XVI. The Contemporary World

A. The Catalyst Years: 1977-1985
1. The Arts
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.
Schwartz, Jonathan. All in Good Time: A Memoir. New York City: Random House, 2004: Ch.19.
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.
(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.
(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], David 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
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.
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"
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.
Woodward, Bob. Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1984: Ch. 1, 9-19.
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
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.
b. L.A.
Beall, Will. L.A. Rex. New York City: Riverhead Books, 2006.
Ellroy, James [Lee Earle Ellroy]. My Dark Places: An L.A. Crime Memoir. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996: Ch. 25.
c. 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.
d. Other
Bowden, Mark. Doctor Dealer, rev. ed. New York City: Grove Press, 2001: Ch. 5-6.
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.
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. Elsewhere
Jacboson, Sid, and Ernie Colón. The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation. New York City: Hill and Wang, 2006: Ch. 2.
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.
Updike, John. The Coup. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1978.
Vargas Llosa, Mario. The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta. 1984. Trans. Alfred Mac Adam. New York City: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1986.
4. The American Conservative Insurgency
a. Lou Cannon
(1) Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2003: Ch. 29-30.
(2) President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime, rev. ed. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2000: Ch. 8.
b. Others
Buckley, William F. Jr. The Reagan I Knew. New York City: Basic Books, 2008: Ch. 12-13.
Cramer, Richard Ben. What It Takes: The Way to the White House, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 1993: Ch. 109.
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.
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.
5. Europe
 Aksyonov, Vassily. Island of Crimea. Trans. Michael W. Heim. New York City: Random House, 1983.
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.
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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. Others
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 Largest Covert Operation in History. New York City: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2003: 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.
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.
Limonov, Edward [Eduard Veniaminovich Savenko]. His Butler’s Story. 1984. Trans. Judson Rosengrant. New York City: Grove Press, 1987.
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.
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. Ed. Pat Hackett. New York City: Warner Books, 1989.
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.
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
Belfort, Ch. 8, 11-12, 14.
Bloomberg, Michael, and Matthew Winkler. Bloomberg by Bloomberg. New York City: John Wiley & Sons, 1997: Ch. 1, 3.
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.
Cramer, James J. Confessions of a Street Addict. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2002: Ch. 2-3.
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.
Duncan, Richard. The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons (Asia), 2003: Ch. 2, 5, 8.
Lewis, Michael. Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1989.
Smiley, Jane. Good Faith. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
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.
Taylor, John. Storming the Magic Kingdom: Wall Street, the Raiders, and the Battle for Disney. 1987. Rpt. New York City: Balleintine Books, 1988.
e. The Backlash
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.
Fischel, Daniel R. Payback: The Conspiracy to Destroy Michael Milken and His Revolution. New York City: HarperBusiness, 1995.
Nocera, Ch. 17.
f. Other
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.
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.
Rosenbaum, Ron. Manhattan Passions: True Tales of Power, Wealth, and Excess. New York City: Beech Tree Books/William Morrow, 1987.
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
Kelley, Ch. 21.
Mann, Ch. 7-10.
Noonan, Peggy. What I Saw at the Reagan Revolution. New York City: Random House, 1989.
Novak, Ch. 30, 32.
Paul, Ron. End the Fed. New York City:  Grand Central Publishing, 2009: Ch. 5.
Schweizer, Ch. 12.
Smith, Hedrick. The Power Game: How Washington Works. 1988. Rpt. New York City: Ballentine Books, 1996: Ch. 1, 12-13.
Taraborelli, J. Randy. Sinatra: A Complete Life. Secaucus, N.J.: Birch Lane Press, 1997: Ch. 41.
Weaver, Paul H. The Suicidal Corporation: How Big Business Fails America. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1988: Ch. 17.
Woodward. Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1999: Pt. 3.
b. Foreign Affairs
(1) Central America
Cannon, President Reagan, Ch. 14.
Clarridge & Diehl, Ch. 11-12, 15.
Quigley, Ch. 20-21.
(2) Grenada
 Kwitny. Endless Enemies: The Making of an Unfriendly World, corr. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 1986: Postscript.
Quigley, John. The Ruses for War: American Interventionism Since World War II, rev. ed. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2007: Ch. 23-25.
(3) Iran-Contra
Cannon, President Reagan, Ch. 19-20.
Clarridge & Diehl, Ch. 18, 22-24.
R.B. Cramer, Ch. 6.
Evans-Pritchard, Ambrose. The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1997: Ch. 20-21.
Jackley, John L. Hill Rat: Blowing the Lid Off Congress. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1992: Ch. 8-9, Appendix 3-5, 7.
Novak, Ch. 34.
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.
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) Elsewhere
 Buckley, The Reagan I Knew, Ch. 18.
Cannon, President Reagan, 16, 21.
Clarridge & Diehl, Ch. 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.
P. Jenkins, Ch. 8.
Mamdani, Mahmood. Saviours and Survivors: Darfur, Politics and the War on Terror. Cape Town, South Africa: HSRC Press, 2009: Ch. 7.
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.
Schweizer, Ch. 13-14, 16-17, 20-23.
3. Organized Crime
a. The Mafia
(1) Anthony Bourdain
(a) Bone in the Throat. New York City: Villard Books, 1995.
(b) The Bobby Gold Stories. New York City: Bloomsbury, 2002.
(2) 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.
(3) 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.
Cirni, Jim [James N. Cirnigliaro]. The Kiss Off. New York City: Soho, 1987.
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.
Konigsberg, Eric. Blood Relation. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005: Ch. 12.
Lehr & O'Neill, Ch. 8, 15.
Tosches, Nick. Cut Numbers. New York City: Harmony Books, 1988.
b. Others
Beall, Ch. 10.
Lehr & O'Neill, Ch. 10-11, 13-14, 16.
