XV. The Premature Fin de Siécle

A. The Establishment Crack-Up

1. The Nixon Administration
a. Foreign Policy
i. Southeast Asia
(1) Henry Kissinger
Allen, Gary. Kissinger: The Secret Side of the Secretary of State. Seal Beach, Calif.: '76 Press, 1976: Ch. 8.
Hersh, Seymour M. The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House. New York City: Summit Books, 1983: Ch. 4-5, 10, 14-16, 23, 31, 34, 36, 38-40.
Kalb, Marvin, and Bernard Kalb. Kissinger. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1974: Ch. 7, 11, 13-15.
Kissinger. Years of Upheaval. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1982: Ch. 2, 8.
(2) Christian G. Appy
(a) Patriots: The Definitive Oral History, Told From All Sides. 2003. Rpt. London: Ebury Press, 2007: Pt. 5.
(b) American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity. New York City: Viking, 2015: Ch. 8.
(3) John Prados
(a) The Hidden History of the Vietnam War. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1995: Ch. 23-25, 27-28.
(b) Vietnam: The History of an Unwinnable War, 1945-1975. Lawrence, Kan.: UP of Kansas, 2009: Ch. 9-14.
(4) Douglas Valentine
(a) The Phoenix Program: America’s Use of Terror in Vietnam, rev. ed. New York City: Open Road Integrated Media, 2014: Ch. 19-23, 26-29.
(b) The CIA As Organized Crime: How Illegal Operations Corrupt America and the World. Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2017: Ch. 16, 21.
(5) Others
Anton, Frank, and Tommy Denton. Why Didn’t You Get Me Out?: A POW's Nightmare in Vietnam. 1997. Rpt. New York City: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2000: Ch. 11-13.
Baritz, Loren. Backfire: A History of How American Culture Led Us Into Vietnam and Made Us Fight the Way We Did. 1985. Rpt. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1998: Ch. 5.
Bergerud, Eric M. The Dynamics of Defeat: The Vietnam War in Hau Nghia Province. Boulder, Colo.: Westview Press, 1991: Ch. 10-11.
Bosiljevac, T.L. SEALs: UDT/SEAL Operations in Vietnam. 1990. Rpt. New York City: Ivy Books, 1991: Ch. 7-9.
Buchanan, Patrick J. Nixon’s White House Wars: The Battles That Made and Broke a President and Divided America Forever. New York City: Crown Forum, 2017: Ch. 9, 11.
Carroll, Peter N. It Seemed Like Nothing Happened: America in the 1970s, 2nd rev. ed. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers UP, 2000: Ch. 1.
Chepesiuk, Ron. Sergeant Smack: The Legendary Life and Times of Ike Atkinson, Kingpin, and His Band of Brothers. Rock Hill, S.C.: Strategic Media, 2010: Ch. 8.
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. 6.
English, T.J. Born to Kill: The Rise and Fall of America's Bloodiest Asian Gang. 1995. Rpt. New York City: Mysterious Press/Open Road Integrated Media, 2011: Ch. 1.
Feldstein, Mark. Poisoning the Press: Richard Nixon, Jack Anderson, and the Rise of Washington’s Scandal Culture. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010: Ch. 7.
Frost, David, and Bob Zelnick. Frost/Nixon: Behind the Scenes of the Nixon Interviews. New York City: HarperPerennial, 2007: Ch. 10.
Fulsom, Don. Nixon's Darkest Secrets: The Inside Story of America's Most Troubled President. New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2012: Ch. 14.
Gawthorpe, Andrew J. To Build As Well As Destroy: American Nation Building in South Vietnam. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell UP, 2018: Ch. 5, 7.
Hackworth, U.S. Army Col. David. H. (ret.), and Julie Sherman. About Face. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1989: Ch. 20-23.
Haig, Alexander M. Jr., and Charles McCarry. Inner Circles: How America Changed the World: A Memoir. New York City: Warner Books, 1992: Ch. 16-17, 20-24.
Haldeman, H.R., and Joseph DiMona. The Ends of Power. New York City: Times Books, 1978: Pt. 3, Ch. 1-2, 4.
Harmon, Mark D., and Catherine Luther. Found, Featured, Then Forgotten: U.S. Network TV News and the Vietnam Veterans Against the War. Knoxville, Tenn.: Newfound Press, 2011: Ch. 3-4, 7.
Hastings, Max. Vietnam: An Epic Tragedy, 1945-1975. New York City: Harper, 2018: Ch. 22-26.
Howell, Haney. Roadrunners: Combat Journalists in Cambodia. Boulder, Colo.: Paladin Press, 1989.
Kirkpatrick, Rob. 1969: The Year Everything Changed. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2009: Ch. 19.
Kovic, Ron. Born on the Fourth of July, rev. ed. New York City: Akashic Books, 2005: Ch. 4-5.
Lembcke, Jerry. The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam. New York City: New York UP, 1998: Ch. 3-4.
McGehee, Ralph W. Deadly Deceits: My 25 Years in the CIA. New York City: Sheridan Square Publications, 1983: Ch. 12.
Moore, James. Bush’s War for Reelection: Iraq, the White House, and the People. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2004: Ch. 8, 10.
Moynihan, U.S. Sen. Daniel Patrick, D-N.Y. Secrecy: The American Experience, rev. ed. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 1999: Ch. 8.
Nixon, Richard. In the Arena: A Memoir of Victory, Defeat, and Renewal. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1990:  Ch. 38.
Novak, Robert D. The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington. New York City: Crown Forum, 2007: Ch. 19.
Pauken, Thomas W. The Thirty Years War: The Politics of the Sxities Generation. Ottawa, Ill.: Jameson Books, 1995: Ch. 10.
Perlstein, Rick. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, corr. ed. New York City: Scribner, 2009: Ch. 27.
Perret, Geoffrey. A Country Made by War: From the Revolution to Vietnam – the Story of America’s Rise to Power. New York City: Random House, 1989: Ch. 22.
Posner, Gerald L. Citizen Perot: His Life and Times. New York City: Random House, 1996: Ch. 13.
Quigley, John. The Ruses for War: American Interventionism Since World War II, rev. ed. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2007: Ch. 16.
Roberts, Lawrence. Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest. 2020. Rpt. Boston: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2021.
Scheips, Paul J. The Role of the Federal Military Forces in Domestic Disorders, 1945-1992. Washington, D.C.: United States. Army. Center of Military History, 2012: Ch. 13-14.
Sweet, Matthew. Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves. New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 2018: Ch. 10.
Weiner, Tim. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, rev. ed. New York City: Anchor Books, 2008: Ch. 34.
Wicker, Tom. One of Us: Richard Nixon and the American Dream. New York City: Random House, 1991: Ch. 14.
Wiest, Andrew. Vietnam's Forgotten Army: Heroism and Betrayal in the ARVN. New York City: New York UP, 2008: Ch. 8.
Woodward, Bob. The Last of the President’s Men. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2015: Ch. 8, 18-20.
ii. West Asia
(1) Kissinger
Allen, Kissinger, Ch. 6.
S.M. Hersh, The Price of Power, Ch. 18-19, 29.
M. Kalb & B. Kalb, Ch. 17-19.
Kissinger, Ch. 6, 17.
(2) Other
Bacevich, Andrew J. America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History. New York City: Random House, 2016: Ch. 1.
Ball, George W., and Douglas B. Ball. The Passionate Attachment: America's Involvement With Israel, 1947 to the Present. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1992: Ch. 4.
Epstein, Edward Jay [Edward Levinson]. Agency of Fear: Opiates and Political Power in America, rev. ed. London: Verso, 1990: Ch. 8.
Haig & McCarry, Ch. 31.
Neff, Donald. Warriors Against Israel. Brattleboro, Vt.: Amana Books, 1988: Ch. 3.
Posner, Steve. Israel Undercover: Secret Warfare and Hidden Diplomacy in the Middle East. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse UP, 1987: Ch. 26-27.
Scheuer, Michael. Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq, rev ed. New York City: Free Press, 2009: Ch. 1.
Shawcross, William. The Shah's Last Ride: The Fate of an Ally. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1988: Ch. 9.
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. 3.
Woodward, Last of the President’s Men, Ch. 17.
iii. Nuclear Arms Negotiations
Nitze, Paul H., Ann M. Smith, and Steven L. Rearden. From Hiroshima to Glastnost: At the Center of Decision — a Memoir. New York City: Grove Weidenfeld, 1989: Ch. 17-18.
Ritter, Scott. Scorpion King: America's Suicidal Embrace of Nuclear Weapons From FDR to Trump, rev. ed. Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2020: Ch. 9-10.
iv. Other
(1) Kissinger
Allen, Kissinger, Ch. 5-7, 9.
Frost & Zelnick, Ch. 11.
M. Kalb & B. Kalb, Ch. 1, 5-6, 8-10, 12, 20.
Kissinger, Ch. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9-10, 15-16, 19-20, 22, 24.
Leamer, Laurence. Playing for Keeps: In Washington. New York City: The Dial Press, 1977: Ch. 4.
(2) Other
Anderson, Jack, and Daryl Gibson. Peace, War, and Politics: An Eyewitness Account. New York City: Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, 1999: Ch. 11.
P.J. Buchanan, Ch. 12.
Colodny & Shachtman, Ch. 3, 5, 7-12.
Dallek, Robert. Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007: Ch. 4-13.
Dueck, Colin. Hard Line: The Republican Party and U.S. Foreign Policy Since World War II. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2010: Ch. 5.
Ehrlichman, John. Witness to Power: The Nixon Years. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1982: Ch. 16.
E.J. Epstein, Agency of Fear, Ch. 9-10, 32.
Frost & Zelnick, Ch. 9.
Gill, William J. The Ordeal of Otto Otepka. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1969: Ch. 44.
Greenberg, David. Nixon’s Shadow: The History of an Image. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003: Ch. 6.
Haldeman & DiMona, Pt. 3, Ch. 3.
S.M. Hersh, The Price of Power, Ch. 1-3, 6-9, 12-13, 17, 20-22, 24-28, 30, 32-33, 35, 37, 41.
Kirkpatrick, Ch. 9.
Nixon, Ch. 36-37.
The Nixon Tapes: 1971-1972. Ed. Douglas Brinkley and Luke A. Nichter. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Prados. Keepers of the Keys: A History of the National Security Council from Truman to Bush. New York City: William Morrow and Co., 1991: Pt. 6.
Schweizer, Peter. Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism. New York City: Doubleday, 2002: Ch. 5.
Shackley, Ted, and Richard A. Finney. Spymaster: My Life in the CIA. Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books, 2005: Ch. 23.
Simpson, Howard R. Bush Hat, Black Tie: Adventures of a Foreign Service Officer. Washington, D.C.: Brassey’s, 1998: Ch. 12.
Trento, Joseph J. The Secret History of the CIA, rev. ed. 2005. Rpt. New York City: MJF Books/Fine Communications, 2007: Ch. 47-48.
Unger, David C. The Emergency State: America’s Pursuit of Absolute Security at All Costs. New York City: The Penguin Press, 2012: Ch. 7.
b. Stagflation
Auerbach, Robert D. Deception and Abuse at the Fed: Henry B. Gonzalez Battles Alan Greenspan’s Bank. Austin, Texas: U of Texas P, 2008: Ch. 2, 7.
Authers, John. The Fearful Rise of Markets: Gobal Bubbles, Synchronized Meltdowns, and How to Prevent Them in the Future. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: FT Press, 2010: Ch. 5.
Bartlett, Bruce R. Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy. New York City: Doubleday, 2006: Ch.  8.
Beter, Peter. Conspiracy Against the Dollar: The Spirit of the New Imperialism. New York City: George Braziller, 1973: Ch. 4.
Mayer, Thomas. Monetary Policy and the Great Inflation in the United States: The Federal Reserve and the Failure of Macroeconomic Policy, 1965-1979. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 1999: Ch. 2, 6, Appendix B.
Parsson, Jens O. Dying of Money: Lessons of the Great German and American Inflations. Boston: Wellspring Press, 1974: Ch. 36-37.
Rothbard, Murray. What Has Government Done to Our Money? 3rd rev. ed. Auburn, Ala. The Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1990: Pt. 4, Ch. 7-9.
Stockman, David. The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2013: Ch. 4, 14.
c. The War on Drugs
E.J. Epstein, Agency of Fear, Ch. 5, 7, 11, 14-23, 25-30, 34.
Gray, Mike. Drug Crazy: How We Got Into This Mess and How We Can Get Out. 1998. Rpt. New York City: Routledge, 2000: Ch. 5.
King, Rufus. The Drug Hang-Up: America’s Fifty-Year Folly. 1972. Rpt. Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas, 1974: Ch. 28-29.
McCoy, Alfred W. The Politics of Heroin: CIA Complicity in the Global Drug Trade: Afghanistan, Southeast Asia, Central America, Columbia, 2nd rev. ed. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2003: Ch. 8.
G.L. Posner. Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America. New York City: Avid Reader Press, 2020: Ch. 27.
d. The 1972 Election
i. Hunter S. Thompson
Thompson, Hunter S. Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72. 1973. Rpt. New York City: Grand Central Publishing, 2006.
Wenner, Jann, and Corey Seymour. Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson. New York City: Little, Brown and Co., 2007: Ch. 6.
McKeen, William. Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008: Ch. 12.
Theodore H. White
(1) The Making of the President 1972. 1973. Rpt. New York City: Harper Perennial, 2010: Ch. 1, 3-10, 12-14, Appendix A.
(2) Breach of Faith: The Fall of Richard Nixon. 1975. Rpt. New York City: Dell, 1976: Ch. 7.
iii. Others
G. Allen. Jimmy Carter/Jimmy Carter. Seal Beach, Calif.: '76 Press, 1976: Ch. 3.
J. Anderson & Gibson, Ch. 13.
Brownstein, Ronald. The Power and the Glitter: The Hollywood-Washington Connection, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 1992: Ch. 9.
P.J. Buchanan, Ch. 13-14.
P.N. Carroll, Ch. 5.
Cramer, Richard Ben. What It Takes: The Way to the White House, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 1993: Ch. 26, 56-57, 63.
Crouse, Timothy. The Boys on the Bus. 1973. Rpt. New York City: Ballentine Books, 1974: Ch. 1, 3-7, 9-12, 14-17.
Dickerson, Ch. 25.
M.D. Harmon & Luther, Ch. 5-6.
Kessler, Ronald. In the President’s Secret Service: Behind the Scenes With Agents in the Line of Fire and the Presidents They Protect, rev. ed. New York City: Crown Publishers, 2010: Ch. 22.
Kovic, Born on the Fourth of July, Ch. 6.
Kuhn, David Paul. The Neglected Voter: White Men and the Democratic Dilemma. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007: Ch. 5.
Lasky, Victor. It Didn’t Start With Watergate. 1977. Rpt. New York City: Dell Publishing Co., 1978: Ch. 20.
Lukas, J. Anthony. Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years, rev. ed. 1988. Rpt. Athens, Ohio: Ohio UP, 1999: Ch. 6.
Mailer, Norman. St. George and the Godfather. 1972. Rpt. New York City: Arbor House, 1983.
Mears, Walter R. Deadlines Past: Forty Years of Presidential Campaigning: A Reporter's Story. Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2003: Ch. 4.
Nofziger, Lyn. Nofziger. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1992: Ch. 5.
Novak, Ch. 21.
Perlstein, Ch. 30, 32-34.
Taraborrelli, J. Randy. After Camelot: A Personal History of the Kennedy Family – 1968 to the Present. New York City: Grand Central Publishing, 2012: Pt. 7.
Woodward, Last of the President’s Men, Ch. 16.
e. Watergate
i. U.S. Sen. Barry M. Goldwater Sr., R-Ariz.
Dean, John W., and Barry M. Goldwater Jr. Pure Goldwater. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008: Ch. 14.
Edwards, Lee. Goldwater: The Man Who Made a Revolution. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Pub., 1995: Ch. 18.
ii. The FBI
(1) Kessler
(a) The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI, rev. ed. New York City: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2003: Ch. 13.
(b) The Secrets of the FBI, rev. ed. New York City: Crown Forum, 2012: Ch. 5-6.
(2) Others
Demaris, Ovid [Ovide E. Desmarais]. J. Edgar Hoover: As They Knew Him. 1975. Rpt. New York City: Carroll & Graf Publishers/Richard Gallen, 1994: Pt. 3.
Hougan, Jim [Jimmy Edwards]. Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat and the CIA. New York City: Random House, 1984: Ch. 9.
Weiner. Enemies: A History of the FBI. New York City: Random House, 2012: Ch. 35.
iii. Kissinger
Allen, Kissinger, Ch. 10.
M. Kalb & B. Kalb, Ch. 16.
Kissinger, Ch. 4, 25.
iv. George H.W. Bush
(1) Roger J. Stone et al.
Stone, Roger J., and St. John Hunt. The Bush Crime Family: The Inside Story of an American Dynasty, rev. ed. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing Co., 2017: Ch. 21.
