Reading List Part 16

XVI. The Contemporary World

A. The Catalyst Years: 1977-1985
1. The Arts
Ellroy, James [Lee Earle Ellroy]. The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010: Ch. 7.
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. 7-10.
Jencks, Charles. Post-Modernism: The New Classicism in Art and Architecture. New York City: Rizzoli, 1987.
McNamee, Thomas. Alice Waters and Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution. The Penguin Press, 2007: Ch. 9-10.
Schwartz, Jonathan. All in Good Time: A Memoir. New York City: Random House, 2004: Ch.19.
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. 27-29.
a. The Music
Mercer, Michelle. Footprints: The Life and Music of Wayne Shorter. New York City: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2004: Ch. 14-16.
White, Timothy. Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley, 8th rev ed. New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 2006: Ch. 17.
(1) The L.A. Scene
Evans, Robert [Robert Shapera][and Charles Michener]. The Kid Stays in the Picture. Ed. Marinka Peschmann. 1994. Rpt. London: Faber & Faber, 2003: Ch. 32, 35.
Hoskyns, Barney. Waiting for the Sun: Strange Days, Weird Scenes and the Sounds of Los Angeles. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 1996: Ch. 7-8.
Kiedis, Anthony, and Larry Sloman. Scar Tissue. New York City: Hyperion, 2004: Ch. 5
Konow, David. Bang Your Head: The Rise and Fall of Heavy Metal. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2002: Ch. 6.
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. 8, 12, 14-15, 19-36.
(2) Jazz
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. 14.
Nicholson, Stuart. Jazz Rock: A History. New York City: Schirmer Books, 1998: Ch. 12.
(3) Funk
Szwed, John F. So What: The Life of Miles Davis. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2003: Ch. 10.
Vincent, Rickey. Funk: The Music, the People and the Rhythm of the One. New York City: St. Martin's Griffin, 1996: Ch. 19-20.
Wesley, Fred Jr. Hit Me, Fred: Recollections of a Sideman. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 2002: Ch. 9.
(4) Rock
Bill Bruford: The Autobiography: Yes, King Crimson, Earthworks, and More. London: Jawbone Press, 2009: Ch. 12-13.
Christe, Ian. Everybody Wants Some: The Van Halen Saga, rev. ed. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2008: Ch. 4-9.
Kiedis & Sloman, Ch. 6.
Smith, Sid. In the Court of King Crimson. London: Helter Skelter Publishing, 2001: Ch. 10-11.
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. 5-7.
(a) Heavy Metal
Christe. Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal, rev. ed. New York City: Perennial Currents, 2004: Ch. 3-5.
Konow, Ch. 5.
Lemmy [Ian Kilminster], and Janiss Garza. White Line Fever: The Autobiography. New York City: Citadel Press, 2002: Ch. 7-9.
(b) 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. 2-4.
McNeil, Legs, and Gillian McCain. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, corr. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 1997: Ch. 32-33, 36-37, 39-44.
Vee, Tesco [Robert Vermeulen], and Dave Stimson. Touch and Go: The Hardcore Punk Fanzine '79-'83. Ed. Steve Miller. New York City: Bazillion Points, 2010.
(c) Post-Punk
Gendron, Bernard. Between Monmartre and the Mudd Clubb: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2002: Ch. 12-13.
Kostelanetz, Richard. SoHo: The Rise and Fall of an Artist’s Colony. New York City: Routledge, 2003: Ch. 33.
Reynolds, Simon. Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984. London: Faber and Faber, 2005.
(4) Hip-Hop
Chang, Jeff. Can’t Stop Won’t Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2005: Ch. 8-10.
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. 3-4.
c. The Comedians
Allen, Steve. Hi-Ho, Steverino!: My Adventures in the Wonderful Wacky World of TV. Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, 1992: Ch. 19.
Davis, Tom. Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss. New York City: Grove Press, 2009: Ch. 10, 17.
King, Alan [Irwin Alan Kniberg], and Chris Chase. Name Dropping: The Life and Lies of Alan King. New York City: Scribner, 1996: Ch. 14.
Martin, Scott. The Book of Caddyshack: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Greatest Movie Ever Made. Lanham, Md. Taylor Trade Publishing, 2007.
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. 10.
(1) "Saturday Night Live"
(a) John Belushi
Shaffer & Ritz, Ch. 31.
Woodward, Bob. Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1984: Ch. 1, 9-19.
(b) Others
Hill, Doug, and Jeff Weingrad. Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live. 1986. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 1987: Ch. 34-41.
Perrin, Dennis. Mr. Mike: The Life and Work of Michael O’Donoghue. New York City: Avon Books, 1998: Ch. 8.
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. 3.
2. The Crime Scene
a. The Mafia
i. Jerry Capeci and Gene Mustain
(1) Mob Star: The Story of John Gotti. Indianapolis: Alpha, 2002: Ch. 17-18.
(2) Murder Machine: A True Story of Murder, Madness, and the Mafia. New York City: Dutton, 1992: Ch. 14-18.
ii. Others
Davis, John H. Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. New York City: McGraw-Hill, 1989: Ch. 56.
Ellroy. My Dark Places: An L.A. Crime Memoir. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996: Ch. 25.
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. 1, 7, 9-12, 15.
Leonard, Elmore. Get Shorty. New York City: Delacorte Press, 1990: Ch. 1.
Pistone, Joseph D., and Richard Woodley. Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia, rev. ed. New York City: Signet, 1989: Ch. 17-20.
Sterling, Claire. Octopus: The Long Reach of the International Sicilian Mafia. 1990. Rpt. London: Harper Collins, 1993: Ch. 13-14.
b. Southern Florida
i. Edna Buchanan
(1) The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat. 1987. Rpt. New York City: Berkeley Books, 1991: Ch. 1, 10.
(2) Never Let Them See You Cry: More From Miami, America's Hottest Beat. 1992. Rpt. New York City: Berkeley Books, 1993: Ch. 5.
ii. Other
Allman, T.D. Miami: City of the Future. New York City: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987: Ch. 1, 3.
Goddard, Donald. The Insider: The FBI’s Undercover “Wiseguy” Goes Public. New York City: Pocket Books, 1992: Ch. 10-12.
c. Drugs
Bowden, Mark. Doctor Dealer, rev. ed. New York City: Grove Press, 2001: Ch. 5-6.
Denton, Sally. The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs and Murder, rev. ed. Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse Star, 2001: Ch. 12-14.
Goddard, Ch. 13.
Gray, Mike. Drug Crazy: How We Got Into This Mess and How We Can Get Out. 1998. Rpt. New York City: Routledge, 2000: Ch. 6.
Mermelstein, Max, Robin Moore, and Richard Smitten. Inside the Cocaine Cartel. 1990. Rpt. New York City: S.P.I. Books, 1994: Ch. 1-4.
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. 6, 8.
d. Others
Cannell, Stephen J. The Prostitutes’ Ball. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2010: Ch. 23, 29, 36.
Fearon, Peter. Hamptons Babylon: Life Among the Super-Rich on America's Riviera. Secaucus, N.J.: Birch Lane Press, 1998: Ch. 8.
Friedman, Robert I. Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2000: Ch. 8.
Goddard, Ch. 14-15.
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. 36.
Kwitny, Jonathan. The Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money, and the CIA, corr. ed. New York City: Touchstone, 1988: Ch. Ch. 25.
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. 6-7, 9, 12.
3. The Third World
a. 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. 3.
Margolis, Eric S. War at the Top of the World: The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir, and Tibet., rev. ed. New York City: Routledge, 2002: Ch. 21.
b. 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. 14.
Green, Stephen. Living by the Sword: American and Israel in the Middle East 1968-1987. London: Faber and Faber, 1988: Ch. 9-10.
Ostrovsky, Victor, and Claire Hoy. By Way of Deception, rev. ed. New York City: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1991: Prologue, 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. 6.
c. Latin America
Garvin, Glenn. Everybody Had His Own Gringo: The CIA and the Contras. Washington, D.C.: Brassey’s (U.S.), 1992: Ch. 3.
