11.
Cleverly, Michael and Bob Braudis. The Kitchen Readings: Untold Stories of Hunter S. Thompson. New York City: Harper Perennial, 2008.
McKeen, Ch. 7-8.
Watkins, Daniel Joseph. Freak Power: Hunter S. Thompson’s Campaign for Sheriff, rev. ed. Aspen, Colo.: The Meat Possum Press, 2020.
h. LSD
M.A. Lee & Shlain, Ch. 4-10.
Spillane & M.A. Collins, The Big Bang, Ch. 13.
Stevens, Ch. 16-17, 19-26.
i. The Underground Press
S. Heller, Ch. 5, 8, 11.
Leamer, Paper Revolutionaries, Ch. 3-7, 9-11.
McMillian, Ch. 2-6.
j. Brown Power
i. La Raza Unida Party
García, Ignacio M. United We Win: The Rise and Fall of La Raza Unida Party. Tucson, Ariz.: Mexican American Studies & Research Center/University of Arizona, 1989.
Montejano, David. Quixote’s Soldiers: A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966-1981. Austin, Texas: U of Texas P, 2010: Ch. 9.
ii. Other
Acosta, Ch. 1-5, 8, 10, 12, 14-16.
Bawer, Ch. 5.
Montejano, Ch. 6-8.
k. The Occult
i. The Scientologists
L. Wright, Going Clear, Ch. 1.
Wyllie, Timothy R. et al. Love, Sex, Fear, Death: The Untold Story of the Process Church of the Final Judgment. Ed. Parfrey. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2009.
ii. Other
Jenkins, Mystics and Messiahs, Ch. 1, 4-5.
G. North. Unholy Spirits: Occultism and New Age Humanism. 1986. Rpt. Tyler, Texas: Institute for Christian Economics, 1994: Ch. 2-5.
l. Schlock 'n' Roll
Barker & Y. Taylor, Ch. 5.
Bustos & Yanez, Ch. 2.
Pollack, Pt. 3.
Kushins, C.M. Nothing’s Bad Luck: The Lives of Warren Zevon. New York City: Da Capo, 2019: Ch. 2.
Reid, Jan, and Shawn Sahm. Texas Tornado: The Times and Music of Doug Sahm. Austin, Texas: U of Texas P, 2010: Ch. 3-4.
Lemmy & Garza, Ch. 3-4.
Strausbaugh. Rock ‘Til You Drop: The Decline From Rebellion to Nostalgia, rev. ed. London: Verso, 2002.
Wald, Ch. 17.
E. Wilson, Ch. 20.
m. The Weathermen
Grathwohl & F. Reagan, Ch. 1, 3-15.
A. Parry, Ch. 26.
Posobiec, Ch. 12.
Stern, Ch. 4-11.
n. Kirsten
(1) Tiki Modern, Ch. 18.
(2) Tiki Pop, Ch. 34.
o. Adam Gorightly
i. The Prankster and the Conspiracy, Ch. 4, 6, 12-13, 21.
ii. b. Caught in the Crossfire, Ch. 21-22.
p. Other
Aldridge, Ch. 5-10.
Anderson, Walter Truett. Reality Isn’t What It Used to Be: Theatrical Politics, Ready-to-Wear Religion, Global Myths, Primitive Chic, and Other Wonders of the Postmodern World. San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1990: Ch. 6.
Bawer, Bruce. The Victims’ Revolution: The Rise of Identity Studies and the Closing of the Liberal Mind. New York City: Broadside Books, 2012: Ch. 6.
W.F. Buckley. The Rake. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007: Ch. 1-6.
Carducci, Ch. 13.
Cashill, What’s the Matter With California?, Ch. 12.
M.A. Collins. A Shroud for Aquarius. New York City: Walker and Co., 1985: Ch. 1.
Coogan, Ch. 51-52.
Corry, Ch. 9.
Corsi, Obama Nation, Ch. 5.
Cuddihy, Ch. 21.
Cummings, Ch. 64.
Cursed From Birth, Ch. 2.
M. Dallek, Ch. 5.
J.H. Davis, The Kennedys, Ch. 59.
T. Davis, Ch. 3, 14, 16, 21.
De Marenches & Andelman, Ch. 8, 10.
Dracos, Ch. 7-13.
Ellroy, Hilliker Curse, Ch. 3.
E.J. Epstein, Annals of Unsolved Crime, Ch. 20, 33.
Essential Mae Brussell, Ch. 10-11.
D. Evanier, Roman Candle, Ch. 12-13.
M.S. Evans & M. Moore, Pt. 1, Ch. 2, 4-5, 12.