R.J. Stone, and Mike Colapietro. Nixon’s Secrets. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing Co., 2014: Ch. 16.
(2) Other
Bowen, Russell S. The Immaculate Deception: The Bush Crime Family Exposed. Carson City, Nev.: America West Publishers, 1991: Ch. 4.
v. Hillary Clinton
Klein, Edward. The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President. New York City: Sentinel, 2005: Ch. 11.
R.J. Stone, and Robert Morrow. The Clintons’ War on Women, rev. ed. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2016: Ch. 22.
vi. Colodny et al.
Colodny, and Robert Gettlin. Silent Coup: The Removal of a President, rev. ed. New York City: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1992: Pt. 2-3.
Colodny & Shachtman, Ch. 13-17.
vii. E.J. Epstein
(1) Agency of Fear, Ch. 31, 35.
(2) Dossier: The Secret History of Armand Hammer. New York City: Random House, 1996: Ch. 21.
viii. Evan Thomas
(1) The Man to See: Edward Bennett Williams: Ultimate Insider; Legendary Trial Lawyer. 1991. Rpt. New York City: Touchstone/Simon and Schuster, 1992: Ch. 23, 25, 27.
(2) Being Nixon: A Man Divided. New York City: Random House, 2015: Ch. 22-23, 25-28.
ix. T.H. White
(1) The Making of the President 1972, Ch. 11.
(2) Breach of Faith, Ch. 1, 8-13, Appendix A-B.
x. Bob Woodward & Carl Bernstein
(a) All the President's Men, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2022.
(b) The Final Days, corr. ed. 1977. Rpt. New York City: Touchstone, 1987: Pt. 1, Ch. 1-13, 15-20; Pt. 2.
(c) The Secret Man: The Story of Watergate's Deep Throat. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2005: Ch. 1, 5-16.
(d) Last of the President’s Men, Ch. 23-27.
Stanford, Phil. White House Call Girl: The Real Watergate Story. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2013: Ch. 32.
R.J. Stone & Colapietro, Nixon’s Secrets, Ch. 17.
xi. Others
Allen, Kissinger, Ch. 10.
J. Anderson & Gibson, Ch. 16.
Baker, Bobby, and Larry L. King. Wheeling and Dealing: Confessions of a Capitol Hill Operator. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1978: Ch. 16.
Breslin, Jimmy. How the Good Guys Finally Won: Notes From an Impeachment Summer. 1975. Rpt. New York City: Ballantine Books, 1976.
P.J. Buchanan, Ch. 15-20.
Buchwald, Art. "I Am Not a Crook." New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1974.
Buckley, U.S. Sen. James L., CON-R-N.Y. If Men Were Angels: A View From the Senate. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1975: Ch. 3.
Cadava, Geraldo. The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, From Nixon to Trump, rev. ed. New York City: Ecco, 2021: Ch. 4.
P.N. Carroll, Ch. 9.
Cramer, Ch. 82.
Crouse, Ch. 13.
Davis, Deborah. Katharine the Great: Katharine Graham and Her Washington Post Empire, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Sheridan Square Press, 1991: Ch. 2.
Davis, John H. Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. New York City: McGraw-Hill, 1989: Ch. 47.
J.W. Dean [Taylor Branch]. Blind Ambition: The White House Years, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Open Road Integrated Media, 2016: Ch. 3-10.
DeFrank, Thomas M. Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2007: Ch. 1-2, 5.
Dickerson, Nancy [Nancy Hanschman]. Among Those Present: A Reporter’s View of 25 Years in Washington. 1976. Rpt. New York City: Ballentine Books, 1977: Ch. 26-27.
Dobrovir, William A. et al. The Offenses of Richard M. Nixon: A Guide for the People of the United States of America, rev. ed. New York City: Public Issues Press/Quadrangle/The New York Times Book Co., 1974.
Edsall, Thomas Byrne, and Mary D. Edsall. Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics, rev. ed. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1992: Ch. 4.
Ehrlichman, Ch. 18-23.
Eisler, Kim Isaac. Masters of the Game: Inside the World's Most Powerful Law Firm. New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2010: Ch. 6.
The Essential Mae Brussell: Investigations of Fascism in America. Ed. Alex Constantine. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2014: Ch. 6-8.
Feldstein, Ch. 15-17.
Frost & Zelnick, Ch. 7.
Fulsom, Ch. 18-19.
Graf, Garrett M. Watergate: A New History. New York City: Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster, 2022: Ch. 8-55.
Greenwald, Glenn. With Liberty and Justice for Some: How the Law Is Used to Destroy Equality and Protect the Powerful. New York City: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2011: Ch. 1.
Haig & McCarry, Ch. 25-30, 32-36.
Halberstam, David. The Powers That Be. 1979. Rpt. Urbana, Ill.: U of Illinois P, 2000: Ch. 24-32.
Haldeman & DiMona, Pt. 1, Ch. 1-7, 9-10; Pt. 4-9.
Hayward, Stephen F. The Age of Reagan, Vol. I: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964-1980. 2001. Rpt. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2009: Ch. 8.
Helms, Harry L. Inside the Shadow Government: National Emergencies and the Cult of Secrecy. Los Angeles: Feral House, 2003: Appendix B.
S.M. Hersh. Reporter: A Memoir. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018: Ch. 13.
Hougan, Secret Agenda, Ch. 2-8, 10-20.
Hunt, E. Howard, and Greg Aunapu. American Spy: My Secret History in the CIA, Watergate, and Beyond. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2007: Ch. 14-24.
Krogh, Egil "Bud," and Matthew Krogh. Integrity: Good People, Bad Choices, and Life Lessons from the White House. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2007: Ch. 8-12.
Krüger, Henrik, and Jerry Meldon. The Great Heroin Coup: Drugs, Intelligence & International Fascism, 2nd rev. ed. Trans. Meldon. Walterville, Ore.: TrineDay, 2015: Ch. 17.
Lasky, Ch. 1, 17-19, 21-23.
Lukas, Ch. 7-9, 11, 13-16.
Mallon, Thomas. Watergate: A Novel. New York City: Pantheon Books, 2012.
Novak, Ch. 22-23.
O'Connor, John. Postgate: How the Washington Post Betrayed Deep Throat, Covered Up Watergate, and Began Today's Partisan Advocacy Journalism. New York City: Post Hill Press, 2019.
Oglesby, Carl. The Yankee and Cowboy War: Conspiracies From Dallas to Watergate, rev. ed. New York City: Berkeley Medallion, 1977: Ch. 7-8.
Otash, Fred [and Dave Gerrity]. Investigation Hollywood!: Memoirs of Hollywood’s Top Private Detective. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1976: Ch. 14.
Perlstein, Ch. 31.
Sale, Kirkpatrick. Power Shift: The Rise of the Southern Rim and Its Challenge to the Eastern Establishment. 1975. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 1976: Ch. 6.
Shepard, Geoff. The Nixon Conspiracy: Watergate and the Plot to Remove the President. New York City: Bombardier Books, 2021: Ch. 2-20.
Stanford, White House Call Girl, Ch. 1-2, 15, 19-31, 33-35.
R.J. Stone & Colapietro, Nixon’s Secrets, Ch. 14-15, 18.
Sussman, Barry. The Great Cover-Up: Nixon and the Scandal of Watergate. 1974. Rpt. Arlington, Va.: Seven Locks Press, 1992.
Summers, Anthony, and Robyn Swan. The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon. 2000. Rpt. New York City: Penguin Books, 2001: Ch. 29-33.
D.C. Unger, 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. 7.
Waldron, Lamar, and Thom Hartmann. Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination, rev. ed. Berkeley, Calif.: Counterpoint, 2009: Ch. 62-63.
Wheen, Francis. Strange Days Indeed: The 1970s: The Golden Age of Paranoia. 2009. Rpt. New York City: BBS/PublicAffairs, 2010: Ch. 4.
The White House Transcripts: Submission of Recorded Presidential Conversations to the Committee on the Judiciary of the House of Representatives by President Richard Nixon. Ed. Gerald Gold. 1973. Rpt. Buffalo, N.Y.: William S. Hein & Co., 1984.
Will: The Autobiography of G. Gordon Liddy, rev. ed. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 1997: Ch. 15-28.
f. G. Allen
i. Nixon's Palace Guard. Boston: Western Islands, 1971.
ii. Richard Nixon: The Man Behind the Mask. Boston: Western Islands, 1971: Ch. 1, 11-15.
g. Haldeman
Haldeman & DiMona, Pt. 1, Ch. 8; Pt. 2, Ch. 2-3; Pt. 3.
The Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House. 1994. Rpt. New York City: Berkley Books, 1995.
h. Kessler
(1) In the President’s Secret Service, Ch. 5.
(2) First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents, rev. ed. New York City: Crown Forum, 2015: Ch. 5.
i. E.G. Krogh
E.G. Krogh & M. Krogh, Ch. 1-5, 7.
E.J. Epstein, Agency of Fear, Ch. 1, 13.
j. Woodward & C. Bernstein
(1) The Final Days, Pt. 1, Ch. 14.
(2) The Secret Man, Ch. 2-3.
Colodny & Gettlin, Ch. 5.
Havill, Adrian. Deep Truth: The Lives of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Secaucus, N.J.:  Birch Lane Press, 1993: Ch. 7-8, 10-11, 15.
Shepard, Alicia. Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley and Sons, 2007: Ch. 2-7, 12.
k. Other
J. Anderson & Gibson, Ch. 12, 14-15, 17.
E.J. Epstein, Assume Nothing, 2023: Ch. 23.
Biskupic, Joan. American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia. New York City: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2009: Ch. 2.
Brewton, Pete. The Mafia, CIA, and George Bush. New York City: S.P.I. Books, 1992: Ch. 12.
P.J. Buchanan, Ch. 1-5, 7-8.
Burch, Philip H. Jr. Elites in American History, Vol. III: The New Deal to the Carter Administration. New York City: Holmes & Meier Publishers, 1980: Ch. 6.
P.N. Carroll, Ch. 6.
Colodny & Gettlin, Ch. 4.
Courtwright, David T. No Right Turn: Conservative Politics in a Liberal America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2010: Ch. 1, 4.
Cowie, Jefferson. Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class. New York City: The New Press, 2010: Ch. 3.
Dallek, Ch. 14-16.
J.W. Dean & Goldwater Jr., Ch. 12-13.
Dickerson, Ch. 20-21, 24.
Dorman, Michael L. Vesco: The Infernal Money Making Machine. New York City: Berkeley Medallion, 1975: Ch. 7-8, 10.
Drosnin, Michael. Citizen Hughes, rev. ed. New York City: Broadway Books, 2004: Ch. 12.
Ehrlichman, Ch. 6-7, 9, 11, 13-15, 17.
Ellroy, James [Lee Earle Ellroy]. Blood's a Rover. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009: Ch. 57.
Evans, Robert [Robert Shapera][and Charles Michener]. The Kid Stays in the Picture. Ed. Marinka Peschmann. 1994. Rpt. London: Faber & Faber, 2003: Ch. 24.
Feldstein, Ch. 5-6, 8-10, 12-14.
From: The President: Richard Nixon's Secret Files. Ed. Bruce Oudes. New York City: Harper & Row, 1989.
Frost & Zelnick, Ch. 8.
Fulsom, Ch. 8, 17.
Graf, Ch. 1-7.
Graham, Bradley. By His Own Rules: The Ambitions, Successes, and Ultimate Failures of Donald Rumsfeld. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2009: Ch. 3.
Greenberg, David. Ch. 5, 7.
Hayward, Ch. 6.
S.M. Hersh, Reporter, Ch. 14.
Janis, Irving L. Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes, rev. ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1982: Ch. 9.
Kessler. Inside the White House: The Hidden Lives of the Modern Presidents and the Secrets of the World's Most Powerful Institution. New York City: Pocket Books, 1995: Ch. 2.
Kirkpatrick, Ch. 1.
Kuhn, David Paul. The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution. New York City: Oxford UP, 2020: Ch. 24, 26.
Liddy, Ch. 14.
Lukas, Ch. 1-5, 10, 12.
Martin, William. With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America, rev. ed. New York City: Broadway Books, 2005: Ch. 6.
McClanahan, Brion. 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America, and Four Who Tried to Save Her. Washington, D.C.: Regnery History, 2016: Ch. 8.
Morris, Roger. Haig: The General’s Progress. New York City: Playboy Press, 1982: Pt. 2-3.
Nixon, Ch. 1, 21, 31.
Nofziger, Ch. 4.
Novak, Ch. 18, 20.
Pauken, Ch. 11-12.
Perlstein, Ch. 17, 22, 28.
Perry, Roland. Last of the Cold War Spies: The Life of Michael Straight -- the Only America in Britain's Cambridge Spy Ring. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2005: Ch. 25.
Persico, Joseph E. Casey: From the OSS to the CIA. 1990. Rpt. New York City: Penguin, 1991: Ch. 12.
Rose, Mark H., Bruce E. Seely, and Paul F. Barrett. The Best Transportation System in the World: Railroads, Trucks, Airlines, and American Public Policy in the Twentieth Century. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State UP, 2006: Ch. 6.
Schulman, Bruce J. The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics. New York City: The Free Press, 2001: Ch. 1.
G. Shepard, Ch. 1.
Shirley, Craig. Reagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All. Nashville, Tenn.: Nelson Current, 2005: Ch. 2.
Stanford, White House Call Girl, Ch. 11, 12.
R.J. Stone & Colapietro, Nixon’s Secrets, Ch. 13.
Summers & Swan, The Arrogance of Power, Ch. 25-28.
E. Thomas, Ch. 11-21, 24.
Troy, Tevi. Intellectuals and the American Presidency: Philosophers, Jesters, or Technicians? Lanham, Md. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002: Ch. 4.
Tuccille, Jerome. Alan Shrugged: The Life and Times of Alan Greenspan, the World’s Most Powerful Banker. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2002: Ch. 13-14.
Tucker, Jeffrey. Bourbon for Breakfast: Living Outside the Statist Quo. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2010: Ch. 71.
Whalen, Richard J. Catch the Falling Flag: A Republican's Challenge to His Party. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1972: Pt. 2.
Wheen, Ch. 1.
T.H. White, Ch. 5-6.
Wicker, Ch. 10, 12-13, 15-16.
Woodward, Last of the President’s Men, Ch. 1-7, 9-12, 14-15, 21-22.
2. The Ford Administration
a. Vietnam
Berman, Larry. Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter and Vietnamese Communist Agent. New York City: Smithsonian Books/Collins, 2007: Ch. 6-7.
Snepp, Frank. Decent Interval: An Insider's Account of Saigon's Indecent End Told by the CIA's Chief Strategy Analyst in Vietnam, rev. ed. Lawrence, Kan.: UP of Kansas, 2002.
b. Alan Greenspan
Sheehan, Fred. Panderer to Power: The Untold Story of How Alan Greenspan Enriched Wall Street and Left a Legacy of Recession. New York City: McGraw-Hill, 2010: Ch. 4.
Tuccille, Alan Shrugged, Ch. 15-16.
c. Kessler
i. Inside the White House, Ch. 3.
ii. In the President’s Secret Service, Ch. 7.
iii. First Family Detail, Ch. 7.
d. Others
Allen, Kissinger, Ch. 1.
Appy, Patriots, Pt. 6.
Barrett, Wayne, and Adam Fifield. Rudy!: An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani. New York City: Basic Books, 2000: Ch. 5.
Biskupic, Ch. 3.
Cadava, Ch. 5.
P.N. Carroll, Ch. 10.
Cheney, Dick, and Liz Cheney. In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir. New York City: Threshold Editions, 2011: Ch. 3.
Colodny & Shachtman, Ch. 18-19.
DeFrank, Ch. 3.
Dickerson, Ch. 29-30.
Edwards, Goldwater, Ch. 20.
B. Graham, Ch. 4.
Haig & McCarry, Ch. 37.
Hayward, Ch. 9.
Mann, James. Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet. New York City: Viking, 2004: Ch. 4.
Ritter, Ch. 11.
Rose, Seely & P.F. Barrett, Ch. 7.
Sandbrook, Dominic. Mad as Hell: The Crisis of the 1970s and the Rise of the Populist Right. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2011: Ch. 5.
Sanders, Ed. The Family, 3rd rev. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2002: Ch. 113.
Shirley, Reagan's Revolution, Ch. 3.
Troy, Ch. 5.
Weber, Christopher. Good as Gold?: How We Lost Our Gold Reserves and Destroyed the Dollar, rev. ed. Charleston, S.C.: CreateSpace, 2011: Ch. 9-10, 12.
Woodward. Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1999: Pt. 1.
3. The 1976 Election
a. The Reagan Campaign
i. Craig Shirley
(1) Reagan's Revolution, Ch. 4-16.
(2)
Rendezvous With Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America. Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2009: Ch. 1.
ii. Others
Buckley, William F. Jr. The Reagan I Knew. New York City: Basic Books, 2008: Ch. 7-8.
Cannon, Lou. Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2003: Ch. 26-27.
Colacello, Bob. Ronnie & Nancy: Their Path to the White House, 1911 to 1980. New York City: Warner Books, 2004: Ch. 16.
Garcia, Gilbert. Reagan’s Comeback: Four Weeks in Texas That Changed American Politics Forever. San Antonio: Trinity UP, 2012: Ch. 1, 3-5, 10-14.
Hayward, Ch. 10.
Nofziger, Ch. 6.
b. The Ford Campaign
DeFrank, Ch. 6.
Garcia, Ch. 8-9.
Nofziger, Ch. 9.
c. Other
G. Allen, Jimmy Carter/Jimmy Carter, Ch. 1, 4-7.
P.N. Carroll, Ch. 11.
Colodny & Shachtman, Ch. 20.
Garcia, Ch. 2, 6.
Mears, Ch. 5.
Sandbrook, Ch. 11.
Shirley. Reagan Rising: The Decisive Years, 1976-1980. New York City: Broadside Books, 2017: Ch. 1-2.
4. The Carter Administration
a. Stagflation

