A. Street Life
1. Organized Crime
a. The Mafia
i. Chicago
Coen, Jeff. Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2009.
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. 19-25.
S. Giancana and Chuck Giancana. Double Cross: The Explosive, Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America. New York City: Warner Books, 1992: Ch. 1.
Iceberg Slim [Robert Lee Maupin]. Death Wish. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1977: Ch. 1-2, 4-5, 7, 10, 13-15, 17-28.
ii. Las Vegas
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. 14.
Smith, John L. Sharks in the Desert: The Founding Fathers and Current Kings of Las Vegas. Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, 2005: Ch. 5.
iii. 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. 6, 8.
Pileggi, Nicholas. Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1985: Ch. 12-22.
iv. Jerry Capeci
(a) Murder Machine: A True Story of Murder, Madness, and the Mafia. New York City: Dutton, 1992: Prologue, Ch. 4-9, 11-13
(b) The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Mafia, rev. ed. Indianapolis: Alpha, 2004: Ch. 17.
(c) Mob Star: The Story of John Gotti. Indianapolis: Alpha, 2002: Ch. 1, 10-16. 
v. Other
Anastasia, George. The Last Gangster: From Cop to Wiseguy to FBI Informant: Big Ron Previte and the Fall of the American Mob. New York City: Regan Books, 2004: Ch. 2.
Block, Alan A. Space, Time, and Organized Crime, rev. ed. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1994: Ch. 7-10.
Brewton, Pete. The Mafia, CIA, and George Bush. New York City: S.P.I. Books, 1992: Ch. 15.
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.13-16.
Davis, John H. Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. New York City: McGraw-Hill, 1989: Ch. 48, 51-55.
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. 26, 28.
Konigsberg, Eric. Blood Relation. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005: Ch. 11.
Leonard, Elmore. Gold Coast. 1980. Rpt. New York City: HarperTorch, 2002.
Moldea, Dan E. Interference: How Organized Crime Influences Professional Football. New York City: William Morrow and Co., 1989: Ch. 24-28, 30-35, 37-41.
J. Neff, Ch. 13, 18-19, 23.
Pistone, Joseph D., and Richard Woodley. Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia, rev. ed. New York City: Signet, 1989: Ch. 3-16.
Talese, Gay. Honor Thy Father, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Harper Perennial, 2009: Ch. 31-32.
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. 1-2, 4-13, 15.
b. Other
Collins, Max Allan. American Gangster. New York City: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 2007: Ch. 1-26.
Evans-Pritchard, Ambrose. The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1997: Ch. 18, Appendix C.
Friedman, Robert I. Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2000: Ch. 2, 7.
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. 15-24, 26-30, 32-35, 40.
Kwitny, Jonathan. The Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money, and the CIA, corr. ed. New York City: Touchstone, 1988: Ch. 17.
Lehr, Dick, and Gerard O’Neill. Black Mass: The Irish Mob, the FBI, and a Devil's Deal. 2000. Rpt. New York City: Harper Perennial, 2001: Ch. 1, 3-5.
Posner, Gerald L. Warlords of Crime: Chinese Secret Societies – The New Mafia. 1988. Rpt. Penguin Books, 1990: Ch. 12, 15.
Sterling, Claire. Octopus: The Long Reach of the International Sicilian Mafia. 1990. Rpt. London: Harper Collins, 1993: Ch. 9.
2. Detroit
Leonard. City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit. New York City: Arbor House, 1980.
a. Goines
i-a. Crime Partners. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1974. 
i-b. Death List. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1974.
i-c. Kenyatta’s Escape. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1974: Ch. 1, 3
i-d. Kenyatta's Last Hit. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1975: Ch. 3.
ii. Daddy Cool. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1974.
Stone, Eddie. Donald Writes No More: A Biography of Donald Goines, rev. ed. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1988: Ch. 10, 15.
3. L.A.
a. Goines
i-a. Kenyatta's Last Hit, Ch. 1-2, 4-11.
i-b. Kenyatta’s Escape, Ch. 10-12.
ii. Inner City Hoodlum. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1975.
Stone, Ch. 1, 11-13.
b. Others
Ellroy, James [Lee Earle Ellroy]. My Dark Places: An L.A. Crime Memoir. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996: Ch. 11
Hawes, Hampton, and Dan Asher. Raise Up Off Me. 1974. Rpt. New York City: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2001: Ch. 27-28.
Rafael, Tony. The Mexican Mafia, rev. ed. New York City:  Encounter Books, 2009: Ch. 12.
Wambaugh, Joseph. The Choirboys. 1975. Rpt. New York City: Dell Publishing, 1976.
Webb, Gary. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. New York City: Seven Stories Press, 1998: Ch. 7.
4. Drugs
a. The Colombians
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. 2, 4-5, 15.
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. 5.
b. Donald Goddard
i. The Insider: The FBI’s Undercover “Wiseguy” Goes Public. New York City: Pocket Books, 1992: Ch. 8-9.
ii. Undercover: The Secret Lives of a Federal Agent. 1988. Rpt. London: Grafton, 1991: Ch. 1, 5-11.
c. Jonathan Marshall
i. Drug Wars: Corruption, Counterinsurgency and Covert Operations in the Third World. Forestville, Calif: Cohan & Cohen Publishers, 1991: Ch. 1-2.
ii. Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, 2nd rev. ed. Berkeley, Calif: U of California P, 1998: Ch. 5.
c. Others
Denton, Sally. The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs and Murder, rev. ed. Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse Star, 2001: Ch. 6-9.
Goines. Dopefiend. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1971.
James, Etta [Jamesetta Hawkins], and David Ritz. Rage to Survive: The Etta James Story. New York City: Villard Books, 1995: Ch. 25-27.
Kwitny, Crimes of Patriots, Ch. 14, 16.
Moldea, Interference, Ch. 42.                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                      
Odishelidze, Alexander, and Arthur B Laffer. Pay to the Order of Puerto Rico. Fairfax, Va.: Allegiance Press, 2004: Ch. 14.
Sabbag, Robert. Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade. 1976. Rpt. Edinburgh, U.K. Cannongate, 2002: Ch. 1, 3-17.
Shannon, Ch. 7.
Streatfeild, Dominic. Cocaine (An Unauthorized Biography). New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2001: Ch. 11-12, 18.
Sutton, Antony C. Two Faces of George Bush. Dresden, N.Y.: Wiswell Ruffin House, 1988: Ch. 11.
5. The Blacks
a. The Pimps
Goines. Street Players. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1973.
Hall, Susan, and Bob Adelman. Gentleman of Leisure: A Year in the Life of a Pimp. 1972. Rpt. New York City: powerHouse Books, 2006.
Milner, Christine, and Richard Milner. Black Players: The Secret World of Black Pimps. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1972.
b. Goines
(1) White Man's Justice, Black Man's Grief. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1973.
(2) Eldorado Red. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1974.
(3) Kenyatta’s Escape, Ch. 9.
c. Iceberg Slim
(1) Death Wish, Ch. 3, 6, 8-9, 11-12, 14, 16.
(2) Doom Fox. New York City: Grove Press, 1998: Ch. 17-18.
d. Others
Barnes, Leroy “Nicky” and Tom Folsom. Mr. Untouchable. New York City: RuggedLand, 2007.
Chang, Jeff. Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2005: Ch. 5-7.
6. Goines
a. Cry Revenge. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1974.
b (1). Kenyatta’s Escape, Ch. 2, 4-8.
b (2). Kenyatta's Last Hit, Ch. 12-14.
c. Never Die Alone. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1974.
Stone, Ch. 14.
7. New York City
Bloom, Stephen G. Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America, rev. ed. New York City: Harcourt, 2001: Ch. 17.
Capeci, Murder Machine, Ch. 10.
Kostelanetz, Richard. SoHo: The Rise and Fall of an Artist’s Colony. New York City: Routledge, 2003: Ch. 40.
Lethem, Jonathan. The Fortress of Solitude. 2003. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 2004: Pt. 1, Ch. 1-13.
McNeil, Legs, and Gillian McCain. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, corr. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 1997: Ch. 9.
Spillane, Mickey [Frank Morrison Spillane], and M.A. Collins. Kiss Her Goodbye. Boston: Otto Penzler/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2011.
Traub, James. The Devil’s Playground: A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square. New York City: Random House, 2004: Ch.10-11, 14.