Faith & Action: The Collected Articles of R.J. Rushdoony From the Chalcedon Report, 1965-2004, Vol. I: Authority, Humanism & Morality. Vallecito, Calif.: Chalcedon/Ross House Books, 2019: Ch. 114.
Farren, Ch. 5.
Fumento, Michael. The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS, rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1993: Ch. 14.
Goad, Jim. Shit Magnet: One Man's Miraculous Ability to Absorb the World's Guilt. Los Angeles: Feral House, 2002: Ch. 1-3.
Goodman, Paul. New Reformation: Notes of a Neolithic Conservative. New York City: Random House, 1970.
Grogan, Ringolevio, Ch. 3.
Gugliotta, Guy and Jeff Leen. Kings of Cocaine: Inside the Medellin Cartel – an Astonishing True Story of Murder, Money, and International Corruption. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1989: Ch. 3.
Hollander, Ch. 5.
Houellebecq, Pt. 1, Ch. 5-6, 8.
E. James & Ritz, Ch. 21-22.
Jews and American Comics: An Illustrated History of an American Art Form. Ed. Paul Buhle. New York City: The New Press, 2008: Ch. 3.
E.M. Jones, Libido Dominandi, Pt. 3, Ch. 10-14.
E.J. Kahn, Harvard, Ch. 1, 8-9.
Kernan, Alvin. The Death of Literature. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 1990: Ch. 3.
Kirkpatrick, Ch. 2, 8, 10-11, 14-15, 20, 22.
A. Klein & Brenda J. Elliott, Ch. 1-2, 4.
Lasch-Quinn, Ch. 3.
Leonard, Elmore. The Big Bounce, rev. ed. New York City: The Armchair Detective Library, 1989.
Liddy, Ch. 12.
D. Livingstone, Transhumanism, Ch. 25-27.
Manso, Mailer, Ch. 9.
Mariani, America Eats Out, Ch. 13.
Markoff, Ch. 5.
McLeod, Ch. 4, 7.
Moynahan, Ch. 14.
T. O’Brien, July, July, Ch. 5, 9.
Oppenheimer, Crazy Rich, Ch. 33.
A. Parry, Ch. 28.
Peikoff, Leonard. The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom in America. New York City: Stein and Day, 1982: Ch. 15.
Piccone, Paul. "From the New Left to the New Populism." Telos Fall 1994: 173-208.
Piereson, Camelot and the Cultural Revolution, Ch. 8.
Rand and Peter Schwartz. Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Meridian, 1999.
Revel, Jean-François. 1970. Without Marx or Jesus: The New American Revolution Has Begun. Trans. J.F. Bernard. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1971.
The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, Ch. 8.
Rothbard, Never a Dull Moment, Ch. 1, 48, 51, 56.
Rothman, Stanley, and S. Robert Lichter. Roots of Radicalism: Jews, Christians and the Left, rev. ed. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1996.
Sanders, Ch. 2.
Scott-Heron, Ch. 19.
Sedgwick, Ch. 11.
Sherwood, Carlton. Inquisition: The Persecution and Prosecution of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1991: Ch. 11.
Shiner, Glimpses, Ch. 1-4, 9.
Sklar, Dusty [Ethel Kwalbrun Sklar]. The Nazis and the Occult. Rpt. New York City: Dorset Press, 1977: Ch. 16.
Sokoloff, Ch. 8-9.
J. Stein, Ch. 15-40.
Sterling, Bruce. The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier. New York City: Bantam Books, 1992: Pt. 2.
Stern, Susan. With the Weathermen: The Personal Journal of a Revolutionary Woman. 1975. Rpt. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers UP, 2007: Ch. 1-3.
Stockman. Trumped!: A Nation on the Brink of Ruin … and How to Bring It Back. Baltimore Laissez Faire Books, 2016: Ch. 23.
Szasz. Antipsychiatry: Quackery Squared. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse UP, 2009.
E. Thomas, The Man to See, Ch. 22.
L. Thompson. The Rescuers: The World's Top Anti-Terrorist Units. Boulder, Colo.: Paladin Press, 1986: Ch. 1.
Torgoff. Can’t Find My Way Home, Ch. 1, 7.
Turner, Fred. From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digitial Utopianism. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006: Ch. 1-4, 8.
Vergara, Camilo José. American Ruins. New York City: The Monacelli Press, 1999.
Wenner & Corey Seymour, Ch. 3-4.
West, Diana. The Death of the Grown-Up: How America’s Arrested Development Is Bringing Down Western Civilization. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 2007: Ch. 3.
