Library
American History II: 1920 - Present
H STA 102
Fall 2010 Booklist
Ackerman, Kenneth. Young J. Edgar: Hoover, the Red Scare, and the assault on civil liberties. 2007.
(363.25092 ACK)
Allen, Frederick. Only yesterday: an informal history of the 1920s.
20 00. (97 3.9 1 AL L)
Allen, Frederick. Since yesterday: the 1930s in America, September 3, 1929 -September, 1939. 1986.
(973.91 ALL)
Arquilla, John. The Reagan imprint: ideas in American foreign policy from the collapse of communism to
the w ar on ter ror. 20 06. (32 7.7 300 9 A RQ)
Axelr od, Ala n. The real histor y of W orld W ar II: a ne w loo k at the past. 20 08. (94 0.5 3 A XE)
Bad ger, A nthon y. The N ew D eal: th e Depr ession ye ars, 19 33 -4 0. 200 2. ( 973 .91 7 BA D)
Beisner , Rob ert. De an Ach eson: a life in th e Cold W ar. 20 06. (97 3.9 180 92 B EI)
Berkowitz, Edward. Something happened: a political and cultural overview of the seventies. 2006.
(973.924 BER)
Bowden, M ark. The best game ever: Giants vs. Colts, 1958, and the birth of the modern NFL. 20008.
(796.332 BOW)
Brands, H.W. Traitor to his class: the privileged life and radical presidency of Franklin Delano
Roos evelt. 200 8. ( 973 .91 709 2 BR A)
Buergenthal, Thomas. A lucky child: a memoir of surviving Auschwitz as a young boy. 2009. (940.5318
BUE)
Chafe, William.
The unfinished journey: America since World War II. 1995. (973.92 CHA)
Chapman, Matthew. 40 days and 40 nights: Darwin, intelligent design, God, Oxycontin, and other oddities
on trial i n Penn sylva nia. 200 7. ( 345 .7 48 C HA)
Cray , E d. Ra mbli n’ man: the life an d ti mes of W oo dy Gut hrie. 20 04. (78 2.4 216 2 CR A)
Dallek , Rob ert. An unfinish ed life: Joh n F. Ke nned y, 191 7 -19 63. 20 03. (97 3.9 22 D A L)
Dallek, Robert. Nixon and Kissinger: partners in power. 2007. (973.924092 DAL)
De You ng, Karen . S oldier: t he life of Colin Po well. 20 06. (97 3.9 310 92 D E Y)
Diggi ns, J ohn . Ron ald Rea gan: fate, freed o m, and the m aking of history. 20 07. (97 3.9 270 9 2 DI G)
Dwyer, Jim. 102 minutes: the untold story of the fight to survive inside the Twin Towers. 2005. (974.7
DW Y)
Evers, Medgar. The autobiography of Medgar Evers: a hero’s life and legacy revealed through his
writings, letters, and speeches. 2005. (323 EVE)
Farber , David . The Col um bia guide to A merica in t he 1 96 0s. 200 1. ( 973 .92 3 CO L)
Frank, Richard. M acArthur. 2007. (355.331092 FRA)
Freeberg, Ernest. Democracy’s prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the great war, and the right to dissent. 2008.
(355.3092 FRE)
Gabler, Neal. Walt Disney: the triumph of the American imagination. 2006. (791.43092 GAB)
Gag e, Bev erly. Th e d ay W all Street expl oded: a story of Am erica i n its first age of ter ror. 200 9. ( 974 .71
GAG)
Halber stam , Da vid. The fifties. 199 4. ( 973 .92 H A L)
Ham ero w , T heo dore . W hy w e watch ed,: E urop e, A merica , a nd t he Holo caust . 2 008 . (9 40.5 318 H AM )
Hay nes, Joh n. Earl y Cold W ar s pies: t he es pion age trials th at sh ape d A me rican politics . 2 006. (36 4.1 31
HAY)
Holt, M arilyn . T he orph an t rains: placi ng out in A meric a. 199 4. ( 362 .73 4 H OL)
Humbert, Agnes. Resistance: a women’s journal of struggle and defiance in occupied France.
Hunt er, Susa n. AI DS i n A me rica. 20 06. (36 2.1 96 H U N)
Jacobson, Steve. Carrying Jackie’s torch: the players who integrated baseball and America. 2007.
(796.3570 JAC)
Jenkins, Philip. Decade of nightmares: the end of the sixties and the making of eighties America. 2006.
(973.92 JEN)
Jones. Howard. The Bay of Pigs. 2008. (972.9106 JON)
Kea n, Thom as. W ith out prece dent: the i nside story of the 9/1 1 c om missio n. 20 06. (97 3.9 31 K EA)
Kennedy, David. Freedom from fear: the American people in depression and war, 1929 -1945. 1999.
(973.91 KEN)
Kennedy, M axwell. Danger’s hour: the story of the USS Bunker Hill and the kamikaze pilot who crippled
her. 200 8. ( 940 .54 K E N)
Killen, Andreas. 1973 nervous breakdown: W atergate, W arhol, and the birth of post -sixties America.