8. George P. Pelecanos
a. King Suckerman. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1997.
b. Nick's Trip. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 1993: Ch. 2.
9. Florida
Buchanan, Edna, Never Let Them See You Cry: More From Miami, America's Hottest Beat. 1992. Rpt. New York City: Berkeley Books, 1993: Ch. 12.
Gugliotta & Leen, Ch. 1.
Irving, Clifford. Final Argument. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1993: Ch. 2-3, 6, 8, 15-16, 18.
G.L. Posner. Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth, and Power – a Dispatch From the Beach. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2009: Ch. 8-9.
10. Others
Cannell, Stephen J. The Pallbearers. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2010: Ch. 1.
Denton, Ch. 11.
Goddard,  Ch. 4.
Jenkins, Philip. Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford UP, 2006: Ch. 5.
Silverman, Chip. Diner Guys. New York City: Birch Lane Press, 1989: Ch. 6.

B. The Mideast 
1. Dar al-Islam
a. Iran
Copeland, Miles A. Jr. The Game Player: Confessions of the CIA’s Original Political Operative. London: Aurum Press, 1989: Ch. 23.
Green, Stephen. Living by the Sword: American and Israel in the Middle East 1968-1987. London: Faber and Faber, 1988: Ch. 12.
Perkins, John. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, rev. ed. New York City: Plume, 2006: Ch. 18-20.
Quigley, John. The Ruses for War: American Interventionism Since World War II, rev. ed. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2007: Ch. 19.
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. 1, 5.
Shawcross, William. The Shah’s Last Ride: The Fate of an Ally. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1988: Ch. 1-2, 7, 10, 14.
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. 6.
Weiner, Tim. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, rev. ed. New York City: Anchor Books, 2008: Ch. 37.
Wright, Robin. The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
b. Pakistan
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. 1.
Musharraf, Pervez. In the Line of Fire: A Memoir. New York City: Free Press, 2006: Ch. 8, 26-27.
c. Libya
Green, Ch. 5.
Matar, Hisham. In The Country Of Men. 2006. Rpt. New York City: The Dial Press, 2007.
d. Other
Bergen, Peter L. The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and al-Qaeda. New York City: Free Press, 2011: Ch. 2.
Berman, Paul. Terror and Liberalism. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003: Ch. 5.
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. 30.
Fiennes, Ranulph. Killer Elite, rev. ed. New York City: Ballantine Books, 2011: Ch. 3, 8, 11, 14, 20, 26, 36-38.
Friedman, Thomas L. From Beirut to Jerusalem, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Anchor Books, 1995: Ch. 4.
Johnson, Ian. A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA, and the Muslim Brotherhood in the West. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010: Ch. 14.
Kasarda, John D., and Greg Lindsay. Aerotropolis: The Way We’ll Live Next. New York City:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011: Ch. 9.
Kessler, Ronald. The Richest Man in the World: The Story of Adnan Khashoggi, rev. ed. New York City: Warner Books, 1988: Ch. 3-4.
Melman, Yossi, and Dan Raviv. Behind the Uprising: Israelis, Jordanians and Palestinians. New York City: Greenwood Press, 1989: Ch. 9.
Napoleoni, Loretta. Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Seven Stories Press, 2005: Ch.  10.
Neff, Donald. Warriors Against Israel. Brattleboro, Vt.: Amana Books, 1988; Ch. 1, 4-6, 8, 10, 19.
Perkins, Ch. 15-16.
Posner, Steve. Israel Undercover: Secret Warfare and Hidden Diplomacy in the Middle East. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse UP, 1987: Ch. 5, 8-9, 13.
2. The Arab-Israeli Wars
a. The Yom Kippur War
Blum, Howard. The Eve of Destruction: The Untold Story of the Yom Kippur War. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003: Ch. 2-40.
Green, Ch. 6.
London Sunday Times. Insight Team. The Yom Kippur War, rev. ed. London: André Deutsch, 1975: Pt. 2-5.
Melman & Raviv, Ch. 10.
D. Neff, Ch. 14-28.
S. Posner, Ch. 22, 28.
S. Segev, Ch. 4.
Sharon, Ariel [Ariel Scheinermann], and David Chanoff. Warrior: The Autobiography of Ariel Sharon, rev. ed. 1989. Rpt. New York City: Touchstone Books, 2001: Ch. 21-22.
Tyler, Ch. 6.
b. Other
Fletcher, Martin. Breaking News: A Stunning and Memorable Account of Reporting From Some of the Most Dangerous Places in the World. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2008. Ch. 1.
Green, Ch. 7.
Kalb, Marvin, and Ted Koppel. In the National Interest. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1977.
London Sunday Times, Pt. 1, 3-7; Pt. 6.
D. Neff, Ch. 11.
Ostrovsky, Victor, and Claire Hoy. By Way of Deception, rev. ed. New York City: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1991: Ch. 9-11, 14.
Raviv and Melman. Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel 's Intelligence Community, rev. ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991: Ch. 10-12, 16-17.
Thomas, Gordon. Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad. 3rd rev. ed. New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin, 2007: Ch. 6.
3. Israel
Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin. The Israeli Connection: Who Israel Arms and Why. 1987. Rpt. London: Tauris, 1988: Ch. 4, 7.
Golan, Matti. The Road to Peace: A Biography of Simon Peres. Trans. Akiva Ron. New York City: Warner Books, 1989: Ch. 5-7, 11.
Green, Ch. 8.
Harkabi, Yehoshafat. Israel's Fateful Hour, 2nd rev. ed. Trans. Lenn Schramm. New York City: Harper Perennial, 1989: Ch. 4.
Melman & Raviv, Ch. 11.
D. Neff, Ch. 9.
Perlmutter, Amos. The Life and Times of Menachem Begin. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1987: Ch. 1, 29-35.
Sharon & Chanoff, Ch. 23-27.
4. Espionage
Haas, Roland W. Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2007: Ch. 10-13.
S. Posner, Ch. 3.
5. Others
Coll, Ch. 2, 4.
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. 1.
T.L. Friedman, Ch. 2-3.
Kwitny, Jonathan. Endless Enemies: The Making of an Unfriendly World, corr. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 1986: Ch. 12.
Mann, James. Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet. New York City: Viking, 2004: Ch. 5.
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. 8.
Melman & Raviv, Ch. 14.
D. Neff, Ch. 2, 7, 12-13.
G.L. Posner. Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11. New York City: Random House, 2003: Ch. 15.
S. Posner, Ch. 1, 4, 12, 14-15, 21.
Sharon & Chanoff, Ch. 29.

C. Arts & Entertainment
Bailey, David, and Martin Harrison. David Bailey: Locations: The 1970s Archive. New York City: Thames & Hudson, 2003.
Brown, Damon. Porn & Pong: How Grand Theft Auto, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Our Culture. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2008.
Chang, Ch. 4.
Cowie, Jefferson. Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class. New York City: The New Press, 2010: Ch. 4, 7.
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. 43-46.
Dickstein, Morris. Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties, rev. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1997: Ch. 9.
Evanier, David. Roman Candle: The Life of Bobby Darin. Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale, 2004: Ch. 14-15.
Forden, Sara Gay. House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour and Greed. 2000. Rpt. New York City: HarperCollins World, 2002: Ch. 4-5.
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. Rpt. Berkeley, Calif.: Soft Skull Press, 2010: Ch. 5-6.
Graham, Don. No Name on the Bullet: A Biography of Audie Murphy. 1989. Rpt. New York City: Penguin Books, 1990: Ch. 14.
Kostelanetz, Ch. 4-5, 11-16, 21, 23, 29, 31, 34.
Lee, Stan [Stanley Martin Lieber], and George Mair. Excelsior!: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee. New York City: Fireside, 2002: Ch. 16-17, 20.
McNeil & McCain, Ch. 10-11.
Michaelis, David. Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography. New York City:  Harper, 2007: Ch. 23-26.
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. 9-11.
Schwartz, Jonathan. All in Good Time: A Memoir. New York City: Random House, 2004: Ch.18.
Shaffer, Paul, and David 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. 14, 17-22, 26.
Tormé, Mel. It Wasn’t All Velvet. New York City: Viking, 1988: Ch. 32, 34, 42.
Walker, Jesse. Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America. New York City: New York UP, 2001: Ch. 5.
1. The Music
Chuck Berry: The Autobiography. 1987. Rpt. New York City: Fireside, 1988: Ch. 3-6, 19.