Perkins, John. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, rev. ed. New York City: Plume, 2006: Ch. 26-27.
Vargas Llosa, Mario. The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta. 1984. Trans. Alfred Mac Adam. New York City: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1986.
d. Elsewhere
Jacboson, Sid, and Ernie Colón. The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation. New York City: Hill and Wang, 2006: Ch. 2.
Updike, John. The Coup. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.
4. The 1980 Election
a. Lou Cannon
i. Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2003: Ch. 29-30.
ii. President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime, rev. ed. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2000: Ch. 8.
b. Stephen F. Hayward
i. 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. 13-14.
ii. The Age of Reagan, Vol. II: The Conservative Counterrevolution, 1980-1989. New York City: Crown Forum, 2009: Ch. 1.
c. Others
Brookes, Warren T. The Economy in Mind. New York City: Universe Books, 1982: Ch. 1.
Buckley, William F. Jr. The Reagan I Knew. New York City: Basic Books, 2008: Ch. 12-13.
Carroll, Peter N. It Seemed Like Nothing Happened: America in the 1970s, 2nd rev. ed. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers UP, 2000: Ch. 18.
Cramer, Richard Ben. What It Takes: The Way to the White House, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 1993: Ch. 109.
Cronkite, Walter, and Don Carleton. Conversations With Cronkite. Austin, Texas: Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin, 2010: Ch. 25.
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. 8.
Haig, Alexander M. Jr., and Charles McCarry. Inner Circles: How America Changed the World: A Memoir. New York City: Warner Books, 1992: Ch. 40.
Jenkins, Philip. Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford UP, 2006: Ch. 6.
Mann, James. Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet. New York City: Viking, 2004: Ch. 6.
Nash, George H. The Conservative Intellectual Movement in American Since 1945, 2nd rev. ed. Wilmington, Del : Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006: Ch. 12.
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. 22.
Niskanen, William A. Reaganomics: An Insider's Account of the Policies and the People. New York City: Oxford UP, 1988: Ch. 1.
Nofziger, Lyn. Nofziger. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1992: Ch. 8.
Perloff, James. The Shadows of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline, rev. ed. Appleton, Wis.: Western Islands, 1989: Ch. 11.
Persico, Joseph E. Casey: From the OSS to the CIA. 1990. Rpt. New York City: Penguin, 1991: Ch. 14.
Schweizer, Peter. Reagan’s War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism. New York City: Doubleday, 2002: Ch. 11.
Shirley, Craig. Rendevous With Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America. Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2009: Ch. 2, 4-26, 29-37.
Stockman, David A. The Triumph of Politics: How the Reagan Revolution Failed. New York City: Harper & Row Publishers, 1986: Ch. 2.

5. Europe

a. The United Kingdom
Beckett Francis, and David Hencke, The Blairs and Their Court. London: Aurum, 2004: Ch. 4.
Moorcock, Michael. King of the City. New York City: William Morrow, 2000: Ch. 13-16.
b. Italy
Clarridge, Duane R., and Digby Diehl. A Spy for All Seasons: My Life in the CIA. New York City: Scribner, 1997: Ch. 10.
H. Hill & Russo, Ch. 13.
c. Elsewhere
Aksyonov, Vassily. Island of Crimea. 1981. Trans. Michael W. Heim. New York City: Random House, 1983.
Wyden, Peter. Wall: The Inside Story of Divided Berlin. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1989: Ch. 41, 48, 50-51, 55-56.
6. The Marxists
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. 30.
Kolakowski, Leszek. Main Currents of Marxism: Its Rise, Growth and Dissolution, rev. ed. Trans. P.S. Falla. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2005: Epilogue.
Kristeva, Julia. The Samurai. 1990. Trans. Barbara Bray. New York City: Columbia UP, 1992: Ch. 17-18, 20.
7. Business
a. The Computer Industry
Kidder, Tracy. The Soul of a New Machine, rev. ed. New York City: The Modern Library, 1997: Ch. 2-16, Epilogue.
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. 4, 6-10, 13-14.
b. Finance
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. 8.
Sterngold, James. Burning Down the House: How Green, Deceit, and Bitter Revenge Desroyed E.F. Hutton. New York City: Summit Books, 1990: Ch. 6.
c. Other
Leamer, Laurence. King of the Night: The Life of Johnny Carson, rev. ed. New York City: Avon Books, 2005: Ch. 17.
Petzinger, Thomas Jr. Oil & Honor: The Texaco-Pennzoil Wars. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1987: Ch. 5.
8. Soviet Expatriats
Limonov, Edward [Eduard Veniaminovich Savenko]. His Butler’s Story. Trans. Judson Rosengrant. New York City: Grove Press, 1987.
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. 1, 4-8, 10-18.
9. Milton Friedman
a. Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History. New York City: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992: Ch. 9.
b. Free to Chose: A Personal Statement, rev. ed. Orlando, Fla.: Harvest/Harcourt, 1990.
10. E. Michael Jones
a. Degenerate Moderns: Modernity as Rationalized Sexual Misbehavior. San Francisco: Ignatius, 1993: Ch. 8.
b. Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control. South Bend, Ind.: St. Augustine’s Press, 2000: Pt. 3, Ch. 19.
11. Others
Allman, Ch. 2.
Andersen, Christopher P. Bill and Hillary: The Marriage. New York City: William Morrow and Co., 1999: Ch. 5.
Baker, Nicholson. The Mezzanine. New York City: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.
Bartley, Robert L. The Seven Fat Years — and How to Do It Again, rev. ed. New York City: The Free Press, 1995: Ch. 3-8.
Belfort, Jordan. Catching the Wolf of Wall Street. New York City: Bantam Books, 2009: Ch. 6-7.
Celant, Germano et al. Giorgio Armani. New York City: Guggenheim Museum, 2000.
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. 6.
Draper, Robert. Rolling Stone Magazine: The Uncensored History. New York City: Doubleday, 1990: Pts. 3-4.
George, John, and Laird Wilcox. American Extremists: Militias, Supremacists, Klansmen, Communists and Others. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1996: Ch. 11-15.
Hornby, Nick. High Fidelity. New York City: Riverhead Books, 1995.
Johnson, Paul. Modern Times: The World From the '20s to the '80s, 1st ed. New York City: Harper & Row, 1983: Ch. 20.
Kessler, Ronald. The Richest Man in the World: The Story of Adnan Khashoggi, rev. ed. New York City: Warner Books, 1988: Ch. 13.
Kiedis & Sloman, Ch. 4.
Kostelanetz, Ch. 38.
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. 3.
Lethem, Jonathan. The Fortress of Solitude. 2003. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 2004: Pt. 1, Ch. 14-18.
Nocera, Joseph. A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1994: Ch. 10-12.
Peikoff, Leonard. The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom in America. New York City: Stein and Day, 1982: Ch. 6, 14.
Retro Hell: Life in the '70s and '80s, From Afros to Zotz. Ed. Darby Romeo. Boston: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown & Co., 1997.
Roberts, Paul Craig, and Lawrence M. Stratton. The Tyranny of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice, rev. ed. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2008: Ch. 5.
Sailer, Steve. America's Half-Blood Prince: Barack Obama's Story of Race and Inheritance. Washington, Conn.: VDARE Foundation, 2008: Ch. 6.
Schulman, Bruce J. The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics. New York City: The Free Press, 2001: Ch. 8.
Schulman, J. Neil. Alongside Night, 2nd rev. ed. Pahrump, Nev.: Pulpless.com, 1999.
Silverman, Chip. Diner Guys. New York City: Birch Lane Press, 1989: Ch. 7.
Simpson, John. Strange Places, Questionable People. London: Macmillan, 1998: Ch. 10.
Stillman, Whit. The Last Days of Disco, With Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards. New York City: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000: Ch. 1-26.
Theodoracopulos, Taki. Princes, Playboys, and High-Class Tarts. Princeton, N.J.: Karz-Cohl Publishing, 1984.
