Recent U.S. History

Book Report – Spring 2002

 

 

 

Advertising in the 60s  Hazel G. Warlaumont

The Affluent Society  John Kenneth Galbraith

All the Shah’s Men  Steven Kinser

All the President’s Men  Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein

America and the Survivors of the Holocaust  Leonard Dinnerstein

And the Band Played On  Randy Shilts

Backfire  Loren Baritz

Bearing the Cross  David Garrow

Bitter Fruit  Steven Kinser and Stephen Schlesinger

Bonfire of the Vanities  Tom Wolfe

Breakfast of Champions  Kurt Vonnegut

Bright Lights, Big City  Jay Macinary

Catcher in the Rye  J.D. Salinger

Civilities and Civil Rights  William H. Chafe

Coming of Age in Mississippi  Anne Moody

A Consumers’ Republic  Lizabeth Cohen

Crabgrass Frontier  Kenneth Jackson

Dark Sun  Richard Rhodes

The Devil We Knew  H.W. Brands

Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test  Tom Wolfe

Empires in the Sun  Peter Wiley and Robert Gottlieb

The Fate of the Earth  Jonathan Schell

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail  Hunter S. Thompson

The Feminine Mystique  Betty Friedan

Fire in the Lake  Frances FitzGerald

A Grand Delusion  Robert Mann

Groove Tube  Aniko Bodroghkozy

Homeward Bound  Elaine May

In Country  Bobbie Ann Mason

In Struggle  Clayborn Carson

Lakota Woman  Mary Crow Dog

 

 

Making the Atomic Bomb  Richard Rhodes

The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit  Sloan Wilson

Many Are the Crimes  Ellen Schrecker

Meeting the Communist Threat  Thomas Paterson

The Monkey-Wrench Gang  Edward Abbey

Murder at the Sleepy Lagoon  Eduardo Obregón Pagán

Not June Cleaver  Joanne Meyerowitz

Now That the Buffalo’s Gone  Alvin M. Josephy

On The Road  Jack Kerouac

One Nation Underground  Kenneth D. Rose

Operation Wetback  Juan Ramon Garcia

Parting the Waters  Taylor Branch

Pillar of Fire  Taylor Branch

The Power Elite  C. Wright Mills

Prisoners Without Trial  Roger Daniels

Reckoning With Reagan  Michael Schaller

Remembering America  Richard Goodwin

The Russians Are Coming!  Richard M. Fried

Secret History  Nick Cullather

Silent Spring  Rachel Carson

them  Joyce Carol Oates

Thirteen Days  Robert F. Kennedy

The 13th Valley  John Del Vecchio

This House of Sky  Ivan Doig

The Ugly American  William J. Lederer and Eugene Burdick

Upheaval in the Quiet Zone  Leon Fink and Brian Greenberg

Veil  Bob Woodward

A Very Thin Line  Theodore Draper

An Unfinished Life  Robert Dallek

Wake Up Little Suzie  Rickie Solinger

The Waste Makers  Vance Packard

Wildfire  Richard Ford

World Split Open  Ruth Rosen

 

 

 

 

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