Coleman, Rick. Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2006: Ch. 17-18.
Grandmaster Flash [Joseph Robert Saddler], Ritz, and Geoff Martin. The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My Beats. New York City: Broadway Books, 2008: Pt. 2.
James & Ritz, Ch. 28-30.
Kahn, Ashley. The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2006: Ch. 7-8.
Kostelanetz, Ch. 17.
Lydon, Michael. Ray Charles: Man and Music, rev. ed. New York City: Routledge, 2004: Pt. 5.
Mercer, Michelle. Footprints: The Life and Music of Wayne Shorter. New York City: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2004: Ch. 13.
Nicholson, Stuart. Jazz Rock: A History. New York City: Schirmer Books, 1998: Ch. 15.
Shaffer & Ritz, Ch. 13.
White, Timothy. Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley, 8th rev ed. New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 2006: Ch. 13-16.
a. Funk
Dr. John [Malcolm "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. 11-13.
Vincent, Rickey. Funk: The Music, the People and the Rhythm of the One. New York City: St. Martin's Griffin, 1996: Ch. 1-3, 9-15.
Wesley, Fred Jr. Hit Me, Fred: Recollections of a Sideman. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 2002: Ch. 5-8.
b. The Blues
Dance, Helen Oakley. Stormy Monday: The T-Bone Walker Story. 1987. Rpt. New York City: Da Capo Press, 1990: Ch. 19-24, Epilogue.
Gordon, Robert. Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2002: Ch. 14.
Romano, Will. Big Boss Man: The Life and Music of Bluesman Jimmy Reed. San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2006: Ch. 6-7, Epilogue.
Segrest, James, and Mark Hoffman. Moanin’ at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin’ Wolf. New York City: Pantheon Books, 2004: Ch. 13.
(1). B.B. King
Danchin, Sebastian. 'Blues Boy': The Life and Music of B.B. King. Jackson, Miss.: U of Mississippi P, 1998: Ch. 6.
King, B.B. [Riley King], and Ritz. Blues All Around Me: The Autobiography of B.B. King. New York City: Avon Books, 1996: Ch. 23-25.
c. The Business
George, Nelson. The Death of Rhythm & Blues. New York City: Pantheon Books, 1988: Ch. 5-6.
Yetnikoff, Walter and David Ritz. Howling at the Moon: The Odyssey of a Montrous Music Mogul in an Age of Excess. New York City: Broadway Books, 2004: Pt. 2. 
d. Pop
Gendron, Bernard. Between Monmartre and the Mudd Clubb: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2002: Ch. 11.
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. 10.
Morales, Ch. 10.
Nicholson, Ch. 11.
e. Rock 
Bill Bruford: The Autobiography: Yes, King Crimson, Earthworks, and More. London: Jawbone Press, 2009: Ch. 3, 5, 8, 11.
Christe, Ian. Everybody Wants Some: The Van Halen Saga, rev. ed. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2008: Ch. 2-3.
Lemmy [Ian Kilminster], and Janiss Garza. White Line Fever: The Autobiography. New York City: Citadel Press, 2002: Ch. 5-6.
Shaffer & Ritz, Ch. 10.
Smith, Sid. In the Court of King Crimson. London: Helter Skelter Publishing, 2001: Ch. 4-9.
Waksman, Steve. This Ain’t the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk. Berkeley, Calif.: U of California P, 2009: Ch. 1-3.
(1) Heavy Metal
Christe. Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal, rev. ed. New York City: Perennial Currents, 2004: Prologue, Ch. 1-2.
Konow, David. Bang Your Head: The Rise and Fall of Heavy Metal. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2002: Ch. 1-4.
Waksman, Ch. 4.
(2) Punk
Andersen, Mark , and Mark Jenkins. Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation’s Capital. New York City: Soft Skull Press, 2000: Ch. 1.
McNeil & McCain, Ch. 12-25, 27, 29-30.
Spitz, Marc, and Brendan Mullen. We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2001: Ch. 1-7, 9-11, 13, 16-18. 
f. The Crooners
Evanier. Making the Wise Guys Weep: The Jimmy Roselli Story. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998: Ch. 12.
Schwartz, Ch. 17.
Taraborelli, J. Randy. Sinatra: A Complete Life. Secaucus, N.J.: Birch Lane Press, 1997: Ch. 35-40.
Tormé, Ch. 33, 35, 40.
g. Latin
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. 4.
Padura Fuentes, Leonardo. Faces of Salsa: A Spoken History of the Music. 1997. Trans. Stephen J. Clark. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 2003: Ch. 6, 10, 12.
2. Dean Martin
Schoell, William. Martini Man: The Life of Dean Martin. Dallas: Taylor Publishing, 1999: Ch. 19-21.
Tosches, Nick. Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams, corr. ed. New York City: Delta, 1999: Ch. 15.
3. Cinema
a. Hollywood 
Biskind, Peter. Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1998: Ch. 3-13.
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. 13-15.
Eszterhas, Joe. Hollywood Animal: A Memoir. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004: Ch. 3-4.
Evans, Robert [Robert Shapera][and Charles Michener]. The Kid Stays in the Picture. Ed. Marinka Peschmann. 1994. Rpt. London: Faber & Faber, 2003: Ch. 1, 23, 25-31, 33.
Havill, Adrian. Deep Truth: The Lives of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Secaucus, N.J.:  Birch Lane Press, 1993: Ch. 9.
O’Donnell, Pierce, and Dennis McDougal. Fatal Subtraction: The Inside Story of Buchwald v. Paramount, rev. ed. West Hollywood, Calif.: Dove Books, 1996: Ch. 13.
Server, Lee. Robert Mitchum: “Baby, I Don’t Care”. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 2001: Ch. 15-16.
Summers, Anthony, and Robbyn Swan. Sinatra: The Life. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005: Ch. 32-34.
Tormé, Ch. 36-39.
(1) 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. 4-5.
McDougal. The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA and the Hidden History of Hollywood. New York City: Crown Publishers, 1998: Ch. 28-31.
b. Europe
Frayling, Christopher. Sergio Leone: Something to Do With Death. London: Faber and Faber, 2000: Ch. 10.
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.  45, 47-49.
4. The Comedians
a. Groucho Marx
Arce, Hector. Groucho. New York City: G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 1979: Ch. 14-16, Epilogue.
Marx, Arthur. My Life With Groucho: A Son’s Eye View, rev. ed. 1988. Rpt. Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, 1992: Ch. 35-43.
b. Michael O'Donoghue
Davis, Tom. Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss. New York City: Grove Press, 2009: Ch. 18.
Perrin, Dennis. Mr. Mike: The Life and Work of Michael O’Donoghue. New York City: Avon Books, 1998: Ch. 6-7.
c. Others
T. Davis, Ch. 4, 8-9, 15, 22, 25.
Parish, James Robert. It’s Good to Be the King: The Seriously Funny Life of Mel Brooks. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2007: Ch. 1, 24-28.
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. 1, 5-9.
Shaffer & Ritz, Ch. 16.
Tracy, Kathleen. Jerry Seinfeld: The Entire Domain. Secaucus, N.J.: Birch Lane Press, 1998: Ch. 2.
5. Literature
Kostelanetz, Ch. 25.
a. Fiction
Karl, Frederick. American Fictions 1940-1980: A Comprehensive History & Critical Evaluation. New York City: Harper & Row, 1983: Ch. 11.
McGaune, Thomas. Panama. New York City: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1978.
Oates, Joyce Carol. A Widow’s Story: A Memoir. New York City: Ecco, 2011: Ch. 43.
Sallis, James. Chester Himes: A Life. New York City: Walker & Co., 2000: Ch. 7, 9-15, 20.
Sheed, Wilfred. The Boys of Winter. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
Tormé, Ch. 41.
b. Periodicals
i. Comics
Bell, Blake. Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko. Seattle: Fantagraphic Books, 2008: Ch.10.
Evanier, Mark. Kirby: King of Comics. New York City: Abrams, 2008: Ch. 5-7.
Jones, Gerard. Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters and the Birth of the Comic Book. New York City: Basic Books, 2004: Prologue.
Lee, Stan [Stanley Martin Lieber], and George Mair. Excelsior!: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee. New York City: Fireside, 2002: Ch. 16.