The Andy Warhol Diaries, corr. ed. Ed. Pat Hackett. New York City: Warner Books, 1991.
Webb, Gary. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. New York City: Seven Stories Press, 1998: Ch. 8.

B. The Big '80s
1. The World of Wealth
a. The Bush Dynasty
i. Poppy
R.B. Cramer, Ch. 1, 9, 50-52, 80, 108, 110, 116, 126-127, 130, Epilogue.
Sutton, Antony C. Two Faces of George Bush. Dresden, N.Y.: Wiswell Ruffin House, 1988: Ch. 9-10.
ii. Others
Anderson, Jack, and Daryl Gibson. Peace, War, and Politics: An Eyewitness Account. New York City: Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, 1999: Ch. 26.
Bryce, Robert. Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron, rev. ed. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2003: Ch. 12.
Kelley, Kitty. The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty, rev. ed. New York City: Anchor Books, 2005: Ch. 20.
Minutaglio, Bill. First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty, rev. ed. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2001: Ch. 12.
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. 28.
Unger, Ch. 10.
b. Enron
Bryce, Pipe Dreams, Ch. 4, 6, 8.
Corn, David. The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception, rev. ed. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2004: Ch. 11.
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. 2-4.
c. The Computer Industry
Ceruzzi, Paul E. A History of Modern Computing, rev. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2003: Ch. 9.
Cringely, Ch. 11.
Freiberger, Paul, and Michael Swaine. Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer, rev. ed. New York City: McGraw-Hill, 1999: Ch. 9-10.
d. Wheeling and Dealing
i. Wall Street
a. Dennis Levine
Frantz, Douglas. Levine & Co.: Wall Street's Insider Trading Scandal. 1987. Rpt. New York City: Avon Books, 1988: Ch. 6-15.
D.B. Levine & Hoffer, Ch. 9-12.
b. Drexel Burnham Lambert
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. 5-14.
D.B. Levine & Hoffer, Ch. 13-19, 26.
c. Other
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. 6, 8.
Belfort, Ch. 8, 11-12, 14.
Bloomberg, Michael, and Matthew Winkler. Bloomberg by Bloomberg. New York City: John Wiley & Sons, 1997: Ch. 1, 3.
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. 3, 5, 7-8.
Cramer, James J. Confessions of a Street Addict. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2002: Ch. 2-3.
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. 33-36.
Dunbar, Nicholas. Inventing Money: The Story of Long-Term Capital Management and the Legends Behind It. Chichester, U.K.: John Wiley & Sons, 2000: Ch. 5.
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. 11, 13-14, 17.
Lewis, Michael. Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1989.
Petzinger, Ch. 6 -17, 25-28.
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. 4-6, 9-10.
Sterngold, Ch. 1, 7-24.
Stewart, James B. Den of Thieves, rev. ed. New York City: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 1992: Ch. 4-8.
Taylor, John. Storming the Magic Kingdom: Wall Street, the Raiders, and the Battle for Disney. 1987. Rpt. New York City: Balleintine Books, 1988.
ii. Las Vegas
Smith, John L. Sharks in the Desert: The Founding Fathers and Current Kings of Las Vegas. Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, 2005: Ch. 29.
Moldea, Dan E. Interference: How Organized Crime Influences Professional Football. New York City: William Morrow and Co., 1989: Ch. 47.
iii. Savings & Loans
O'Shea, James. The Daisy Chain: How Borrowed Billions Sank a Texas S&L. New York City: Pocket Books, 1991: Ch. 6, 8, 10, 13-15, 18.
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. 1, 4-7, 10-11, 15, 21-22, 27.
iv. Other
Bartholomew, James. The Richest Man in the World: The Sultan of Brunei. 1989. Rpt. Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin, 1990: Ch. 1, 5, 7, 11-12, 16, 19.
Burrough, Bryan, and John Helyar. Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Collins Business, 2008: Prologue, Ch. 3-4, 6-18, Epilogue.
Duncan, Richard. The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons (Asia), 2003: Ch. 2, 5, 8.
Klarman, Seth A Margin of Safety: Risk-Adverse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor. 1991. Rpt. Washington, D.C.: BeardBooks, 2001: Ch. 4.
Maggin, Donald L. Bankers, Builders, Knaves, and Thieves: The $300 Million Scam at ESM. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1989: Ch. 6-7.
McInerney, Jay. Brightness Falls. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992: Ch. 1, 3, 5, 13-14, 16-19, 21-22, 24, 26, 28-31, 33-34, 36, 38-39, 43-44.
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. 3, 6, 19, 27.
Smiley, Jane. Good Faith. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
Tucker, Jeffrey. Bourbon for Breakfast: Living Outside the Statist Quo. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2010: Ch. 63.
e. The Backlash
i. The Drexel Burnham Prosecution
Bruck, Ch. 15-17.
Fischel, Daniel R. Payback: The Conspiracy to Destroy Michael Milken and His Revolution. New York City: HarperBusiness, 1995.
D.B. Levine & Hoffer, Ch. 36-37.
Stewart, Den of Thieves, Ch. 14.
ii. The Savings & Loan Crisis
O'Shea, Ch. 21-24.
Pizzo, Fricker & Muolo, Ch. 8, 12, 24, 29.
iii. Dennis Levine
Frantz, Ch. 16-22.
D.B. Levine & Hoffer, Ch. 1-3, 20-25, 27-33.
iv. Other
Anderson, William L., and Candice E. Jackson. "It's the Economy, Stupid: Rudy Giuliani, the Wall Street Prosecutions, and the Recession of 1990-91." Journal of Libertarian Studies Fall 2005: 19-36.
Borman, Frank, and Robert J. Serling. Countdown: An Autobiography. New York City: Silver Arrow Books/William Morrow, 1988: Ch. 22-24.
Brooks, Ch. 11-12.
Eisler, Shark Tank, Ch. 19-20.
Maggin, Ch. 1, 8-14.
Nocera, Ch. 17.
Stewart, Den of Thieves, Ch. 9-13, 15.
f. Other
Brewton, Pete. The Mafia, CIA, and George Bush. New York City: S.P.I. Books, 1992: Ch. 5.
Byron, Christopher. Testosterone Inc.: Tales of CEOs Gone Wild. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2004: Ch. 10-11, 13-14, 21, 24.
Doherty, Brian. Gun Control on Trial: Inside the Supreme Court Battle Over the Second Amendment. Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2008: Ch. 4.
Forden, Sara Gay. House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour and Greed. 2000. Rpt. New York City: HarperCollins World, 2002: Ch. 6-9.
Goldratt, Eliyahu M., Jeff Cox, and David Whitford. The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, 3rd rev. ed. Great Barrington, Mass.: North River Press, 2004.
Kessler, The Richest Man in the World, Ch. 1, 14.
Klein, Edward. The Kennedy Curse: Why America's First Family Has Been Haunted by Tragedy for 150 Years. New York City: St. Martin’s, 2003: Ch. 7.
Lee, Stan [Stanley Martin Lieber], and George Mair. Excelsior!: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee. New York City: Fireside, 2002: Ch. 19.
Martin, Clancy. How to Sell. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
Nocera, Ch. 13-16.
Perkins, Ch. 27-28.
Rosenbaum, Ron. Manhattan Passions: True Tales of Power, Wealth, and Excess. New York City: Beech Tree Books/William Morrow, 1987.
Salerno, Joseph T. Money, Sound and Unsound. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2010: Ch. 18.
Salter, James [James A. Horowitz]. Dusk and Other Stories. 1988. Rpt. London: Picador, 1994.
2. The Reagan Administration
a. General
Anderson, Martin. Revolution: The Reagan Legacy, rev. ed. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 1990.
Buckley, The Reagan I Knew, Ch. 15-16, 19.
Cannon, President Reagan, Ch. 1-2, 5, 7, 9-10, 12, 17-18, 22.
Donaldson, Sam. Hold on, Mr. President! New York City: Random House, 1987: Ch. 1, 6.
Edsall & Edsall, Ch. 9-10.