Posner, Gerald L. Warlords of Crime: Chinese Secret Societies – The New Mafia. 1988. Rpt. Penguin Books, 1990: Ch. 1, 4, 7-9, 14, 16.
4. The Mideast
a. Israel
(1) The Mossad
 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: Ch. 8-9, 15.
(2) Other
Chamish, Barry. The Fall of Israel. Edinburgh, U.K.: Cannongate Publishers, 1992.
Perlmutter, Amos. The Life and Times of Menachem Begin. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1987: Ch. 2, 36.
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.
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. 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.
d. 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.
Hersh, Seymour M. Chain of Command: The Road From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2004: Pt. 2, Ch. 1.
Napoleoni, Loretta. Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Seven Stories Press, 2005: Ch. 6.
Quigley, Ch. 22.
Reed, Eli, and Fouad Ajami. Beirut: City of Regrets. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1988.
Tyler, Ch. 7.
Unger, Ch. 4.
5. Cocaine
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.
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.
Lethem, Pt. 3, Ch. 6-7, 9.
McInerny, Jay. Story of My Life. New York City: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
(2) Punk
M. Andersen & M. Jenkins, Ch. 5-11.
Blush, Steven. American Hardcore: A Tribal History. Ed. George Petros. Los Angeles: Feral House, 2001.
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.
S. Smith, Ch.12.
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.
c. Hollywood
Evans, Ch. 36-37, 39, 41-42.
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.
McDougal, Dennis. The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA and the Hidden History of Hollywood. New York City: Crown Publishers, 1998: Ch. 32-34.
d. The Comedians
D. Hill & Weingrad, Ch. 42-44.
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.
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
Yagoda, Ben. About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made. New York City: Scribner, 2000: Epilogue.
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, James B. Blood Sport: The President and His Adversaries, rev. ed. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1997: Ch. 5-6, Appendixes 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.
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
Kessler, Ronald. The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI, rev. ed. New York City: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2003: Ch. 17-18, 22, 28.
G. Thomas, Ch. 10, 12, 20.
a. The CIA
Clarridge & Diehl, Ch. 17, 19-21.
Coll, Ch. 5, 7.
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.
Trento, Joseph J. The Secret History of the CIA. New York City: Forum, 2001: Ch. 56.
Weiner, Ch. 38-40, 42.
10. The Blacks
C.P. Andersen. Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage. New York City: William Morrow, 2009: Ch. 4.
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. 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.
12. The Conservatives
Bartley, Ch. 9-16.
Bellow, Saul. Ravelstein. New York City: Viking, 2000.
Fahey, Todd Brendan. Hell Bottled Up! Chronicles of a Late Propaganda Minister. Los Angeles: Far Gone Books, 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.
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.
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
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 Soviet Union
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.
Klebnikov, Paul. Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berzovsky and the Looting of Russia. New York City: Harcourt, 2000: Ch. 1-2.
Schweizer, Ch. 18.
17. Central Asia
Coll, Ch. 8-9.
Margolis, Ch. 3-5.
Musharraf, Pervez. In the Line of Fire: A Memoir. New York City: Free Press, 2006: Ch. 9.
18. Africa
Mamdani, Ch. 8.
Williams, Walter E. South Africa's War Against Capitalism. New York City: Praeger, 1989: Ch. 6-7.
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.
20. AIDS
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.
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
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.
a. Bruce Sterling
(1) Globalhead. 1992. Rpt. London: Phoenix, 1996.
(2) Islands in the Net. New York City: Arbor House/William Morrow
28. The 1988 Election
 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.
Sutton, Two Faces of George Bush, Ch. 12.
29. 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.
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.
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.
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.
Franzen, Jonathan. The Twenty-Seventh City. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988: Ch. 1, 3-24.
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.
P. Jenkins, Ch. 7, 9-11.
Johnson. Modern Times: The World From the Twenties to the Nineties, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: HarperPerennial, 2001: Ch. 20.
Jones, Libido Dominandi, Pt. 3, Ch. 20.
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.
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.
Roberts and Stratton, Ch. 6.
Reed. "300 Years of 1984." Writin' is Fightin' : Thirty-Seven Years of Boxing on Paper. New York City: Atheneum, 1988: 57-82.
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.
H. Smith, Ch. 3, 5, 10, 17.
Wolff, Tobias. Back in the World. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.

C. The American Imperium
C.P. Andersen, Barack and Michelle, Ch. 8.
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.
Bryce. Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of “Energy Independence”. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2008: Ch. 2-3.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Republican Staff. The Role of Government Affordable Housing Policy in Creating the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 2009.
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.
Vogel, Steve. The Pentagon: A History: The Untold Story of the Race to Build the Pentagon – and to Restore It Sixty Years Later. New York City: Random House, 2007: Ch. 19.
Webb, Ch. 22-23.
1. The Bush Dynasty
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.
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.
Coll, Ch. 11-12.
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. 9.
A. Friedman, Ch. 9-10, 13-16.
Halberstam, Ch. 1, 6-7, 14, 16-20.
Kelley, Ch. 22-23.
Kessler, Ch. 23, 27.
Mann, Ch. 11-14.
Morris, Ch. 17.
Novak, Ch. 36.
Podhoretz, John. Hell of a Ride: Backstage at the White House Follies 1989-1993. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
Posner. Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11. New York City: Random House, 2003: Ch. 6.
Quigley, Ch. 27-30.
Roberts and Stratton, Ch. 13.
Sterling. The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier. New York City: Bantam Books, 1992: Pt. 3.
i. The End of the Cold War
J. Anderson & Gibson, Ch. 25.
Coll, Ch. 10.
Leebaert, Ch. 12.
Mendez, Mendez & Henderson, Ch. 12-13, Epilogue.
Schweizer, Ch. 24.