Simon, Joe, and Jim Simon. The Comic Book Makers, rev. ed. Lebanon, N.J.: Vanguard Productions, 2003: Ch. 30.
ii. Other
Yagoda, Ben. About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made. New York City: Scribner, 2000: Ch.  7.
6. Television
a. "Saturday Night Live"
T. Davis, Ch. 1, 11-13, 20, 24.
Hill, Doug, and Jeff Weingrad. Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live. 1986. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 1987: Ch. 1, 4-33.
Shaffer & Ritz, Ch. 4, 8, 23-25.
Shales, Tom, and James Andrew Miller. Live From New York: An Uncensored History of “Saturday Night Live”, rev. ed. Boston: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown & Co., 2003: Ch. 1-2.
b. Other
Davis, Michael. Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street. New York City: Viking, 2008: Ch. 14-15.
Jenkins, Dan, and Edwin Shrake. Limo. 1976. Rpt. Emeryville, Calif.: Woodford Press, 2000.
Leamer, Laurence. King of the Night: The Life of Johnny Carson, rev. ed. New York City: Avon Books, 2005: Ch. 13-15.
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. 8.
Robertson, Ed. Thirty Years of The Rockford Files: An Inside Look at America’s Greatest Detective Series. New York City: ASJA Press, 2005.
7. Cuisine
Buford, Bill. Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006: Ch. 10, 21.
McNamee, Thomas. Alice Waters and Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution. The Penguin Press, 2007: Ch. 1, 5-8.
8. Interior Decor
Lileks, James. Interior Desecrations: Hideous Homes From the Horrible ‘70s. New York City:  Crown Publishers, 2004.
70s Decorative Art. Ed. Charlotte J. Fiell and Peter Fiell. Köln, Germany: Taschen, 2000.

D. The Establishment Crack-Up
1. The Nixon Administration
Anderson, Jack, and Daryl Gibson. Peace, War, and Politics: An Eyewitness Account. New York City: Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, 1999: Ch. 12, 14-15, 17.
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. 5.
Bartlett, Bruce. Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy. New York City: Doubleday, 2006: Ch.  8.
Brewton, Ch. 12.
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. 6.
Carroll, Peter N. It Seemed Like Nothing Happened: America in the 1970s, 2nd rev. ed. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers UP, 2000: Ch. 6.
Colodny, Len, and Robert Gettlin. Silent Coup: The Removal of a President, rev. ed. New York City: St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 1992: Ch. 4.
Courtwright, David T. No Right Turn: Conservative Politics in a Liberal America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2010: Ch. 1, 4.
Cowie, Ch. 3.
Dean, John W., and Barry M. Goldwater Jr. Pure Goldwater. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008: Ch. 12-13.
Evans, Ch. 24.
From: The President: Richard Nixon’s Secret Files. Ed. Bruce Oudes. New York City: Harper & Row, 1989.
Gray, Mike. Drug Crazy: How We Got Into This Mess and How We Can Get Out. 1998. Rpt. New York City: Routledge, 2000:  Ch. 5.
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. 6.
Kirkpatrick, Rob. 1969: The Year Everything Changed. New York City:Skyhorse Publishing, 2009: Ch. 1.
Krogh, Egil "Bud," and Matthew Krogh. Integrity: Good People, Bad Choices, and Life Lessons from the White House. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2007: Ch. 1-5, 7.
Nixon, Richard. In the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat, and Renewal.  New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1990:  Ch. 1, 21, 31.
Nofziger, Lyn. Nofziger. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1992: Ch. 4.
Novak, Robert D. The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington. New York City: Crown Forum, 2007: Ch. 18, 20.
Parsson, Jens O. Dying of Money: Lessons of the Great German and American Inflations. Boston: Wellspring Press, 1974: Ch. 36-37.
Persico, Joseph E. Casey: From the OSS to the CIA. 1990. Rpt. New York City: Penguin, 1991: Ch. 12.
Schulman, Bruce J. The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics. New York City: The Free Press, 2001: Ch. 1.
Rothbard, Murray. What Has Government Done to Our Money? 4th ed. Auburn, Ala. The Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1990: Pt. 4, Ch. 7-9.
Shirley, Craig. Reagan’s Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All. Nashville, Tenn.: Nelson Current, 2005: Ch. 2.
Tucker, Jeffrey. Bourbon for Breakfast: Living Outside the Statist Quo. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2010: Ch. 71.
Wicker, Tom. One of Us: Richard Nixon and the American Dream. New York City: Random House, 1991: Ch. 10, 12-13, 15-16.
a. Foreign Policy
(1) Southeast Asia
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. 5.
Bosiljevac, T.L. SEALs: UDT/SEAL Operations in Vietnam. 1990. Rpt. New York City: Ivy Books, 1991: Ch. 7-9.
Carroll, Ch. 1.
Colodny, and Tom Shachtman. The Forty Years War: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons, From Nixon to Obama. New York City: Harper, 2009: Ch. 6.
Hackworth, U.S. Army Col. David. H. (ret.), and Julie Sherman. About Face. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1989: Ch. 20-23.
Haig, Alexander M. Jr., and Charles McCarry. Inner Circles: How America Changed the World: A Memoir. New York City: Warner Books, 1992: Ch. 16-17, 20-24.
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. 3-4, 7.
Howell, Haney. Roadrunners: Combat Journalists in Cambodia. Boulder, Colo.: Paladin Press, 1989.
Kirkpatrick, Ch. 19.
Lembcke, Jerry. The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam. New York City: New York UP, 1998: Ch. 3-4.
McGehee, Ralph W. Deadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA. New York City: Sheridan Square Publications, 1983: Ch. 12.
Nixon, Ch. 38.
Novak, Ch. 19.
Perret, Ch. 22.
Quigley, Ch. 16.
Valentine, Douglas. The Phoenix Program. 1990. Rpt. Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse.com, 2000: Ch. 19-23, 26-29.
Weiner, Ch. 34.
Wicker, Ch. 14.
Wiest, Andrew. Vietnam's Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN. New York City: New York UP, 2008: Ch. 8.
(2) West Asia
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. 4.
Haig & McCarry, Ch. 31.
D. Neff, Ch. 3.
S. Posner, Ch. 26-27.
Shawcross, Ch. 9.
Tyler, Ch. 3.
(3) Other
Anderson & Gibson, Ch. 11.
Colodny & Shachtman, Ch. 3, 5, 7-12.
Gill, William J. The Ordeal of Otto Otepka. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1969: Ch. 44.
Ch. 14-15, 18-.
Kirkpatrick, Ch. 9.
Nixon, Ch. 36-37.
Schweizer, Peter. Reagan’s War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism. New York City: Doubleday, 2002: Ch. 5.
Trento, Joseph J. The Secret History of the CIA. New York City: Forum, 2001: Ch. 47-48.
b. The 1972 Election
Anderson & Gibson, Ch. 13.
Carroll, Ch. 5.
Cramer, Richard Ben. What It Takes: The Way to the White House, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 1993: Ch. 26, 56-57, 63.
Crouse, Timothy. The Boys on the Bus. 1973. Rpt. New York City: Ballentine Books, 1974: Ch. 1, 3-7, 9-12, 14-17.
Harmon & Luther, Ch. 5-6.
Mailer, Norman. St. George and the Godfather. 1972. Rpt. New York City: Arbor House, 1983.
Nofziger, Ch. 5.
Novak, Ch. 21.
Thompson, Hunter S. Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72. 1973. Rpt. New York City: Grand Central Publishing, 2006.
c. Watergate
(1) Colodny
Colodny & Gettlin, Pt. 2-3.
Colodny & Shachtman, Ch. 13-17.
(2) Barry M. Goldwater Sr.
Dean & Goldwater, Ch. 14.
Edwards, Lee. Goldwater: The Man Who Made a Revolution. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Pub., 1995: Ch. 18.
(2) Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein
(a) All the President's Men. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1974.
(b) The Final Days, corr. ed. 1977. Rpt. New York City: Touchstone, 1987: Pt. 1, Ch. 1-13, 15-20; Pt. 2.
(c) The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2005: Ch. 1, 5-16.
(3) Others
Anderson & Gibson, Ch. 16.
Buchwald, Art. "I Am Not a Crook." New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1974.
Carroll, Ch. 9.
Cramer, Ch. 82.
Crouse, Ch. 13.
J.H. Davis, Ch. 47.
DeFrank, Thomas M. Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2007: Ch. 1-2, 5.