Hayward, Vol. II, Ch. 2, 4-5, 7-10, 12-13.
Kelley, Ch. 21.
Mann, Rise of the Vulcans, Ch. 7-10.
Niskanen, Ch. 6, 9.
Nofziger, Ch. 10.
Noonan, Peggy. What I Saw at the Reagan Revolution. New York City: Random House, 1989.
Novak, Robert D. The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington. New York City: Crown Forum, 2007: Ch. 30, 32.
Paul, Ron. End the Fed. New York City: Grand Central Publishing, 2009: Ch. 5.
Pizzo, Fricker & Muolo, Ch. 23, Appendix A.
Reagan, Ron. My Father at 100. New York City: Viking, 2011: Ch. 9.
Regan, Donald T. For the Record: From Wall Street to Washington, rev. ed. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 1989: Ch. 1, 8, 10-14, 16.
Schwab, Larry. The Illusion of a Conservative Reagan Revolution. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1991.
Schweizer, Ch. 12.
Smith, Hedrick. The Power Game: How Washington Works. 1988. Rpt. New York City: Ballentine Books, 1996: Ch. 1, 12-13.
Stockman, Ch. 3-12.
Taraborelli, J. Randy. Sinatra: A Complete Life. Secaucus, N.J.: Birch Lane Press, 1997: Ch. 41.
Troy, Gil. Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2005.
Woodward. Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1999: Pt. 3.
b. Reaganomics
Bartlett, Bruce R. Reaganomics: Supply-Side Economics in Action, rev. ed. New York City: Quill, 1982: Ch. 1-6, 18, Appendix G.
Niskanen, Ch. 2-5, 7-8, 10.
Weaver, Paul H. The Suicidal Corporation: How Big Business Fails America. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1988: Ch. 17.
c. Foreign Affairs
(1) Central America
Cannon, President Reagan, Ch. 14.
Clarridge & Diehl, Ch. 11-12, 15.
Garvin, Ch. 10, 14, 16.
Haig [McCarry]. Caveat: Realism, Reagan, and Foreign Policy. New York City: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1984: Ch. 7.
Parry, Robert. Fooling America: How Washington Insiders Twist the Truth and Manufacture the Conventional Wisdom. New York City: William Morrow and Co., 1992: Ch. 5, 10-13.
Quigley, John. The Ruses for War: American Interventionism Since World War II, rev. ed. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2007: Ch. 20-21.
(2) Grenada
Kwitny. Endless Enemies: The Making of an Unfriendly World, corr. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 1986: Postscript.
Quigley, Ch. 23-25.
(3) Iran-Contra
(i) Primary Sources
Taking the Stand: The Testimony of Lieutenant Colonel Oliver L. North. New York City: Pocket Books, 1987.
The Tower Commission Report: The Full Text of the President’s Special Review Board. New York City: Bantam Books/Times Books, 1987.
(ii) Other
Cannon, President Reagan, Ch. 19-20.
Clarridge & Diehl, Ch. 18, 22-24.
R.B. Cramer, Ch. 6.
Epstein, Edward Jay. Deception: The Invisible War Between the KGB and the CIA. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1989: Ch. 14.
Evans-Pritchard, Ambrose. The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1997: Ch. 20-21.
Garvin, Ch. 12.
Harris, Shane. The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State. New York City: The Penguin Press, 2010: Ch. 4.
Hayward, Vol. II, Ch. 6, 11.
Jackley, John L. Hill Rat: Blowing the Lid Off Congress. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1992: Ch. 8-9, Appendix 3-5, 7.
Kessler, The Richest Man in the World, Ch. 15.
Mann. The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War. New York City: Viking, 2009: Pt. 3, Ch. 4.
Marshall & P.D. Scott, Cocaine Politics, Ch. 1, 6-11.
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. 11.
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. 1.
Novak, Ch. 34.
Parry, Ch. 14-16.
Persico, Ch. 1, 28, 33-35.
Polovchak & Klose, Ch. 19.
Raviv, Dan, and Yossi Melman. Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel 's Intelligence Community, rev. ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991: Ch. 15.
Regan, Ch. 2-5, 18-19.
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. 6-11.
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. 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. 10.
Webb, Ch. 5, 9-14, 17-21.
Weiner, Tim. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, rev. ed. New York City: Anchor Books, 2008: Ch. 41.
(4) The Mideast
G.W. Ball & D.W. Ball, Ch. 6-7.
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. 2.
Friedman, Thomas L. From Beirut to Jerusalem, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Anchor Books, 1995: Ch. 8.
Haig, Caveat, Ch. 9, 15.
S. Harris, Ch. 1, 3.
D.C. Martin & Walcott, Ch. 2-4, 10.
(5) Elsewhere
Buckley, The Reagan I Knew, Ch. 18.
Cannon, President Reagan, 16, 21.
Clarridge & Diehl, Ch. 14.
Colodny, Len, and Tom Shachtman. The Forty Years War: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons, From Nixon to Obama. New York City: Harper, 2009: Ch. 22-23.
Green, Ch. 11.
Haig, Caveat, Ch. 1-6, 10-14.
Halper, Stefan, and Jonathan Clarke. America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge UP, 2004: Ch. 5.
Havill, Adrian. Deep Truth: The Lives of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Secaucus, N.J.: Birch Lane Press, 1993: Ch. 17, Appendix B.
Hayward, Vol. II, Ch. 3.
P. Jenkins, Ch. 8.
Karnow, Stanley. In Our Image: America’s Empire in the Philippines. 1989. Rpt. New York City: Ballentine Books, 1990: Ch. 1, 15.
Mamdani, Mahmood. Saviours and Survivors: Darfur, Politics and the War on Terror. Cape Town, South Africa: HSRC Press, 2009: Ch. 7.
Mann, Rebellion of Ronald Reagan, Pt. 1, Ch. 1, 4-9; Pt. 2, Ch. 1, 3-8; Pt. 3, Ch. 1-2, 5-13, 15; Pt. 4, Ch. 1-8.
Marshall, Jonathan, 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. 2.
Regan, Ch. 15, 17.
Schweizer, Ch. 13-14, 16-17, 20-23.
c. The Assasination Attempt
Haig, Caveat, Ch. 8.
Regan, Ch. 9.
Wilber, Del Quentin. Rawhide Down: The Near Assasination of President Reagan. New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 2011.
3. Organized Crime
a. The Mafia
(1) Cleveland
Goddard, Ch. 22.
Neff, Ch. 24-28.
(2) Anthony Bourdain
(a) Bone in the Throat. New York City: Villard Books, 1995.
(b) The Bobby Gold Stories. New York City: Bloomsbury, 2002.
(3) Capeci
(a) Murder Machine, Ch. 19-21, 23-28.
(b) The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Mafia, rev. ed. Indianapolis: Alpha, 2004: Ch. 19-20.
(c) Mob Star, Ch. 2-6, 19-32.
(4) Cirni, Jim [James N. Cirnigliaro]
(a) The Kiss Off. New York City: Soho, 1987.
(b) The Come On: A Novel of Suspense. New York City: Soho, 1989.
(5) Others
Anastasia, George. The Last Gangster: From Cop to Wiseguy to FBI Informant: Big Ron Previte and the the Fall of the American Mob. New York City: Regan Books, 2004: Ch. 3.
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. 1-2, 4-6, 9-10, 12, 17, 19-25.
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. 1, 26-33.
J.H. Davis, Ch. 57-58, 60.
Goddard, Ch. 19.
Konigsberg, Eric. Blood Relation. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005: Ch. 12.
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. 2-3.
Moldea, Ch. 48-49, 51-52.
Pistone & Woodley, Ch. 1.
Pizzo, Fricker & Muolo, Ch. 13-14.
Sterling, Claire. Octopus: The Long Reach of the International Sicilian Mafia. 1990. Rpt. London: Harper Collins, 1993: Ch. 15-20.
Tosches, Nick. Cut Numbers. New York City: Harmony Books, 1988.
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. 14, 16.
b. Prison
D.B. Levine & Hoffer, Ch. 34-35.