Westlake. The Spy in the Ointment. 1966. Rpt. New York City: The Mysterious Press, 1987.
Wurlitzer, Rudolph. Nog. 1968. Rpt. Columbus, Ohio: Two Dollar Radio, 2009.
5. The Blacks
a. Barack Hussein Obama Jr.
i.Corsi
(1) Obama Nation, Ch. 7.
(2) Where's the Birth Certificate?, Ch. 10, Appendix A.
ii. Other
Cashill. "You Lie!": The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama. New York City: Broadside Books, 2014: Ch. 1.
A. Klein & Elliott, Ch. 3.
Obama, Barack. Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, rev. ed. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2004: Ch. 2.
Maraniss, Ch. 10.
Sailer, Ch. 4.
b. The Black Muslims
Malcolm X, Ch. 17-19.
Sailer, Ch. 8.
Ventura & D. Russell, Ch. 4.
c. Chicago
Royko, Ch. 7.
Von Hoffman, Radical, Ch. 5.
d. The Black Panthers
Baruch, Ruth-Marion, and Pirkle Jones. Black Panthers 1968. Los Angeles: Greybull Press, 2002.
E.M. Jones, The Jewish Revolutionary Spirit, Ch. 29.
e. The Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination
Bowart, Ch. 23.
Melanson, Philip H. The Martin Luther King Assassination: New Revelations on the Conspiracy and Cover-Up, 1968-1991, rev. ed. New York City: Shapolsky Publishers, 1991.
P.F. Nelson, Who Really Killed Martin Luther King Jr.?, Ch. 7-13, Appendix A-C.
Pepper, William F. The Plot to Kill King: The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2016.
G.L. Posner, Killing the Dream, Ch. 1-11, 28-33.
Rothbard, Never a Dull Moment, Ch. 44, 47.
Waldron & Hartmann, Legacy of Secrecy, Ch. 39-41, 43-45, 47-53.
f. Amiri Baraka [Everett LeRoi Jones]
i. Tales. 1967. Rpt. New York City: Akhashic Books, 2016.
ii. The Autobiography of LeRoi Jones, Ch. 8-10.
g. Scott-Heron
Baram, Ch. 5-9.
Scott-Heron, Ch. 14-17.
h. Ohio
Masotti & Corsi, Ch. 2-6.
Tittle, Diana. Welcome to Heights High: The Crippling Politics of Restructuring America’s Schools. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State UP, 1995: Ch. 16.
i. Other
E. Abbott, Ch. 6.
Andrews, Ch. 6.
Boehme, Lillian R. Carte Blanche for Chaos. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1970.
Claude Brown, Ch. 18.
Chang, Ch. 2.
Cummings, Ch. 29-30.
M. Dallek, Ch. 7.
Die Nigger Die!: A Political Autobiography by H. Rap Brown (Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin). 1969. Rpt. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2002.
G. Edwards, Ch. 2.
L. Edwards, Goldwater, Ch. 12.
Eisler. Masters of the Game: Inside the World's Most Powerful Law Firm. New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2010: Ch. 11.
English, The Corporation, Ch. 9.
Grandmaster Flash [Joseph Robert Saddler], David Ritz, and Geoff Martin. The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My Beats. New York City: Broadway Books, 2008: Pt. 1.
Hawes & Asher, Ch. 22.
Himes, Plan B, Ch. 1-2, 5-9, 12-23.
Lasch-Quinn, Ch. 2, 4.
Lethem, Jonathan. The Fortress of Solitude. 2003. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 2004: Pt. 2.
McPherson, James Alan. Hue and Cry: Stories. 1969. Rpt. New York City: Ecco, 2001.
R. Parker & Rashke, Ch. 21.
Rothbard, Never a Dull Moment, Ch. 12, 14-16, 22.
Sallis, Ch. 19.
Scheips, Ch. 7, 10-11.
Sides, Ch. 6.
Timmerman, Kenneth R. Shakedown: Exposing the Real Jesse Jackson. Washington, D.C.: Regenery Publishing, 2002: Ch. 1-2.
J.A. Williams, Ch. 1-4, 8, 14, 17, 25, 28-29.
Wooldridge, William C. Uncle Sam, the Monopoly Man. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1970: Ch. 4.
6. Chicago
Ciccone, Ch. 6-10.
Michaeli, Ch. 19-22.
Royko, Ch. 10.
7. The Go-Go Economy
a. The Computer Industry
Ceruzzi, Ch. 6.
Freiberger & Swaine, Ch. 3-5.
Kidder, Tracy. The Soul of a New Machine, rev. ed. New York City: The Modern Library, 1997: Ch. 1.