Auerbach, Ch. 10-11.
Bartlett. Reaganomics: Supply-Side Economics in Action, rev. ed. New York City: Quill, 1982: Ch. 15, Appendix F.
Clarey, Aaron. Behind the Housing Crash: Confessions From an Insider. Minneapolis: Aaron Clarey, 2008: Ch. 3.
Greider, William. Secrets of the Temple: How the Federal Reserve Runs the Country. New York City, Simon & Schuster, 1987: Ch. 1, 3-6.
Meltzer, Allen H. A History of the Federal Reserve, Vol. II, Book Two: 1970-86. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2009: Ch. 8.
Nocera, Joseph. A Piece of the Action; How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1994: Ch. 9.
Schuettinger, Robert L., and Eamonn F. Butler. Forty Centuries of Wage and Price Controls: How Not to Fight Inflation. 1979. Rpt. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009: Appendix C-D.
Weiher, Kenneth E. America’s Search for Economic Stability: Monetary and Fiscal Policy Since 1913. New York City: Twayne Publishers, 1992: Ch. 9.
b. Iran
Adams, James. Secret Armies, rev. ed. London: Pan Books, 1989: Ch. 12.
Bacevich, America's War for the Greater Middle East, Ch. 2.
G.W. Ball & D.W. Ball, Ch. 5.
Bittman, Lasislav. The KGB and Soviet Disinformation: An Insider’s View. McLean, Va.: Pergamon-Brassey's International Defense Publishers, 1985: Ch. 6.
Burch, Vol. III, Ch. 7.
P.N. Carroll, Ch. 12.
Colodny & Shachtman, Ch. 21.
Cowie, Ch. 6.
Bird, Kai. The Chairman: John J. McCloy: The Making of the American Establishment. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1992: Ch. 28.
Martin, David C., and John Walcott. Best Laid Plans: The Inside Story of America's War Against Terrorism. New York City: Harper & Row Publishers, 1988: Ch. 1.
Mendez, Antonio J., and Matt Baglio. Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History. 2012. Rpt. New York City: Penguin Books, 2013.
The National Security Archive. The Chronology: The Documented Day-by-Day Account of the Secret Military Assistance to Iran and the Contras. New York City: Warner Books, 1987.
Shawcross, Ch. 15-24.
c. Kessler
i. Inside the White House, Ch. 4.
ii. In the President’s Secret Service, Ch. 10.
iii. First Family Detail, Ch. 7.
d. Other
J. Anderson & Gibson, Ch. 19-20, 22.
DeFrank, Ch. 8.
Donaldson, Sam. Hold on, Mr. President!, rev. ed. New York City: Fawcett Crest, 1988: Ch. 5.
Haig & McCarry, Ch. 39.
Hayward, Ch. 11-12.
Labévière, Richard. Dollars for Terror: The United States and Islam, rev. ed. Trans. Martin DeMers. New York City: Algora Publishing, 2000: Ch. 9.
Lott, Jeremy. The Warm Bucket Brigade: The Story of the American Vice Presidency. Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, 2007: Ch. 17.
McClintock, Michael. Instruments of Statecraft: U.S. Guerrilla Warfare, Counterinsurgency, and Counter-Terrorism, 1940-1990. New York City: Pantheon Books, 1992: Ch. 13.
Novak, Ch. 25-26.
Pendley, William. War on the West: Government Tyranny on America’s Great Frontier. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1995: Ch. 3.
Prados, Keeper of the Keys, Pt. 7.
Ritter, Ch. 12.
Rose, Seely & P.F. Barrett, Ch. 8.
Ruppert, Michael C. Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil. Gabriola Island, B.C.: New Society Publishers, 2004: Ch. 6.
Sabin, Paul. Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2021: Ch. 8.
Sandbrook, Ch. 12.
B.J. Schulman, Ch. 5.
Sutton, Antony C. Trilaterals Over America, rev. ed. San Pedro, Calif.: GSG & Associates Publishers, 1995: Ch. 8.
Troy, Ch. 6.
Tyler, Ch. 5.
D.C. Unger, Ch. 9.
Weber, Ch. 11.
Woodward, Shadow, Pt. 2.
5. The Congress
a. Overall
P.J. Buchanan, Ch. 10.
Ehrlichman,  Ch. 12.
Greene, Robert W. The Sting Man: Inside Abscam, rev. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 2013: Ch. 1, 9-10, 12-13.
Lee, Robert W. The United Nations Conspiracy. Belmont, Mass.: Western Islands Publishers, 1981: Appendix D.
Olmsted, Kathryn S. Challenging the Secret Government: The Post-Watergate Investigations of the CIA and FBI. Chapel Hill, N.C.: U of North Carolina P, 1996: Ch. 3, 7.
Perlstein, Ch. 25.
Smith, Hedrick. The Power Game: How Washington Works. 1988. Rpt. New York City: Ballentine Books, 1996: Ch. 7.
b. The Senate
i. Joe Biden, D-Del.
Devine, Miranda. Laptop From Hell: Hunter Biden, Big Tech, and the Dirty Secrets the President Tried to Hide. New York City: Post Hill Press, 2021: Ch. 7.
Schweizer, Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America's Progressive Elite. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2020: Ch. 3.
ii. Others
J.L. Buckley, Ch. 2, 6.
Connaughton, Jeff. The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins. Westport, Conn.: Prospecta Press, 2012: Ch. 3.
R.B. Cramer, Ch. 65, 83.
Damore, Leo. Senatorial Privilege: The Chappaquiddick Cover-Up. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1988: Ch. 55-57.
E.J. Epstein. Assume Nothing: Encounters With Assassins, Spies, Presidents, and Would-Be Masters of the Universe. New York City: Encounter Books, 2023: Ch. 17.
Garfield, Brian. Deep Cover. 1971. Rpt. New York City: Mysterious Press/Open Road Integrated Media, 2011: Ch. 1-3, 6.
Olmsted, Ch. 5.
Parker, Robert, and Richard L. Rashke. Capitol Hill in Black and White. 1986. Rpt. New York City: Jove Books, 1989: Ch. 27-29.
Schwarz, Frederick A.O. Jr. and Aziz Huq. Unchecked and Unbalanced: Presidential Power in a Time of Terror. New York City: New Press/Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, 2007: Ch. 3.
c. The House
D. Cheney & L. Cheney, Ch. 4.
Crile, George. Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Covert Operation That Changed the History of Our Times. 2003. Rpt. London: Atlantic Books, 2007: Ch. 1, 5.
Cummings, Richard. The Pied Piper: Allard Lowenstein and the Liberal Dream. 1985. Rpt. New York City: InPrint.com, 2000: Ch. 55-56.
Dickerson, Ch. 28.
Olmsted, Ch. 6.
Remini, Robert V. The House: The History of the House of Representatives. New York City: The Library of Congress/Smithsonian Books/Collins, 2006: Ch. 17.
6. The Courts
a. Woodward
Woodward, Last of the President’s Men, Ch. 13.
Woodward, and Scott Armstrong. The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1979.
Havill, Ch. 12.
b. Others
P.J. Buchanan, Ch. 6.
Carey, George W. In Defense of the Constitution, rev. ed. Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 1995: Ch. 7.
Ehrlichman, Ch. 8.
Eisler. The Last Liberal: William J. Brennan, Jr., and the Decisions That Transformed America. 1993. Rpt. Washington, D.C.: Beard Books, 2005: Ch. 17-20.
Fitzgerald, A. Ernest. The Pentagonists: An Insider’s View of Waste, Mismanagement, and Fraud in Defense Spending. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1989: Ch. 8.
Donner, Frank J. The Age of Surveillance: The Aims and Methods of America's Political Intelligence System, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 1981: Ch. 10.
Keynes, Edward, and Randall K. Miller. The Court vs. Congress: Prayer, Business and Abortion. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 1989: Ch. 9.
Toobin, Jeffrey. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, rev. ed. New York City: Anchor Books, 2008: Ch. 3.
Wolters, Raymond. Race and Education, 1954-2007. Columbia, Mo.: U of Missouri P, 2008: Ch. 9.
7. The Executive Police Agencies
a. The CIA
i. Nugan Hand Bank
Lernoux, Penny. In Banks We Trust, rev. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 1986: Ch. 4.
Kwitny, Jonathan. The Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money, and the CIA, corr. ed. New York City: Touchstone, 1988: Ch. 1-2, 7-8, 20, 22-24, 26.
ii. Aldrich Ames
Earley, Pete. Confessions of a Spy: The Real Story of Aldrich Ames. 1997. Rpt. New York City: Berkley Books, 1998: Ch. 5-7.
Maas, Peter. Killer Spy: The Inside Story of the FBI’s Pursuit and Capture of Aldrich Ames, America’s Deadliest Spy. New York City: Warner Books, 1995: Ch. 3.
iii. James J. Angleton
Mangold, Tom. Cold Warrior: James Jesus Angleton: The CIA's Master Spy Hunter. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1991: Ch. 20-23.
Morley, Jefferson. The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 2017: Pt. 4.
iv. E.J. Epstein
(1) Deception: The Invisible War Between the KGB and the CIA. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1989: Ch. 6.
(2) The Annals of Unsolved Crime. New York City: Melville House, 2013: Ch. 14.
v. A.J. Mendez et al.
A.J. Mendez, and Malcolm McConnell. The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA. 1999. Rpt. New York City: HarperPerennial, 2000: Ch. 5-8.
A.J. Mendez, Jonna Mendez, and Bruce Henderson. Spy Dust: Two Masters of Disguise Reveal the Tools and Operations That Helped Win the Cold War. New York City: Atria Books, 2002: Ch. 1.
vi. Prados
(1) William Colby and the CIA: The Secret Wars of a Controversial Spymaster. 2003. Rpt. Lawrence, Kan.: UP of Kansas, 2009: Ch. 13-16.
(2) Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 3rd rev. ed. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2006: Ch. 18.
(3) The Family Jewels: The CIA, Secrecy, and Presidential Power, rev. ed. Austin, Texas: U of Texas P, 2014: Ch. 1-2, 8-9.
vii. Other
Baer, Robert. See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism, rev. ed. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2002: Ch. 3-5.
Bain, Donald. Murder, HE Wrote: A Successful Writer’s Life. 2002. Rpt. West Lafayette, Ind.: NotaBell Books, 2006: Ch. 16.
Barron, John. MiG Pilot: The Final Escape of Lt. Belenko. 1980. Rpt. New York City: Avon Books, 1981: Ch. 4-6.
Berntsen, Gary, and Ralph Pezzullo. Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personal Account by the CIA’s Key Field Commander. New York City: Crown Publishers, 2005: Ch. 2.
Bittman, Ch. 10.
Blum, Howard. The Spy Who Knew Too Much: An Ex-CIA Officer's Quest Through a Legacy of Betrayal. New York City: Harper, 2022: Ch. 1-3.
Bowart, Walter H. [Walter Howard Kirby]. Operation Mind Control, rev. ed. Fort Bragg, Calif.: Flatlands Editions, 1994: Ch. 35.
Bowen, Ch. 7.
The Case for Withdrawal From Afghanistan. Ed. Nick Turse. London: Verso, 2010: Ch. 5.
The CIA File. Ed. Robert L. Borosage and John Marks. New York City: Grossman Publishers, 1976: Ch. 10-11.
Clarridge, Duane R., and Digby Diehl. A Spy for All Seasons: My Life in the CIA. New York City: Scribner, 1997: Ch. 9.
Dean, Josh. The Taking of K-129: How the CIA Used Howard Hughes to Steal a Russian Sub in the Most Daring Covert Operation in History. New York City: Dutton, 2017: Ch. 15-71.
Drumheller, Tyler, and Elaine Monaghan. On the Brink: A Former CIA Chief Exposes How Intelligence Was Distorted in the Build-Up to the War in Iraq. 2006. Rpt. London: Politico's, 2007: Ch. 8.
Garfield. Hopscotch. 1975. Rpt. New York City: Mysterious Press, 2013.
Garwood, Darrell. Under Cover: Thirty-Five Years of CIA Deception, rev. ed. New York City: Grove Press, 1985: Ch. 16.
Grady, James. Six Days of the Condor, corr. ed. 1975. Rpt. New York City: Warner Books, 1991.
Gup, Ted. The Book of Honor: The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives, rev. ed. New York City: Anchor Books, 2001: Ch. 9-12.
Haas, Roland W. Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2007: Ch. 1, 5-9, 14-17.
Hart, John. The Monster Plot. McLean, Va.: United States. Central Intelligence Agency, 1978: Ch. 12.
S.M. Hersh, Reporter, Ch. 15.
Jacobsen, Annie. Phenomena: The Secret History of the U.S. Government’s Investigations Into Extrasensory Perception and Psychokenesis. 2017. Rpt. New York City: Back Bay Books, 2018: Ch. 9-11.
Jeffreys-Jones, Rhodri. Cloak and Dollar: A History of American Secret Intelligence, rev. ed. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2003: Ch. 12.
Jeffries, Donald. Hidden History: An Exposé of Modern Crimes, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups in American Politics. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2014: Ch. 5.
Kessler. Inside the CIA: Revealing the Secrets of the World's Most Powerful Spy Agency, rev. ed. New York City: Pocket Books, 1994: Ch. 3, 22-23.
Kinzer, Stephen. Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control. New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 2019: Ch. 1, 13-15.
Lindsey, Robert. The Falcon and the Snowman: A True Story of Friendship and Espionage. 1979. Rpt. New York City: Open Road Media, 2016: Ch. 8-10, 23.
Loftus, John and Mark Aarons. The Secret War Against the Jews: How Western Espionage Betrayed the Jewish People. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 1994: Ch. 15.
Maas. Manhunt. 1986. Rpt. New York City: Ibooks, 2002: Ch. 1, 6-17.
Mackenzie, Angus. Secrets: The CIA’s War at Home. Berkeley, Calif.: U of California P, 1997: Ch. 3-6.
Marshall, Jonathan, and Peter Dale Scott, Cocaine Politics: Drugs, Armies, and the CIA in Central America, 2nd rev. ed. Berkeley, Calif: U of California P, 1998: Ch. 2.
Martin, David C. Wilderness of Mirrors: The Intrigue, Deception, and the Secrets That Destroyed Two of the Cold War's Most Important Agents, rev. ed. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2018: Ch. 10.
McCoy, The Politics of Heroin, Ch. 9.
R.W. McGehee, Ch. 13.
Meyer, Cord. Facing Reality: From World Federalism to the CIA. 1980. Rpt. Washington, D.C.: UP of America, 1982: Ch. 9-10.
Rizzo, John. Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA. New York City: Scribner, 2014: Ch. 1-2.
Rodriguez, Felix I., and John Weisman. Shadow Warrior. 1989. Rpt. New York City: Pocket Books, 1990: Ch. 13-15.
Shackley & Finney, Ch. 24.
Smith, Joseph Burkholder. Portrait of a Cold Warrior. 1976. Rpt. New York City: Ballentine Books, 1981: Ch. 22-23.
Stanford, White House Call Girl, Ch. 17.
R.J. Stone & St. J. Hunt, Ch. 22.
E. Thomas, The Man to See, Ch. 28-29.
Trento, Ch. 49-54, 57.
Veciana, Antonio, and Carlos Harrison. Trained to Kill: The Inside Story of CIA Plots Against Castro, Kennedy, and Che. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2017: Ch. 9-10.
Waldron & Hartmann, Ch. 64.
Webb, Whitney. One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime That Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein, Vol. I. Walterville, Ore. Trine Day, 2022: Ch. 6.
Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Ch. 29-33, 35-36.
b. The FBI
i. Joseph D. Pistone
Pistone, Joseph D., and Charles Brandt. Donnie Brasco: Unfinished Business: Shocking Declassified Details From the FBI’s Greatest Undercover Operation and a Bloody Timeline of the Fall of the Mafia. Philadelphia: Running Press, 2007: Ch. 11.
Pistone, Joseph D., and Richard Woodley. Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia, rev. ed. New York City: Signet, 1989: Ch. 2.
ii. Kessler
(1) The Bureau, Ch. 11-12, 14-15, 19.
(2) Secrets of the FBI, Ch. 7-10.
iii. Others
Ehrlichman, Ch. 10.
Ellroy, Blood's a Rover, Ch. 87, 90, 99, 101-102, 111, 114, 121, 123, 130.
Gentry, Curt. J. Edgar Hoover: The Man and the Secrets. W.W. Norton & Co., 1991: Ch. 1-3, 32-36.
R.W. Greene, Ch. 5-6.
Lance, Peter. Deal With the Devil: The FBI’s Secret Thirty-Year Relationship With a Mafia Killer. New York City: William Morrow, 2013: Ch. 10.
McGowan, David. Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder. New York City: iUniverse, 2004: Ch. 18.
Medsger, Betty. The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014: Ch. 1, 3-18, 20, 26.
Raab, Selwyn. Five Families: The Rise, Decline, and Resurgence of America's Most Powerful Mafia Empires, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin, 2016: Ch. 20.
Scott, Joseph L. No Left Turns. New York City: Praeger Publishers, 1975: Ch. 1.
Weiner, Enemies, Ch. 33-34, 36-38.
Woodward & C. Bernstein, The Secret Man, Ch. 4.
c. The British
Loftus & Aarons, Ch. 17.
Macintyre, Ben. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War, rev. ed. New York City: Broadway Books, 2019: Ch. 3.
Wright, Peter, and Paul Greengrass. Spycatcher: The Candid Autobiography of a Senior Intellgence Officer, rev. ed. New York City: Dell, 1988: Ch. 22-23.
d. E.J. Epstein
i. Agency of Fear, Ch. 12.
ii. How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017: Ch. 20.
e. Other
Blaine, Gerald, and Lisa McCubbin. The Kennedy Detail: JFK's Secret Service Agents Break Their Silence. New York City: Gallery Books, 2010: Ch. 24.
Branch, Taylor, and Eugene M. Propper. Labyrinth: 1982. Rpt. Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin Books, 1983.
Chepesiuk. Black Caesar: The Rise and Disappearance of Frank Matthews, Kingpin. Rock Hill, S.C.: Strategic Media, 2013: Ch. 9-10.
De Marenches, Count Alexandre, and David A. Andelman. The Fourth World War: Diplomacy and Espionage in the Age of Terrorism, rev. ed. New York City: William Morrow and Co., 1992: Ch. 4-5, 7, 9, 12.
Garfield, Deep Cover, Ch. 9, 14, 18, 20.
Hager, Nicky. Secret Power, rev. ed. Nelson, New Zealand: Craig Potton Publishing, 2007: 2-3, 5-6, 8-9.
Helms, Ch. 3, Appendix C.
S.M. Hersh. The Samson Option: Israel 's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 1993: Ch. 1.
Kessler, First Family Detail, Ch. 6.
Krüger & Meldon, Ch. 1, 18, 21.
Macintyre, Ch. 4, 7.
Olmsted, Ch. 8.
Plate, Thomas, and Andrea Darvi. Secret Police: The Inside Story of a Network of Terror. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1981.
Rothmiller, Mike, and Ivan G. Goldman. L.A. Secret Police: Inside the LAPD Elite Spy Network. New York City: Pocket Books, 1992: Ch. 6, 13.
Wheen, Ch. 8.
8. The Militaries
a. The U.S. Army
i. Psychic Research
Marrs, Jim. PSI Spies: The True Story of America's Psychic Warfare Program, 2nd rev. ed. Franklin Lakes, N.J.: New Page Books, 2007: Ch. 5, 7.
Ronson, Jon. The Men Who Stare at Goats. London: Picador, 2004: Ch. 2-3, 5, 10.
ii. Other
Atkinson, Rick. The Long Gray Line, rev. ed. New York City: Henry Holt, 2009: Ch. 12-17.
Birtle, Andrew J. U.S. Army Counterinsurgency and Contingency Operations Doctrine 1942-1976. Washington, D.C.: United States. Army. Center of Military History, 2006: Ch. 10.
Bowart, Ch. 10.
Cortright, David. Soldiers in Revolt: GI Resistance During the Vietnam War. 1975. Rpt. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2005: Ch. 7-12.
Cousins, Norman. The Pathology of Power. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1987: Ch. 9.
DeYoung, Karen. Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell. 2006. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 2007: Ch. 7.
Franks, Gen. Tommy (ret.), and McConnell. American Soldier. New York City: ReganBooks/HarperCollins Publishers, 2004: Ch. 4.
“Fury, Dalton”. Kill Bin Laden: A Delta Force Commander's Account of the Hunt for the World's Most Wanted Man. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2008: Ch. 2.
Kaplan, Fred M. The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2013: Ch. 2, 8.
Miller, Christopher C., and Ted Royer. Soldier Secretary: Warnings From the Battlefield & the Pentagon About America's Most Dangerous Enemies. Nashville, Tenn.: Center Street, 2023: Ch. 1.
R. Morris, Haig, Pt. 4.
Sanchez, Lt. Gen. Ricardo (ret.), and Donald T. Phillips. Wiser in Battle: A Soldier's Story. New York City: Harper, 2008: Ch. 2.
Scahill, Jeremy. Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield. New York City: Nation Books, 2013: Ch. 9.
Scheips, Ch. 15.
b. The U.S. Navy
Blizter, Wolf. Territory of Lies: The Exclusive Story of Jonathan Jay Pollard: The American Who Spied on His Country for Israel and How He Was Betrayed. New York City: Harper & Row Publishers, 1989: Ch. 3.
Bosiljevac, Ch. 10-11.
Cheevers, Jack. Act of War: Lyndon Johnson, North Korea, and the Capture of the Spy Ship Pueblo. New York City: NAL Caliber, 2013: Ch. 19.
c. Annie Jacobsen
i. The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top Secret Military Research Agency. New York City: Little, Brown and Co., 2015: Ch. 14.
ii. Phenomena, Ch. 8, 14.
d. Other
J. Adams, Secret Armies, Ch. 10.
Bacevich. The New American Militarism: How Americans are Seduced by War, rev. ed. New York City: Oxford UP, 2013: Ch. 2.
Bergen, Peter L. Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden From 9/11 to Abbottabad. New York City: Crown Publishers, 2012: Ch. 10.
W.F. Buckley. The Rake. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007: Ch. 24-25.
Burton, James G. The Pentagon Wars: Reformers Challenge the Old Guard. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1993: Ch. 2-6.
Colodny & Gettlin, Ch. 1-3.
Fiennes, Ranulph. Killer Elite, rev. ed. New York City: Ballantine Books, 2011: Ch. 13.
Fitzgerald, Ch. 1, 3-6, 9, Appendix A-B.
Haig & McCarry, Ch. 38.
Hanrahan, John. Government by Contract. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1983: Ch. 4.
Kovic. Hurricane Street. New York City: Akashic Books, 2016.
Kwitny, Crimes of Patriots, Ch. 19.
Marrs. Alien Agenda: Investigating the Extraterrestrial Presence Among Us. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 1997: Ch. 11.
McGowan, Ch. 8.
Robb, David L. Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2004: Ch. 3, 22, 32.
Rosenbaum, Ron. How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2011: Ch. 2.
Scahill, Dirty Wars, Ch. 3.
H. Smith, Ch. 8.
Sutton. The Best Enemy Money Can Buy. Billings, Mont.: Liberty House Press, 1986: Appendix A.
Thompson, Leroy. The Rescuers: The World's Top Anti-Terrorist Units. Boulder, Colo.: Paladin Press, 1986: Ch. 2.
Van Creveld, Martin. Men, Women and War. London: Cassell & Co., 2001: Ch. 21.
Ventura & Russell, Ch. 15.
Vine, David. Island of Shame: The Secret History of the U.S. Military Base on Diego Garcia, rev. ed. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2011: Ch. 7.
9. The Federal Reserve System
Griffin, G. Edward. The Creature From Jekyll Island: A Second Look at the Federal Reserve, 3rd rev. ed. Westlake Village, Calif.: American Media, 2002: Ch. 3.
Groseclose, Elgin. America's Money Machine: The Story of the Federal Reserve, rev. ed. 1980. Rpt. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2009: Ch. 35.
Leonard, Chris. The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2022: Ch. 3.
Meltzer, Ch. 6-8.
10. The Space Race
Borman, Frank, and Robert J. Serling. Countdown: An Autobiography. New York City: Silver Arrow Books/William Morrow, 1988: Ch. 14.
Caidin, Martin. Cyborg IV. 1975. Rpt. New York City: Warner Books, 1976.
Chambers, Mark A. Images of Modern America: NASA Kennedy Space Center. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2016: Ch. 5.
Cooper, Henry S.F. Jr. A House in Space. 1976. Rpt. New York City: Bantam Books, 1978.
Ferguson, Robert G. NASA’s First A: Aeronautics From 1958 to 2008. Washington, D.C.: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of Communications. Public Outreach Division. History Program Office, 2013: Ch. 4.
Hancock, Graham et al. The Mars Mystery: The Secret Connection Between Earth and the Red Planet, rev. ed. 1998. Rpt. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2010: Ch. 1-2, 7-9, 11.
Hoagland, Richard C., and Michael Bara. Dark Mission: The Secret History of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, rev. ed. Los Angeles: Feral House, 2009: Ch. 12.
Johnson, Nicholas L. The Soviet Reach for the Moon: The L-1 and L-3 Manned Lunar Programs and the Story of the N-1 "Moon Rocket", rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: Cosmos Books, 1995: Ch. 9-10.
Wolverton, Mark. The Depths of Space: The Story of the Pioneer Planetary Probes. Washington, D.C.: Joseph Henry Press, 2004: Ch. 5-12.
11. The Bush Dynasty
a. Poppy
Baker, Russ. Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years, corr. ed. New York City: Bloomsbury Press, 2009: Ch. 12, 14.
R.B. Cramer, Ch. 55, 58, 91.
Parry, Robert. Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & ‘Project Truth.’ Arlington, Va.: The Media Consortium, 1999: Ch. 15.
R.J. Stone & St. J. Hunt, Ch. 23.
Sutton. Two Faces of George Bush. Dresden, N.Y.: Wiswell Ruffin House, 1988: Ch. 6-8.
b. Dubya
R. Baker, Ch. 15, 20, 22.
Corn, David. The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception, rev. ed. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2004: Ch. 1.
Minutaglio, Bill. First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty, rev. ed. New York City:  Three Rivers Press, 2001: Ch. 8-11.
Moore, Ch. 9, 11.
Perret, Ch. 25.
c. Other
R. Baker, Ch. 18.
Kelley, Kitty. The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty, rev. ed. New York City: Anchor Books, 2005: Ch. 17-19.
R.J. Stone & St. J. Hunt, Ch. 3, 5.
12. The Corporations
a. Finance
i. BCCI
Adams, James Ring, and Douglas Frantz. A Full Service Bank: How BCCI Stole Billions Around the World. New York City: Pocket Books, 1992: Ch. 4-5, 7.
Beaty, Jonathan, and S. C. Gwynne. The Outlaw Bank: A Wild Ride Into the Secret Heart of BCCI. 1993. Rpt. Washington, D.C.: Beard Books, 2004: Ch. 8-9.
ii. Other
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. 31-32.
Cohan, William D. The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. New York City: Broadway Books, 2007: Ch. 6-8, 14.
Elias, Christopher. Fleecing the Lambs. Chicago: Henry Regnery Co., 1971: Ch. 1-2.
Lernoux, Ch. 1-2.
“Smith, Adam” [George Goodman]. Supermoney, rev. ed. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2006: Ch. 3.
Sprague, Irvine H. Bailout: An Insider's Account of Bank Failures and Rescues. 1986. Rpt. Washington, D.C.: BeardBooks, 2000: Ch. 3-5, 14.
W. Webb, Vol. I, Ch. 7.
b. Pharmaceuticals
Kahn, E.J. Jr. All in a Century: The First 100 Years of Eli Lilly and Company. Indianapolis: Eli Lilly and Co., 1976: Ch. 15.
G.L. Posner, Pharma, Ch. 28-32, 34.
c. Armand Hammer
Considine, Bob. Larger Than Life: A Biography of the Remarkable Dr. Armand Hammer. 1975. Rpt. London: W.H. Allen, 1976: Ch. 21, 23-26, Appendix D.
E.J. Epstein, Dossier, Ch. 19-20, 23-25.
d. G.L. Posner
i. Citizen Perot, Ch. 6-7.
ii. Pharma, Ch. 35.
e. Other
Bowen, Ch. 9.
Byron, Christopher. Testosterone Inc.: Tales of CEOs Gone Wild. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2004: Ch. 7.
Carney, Timothy P. The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2006: Ch. 7, 12.
Gilder, George F. Life After Television, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1994: Ch. 4.
Hanrahan, Ch. 1-2.
Hartung, William D. Prophets of War: Lockheed Martin and the Making of the Military-Industrial Complex, rev. ed. New York City Nation Books, 2012: Ch. 5.
Hougan, Jim. Spooks: The Haunting of America – the Private Use of Secret Agents. 1978. Rpt. New York City: Bantam Books, 1979: Ch. 13.
Perkins, John. The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, 3rd rev. ed. Oakland, Calif.: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2023: Ch. 6-10, 12, 16, 25, 27.
Smith, Sally Bedell. In All His Glory: The Life of William S. Paley: The Legendary Tycoon and His Brilliant Circle. Touchstone/Simon & Schuster, 1990: Ch. 47-50, 52-55.
Sutton, Best Enemy Money Can Buy, Appendices C-E.
13. The Medical Establishment
Kennedy, Robert F. Jr. The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing/Children's Health Defense, 2021: Ch. 11.
Patterson, James T. The Dread Disease: Cancer and Modern American Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1987: Ch. 10.
Torrey, E. Fuller. The Death of Psychiatry. 1974. Rpt. New York City: Penguin Books, 1975: Ch. 1, 3-14.
14. The Neoconservatives
Colodny & Shachtman, Ch. 4.
Dorrien, Gary. Imperial Designs: Neoconservatism and the New Pax America. New York City: Routledge, 2004: Ch. 3.
Friedman, Murray. The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge UP, 2005: Ch. 8, 10.
Hartung, Ch. 7.
Weaver, Paul H. The Suicidal Corporation: How Big Business Fails America. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1988: Ch. 7.
15. The Explicit Socialists
a. Espionage
i. Philip Agee