Mermelstein, Moore & Smitten, Ch. 18.
Perkinson, Robert. Texas Tough: The Rise of America’s Prison Empire. New York City: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2010: Ch. 9.
c. Boston
Lehr & O'Neill, Ch. 8, 15.
Parker, Robert B. Playmates. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1989.
d. Others
Allman, Ch. 4.
Beall, Will. L.A. Rex. New York City: Riverhead Books, 2006: Ch. 10.
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. 10.
Goddard, Ch. 1, 17-18, 20-21.
Herzog, Ch. 37-39.
Lehr & O'Neill, Ch. 10-11, 13-14, 16.
“Lundy, Mike” [Donald Bain]. Baby Farm. Secaucus, N.J.: Lyle Stuart, 1987: Ch. 1-8, 10-12, 39-46.
Posner, Gerald L. Warlords of Crime: Chinese Secret Societies – The New Mafia. 1988. Rpt. Penguin Books, 1990: Ch. 1, 4, 7-9, 14, 16.
Simon, David. Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, rev. ed. New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 2006.
4. The Mideast
a. Israel
(1) The Security Agencies
(i) Melman & Raviv
(a) Every Spy a Prince, Ch. 13.
(b) Behind the Uprising, 14, 18-20.
(ii) Other
Ostrovsky and Hoy, Ch. 2-8, 12, 15-16, Epilogue.
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. 8-9, 15.
(2) The First Intifada
T.L. Friedman, Ch. 14-15.
Melman & Raviv, Behind the Uprising: Israelis, Jordanians and Palestinians. New York City: Greenwood Press, 1989: Ch. 1.
(3) Other
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. 1, 5-14.
Chamish, Barry. The Fall of Israel. Edinburgh, U.K.: Cannongate Publishers, 1992.
T.L. Friedman, Ch. 11-13.
Golan, Matti. The Road to Peace: A Biography of Simon Peres. Trans. Akiva Ron. New York City: Warner Books, 1989: Ch. 9-10, 12-14.
Perlmutter, Amos. The Life and Times of Menachem Begin. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1987: Ch. 2, 36.
Sharon, Ariel [Ariel Scheinermann], and David Chanoff. Warrior: The Autobiography of Ariel Sharon, rev. ed. 1989. Rpt. New York City: Touchstone Books, 2001: Ch. 28.
a. Iraq
Allawi, Ali A. The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2007: Ch. 2.
Friedman, Alan. Spider’s Web: The Secret History of How the White House Illegally Armed Iraq. New York City: Bantam Books, 1993: Ch. 1-8.
Perkins, Ch. 31.
Wilson, Joseph C. IV. The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies That Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity: A Diplomat's Memoir. New York City: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2004: Ch. 4.
c. Lebanon
T.L. Friedman, Ch. 6-7, 9-10.
D.C. Martin & Walcott, Ch. 5-6, 8.
Reed, Eli, and Fouad Ajami. Beirut: City of Regrets. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1988.
Sharon & Chanoff, Ch. 30-32.
d. Robert Baer
(1) 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. 6-10, 12
(2) Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude, rev. ed. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2004: Ch. 8.
e. Others
Allawi, Ch. 23.
Burke, Jason. Al-Qaeda: Casting a Shadow of Terror. London: I.B. Tauris, 2003: Ch. 5.
Cannon, President Reagan, Ch. 15.
Crile, Ch. 7, 10-12, 14-17, 19, 22, 24-25, 27-34.
Fiennes, Ranulph. Killer Elite, rev. ed. New York City: Ballantine Books, 2011: Ch. 44.
T.L. Friedman, Ch. 17.
Green, Ch. 13.
Hersh, Seymour M. Chain of Command: The Road From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2004: Pt. 2, Ch. 1.
D.C. Martin & Walcott, Ch. 7, 9.
Melman & Raviv, Ch. 12-13, 16.
Napoleoni, Loretta. Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Seven Stories Press, 2005: Ch. 6.
Parry, Ch. 7.
Posner, Steve. Israel Undercover: Secret Warfare and Hidden Diplomacy in the Middle East. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse UP, 1987: Ch. 23, 29.
Quigley, Ch. 22.
Tyler, Ch. 7.
Unger, Ch. 4.
5. Cocaine
a. McInerney
i. Story of My Life. New York City: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988.
ii. Brightness Falls, Ch. 23, 32, 35, 37, 40, 47.
b. Others
Bowden, Doctor Dealer, Ch. 8-13, Prologue, Epilogue.
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. 1-2, 5, 9, 11-12, 14-29, 31, 35-36.
Denton, Ch. 15-21.
Levine, Michael. Deep Cover: The Inside Story of How DEA Infighting, Incompetence, and Subterfuge Lost Us the Biggest Battle of the Drug War. 1990. Rpt. Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse.com, 2000.
Marshall & P.D. Scott, Cocaine Politics, Ch. 6.
Mermelstein, Moore & Smitten, Ch. 5-17, 19-25.
Mustain & Capeci, Murder Machine, Ch. 22.
Crile, Ch. 9, 12.
Fontova, Humberto. Fidel: Hollywood’s Favorite Tyrant. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2005: Ch. 4.
Gray, Ch. 7.
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. 6-14, 16-34.
Lethem, Pt. 3, Ch. 6-7, 9.
Moldea, Ch. 50.
Morris, Roger. Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America. New York City: John Macrae/Henry Holt and Co., 1996: Ch. 18.
Pelecanos, George P. The Sweet Forever. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1998.
G.L. Posner. Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth, and Power – a Dispatch From the Beach. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2009: Ch. 12.
Shannon, Ch. 1, 9-24.
Streatfeild, Dominic. Cocaine (An Unauthorized Biography). New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2001: Ch. 13-17, 19.
Webb, Ch. 15-16.
6. Arts & Entertainment
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. 47-50.
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. 50-54.
Gavin, James. Intimate Nights: The Golden Age of New York Cabaret. New York City: Grove Weidenfeld, 1991: Ch. 11.
Havill, Ch. 18.
Kostelanetz, Ch. 30, 39.
Manso, Peter. Mailer: His Life and Times, rev. ed. New York City: Washington Square Press, 2008: Afterword.
Michaelis, David. Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography. New York City: Harper, 2007: Ch. 27.
Reid, Dreesen & Rapoport, Ch. 4.
Schwartz, Ch. 20.
Shaffer & Ritz, Ch. 38.
Tormé, Mel. It Wasn’t All Velvet. New York City: Viking, 1988: Ch. 44.
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: Prologue.
Van Peebles, Melvin, and Mario Van Peebles. No Identity Crisis: A Father and Son’s Own Story of Working Together. New York City: Fireside, 1990.
Walker, Jesse. Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America. New York City: New York UP, 2001: Ch. 9.
a. Music
Christe, Everybody Wants Some, Ch. 11-12.
Coleman, Rick. Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock ‘n’ Roll. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2006: Ch. 19.
George, Nelson. The Death of Rhythm & Blues. New York City: Pantheon Books, 1988: Ch. 7.
Grandmaster Flash, Ritz & G. Martin, Pt. 5.
James, Etta [Jamesetta Hawkins], and Ritz. Rage to Survive: The Etta James Story. New York City: Villard Books, 1995: Ch. 31-33.
Lethem, Pt.3, Ch. 8.
Lydon, Michael. Ray Charles: Man and Music, rev. ed. New York City: Routledge, 2004: Pt. 6.
Wesley, Ch. 10.
Yetnikoff, Walter and Ritz. Howling at the Moon: The Odyssey of a Montrous Music Mogul in an Age of Excess. New York City: Broadway Books, 2004: Pt. 3.
(1) Metal
Christe, Sound of the Beast, Ch. 6-12, 14, 17.
Konow, Ch. 7-11.
Lemmy & Garza, Ch. 10.
(2) Punk
M. Andersen & M. Jenkins, Ch. 5-11.
Blush, Steven. American Hardcore: A Tribal History, rev. ed. Ed. George Petros. Los Angeles: Feral House, 2010.