Segaller, Ch. 3, 5, 12.
Tau, Pt. 4, Ch. 3.
b. Finance
i. ESM

J.R. Adams, Ch. 8.
Maggin, Donald L. Bankers, Builders, Knaves, and Thieves: The $300 Million Scam at ESM. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1989: Ch. 4.
ii. J. Brooks
(1) Business Adventures, Ch. 6, 10.
(2) The Go-Go Years, Ch. 1, 5-11, 13-14.
iii. Cohan
(1) House of Cards, Ch. 16.
(2) Money and Power, Ch. 7.
(3) Why Wall Street Maters. New York City: Random House, 2017: Ch. 6.
iv. Others
Ammann, Ch. 6, 16.
Bloomberg, Michael, and Matthew Winkler. Bloomberg by Bloomberg. New York City: John Wiley & Sons, 1997: Ch. 2, 7.
Byron, Martha Inc., Ch. 3.
Elias, Ch. 5, 7-8, 11.
P.C. Newman, Vol. III, Ch. 11.
Nocera, Ch. 2-3.
Risso-Gill, Christopher. There’s Always Something to Do: The Peter Cundill Investment Approach. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2011: Ch. 2.
D. Schulman, Ch. 5.
Tosches, Power on Earth, Ch. 8.
c. Pharmaceuticals
C.C. Mann & Plummer, Ch. 19.
G.L. Posner, Pharma, Ch. 21-23, 25-26.
d. Advertising
Della Femina, Jerry. From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor: Front-Line Dispatches From the Advertising War, rev. ed. Ed. Charles Sopkin. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2010.
T. Frank, Ch. 5-7.
e. Food
Hoyt, Ch. 31.
Ozersky, Colonel Sanders and the American Dream, Ch. 4.
W.I. Walsh, Ch. 8.
f. Brewers
Knoedelseder, Bitter Brew, Ch. 7-8.
Ogle, Maureen. Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer. 2006 Rpt. Orlando, Fla.: Harvest/Harcourt, 2007: Ch. 7.
g. Trump
W. Barrett. Trump: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Deals, the Downfall, the Reinvention, rev. ed. New York City: Regan Arts, 2016: Ch. 3.
Trump, Donald J., and Tony Schwartz. Trump: The Art of the Deal. 1987. Rpt. New York City: Ballentine Books, 2004: Ch. 4.
Tuccille, Trump, Ch. 9-11.
h. Vesco
Dorman, Ch. 3, 5.
Herzog, Ch. 3, 5, 7.
i. Donald Bain
Bain. Murder, HE Wrote, Ch. 8, 11.
"Baker, Trudy, and Rachel Jones." Coffee, Tea or Me?: The Uninhibited Memoirs of Two Airline Stewardesses, rev. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 2003.
“Cole, Kathy, and Donna Bain.” Girlpower: A Laugh-Packed Guide to the Guys and Gals Who Make Modern Business What It Is. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Publications, 1971.
j. Others
Authers, John. The Fearful Rise of Markets: Gobal Bubbles, Synchronized Meltdowns, and How to Prevent Them in the Future. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: FT Press, 2010: Ch. 2.
Brenner, Ch. 13, 15-16.
Brewton, Ch. 3.
Burrough & Helyar, Ch. 5.
Byron, Testosterone Inc., Ch. 5.
Considine, Larger Than Life, Ch. 16.
Cudahy, Ch. 5, 8.
E.J. Epstein, The Rise and Fall of Diamonds, Ch. 21.
Fishman, Charles. The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works -- and How It's Transforming the American Economy, rev. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 2007: Ch. 2.
S. Heller, Ch. 12.
E.J. Kahn, The Problem Solvers, Ch. 11-12.
Pinkerton, Ch. 26.
Pringle & Spigelman, Ch. 17.
Raviv. Comic Wars: How Two Tycoons Battled Over the Marvel Comics Empire – and Both Lost. New York City: Broadway Books, 2002: Ch. 1.
Seldes, Ch. 8.
Vuic, Ch. 1.
Weaver, Ch. 11.
Wooldridge, Ch. 2.
8. Western Asia
a. The Six-Day War
i. The Attack on the U.S.S. Liberty
Cristol, A. Jay. The Liberty Incident Revealed: The Definitive Account of the 1967 Israeli Attack on the U.S. Navy Spy Ship, rev. ed. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 2013.
S. Green, Taking Sides, Ch. 9.
Loftus & Aarons, Ch. 12.
Mellen. Blood in the Water: How the U.S. and Israel Conspired to Ambush the USS Liberty. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2018.