Simpson, Ch. 13.
ii. Woodward
(a) The Commanders, rev. ed. New York City: Touchstone Books, 2002: Pt. 1.
(b) Shadow, Pt. 4.
iii. The Persian Gulf War
Boot, Max. The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power. New York City: Basic Books, 2002: Ch. 14.
Clarke, Richard A. Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror, rev. ed. New York City: Free Press, 2004: Ch. 3.
Franks, Gen. Tommy (ret.), and Malcolm McConnell. American Soldier. New York City: ReganBooks/HarperCollins Publishers, 2004: Ch. 5.
A. Friedman, Ch. 11-12.
Halberstam,  Ch. 5.
Kelly. Martyrs' Day: Chronicle of a Small War, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 2001.
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. 19.
McNab, Andy. Bravo Two Zero. 1993. Rpt. London: Chivers Press, 1995: Ch. 1, 3-14, Epilogue.
Posner, Ch. 5.
Quigley, Ch. 31.
Sanchez & D.T. Phillips, Ch. 4.
Simons, G.L. The Scourging of Iraq: Sanctions, Law, and Natural Justice, rev. ed. Basingstoke, U.K.: Macmillan, 1997.
Simpson, Ch. 14.
Swofford, Andrew. Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles. New York City: Scribner, 2003.
G. Thomas, Ch. 16.
Tyler, Ch. 9.
Unger, Ch. 8-9.
The War We Could Not Stop: The Real Story of the Battle for Iraq. Ed. Randeep Ramesh. London: Faber and Faber, 2003: Ch. 1.
Wilson, Ch. 5-7.
Woodward, The Commanders, Pt. 2.
b. The George W. Bush Administration
Block, Walter, and Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. "Katrina and the Future of New Orleans." Telos Summer 2007: 170-185.
Bovard, James. The Bush Betrayal. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004: Ch. 5-9, 17.
Draper, Dead Certain, Ch. 6, 15-20, 22.
Hersh, Pt. 6, Ch. 2; Epilogue.
Kelley, Ch. 27, Afterword.
Kucinich, Dennis,  David Swanson, and Elizabeth de la Vega. The 35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting George W. Bush. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2008.
Kuo, Ch. 9-11.
Norton, Anne. Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2004: Ch. 5.
Suskind, Ron. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill, rev. ed. New York City: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2004: Ch. 6, 8-9.
Tyler, Ch. 12.
Woodward, State of Denial, Ch. 32.
i.  Peacetime
Bovard, Bush Betrayal, Ch. 4.
Coll, Ch. 30-31.
Corn, Ch. 4, 6, 8.
Draper, Dead Certain, Ch. 5.
Halper & J. Clarke, Ch. 4.
Mann, Ch. 17-18.
Suskind, Ch. 1-5.
Unger, Ch. 12-13.
Woodward, State of Denial, Ch. 3-9.
ii. 9-11 Attack and Aftermath
Allan, Chantal. Bomb Canada and Other Unkind Remarks in the American Media. Edmonton, Alb.: AU Press, 2009: Ch. 5. 
Anonymous [Scheuer, Michael F.]. Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror, rev. ed. Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books, 2005: Ch. 1, 6-8.
Baker. Checkpoint. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
Baer, See No Evil, Epilogue.
Bamford, Ch. 1-4, 12-13.
Barkun, Michael. A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America. Berkeley, Calif.: U of California P, 2003: Ch. 10.
Brasch, Walter M. America’s Unpatriotic Acts: The Federal Government’s Violation of Constitutional and Civil Rights. New York City: Peter Lang, 2005.
Brill, Steven. After: How America Confronted the September 12 Era. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
Brzezinski, Matthew. Fortress America: On the Frontlines of Homeland Security – an Inside Look at the Coming Surveillance State. New York City: Bantam Books, 2004.
Cannell, Stephen J. Cold Hit. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2005.
Carr, Ch. 54.
Cassel, Elaine. The War on Civil Liberties: How Bush and Ashcroft Have Dismantled the Bill of Rights. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2004.
R.A. Clarke, Ch. 1, 10-11.
Corn, Ch. 9.
Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can’t Stand Up to the Facts: In In-Depth Investigation by PopularMechanics. Ed. David Dunbar and Brad Reagan. New York City: Hearst Books, 2006.
DeLillo, Don. Falling Man. New York City: Scribner.
Deliso, Ch. 6, 8.
Denby, David. American Sucker. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 2004: Ch. 25.
Devji, Faisal. Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity. London: Hurst & Co., 2005: Ch. 6.
Douthat, Ch. 9.
Draper, Dead Certain, Ch. 7.
Eland, Ivan. The Empire Has No Clothes: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed. Oakland, Calif.: The Independent Institute, 2004: Ch. 5-7.
Flynn, Steven. America the Vulnerable: How Our Government Is Failing to Protect Us From Terrorism. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers/Council on Foreign Relations, 2004.
Franks and McConnell, Ch. 7. 
G. Friedman, Prologue, Ch. 6-7.
Gardiner, U.S. Air Force Col. Sam (ret.). The End of the "Summer of Diplomacy": Assessing U.S. Military Options on Iran. New York City: The Century Foundation Press, 2006.
Gertz, Bill. Breakdown: The Failure of American Intelligence to Defeat Global Terror, rev. ed. New York City: Plume, 2003.
Halper & J. Clarke, Ch. 9-10.
Harris, Lee. Civilization and Its Enemies: The Next Stage of History. New York City: Free Press, 2004: Ch. 1-3.
Healy, Gene. The Cult of the Presidency: America’s Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power. Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2008: Ch. 5-7.
Hersh, Pt. 1, Ch. 1, 3; Pt. 2, Ch. 3.