(1) Inside the Company: CIA Diary, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Bantam Books, 1981: Pt. 5.
(2) On the Run. 1987. Rpt. London: Bloomsbury, 1988: Ch. 2-13.
ii. Christopher M. Andrew et al.
Andrew, Christopher M., and Oleg Gordievsky. KGB: The Inside Story of Its Foreign Operations From Lenin to Gorbachev. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 1990: Ch. 13.
Andrew, and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB. New York City: Basic Books, 1999: Ch. 20, 25, 29.
iii. Earley
(1) Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring. New York City: Bantam Books, 1988: Ch. 17-21, 25-39.
(2) Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2007: Ch. 3-4.
iv. E.J. Epstein
(1) How America Lost Its Secrets, Ch. 25.
(2) Assume Nothing, Ch. 22.
v. Kessler
(1) Moscow Station: How the KGB Penetrated the American Embassy. New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989: Ch. 4.
(2) The Spy in the Russian Club: How Glenn Souther Stole America's Nuclear War Plans and Escaped to Moscow. New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1990: Ch. 5.
(3) The Bureau, Ch. 16, 33.
vi. Others
Bittman, Ch. 7, 11.
Blum, The Spy Who Knew Too Much, Ch. 19-20, 27-31.
Cherkashin, Victor, and Gregory Feifer. Spy Handler – Memoir of a KGB Officer: The True Story of the Man Who Recruited Robert Hanssen and Aldrich Ames. New York City: Basic Books, 2005: Ch. 4-5.
Costello, John. Mask of Treachery, rev. ed. London: Pan Books, 1989: Ch. 22.
Garfield, Deep Cover, Ch. 4-5, 7, 10-13, 15-17, 19, 21-22.
Herrington, Stuart A. Traitors Among Us: Inside the Spy Catcher’s World. 1999. Rpt. San Diego: Harcourt, 2000: Ch. 7-8, 13, 36.
Kornai, János [János Kornhauser]. By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey, rev. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2006: Ch. 12-14.
R. Lindsey, Ch. 1, 14-22, 25-54.
Melvern, Linda, Nick Anning, and David Hebditch. Techno-Bandits. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1984: Ch. 9-10, 13.
Meyer, Ch. 14.
Myagkov, Aleksei. Inside the KGB. 1976. Rpt. New York City: Ballentine Books, 1981: Ch. 1, 7, 9, 12.
Pacepa, Lt. Gen. Ion Mihail, and Ronald Rychlak. Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism. Washington, D.C.: WND Books, 2013: Ch. 2-3, 28, 35, 39, 42-44.
Rufo, Christopher F. America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything. New York City: Broadside Books, 2023: Ch. 3, 6-7.
Ruppert, Ch. 10.
"Suvorov, Viktor" [Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun]. Inside Soviet Military Intelligence. New York City: Macmillan, 1984: Appendix C.
Unger, Craig. House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia, rev. ed. New York City: Dutton, 2019: Ch. 5.
b. The Soviet Union
i. Western Technology Imports
Melvern, Anning & Hebditch, Ch. 6, 11-12.
Sutton, Best Enemy Money Can Buy, Ch. 8.
ii. The Hammers
Considine, Ch. 20.
Finder, Joseph. Red Carpet. 1983. Rpt. Fort Worth, Texas: American Bureau of Economic Research, 1987: Ch. 16.
iii. Other
J. Adams, Secret Armies, Ch. 13-14.
The Case for Withdrawal From Afghanistan, Ch. 2-4.
iv. Other
Ascherson, Neal. Black Sea. London: Jonathan Cape, 1995: Ch. 11.
Barron, Ch. 1, 7.
Bukovsky, Vladimir. To Build a Castle: My Life As a Dissenter. 1977. Trans. Michael Scammell. 1978. Rpt. Washington, D.C.: Ethics and Public Policy Center, 1988: Ch. 1-2, 9-10.
Chaubin, Frédéric. CCCP: Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed. Trans. Charles Penwarden. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2011: Ch. 2, 4-5.
Finder, Ch. 15, 17.
The Education of Lev Navrozov: A Life in the Closed World Once Called Russia. New York City: Harper's Magazine Press, 1975: Ch. 1-2.
Gregory, Paul R. Lenin's Brain and Other Tales From the Secret Soviet Archives. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institute Press, 2008: Ch. 12.
Hanson, Philip. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy: An Economic History of the USSR From 1945. 2003. Rpt. London: Routledge, 2014: Ch. 5.
Hoffman, David E. The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy. New York City: Doubleday, 2009: Ch. 5.
Leitenberg, Milton, Raymond A. Zilinskas, and Jens H. Kuhn. The Soviet Biological Weapons Program: A History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2012: Ch. 2-20.
Meyer, Ch. 11, 13.
Myagkov, Ch. 10-11.
Polovchak, Walter, and Kevin Klose. Freedom's Child: A Courageous Teenager's Story of Fleeing His Parents — and the Soviet Union — to Live in America. New York City: Random House, 1988: Ch. 3, 9.
Robinson, Logan. An American in Leningrad. New York City: W.W. Norton and Co., 1982.
S. Seagrave, Yellow Rain: A Journey Through the Terror of Chemical Warfare. 1981. Rpt. London: Abacus, 1982: Ch. 7.
Shelton, Judy. The Coming Soviet Crash: Gorbachev's Desperate Purusit of Credit in Western Financial Markets. New York City: The Free Press, 1989: Ch. 1, 6.
Vaksberg, Arkady. The Soviet Mafia. Trans. John Roberts and Elizabeth Roberts. London: Weindenfeld and Nicolson, 1991: Ch. 1, 3, 5, 9.
c. The People's Temple
Bowart, Ch. 32.
United States. Cong. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. The Death of Representative Leo J. Ryan, People's Temple, and Jonestown: Understanding a Tragedy. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1979.
Reiterman, Tim, and John Jacobs. Raven: The Untold Story of the Rev. Jim Jones and His People, rev. ed. New York City: J.P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2008: Ch. 14-54.
Talbot, David. Season of the Witch: Enchantment, Terror, and Deliverance in the City of Love. New York City: Free Press, 2012: Ch. 28-29.
Ventura & Russell, Ch. 8.
d. Latin America
Fontova, Humberto. Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2005: Ch. 5.
Garvin, Glenn. Everybody Had His Own Gringo: The CIA and the Contras. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's (U.S.), 1992: Ch. 2.
Huddy, John. Storming Las Vegas: How a Cuban-Born, Soviet-Trained Commando Took Down the Strip to the Tune of Five World-Class Hotels, Three Armored Cars, and Millions of Dollars. New York City: Ballantine Books, 2008: Ch. 5.
Parry, Albert. Terrorism: From Robspierre to the Weather Underground. 1976. Rpt. Mineola, N.Y.: Dover Publications, 2006: Ch. 21-22.
Whelan, James R. Out of the Ashes: Life, Death and Transfiguration of Democracy in Chile, 1833-1988. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1989: Ch. 6-7.
e. The Feminists
Chesler, Phyllis. A Politically Incorrect Feminist: Creating a Movement With Bitches, Lunatics, Dykes, Prodigies, Warriors, and Wonder Women. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2018: Ch. 3-10, 12-13.
Grant, George. The Dispossessed: Homelessness in America. Fort Worth, Texas: Dominion Press, 1986: Ch. 5.
Kamp, David. Sunny Days: The Children's Television Revolution That Changed America. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2020: Ch. 18.
D.P. Kuhn, The Neglected Voter, Ch. 9.
Mailer. The Prisoner of Sex. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1971.
Nathan, Debbie, and Michael Snedeker. Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern Witch Hunt. 1995. Rpt. Lincoln, Neb.: Authors Choice Press, 2001: Ch. 1.
f. China
Caryl, Ch. 10.
Cheng, Nien. Life and Death in Shanghai, rev. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 1988: Ch. 11-18.
Feigon, Lee. China Rising: The Meaning of Tiananmen. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1990: Ch. 3.
g. Cambodia
Stéphane Courtois et al. The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression, rev. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1999: Ch. 24.
Cruvellier, Thierry. The Master of Confessions: The Making of a Khmer Rouge Torturer. 2011. Trans. Alex Gilly. New York City: Ecco, 2014.
Niemietz, Kristian. Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies. London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2019: Ch. 6.
h. The People's Bicentennial Commission
Gordon, Tammy S. The Spirit of 1976: Commerce, Community, and the Politics of Commemoration. Amherst, Mass.: U of Massachusetts P, 2013: Ch. 3.
Hall, Simon. "Guerrilla Theater … in the Guise of Red, White, and Blue Bunting”: The People’s Bicentennial Commission and the Politics of (Un)Americanism. Journal of American Studies Feb. 2018: 114-136.
i. Schweizer
i. Reagan's War, Ch. 7, 10.
ii. Profiles in Corruption, Ch. 7.
j. Other
Allen, Kissinger, Ch. 11.
Black, Bob. Beneath the Underground. Portland, Ore.: Feral House, 1994: Ch. 4.
Burleigh, Michael. Sacred Causes: The Clash of Religion and Politics, From the Great War to the War on Terror. 2006. Rpt. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007: Ch. 9.
Burrough, Bryan. Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence. New York City: Penguin Press, 2015: Ch. 3-7, 10, 15-16, 19-20.
Corsi, Jerome R. The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality. New York City: Threshold Editions, 2008: Ch. 3.
Courtois, Ch. 26.
Diggins, John Patrick. The Rise and Fall of the American Left. New York City: W.W. Norton, 1992: Ch. 7-8.
Dzhirkvelov, Ilya. Secret Servant: My Life With the KGB and and the Soviet Elite, rev. ed. Trans. Richard Lourie. New York City: Touchstone, 1989: Ch. 14.
Ellroy, Blood's a Rover, Ch. 107, 116-118, 125, 127, 129, 131.
E.J. Epstein, Annals of Unsolved Crime, Ch. 12, 29.
Francis, Samuel. "Neoconservatism and the Managerial Revolution." Beautiful Losers: Essays on the Failure of American Conservatism. Columbia, Mo.: U of Missouri P, 1993: 95-117.
Grant, Ch. 3.
Gross, David. "Where is Telos Going?" Telos Fall 1994: 110-116.
Hastings, Vietnam, Ch. 27-28.
Huntford, Roland. The New Totalitarians, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Stein and Day Publishers, 1980: Ch. 1, 4-16.
Klein, Aaron, and Brenda J. Elliott. The Manchurian President. Washington, D.C.: WND Books, 2010: Ch. 9.
Kristeva, Julia. The Samurai. 1990. Trans. Barbara Bray. New York City: Columbia UP, 1992: Ch. 12
A. Parry, Ch. 32.
Piccone, Paul. "The Tribulations of Left Social Criticism: A Reply to Palti." Telos Spring 1996: 139-168.
Schlafly, Phyllis, and George Neumayr. No Higher Power: Obama’s War on Religious Freedom. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2012: Ch. 10.
Schuettinger & Butler, Ch. 15.
Seagrave, Sterling. Yellow Rain, Ch. 2.
Smith, Ian. Bitter Harvest: Zimbabwe and the Aftermath of Its Independence, 2nd rev. ed. London: John Blake, 2001: Ch. 21-23.
Sterling, Claire. The Terror Network: The Secret War of International Terrorism. 1981. Rpt. New York City: Berkley Books, 1986: Ch. 4, 6.
Timmerman, Kenneth R. Shakedown: Exposing the Real Jesse Jackson. Washington, D.C.: Regenery Publishing, 2002: Ch. 3-4.
Tomsen, Peter. The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2011: Ch. 6-7, 9.
Wheen, Ch. 3, 7.
Wiest, Ch. 9-10.
Wyden, Peter. Wall: The Inside Story of Divided Berlin. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1989: Ch. 31-38, 40, 42-47.
16. The Angolan Civil War
Kapuściński, Ryszard. Another Day of Life, 2nd rev. ed. 2000. Trans. William R. Brand, Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand, and Klara Glowczewska. 2001. Rpt. London: Penguin Books, 2010.
Meyer, Ch. 12.
Quigley, Ch. 17.
Stockwell, John. In Search of Enemies: A CIA Story. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1978.
Sutton, Best Enemy Money Can Buy, Ch. 11.
17. Zaire
Kwitny. Endless Enemies: The Making of an Unfriendly World, corr. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 1986: Ch. 2, 6.
Quigley, Ch. 18.
Wrong, Michela. In the Footsteps of Mr. Kurtz: Living on the Brink of Disaster in Mobutu's Congo. 2000. Rpt. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2001: Ch. 9.
18. The Schools
a. Samuel L. Blumenfeld
i. NEA: Trojan Horse of American Education, rev. ed. Boise, Idaho: The Paradigm Co., 1990: Ch. 16.
ii. Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America's Children. Washington, D.C.: WND Books, 2015: Ch. 24, 26.
b. Others
Damerell, Reginald G. Education's Smoking Gun: How Teachers Colleges Have Destroyed Education in America. New York City: Freundlich Books, 1985: Ch. 1-2, 6, 9-10, 13.
Iserbyt, Charlotte Thomson. The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America: A Chronological Paper Trail. Ravenna, Ohio: Conscience Press, 1999: Ch. 6-7.
Leslie, W. Bruce. Images of America: Princeton University: The First 275 Years. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2022: Ch. 9.
Wolters, Ch. 7-8.
19. The Media Collaborators
a. The New York Times
Corry, John. My Times: Adventures in the News Trade. New York City: Grosset/Putnam, 1993: Ch. 5-6, 10.
Tifft, Susan E., and Alex S. Jones. The Trust: The Private and Powerful Family Behind the New York Times. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1999: Ch. 32-37.
b. Walter Cronkite
Brinkley, Douglas. Cronkite. New York City: Harper, 2012: Ch. 25-30.
Cronkite, Walter, and Don Carleton. Conversations With Cronkite. Austin, Texas: Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin, 2010: Ch. 18, 23-24.
c. The Washington Post
D. Davis, Ch. 13.
Halberstam, Ch. 33.
c. Other
Halberstam, Ch. 34-36.
Hogshire, Jim. Grossed-Out Surgeon Vomits Inside Patient!: An Insider's Look at Supermarket Tabloids. Venice, Calif.: Feral House, 1997: Ch. 4.
20. Nuclear Power
Pringle, Peter, and James Spigelman. The Nuclear Barons. 1981. Rpt. New York City: Avon Books, 1983: Ch. 20, 22-28.
Wasserman, Harvey et al. Killing Our Own: The Disaster of America’s Experience With Atomic Radiation. New York City: Delta, 1982: Ch. 12-15.
21. Law Firms
a. Williams & Connolly
Eisler, Masters of the Game, Ch. 1, 8-9, 13.
E. Thomas, The Man to See, Ch. 26, 31-32, 36-37, 39.
b. Other
Eisler. Shark Tank: Greed, Politics, and the Collapse of Finley Kumble, One of America's Largest Law Firms. 1990. Rpt. New York City: Plume, 1991: Ch. 18.
Lisagor, Nancy, and Frank Lipsius. A Law Unto Itself: The Untold Story of the Law Firm Sullivan & Cromwell. New York City: William Morrow and Co., 1988: Ch. 15-16.
22. New England
Carr, Howie. The Brothers Bulger: How They Terrorized and Corrupted Boston for a Quarter Century, rev. ed. New York City: Grand Central Publishing, 2013: Ch. 6, 8.
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. 2-5.
23. The United Nations
Jasper, William F. Global Tyranny … Step by Step: The United Nations and the Emerging New World Order. Appleton, Wis.: Western Islands, 1992: Ch. 7.
R.W. Lee, Ch. 15.
Rectenwald, Michael. The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty: Unraveling the Global Agenda. Nashville, Tenn.: New English Review Press, 2023: Ch. 10.
Vargas Llosa, Mario. The Bad Girl. 2006. Trans. Edith Grossman. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007: Ch. 4
24. The Trilateral Commission
Crozier, Michel J., Samuel P. Huntington, and Joji Watanuki. The Crisis of Democracy: Report on the Governability of Democracies to the Trilateral Commission. New York City: New York UP, 1975.
Sutton. Trilaterals Over America, rev. ed. San Pedro, Calif.: GSG & Associates Publishers, 1995: Ch. 1-3, 5-6, 11-12, Appendix A.
Wood, Patrick. Technocracy: The Hard Road to World Order. Mesa, Ariz.: Coherent Publishing, 2018: Ch. 4.
25. Roy Cohn
Von Hoffman, Nicholas. Citizen Cohn. 1988. Rpt. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2023: Pt. 5.
Zion, Sidney. The Autobiography of Roy Cohn. Secaucus, N.J.: Lyle Stuart, 1988: Ch. 13.
26. Michele Sindona
G.L. Posner. God’s Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2015: Ch. 16-18.
Tosches, Nick. Power on Earth. New York City: Arbor House, 1986: Ch. 1, 10.
27. The Kennedy Dynasty
Davis, John H. The Kennedys: Dynasty and Disaster, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: S.P.I. Books, 1992: Ch. 68.
Leamer. Sons of Camelot: The Fate of an American Dynasty. New York City: William Morrow, 2004: Ch. 15, 17-22.
Taraborrelli, After Camelot, Pt. 8-10, 24.
28. The Pentagon Papers
DiEugenio, James. The JFK Assassination, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2018: Ch. 16.
Inside the Pentagon Papers. Ed. Prados and Margaret Pratt Porter. Lawrence, Kan.: UP of Kansas, 2004.
Ungar, Sanford J. The Papers and the Papers: An Account of the Legal and Political Battle Over the Pentagon Papers, rev. ed. 1989. Rpt. New York City: The Notable Trials Library, 1996.
29. INSLAW
Seymour, Cheri. The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation Into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal. Walterville, Ore.: TrineDay, 2010: Ch. 17.
Thomas, Kenn, and Jim Keith. The Octopus: Secret Government and Death of Danny Casolaro, rev. ed. Los Angeles: Feral House, 2004: Ch. 6, 11.
30. The Rockefeller Dynasty
G. Allen. The Rockefeller File. 1976. Rpt. Cutchogue, N.Y.: Buccaneer Books, 1994: Ch.6, 10-11.
Smith, Richard Norton. On His Own Terms: A Life of Nelson Rockefeller. New York City: Random House, 2014: Ch. 23-26.
31. Bacevich
a. New American Militarism, Ch. 4.
b. Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War. New York City: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2010: Ch. 4.
32. Alan A. Block
a. Space, Time, and Organized Crime, rev. ed. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1994: Ch. 12.
b. Masters of Paradise: Organized Crime and the Internal Revenue Service in the Bahamas, rev. ed. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1998: Ch. 8.
33. The Buckleys
J.L. Buckley, Ch. 7-8, 11.
W.F. Buckley, The Rake, Ch. 27.
34. Thomas J. DiLorenzo
a. How Capitalism Saved America: The Untold Story of Our Country's History, From the Pilgrims to the Present. New York City: Crown Forum, 2004: Ch. 11.
b. Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2012: Ch. 10, 36.
35. Schweizer
a. Reagan's War, Ch. 9.
b. Profiles in Corruption, Ch. 5-6, 8.
36. Shirley
a. Rendezvous With Destiny, Ch. 27.
b. Reagan Rising, Ch. 3, 5.
37. Fred Siegel
a. The Future Once Happened Here: New York, D.C., L.A., and the Fate of America's Big Cities. 1997. Rpt. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2000: Ch. 7.
b. The Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class, rev. ed. New York City: Encounter Books, 2015: Ch. 12-13.
38. Other
J. Adams. The Financing of Terror: The PLO, IRA, Red Brigades, and M-19, and Their Money Supply. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1986: Ch. 1, 10.
Aliber, Robert Z., and Charles P. Kindleberger. Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises, 6th rev. ed. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015: Ch. 9.
Attarian, John. Social Security: False Consciousness and Crisis. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2002: Ch. 10.
Bagus, Philipp. The Tragedy of the Euro. Auburn, Ala.: The Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2010: Ch. 2-3.
B. Baker & L.L. King, Ch. 17-18.
Baker, Stewart A. Skating on Stilts: Why We Aren’t Stopping Tomorrow’s Terrorism. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 2010: Ch. 3, 5.
Balko, Radley. Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces. PublicAffairs, 2013: Ch. 5.
Barnes, Ben, and Lisa Dickey. Barn Burning Barn Building: Tales of a Political Life, From LBJ Through George W. Bush and Beyond. Albany, Texas: Bright Sky Press, 2006: Ch.10.
Bartley, Numan V., and Hugh D. Graham. Southern Politics and the Second Reconstruction. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1975: Ch. 7.
Bennett, James T. Not Invited to the Party: How the Demopublicans Have Rigged the System and Left Independents Out in the Cold. New York City: Springer, 2009: Ch. 4-5.
Bernstein, Jake. The Laundromat: Inside the Panama Papers, Illicit Money Networks, and the Global Elite. New York City: Picador, 2019: Ch. 5.
Beter, Ch. 1-3.
Bird, Ch. 27.
Bowart, Ch. 1-2, 30.
Brewton, Ch. 11, 13.
Brookes, Warren T. The Economy in Mind. New York City: Universe Books, 1982: Ch. 8.
Bryce, Robert. Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of “Energy Independence." New York City: PublicAffairs, 2008: Ch. 6.
Burnham, David. A Law Unto Itself: Power, Politics, and the IRS. New York City: Random House, 1990: Ch. 2-3, 6-7.
Carroll, Michael Christopher. Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory. New York City: William Morrow, 2004: Ch. 1, 6-8.
P.N. Carroll, Ch. 2.
Caryl, Christian. Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century. New York City: Basic Books, 2013: Ch. 1.
Chamorro Coronel, Edgar. Packaging the Contras: A Case of CIA Disinformation. New York City: Institute for Media Analysis, 1987.
Chuck Berry: The Autobiography, rev. ed. London: Faber and Faber, 2001: Ch. 18.
Clarke, Richard A. Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror, rev. ed. New York City: Free Press, 2004: Ch. 2.
Courtwright, David T. No Right Turn: Conservative Politics in a Liberal America. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2010: Ch. 8.
R.B. Cramer, 61, 69, 71, 73, 75, 84-85, 89, 96.
“Culver, Timothy J.” [Donald E. Westlake]. Power Play. 1970. Rpt. New York City: Dell, 1971
.
Cummings, Ch. 57-58, 60-62.
De Toledano, Ralph. The Municipal Doomsday Machine. Ottawa, Ill.: Green Hill Publishers, 1976: Ch. 2-11.
DeFrank, Ch. 4.
Dickerson, Ch. 23, 31.
Duncan, Richard. The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures, rev. ed. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons (Asia), 2005: Ch. 1.
Fearon, Peter. Hamptons Babylon: Life Among the Super-Rich on America's Riviera. Secaucus, N.J.: Birch Lane Press, 1998: Ch. 7.
Fitzgerald, Ch. 7.
Fletcher, Martin. Breaking News: A Stunning and Memorable Account of Reporting From Some of the Most Dangerous Places in the World. New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2008. Ch. 3.
Flynn, Daniel J. Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas. 2004. Rpt. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2005: Ch. 4.
Frieden, Bernard J., and Lynne B. Sagalyn. Downtown, Inc.: How America Rebuilds Cities. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1989: Ch. 1, 5-9.
Garfield. The Marchand Woman. 1979. Rpt. New York City: Mysterious Press/Open Road Integrated Media, 2012.
Glazer, Myron Peretz, and Penina Migdal Glazer. The Whistleblowers: Exposing Corruption in Government and Industry. New York City: Basic Books, 1989: Ch. 3, 6, 8.
Gottfried, Paul. The Conservative Movement, rev. ed. New York City: Twayne Publishers, 1993: Ch. 4-5.
Healy, Gene. The Cult of the Presidency: America's Dangerous Devotion to Executive Power. Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2008: Ch. 4.
Heller, Joseph. Good as Gold. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1979.
Higgs. Depression, War, and Cold War: Studies in Political Economy. New York City: Oxford UP, 2006: Ch. 7-8.
Hougan. Spooks: The Haunting of America – the Private Use of Secret Agents. 1978. Rpt. New York City: Bantam Books, 1979: Ch. 2, 5.
Isaacson, Walter, and E. Thomas. The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made: Acheson, Bohlen, Harriman, Kennan, Lovett, McCloy. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1986: Ch. 1-2.
Jackley, John L. Hill Rat: Blowing the Lid Off Congress. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1992: Ch. 3.
Jeffries, Ch. 3, 12.
Jenkins, Philip. Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford UP, 2006: Ch. 2.
Johnson, Chalmers. Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope. New York City: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2010: Ch. 6.
Kabaservice, Geoffrey. The Guardians: Kingman Brewster, His Circle, and the Rise of the Liberal Establishment. New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 2004: Ch. 11.
E.J. Kahn. Jock: The Life and Times of John Hay Whitney. New York City: Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1981: Ch. 18.
Kaplan, David E., and Alec Dubro. Yakuza: Japan’s Criminal Underworld, 2nd rev. ed. Berkeley, Calif.: U of California P, 2012: Ch. 4.
Karmel, Roberta. Regulation by Prosecution: The Securities and Exchange Commission vs. Corporate America. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1982: Ch. 4-9.
King, Samuel P., and Randall Roth. Broken Trust: Greed, Mismanagement & Political Manipulation at America’s Largest Charitable Trust. Honolulu: U of Hawaii P, 2006: Ch. 5.
Krüger & Meldon, Ch. 1, 22-26.
Langewiesche, William. The Outlaw Sea: A World of Freedom, Chaos, and Crime. New York City: North Point, 2004: Ch. 3.
Ledeen, Michael. Freedom Betrayed: How America Led a Global Democratic Revolution, Won the Cold War, and Walked Away. Washington, D.C.: The AEI Press, 1996: Ch. 2.
Lott, Ch. 16.
Maier, Thomas. Mafia Spies: The Inside Story of the CIA, Gangsters, JFK, and Castro. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2019: Ch. 44, 46-48.
Main, Carla T. Bulldozed: “Kelo,” Eminent Domain, and the American Lust for Land. New York City: Encounter Books, 2007: Ch. 7.
Marciano, John Bemelmans. Whatever Happened to the Metric System?: How America Kept Its Feet. New York City: Bloomsbury, 2014: Ch. 1, 15.
Martin, Malachi. The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church. New York City: Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, 1987: Ch. 1, 21-22.
McSherry, J. Patrice. Predatory States: Operation Condor and Covert War in Latin America. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2005: Ch. 1, 3-8.
Messick, Hank. The Politics of Prosecution: Jim Thompson, Marje Everett, Richard Nixon & the Trial of Otto Kerner. Ottawa, Ill.: Caroline House Books, 1978: Ch. 1, 7-13.
Moldea, Dan E. Dark Victory: Ronald Reagan, MCA, and the Mob, rev. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 1987: Ch. 31, 34.
Mutch, Robert E. Campaigns, Congress, and Courts: The Making of Federal Campaign Finance Law. New York City: Praeger, 1988: Ch. 3-5.
J. Neff, Ch. 12, 15-16, 20-21.
Newman, Peter C. The Canadian Establishment, Vol. I: The Old Order. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1975: Appendix L.
O'Neil, Tyler. Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center. New York City: Bombadier Books, 2020: Ch. 3.
O’Sullivan, John. The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2006: Ch. 2.
Paglen, Trevor. Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World. New York City: Dutton, 2009: Ch. 13.
Pendley, Ch. 4-8.
Perloff, James. The Shadows of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline, rev. ed. Appleton, Wis.: Western Islands, 1989: Ch. 10.
Perlstein, Ch. 23-24, 29.
Perret, Ch. 23.
Pizzo, Stephen, Mary Fricker, and Paul Muolo. Inside Job: The Looting of America's Savings and Loans, rev. ed. New York City: HarperPerennial, 1991: Ch. 30.
G.L. Posner, Citizen Perot, Ch. 10.
Rankin, Aidan. The Politics of the Forked Tongue: Authoritarian Liberalism. London: New European Publications, 2002: Ch. 3.
Redden, Jim. Snitch Culture: How Citizens Are Turned Into the Eyes and Ears of the State, rev. ed. Venice, Calif.: Feral House, 2001: Ch. 13.
Reid, Jan. Let the People In: The Life and Times of Ann Richards. Austin, Texas: U of Texas P, 2012: Ch. 8.
Reisner, Marc. Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water, rev. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 1993: Ch. 9.
Resnick, Ira M. The Seventies: A Photographic Journey. New York City: Abbeville Press Publishers, 2019: Ch. 5.
Rothbard. Never a Dull Moment: A Libertarian Look at the Sixties. Ed. Justin Raimondo [Dennis Raimondo]. Auburn, Ala.: Mises Institute, 2016: Ch. 60.
Russo, Gus. Supermob: How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became America’s Hidden Power Brokers. New York City: Bloomsbury, 2006: Ch. 17-18.
Sabin, Ch. 6-7.
Sandbrook, Ch. 1, 14.
Sanua, Marianne R. Let Us Prove Strong: The American Jewish Committee, 1945-2006. Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis UP, 2007: Ch. 7-9.
Schlafly. The Power of the Positive Woman. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House Publishers, 1977.
Scott, Janny. A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother. New York City: Riverhead Books, 2011: Ch. 4-7.
Shawcross, Ch. 8.
Sheehan, Ch. 5.
Sherwood, Carlton. Inquisition: The Persecution and Prosecution of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1991: Ch. 14.
Silk, Leonard, and Mark Silk. The American Establishment, rev. ed. New York City: Discus/Avon Books, 1981: Ch. 9.
H.R. Simpson, Ch. 14.
H. Smith, Ch. 7, 9, 15, 18.
S.B. Smith, Ch. 51.
Sonenshein, Raphael J. Politics in Black and White: Race and Power in Los Angeles. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 1993: Ch. 7-11.
Starr, Douglas. Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce. 1998. Rpt. New York City: Perennial, 2002: Ch. 13-14.
M. Sweet, Ch. 12-13, 15.
D. Talbot, Ch. 21, 26-27, 32-33.
Taylor, Jeff. Where Did the Party Go?: William Jennings Bryan, Hubert Humphrey, and the Jeffersonian Legacy. Columbia, Mo.: U of Missouri P, 2006: Ch. 11.
E. Thomas, The Man to See, Ch. 30, 33.
Thomas, Ross. If You Can’t Be Good. 1973. Rpt. New York City: Mysterious Press, 1993.
Trento, Ch. 55.
Tucker, William. Vigilante: The Backlash Against Crime in America. Briarcliff Manor, N.Y.: Stein and Day, 1985: Ch. 18.
Turow, Scott. One L: The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School, rev. ed. 1988. Rpt. London: Pan Books, 2014.
Twight, Charlotte. America’s Emerging Fascist Economy. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House, 1969: Ch. 3-6, 10.
Varieties of Progressivism in America. Ed. Peter Berkowitz. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 2004: Ch. 4.
Viguerie Richard A., and David Franke. America's Right Turn: How Conservatives Used New and Alternative Media to Take Power. Chicago: Bonus Books, 2004: Ch. 9.
Walker, Jesse. Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America. New York City: New York UP, 2001: Ch. 6.
Webb, Gary. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. New York City: Seven Stories Press, 1998: Ch. 1.
Webb, James. Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America, rev. ed. New York City: Broadway Books, 2007: Pt. 7, Ch. 2.
Wheatcroft, Geoffrey. The Strange Death of Tory England, rev. ed. London: Penguin Books, 2005: Ch. 5.
T.H. White, The Making of the President 1972, Ch. 2, Appendix B.
Wilcox, Laird. The Watchdogs: A Close Look at Anti-Racist “Watchdog” Groups, rev. ed. Olathe, Kan.: Editorial Research Service, 1999: Ch. 2.
Ziegler, Mary. Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present, rev. ed. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2023: Ch. 1, 3.
Zimbardo, Philip. The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. New York City: Random House, 2007: Ch. 3-10.