B. Morris, Righteous Victims, Ch. 7.
P.F. Nelson, LBJ, Ch. 8-9, Appendix B.
P.F. Nelson et al. Remember the Liberty!: Almost Sunk by Treason on the High Seas. Walterville, Ore.: Trine Day, 2017.
Scott, James. The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel’s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2009.
R. Stone & Colapietro, The Man Who Killed Kennedy, Ch. 21.
ii. Jerusalem
Cline, Ch. 10.
Irving. The Battle of Jerusalem: The Six-Day War of June, 1967. New York City: The Macmillan Co., 1970.
Montefiore, Ch. 53.
iii. Copeland
(1) Game of Nations, Ch. 13.
(2) Game Player, Ch. 22.
iv. Others
Avnery, Israel Without Zionism, Ch. 2.
G.W. Ball & D.W. Ball, Ch. 9.
Berkman, Ted. Sabra: The Story of the Men and Women Behind the Guns of Israel. 1969. Rpt. Carpinteria, Calif.: Manifest Publications, 1999.
I. Black & B. Morris, Ch. 7-9.
Blum. The Eve of Destruction: The Untold Story of the Yom Kippur War. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003: Ch. 1.
Bregman, Ahron. Cursed Victory: A History of Israel and the Occupied Territories, rev. ed. New York City: Pegasus Books, 2015: Ch. 1-4.
Chamish, Ch. 2.
Doron & Gellman, Ch. 3-4, 6-7.
Melman & Raviv, Ch. 7.
B. Morris, Righteous Victims, Ch. 8.
Murvachik, Ch. 4.
Oren. Six Days of War: June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford UP, 2002.
Perlmutter, Ch. 28.
S. Posner, Ch. 19.
Rothbard, Never a Dull Moment, Ch. 11.
Sanua, Ch. 5.
Sharon & Chanoff, Ch. 14-15.
Shlaim, Ch. 7.
Steven, Ch. 17.
G. Thomas, Ch. 3.
Tyler, Ch. 2.
D. Wilson, Ch. 10.
Zertal, Idith, and Akiva Eldar. Lords of the Land: The War Over Israel's Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007, rev. ed. Trans. Vivian Eden. New York City: Nation Books, 2007: Ch. 1, 6-7.
b. Espionage
Bergman, Ch. 6, 8, 20.
Brackett, Leigh. Silent Partner. New York City: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1969: Ch. 1, 8-29.
Clarridge & Diehl, Ch. 7.
Raviv & Melman, Ch. 8.
Steven, Ch. 18-20.
c. Saudi Arabia
Hiro, Ch. 7.
G.L. Posner, Secrets of the Kingdom, Ch. 12.
d. Iran
A.S. Cooper, Ch. 6.
Heikal, Ch. 8-9, 11.
Jerome, Pt. 2, Ch. 8.
Parsi, Ch. 4.
Shawcross, Ch. 12.
e. Israel
Avnery, Israel Without Zionism, Ch. 9-11, 13.
Bergman, Ch. 9.
Chafets, Ch. 8, 10.
S. Green. Living by the Sword: American and Israel in the Middle East 1968-1987. London: Faber and Faber, 1988: Ch. 1-4.
S.M. Hersh, Samson Option, Ch. 13, 19.
S. Segev, Ch. 3.
Y. Shapiro, Ch. 8.
Sharon & Chanoff, Ch. 16-20.
Tyrmand, Leopold. Notebooks of a Dilettante. New York City: The Macmillan Co., 1970: Ch. 3.
Van Creveld, The Land of Blood and Honey, Ch. 3.
f. Other
Ajami. The Arab Predicament: Arab Political Thought and Practice Since 1967, rev. ed. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge UP, 1992.
Beit-Hallahmi, Ch. 6.
Bodansky, Yossef. Target America & the West: Terrorism Today. New York City: S.P.I. Books, 1993: Ch. 7.
F. Burton & Bruning, Ch. 8, 11.
E.J. Epstein, Dossier, Ch. 18.
Ehrenfeld, Ch. 3.
P. Evans, Ch. 18. 20.
Fiennes, Ch. 48.
London Sunday Times. Insight Team. The Yom Kippur War, rev. ed. London: André Deutsch, 1975: Pt. 1, Ch. 1-2.
Melman & Raviv, Ch. 8, 15.
Muravchik, Ch. 3.
Parsi, Ch. 3.
Pelletière, Ch. 3.
S. Posner, Ch. 20, 25.
Pryce-Jones, David. The Closed Circle: An Interpretation of the Arabs, 2nd rev. ed. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2009: Ch. 11.
Rothbard, Never a Dull Moment, Ch. 7.