Hopsicker, Daniel. Welcome to Terrorland: Mohammed Atta and the 9-11 Cover-Up in Florida. Eugene, Ore.: The MadCow Press, 2004.
Kessler, Prologue, Ch. 35-36.
Krogh, Egil "Bud," and Matthew Krogh. Integrity: Good People, Bad Choices, and Life Lessons from the White House. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2007: Ch. 13.
Kuo, Ch. 12-16.
Lieven, Anatol. America Right or Wrong: An Anatomy of American Nationalism. New York City: Oxford UP, 2004.
Mann, Ch. 19-20.
Mearsheimer & Walt, Ch. 7, 9-10.
Meek, James. We Are Now Beginning Our Descent. Edinburgh, U.K.: Cannongate, 2008: Ch. 8-13.
Miniter, Richard. Shadow War: The Untold Story of How Bush is Winning the War on Terror. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2004: Ch. 1, 3-6.
Musharraf, Prologue, Ch. 20-25.
Napoleoni, Prologue, Ch. 18.
Norton, Ch. 9.
Pollack, Neal. Beneath the Axis of Evil: One Man’s Journey Into the Horrors of War. Austin, Texas: So New Media, 2003.
Posner, Ch. 1, 3-5, 9, 11-13, 15-19.
Risen, James State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration, rev. ed. New York City: Free Press, 2007: Prologue, Ch. 1-2, 9-10, Afterword.
Ritter, Scott. Waging Peace: The Art of War for the Antiwar Movement. New York City: Nation Books, 2007: Ch. 1-2.
Roberts and Stratton, Ch. 14.
Ruppert, Ch. 12-30.
Scahill, Ch. 17.
Shorrock, Ch. 6.
Skal, David J. Death Makes a Holiday: A Cultural History of Halloween. New York City: Bloomsbury, 2002: Afterword.
Steyn, Mark. America Alone: The End of the World as We Know It, rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2008.
Suskind. The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11, rev. ed. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2007.
G. Thomas, Ch. 18, 21-26.
Taibbi, Matt. The Great Derangement: A Terrifying True Story of War, Politics, and Religion at the Twilight of the American Empire, rev. ed. New York City: Spiegel & Grau, 2009: Ch. 8, 10, 12.
Timmerman, Ch. 18.
Unger, Ch. 1, 14-15.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Democratic Staff. George W. Bush vs. the U.S. Constitution: The Downing Street Memos and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Coverups in the Iraq War and Illegal Domestic Spying. Ed. Anita Miller. Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 2006. Rpt. The Constitution in Crisis: The Downing Street Memos and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, and Coverups in the Iraq War and Illegal Domestic Spying. New York City: Skyhook Publishing, 2007.
Weiner, Ch. 50.
Wolcott, James. Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants: The Looting of the News in a Time of War. New York City: Miramax Books, 2004.
Woodward. Bush at War, rev. ed. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
(1) The Commission
Jacboson & Colón, Ch. 1, 7-13.
Shenon, Philip. The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation. New York City: Twelve, 2008.
(2) The Torture Policies
Danner, Mark. Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror. New York City: New York Review Books, 2004.
Rajiva, Lila. The Language of Empire: Abu Ghraib and the American Media. New York City: Monthly Review Press, 2005.
The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib. Ed. Karen J. Greenberg and Joshua L. Dratel. New York City: Cambridge UP, 2005.
(3) Bovard
(a) The Bush Betrayal, Ch. 1-3, 10-14.
(b). Attention Deficit Democracy. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005: Ch. 3, 6.
(4) Bill Sammon
(i) Fighting Back: The War on Terrorism — From Inside the Bush White House. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2002.
(ii) Strategery, Ch. 18.
iii. Afghanistan
Bovard, Bush Betrayal, Ch. 15.
Coll, Ch. 32.
Corn, Ch. 10.
Scheuer, Ch. 2.
Franks and McConnell, Ch. 8-9.
G. Friedman, Prologue, Ch. 8-10.
Hersh, Pt. 3.
Meek, Ch. 1-4, 6-7.
Naylor, Sean. Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda. New York City: Berkley Caliber Books, 2005.
Quigley, Ch. 37.
Risen, Ch. 7.
Scahill, Ch. 14.
Sperry, Paul. Crude Politics: How Bush’s Oil Cronies Hijacked the War on Terrorism. Nashville, Tenn.: WND Books, 2003.
iv. Iraq Attaq
(1) Aaron Glantz
(a) How America Lost Iraq. New York City: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2005.
(b) Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupation. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2008.
(2) Scott Ritter
(a) War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn’t Want You to Know. New York City: Context Books, 2002.
(b) Frontier Justice: Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Bushwacking of America. New York City: Context Books, 2003.
(3) Sammon
(a) Strategery: How George W. Bush Is Defeating Terrorists, Outwitting Democrats, and Confounding the Mainstream Media. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2006: Ch. 2-3, 14.
(b) Evangelical President, Ch. 3, 5-6, 10.
(4) Thomas E. Ricks
(a) Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, rev. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 2007.
(b) The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008, rev. ed. New York City: The Penguin Press, 2010.
(5) Woodward
(a) Plan of Attack. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2004.
(b) State of Denial, Ch. 10-30, 33-45.
(c) The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2008.
(6) Others
Allawi,  Ch. 4-25.
Anderson, Jon Lee. The Fall of Baghdad. New York City: The Penguin Press, 2004.
Atkinson, Rick. In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat. New York City: Henry Holt & Co., 2004.
Bamford, Ch. 10, 14.
Beckett & Hencke, Ch. 15.
Bodansky, Yossef. The Secret History of the Iraq War. New York City: ReganBooks, 2004: Ch. 1-12, 14-19.
Boudreau, Tyler E. Packing Inferno: The Unmaking of a Marine. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2008.
Bovard, Bush Betrayal, Ch. 15.