B. Western Asia

1. The Arab-Israeli Wars
a. The Yom Kippur War

Be’er, Haim. Feathers. 1980. Trans. Hillel Halkin. Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis UP, 2004: Ch. 13.
Bergman, Ronen. Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations. New York City: Random House, 2018: Ch. 22.
Blum. The Eve of Destruction: The Untold Story of the Yom Kippur War. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003: Ch. 2-40.
Chafets, Ze'ev [William Chafets]. Heroes and Hustlers, Hard Hats and Holy Men: Inside the New Israel. New York City: William Morrow and Co., 1986: Ch. 2.
Green, Stephen. Living by the Sword: American and Israel in the Middle East 1968-1987. London: Faber and Faber, 1988: Ch. 6.
Hersh, Samson Option, Ch. 17.
Kissinger, Ch. 11-13, 18, 21, 23.
Loftus & Aarons, Ch. 14.
London Sunday Times. Insight Team. The Yom Kippur War, rev. ed. London: André Deutsch, 1975: Pt. 2-5.
Melman, Yossi, and Dan Raviv. Behind the Uprising: Israelis, Jordanians and Palestinians. New York City: Greenwood Press, 1989: Ch. 10.
Morris, Benny. Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001, rev. ed New York City: Vintage Books, 2001: Ch. 9.
D. Neff, Ch. 14-28.
S. Posner, Ch. 22, 28.
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. 4.
Sharon, Ariel [Ariel Scheinermann], and David Chanoff. Warrior: The Autobiography of Ariel Sharon, rev. ed. 1989. Rpt. New York City: Touchstone Books, 2001: Ch. 21-22.
Tyler, Ch. 6.
b. Espionage
Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. New York City: Sheridan Square Press, 1992: Ch. 2-3, 8-9.
R. Bergman, Ch. 10-14.
I. Black & B. Morris, Ch. 10.
Burton, Fred, and John R. Bruning. Chasing Shadows: A Special Agent’s Lifelong Hunt to Bring a Cold War Assassin to Justice. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011: Ch. 4-5, 9-10, 13-14, 16-17.
Doron, Meir, and Joseph Gellman. Confidential: The Life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon Arnon Milchan. Lynbrook, N.Y.: Gefen Books, 2011: Appendix B.
Haas, Ch. 10-13.
Jacobsen. Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins. New York City: Little, Brown and Co., 2019: Ch. 15.
Perlmutter, Michael I. Handel, and Uri Bar-Joseph. Two Minutes Over Baghdad, rev. ed. London: Frank Cass, 2003: Ch. 7, 10.
S. Posner, Ch. 3.
Soley, Lawrence C., and John S. Nichols. Clandestine Radio Broadcasting: A Study of Revolutionary and Counterrevolutionary Electronic Communication. New York City: Praeger, 1987: Appendix C.
c. Other
F. Burton. Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent. New York City: Random House, 2008: Ch. 31.
F. Burton & Bruning, Ch. 12.
Doron & Gellman, Ch. 8-12.
Fletcher, Ch. 1.
Green, Ch. 7.
Harris, Thomas. Black Sunday. 1975. Rpt. New York City: Signet, 2009.
M. Kalb, and Ted Koppel. In the National Interest. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1977.
London Sunday Times, Pt. 1, 3-7; Pt. 6.
B. Morris, Righteous Victims, Ch. 10.
D. Neff, Ch. 11.
Ostrovsky, Victor, and Claire Hoy. By Way of Deception, rev. ed. New York City: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1991: Ch. 9-11, 14.
Raviv and Melman. Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel 's Intelligence Community, rev. ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991: Ch. 10-12, 16-17.
Shlaim, Avi. The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2014: Ch. 8-9.
Steven, Stewart. The Spymasters of Israel. 1980. Rpt. New York City: Ballentine Books, 1982: Ch. 23-25.
Stevenson, William, and Uri Dan. 90 Minutes at Entebbe. New York City: Bantam Books, 1976.
Thomas, Gordon. Gideon's Spies: The Secret History of the Mossad, 6th rev. ed. New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin, 2015: Ch. 6.
Tinnin, David B., and Dag Christensen. The Hit Team. 1976. Rpt. New York City: Dell Publishing, 1977.
2. Israel
Ajami, Fouad. The Dream Palace of the Arabs: A Generation’s Odyssey. 1998. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 1999: Ch. 5.
Beit-Hallahmi, Benjamin. The Israeli Connection: Who Israel Arms and Why. 1987. Rpt. London: Tauris, 1988: Ch. 4, 7.
Bellow, Saul. To Jerusalem and Back: A Personal Account. 1976. Rpt. New York City: Penguin Books, 1985.
Bregman, Ahron. Cursed Victory: A History of Israel and the Occupied Territories, rev. ed. New York City: Pegasus Books, 2015: Ch. 5.
Chafets, Ch. 3, 12.
Golan, Matti. The Road to Peace: A Biography of Simon Peres. Trans. Akiva Ron. New York City: Warner Books, 1989: Ch. 5-7, 11.
Green, Ch. 8.
Harkabi, Yehoshafat. Israel's Fateful Hour, 2nd rev. ed. Trans. Lenn Schramm. New York City: Harper Perennial, 1989: Ch. 4.
Hersh, Samson Option, Ch. 16, 20.
Melman & Raviv, Ch. 11.
Muravchik, Josha. Making David Into Goliath: How the World Turned Against Israel. New York City: Encounter Books, 2014: Ch. 9.
D. Neff, Ch. 9.
Oppenheimer, Jerry. Seinfeld: The Making of an American Icon. New York City: HarperCollins, 2002: Ch. 10.
Parsi, Trita. Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the United States, rev. ed. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2008: Ch. 7-8.
Perlmutter, Amos. The Life and Times of Menachem Begin. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1987: Ch. 1, 29-35.
Rosenthal, Steven T. Irreconcilable Differences? The Waning of the American Jewish Love Affair with Israel. Hanover, N.H.: Brandeis UP, 2001: Ch. 3.
Sharon & Chanoff, Ch. 23-27.
Waxman, Chaim I. American Aliya: Portrait of an Innovative Migration Movement. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 1989: Ch. 10, 12.
Zertal, Idith, and Akiva Eldar. Lords of the Land: The War Over Israel's Settlements in the Occupied Territories, 1967-2007, rev. ed. Trans. Vivian Eden. New York City: Nation Books, 2007: Ch. 2, 4.
3. Dar al-Islam
a. Iran
Ajami. The Vanished Iman: Musa al Sadr and the Shia of Lebanon. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell UP, 1986: Ch. 6.
Ben-Menashe, Ch. 4.
R. Bergman, Ch. 21.
Bodansky, Yossef. Target America & the West: Terrorism Today. New York City: S.P.I. Books, 1993: Ch. 1.
Caryl, Ch. 9, 11, 17, 21.
Cooper, Andrew Scott. The Fall of Heaven: The Pahlavis and the Final Days of Imperial Iran. New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 2016: Ch. 1, 8-25.
Copeland, Miles A. Jr. The Game Player: Confessions of the CIA's Original Political Operative. London: Aurum Press, 1989: Ch. 23.
Green, Ch. 12.
Heikal, Mohamed. Iran: The Untold Story: An Insider's Account of America's Iranian Adventure and Its Consequences for the Future, rev. ed. New York City: Pantheon Books, 1982: Ch. 1, 13-15.
Jerome, Carole. The Man in the Mirror. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1987: Pt. 1, 3-6.
Kissinger, Ch. 14.
Labévière, Ch. 12.
A.J. Mendez & McConnell, Master of Disguise, Ch. 9.
Milani, Abbas. The Myth of the Great Satan: A New Look at America's Relations with Iran. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 2010: Ch. 2.
Miller, Tom. The Panama Hat Trail, rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: Adventure Press/National Geographic, 2001: Ch. 8.
Perkins, Ch. 20-22.
G.L. Posner, Citizen Perot, Ch. 8.
Quigley, Ch. 19.
Sandbrook, Ch. 16-17.
S. Segev, Ch. 1, 5.
Shawcross, Ch. 1-2, 7, 10, 14.
Tyler, Ch. 6.
Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Ch. 37.
Wright, Robin. The Last Great Revolution: Turmoil and Transformation in Iran. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
b. Lebanon
J. Adams, The Financing of Terror, Ch. 4.
Ajami, The Vanished Iman, Ch. 4-5.
Black, Ian, and Benny Morris. Israel's Secret Wars: A History of Israel 's Intelligence Services, rev. ed. New York City: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992: Ch. 11.
Friedman, Thomas L. From Beirut to Jerusalem, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Anchor Books, 1995: Ch. 4.
c. Pakistan
Coll, Steve. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, From the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, rev. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 2005: Ch. 1.
Musharraf, Pervez. In the Line of Fire: A Memoir. New York City: Free Press, 2006: Ch. 8, 26-27.
Tomsen, Ch. 10.
"Warraq, Ibn." The Islam in Islamic Terrorism: The Importance of Beliefs, Ideas, and Ideology. Nashville, Tenn.: New English Review Press, 2017: Ch. 16.
d. Libya
Green, Ch. 5.
Jacobsen, Surprise, Kill, Vanish, Ch. 16.
Matar, Hisham. In The Country Of Men. 2006. Rpt. New York City: The Dial Press, 2007.
Sterling, The Terror Network, Ch. 14.
e. Afghanistan
Arnold, Anthony. The Fateful Pebble: Afghanistan’s Role in the Fall of the Soviet Empire. Novato, Calif.: Presidio, 1993: Ch. 1, 5-6.
The Case for Withdrawal From Afghanistan, Ch. 6.
Kohlmann, Evan. Al-Qaeda’s Jihad in Europe: The Afghan-Bosnian Network. Oxford, U.K.: Berg, 2004: Ch. 1.
Martin, Mike. An Intimate War: An Oral History of the Helmand Conflict, 1978-2012. New York City: Oxford UP, 2014: Ch. 2.
Scheuer. Through Our Enemies’ Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America, rev. ed. Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books, 2006: Ch. 7.
Schultheis, Rob. Night Letters: Inside Wartime Afghanistan, rev. ed. Guilford, Conn.: The Lyons Press, 2001: Ch. 1-2.
Tomsen, Ch. 16.
f. Saudi Arabia
i. The Grand Mosque Uprising
Tomsen, Ch. 8.
Trofimov, Yaroslav. The Siege of Mecca: The 1979 Uprising at Islam's Holiest Shrine. 2007. Rpt. New York City: Anchor Books, 2008.
ii. Other
Mackey, Sandra. The Saudis: Inside the Desert Kingdom, rev. ed. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2002: Ch. 1-3, 5-8, 11, 13, 15.
Matthiesen, Toby. The Other Saudis: Shiism, Dissent and Sectarianism. New York City: Cambridge UP, 2015: Ch. 4.
Miller, Tom. The Panama Hat Trail, rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: Adventure Press/National Geographic, 2001: Ch. 8.
Perkins, Ch. 17-18.
G.L. Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom: The Inside Story of the Saudi-U.S. Connection. New York City: Random House, 2005: Ch. 5-7, 10, 13-14.
g. BCCI
J.R. Adams & Frantz, Ch. 3.
Beaty & Gwynne, Ch. 12.
h. David Livingstone
a. Terrorism and the Illuminati: A Three Thousand Year History. Charleston, S.C.: BookSurge, 2007: Ch. 24-25.
b. Black Terror, White Soldiers: Islam, Fascism and the New Age. Scotts Valley, Calif.: Sabilillah Publicatons, 2013: Ch. 30.
i. Other
J. Adams, Secret Armies, Ch. 9.
Bergen. The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and al-Qaeda. New York City: Free Press, 2011: Ch. 2.
Berman, Paul. Terror and Liberalism. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003: Ch. 5.
Burr, J. Millard, and Robert O. Collins. Alms for Jihad: Charity And Terrorism In The Islamic World. New York City: Cambridge UP, 2006: Ch. 12.
Caryl, Ch. 3, 8, 19, 22.
Chernow, Ch. 30.
Cook, David. Understanding Jihad. Berkeley, Calif.: U of California P, 2005: Ch. 6.
Cooley, John K. Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America, and International Terrorism, 2nd rev. ed. London: Pluto Press, 2002: Ch. 2.
Fiennes, Ch. 3, 8, 11, 14, 20, 26, 36-38.
Heikal, Ch. 16.
Hiro, Dilip. Cold War in the Islamic World: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Struggle for Supremacy. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford UP, 2018: Ch. 5-6, 11.
Johnson, Ian. A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA, and the Muslim Brotherhood in the West. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010: Ch. 14.
Kasarda, John D., and Greg Lindsay. Aerotropolis: The Way We'll Live Next. New York City:  Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011: Ch. 9.
Kessler. The Richest Man in the World: The Story of Adnan Khashoggi, rev. ed. New York City: Warner Books, 1988: Ch. 3-4.
Kulish, Simon, and Souad Mekhennet. The Eternal Nazi: From Mauthausen to Cairo, the Relentless Pursuit of SS Doctor Aribert Heim. New York City: Doubleday, 2014: Ch. 41.
Kuran, Timur. Islam and Mammon: The Economic Predicaments of Islamism. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2004: Ch. 2-3, 5.
Labévière, Ch. 6.
Lewis, Bernard. Faith and Power: Religion and Politics in the Middle East. New York City: Oxford UP, 2010: Ch. 5.
Margolis, Eric S. American Raj: Liberation or Domination? Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2008: Ch. 10.
Melman & Raviv, Ch. 9.
Napoleoni, Loretta. Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Seven Stories Press, 2005: Ch. 10.
D. Neff, Ch. 1, 4-6, 8, 10, 19.
Parsi, Ch. 8.
Perlmutter, Handel & Bar-Joseph, Ch. 4, 6, 9.
S. Posner, Ch. 5, 8-9, 13.
Prados, Safe for Democracy, Ch. 19.
Scahill, Dirty Wars, Ch. 2, 4.
Scheuer. Osama bin Laden. New York City: Oxford UP, 2011: Ch. 3.
H.R. Simpson, Ch. 11.
Sterling, The Terror Network, Ch. 7.
K. Thomas & Keith, Ch. 21.
Wright, Lawrence. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 2011: Ch. 5.
Yousef, Mosab Hassan, and Ron Brackin. Son of Hamas: A Gripping Account of Terror, Betrayal, Political Intrigue, and Unthinkable Choices. Carol Stream, Ill.: SaltRiver, 2010: Ch. 3.
4. Mike Wallace
Rader, Peter. Mike Wallace: A Life. New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2012: Ch. 13-19.
Wallace, Mike [Myron Leon Wallace], and Gary Paul Gates. Close Encounters. 1984. Rpt. New York City: Berkley Books, 1985: Ch. 14.
5. Others
Baer. The Devil We Know: Dealing With the New Iranian Superpower. New York City: Crown Publishers, 2008: Ch. 3-6, 8-9.
Coll, Ch. 2, 4.
Friedman, George. America's Secret War: Inside the Hidden Worldwide Struggle Between American and Its Enemies, rev. ed. New York City: Broadway Books, 2005: Ch. 1.
T.L. Friedman, Ch. 2-3.
Kwitny, Endless Enemies, Ch. 12.
J. Mann, Ch. 5.
Marshall, P.D. Scott, and Jane Hunter. The Iran-Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Erara. Boston: South End Press, 1987: Ch. 8.
Melman & Raviv, Ch. 14.
D. Neff, Ch. 2, 7, 12-13.
Parsi, Ch. 5-6.
G.L. Posner. Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11. New York City: Random House, 2003: Ch. 15.
S. Posner, Ch. 1, 4, 12, 14-15, 21.
Sharon & Chanoff, Ch. 29.
L. Wright. Thirteen Days in September: The Dramatic Story of the Struggle for Peace. 2014. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 2015.