Steven, Ch. 21-22.
Waxman, Ch. 6, 11.
9. Central Asia
Coll, Steve. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, From the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, rev. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 2005: Ch. 6.
Margolis, War at the Top of the World, Ch. 7, 9.
Musharraf, Ch. 7.
Riedel, Ch. 2.
10. Reagan
W.F. Buckley, The Reagan I Knew, Ch. 2-4.
Cannon, Governor Reagan, Ch. 11-12, 14-18, 20-22.
Colacello, Ch. 14-15.
Courtright, Ch. 7.
M. Dallek, Ch. 8-10.
Moldea, Dark Victory, Ch. 35.
Nofziger, Ch. 3.
O'Shea, James. The Daisy Chain: How Borrowed Billions Sank a Texas S&L. New York City: Pocket Books, 1991: Ch. 4.
R.W. Reagan. The Creative Society: Some Comments on Problems Facing America. New York City: The Devin-Adair Co., 1968.
Schweizer, Reagan’s War, Ch. 8.
11. Las Vegas
Denton & R. Morris, Ch. 13.
Hack, Ch. 16.
Messick, The Mob in Show Business, Ch. 13.
J.L. Smith, Ch. 8-9, 12-13, 28.
12. Latin America
a. Mexico
Demaris, Poso del Mundo, Ch. 3-5, 8.
Fero, Kelly. The Zani Murders. Austin, Texas: Texas Monthly Press, 1990: Ch. 1.
J. Preston & Dillon, Ch. 3.
b. Elsewhere
Ellroy, Blood’s a Rover, Ch. 60.
Kinzer, Overthrow, Ch. 11.
Marshall, and P.D. Scott. Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, 2nd rev. ed. Berkeley, Calif: U of California P, 1998: Ch. 4.
T. Miller, Ch. 28.
Odishelidze & Laffer, Ch. 5.
Perkins, Ch. 13.
J.B. Smith, Ch. 21.
Timerman, Jacobo. Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number. Trans. Toby Talbot. 1981. Rpt. Madison, Wis.: U of Wisconsin P, 2002: Ch. 5.
Updike. Brazil. Franklin Center, Pa.: Franklin Library, 1994: Ch. 1-16.
13. East Asia
a. Indonesia
Maraniss, Ch. 9.
Soeharto’s New Order, Ch. 4, 8-10.
b. The Philippines
Bowart, Ch. 20.
Hodel & Pezzullo, Ch. 8.
McCoy, Torture and Impunity, Ch. 4.
S. Seagrave, Marcos Dynasty. Ch. 8-10, 16.
c. Elsewhere
Bartholomew, James. The Richest Man in the World: The Sultan of Brunei. 1989. Rpt. Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin, 1990: Ch. 15, 17.
C. Johnson, MITI and the Japanese Miracle, Ch. 8.
I. Johnson, Ch. 13.
14. Christianity
Brown, Harold O.J. The Protest of a Troubled Protestant. 1969. Rpt. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1971.
Douthat, Ch. 3-4.
W. Martin, Ch. 4-5.
Putnam, Robert D., David E. Campbell, and Shaylyn Romney Garrett. American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, rev. ed. New York City: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2012: Ch. 4.
15. Greater New York
a. Jeffrey Epstein
Goodman, Alana, and Daniel Halper. A Convenient Death: The Mysterious Demise of Jeffrey Epstein. New York City: Sentinel, 2020: Ch. 6.
W. Webb, Vol. II, Ch. 11.
b. Other
Baldwin, Alec [Alexander R. Baldwin III]. Nevertheless: A Memoir. New York City: Harper, 2017: Ch. 1-2.
Campanella, Ch. 18.
D’Antonio, Michael. The Truth About Trump, rev. ed. New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Griffin, 2016: Ch. 3-4.
R. Klein, Ch. 12.
New York Unbound, Ch. 3, 9.
Osman, Ch. 6-7.
Pedersen, Laura. Buffalo Gal: A Memoir. Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum, 2008: Ch. 2, 8.
Talese, The Bridge, Ch. 9-10.
Tuccille, Heretic, Ch. 37-38.
Woolever, Ch. 2.
Yurick. Fertig. 1966. Rpt. New York City: Avon, 1975.
G. Weiss. Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie. New York City: Hachette Books, 2022: Ch. 2.
Zion, Ch. 12.
Zito & Layden, Ch. 3-6.
16. The Caribbean
Kusche, Ch. Messick, 42-47.
Syndicate Abroad, Ch. 9.
Westlake, Under an English Heaven, Ch. 3-25, 27, 29.