Corn, Ch. 12, 14.
Crawford, John. The Last True Story I’ll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier’s Account of the War in Iraq. New York City: Riverhead Books, 2005.
Dorrien, Ch. 5.
Draper, Dead Certain, Ch. 8-11, 21.
Eisner, Peter, and Knut Royce. The Italian Letter: How the Bush Administration Used a Fake Letter to Build the Case for the War in Iraq. Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale, 2007.
Franks and McConnell, Prologue, Ch. 10-12.
G. Friedman, Prologue, Ch. 11-13.
Gordon, Michael R., and Gen. Bernard E. Trainor (ret.). Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 2007.
Hedges, Chris, and Laila Al-Arian. Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians. New York City: Nation Books, 2008.
Hersh, Pt. 1, Ch. 2, 4; Pt. 4-6.
The Iraq Study Group Report. New York City: Vintage Books, 2006.
Isikoff, Michael, and Corn. Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War, rev. ed. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2007.
Kelly, Things Worth Fighting For, Epilogue.
Knightley, Ch. 21.
Laughland, Ch. 18.
Mann, Ch. 21.
Mearsheimer & Walt, Ch. 8.
Meek,  Ch. 15.
Mitchell, Greg. So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits — and the President — Failed on Iraq. New York City: Union Square Press, 2008.
Novak, Ch. 1, 43-44.
Packer, George. The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq, rev. ed. New York City: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2006.
Parenti, Christian. The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq. New York City: The New Press, 2004.
Perret, Ch. 26-28.
Prados, John. Hoodwinked: The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War. New York City: The New Press, 2004.
Quigley, Ch. 38.
Reporting Iraq: An Oral History of the War by the Journalists Who Covered It. Ed. Mike Hoyt et al. Hoboken, N.J.: Melville House Publishing, 2007.
Risen, Ch. 3-6.
Sanchez & D.T. Phillips, Ch. 9-22.
Scahill, Ch. 3-10, 13, 16.
Taibbi, Great Derangement, Ch. 4.
G. Thomas, Ch. 19.
United States. Cong. House. Committee on Government Reform — Minority Staff. Special Investigations Division. Iraq on the Record: The Bush Administration's Public Statements on Iraq. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 2004.
Vance. Christianity and War and Other Essays Against the Warfare State, rev. ed. Pensacola, Fla.: Vance Publications, 2008: Ch. 5.
War We Could Not Stop, Ch. 2-18.
Weiner, Ch. 49.
Wilson, Ch.15-20.
Wright, Evan. Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American War, rev. ed. New York City: Berkley Caliber, 2008..
Zucchino, David. Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad. New York City: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2004.
v. The 2004 Election
Draper, Dead Certain, Ch. 12-14.
Sammon, Strategery, Ch. 4-8, 10-11.
Gumbel, Andrew. Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America. New York City: Nation Books, 2005: Ch. 13.
Vidal, Point to Point Navigation, Ch. 31.
Woodward, State of Denial, Ch. 31.
vi. Sammon
(a) Strategery, Prologue, Ch. 1, 12, 15-17.
(b) Evangelical President, Ch. 2, 4.
2. The Clinton Administration
Aldrich, Gary. Unlimited Access: An FBI Agent Inside the White House, rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: Henry Regnery, 1998.
Armentano, Dominick T. Antitrust: The Case for Repeal, rev. ed. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1999: Ch. 1.
Baer, See No Evil, Ch. 1, 19-21.
Barr, Bob. The Meaning of Is: The Squandered Impeachment and Wasted Legacy of William Jefferson Clinton. Atlanta: Stroud & Hall Publishers, 2004: Ch. 1-3, 8-9.
Bryce, Pipe Dreams, Ch. 14.
Byron, Ch. 16, 18.
C. P. Andersen, Bill and Hilary, Ch. 1, 7-8.
Bovard. "Feeling Your Pain": The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years, rev. ed. New York City: Palgrave, 2001.
Campos, Paul. The Obesity Myth: Why America’s Obsession With Weight Is Hazardous to Your Health. New York City: Gotham Books, 2004: Ch. 15.
Crile, Introduction.
DeFrank, Ch. 7.
Dorrien, Ch. 4.
Eszterhas. American Rhapsody. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
Evans-Pritchard, Ch. 8-15, 22, Appendix B.
Flowers & Dapper, Ch. 9-14.
Franks and McConnell, Ch. 6.
Halberstam, Ch. 2, 11, 22, 24-28, 36-37, 40-44.
Hersh, Pt. 2, Ch. 2.
Jones, Libido Dominandi, Pt. 3, Ch. 21.
Kelly. Things Worth Fighting For, Pt. III.
Kessler, Ch. 25-26, 29-30.
Klein, Hillary, Prologue, Ch. 15-19, 24, 26-34.
Knightley, Ch. 20.
Morris, Prologue.
Novak, Ch. 38.
Patterson, Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" (ret.). Dereliction of Duty: An Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Compromised America's National Security. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2003: Ch. 1-6, 8.
Posner, Ch. 8, 14.
Sammon, Strategery, Ch. 13.
Smith, Sally Bedell. For Love of Politics – Bill and Hillary Clinton: The White House Years. New York City: Random House, 2007: Ch. 1-10, 16-17.
Stewart, Pt. 3, Afterword, Appendixes 2-4.
Sobran, Joseph. Hustler: The Clinton Legacy. Ed. Tom McPherren. Vienna, Va.: Griffin Communications, 2000.
Walker, Ch. 10.
a. Anti-Terrorism
R.A. Clarke, Ch. 4-9.
Coll, Ch. 21-23, 25, 27, 29.
Jacboson & Colón, Ch. 4.
Miniter. Losing bin Laden: How Bill Clinton’s Failures Unleased Global Terror. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2003: Ch. 2, 4-11.