Cole, Joe. Planet Joe. Los Angeles: 2.13.61, 1992.
Spitz & Mullen, Ch. 37, Epilogue.
(3) The Crooners
Evanier, David. Making the Wise Guys Weep: The Jimmy Roselli Story. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998: Ch. 1, 13.
Schoell, William. Martini Man: The Life of Dean Martin. Dallas: Taylor Publishing, 1999: Ch. 22.
Taraborelli, Ch. 42-44.
Tormé, Ch. 43.
(4) Rock
Kiedis & Sloman, Ch. 7.
Shaffer & Ritz, Ch. 33-34.
S. Smith, Ch.12.
Soffee, Anne Thomas. Nërd Girl Rocks Paradise City: A True Story of Faking It in Hair Metal L.A. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2005: Ch. 1.
b. L.A. Sleaze
Beall, Ch. 6, 12.
Eszterhas, Joe. Hollywood Animal: A Memoir. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004: Ch. 6-8, 26, 30.
Evans, Ch. 38, 40.
H. Hill & Russo, Ch. 16.
Kiedis & Sloman, Ch. 8.
Motley Crüe, and Neil Strauss. The Dirt. New York City: Regan Books, 2001.
Soffee, Ch. 2-6.
c. Hollywood
i. "The Tonight Show"
Johnny Came Lately: An Autobiography by Fred de Cordova, Executive Producer of "The Tonight Show". 1988. Rpt. New York City: Pocket Books, 1989: Pt. 1.
Leamer, Ch. 1, 18-22.
ii. Dennis McDougal
(1) Fatal Subtraction: The Inside Story of Buchwald v. Paramount, rev. ed. West Hollywood, Calif.: Dove Books, 1996: Ch. 1-2, 4-7, 9, 14-16.
(2) The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA and the Hidden History of Hollywood. New York City: Crown Publishers, 1998: Ch. 32-34.
iii. Other
Allen. Murder on the Glitter Box. New York City: Zebra Books, 1989.
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. 16-17.
Dunne, John Gregory. Monster: Living Off the Big Screen. 1997. Rpt. London: Pan, 2000.
Evans, Ch. 36-37, 39, 41-42.
McInerney, Brightness Falls, Ch. 45.
d. The Comedians
i. "Saturday Night Live"
D. Hill & Weingrad, Ch. 42-44.
Shaffer & Ritz, Ch. 35.
ii. Others
Carter, Bill. The War for Late Night: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy, rev. ed. New York City: Plume, 2011: Ch. 3, 9.
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. 16.
O’Donnell, Pierce, and McDougal. Fatal Subtraction: The Inside Story of Buchwald v. Paramount, rev. ed. West Hollywood, Calif.: Dove Books, 1996: Ch. 17, 22.
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. 29.
Reid, Dreesen & Rapoport, Ch. 11.
Shaffer & Ritz, Ch. 36.
Tracy, Kathleen. Jerry Seinfeld: The Entire Domain. Secaucus, N.J.: Birch Lane Press, 1998: Ch. 3-4.
e. Publishing
i. Comics
Bell, Blake. Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko. Seattle: Fantagraphic Books, 2008: Ch. 11.
Jews and American Comics: An Illustrated History of an American Art Form. Ed. Paul Buhle. New York City: The New Press, 2008: Ch. 2.
ii. Other
McInerney, Brightness Falls, Ch. 2, 7, 9, 12, 15, 27, 42.
Yagoda, Ben. About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made. New York City: Scribner, 2000: Epilogue.
f. 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. 2.
McNamee, Ch. 11-14.
7. The Clintons
C. P. Andersen, Bill and Hilary, Ch. 6.
Evans-Pritchard, Ch. 16.
Flowers, Gennifer, and Jacquelyn Dapper. Passion and Betrayal. Del Mar, Calif.: Emery Dalton Books, 1995: Ch. 6-8.
Klein. 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. 14.
Morris, Ch. 14, 16, 20.
a. Whitewater
Morris, Ch. 18.
Stewart. Blood Sport: The President and His Adversaries, rev. ed. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1997: Ch. 5-6, Appendix 1.
8. The United Kingdom
Beckett & Hencke, Ch. 5-7.
Buruma, Ian. Anglomania: A European Love Affair. New York City: Random House, 1998: Ch. 15.
Fiennes, Ch. 28-35, 39-43.
Moorcock, Ch. 17-21.
Taki. Nothing to Declare: A Memoir. New York City: Morgan Entrekin/Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991.
G. Thomas, Ch. 14.
9. The Executive Police Agencies
a. The CIA
Clarridge & Diehl, Ch. 17, 19-21.
Coll, Ch. 5, 7.
Epstein, Deception, Ch. 10, 12.
Garvin, Ch. 9.
Haas, Roland W. Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2007: Ch. 18-20.
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: Prologue, Ch. 2-11.
Persico, Ch. 15-27, 29-32.
Trento, Joseph J. The Secret History of the CIA. New York City: Forum, 2001: Ch. 56.
Weiner, Ch. 38-40, 42.
b. The FBI
Goddard, Ch. 16, 23-26.
Kessler. The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI, rev. ed. New York City: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2003: Ch. 17-18, 22, 28.
c. Others
Burdick & C. Mitchell, Ch. 11.
De Marenches & Andelman, Ch. 11.
Jacobsen, Annie. Area 51: An Uncensored History of America’s Top Secret Military Base. New York City: Little, Brown and Co., 2011: Ch. 1.
G. Thomas, Ch. 10, 12, 20.
10. The Blacks
Abbott, Elizabeth. Haiti: The Duvaliers and Their Legacy, rev. ed. New York City: Touchstone, 1991: Ch. 10-13.
C.P. Andersen. Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage. New York City: William Morrow, 2009: Ch. 4.
Chafets, Ze'ev. Devil's Night: And Other True Tales of Detroit. 1990. Rpt. New York City: Vintage, 1991: Ch. 1-6.
Cross, Charles R. Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix. New York City: Hyperion, 2005: Ch. 1-2.
Beall, Ch. 4, 8.
Chang, Ch. 13.
Reed, Ishmael. "Steven Spielberg Plays Howard Beach." Writin' is Fightin' : Thirty-Seven Years of Boxing on Paper. New York City: Atheneum, 1988: 145-157.
Sailer, Ch. 5, 7, 10-11.
Timmerman, Kenneth R. Shakedown: Exposing the Real Jesse Jackson. Washington, D.C.: Regenery Publishing, 2002: Ch. 5-8.
Wideman, John Edgar. Philadelphia Fire. New York City: Holt, 1990.
11. The Media
a. Buchanan
(1) Corpse Had a Familiar Face, Ch. 14.
(2) Never Let Them See You Cry, Ch. 20.
b. Woodward and Bernstein
Havill, Ch. 19.
Shepard, Alicia. Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley and Sons, 2007: Ch. 11.
c. CBS
Cronkite & Carleton, Ch. 26.
Hewitt, Don. Tell Me a Story: Fifty Years and 60 Minutes in Television. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2001: Ch. 9.
d. Others
Bloomberg and Winkler, Ch. 4, 6.
Carr, Ch. 7.
Ciccone, F. Richard. Royko: A Life in Print. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2001: Ch. 15-17.
Corry, John. My Times: Adventures in the News Trade. New York City: Grosset/Putnam, 1993: Ch. 13.
Donaldson, Ch. 7, 13-14, 16.
Kahn, E.J. Jr. Year of Change: More About The New Yorker & Me. New York City: Viking, 1988.
Novak, Ch. 31, 33, 35.
Simpson, Ch. 11-12.
Westlake, Donald E. Trust Me on This. New York City: The Mysterious Press, 1988.
Williams, Harold A. The Baltimore Sun, 1837-1987. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1987: Ch. 17.
12. The Conservatives
a. The Sunbelt
Fahey, Todd Brendan. Hell Bottled Up! Chronicles of a Late Propaganda Minister. Los Angeles: Far Gone Books, 2000.