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. 4.
Haig & McCarry, Ch. 25-30, 32-36.
Hayward, Ch. 8.
Kessler. The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI, rev. ed. New York City: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2003: Ch. 13.
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. 11.
Krogh & Krogh, Ch. 8-12.
Novak, Ch. 22-23.
Oglesby, Carl. The Yankee and Cowboy War: Conspiracies From Dallas to Watergate. Kansas City, Kan.: Sheed Andrews and McMeel Inc., 1976: Ch. 7-8.
Ventura, Jesse [James George Janos], and Dick Russell. American Conspiracies: Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies That the Government Tells Us, rev. ed. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011: Ch. 7.
The White House Transcripts: Submission of Recorded Presidential Conversations to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives by President Richard Nixon. Ed. Gerald Gold. 1973. Rpt. Buffalo, N.Y.: William S. Hein & Co., 1984.
d. Woodward and Bernstein
(1) The Final Days, Pt. 1, Ch. 14.
(2) The Secret Man, Ch. 2-3.
Colodny & Gettlin, Ch. 5.
Havill, Ch. 7-8, 10-11, 15.
Shepard, Alicia. Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley and Sons, 2007: Ch. 2-7, 12.
2. The Ford Administration
Carroll, Ch. 10.
Cheney, Dick, and Liz Cheney. In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir. New York City: Threshold Editions, 2011: Ch. 3.
Colodny & Shachtman, Ch. 18-19.
DeFrank, Ch. 3.
Edwards, Ch. 20.
Haig & McCarry, Ch. 37.
Hayward, Ch. 9.
Mann, Rise of the Vulcans, Ch. 4.
Shirley, Reagan’s Revolution, Ch. 3.
Weber, Christopher. Good as Gold?: How We Lost Our Gold Reserves and Destroyed the Dollar, rev. ed. Charleston, S.C.: CreateSpace, 2011: Ch. 9-10, 12.
Woodward. Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1999: Pt. 1.
3. The 1976 Election
a. The Reagan Campaign
i. Craig Shirley
(1) Reagan’s Revolution, Ch. 4-16.
(2) Rendevous With Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America. Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2009: Ch. 1.
ii. Others
Buckley, William F. Jr. The Reagan I Knew. New York City: Basic Books, 2008: Ch. 7-8.
Cannon, Lou. Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2003: Ch. 26-27.
Hayward, Ch. 10.
Nofziger, Ch. 6.
b. The Ford Campaign
DeFrank, Ch. 6.
Nofziger, Ch. 9.
c. Others
Carroll, Ch. 11.
Colodny & Shachtman, Ch. 20.
4. The Carter Administration
a. Stagflation
Bartlett, Bruce R. Reaganomics: Supply-Side Economics in Action, rev. ed. New York City: Quill, 1982: Ch. 15, Appendix F.
Greider, William. Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country. New York City, Simon & Schuster, 1987: Ch. 1, 3-6.
Nocera, Joseph. A Piece of the Action; How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1994: Ch. 9.
b. Iran
Bird, Kai. The Chairman: John J. McCloy: The Making of the American Establishment. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1992: Ch. 28.
Martin, David C., and John Walcott. Best Laid Plans: The Inside Story of America’s War Against Terrorism. New York City: Harper & Row Publishers, 1988: Ch. 1.
The National Security Archive. The Chronology: The Documented Day-by-Day Account of the Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Contras. New York City: Warner Books, 1987.
Shawcross, Ch. 15-24.
c. Other
Anderson & Gibson, Ch. 19-20, 22.
G.W. Ball & D.W. Ball, Ch. 5.
Burch, Vol. III, Ch. 7.
Carroll, Ch. 12.
Colodny & Shachtman, Ch. 21.
Cowie, Ch. 6.
DeFrank, Ch. 8.
Donaldson, Sam. Hold on, Mr. President! New York City: Random House, 1987: Ch. 5.
Haig & McCarry, Ch. 39.
Hayward, Ch. 11-12.
Novak, Ch. 25-26.
Schulman, Ch. 5.
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. 6.
Tyler, Ch. 5.
Weber, Ch. 11.
Woodward, Shadow, Pt. 2.
5. The Congress
D. Cheney & L. Cheney, Ch. 4.
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. 1, 5.
Smith, Hedrick. The Power Game: How Washington Works. 1988. Rpt. New York City: Ballentine Books, 1996: Ch. 7.
a. The Senate
R.B. Cramer, Ch. 65, 83.
Damore, Leo. Senatorial Privilege: The Chappaquiddick Cover-Up. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1988: Ch. 55-57.
6. The Executive Police Agencies
a. The CIA
Baer, Robert. 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. 3-5.
Clarridge, Duane R., and Digby Diehl. A Spy for All Seasons: My Life in the CIA. New York City: Scribner, 1997: Ch. 9.
Epstein, Edward Jay. Deception: The Invisible War Between the KGB and the CIA. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1989: Ch. 6.
Haas, Ch. 1, 5-9, 14-17.
Kwitny, Crimes of Patriots, Ch. 1-2, 7-8, 20, 22-24, 26.
Mangold, Tom. Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton: The CIA's Master Spy Hunter. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1991: Ch. 20-23.
Marshall & Scott, Cocaine Politics, Ch. 2.
McGehee, Ch. 13.
Mendez, Antonio, Jonna Mendez, and Bruce Henderson. Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations That Helped Win the Cold War. New York City: Atria Books, 2002: Ch. 1.
Trento, Ch. 49-54, 57.
Weiner, Ch. 29-33, 35-36.
b. The FBI
Kessler, The Bureau, Ch. 11-12, 14-15, 19.
Pistone & Woodley, Ch. 2.
Woodward and Bernstein, The Secret Man, Ch. 4.
c. The West Europeans
De Marenches, Count Alexandre, and David A.Andelman. The Fourth World War: Diplomacy and Espionage in the Age of Terrorism. New York City: William Morrow and Co., 1992: Ch. 4-5, 7, 9, 12.
Wright, Peter. Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intellgence Officer. New York City: Viking, 1987: Ch. 22-23.
d. Other
Blaine, Gerald, and Lisa McCubbin. The Kennedy Detail: JFK’s Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence. New York City: Gallery Books, 2010: Ch. 24.
7. The Bush Dynasty
Kelley, Kitty. The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty, rev. ed. New York City: Anchor Books, 2005: Ch. 17-19.
a. Poppy
R.B. Cramer, Ch. 55, 58, 91.
Sutton, Two Faces of George Bush, Ch. 6-7.
b. Dubya
Corn, David. The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception, rev. ed. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2004: Ch. 1.
Minutaglio, Bill. First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty, rev. ed. New York City:  Three Rivers Press, 2001: Ch. 8-11.
Perret, Ch. 25.
8. Explicit Socialists
Corsi, Jerome R. The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality. New York City: Threshold Editions, 2008: Ch. 3.
Diggins, John Patrick. The Rise and Fall of the American Left. New York City: W.W. Norton, 1992: Ch. 7-8.
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. 14.
Fontova, Humberto. Fidel: Hollywood’s Favorite Tyrant. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2005: Ch. 5.
Francis, Samuel. "Neoconservatism and the Managerial Revolution." Beautiful Losers: Essays on the Failure of American Conservatism. Columbia, Mo.: U of Missouri P, 1993: 95-117.
Garvin, Glenn. Everybody Had His Own Gringo: The CIA and the Contras. Washington, D.C.: Brassey’s (U.S.), 1992: Ch. 2.
Gross, David. "Where is Telos Going?" Telos Fall 1994: 110-116.
Kristeva, Julia. The Samurai. 1990. Trans. Barbara Bray. New York City: Columbia UP, 1992: Ch. 12
Piccone, Paul. "The Tribulations of Left Social Criticism: A Reply to Palti." Telos Spring 1996: 139-168.
Schweizer, Ch. 7, 10.
Timmerman, Kenneth R. Shakedown: Exposing the Real Jesse Jackson. Washington, D.C.: Regenery Publishing, 2002: Ch. 3-4.
Wiest, Ch. 9-10.
Wyden, Peter. Wall: The Inside Story of Divided Berlin. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1989: Ch. 31-38, 40, 42-47.
a. Espionage
Agee, Philip. Inside the Company: CIA Diary, rev. ed. New York City: Stonehill Publishing Co., 1975: Pt. 5.