Patterson, Ch. 7.
b. Waco
Kessler, Ch. 24.
Reavis, Dick J. The Ashes of Waco: An Investigation. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1995.
c. Somalia
Bowden. Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War, rev. ed. New York City: Signet, 2000.
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.
Halberstam, Ch. 23.
Miniter, Losing bin Laden, Ch. 3.
Posner, Ch. 7.
Quigley, Ch. 32.
d. General Foreign Intervention
Allawi, Ch. 3.
Deliso, Ch. 1.
Fontova, Fidel, Ch. 14-15.
Goff, U.S. Army Master Sgt. Stan (ret.). Hideous Dream: A Soldier’s Memoir of the U.S. Invasion of Haiti. New York City: Soft Skull Press, 2000.
Quigley, Ch. 33-36.
Sanchez & D.T. Phillips, Ch. 7.
Tyler, Ch. 10-11.
e. Oklahoma City
Evans-Pritchard, Ch. 1-7, Appendix A.
Hoffman, David. The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror. Venice, Calif.: Feral House, 1998.
Kessler, Ch. 34.
Posner, Ch. 10. 
f. The 1996 Election
S.B. Smith, Ch. 11.
Woodward. The Choice: How Clinton Won, rev. ed. New York City: Touchstone, 1997.
g. Impeachment
Barr, Ch. 4-7.
Klein, Hillary, Ch. 4-5, 20-23, 25.
Schippers, David P., and Alan P. Henry. Sellout: The Inside Story of Clinton's Impeachment. Washington, D.C.: Henry Regnery, 2000.  
S.B. Smith, Ch. 12-15.
Woodward. Shadow, Pt. 5.
h. The Departure
Olson, Barbara. The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2001.
S.B. Smith, Ch. 18.
3. The Congress
a. Barack Hussein Obama
C.P. Andersen, Barack and Michelle, Ch. 7.
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. 4-6.
Sailer, Ch. 1, 12.
b. Others
Buckley, The Rake, Ch. 29, 31-32, 38-41, 43, 48, 50.
Jackley, Ch. 1-2, 12-13.
Novak, Ch. 39.
Odishelidze, Alexander, and Arthur B Laffer. Pay to the Order of Puerto Rico. Fairfax, Va.: Allegiance Press, 2004: Ch. 10-11.
Sammon, Evangelical President, Ch. 7.
Taibbi, Great Derangement, Ch. 2, 6.
4. The Neconservatives
 Bryce, Gusher of Lies, Ch. 8.
Dorrien, Gary. Imperial Designs: Neoconservatism and the New Pax America. New York City: Routledge, 2004: Ch. 6.
Halper & J. Clarke, Ch. 1, 3, 6-7.
5. The CIA
Coll, Ch. 13-15, 20.
Moran, Lindsay. Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2005.
Shorrock, Ch. 4.
Weiner, Ch. 43-48.
6. The Defense Department
Sanchez & D.T. Phillips, Ch. 5-6, 8, 23-24.
Haas, Ch. 21-23.
Vogel, Ch. 20-21.
7. The Opposition
a. U.S. Rep. Ron Paul
i. A Foreign Policy of Freedom: "Peace. Commerce, and Honest Friendship." Lake Jackson, Texas: Foundation for Rational Economics and Education, 2007: Ch. 8-17.
ii. End the Fed. New York City:  Grand Central Publishing, 2009: Ch. 1, 6-8, 10-15.
b. Murray N. Rothbard
(1) The Logic of Action, Vol. II: Applications and Criticism From the Austrian School. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 1997: Ch. 10.
(2) The Irrepressible Rothbard: The Rothbard-Rockwell Report Essays of Murray N. Rothbard. Ed. Rockwell. Burlingame, Calif.: Center for Libertarian Studies, 2000.
c. Others
Doherty, Ch. 2, 5-6.
Fontova. Exposing the Real Che Guevara: And the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him, rev. ed. New York City: Sentinel, 2008: Ch. 8.
Francis. Revolution from the Middle. Raleigh, N.C.: Middle American Press, 1997.
Gottfried. The Conservative Movement, rev. ed. New York City: Twayne Publishers, 1993: Ch. 7.
Healy, Ch. 9.
Raimondo, Justin [Dennis Raimondo]. Reclaiming the American Right: the Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement. 1993. Rpt. Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2008: Ch. 9-10.
Scotchie, Joseph. Revolt From the Heartland: The Struggle for an Authentic Conservatism. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2002: Ch. 6.
Sterling, Hacker Crackdown, Pt. 4.
8. The Tech Boom
Belfort,  Ch. 1-5, 9-10, 13, 15-24, 26-29.
Byron, Ch. 17, 19, 21-22.
Cassidy, John. Dot.con: How America Lost Its Mind and Money in the Internet Era, rev. ed. New York City: Harper Perennial, 2003.
Ceruzzi, Ch. 9.
Coll, Ch. 17.
J. Cramer, Ch. 4-23.
Denby, Ch. 1-24, 26-28, Epilogue.
Duncan, Ch. 9.
English-Lueck, J.A. Cultures@Silicon Valley. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford UP, 2002.
Forden, Ch. 1, 11-19.
Gleick, James. What Just Happened: A Chronicle From the Information Frontier. New York City: Pantheon Books, 2002.
Gottlieb, Lori, and Jesse Jacobs, Inside the Cult of Kibu and Other Tales of the Millennial Gold Rush. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing, 2002.
Lewis. Next: The Future Just Happened. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2001.
Nocera, Ch. 18-19.
Raviv, Dan. Comic Wars: How Two Tycoons Battled Over the Marvel Comics Empire —  and Both Lost. New York City: Broadway Books, 2002: Prologue, Ch. 3-20.
Sinclair, Carla. Signal to Noise. San Francisco: HarperEdge, 1997.