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. 5-45.
b. Other
Bartley, Ch. 9-16.
Bellow, Saul. Ravelstein. New York City: Viking, 2000.
Kelley, John L. Bringing the Market Back In: The Political Revitalization of Market Liberalism. New York City: New York UP, 1997: Ch. 5-6.
Nofziger, Ch. 10-11.
13. Greater New York City
Cea, Robert. No Lights, No Sirens: The Corruption and Redemption of an Inner City Cop. New York City: William Morrow, 2005.
Easton, Bret Ellis. American Psycho. New York City: Vintage Books, 1991.
Fearon, Ch. 13-14.
McInerney, Brightness Falls, Ch. 4, 6, 8, 10, 20, 25, 41, 46, 48.
New York Unbound: The City and the Politics of the Future. Ed. Peter D. Salins. New York City: Basil Blackwell, 1988: Ch. 8, 11.
Raban, Jonathan. Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America. 1990. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Depatures, 1998: Ch. 2.
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. 8.
Wolfe, Tom. The Bonfire of the Vanities. New York City: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1987.
14. New England
Eisler, Kim Isaac. Revenge of the Pequots: How a Small Native American Tribe Created the World’s Most Profitable Casino. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2001: Ch. 5-7, 9.
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. 6-7.
15. Southern Florida
Allman, Ch. 15-16.
G.L. Posner, Miami Babylon, Ch. 11, 13-21.
Raban, Ch. 7.
Rieff, David. Going to Miami: Exiles, Tourists, and Refugees in the New America. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1987.
Willeford, Charles. The Way We Die Now. 1988. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2005.
16. The Marxists
a. The Soviet Union
(1) The KGB
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. 5-8.
Epstein, Deception, Ch. 13.
(2) Other
Epstein, Deception, Ch. 16.
Klebnikov, Paul. Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berzovsky and the Looting of Russia. New York City: Harcourt, 2000: Ch. 1-2.
Lucas, Edward. The New Cold War: The Future of Russia and the Threat to the West, rev. ed. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009: Ch. 1.
Medvedev, Grigori. The Truth About Chernobyl, rev. ed. Trans. Evelyn Rossiter. New York City: Basic Books, 1991: Ch. 2-6.
Schweizer, Ch. 18.
Vaksberg, Arkady. The Soviet Mafia. Trans. John Roberts and Elizabeth Roberts. London: Weindenfeld and Nicolson, 1991: Ch. 4, 6-8, 10.
b. Other
Garvin, Ch. 13.
Kristeva, Ch. 19, 21-24.
Mann, Rebellion of Ronald Reagan, Pt. 3, Ch. 14.
Wyden, Ch. 57-59.
17. Central Asia
Coll, Ch. 8-9.
Margolis, Ch. 3-5.
Miniter, Richard. Mastermind: The Many Faces of the 9/11 Architect, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. New York City: Sentinel, 2011: Ch. 3.
Musharraf, Pervez. In the Line of Fire: A Memoir. New York City: Free Press, 2006: Ch. 9.
18. Africa
a. South Africa
Fiennes, Ch. 25.
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. 2.
Williams, Walter E. South Africa's War Against Capitalism. New York City: Praeger, 1989: Ch. 6-7.
b. Elsewhere
Mamdani, Ch. 8.
19. The Cold War
Leebaert, Derek. The Fifty-Year Wound: The True Price of America’s Cold War Victory. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2002: Ch. 10-11.
Sanchez, Lt. Gen. Ricardo (ret.), and Donald T. Phillips. Wiser in Battle: A Soldier's Story. New York City: Harper, 2008: Ch. 3.
Schweizer, Ch. 19.
Sutton. The Best Enemy Money Can Buy. Billings, Mont.: Liberty House Press, 1986: Appendices H-I.
Wyden, Ch. 52-53.
20. AIDS
Fiennes, Ch. 45.
Jaki, Stanley L. The Only Chaos and Other Essays. Lanham, Md.: UP of America/Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1990: Ch 9.
Shilts, Randy. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, rev. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 1988: Ch. 6-59.
Von Hoffman, Nicholas. Citizen Cohn. New York City: Doubleday, 1988: Pt. 1.
21. The Congress
Buckley. The Rake. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007: Ch. 11, 14-17.
Jackley, Ch. 4-7, 10-11, Appendix 1-2, 6.
Pizzo, Fricker & Muolo, Ch. 25, Appendix B.
H. Smith, Ch. 4.
22. Frederick Barthelme
a. Moon Deluxe. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1983.
b. Second Marriage. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1984.
c. Tracer. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1985.
d. Chroma. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1987.
e. Two Against One. New York City: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1988.
f. The Law of Averages: New and Selected Stories. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2000.
23. Leonard
a. Glitz. New York City: Arbor House, 1985.
b. Bandits. New York City: Arbor House, 1987.
24. Joyce Carol Oates
a. Last Days: Stories. New York City: E.P. Dutton, 1984.
b. Raven's Wing and Other Stories. New York City: E.P. Dutton, 1986.
“Smith, Rosamond.” Lives of the Twins. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1987.
25. Updike
a. In the Beauty of the Lilies. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996: Pt. 4.
b. S. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.
26. Gore Vidal
Kaplan, Fred. Gore Vidal: A Biography. New York City: Doubleday, 1999: Ch. 19.
Vidal, Gore. Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir, 1964-2006. New York City: Doubleday, 2006: Ch. 13, 46.
27. The Cyberpunks
a. Bruce Sterling
(1) Globalhead. 1992. Rpt. London: Phoenix, 1996.
(2) Islands in the Net. New York City: Arbor House/William Morrow, 1988.
b. Others
Poulsen, Kevin. Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground. New York City: Crown Publishers, 2011: Ch. 1.
Shiner, Lewis. Deserted Cities of the Heart. 1988. Rpt. New York City: Bantam Books, 1989.
Stephenson, Neal. The Big U. 1984. Rpt. New York City: Perennial, 2001.
28. The 1988 Election
Broder, David S., and Bob Woodward. The Man Who Would Be President: Dan Quayle. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1992: Ch. 1, 3.
Campaign for President: The Managers Look at '88. Ed. David R. Runkel. Dover, Mass.: Auburn House Publishing Co., 1989.
R.B. Cramer, Ch. 1-3, 10-11, 14, 17, 21, 23, 25, 28, 31-42, 44-49, 53, 59-60, 62, 64, 66-68, 70, 72, 74, 76-77, 79, 81, 86-88, 90, 92-95, 97-107, 111-115, 117-125, 128-129.
Edsall & Edsall, Ch. 11.
Mann, Rebellion of Ronald Reagan, Pt. 4, Ch. 9.
Parry, Ch. 1-2.
Sutton, Two Faces of George Bush, Ch. 12.
29. Religion
Boyer, Paul. When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 1992: Ch. 10.
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. 3-5.
30. Clive James [Vivian James]
a. The Remake. 1987. Rpt. London: Pan Books, 1988.
b. Brrm! Brrm!, or, The Man From Japan, or Perfume at Anchorage: A Novel. London: Jonathan Cape, 1991.
31. Others
Aksyonov. In Search of Melancholy Baby. New York City: Random House, 1987.
J. Anderson & Gibson, Ch. 24.
Barthelme, Donald. Paradise. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1986.
Bartholomew, Ch. 8, 10, 14.
Berger, Raoul. Federalism: The Founders' Design. Norman, Okla.: U of Oklahoma P, 1987: Ch. 8.
Blonsky, Marshall. American Mythologies. New York City: Oxford UP, 1992: Ch. 1-17.
Buckley, The Rake, Ch.10, 12-13, 18-23.
Chang, Ch. 16.
Chafets. Members of the Tribe: On the Road in Jewish America. New York City: Bantam Books, 1988.
Cook, Nick. The Hunt for Zero Point: Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology. 2001. Rpt. New York City: Broadway Books, 2002: Prologue, Ch. 12.
Copeland, Miles A. Jr. The Game Player: Confessions of the CIA’s Original Political Operative. London: Aurum Press, 1989: Ch. 24.