Andrew, Christopher, 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. 20, 25, 29.
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. 3-4.
Kessler, The Bureau, Ch. 16, 33.
Ruppert, Ch. 10.
b. The Soviet Union
Gregory, Paul R. Lenin’s Brain and Other Tales From the Secret Soviet Archives. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institute Press, 2008: Ch. 12.
Polovchak, Walter, and Kevin Klose. Freedom's Child: A Courageous Teenager's Story of Fleeing His Parents — and the Soviet Union — to Live in America. New York City: Random House, 1988: Ch. 3, 9.
Sutton. The Best Enemy Money Can Buy. Billings, Mont.: Liberty House Press, 1986: Ch. 8.
Vaksberg, Arkady. The Soviet Mafia. Trans. John Roberts and Elizabeth Roberts. London: Weindenfeld and Nicolson, 1991: Ch. 1, 3, 5, 9.
c. The Jonestown Massacre
United States. Cong. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. The Death of Representative Leo J. Ryan, People’s Temple, and Jonestown: Understanding a Tragedy. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1979.
Ventura & Russell, Ch. 8.
9. The Courts
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. 10.
a. Woodward
Woodward, Bob, and Scott Armstrong. The Brethern: Inside the Supreme Court. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1979.
Havill, Ch. 12.
10. The Military
a. The Army
Cortright, David. Soldiers in Revolt: GI Resistance During the Vietnam War. 1975. Rpt. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2005: Ch. 7-12.
Franks, Gen. Tommy (ret.), and Malcolm McConnell. American Soldier. New York City: ReganBooks/HarperCollins Publishers, 2004: Ch. 4.
Fury, Dalton. Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Man. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2008: Ch. 2.
Sanchez, Lt. Gen. Ricardo (ret.), and Donald T. Phillips. Wiser in Battle: A Soldier's Story. New York City: Harper, 2008: Ch. 2.
b. The Navy
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. 3.
Bosiljevac, Ch. 10-11.
c. Other
Bacevich, Andrew J. The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War. New York City: Oxford UP, 2005: Ch. 2.
Buckley, William F. Jr. The Rake. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007: Ch. 24-25.
Colodny & Gettlin, Ch. 1-3.
Haig & McCarry, Ch. 38.
Fiennes, Ch. 13.
Kwitny, Crimes of Patriots, Ch. 19.
H. Smith, Ch. 8.
Sutton, Best Enemy Money Can Buy, Appendix A.
Ventura & Russell, Ch. 15.
11. The Neoconservatives
Colodny & Shachtman, Ch. 4.
Dorrien, Gary. Imperial Designs: Neoconservatism and the New Pax America. New York City: Routledge, 2004: Ch. 3.
Weaver, Paul H. The Suicidal Corporation: How Big Business Fails America. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1988: Ch. 7.
12. The Angola Civil War
Quigley, Ch. 17.
Stockwell, John. In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1978.
Sutton, Best Enemy Money Can Buy, Ch. 11.
13. Zaire
Kwitny, Endless Enemies, Ch. 2, 6.
Quigley, Ch. 18.
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. 9.
14. The Space Race
Borman, Frank, and Robert J. Serling. Countdown: An Autobiography. New York City: Silver Arrow Books/William Morrow, 1988: Ch. 14.
Caidin, Martin. Cyborg IV. 1975. Rpt. New York City: Warner Books, 1976.
Cooper, Henry S.F. Jr. A House in Space. 1976. Rpt. New York City: Bantam Books, 1978.
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. 12.
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. 9-10.
15. The Corporations
Byron, Christopher. Testosterone Inc.: Tales of CEOs Gone Wild. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2004: Ch. 7.
Chernow, Ch. 31-32.
Perkins, Ch. 9, 23, 25. 
Sutton, Best Enemy Money Can Buy, Appendices C-E.
16. The Federal Reserve System
Griffin, G. Edward. The Creature From Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve, 3rd rev. ed. Westlake Village, Calif.: American Media, 2002: Ch. 3.
Groseclose, Elgin. America’s Money Machine: The Story of the Federal Reserve, rev. ed. 1980. Rpt. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009: Ch. 35.
17.  The Medical Establishment
Patterson, James T. The Dread Disease: Cancer and Modern American Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1987: Ch. 10.
Torrey, E. Fuller. The Death of Psychiatry. 1974. Rpt. New York City: Penguin Books, 1975: Ch. 1, 3-14.
18. Bacevich
a. New American Militarism, Ch. 4.
b. Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War. New York City: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2010: Ch. 4.
19. Block
a. Space, Time, and Organized Crime, Ch. 12.
b. Masters of Paradise: Organized Crime and the Internal Revenue Service in the Bahamas, rev. ed. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1998: Ch. 8.
20. Others
Bagus, Philipp. The Tragedy of the Euro. Auburn, Ala.: The Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2010: Ch. 2-3.
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.10.
Bennett, James T. Not Invited to the Party: How the Demopublicans Have Rigged the System and Left Independents Out in the Cold. New York City: Springer, 2009: Ch. 4-5.
Bird, Ch. 27.
Brewton, Ch. 11, 13.
Brookes, Warren T. The Economy in Mind. New York City: Universe Books, 1982: Ch. 8.
Bryce, Robert. Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of “Energy Independence”. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2008: Ch. 6.
Buckley, The Rake, Ch. 27.
Carroll, Ch. 2.
Chamorro Coronel, Edgar. Packaging the Contras: A Case of CIA Disinformation. New York City: Institute for Media Analysis, 1987.
Chuck Berry, Ch. 18.
Clarke, Richard A. Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror, rev. ed. New York City: Free Press, 2004: Ch. 2.
Corry, John. My Times: Adventures in the News Trade. New York City: Grosset/Putnam, 1993: Ch. 5-6, 10.
Courtwright, David T. No Right Turn: Conservative Politics in a Liberal America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2010: Ch. 8.
R.B. Cramer, 61, 69, 71, 73, 75, 84-85, 89, 96.
Cronkite, Walter, and Don Carleton. Conversations With Cronkite. Austin, Texas: Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin, 2010: Ch. 18, 23-24.
DeFrank, Ch. 4.
DiLorenzo, Thomas J. How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold Story of Our Country’s History, From the Pilgrims to the Present. New York City: Crown Forum, 2004: Ch. 11.
Donner, Epilogue.
Duncan, Richard. The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons (Asia), 2003: Ch. 1
Eisler, Kim Isaac. 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. 18.
Fearon, Peter. Hamptons Babylon: Life Among the Super-Rich on America's Riviera. Secaucus, N.J.: Birch Lane Press, 1998: Ch. 7.
Fletcher, Ch. 3.
Gottfried, Paul. The Conservative Movement, rev. ed. New York City: Twayne Publishers, 1993: Ch. 4-5.
Healy, Gene. The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power. Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2008: Ch. 4.
Heller, Joseph. Good as Gold. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1979.
Iserbyt, Charlotte Thomson. The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America: A Chronological Paper Trail. Ravenna, Ohio: Conscience Press, 1999: Ch. 6-7.
Jackley, John L. Hill Rat: Blowing the Lid Off Congress. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1992: Ch. 3.
P. Jenkins, Ch. 2.
Johnson, Chalmers. Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope. New York City: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2010: Ch. 6.
Kabaservice, Geoffrey. The Guardians: Kingman Brewster, His Circle, and the Rise of the Liberal Establishment. New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 2004: Ch. 11, Epilogue.
Langewiesche, William. The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime. New York City: North Point, 2004: Ch. 3.
Ledeen, Michael. Freedom Betrayed: How America Led a Global Democratic Revolution, Won the Cold War, and Walked Away. Washington, D.C.: The AEI Press, 1996: Ch. 2.
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. 1, 21-22.
Moldea. Dark Victory: Ronald Reagan, MCA, and the Mob, rev. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 1987: Ch. 31, 34.
Mutch, Robert E. Campaigns, Congress, and Courts: The Making of Federal Campaign Finance Law. New York City: Praeger, 1988: Ch. 3-5.
J. Neff, Ch. 12, 15-16, 20-21.
Nixon, Ch. 3.
Perkins, Ch. 14, 22.
Perloff, James. The Shadows of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline, rev. ed. Appleton, Wis.: Western Islands, 1989: Ch. 10.
Perret, Ch. 23.
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. 30.