Williams, Greg. Boomtown. New York City: Sewanee Writers' Series/The Overlook Press, 2004.
Wishart, Adam, and Regula Bochsler. Leaving Reality Behind: eToy vs. eToys.com and Other Battles to Control Cyberspace. New York City: Ecco, 2003.
Wolff, Michael. Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
a. Enron
Cruver, Brian. Anatomy of Greed: The Unshredded Truth From an Enron Insider. New York City: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2002.
Bryce, Pipe Dreams, Ch. 1, 9-11, 13, 15-51, Epilogue.
McLean & Elkind, Ch. 5-22, Epilogue.
b. The Business Press
Bloomberg and Winkler, Ch. 5.
Ledbetter, James. Starving to Death on $200 Million:  The Short, Absurd Life of "The Industry Standard". New York City: Public Affairs, 2003.
Wolf, Gary. Wired: A Romance. New York City: Random House, 2003: Ch. 2-14.
c. Po Bronson
(1) The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest: A Silicon Valley Novel. New York City: Random House, 1997.
(2) The Nudist on the Late Shift. New York City: Random House, 1999.
9. The Global Financial Crisis
Paul, End the Fed. New York City:  Grand Central Publishing, 2009: Ch. 9.
Sowell, Thomas. The Housing Boom and Bust. New York City: Basic Books, 2009.
Wessel, David. In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic. New York City:  Crown Business, 2009: Ch. 1, 3. 4-14.
Woods, Thomas E. Jr. Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2009: Ch. 1-4, 6-7.
10. Arts & Entertainment
Carroll, E. Jean. Hunter: The Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson. New York City: Dutton, 1993: Ch. 19-20.
Chang, Ch. 15.
Lee & Mair, Ch. 18.
Limaye, Kanchan. "Adieu to the Avant-Garde." Reason July 1997: 36.
Michaelis, Ch. 28.
Schwartz, Ch. 21.
Young, Toby. The Sound of No Hands Clapping: A Memoir. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2006: Ch. 7-8, 10, 17.
a. Television
Buckley, The Rake, Ch. 49.
Cantor, Paul A. Gilligan Unbound: Pop Culture in the Age of Globalization. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001: Pt. 2.
Carter, Bill. The Late Shift: Letterman, Leno, and the Network Battle for the Night, rev. ed. New York City: Hyperion, 1995: Ch. 1, 3-13.
T. Davis, Ch. 19.
McKibben, Bill. The Age of Missing Information. New York City: Random House, 1992.
Sammon, Strategery, Ch. 9. 
Tracy, Ch. 5-19.
b. The Revived Comic Novel
Andersen, Kurt. Turn of the Century. New York City: Random House, 1999.
Barrett, Jo. The Men's Guide to the Women's Bathroom, rev. ed. New York City: Avon, 2008.
Crittenden, Danielle. amanda bright@home. New York City: Warner Books, 2003.
Franzen. The Corrections. New York City: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2001.
Miles, Jonathan. Dear American Airlines. Bpston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008.
Salem, J.J. Tan Lines. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2008.
Shiner. Slam. 1990. Rpt. New York City: St. Martin's Griffin, 2001.
Stillman, Ch. 27, Epilogue.
Wolcott. The Catsitters. 2001. Rpt. New York City: Perennial, 2002.
Zappa, Moon Unit. America the Beautiful. New York City: Scribner Paperback Fiction, 2001.
i. The New York Press Alumni
(1) Marty Beckerman
(a) Death to All Cheerleaders: One Adolescent Journalist’s Cheerful Diatribe Against Teenage Plasticity. Anchorage, Alaska: Marty Beckerman, 2000.
(b) Generation S.L.U.T. (Sexually Liberated Urban Teens): A Brutal Feel-Up Session With Today’s Sex-Crazed Adolescent Populace. New York City: Pocket Books/MTV Books, 2004.
(2) Others
Ames, Jonathan. Wake Up, Sir! New York City: Scribner, 2004.
Knipfel, Jim. The Buzzing. New York City: Vintage Contemporaries, 2003.
Sohn, Amy. Run Catch Kiss. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
ii. Tracy Quan
(1) The Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl: A Nancy Chan Novel. New York City: Crown Publishers, 2001.
(2) Diary of a Married Call Girl: A Nancy Chan Novel. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2005.
c.  Music
M. Andersen & M. Jenkins, Ch. 12-15.
Hoskyns, Epilogue.
James & Ritz, Ch. 34.
Lydon, Pt. 7, Epilogue.
Wesley, Ch. 11.
(1) Rock
(a) Metal
Christe, Sound of the Beast, Ch. 13, 15-16, 18-20, Epilogue.
Konow, Ch. 12.
(b) Other
Bruford, Ch. 9.
Christe, Everybody Wants Some, Ch. 13-20.
Kennedy, Dan. Rock On. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2008.
Kiedis & Sloman, Ch. 9-15.
S. Smith, Ch. 13.
(2) B.B. King
Danchin, Sebastian. 'Blues Boy': The Life and Music of B.B. King. Jackson, Miss.: U of Mississippi P, 1998: Epilogue.
King, B.B. [Riley King], and David Ritz. Blues All Around Me: The Autobiography of B.B. King. New York City: Avon Books, 1996: Ch. 26.
(3) The Crooners
Evanier, Ch. 14.
(a) Frank Sinatra
Summers, Anthony, and Robbyn Swan. Sinatra: The Life. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005: Ch. 35-36.
Reid, Dreesen & Rapoport, Ch. 13.
Taraborelli, Ch. 46-47.
d. Cinema
(1) Hollywood
Epstein, Edward Jay. The Big Picture: Money and Power in Hollywood, rev. ed. New York City: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006: Pt. 2-6.