C. Business

1. Computers
a. Steve Jobs
Andrews, Helen. Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster. New York City: Sentinel, 2021: Ch. 2.
Isaacson. Steve Jobs, rev. ed. New York City: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2013: Ch. 4-6.
b. Others
Ceruzzi, Paul E. A History of Modern Computing, rev. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2003: Ch. 7-8.
Cringely, Robert X. [Mark Stephens] Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date, rev. ed. New York City: HarperBusiness, 1996: Ch. 5.
Deutschman, Alan. The Second Coming of Steve Jobs. New York City: Broadway Books, 2000: Ch. 2.
Freiberger, Paul, and Michael Swaine. Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer, rev. ed. New York City: McGraw-Hill, 1999: Ch. 2, 8.
Markoff, John. What the Dormouse Said: How the Sixties Counterculture Shaped the Personal Computer Industry. 2005. Rpt. New York City: Penguin Books, 2006: Ch. 7-8.
Melvern, Anning & Hebditch, Ch. 2.
Segaller, Stephen. Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet, rev. ed. New York City: TV Books, 1999: Ch. 4, 6-7.
Updike, John. Villages. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004: Ch. 11.
2. Automobiles
Vuic, Jason. The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History. New York City: Hill and Wang, 2010: Ch. 3.
Weaver, Ch. 2-6, 12, 15.
3. Finance
a. The Savings & Loans
O'Shea, James. The Daisy Chain: How Borrowed Billions Sank a Texas S&L. New York City: Pocket Books, 1991: Ch. 1.
Pizzo, Fricker & Muolo, Ch. 3.
b. Michael Milken
Authers, Ch. 7.
Bruck. The Predators' Ball: The Inside Stoy of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders, rev ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 1989: Ch. 2-4.
Pizzo, Fricker & Muolo, Ch. 26.
Smith, Roy C. The Money Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Great Buyout Boom of the 1980s. 1990. Rpt. Washington, D.C.: BeardBooks, 2000: Ch. 7.
c. Dennis Levine
Frantz, Douglas. Levine & Co.: Wall Street's Insider Trading Scandal. 1987. Rpt. New York City: Avon Books, 1988: Ch. 1-2, 4-5.
Levine, Dennis B., and William Hoffer. Inside Out: An Insider's Account of Wall Street. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1991: Ch. 4-7.
d. Robert Vesco
Dorman, Ch. 6, 9.
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. 11-14.
e. John Brooks
(1) The Go-Go Years: The Drama and Crashing Finale of Wall Street's Bullish 60s. 1973. Rpt. New York City: Allworth Press, 1998: Ch. 12.
(2) The Takeover Game: The Men, the Moves, and the Wall Street Money Behind Today's Nationwide Merger Wars. 1987. Rpt. Washington, D.C.: Beard Books, 1999: Ch. 1.
f. Cohan
i. House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street, rev. ed. New York City: Anchor Books, 2010: Ch. 17.
ii. Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World. 2011. Rpt. New York City: Anchor Books, 2012: Ch. 8.
iii. Why Wall Street Maters. New York City: Random House, 2017: Ch. 7.
g. Newman
i. Vol. I, Ch. 9, Appendix A-D, H.
ii. The Canadian Establishment, Vol. III: Titans: How the New Canadian Establishment Seized Power. Toronto: Viking, 1998: Ch. 8, 10.
h. Other
J.R. Adams. The Big Fix: Inside the S&L Scandal, rev. ed. New York City: John Wiley & Sons, 1991: Ch. 4, 6, 10, 14.
Ammann, Daniel. The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich. New York City: St. Martin ’s Press, 2009: Ch. 5, 7-8, 14.
Authers, Ch. 3-4.
Bakke, Gretchen. The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future. New York City: Bloomsbury, 2016: Ch. 4.
J. Bernstein, Ch. 2.
Brewton, Ch. 18.
Burrough, Bryan. The Big Rich: The Rise and Fall of the Greatest Texas Oil Fortunes. New York City: The Penguin Press, 2009: Ch. 17.
Byron, Testosterone Inc., Ch. 6.
Dunbar, Nicholas. Inventing Money: The Story of Long-Term Capital Management and the Legends Behind It. Chichester, U.K.: John Wiley & Sons, 2000: Ch. 4.
E.J. Epstein. The Rise and Fall of Diamonds: The Shattering of a Brilliant Illusion. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1982: Ch. 1-6, 20.
Garfield. The Villiers Touch. 1970. Rpt. New York City: Mysterious Press/Open Road, 2012.
Irwin, Phil (The Whiskey Rebel). Jobjumper, rev. ed. Philadelphia: Steel Cage Books, 2008: Ch. 8.
Kasarda & Lindsay, Ch. 3.
Kessler, The Richest Man in the World, Ch. 6, 8-10.
Kwitny, Crimes of Patriots, Ch. 6, 10-13, 15, 18, 21.
Leamer. King of the Night: The Life of Johnny Carson, rev. ed. New York City: Avon Books, 2005: Ch. 16.
Levy, Leon, and Eugene Linden. The Mind of Wall Street. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2002: Ch. 8.
Lowenstein, Roger. When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2010: Ch. 1.
Maggin, Donald L. Bankers, Builders, Knaves, and Thieves: The $300 Million Scam at ESM. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1989: Ch. 5.
Mahar, Maggie. Bull!: A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004. New York City: HarperBusiness, 2003: Ch. 1.
Nocera, Ch. 4-8.
Risso-Gill, Christopher. There’s Always Something to Do: The Peter Cundill Investment Approach. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2011: Ch. 3-5.
Ross, Gary. Stung: The Incredible Obsession of Brian Molony. 1987. Rpt. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2011: Ch. 1-2.
“Smith, Adam” [George Goodman]. Supermoney, rev. ed. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2006.
J.L. Smith, Ch. 27.
Sterngold, James. Burning Down the House: How Green, Deceit, and Bitter Revenge Desroyed E.F. Hutton. New York City: Summit Books, 1990: Ch. 4-5.
Stewart, James B. Den of Thieves, rev. ed. New York City: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 1992: Ch. 1-3.
Tillman, Robert. Global Pirates: Fraud in the Offshore Insurance Industry. Boston: Northeastern UP, 2002: Ch. 1.
4. Food
a. Grocers
Ruhlman, Michael. Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America. New York City: Abrams Press, 2017: Ch. 6.
Walsh, William I. The Rise and Decline of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company. Secaucus, N.J.: Lyle Stuart, 1986: Ch. 9-13.
b. Other
Cohen, Rich. Sweet and Low: A Family Story. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006: Ch. 18-19, 29.
Dawson, Carol and Carol Johnston. House of Plenty: The Rise, Fall and Revival of Luby’s Cafeterias. Austin, Texas: U of Texas P, 2006: Ch. 13-14.
Langdon, Philip. Orange Roofs, Golden Arches: The Architecture of American Chain Restaurants. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1986: Ch. 7.
Mariani, John F. America Eats Out: An Illustrated History of Restaurants, Taverns, Coffee Shops, Speakeasies, and Other Establishments That Have Fed Us for 350 Years. New York City: William Morrow and Co., 1991: Ch. 14-15.
Ozersky, Josh. Colonel Sanders and the American Dream. Austin, Texas: University of Texas Press, 2012: Ch. 5.
Woolever, Laurie. Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography. New York City: Ecco, 2021: Ch. 3-4.
5. Sweets
Allen, Frederick. Secret Formula: How Brilliant Marketing and Relentless Salesmanship Made Coca-Cola the Best-Known Product in the World. 1994. Rpt. New York City: Open Road Integrated Media, 2015: Ch. 11.
Brenner, Joël Glenn. The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars. 1999. Rpt. New York City: Broadway Books, 2000: Ch. 17-20.
McGowen, Lauren, and Jennifer Dempsey. Images of America: Carvel Ice Cream. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2009: Ch. 1.
Peterson, Shawn. PEZ: From Austrian Invention to American Icon. Charleston, S.C.: The History Press, 2016: Ch. 3-4, 13.
6. Advertising
Dillon, Jack. The Advertising Man. 1972. Rpt. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Publications, 1973.
The Golden Age of Advertising -- the 70s. Ed. Jim Heimann. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2004.
7. Brewers
Knoedelseder, William. Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America’s King of Beers. New York City: HarperBusiness, 2012: Ch. 9-12.
Ogle, Maureen. Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer. 2006 Rpt. Orlando, Fla.: Harvest/Harcourt, 2007: Ch. 8.
8. Donald Trump
a. Trump et al.
Trump, Donald J., and Tony Schwartz. Trump: The Art of the Deal. 1987. Rpt. New York City: Ballentine Books, 2004: Ch. 5-9.
Trump, and Charles Leerhsen. Trump: The Art of Survival, rev. ed. New York City: Warner Books, 1991: Ch. 5.
b. Others
W. Barrett. Trump: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Deals, the Downfall, the Reinvention, rev. ed. New York City: Regan Arts, 2016: Ch. 4-8.
D’Antonio, Michael. The Truth About Trump, rev. ed. New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Griffin, 2016: Ch. 5-7.
Demaris. The Boardwalk Jungle. New York City: Bantam Books, 1986: Ch. 30.
Tuccille, Jerome. Trump, 3rd rev. ed. New York City: Jove Books, 1988: Ch. 12-14, 16-27, 30-32.
9. Other
Bain, Murder, HE Wrote, Ch. 14, 17-19.
Blackwell, Chris, and Paul Morley. The Islander: My Life in Music and Beyond. New York City: Gallery Books, 2022: Ch. 14.
Borman & Serling, Ch. 15, 17-21.
Bruck. Master of the Game: Steve Ross and the Creation of Time Warner. 1994. Rpt. New York City: Penguin Books, 1995: Ch. 3-4.
Byron, Testosterone Inc., Ch. 9, 20.
Chuck Berry, Ch. 17.
Cohan. Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon. New York City: Portfolio/Penguin, 2022: Ch. 6-8.
Demaris, Boardwalk Jungle, Ch. 12, 25.
Earley. Super Casino: Inside the "New" Las Vegas. New York City: Bantam Books, 2000: Ch. 3.
Fearon, Ch. 15.
T.S. Gordon, Ch. 2.
Gross, Michael. House of Outrageous Fortune: Fifteen Central Park West, the World’s Most Powerful Address. New York City: Atria Books, 2014: Pt. 3, 6, 8.
Irwin, Ch. 4, 6-7, 9-10.
Mann, Charles C., and Mark L. Plummer. The Aspirin Wars: Money, Medicine, and 100 Years of Rampant Competition. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1991: Ch. 13.
McLean, Bethany, and Peter Elkind. The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Portfolio Trade, 2013: Ch. 1.
Oppenheimer. Crazy Rich: Power, Scandal, and Tragedy Inside the Johnson & Johnson Dynasty. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2013: Ch. 41-43.
Pizzo, Fricker & Muolo, Ch. 9.
Schulman, Daniel. Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America’s Most Powerful and Private Dynasty. New York City: Grand Central Publishing, 2014: Ch. 7.
E. Thomas, The Man to See, Ch. 35, 40.
W. Webb, Vol. II, Ch. 12.

D. Arts and Entertainment

1. Music
a. Rock
i. Hard Rock
(1) Van Halen
Christe, Ian. Everybody Wants Some: The Van Halen Saga, rev. ed. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2008: Ch. 2-3.
Renoff, Gregory J. Van Halen Rising: How a Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal. Toronto: ECW Press, 2015: Ch. 2-10.
Tolinski, Brad, and Chris Gill. Eruption: Conversations With Eddie Van Halen. New York City: Hatchette Books, 2021: Ch. 2.
(2) Other
Blackwell & P. Morley, Ch. 8.
Lemmy [Ian Kilminster], and Janiss Garza. White Line Fever: The Autobiography. New York City: Citadel Press, 2002: Ch. 5-6.
Simpson, Kim. Early ‘70s Radio: The American Format Revolution. New York City: Continuum, 2011: Ch. 3.
ii. Heavy Metal
Christe. Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal, rev. ed. New York City: Perennial Currents, 2004: Ch. 1-2.
Dio, Ronnie James [Ronald Padavona], Mick Wall, and Wendy Dio. Rainbow in the Dark: The Autobiography. New York City: Permuted Press, 2021: Ch. 7-13.
Konow, David. Bang Your Head: The Rise and Fall of Heavy Metal. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2002: Ch. 1-4.
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. 4.
Wiederhorn, Jon, and Katherine Turman. Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal. New York City: It Books, 2013: Ch. 2.
iii. Progressive Rock
Bill Bruford: The Autobiography, rev. ed. London: Foruli Classics, 2013: Ch. 3, 5, 8, 11.
Smith, Sid. In the Court of King Crimson. London: Helter Skelter Publishing, 2001: Ch. 4-9.
Weigel, Dave. The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2017: Ch. 4-9.
iv. Punk
Andersen, Mark , and Mark Jenkins. Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital. New York City: Soft Skull Press, 2000: Ch. 1.
Barker, Hugh, and Yuval Taylor. Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2007: Ch. 8.
Flanagan, Harley. Hard-Core: Life of My Own. Ed. Laura Lee Flanagan. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2016: Ch. 2.
Harry, Debbie [Angela Trimble], and Sylvie Simmons. Face It. Ed. Rob Roth. New York City: Dey Street, 2019: Ch. 4-6.
Heller, Steven. Growing Up Underground: A Memoir of Counterculture New York. New York City: Princeton Architectural Press, 2022: Ch. 14.
McNeil, Legs, and Gillian McCain. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Grove Press, 2016: Ch. 12-25, 27, 29-30.
Spitz, Marc, and Brendan Mullen. We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2001: Ch. 1-7, 9-11, 13, 16-18.
v. Fusion
(1) Weather Report
Mercer, Michelle. Footprints: The Life and Music of Wayne Shorter. New York City: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2004: Ch. 13.
Milkowski, Bill. Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius, rev. ed. San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2005: Ch. 4.
(2) Other
Benson, George, and Al Goldsher. Benson: The Autobiography. Boston: Da Capo Press, 2014: Ch. 7.
Coryell, Larry [Lorenz Albert Van Delinder III]. Improvising: My Life in Music. New York City: Backbeat Books, 2007: Ch. 24-30.
Freeman, Philip. Running the Voodoo Down: The Electric Music of Miles Davis. San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2005: Ch. 1, 6-7, 9.
Nicholson, Stuart. Jazz Rock: A History. New York City: Schirmer Books, 1998: Ch. 15.
Pond, Steven F. Head Hunters: The Making of Jazz’s First Platinum Album. Ann Arbor, Mich.: The U of Michigan P, 2005.
vi. Steely Dan
Pappademas, Alex, and Joan LeMay. Quantum Criminals: Ramblers, Wild Gamblers, and Other Sole Survivors From the Songs of Steely Dan. Austin, Texas: U of Texas P, 2023.
Sweet, Brian. Steely Dan: Reelin’ in the Years, 4th rev. ed. London: Omnibus Press, 2018: Ch. 3-6.
vii. Other
Abraham, Jeff, and Burt Kearns. The Show Won't Go On: The Most Shocking, Bizarre, and Historic Deaths of Performers Onstage. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2019: Ch. 8.
Barnes, Jimmy [James Dixon Swan]. Working Class Man. Sydney: HarperCollins Publishers, 2017: Ch. 1-9.
Bergsman, Steve. I Put a Spell on You: The Bizarre Life of Screamin' Jay Hawkins. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2019: Ch. 8.
Birch, Will. Cruel to Be Kind: The Life and Music of Nick Lowe. New York City: Da Capo Press, 2019: Ch. 7-8.
Bronson, Harold. The Rhino Records Story: Revenge of the Music Nerds. New York City: SelectBooks, 2013: Ch. 14.
Costello, Elvis [Declan Patrick Aloysius McManus]. Unfaitful Music & Disappearing Ink. New York City: Blue Rider Press, 2015: Ch. 12.
DeLillo, Don. Great Jones Street. 1973. Rpt. London: Picador, 2011.
Goodrick-Clarke, Nicholas. Black Sun: Aryan Cults, Esoteric Nazism and the Politics of Identity. New York City: New York UP, 2002: Ch. 10.
Greene, Bob. Billion Dollar Baby. 1974. Rpt. New York City: New American Library, 1975.
Hoskyns, Barney. Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits. London: Faber and Faber, 2009: Pt. 1, Ch. 3-6.
Patoski, Joe Nick, and Bill Crawford. Stevie Ray Vaughan: Caught in the Crossfire. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1993: Ch. 4, 7-8.
Pollack, Neal. Never Mind the Pollacks: A Rock and Roll Novel. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003: Pt. 4.
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. 10.
Templeman, Ted, and Renoff. Ted Templeman: A Platinum Producer's Life in Music. Toronto: ECW Press, 2020: Ch. 5-7.
Waksman, Ch. 1-3.
b. Funk
Dr. John [Malcolm "Mac " Rebennack Jr.], and Jack Rummel. Under a Hoodoo Moon: The Life of the Night Tripper. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 1994: Ch. 11-13.
Parker, Maceo. 98% Funky Stuff: My Life in Music. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2013: Ch. 7-8.
Selvin, Joel. Sly and the Family Stone: An Oral History. Ed. Dave Marsh. New York City: Avon Books, 1998: Ch. 7-12.
Smith, R.J. The One: The Life and Music of James Brown. New York City: Gotham Books, 2012: Ch. 17-20, 22.
Vincent, Rickey. Funk: The Music, the People and the Rhythm of the One. New York City: St. Martin's Griffin, 1996: Ch. 1-3, 9-15.
Wesley, Fred Jr. Hit Me, Fred: Recollections of a Sideman. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 2002: Ch. 5-8.
Womack, Bobby and Robert Ashton. Midnight Mover: My Autobiography: The True Story of the Greatest Soul Singer in the World. London: John Blake, 2006: Ch. 13.
c. Soul
Jackson, John A. A House on Fire: The Rise and Fall of Philadelphia Soul. New York City: Oxford UP, 2004: Ch. 7-10, 12-15.
Lydon, Michael. Ray Charles: Man and Music, rev. ed. New York City: Routledge, 2004: Pt. 5.
G.L. Posner. Motown: Music, Money, Sex, and Power. 2002. Rpt. New York City: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2005: Ch. 26, 28, 30-32.
K. Simpson, Ch. 4.
Whiteis, David. Southern Soul-Blues. Urbana, Ill.: U of Illinois P, 2013: Ch. 5.
d. The Blues
Arnold, Billy Boy, and Kim Field. The Blues Dream of Billy Boy Arnold. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2021: Ch. 9.
Chilton, John. Let the Good Times Roll: The Story of Louis Jordan and His Music. 1992. Rpt. Ann Arbor, Mich.: U of Michigan P, 1994: Ch. 16.
Dance, Helen Oakley. Stormy Monday: The T-Bone Walker Story. 1987. Rpt. New York City: Da Capo Press, 1990: Ch. 19-24.
Davis, Francis. The History of the Blues. 1995. Rpt. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2003: Pt. 3.
De Visé, Daniel. King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King. New York City: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2021: Ch. 16-18.
Farley, Charles. Soul of the Man: Bobby “Blue” Bland. Jackson, Miss.: UP of Mississippi, 2011: Ch. 11-12.
Gordon, Robert. Can't Be Satisfied: The Life and Times of Muddy Waters. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2002: Ch. 14.
Iglauer, Bruce, and Patrick A. Roberts. Bitten by the Blues: The Alligator Records Story. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2018: Ch. 3-10.
Romano, Will. Big Boss Man: The Life and Music of Bluesman Jimmy Reed. San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2006: Ch. 6-7.
Segrest, James, and Mark Hoffman. Moanin' at Midnight: The Life and Times of Howlin' Wolf. New York City: Pantheon Books, 2004: Ch. 13.
e. Pop
Anka, Paul, and David Dalton. My Way. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 2013: Ch. 7, 9.
Bacharach, Burt, and Robert Greenfield. Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music. New York City: HarperCollins, 2013: Ch. 17.
Benson & Goldsher, Ch. 8.
Bergreen, Laurence. As Thousands Cheer: The Life of Irving Berlin. New York City: Viking, 1990: Ch. 21.
Boulard, Garry. "Just a Gigolo": The Life and Times of Louis Prima. Lafayette, La.: U of Southwestern Louisiana. The Center for Louisiana Studies, 1989: Ch. 9.
Cahn, Sammy [Samuel Cohen][, and Jerry Tallmer]. I Should Care: The Sammy Cahn Story. New York City: Arbor House, 1974: Ch. 15.
Frishberg, Dave. My Dear Departed Past. Milwaukee: Backbeat Books, 2017: Ch. 6-7.
Gavin. Is That All There Is?: The Strange Life of Peggy Lee. New York City: Atria Books, 2014: Ch. 13-16.
Gendron, Bernard. Between Monmartre and the Mudd Clubb: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2002: Ch. 11.
James, Tommy [Thomas Gregory Jackson], and Martin Fitzpatrick. Me, the Mob, and the Music: One Helluva Ride With Tommy James and the Shondells. New York City: Scribner, 2010: Ch. 10.
Kushins, C.M. Nothing’s Bad Luck: The Lives of Warren Zevon. New York City: Da Capo, 2019: Ch. 3-4.
Leiber, Jerry et al. Hound Dog: The Leiber & Stoller Autobiography. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2009: Ch. 27.
Morales, Ed. The Latin Beat: The Rhythms and Roots of Latin Music From Bossa Nova to Salsa and Beyond. New York City: Da Capo Press, 2003: Ch. 10.
Nicholson, Ch. 11.
K. Simpson, Ch. 1-2, 6.
Sudhalter, Richard M. Stardust Melody: The Life and Music of Hoagy Carmichael. New York City: Oxford UP, 2002: Ch. 19.
B. Sweet, Ch. 2.
f. Salsa
Morales, Ch. 4.
Padura Fuentes, Leonardo. Faces of Salsa: A Spoken History of the Music. 1997. Trans. Stephen J. Clark. Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Books, 2003: Ch. 6, 10, 12.
Rondón, César Miguel. The Book of Salsa: A Chronicle of Urban Music From the Caribbean to New York City, rev. ed. Trans. Frances R. Aparicio and Jackie White. Chapel Hill, N.C.: U of North Carolina P, 2008: Ch. 5-9.
Shapiro, Marc. Passion and Pain: The Life of Hector Lavoe. New York City: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2007: Ch. 6.
g. The Crooners
i. Dean Martin