Redden, Jim. Snitch Culture: How Citizens Are Turned Into the Eyes and Ears of the State, rev. ed. Venice, Calif.: Feral House, 2001: Ch. 13.
Schweizer, Ch. 9.
Shawcross, Ch. 8.
Sherwood, Carlton. Inquisition: The Persecution and Prosecution of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1991: Ch. 14.
Shirley, Ch. 27.
H. Smith, Ch. 7, 9, 15, 18.
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: Prologue, Ch. 2-5.
Sutton, Two Faces of George Bush, Ch. 8.
Taylor, Jeff. Where Did the Party Go?: William Jennings Bryan, Hubert Humphrey, and the Jeffersonian Legacy. Columbia, Mo.: U of Missouri P, 2006: Ch. 11.
Trento, Ch. 55.
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. 9.
Von Hoffman, Nicholas. Citizen Cohn. New York City: Doubleday, 1988: Pt. 5.
Walker, Ch. 6.
Webb, Ch. 1.

E. The Boomers
1. The Clintons
Andersen, Christopher. Bill and Hillary: The Marriage. New York City: William Morrow and Co., 1999: Ch. 4.
Evans-Pritchard, Ch. 17, 19.
Flowers, Gennifer, and Jacquelyn Dapper. Passion and Betrayal.  Del Mar, Calif.: Emery Dalton Books, 1995: Ch. 3-5.
E. Klein, Ch. 10, 12-13.
Morris, Roger. Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America. New York City: John Macrae/Henry Holt and Co., 1996: Ch. 9-12.
Stewart, James B. Blood Sport: The President and His Adversaries, rev. ed. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1997: Ch. 1-4.
2. The Followers
Baritz, Loren. The Good Life: The Meaning of Success for the American Middle Class. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989: Ch. 6.
Blitzer, Ch. 4.
Bowden, Mark. Doctor Dealer, rev. ed. New York City: Grove Press, 2001: Ch. 1-4, 7.
Buckley, The Rake, Ch. 8.
Buford, Ch. 1.
Bryce. Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron, rev. ed. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2003: Ch. 7.
Byron, Ch. 23.
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. 3-4, 6, 8, 10.
R.B. Cramer, Ch. 78.
T. Davis, Ch. 5-7.
Denton, Ch. 1.
DeLillo, Don. Players. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1977.
Ellroy. The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010: Ch. 5-6.
Havill, Ch. 14.
Hougan, Jim. Decadence: Radical Nostalgia, Narcissism and Decline in the '70s. New York City: William Morrow & Co., 1975.
P. Jenkins, Ch. 1.
Jones, E. Michael. Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control. South Bend, Ind.: St. Augustine’s Press, 2000: Pt. 3, Ch. 15-18.
McInerny, Jay. Ransom. New York City: Vintage Books, 1985.
Skal, David J. Death Makes a Holiday: A Cultural History of Halloween. New York City: Bloomsbury, 2002: Introduction.

F. The Declinists
1. The New Immigrants
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. 4.
Limonov, Edward [Eduard Veniaminovich Savenko]. It’s Me, Eddie: A Fictional Memoir. 1979. Trans. S.L. Campbell. New York City: Random House, 1983.
2. Fail Britannia
Beckett Francis, and David Hencke, The Blairs and Their Court. London: Aurum, 2004: Ch. 2-3.
Burgess, Anthony [John Burgess Wilson]. 1985. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1978: Pt. 2.
Fiennes, Ch. 5-7, 10, 12, 21-24.
McNab, Andy. Bravo Two Zero. 1993. Rpt. London: Chivers Press, 1995: Ch. 2.
Moorcock, Michael. King of the City. New York City: William Morrow, 2000: Ch. 7-9, 11.
Shawcross, Ch. 13.
3. Southern California
Beall, Will. L.A. Rex. New York City: Riverhead Books, 2006: Ch. 2.
Collins, Aukai. My Jihad: The True Story of an American Mujahid's Amazing Journey From Usama Bin Laden's Training Camps to Counterterrorism With the FBI and CIA. 2002. Rpt. New York City: Pocket Star Books, 2003: Pt. 2.
Kiedis, Anthony, and Larry Sloman. Scar Tissue. New York City: Hyperion, 2004: Ch. 2-3.
Woods, Stacey Grenrock. I, California: A Memoir. New York City: Scribner, 2007.
4. Southern Florida
a. Buchanan
i. The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat. 1987. Rpt. New York City: Berkeley Books, 1991: Ch. 9.
ii. Never Let Them See You Cry: More From Miami, America's Hottest Beat. 1992. Rpt. New York City: Berkeley Books, 1993: Ch. 2-3, 17.
b. Other
G.L. Posner, Miami Babylon, Ch. 1, 7.
5. New York City
Haden-Guest, Anthony. The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco and the Culture of the Night, rev. ed. New York City: It Books, 2009.
New York Unbound: The City and the Politics of the Future. Ed. Peter D. Salins. New York City: Basil Blackwell, 1988: Ch. 1-2, 5.
6. Connecticut
Moody, Rick. The Ice Storm. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1994.
Updike, John. Villages. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004: Ch. 12-13.
7. Hal Lindsey
a. The Late Great Planet Earth. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1970.
b. The 1980s: Countdown to Armageddon. King of Prussia, Pa.: Westgate Press, 1980.
8. Mailer
Mailer, Norman. The Prisoner of Sex. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1971.
Manso, Peter. Mailer: His Life and Times, rev. ed. New York City: Washington Square Press, 2008: Ch. 10-12.
9. Oates
a. Dear Husband,. New York City: Ecco Press, 2009: Pt. 1.
b. Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense. Boston: Otto Penzler/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
9. Ishmael Reed
a. Shrovetide in Old New Orleans. 1978. Rpt. New York City: Atheneum, 1989.
b. God Made Alaska for the Indians. New York City: Garland, 1982.
10. Updike
a. Rabbit Angstrom: A Tetralogy. New York City: Everyman's Library, 1995: 621-1045.
b. Problems and Other Stories. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1979.
11. Gore Vidal
a. "How to Find God and Make Money." New York Review of Books 29 Jun. 1978. Rpt. United States: Essays 1952-1992. New York City: Random House, 1993: 620-628.
b. Kalki. New York City: Random House, 1978.
c. "Political Melodramas." New Statesman 4 May 1973. Rpt. United States, 851-856.
d. "The State of the Union: 1975." Esquire May 1975. Rpt. United States, 917-937.
e. Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir, 1964-2006. New York City: Doubleday, 2006: Ch. 42-43.
Kaplan, Fred. Gore Vidal: A Biography. New York City: Doubleday, 1999: Ch. 17-18.
12. Others
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. 6.
Barker, Kim. The Tailiban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan. New York City: Doubleday, 2011: Ch. 2.
Barkun, Michael. A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America. Berkeley, Calif.: U of California P, 2003: Ch. 4-5.
Bax, Martin. The Hospital Ship. New York City: New Directions, 1976.
Böll, Heinrich. The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, Or: How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead. 1974. Trans. Leila Vennewitz. 1975. Rpt. New York City: Penguin Books, 2009.
Burgess. The Complete Enderby. New York City: Carroll & Graf, 1996: Pts. 3-4.
Carroll, Ch. 3-4, 7-8, 13-16.
Cowie, Ch. 5.
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. 6-9.
Duncan, Ch. 7.
Eisler, Ch. 1, 3, 6, 9, 15.
Fearon, Ch. 9, 12.
Fiennes, Ch. 2, 4, 15-19.
Fletcher, Ch. 2.
Greider, Ch. 2.
Hayward, Ch. 7.
Herman, Arthur. The Idea of Decline in Western History. New York City: Free Press, 1997: Ch. 11.
P. Jenkins, Ch. 4.
Katz, Howard S. The Warmongers. Ed. Susan Harris. New York City: Books in Focus, 1979.
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. 18.
Klein, Joe. “A Supermarket of Paranoia: America's Millionaires Run Scared in New Orleans." Rolling Stone 4 Feb. 1982: 6.
Leamer. The Paper Revolutionaries: The Rise of the Underground Press. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1972: Ch. 9, 12.
Marshall, Scott & Hunter, Ch. 4.
Mickey Cohen, Ch. 27.
Percy, Walker. The Second Coming. New York City: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980.
Sherwood, Ch. 4, 13.
Shilts, Randy. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, rev. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 1988: Ch. 1-5.