17. The News Media
a. CBS
Brinkley, Ch. 18, 20-21, 23.
Daniel, Ch. 6.
Reasoner, Ch. 11-12.
b. Other
Bernstein, Chasing History, Ch. 20-27.
Daugherty, Ch. 16.
E.J. Epstein. News From Nowhere: Television and the News, rev. ed. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2000.
Rosenblum, Herbert. We’ll Have More Music, Right After the News. Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, 2005.
Tuccille. Rupert Murdoch, rev. ed. New York City: Donald I. Fine, 1990: Ch. 3-4.
18. Africa
a. South Africa
E.J. Kahn. The Separated People: A Look at Contemporary South Africa. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1968.
Mercer, Ilana. Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America From Post-Apartheid South Africa. Seattle: Stairway Press, 2011: Ch. 7.
b. Other
R.W. Lee, Ch. 6.
I. Smith, Ch. 7-12.
19. California
Cashill, What’s the Matter With California?, Ch. 1, 20.
Dunne. Delano: The Story of the California Grape Strike, rev. ed. 1971. Rpt. Berkeley, Calif.: U of California P, 2008: Ch. 1-3, 5, 7-15.
Ruscha, Ed. Every Building on the Sunset Strip. Los Angeles: Heavy Industry Publications, 1966.
20. The Mercenaries
Hoare, Mike. Congo Mercenary, 2nd rev. ed. 2008. Rpt. Barnsley, U.K.: Greenhill Books, 2008.
Mockler, Ch. 9-12.
21. Richard Brautigan
a. Revenge of the Lawn: Stories 1962-1970. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1970.
b. The Hawkline Monster: A Gothic Western. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1974.
c. Dreaming of Babylon: A Private Eye Novel, 1942. New York City: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1977.
22. E. Buchanan
a. Corpse Had a Familiar Face, Ch. 5-8.
b. Never Let Them See You Cry, Ch. 16.
23. W.F. Buckley
a. Tucker's Last Stand, Ch. 11.
b. Getting It Right, Ch. 47-49, 51-53.
24. Joan Didion
a. Slouching Toward Bethlehem. 1968. Rpt. New York City: The Modern Library, 2000.
b. Play It as It Lays. New York City: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970.
25. Kwitny
a. Endless Enemies, Ch. 18.
b. Crimes of Patriots, Ch. 5.
26. Oates
a. them, Pt. 3.
b. Marriages and Infidelities and Other Stories. New York City: Vanguard Press, 1972.
c. Crime Area: Tales of Darkness and Dread. New York City: The Mysterious Press, 2014.
27. Pynchon
a. The Crying of Lot 49. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1966.
b. Inherent Vice. New York City: The Penguin Press, 2009.
28. Updike
Updike, Villages, Ch. 9-10.
Begley, Ch. 6-8.
Fromer, Ch. 6.
29. Vidal
F. Kaplan, Ch. 14-16.
Vidal, Point to Point Navigation, Ch. 26, 36.
30. T. Wolfe
a. Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers. New York City: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1970.
b. Mauve Gloves & Madmen, Clutter & Vine, and Other Stories, Sketches, and Essays. 1976. Rpt. New York City: The Noonday Press, 1990.
31. Other
Alford, Ch. 12.
J. Anderson, Ch. 18.
Bamford, Ch. 5.
Baritz. The Good Life: The Meaning of Success for the American Middle Class. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989: Ch. 5.
Blumenthal, Ch. 49-50.
Bottum, Ch. 9, 11-13.
Brackett, Ch. 2-7, 30.
Bryce, Robert. Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron, rev. ed. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2003: Ch. 3.
W.F. Buckley, The Rake, Ch. 7.
Burrough, The Big Rich, Ch. 15.
Bunting, Ch. 15-17.
Capeci, Murder Machine, Ch. 3.
R. Cohen, Ch. 15.
Copeland, Game Player, Ch. 21.
Cumming Anne. [Mathilda Young Mason, Duchess of Argyll]. The Love Habit: The Sexual Confessions of an Older Woman. 1977. Rpt. New York City: Penguin Books, 1980: Ch. 1-5.
Cutler, Ch. 3-5.
M. Dallek, Ch. 6.
Davidson, Ch. 1, 11.
Dean & Goldwater, Ch. 10.
Debenham, Matt. The Book of Right and Wrong. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State UP, 2010.
D. Dodge. The Poor Man’s Guide to the Orient. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1965.
L. Edwards, Missionary for Freedom, Ch. 17-18.
Eggers, Paul. The Departure Lounge: Stories and a Novella. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State UP, 2009.