Schoell, William. Martini Man: The Life of Dean Martin. Dallas: Taylor Publishing, 1999: Ch. 19-21.
Tosches. Dino: Living High in the Dirty Business of Dreams, corr. ed. New York City: Delta, 1999: Ch. 15.
ii. Frank Sinatra
Kaplan, James. Sinatra: The Chairman. New York City: Doubleday, 2015: Ch. 28.
Sinatra, Barbara, and Wendy Holden. Lady Blue Eyes: My Life With Frank. New York City: Crown Archetype, 2011: Ch. 6-11.
Taraborrelli. Sinatra: Behind the Legend, rev. ed. New York City: Grand Central Publishing, 2015: Ch. 35-40.
David Evanier
(1) Making the Wise Guys Weep: The Jimmy Roselli Story. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998: Ch. 12.
(2) All the Things You Are: The Life of Tony Bennett. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2011: Ch. 8-9.
iv. Others
Akkerman, Gregg. The Last Balladeer: The Johnny Hartman Story. Lanham, Md.: The Scarecrow Press, 2012: Ch. 11.
Damone, Vic [Victor Farinola], and Chanoff. Singing Was the Easy Part. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 2009: Ch. 13.
Schwartz, Jonathan. All in Good Time: A Memoir. New York City: Random House, 2004: Ch. 17.
Tormé, Mel. It Wasn't All Velvet. New York City: Viking, 1988: Ch. 33, 35, 40.
h. The Business
Blackwell & P. Morley, Ch. 9.
Bronson, Ch. 1-2, 10, 17.
Friedman, Josh Alan. Tell the Truth Until They Bleed: Coming Clean in the Dirty World of Blues and Rock ‘n’ Roll. 2008. Rpt. Monrovia, Calif.: New Texture, 2015: Ch. 4.
George, Nelson. The Death of Rhythm & Blues. New York City: Pantheon Books, 1988: Ch. 5-6.
Harris, Larry, Curt Gooch, and Jeff Suhs. And Party Every Day: The Inside Story of Casablanca Records. New York City: Backbeat Books, 2009: Ch. 3-14, 16-20.
Knoedelseder. Stiffed: A True Story of MCA, the Music Business, and the Mafia. 1993. Rpt. New York City: HarperPerennial, 1994: Ch. 2, 4.
Yetnikoff, Walter and David Ritz. Howling at the Moon: The Odyssey of a Montrous Music Mogul in an Age of Excess. New York City: Broadway Books, 2004: Pt. 2.
i. Jazz
(1) Gil Scott-Heron
Baram, Marcus. Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 2014: Ch. 10-26.
Scott-Heron, Gil. The Last Holiday: A Memoir. New York City: Grove Press, 2012: Ch. 20, 22-26.
(2) Other
Abraham & Kearns, Ch. 10.
Gavin. Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker, corr. ed. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2003: Ch. 14-16.
Gennari, John. Blowin' Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006: Ch. 8.
Kahn, Ashley. The House That Trane Built: The Story of Impulse Records. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2006: Ch. 7-8.
Myers, Marc. Why Jazz Happened. Berkeley, Calif.: U of California P, 2013: Ch. 11.
Waldo, Terry. This Is Ragtime, rev. ed. 1991. Rpt. New York City: Jazz at Lincoln Center Library Editions, 2009: Ch. 10.
j. Bob Marley
Blackwell & P. Morley, Ch. 7.
White, Timothy. Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley, 8th rev ed. New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 2006: Ch. 13-16.
k. Other
Chuck Berry, Ch. 3-6, 19.
Coleman, Rick. Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'n' Roll. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2006: Ch. 17-18.
Grandmaster Flash [Joseph Robert Saddler], Ritz, and Geoff Martin. The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My Beats. New York City: Broadway Books, 2008: Pt. 2.
Hermes, Will. Love Goes to Buildings on Fire: Five Years in New York That Changed Music Forever. New York City: Faber and Faber, 2011.
James, Etta [Jamesetta Hawkins], and David Ritz. Rage to Survive: The Etta James Story. New York City: Villard Books, 1995: Ch. 28-30.
Kostelanetz, Richard. SoHo: The Rise and Fall of an Artist's Colony. New York City: Routledge, 2003: Ch. 17.
Lanza, Joseph. Elevator Music: A Surreal History of Muzak®, Easy-Listening, and Other Moodsong®, rev. ed. Ann Arbor, Mich.: U of Michigan P, 2004: Ch. 14.
Leiber et al., Ch. 28-29.
Milkowski, Ch. 2.
Milner, Greg. Perfecting Sound Forever: The Story of Recorded Music. 2009. Rpt. London: Granta, 2010: Ch. 6.
Seibert, Brian. What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015: Ch. 15, 17.
Shaffer & Ritz, Ch. 13.
J. Reid, and Shawn Sahm. Texas Tornado: The Times and Music of Doug Sahm. Austin, Texas: U of Texas P, 2010: Ch. 7-8, 10-12.
Tau, Michael. Extreme Music: Silence to Noise and Everything in Between. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2022: Pt. 1, Ch. 1; Pt. 3, Ch. 3.
Veal, Michael E. Fela: The Life & Times of an African Musical Icon. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2000: Ch. 4-5.
Ward, Ed. The History of Rock & Roll, Vol. II: 1964-1977: The Beatles, the Stones, and the Rise of Classic Rock. New York City: Flatiron Books, 2019: Ch. 8.
2. Cinema
a. Hollywood
i. MCA
Bruck, Connie. When Hollywood Had a King: The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent Into Power and Influence. New York City: Random House, 2003: Ch. 4-5.
McDougal, Dennis. The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA and the Hidden History of Hollywood. New York City: Crown Publishers, 1998: Ch. 28-31.
ii. Peter Biskind
(1) Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex-Drugs-and-Rock 'n' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1998: Ch. 3-13.
(2) Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2010: Ch. 4-6.
iii. "All the President's Men"
Goldman, William. Adventures in the Screen Trade: A Personal View of Hollywood and Screenwriting, rev. ed. New York City: Warner Books, 1984: Ch. 9.
Havill, Ch. 9.
iv. Other
Bacharach & Greenfield, Ch. 15.
Bacon, James. Hollywood Is a Four Letter Town. 1976. Rpt. New York City: Avon, 1977: Ch. 35.
Base, Ron. “If the Other Guy Isn’t Jack Nicholson, I’ve Got the Part”: Hollywood Tales of Big Breaks, Bad Luck, and Box-Office Magic. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1994: Ch. 11-13.
Caine, Michael [Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr.]. What's It All About?: An Autobiography. 1992. Rpt. New York City: Ballantine Books, 1994: Ch. 27-28, 33, 35-37.
Cantor, Paul A. Pop Culture and the Dark Side of the American Dream: Con Men, Gangsters, Drug Lords, and Zombies. Lexington, Ky.: UP of Kentucky, 2019: Ch. 3.
Corman, Roger, and Jim Jerome. How I Made a Hundred Moves in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime. New York City: Random House, 1990: Ch. 13-15.
Edelman, Rob, and Audrey Kupferberg. Matthau: A Life. Lanham, Md.: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2002: Ch. 21-24.
Epstein, Dwayne, and Christopher Marvin. Lee Marvin: Point Blank. Tucson, Ariz.: Schaffner Press, 2013: Ch. 12-13.
Eszterhas, Joe. Hollywood Animal: A Memoir. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004: Ch. 3-4.
R. Evans, Ch. 1, 23, 25-31, 33.
Friedkin, William. The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir. New York City: Harper, 2013: Ch. 9-11.
Gennari. Flavor and Soul: Italian America at Its African American Edge. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2017: Ch. 3.
Goldman, Ch. 7-8, 10-13.
Hogan, Ron, and Peter Bogdanovich. The Stewardess is Flying the Plane! American Films of the 1970s. New York City: Bulfinch Press, 2005.
Karp, Josh. Orson Welles’s Last Movie: The Making of The Other Side of the Wind. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 2015.
Levy, Shawn. De Niro: A Life. New York City: Crown Archetype, 2014: Ch. 6-11.
McClintick, David. Indencent Exposure: A True Story of Hollywood and Wall Street, rev. ed. New York City: HarperBusiness, 2002: Ch. 1-9, 13-41, 43-48, 58-62.
O'Donnell, Pierce, and McDougal. Fatal Subtraction: The Inside Story of Buchwald v. Paramount, rev. ed. West Hollywood, Calif.: Dove Books, 1996: Ch. 13.
G.L. Posner. Motown, Ch. 27, 29.
Russo, Ch. 20.
Server, Lee. Robert Mitchum: “Baby, I Don't Care”. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2001: Ch. 15-16.
Shavelson, Melville. How to Succeed in Hollywood Without Really Trying: P.S. – You Can’t. Albany, Ga.: BearManor Media, 2007: Ch. 12-13.
Stadiem, William. Moneywood: Hollywood in Its Last Age of Excess. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 2013: Ch. 2, 4.
Stone, Oliver [William Oliver Stone]. Chasing the Light: Writing, Directing, and Surviving Platoon, Midnight Express, Scarface, Salvador, and the Movie Game. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020: Ch. 4-5.
Summers, Anthony, and Robbyn Swan. Sinatra: The Life. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005: Ch. 32-34.
Tormé, Ch. 36-39.
Tuccille. Dillerland: The Story of Media Mogul Barry Diller. New York City: Alyson Books, 2009: Ch. 9-10.
Zuckoff, Mitchell. Robert Altman: The Oral Biography. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009: Ch. 13, 15-16, 19-21, 32.
b. Europe
i. Italy
Brunetta, Gian Piero. The History of Italian Cinema: A Guide to Italian Film From Its Origins to the Twenty-First Century, 2nd rev. ed. Trans. Jeremy Parzen. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2009: Ch. 5.
Frayling, Christopher. Sergio Leone: Something to Do With Death. London: Faber and Faber, 2000: Ch. 10.
ii. Other
Caine, What's It All About?, Ch. 29-32, 34.
Fuller, Samuel, Christa Lang Fuller, and Jerome Henry Rudes. A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmaking. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002: Ch. 45, 47-49.
c. Hong Kong
i. "Enter the Dragon"
Clouse, Robert. The Making of Enter the Dragon. Burbank, Calif.: Unique Publications, 1987.
Polly, Matthew. Bruce Lee: A Life. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2018: Ch. 22.
ii. Other
Bordwell, David. Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment, rev. ed. Madison, Wis.: Irvington Way Institute Press, 2011: Ch. 2, 4, 7, 9.
Dannen, Frederic, and Barry Long. Hong Kong Babylon: An Insider's Guide to the Hollywood of the East. New York City: Hyperion/Miramax Books, 1997.
Logan, Bey. Hong Kong Action Cinema. 1995. Rpt. Woodstock, N.Y.: The Overlook Press, 1996: Ch. 4-5, 7-8.
Polly, Ch. 17-21, 24.
d. Other
Caine. The Elephant to Hollywood: The Autobiography. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2010: Ch. 9-11.
O. Stone, Ch. 3.
3. Television
a. "The Rockford Files"
Garner, James [James Bumgarner], and Jon Winokur. The Garner Files. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2011: Ch. 7.
Robertson, Ed. 45 Years of The Rockford Files: An Inside Look at America's Greatest Detective Series, 2nd rev. ed. Los Angeles: Black Pawn Press, 2020.
b. "Saturday Night Live"
Davis, Tom. Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss. New York City: Grove Press, 2009: Ch. 1, 11-13, 20, 24.
Hill, Doug, and Jeff Weingrad. Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live. 1986. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 1987: Ch. 1, 4-33.
Shaffer & Ritz, Ch. 4, 8, 23-25.
Miller, James Andrew, and Tom Shales. Live From New York: The Complete, Uncensored History of Saturday Night Live As Told by Its Stars, Writers, and Guests, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Little, Brown & Co., 2014: Ch. 1-2.
c. "Sesame Street"
Davis, Michael. Street Gang: The Complete History of Sesame Street. New York City: Viking, 2008: Ch. 14-15.
Kamp, Sunny Days, Ch. 10-12.
d. "The Tonight Show"
Galanoy, Terry. Tonight! 1972. Rpt. New York City: Warner Books, 1974: Ch. 13.
Zoglin, Richard. Comedy at the Edge: How Stand-Up in the 1970s Changed America. New York City: Bloomsbury, 2008: Ch. 8.
d. Cable
Biskind. Pandora's Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV. New York City: William Morrow, 2023: Ch. 1.
Mullen, Megan. The Rise of Cable Programming in the United States: Revolution or Evolution? Austin, Texas: U of Texas P, 2003: Ch. 4.
e. Other
Abraham & Kearns, Ch. 12.
Bergreen. Look Now, Pay Later: The Rise of Network Broadcasting. 1980. Rpt. New York City: New American Library, 1981: Ch. 18.
Bergman, Paul. "EMERGENCY!: Send a TV Show to Rescue Paramedic Squads!" U of Baltimore Law Review Spring 2007: 347-369.
Burke, Timothy, and Kevin Burke. Saturday Morning Fever. New York City: St. Martin's Griffin, 1999: Ch. 2, 4, 6.
James, Clive [Vivian James]. North Face of Soho: Unreliable Memoirs, Vol. IV. London: Picador, 2006: Ch. 6, 8.
Jenkins, Dan, and Edwin Shrake. Limo. 1976. Rpt. Emeryville, Calif.: Woodford Press, 2000.
Kamp, Sunny Days, Ch. 13-17, 19.
Klugman, Jack, and Burton Rocks. Tony and Me: A Story of Friendship. West Linn, Ore.: Good Hill Press, 2005: Ch. 1, 4.
Newhart, Bob [George Robert Newhart]. I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This!: And Other Things That Strike Me as Funny. New York City: Hyperion, 2006: Ch. 8.
Ortved, John. The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History. New York City: Faber & Faber, 2009: Ch. 2.
Ozersky. Archie Bunker's America: TV in an Era of Change, 1968-78. Carbondale, Ill.: Southern Illinois UP, 2003: Ch. 4-6.
Salkin, Allen. From Scratch: The Uncensored History of the Food Network, rev. ed. New York City: Berkley Books, 2014: Ch. 1.
Singer, Matt. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023: Ch. 4.
Stitt, Carmen. Cult Pop Culture: How the Fringe Became Mainstream, Vol. I: Film and Television. Ed. Bob Batchelor. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, 2012: Ch. 14.
Tuccille. Dillerland: The Story of Media Mogul Barry Diller. New York City: Alyson Books, 2009: Ch. 8.
4. Cuisine
Buford, Bill. Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006: Ch. 10, 21.
Caine, The Elephant to Hollywood, Ch. 14.
Child, Julia, and Alex Prud'homme. My Life in France. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006: Ch. 8-9.
Grimes, William. Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York. New York City: North Point Press, 2009: Ch. 15.
Issenberg, Sasha. The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy. New York City: Gotham Books, 2007: Ch. 1, 3, 8-9.
Kamp. The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation. New York City: Broadway Books, 2006: Ch. 7-8.
McNamee, Thomas. Alice Waters and Chez Panisse: The Romantic, Impractical, Often Eccentric, Ultimately Brilliant Making of a Food Revolution. New York City: The Penguin Press, 2007: Ch. 1, 5-8.
Stadiem, Moneywood, Ch. 3.
5. Literature
a. Fiction
Bailey, Blake. Philip Roth: The Biography. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2021: Ch. 26-30.
Karl, Frederick. American Fictions 1940-1980: A Comprehensive History & Critical Evaluation. New York City: Harper & Row, 1983: Ch. 11.
Leamer. Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons. 2021: Ch. 1, 17.
McGaune, Thomas. Panama. New York City: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1978.
Oates, Joyce Carol. A Widow's Story: A Memoir. New York City: Ecco, 2011: Ch. 43.
Sallis, James. Chester Himes: A Life. New York City: Walker & Co., 2000: Ch. 7, 9-15, 20.
Scott-Heron, Ch. 21.
Sheed, Wilfred. The Boys of Winter. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1987.
Tormé, Ch. 41.
b. Periodicals
i. Comics
(1) Marvel
(a) Stan Lee
Fingeroth, Danny. A Marvelous Life: The Amazing Story of Stan Lee. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2019: Ch. 15-18.
Lee, Stan [Stanley Martin Lieber], and George Mair. Excelsior!: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee. New York City: Fireside, 2002: Ch. 16.
(b) Other
Howe, Sean. Marvel Comics: The Untold Story. 2012. Rpt. Harper Perennial, 2013: Ch. 4-6, 8-10.
Thomas, Roy. The Marvel Age of Comics, 1961-78. Ed. Josh Baker. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2017: Ch. 3.
(2) Other
Bell, Blake. Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko. Seattle: Fantagraphic Books, 2008: Ch. 10.
Levitz, Paul, and Josh Baker. The Bronze Age of DC Comics, 1970-1984. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2015.
Evanier, Mark. Kirby: King of Comics. New York City: Abrams, 2008: Ch. 5-7.
Simon, Joe, and Jim Simon. The Comic Book Makers, rev. ed. Lebanon, N.J.: Vanguard Productions, 2003: Ch. 30.
ii. Magazines
Gifford, Justin. Pimping Fictions: African American Crime Literature and the Untold Story of Black Pulp Publishing. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2013: Ch. 5.
Howlett, Mike. The Weird World of Eerie Publications: Comic Gore That Warped Millions of Young Minds! Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2010: Ch. 8-9, 13.
Yagoda, Ben. About Town: The New Yorker and the World It Made. New York City: Scribner, 2000: Ch.  7.
iii. Other
C. James, North Face of Soho, Ch. 7, 12.
S. Heller, Ch. 15.
Kernan, Alvin. The Death of Literature. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 1990: Ch. 4.
Larabee, Ann. The Wrong Hands: Popular Weapons Manuals and Their Historic Challenges to a Democratic Society. New York City: Oxford UP, 2015: Ch. 4.
Schelly, Bill. Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor in America: A Biography. Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2015: Ch. 17.
c. Clifford Irving
Irving, Clifford. The Hoax. 1972. Rpt. New York City: Hyperion, 2007.
E.J. Kahn. Fraud: The United States Postal Inspection Service and Some of the Fools and Knaves It Has Known. New York City: Harper & Row Publishers, 1973: Ch. 2.
d. Other
Bain, Murder, HE Wrote, Ch. 12-13.
Begley, Adam. Updike. New York City: Harper, 2014: Ch. 9.
Kostelanetz, Ch. 25.
6. Interior Decor
i. Charlotte J. Fiell and Peter Fiell
(1) Modern Furniture Classics: Postwar to Post-Modernism. 1991. Rpt. New York City: Thames & Hudson, 2001: Ch. 4.
(2) 70s Decorative Art. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2000.
ii. Other
Lileks, James. Interior Desecrations: Hideous Homes From the Horrible ’70s. New York City:  Crown Publishers, 2004.
Rense, Paige. Architectural Digest: Autobiography of a Magazine 1920-2010. New York City: Rizzoli, 2018: Ch. 3.
7. The Comedians
a. Johnny Carson
Bushkin, Henry. Johnny Carson. Boston: Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013: Ch. 1-8, 10.
Leamer, King of the Night, Ch. 13-15.
McMahon, Ed. Here's Johnny!: My Memories of Johnny Carson, the Tonight Show, and 46 Years of Friendship. 2005. Rpt. New York City: Berkley Boulevard Books, 2006: Ch. 15.
b. Groucho Marx
Arce, Hector. Groucho. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1979: Ch. 14-16, Epilogue.
Marx, Arthur. My Life With Groucho: A Son's Eye View, rev. ed. 1988. Rpt. Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, 1992: Ch. 35-43.
c. Michael O'Donoghue
T. Davis, Ch. 18.
Perrin, Dennis. Mr. Mike: The Life and Work of Michael O'Donoghue. New York City: Avon Books, 1998: Ch. 6-7.
d. National Lampoon
Karp, Josh. A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2006: Ch. 4-13.
Meyerowitz, Rick. Drunk Stoned Brilliant Dead: Writers and Artists Who Made the National Lampoon Insanely Great. New York City: Abrams, 2010.
Nashawaty, Chris. Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story. New York City: Flatiron Books, 2018: Ch. 2.
Simmons, Matty. Fat, Drunk, and Stupid: The Inside Story Behind the Making of Animal House. 2012. Rpt. New York City: St. Martin's Griffin, 2014: Ch. 1, 4-20.
e. Jerry Seinfeld
Oppenheimer. Seinfeld, Ch. 16-23.
Tracy, Kathleen. Jerry Seinfeld: The Entire Domain. Secaucus, N.J.: Birch Lane Press, 1998: Ch. 2.
f. Mel Brooks
Brooks, Mel [Melvin Kaminsky]. All About Me: My Remarkable Life in Show Business. New York City: Ballantine Books, 2021: Ch. 12-13, 15, 17.
Parish, James Robert. It's Good to Be the King: The Seriously Funny Life of Mel Brooks. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2007: Ch. 1, 24-28.
g. Others
Armstrong, Jennifer Keishin. Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2016: Ch. 1.
T. Davis, Ch. 4, 8-9, 15, 22, 25.
Berger, Phil. The Last Laugh: The World of Stand-Up Comics, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Cooper Square Press, 2000: Pt. 3.
M. Hill, Ch. 5-9.
Idle, Eric. Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography. New York City: Crown Archetype, 2018: Ch. 1, 8-16.
It's Garry Shandling's Book. Ed. Judd Apatow. New York City: Random House, 2019.
Knoedelseder. I’m Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High Times in Stand-Up Comedy’s Golden Era. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2009.
Nashawaty, Ch. 3-5.
Nesteroff, Kliph. The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy. New York City: Grove Press, 2015: Ch. 11.
Oppenheimer. Seinfeld, Ch. 24, 31.
Reid, Tim [Timothy Isabel Jr.], Tom Dreesen, and Ron Rapoport. Tim & Tom: An American Comedy in Black and White. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2008: Ch. 1, 5-9.
Resnick, Ch. 3.
Shaffer & Ritz, Ch. 16.
Shydner, Ritch. Kicking Through the Ashes: My Life As a Stand-Up in the 1980s Comedy Boom. St. Petersburg, Fla.: Mr. Media Books, 2016: Ch. 4-14, 79.
Sullivan, James. Seven Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2010: Ch. 6-8.
Thomas, Dave, Robert Crane, and Susan Carney. SCTV: Behind the Scenes. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1996.
Zoglin, Ch. 9, 11-12.
8. Italian Design
Bulegato, Fiorella, and Sergio Polano. Michele de Lucchi: From Here to There and Beyond. 2004. Trans. Richard Sadleir. Milan, Italy: Electa Architecture, 2005: Ch. 1-2.
Forden, Sara Gay. House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour and Greed, rev. ed. New York City: Perennial 2021: Ch. 4-5.
9. Radio
Earl, Bill. Dream-House: The History of a Major Radio Station and Southern California's 50 Years of "Radio Eleven-Ten"!, rev. ed. Montebello, Calif.: Desert Rose Productions/Research Archives, 1991: Ch. 9-11.
Sklar, Rick. Rocking America: An Insider’s Story: How the All-Hit Radio Stations Took Over. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 1984: Ch. 17-18, 21.
Walker, Ch. 5.
10. Events
Cotter, Bill. Images of Modern America: Spokane’s Expo ’74. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2017.
T.S. Gordon, Ch. 4-5.
Grippo, Robert M., and Christopher Hoskins. Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2004: Ch. 6.
11. Video Games
Brown, Damon. Porn & Pong: How Grand Theft Auto, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Our Culture. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2008.
Halter, Ed. From Sun Tzu to Xbox: War and Video Games. New York City: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2006: Pt. 3.
Hennessey, Jonathan, and Jack McGowan. The Comic Book Story of Video Games: The Incredible History of the Electronic Gaming Revolution. New York City: Ten Speed Press, 2017: Ch. 5.
12. Theater
Edwards, Gavin. Bad Motherfucker: The Life and Times of Samuel L. Jackson, the Coolest Man in Hollywood. New York City: Hachette Books, 2021: Ch. 3-4.
Mordden, Ethan. One More Kiss: The Broadway Musical in the 1970s. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.
Seibert, Ch. 14.
13. Visual Arts
Bailey, David, and Martin Harrison. David Bailey: Locations: The 1970s Archive. New York City: Thames & Hudson, 2003.
Lauryssens, Stan. Dalí and I: The Surreal Story. New York City: Thomas Dunne Books, 2008.
14. Muhammad Ali [Cassius M. Clay Jr.]
Cashill, Jack. Sucker Punch: The Hard Left Hook That Dazed Ali and Killed King's Dream. Nashville, Tenn.: Nelson Current, 2006: Pt. 2.
Mailer. The Fight. 1975. Rpt. New York City: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2013.
14. Andy Warhol [Andrew Warhola]
Colacello, Bob. Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 2014: Ch. 3-33.
S. Heller, Ch. 13.
15. Other
Anderson, Chris, Sharon McGehee, and Jake La Motta. Raging Bull II. Secaucus, N.J.: Lyle Stuart, 1986: Ch. 11-17.
Chang, Jeff. Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2005: Ch. 4.
Colby, Paul, and Martin Fitzpatrick. The Bitter End: Hanging Out at America’s Nightclub. New York City: Cooper Square Press, 2002: Ch. 8, 10.
Considine, Appendix E.
Cowie, Ch. 4, 7.
Davis, Sammy Jr., Jane Boyar, and Burt Boyar. Sammy: An Autobiography: With Material Newly Revised From Yes I Can and Why Me?. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000: Ch. 43-46.
Dickinson, Janice. No Lifeguard on Duty: the Accidental Life of the World’s First Supermodel. New York City: ReganBooks, 2002.
Dickstein, Morris. Gates of Eden: American Culture in the Sixties, rev. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1997: Ch. 9.
G. Edwards, Ch. 5.
D. Evanier. Roman Candle: The Life of Bobby Darin. Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale, 2004: Ch. 14-15.
Fischl, Eric, and Michael Stone. Bad Boy: My Life on and Off the Canvas. 2012. Rpt. New York City: Arcade Publishing, 2016: Ch. 4-7.
Fox, Ted. Showtime at The Apollo, rev. ed. Rhinebeck, N.Y.: Mill Road Enterprises, 2003: Ch. 8.
Frank, Josh, and Charlie Buckholtz. In Heaven Everything Is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of “New Wave Theatre”. 2008. Rpt. Berkeley, Calif.: Soft Skull Press, 2010: Ch. 5-6.
Gavin, James. Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne. New York City: Atria Books, 2009: Ch. 17-19.
Graham, Don. No Name on the Bullet: A Biography of Audie Murphy. 1989. Rpt. New York City: Penguin Books, 1990: Ch. 14.
Greene, Eric. Planet of the Apes as American Myth: Race, Politics, and Popular Culture, rev ed. Middletown, Conn.: Wesleyan UP, 1998: Ch. 4-5.
Guetta, Patrick, Marc Guetta, and Alison A. Nieder. Vintage T Shirts. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2010.
Hammarstrom, David Lewis. Fall of the Big Top: The Vanishing American Circus. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2008: Ch. 6.
Holmes, Rupert [David Holdstein]. Where the Truth Lies. 2003. Rpt. London: Allison & Busby, 2006: Ch. 1-5, 7-10, 12-29, 31-33.
Houseman, John [Jacques Haussmann]. Unfinished Business: Memoirs, 1902-1988. New York City: Applause Theatre Books, 1989: Ch. 30-32.
C. James, North Face of Soho, Ch. 5, 9-11, 13-15.
Jones, Brian Jay. Jim Henson: The Biography. New York City: Ballantine Books, 2013: Ch. 7-9.
Korda, Michael. Another Life: A Memoir of Other People. New York City: Random House, 1999: Ch. 21-31.
Kostelanetz, Ch. 4-5, 11-16, 21, 23, 29, 31, 34.
Leamer, Capote's Women, Ch. 18.
Lee, Hermione. Tom Stoppard: A Life. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021: Ch. 11-17.
S. Lee & Mair, Ch. 16-17, 20.
Lennon, J. Michael. Norman Mailer: A Double Life. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2013: Ch. 10-12.
S. Levy. The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont. New York City: Doubleday, 2019: Pt. 5.
McManus, James. Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009: Ch. 37-38.
McNeil & McCain, Ch. 10-11.
Michaelis, David. Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography. New York City: Harper, 2007: Ch. 23-26.
Montville, Leigh. Evel: The High-Flying Life of Evel Knievel: American Showman, Daredevil, and Legend. New York City: Doubleday, 2011: Ch. 1-2, 13-29.
Orbanes, Philip E. Monopoly®: The World’s Most Famous Game – and How It Got That Way. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2006: Ch. 11-12.
Plaut, Joshua Eli. A Kosher Christmas: 'Tis the Season to Be Jewish. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers UP, 2012: Ch. 6.
Preston, T.A. "Amarillo Slim," and Greg Dinkin. Amarillo Slim in a World of Fat People: The Memoirs of the Greatest Gambler Who Ever Lived. New York City: HarperEntertainment, 2003: Ch. 9-11.
J. Schwartz, Ch.18.
Shaffer & Ritz, Ch. 14, 17-22, 26.
Shipton, Allyn. Hi-De-Ho: The Life of Cab Calloway. New York City: Oxford UP, 2010: Ch. 11.
Simonson, Robert. A Proper Drink: The Untold Story of How a Band of Bartenders Saved the Civilized Drinking World. Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press, 2016: Ch. 1-2.
Tormé, Ch. 32, 34, 42.
Tye, Larry. Superman: The High-Flying History of America’s Most Enduring Hero. New York City: Random House, 2012: Ch. 8.
Wasser, Frederick. Veni, Vidi, Video: The Hollywood Empire and the VCR. Austin, Texas: U of Texas P, 2001: Ch. 3-4.
Watts, Steven. Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2008: Ch. 13-16.
Wolcott, James. Lucking Out: My Life Getting Down and Semi-Dirty in Seventies New York. 2011. Rpt. New York City: Anchor Books, 2012.