2006. (973.924 KIL)
King, Gilbert. The execution of Willis Francis: race, murder, and the search for justice in the American
South. 2008. (364.66092 KIN)
Kramer, Clara. Clara’s war: one girl’s story of survival. 2009. (940.53 KRA)
Kurtz , M ich ael. The J FK assa ssinatio n d ebates: lon e g un man vers us c ons piracy . 2 006 . (3 6 4.15 24 K U R)
Kyvig, David. Daily life in the United States, 1920-1940: how Americans lived through the “Roaring
Twe nties” an d the G reat De pressi on. 20 04. (97 3.9 1 KE N)
Large , Davi d. Nazi ga mes: the Oly mpi cs of 19 36. 20 07. (79 6.4 8 L A R)
Leam ing , Barb ara. Jack K enne dy: t he e duc ation of a states m a n. 200 6. ( 973 .92 2 LE A)
M acken zie, G . T he lib eral hour: W ashi ngto n a nd t he p olitics of cha nge in th e 1 960s . 2 008 . (97 3.9 23
MAC)
M acM illan, M argar et. Nixo n a nd M ao: t he week that cha nge d the w orld. 20 07. (32 7.7 305 1 M A C)
Miller, Nathan. New world coming: the 1920s and the making of modern America.
2003. (973.91 MIL)
M ontville, Lei gh. Th e Bi g Ba m: the life a nd ti me s of Bab e R uth. 20 06. (79 6.3 57 M O N)
Nevels, Cynthia. Lynching to belong: claiming W hiteness through racial violence. 2007. (364.134 NEV)
Nichols, David. A matter of justice: Eisenhower and the beginning of the Civil Rights revolution. 2007.
(973.921092 NIC)
Patterson , Jam es. Restless gia nt: the U nited States fro m W at ergate to Bus h v . Gore . 2 005 . (973 .92 P AT)
Pietrusza, David. 1960: LBJ vs. JF K vs. Nixon: the epic campaign that forged three presidencies. 2008.
(324.973 PIE)
Rotter, A ndre w. Hiroshi ma: the wo rld’s bo mb. 20 08. (94 0.5 425 R O T)
Rugh, Susan. Are we there yet?: the golden age of American family vacations. 2008. (973.92 RUG)
Schm id, David . Natur al b orn celebrities: serial killers i n A me rican cultur e. 200 5. ( 364 .15 2 S C H)
Schlesin ger, Art hur. Th e c omi ng of the Ne w De al. 198 8. ( 973 .91 7 SC H)
Sew ell, Ken neth . All ha nds do wn: t he tru e sto ry of the Soviet attack on the U SS Scor pion . 200 8. ( 973 .9
SEW)
Shogan, Robert. Backlash: the killing of the New Deal. 2006. (973.9170 SHO)
Sloan, Bill. The darkest summer: Pusan and Inchon 1950: the battles that saved South Kore a and the
M arines fr om extin ction. 20 09. (95 1.9 042 4 SL O)
Sm ith, Je an. F D R. 200 7. ( 973 .91 709 2 S M I)
Sm yser, W .R. Ke nne dy and the Berlin W all: “a hell of a lot better tha n a w ar” 200 9. ( 973 .922 SM Y)
Spitz, Bob. The Beatles: the biography. 2005. (782.4216 SPI)
Stiglitz, Josph. The roaring nineties: a new history of the world’s prosperous decade. 2003. (330.973
STI)
Strum, Philippa. W hen the Nazis came to Skokie: freedom for speech we hate. 1999. (342.73 STR)
Till-Mobley, Mamie. Death of innocence: the true story of the hate crime that changed America. 2003.
(364.134 TIL)
Tzouliadis, Tim. The forsaken: an American tragedy in Russia. 2008. (947.00413 TZO)
Watson, Bruce. Sacco and Vanzetti: the men, the murders, and the judgment of mankind. 2007.
(345.730252 W AT)
Werth, Barry. 31 days: the crisis that gave us the government that we have today. 2006. (973.925 WER)
W hite, Ed ward . Alger Hiss’ s loo king - glass wa rs: the cov ert life of a Soviet spy . 2 004 . (3 6 4.1 W HI)
W hite, Rich ard. Kin gfish: t he rei gn of Huey P . L ong . 2 00 6. ( 976 .3 W HI)
Winchell, Meghan. Good girls, good food, good fun: the story of the USO hostesses during Worl d W ar II.
2008. (940.5316 WIN)
Woods, Randall. LBJ: architect of American ambition. 2006. (973.9230 W OO)
Zelden, Charles. Bush v. Gore: exposing the hidden crisis in American democracy. 2008. (342.7307 ZEL)
Zellner, Bob. The wrong side of Murder Creek: a White southerner in the freedom movement. 2008.
(323.092 ZEL)