Cowie, Jefferson. Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class. New York City: The New Press, 2010: Ch. 8.
Crile, Ch. 13, 18, 20-21, 23, 26.
Dracos, Ted. Ungodly: The Passions, Torments and Murder of Atheist Madalyn Murray O’Hair. New York City: Free Press, 2003: Ch. 14.
The Eighties: A Reader. Ed. Gilbert T. Sewall. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1997.
Eisler, Shark Tank, Ch. 16.
Fero, Kelly. The Zani Murders. Austin, Texas: Texas Monthly Press, 1990: Ch. 20.
Fiennes, Ch. 27.
Franzen, Jonathan. The Twenty-Seventh City. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988: Ch. 1, 3-24.
Garvin, Ch. 4, 6-8, 15.
Gottfried, Paul Edward. Conservatism in America: Making Sense of the American Right. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007: Ch. 3.
H. Hill & Russo, Ch. 14.
Jacobsen, Ch. 20.
P. Jenkins, Ch. 7, 9-11.
P. Johnson. Modern Times: The World From the Twenties to the Nineties, rev. ed. New York City: HarperPerennial, 1992: Ch. 20.
Jones, Libido Dominandi, Pt. 3, Ch. 20.
Kaplan, Sam Hall. L.A. Lost & Found: An Architectural History of Los Angeles. New York City: Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1987: Ch. 1, 9.
Kunstler, James Howard. The Halloween Ball. New York City: Bantam Books, 1987.
Leland, John. Hip: The History, rev. ed. New York City: HarperPerennial, 2005: Ch. 14.
Lethem, Pt. 3, Ch. 13-14.
McInerney, Brightness Falls, Ch. 11.
Miniter, Mastermind, Ch. 2.
Patterson, James T. The Dread Disease: Cancer and Modern American Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1987: Ch. 11.
Perloff, Ch. 13.
Rayner, Richard. Los Angeles Without a Map. New York City: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1989.
Reed. "300 Years of 1984." Writin' is Fightin' : Thirty-Seven Years of Boxing on Paper. New York City: Atheneum, 1988: 57-82.
Roberts and Stratton, Ch. 6.
Roth, Philip. Patrimony. 1991. Rpt. in Novels & Other Narratives 1986-1991. Ed. Ross Miller. New York City: The Library of America, 2008: 581-729.
B.J. Schulman, Ch. 9.
Schweizer, Ch. 15.
Scott, Otto J [Otto Scott-Estrella Jr.]. The Other End of the Lifeboat. Chicago: Regnery Books, 1985: Pt. 2.
Sherwood, Carlton. Inquisition: The Persecution and Prosecution of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1991: Ch. 1, 5-10.
H. Smith, Ch. 3, 5, 10, 17.
Wolff, Tobias. Back in the World. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.
Wyden, Ch. 62-63.

C. The American Imperium
Bacevich, Andrew J. The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War. New York City: Oxford UP, 2005: Ch. 8.
Baer, Sleeping With the Devil, Ch. 1-3, 10, 12.
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. 7-8.
Brewton, Ch. 22-23.
Bryce. Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of “Energy Independence”. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2008: Ch. 2-3.
Cheney, Dick, and Liz Cheney. In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir. New York City: Threshold Editions, 2011: Ch. 8.
Colodny & Shachtman, Ch. 25.
Courtwright, David T. No Right Turn: Conservative Politics in a Liberal America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2010: Ch. 9, 11.
DeLillo, Don. Point Omega. New York City: Scribner, 2010.
Deliso, Christopher. The Coming Balkan Caliphate: The Threat of Radical Islam to Europe and the West. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Security International, 2007: Ch. 7.
Douthat, Ross Gregory. Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class. New York City: Hyperion, 2005: Ch. 1-8.
Edsall & Edsall, Ch. 12.
ElBaradi, Mohamed. The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times. New York City: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2011: Ch. 8, 10.
Francis, Samuel T. America Extinguished: Mass Immigration and the Disintegration of American Culture. Monterey, Va.: Americans for Immigration Control, 2002.
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. 3, 5.
Gibson, William. Spook Country. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2007.
Gottfried, Conservatism in America, Ch. 6.
Halberstam, David. War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals. New York City: Scribner, 2001: Ch. 21, 39.
S. Harris, Ch. 5-8.
Iserbyt, Charlotte Thomson. The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America: A Chronological Paper Trail. Ravenna, Ohio: Conscience Press, 1999: Ch. 8.
Johnson, Nicholas. Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica. Los Angeles: Feral House, 2005.
Kelly, Michael. Things Worth Fighting For: Collected Writings. New York City: The Penguin Press, 2004: Pt. IV.
Klein, Kennedy, Ch. 6.
Laughland, John. A History of Political Trials: From Charles I to Saddam Hussein. Oxford, U.K.: Peter Lang, 2008: Ch. 17.
Ledeen, Ch. 4-6.
MacDonald, Kevin. The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Century Intellectual and Political Movements, rev. ed. Bloomington, Ind.: 1st Books Library, 2002: Ch. 8.
Mamdani, Pt. 1.
Mearsheimer, John J.and Stephen M. Walt. The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007: Ch. 1-6.
Novak, Ch. 37.
Perret, Geoffrey. 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. 24.
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. 1-2, 5, 31-32.
Redden, Jim. Snitch Culture: How Citizens Are Turned Into the Eyes and Ears of the State, rev. ed. Venice, Calif.: Feral House, 2001: Ch. 1-4, 7, 15-17.
Rieff, David. Los Angeles: Capital of the Third World. 1991. Rpt. London: Phoenix, 1993.
Sammon, Bill. The Evangelical President: George Bush's Struggle to Spread a Moral Democracy Throughout the World. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2007: Ch. 8-9, 11-13.
Scahill, Jeremy. Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, rev. ed. New York City: Nation Books, 2008: Ch. 2, 15, 18-19.
Shorrock, Tim. Spies for Hire: The Secret World of Intelligence Outsourcing. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2008: Ch. 1, 5, 7-8, 10.
Singer, S. Fred, and Dennis T. Avery. Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, rev. ed. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008: Ch. 13.
Taibbi, Matt. Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches From a Rotting Empire. New York City: Black Cat, 2007.
Taylor, Jeff. Where Did the Party Go?: William Jennings Bryan, Hubert Humphrey, and the Jeffersonian Legacy. Columbia, Mo.: U of Missouri P, 2006: Ch. 12.
Vance, Laurence M. The Revolution That Wasn’t. Pensacola, Fla.: Vance Publications, 2009.
Vidal, Gore [Eugene Luther Vidal Jr]. Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir, 1964-2006. New York City: Doubleday, 2006: Ch. 3.
Webb, Ch. 22-23.
Weinberg, Steven. Lake Views: This World and the Universe. The Belknap Press of Harvard UP. Cambridge, Mass., 2009: Ch. 14, 23.
The World According to TomDispatch: America in the New Age of Empire. Ed. Tom Engelhardt. London: Verso, 2008: Ch. 4, 21, 30-31.
1. The Bush Dynasty
Bartlett, Bruce. Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy. New York City: Doubleday, 2006: Ch. 1.
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. 1, 3-10.
D. Cheney & L. Cheney, Ch. 9.
Corn, Ch. 2-3.
Draper. Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush. New York City: Free Press, 2007: Ch. 1, 3-4.
Kelley, Ch. 24-26.
Kuo, David. Tempting Faith: An Inside Story of Political Seduction. New York City: Free Press, 2006: Ch. 7-8.
Minutaglio, Ch. 1, 13-16.
Ruppert, Ch. 4.
Woodward. State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2006: Ch. 1-2.
a. The George H.W. Bush Administration
J. Anderson & Gibson, Ch. 27.
Bowden. Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw. New York City: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001.
Broder & Woodward, Ch. 5, 7-9.
D. Cheney & L. Cheney, Ch. 5.
Coll, Ch. 11-12.
Colodny & Shachtman, Ch. 24.
DeFrank, Thomas M. Wri