Eszterhas, Hollywood Animal, Ch. 10, 12, 14-16, 18-21, 23, 25, 27-29, 31-33.
Evans, Ch. 43-44.
H. Hill & Russo, Ch. 17.
Leonard, Get Shorty, Ch. 2, 4-5, 7-15, 17-21, 24-26, 28.
Young, No Hands Clapping, Ch. 2, 6, 12, 14, 16, 20-24.
Waxman, Sharon. Rebels on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System, rev. ed. New York City: Harper Perennial, 2006.
(a) MCA
Bruck, Connie. When Hollywood Had a King: The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent Into Power and Influence. New York City: Random House, 2003: Ch. 6.
McDougal, Ch. 35-36, Epilogue.
(2) Off-Hollywood
Biskind, Peter. Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2004.
Fuller, Fuller & Rudes, Ch. 1, 56-60.
Vidal, Point to Point Navigation, Ch. 48.
Young, No Hands Clapping, Ch. 9.
e. The Comedians
Dangerfield, Rodney [Jacob Cohen]. It’s Not Easy Bein’ Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs. New York City: HarperEntertainment, 2004: Ch. 14, 16-17.
Parish, Ch. 30-32.
11. The Crime Scene
a. Organized Crime
(1) The Mafia
Anastasia, Prologue, Ch. 1, 4-20, Epilogue.
Bourdain. Gone Bamboo. New York City: Villard, 1997.
Konigsberg, Ch. 3, 13, 16.
Lehr & O'Neill, Pt. 3.
Leonard, Get Shorty, Ch. 3, 16, 22-23, 27.
(a) Capeci
(i) Murder Machine, Epilogue.
(ii) Jerry Capeci's Gang Land. New York City: Alpha, 2003.
(iii) Mob Star, Ch. 33-35, Epilogue, Postscript.
(iv) Idiot's Guide to the Mafia, Pt. 6.
(2) Los Angeles
Parker, T. Jefferson. L.A. Outlaws. New York City: Dutton, 2008.
Rafael, Tony. The Mexican Mafia. New York City:  Encounter Books, 2007: Ch. 1-11, 13-16, 18-19.
(3) Cannell
(a) King Con. New York City: William Morrow and Co., 1997.
(b) Three Shirt Deal: A Shane Scully Novel. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 2008.
(4) Others
Beall, Prologue, Ch. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13-37,  Epilogue.
Belfort, Ch. 25.
Buckley, The Rake, Ch. 44.
Collins, Max Allan. American Gangster. New York City: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 2007: Ch. 27.
R.I. Friedman, Ch. 1, 4-6, 10-11.
Irving, Clifford. Final Argument. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1993: Ch. 1, 4, 7, 9-14, 17, 19-33.
Lashner, William. Veritas. New York City: ReganBooks, 1997: Ch. 1-32, 34-53, 55-56.
Lehr & O'Neill, Epilogue.
Napoleoni, Ch. 12, 14-17.
Webb, Ch. 24.
b. Unorganized Crime
(1)  George P. Pelecanos
(a) A Firing Offense. 1992. Rpt. London: Serpent's Tail, 1997.
(b) Nick's Trip. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 1993: Ch. 1, 3-32.
(c) Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 1995.
(d) Shame the Devil. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2000.
(2) Others
Bloom, Stephen G. Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America, rev. ed. New York City: Harcourt, 2001: Ch. 16.
Brooklyn Noir. Ed. Tim McLoughlin. New York City: Akashic Books, 2004: Pt. 2-4.
Byron, Ch. 15.
Cannell. At First Sight: A Novel of Obsession. New York City: Vanguard Press, 2008.
King, Gary C. The Texas 7: A True Story of Murder and a Daring Escape. New York City: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2001: Ch. 14-20.
Leonard. Mr. Paradise. New York City: William Morrow, 2004.
Owen, Frank X. Clubland: The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Culture. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 2003.
Starr, Jason. The Follower. New York City: St. Martin’s Minotaur, 2007.
Thomas, Cullen. Brother One Cell: An American Coming of Age in South Korea's Prisons. New York City: Viking, 2007: Ch. 1-22, 24-42. 
12. Dar al-Islam
a. Osama bin Laden
Bamford, Ch. 9.
Bergen, Peter L. Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden, rev. ed. New York City: Touchstone, 2002.
Burke, Ch. 9.
G. Friedman, Ch. 3.
Jacboson & Colón, Ch. 5-6.
Risen, Ch. 8.
Scheuer, Ch. 4-5.
(1) Miniter
(a) Losing bin Laden, Ch. 1.
(b) Shadow War, Ch. 2.
b. Baer
(1) See No Evil, Ch. 14-18.
(2) Sleeping With the Devil, Ch. 1-3, 11.
c. Others
Bryce, Gusher of Lies, Ch. 7, 18-20.
Burke, Ch.1, 7-8, 11-16, 18-19.
Coll, Ch. 16, 18-19, 26.
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. 1, 3.
Crile, Epilogue.
Deliso,  Ch. 2-4.
Devji, Ch. 1, 3-5.
Hersh, Pt. 6, Ch. 1, 3; Pt. 7.
Musharraf, Ch. 10, 12-16, 29-32.
Napoleoni, Ch. 1, 7, 9, 11, 13, Epilogue.
Ruppert, Ch. 8.
Scheuer, Ch. 3.
Simpson, Ch. 17.
Spencer, Robert. Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2003: Ch. 9-10.
Scruton, Roger. The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat. Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2002: Ch. 4-5.
Unger, Ch. 11.
Updike. Terrorist. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
13. Europe
Fletcher, Ch. 8.
Halberstam, Ch. 3-4, 8-10, 12-13, 29-32, 34-35, 38.
Lukacs, John. The End of the 20th Century and the End of the Modern Age. New York City: Ticknor & Field, 1993.