Eisler, Masters of the Game, Ch. 2.
Erickson, Steve. These Dreams of You. New York City: Europa Editions, 2012.
P. Evans, Ch. 16-17, 19, 21.
J. Ferris, Ch. 27.
Fleisher & Freedman, Ch. 4.
George and L.M. Wilcox, Ch. 6-8, 11, 16, 18-19, 21.
Haas, Ch. 3.
Havill, Ch. 6.
Heimann, Ulin & K. Starr, Ch. 6.
Hewitt, Ch. 6-7.
Hoffer, Eric. The Temper of Our Time. 1967. Rpt. Cutchogue, N.Y.: Buccaneer Books, 1976.
Hoskyns, Lowside of the Road, Pt. 1, Ch. 2.
Horwitt, Ch. 25-27.
Hourani, Ch. 25-26.
Hutt, Ch. 3-5, 14, 18.
D.M. Jacobs, Ch. 8-9.
E. James & Ritz, Ch. 18, 23.
Jeansonne, Ch. 11.
Jenkins. Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford UP, 2006: Ch. 3.
P. Johnson, Modern Times, Ch. 18.
Kazin, Ch. 8.
Kirkpatrick, Ch. 5, 21.
Kessler, The Spy in the Russian Club, Ch. 4.
Kirsten, Book of Tiki, Ch. 22.
Kranish & Helman, Ch. 3-4.
Larkin, Philip. High Windows. 1974. Rpt. in Collected Poems, rev. ed. Ed. Anthony Thwaite. London: The Marvell Press, 1990: 159-201.
Lennon, Ch. 9.
Y. Levine, Ch. 4.
B. Levinson, Ch. 2-32.
Levy, Steven. Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government -- Saving Privacy in the Digital Age. New York City: Viking, 2001.
Liddy, Ch. 13.
Llorente, Ch. 22.
Maddox, Ch. 5-10.
Manso, Ptown, Ch. 18.
Marrs, PSI Spies, Ch. 3.
McCorduck, Ch. 1, 5-6, 13.
McDougall, Walter A. Promised Land, Crusader State: The American Encounter with the World Since 1776. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1997: Ch. 8.
McNamee, Ch. 3-4.
McVicar, Ch. 4-5.
Meckler, Ch. 1.
Moldea, Dark Victory, Ch. 30.
Napoleoni, Ch. 3-4.
G.H. Nash, Ch. 10.
Leebaert, Ch. 7.
Oglesby, Ch. 5.
Oppenheimer, Crazy Rich, Ch. 27-29, 33, 45.
A. Parry, Ch. 29.
Pelecanos, Hard Revolution, Pt. 2.
Persico, Ch. 10.
Popowski, Ch. 2-7.
Rectenwald. Springtime for Snowflakes: “Social Justice” and Its Postmodern Parentage: A Memoir. Nashville, Tenn.: New English Review Press, 2018: Ch. 3.
P. Robb, Ch. 9.
Rothbard, Never a Dull Moment, Ch. 3, 17, 23, 25, 27, 53.
Rushdoony, Bread Upon the Waters, Ch. 1-5, 7-10, 18, 20-21, 23, 26, 29, 35, 41, 43-44, 46-47, 50-51.
R. Russo, The Outfit, Ch. 19, 22, 26.
Salter. A Sport and a Pastime. 1967. Rpt. London: Picador, 2007.
Sanders, Ch. 16.
Schroth, Ch. 13-14.
F. Schwarz, Ch. 27.
Scribner, Ch. 8.
Sherwood, Ch. 3.
Sedgwick, Ch. 7-8, 13.
Shorter, Edward. The Making of the Modern Family. 1975. Rpt. London: Collins, 1979: Ch. 8.
S.B. Smith, In All His Glory, Ch. 44.
Stadiem, Too Rich, Ch. 13.
Stanford, White House Call Girl, Ch. 9.
Strauss and N. Howe. Generations: The History of America's Future, 1584-2069. New York City: William Morrow, 1991: Ch. 11.
Talese, Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Ch. 10.
Tyrmand, Ch. 1-2, 4-5.
Van Meter, Ch. 9.
Watkins, Ch. 4.
White, Richard. "It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own": A New History of the American West. Norman, Okla.: U of Oklahoma P, 1991: Ch. 20.
C. Williams. The Wrong Venus. 1966. Rpt. New York City: Harper & Row, 1983.
Wolff, Ch. 5, 8, 13.
R. Yates, Ch. 9.
K. Young, Ch. 12.
Yurick. Someone Just Like You. 1972. Rpt. New York City: Manor Books, 1974.
Zion, Ch. 10.

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