Shirley, Ch. 3.
Simpson, John. Strange Places, Questionable People. London: Macmillan, 1998: Ch. 8.
Stein, Jean. Edie: An American Biography. Ed. George Plimpton. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982: Ch. 41-45.
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. 10-11.
Webb, Ch. 3-4.

G. Chicago
Ciccone, F. Richard. Royko: A Life in Print. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2001: Ch. 11-14.
Freddoso, David. The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media’s Favorite Candidate. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2008: Ch. 8.
O’Connor, Len. Clout: Mayor Daley and His City. 1975. Rpt. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1984: Ch. 12.
Royko, Mike. Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago. New York City:  E.P. Dutton & Co., 1971: Ch.1, 4.

H. Business
1. The Computer Industry
Ceruzzi, Paul E. A History of Modern Computing, rev. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2003: Ch. 7-8.
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. 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. 2, 8.
Updike, Villages, Ch. 11.
2. Finance
a. The Savings & Loans
O'Shea, James. The Daisy Chain: How Borrowed Billions Sank a Texas S&L. New York City: Pocket Books, 1991: Ch. 1.
Pizzo, Fricker & Muolo, Ch. 3.
b. Michael Milken
Authers, Ch. 7.
Bruck. The Predators’ Ball: The Inside Stoy of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders, rev ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 1989: Ch. 2-4.
Pizzo, Fricker & Muolo, Ch. 26.
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. 7.
c. Dennis Levine
Frantz, Douglas. Levine & Co.: Wall Street's Insider Trading Scandal. 1987. Rpt. New York City: Avon Books, 1988: Ch. 1-2, 4-5.
Levine, Dennis B., and William Hoffer. Inside Out: An Insider's Account of Wall Street. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1991: Ch. 4-7.
d. Other
Authers, Ch. 3-4.
Brewton, Ch. 18.
Brooks, John. 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. 1.
Burrough, Bryan. The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes. New York City: The Penguin Press, 2009: Ch. 17.
Byron, Ch. 6.
Dunbar, Nicholas. Inventing Money: The Story of Long-Term Capital Management and the Legends Behind It. Chichester, U.K.: John Wiley & Sons, 2000: Ch. 4.
Herzog, Ch. 11-14.
Kasarda & Lindsay, Ch. 3.
Kessler, The Richest Man in the World, Ch. 6, 8-10.
Kwitny, Crimes of Patriots, Ch. 6, 10-13, 15, 18, 21.
Leamer, King of the Night, Ch. 16.
Maggin, Donald L. Bankers, Builders, Knaves, and Thieves: The $300 Million Scam at ESM. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1989: Ch. 5.
Nocera, Ch. 4-8.
J.L. Smith, Ch. 27.
Sterngold, James. Burning Down the House: How Green, Deceit, and Bitter Revenge Desroyed E.F. Hutton. New York City: Summit Books, 1990: Ch. 4-5.
Stewart. Den of Thieves, rev. ed. New York City: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 1992: Ch. 1-3.
3. Other
Borman & Serling, Ch. 15, 17-21.
Byron, Ch. 9, 20.
Chuck Berry, Ch. 17.
Fearon, Ch. 15.
McLean, Bethany, and Peter Elkind. The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron, rev. ed. New York City: Portfolio, 2004: Ch. 1.
Pizzo, Fricker & Muolo, Ch. 9.
Weaver, Ch. 2-6, 12, 15.

I. The Conservative Movement
1. Ronald Reagan
Buckley, The Reagan I Knew, Ch. 6, 9-11.
Cannon, Governor Reagan, Ch. 23-25, 28.
Carroll, Ch. 17.
Edsall & Edsall, Ch. 6.
Mann, James. The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War. New York City: Viking, 2009: Pt. 3, Ch. 3.
Nofziger, Ch. 7.
Novak, Ch. 24.
Schweizer, Ch. 6.
2. Others
Bartley, Robert L. The Seven Fat Years — and How to Do It Again, rev. ed. New York City: The Free Press, 1995: Ch. 2.
Bartlett, Ch. 11-14, Appendix E.
Kelley, John L. Bringing the Market Back in: The Political Revitalization of Market Liberalism. New York City: New York UP, 1997: Ch. 4.
Moldea, Dark Victory, Ch. 32.
Wanniski, Jude. The Way the World Works, rev. 4th ed. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1998: Ch. 12.
Wyden, Ch. 39.

J. Las Vegas
Denton & 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. 14-15.
J.L. Smith, Ch. 14, 26, 33.

K. The Rest of the World
1. Indonesia
Perkins, Ch. 2-8.
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. 2, 6.
2. Latin America
Bolaño, Roberto. The Savage Detectives. 1998. Trans. Natasha Wimmer. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
Webb, Ch. 2.
3. Other
Abbott, Elizabeth. Haiti: The Duvaliers and Their Legacy, rev. ed. New York City: Touchstone, 1991: Ch. 7-9.
Anderson & Gibson, Ch. 21.
Bartholomew, James. The Richest Man in the World: The Sultan of Brunei. 1989. Rpt. Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin, 1990: Ch. 4, 6, 9, 18.
Buckley, The Rake, Ch. 9.
Herzog, Ch. 31.
Kessler, The Richest Man in the World, Ch. 11.
Laughland, John. A History of Political Trials: From Charles I to Saddam Hussein. Oxford, U.K.: Peter Lang, 2008: Ch. 13.
Napoleoni, Ch. 5.
Perkins, Ch.10-13, 21, 24.
Scahill, Jeremy. Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, rev. ed. New York City: Nation Books, 2008: Ch. 12.
Simpson, Ch. 5-7, 9.

L. The Journalists
1. Woodward and Bernstein
Havill, Ch. 13, 16.
Shepard, Ch. 8-9.
2. Others
Carroll, E. Jean. Hunter: The Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson. New York City: Dutton, 1993: Ch. 13, 15, 17.
Donaldson, Ch. 4.
Eisler, Ch. 8, 12.
Fletcher, Ch. 4-5.
Hewitt, Don. Tell Me a Story: Fifty Years and 60 Minutes in Television. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2001: Ch. 8.
McMillian, John. Smoking Typewriters: The Sixties Underground Press and the Rise of Alternative Media in America. New York City: Oxford UP, 2011: Ch. 7.
Novak, Ch. 27-29.
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. 20, 25
Sherwood, Ch. 2.

M. Paul Johnson
1. Enemies of Society. New York City: Atheneum, 1977: Ch. 7-8, 10-16, 18-19.
2. Modern Times: The World From the Twenties to the Nineties, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: HarperPerennial, 1992: Ch. 19.

N. Others
Apple, Max. The Oranging of America and Other Stories. 1976. Rpt. Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin, 1981.
Bockris, Victor. With William Burroughs: A Report From the Bunker, rev. ed. 1996. Rpt. London: Fourth Estate, 1997.
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. 10.
Brady, James. Paris One. 1977. Rpt. New York City: Dell, 1978.
Cook, Nick. The Hunt for Zero Point: Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology. 2001. Rpt. New York City: Broadway Books, 2002: Ch. 11, 25.
Cornwell, John. A Thief in the Night: Life and Death in the Vatican. 1989. Rpt. New York City: Penguin Books, 2001.
Cramer, James J. Confessions of a Street Addict. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2002: Ch. 1.
Doherty, Brian. Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2007: Ch. 8.
Fearon, Ch. 16.
George, John, and Laird Wilcox. American Extremists: Militias, Supremacists, Klansmen, Communists and Others. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1996: Ch. 12, 17, 20.
Goldberg, J.J. Jewish Power: Inside the American-Jewish Establishment. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1996: Ch. 7-8.
Leebaert, Derek. The Fifty-Year Wound: The True Price of America’s Cold War Victory. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2002: Ch. 8-9.
Miller, Stephen Paul. The Seventies Now: Culture as Surveillance. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 1999.
Moldea, Dark Victory, Ch. 33.
Odishelidze & Laffer, Ch. 7.
Persico, Ch. 13.
Retro Hell: Life in the '70s and '80s, From Afros to Zotz. Ed. Darby Romeo. Boston: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown & Co., 1997.
Schulman, 2-4, 6-7.
Vankin, Jonathan et al. The Big Book of the ‘70s: True Tales From Ten Years of Tackiness and Tumult! New York City: Paradox Books, 2000.