E. The Declinists

1. The New Immigrants
Enrich, David. Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction, rev. ed. New York City: Custom House, 2021: Ch. 21.
Lavergne, Gary M. Worse Than Death: The Dallas Nightclub Murders and the Texas Multiple Murder Law. Denton, Texas: U of North Texas P, 2003: Ch. 4.
Limonov, Edward [Eduard Veniaminovich Savenko]. It's Me, Eddie: A Fictional Memoir. 1979. Trans. S.L. Campbell. New York City: Random House, 1983.
Roth, Byron M. Immigration and Human Nature: The Perils of Diversity, Genetics, and Society, 1st ed. Augusta, Ga.: Radix/Washington Summit Publishers, 2010: Ch. 6.
2. Fail Britannia
a. Northern Ireland

J. Adams. The Financing of Terror, Ch. 7.
McNab, Andy. Bravo Two Zero. 1993. Rpt. London: Chivers Press, 1995: Ch. 2.
Myers, Kevin. Watching the Door: Drinking Up, Getting Down, and Cheating Death in 1970s Belfast, rev. ed. 2008. Rpt. New York City: Soft Skull Press, 2009.
Sterling, The Terror Network, Ch. 9.
b. Other
Beckett Francis, and David Hencke, The Blairs and Their Court, rev. ed. London: Aurum, 2005: Ch. 2-3.
Burgess, Anthony [John Burgess Wilson]. 1985. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1978: Pt. 2.
E. Costello, Ch. 8, 10-11.
Eshun, Eskow. Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in Africa and Beyond. 2005. Rpt. New York City: Pantheon Books, 2006: Ch. 3.
Fiennes, Ch. 5-7, 10, 12, 21-24.
Johnson, Paul. The Recovery of Freedom. Oxford, U.K.: Basil Blackwell, 1980: Ch. 1-11, 14.
Moorcock, Michael. King of the City. New York City: William Morrow, 2000: Ch. 7-9, 11.
Ngo, Andy. Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy. New York City: Center Street, 2021: Ch. 6.
Shawcross, Ch. 13.
Wheen, Ch. 2, 5, 10, 12.
3. California
a. Southern California
i. Thirteeners
Ellis, Bret Easton. White. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.
Kiedis, Anthony, and Larry Sloman. Scar Tissue. New York City: Hyperion, 2004: Ch. 2-3.
Mustaine, Dave, and Joe Layden. Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir, rev. ed. New York City: It Books, 2013: Ch. 2.
Woods, Stacey Grenrock. I, California: A Memoir. New York City: Scribner, 2007.
ii. Others
Beall, Will. L.A. Rex. New York City: Riverhead Books, 2006: Ch. 2.
Blau, Jessica Anya. The Summer of Naked Swim Parties. New York City: Harper Perennial, 2008.
Bowers, Scotty, and Lionel Friedberg. Full Service: My Adventures in Hollywood and the Secret Sex Lives of the Stars. New York City: Grove Press, 2012: Ch. 27.
Carducci, Joe. Enter Naomi: SST, L.A. and All That …. Centennial, Wyo.: Redoubt Press, 2007: Ch. 14.
Collins, Aukai. My Jihad: The True Story of an American Mujahid's Amazing Journey From Usama Bin Laden's Training Camps to Counterterrorism With the FBI and CIA. 2002. Rpt. New York City: Pocket Star Books, 2003: Pt. 2.
Dunne, Dominick. The Winners. 1982. Rpt. New York City: Warner Books, 1983.
Lambert, Gavin. The Goodbye People. 1971. Rpt. London: Serpent's Tail, 2000.
Salter, James [James A. Horowitz]. Solo Faces. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1979: Ch. 1-4.
Simon, Roger L. The Big Fix: The First Moses Wine Mystery. 1973. Rpt. New York City: IPictureBooks, 2010.
Toobin, Jeffrey. American Heiress: The Wild Saga of the Kidnapping, Crimes and Trial of Patty Hearst. New York City: Doubleday, 2016: Ch. 12-14.
Vernon, Robert L. L.A. Justice: Lessons From the Firestorm. Colorado Springs, Colo.: Focus on the Family, 1993: Ch. 8.
Westlake. The Comedy Is Finished. London: Hard Case Crime, 2012.
L. Wright. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013: Ch. 5.
Yates, Richard. Disturbing the Peace. 1975. Rpt. New York City: Bantam Books, 2013: Ch. 10.
b. Greater San Francisco
i. Herb Caen
(1) One Man's San Francisco. 1976. Rpt. Sausalito, Calif.: Comstock Editions, 1979.
(2) Herb Caen's San Francisco, 1976-1991. Ed. Irene Mecchi. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 1992.
ii. Others
Cashill. What’s the Matter With California?: Cultural Rumbles From the Golden State and Why the Rest of Us Should Be Shaking. New York City: Threshold Editions, 2007: Ch. 18, 33-34.
Hodel, Steve, and Ralph Pezzullo. Most Evil: Avenger, Zodiac, and the Further Serial Murders of Dr. George Hill Hodel. New York City: Dutton, 2007: Ch. 13, 23.
Mullis, Kary. Dancing Naked in the Mind Field. 1998. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 2000: Ch. 7.
Toobin, American Heiress, Ch. 1-11, 15-27.
c. Other
Au-Yeung, Angel, and David Jeans. Wonder Boy: Tony Hsieh, Zappos, and the Myth of Happiness in Silicon Valley. New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 2023: Ch. 2.
Cashill, What’s the Matter With California?, Ch. 17, 19.
Jacobson, Mark. Pale Horse Rider: William Cooper, the Rise of Conspiracy, and the Fall of Trust in America. New York City: Blue Rider Press, 2018: Ch. 5.
4. Southern Florida
a. E. Buchanan

i. The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat. 1987. Rpt. New York City: Berkeley Books, 1991: Ch. 9.
ii. Never Let Them See You Cry: More From Miami, America's Hottest Beat. 1992. Rpt. New York City: Berkeley Books, 1993: Ch. 2-3, 17.
b. Other
Pearce, Donn. Dying in the Sun. New York City: Charterhouse, 1974.
G.L. Posner, Miami Babylon, Ch. 1, 7.
5. Greater New York
a. New York City
i. Studio 54
Haden-Guest, Anthony. The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco and the Culture of the Night, rev. ed. New York City: It Books, 2009.
Tuccille, Dillerland, Ch. 11.
i. Gary Weiss
(1) Born to Steal: When the Mafia Hit Wall Street. 2003. Rpt. New York City: Grand Central Publishing, 2014: Ch. 1.
(2) Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie. New York City: Hachette Books, 2022: Ch. 3-7.
iii. Westlake
(1) I Gave at the Office. 1971. Rpt. New York City: Pocket Books, 1972.
(2) Comfort Station. 1973. Rpt. New York City: Mysterious Press/Open Road Integrated Media, 2013.
(3) Brothers Keepers. 1975. Rpt. London: Hard Case Crime, 2019.
(4) Two Much. 1975. Rpt. New York City: Mysterious Press, 2011.
iv. Other
Block, Lawrence. Ronald Rabbit Is a Dirty Old Man, rev. ed. New York City: Open Road Integrated Media, 2010.
Burgess. The Complete Enderby. New York City: Carroll & Graf, 1996: Pt. 3.
J.A. Friedman. Tales of Times Square, rev. ed. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2007.
Hannah, Duncan. 20th Century Boy: Notebooks of the Seventies. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.
J. Heller. Now and Then: From Coney Island to Here. 1998. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 1999: Ch. 9.
D.P. Kuhn, The Hardhat Riot, Ch. 1 13-23.
Mahler, Jonathan. The Bronx Is Burning: 1977, Baseball, Politics, and the Battle for the Soul of a City. 2005. Rpt. New York City: Picador, 2007: Ch. 1-3, 7, 11, 13, 17-18, 23-40, 46, 48-53, 55-57, 59, 64, 67.
“Mallory, Drew” [Garfield]. Target Manhattan. 1975. Rpt. New York City: Mysterious Press/Open Road Integrated Media, 2012.
New York Unbound: The City and the Politics of the Future. Ed. Peter D. Salins. New York City: Basil Blackwell, 1988: Ch. 1-2, 5.
O’Brien, Timothy L. TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald, rev. ed. New York City: Grand Central Publishing, 2016: Ch. 3.
Oppenheimer, Seinfeld, Ch. 14-15.
Rhinehart, Luke [George Cockcroft]. The Dice Man. 1971. Rpt. London: Flamingo, 2003: Ch. 73-96.
Schroth, Raymond A. Fordham: A History and Memoir, rev. ed. New York City: Fordham UP, 2008: Ch. 15-16.
Siegel, The Future Once Happened Here, Ch. 15.
Stein, Chris. Point of View: Me, New York City, and the Punk Scene. New York City: Rizzoli, 2018.
Strausbaugh, John. The Village: 400 Years of Beats and Bohemians, Radicals and Rogues: A History of Greenwich Village. New York City: Ecco, 2013: Ch. 33-35.
Tuccille, Trump, Ch. 15, 28-29.
Zabar, Lori. Zabar's: A Family Story, With Recipes. New York City: Schocken Books, 2022: Ch. 8.
c. Upstate
Leamer. The President's Butler. Washington, D.C.: Foggy Bottom Books, 2016: Ch. 2-12.
Oppenheimer, Seinfeld, Ch. 12-13.
Pedersen, Laura. Buffalo Gal: A Memoir. Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum, 2008: Ch. 1, 7, 9-21.
c. Long Island
Baldwin, Alec [Alexander R. Baldwin III]. Nevertheless: A Memoir. New York City: Harper, 2017: Ch. 3.
Maas, Peter. Father and Son. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1989: Ch. 1, 5.
d. Southern Connecticut
Byron. Martha Inc.: The Incredible Story of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, rev. ed. New York City: John Wiley & Sons, 2003: Ch. 4-6.
Moody, Rick. The Ice Storm. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1994.
Tabb, George. Playing Right Field: A Jew Grows in Greenwich. New York City: Soft Skull Press, 2004.
Updike, Villages, Ch. 12-13.
e. Northern New Jersey
i. Mike Edison
I Have Fun Everywhere I Go: Savage Tales of Pot, Porn, Punk Rock, Pro Wrestling, Talking Apes, Evil Bosses, Dirty Blues, American Heroes, and the Most Notorious Magazines in the World. New York City: Faber and Faber, 2008: Ch. 3.
ii. You Are a Complete Disappointment: A Triumphant Memoir of Failed Expectations. New York City: Sterling, 2016: Ch. 2-6, 9-11.
ii. Other
"Emerson, Jill" [L. Block]. The Trouble with Eden, rev. ed. New York City: Open Road Integrated Media, 2010.
Perrotta, Tom. Bad Haircut: Stories of the Seventies. 1994. Rpt. New York City: St. Martin's Griffin, 2012.
6. AIDS
Fumento, Michael. The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS, rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1993: Ch. 3.
Shilts, Randy. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, rev. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 1988: Ch. 1-5.
D. Talbot, Ch. 36.
7. Continental Europe
a. West Germany
i. Heinrich Böll
(1) The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum, Or: How Violence Develops and Where It Can Lead. 1974. Trans. Leila Vennewitz. 1975. Rpt. New York City: Penguin Books, 2009.
(2) The Safety Net. 1979. Trans. Leila Vennewitz. 1982. Rpt. New York City: Melville House, 2010.
ii. Other
Kulish & Mekhennet, Ch. 36.
b. Italy
J. Adams. The Financing of Terror, Ch. 8.
Day, Michael. Being Berlusconi: The Rise and Fall From Cosa Nostra to Bunga Bunga. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015: Ch. 2.
Dickie. Delizia!: The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food. 2007. Rpt. New York City: Free Press, 2008: Ch. 18.
Ganser, Daniele. NATO’s Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe. London: Frank Cass, 2004: Ch. 1.
Robb, Peter. Midnight in Sicily, rev. ed. New York City: Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007: Ch. 5, 8.
c. Other
Houellebecq, Michel [Michel Thomas]. The Elementary Particles. 1998. Trans. Frank Wynne. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000: Pt. 9-15: Pt. 2, Ch. 15.
Jordan, Mary. The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2020: Ch. 3.
Salter, Ch. 5-38.
8. Ex-President Nixon
Frost & Zelnick, Ch. 1-6.
Fulsom, Ch. 20.
Nixon, Ch. 3.
R.J. Stone & Colapietro, Nixon’s Secrets, Ch. 19.
9. Barack Hussein Obama Jr.
Maraniss, David. Barack Obama: The Story. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2012: Ch. 11-12, 14.
Obama, Barack. Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, rev. ed. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2004: Ch. 3-4.
10. The Jews
Mirsky, Norman B. Unorthodox Judaism. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State UP, 1978: Ch. 5.
Roth, Philip. American Pastoral, corr. ed. 1998. Rpt. The American Trilogy 1997-2000: American Pastoral/I Married a Communist/The Human Stain. Ed. Ross Miller. New York City: The Library of America, 2011: Ch. 6, 8-9.
11. Conspiracy Theory
Barkun, Michael. A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America, rev. ed. Berkeley, Calif.: U of California P, 2013: Ch. 4-5.
Goodrick-Clarke, Ch. 14.
Gorightly, Adam. The Prankster and the Conspiracy: The Story of Kerry Thornley and How He Met Oswald and Inspired the Counterculture. New York City: Paraview Press, 2003: Ch. 17-20, 22.
12. Silver Thursday
Sarnoff, Paul. Silver Bulls. Westport, Conn.: Arlington House Publishers, 1980.
Tuccille, Jerome. Kingdom: The Story of the Hunt Family of Texas. 1984. Rpt. Washington, D.C.: Beard Books, 2003: Ch. 54-56.
13. The Roman Catholic Church
C. Bernstein, and Marco Politi. His Holiness: John Paul II and the Hidden History of Our Time. 1996: Rpt. New York City: Penguin Books, 1997: Pt. 3-4.
Bottum, Joseph. An Anxious Age: The Post-Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of America. New York City: Image, 2014: Ch. 14.
Frattini, Eric. The Entity: Five Centuries of Secret Vatican Espionage, rev. ed. Trans. Dick Cluster. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2008: Ch. 18-19.
P. Johnson. Pope John Paul II and the Catholic Restoration. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 1981: Ch. 3-10.
G.L. Posner, God’s Bankers, Ch. 19-21.
14. The Sex Fiends
Bain, Donald. Club Tropique. New York City: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1978.
Cashill, What’s the Matter With California?, Ch. 35.
Cumming Anne. [Mathilda Young Mason, Duchess of Argyll]. The Love Habit: The Sexual Confessions of an Older Woman. 1977. Rpt. New York City: Penguin Books, 1980: Ch. 6-9.
"Emerson." Threesome, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Lawrence Block, 2016.
Ford, Luke. A History of X: 100 Years of Sex in Film. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1999: Ch. 3-4, 6-7.
Stadiem. Madame Claude: Her Secret World of Pleasure, Privilege, and Power. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2018: Ch. 2.
Stanford, White House Call Girl, Ch. 14, 16, 18.
Talese, Gay. Thy Neighbor’s Wife, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Ecco, 2009: Ch. 20.
15. Atlantic City, N.J.
Demaris, Boardwalk Jungle, Ch. 6-9, 27.
Johnson, Nelson. Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City. Medford, N.J.: Plexus Publishing, 2002: Ch. 9-11.
Van Meter, Jonathan. The Last Good Time: Skinny D'Amato, the Notorious 500 Club, and the Rise and Fall of Atlantic City. New York City: Crown Publishers, 2003: Ch. 10-11.
16. North Central States
Ferris, Joshua. A Calling for Charlie Barnes. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2021: Ch. 29-30, 32-33, 36.
Lee, Albert. Slumlord!: The True Story of the Man Who Is Beating America's Biggest Problem. New Rochelle, N.Y.: Arlington House Publishers, 1976.
Rall, Ted. My War With Brian. New York City: NBM/ComicsLit, 1998.
Van Buren, Peter. Ghosts of Tom Joad: A Story of the #99 Percent. Carmel, Ind.: Luminus Books, 2014.
17. Rhodesia
Cole, Barbara. The Elite: The Story of the Rhodesian Special Air Service. Transkei, South Africa: Three Knights, 1984: Ch. 3-8.
I. Smith, Ch. 13-20.
18. P. Jenkins
a. Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History. New York City: Oxford UP, 2000: Ch. 10.
b. Decade of Nightmares, Ch. 4.
19. D.P. Kuhn
a. The Neglected Voter, Ch. 4.
b. The Hardhat Riot, Ch. 25, 27-28.
20. Leamer
i. The Paper Revolutionaries: The Rise of the Underground Press. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1972: Ch. 9, 12.
ii. Madness Under the Royal Palms: Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach, rev. ed. New York City: Hyperion, 2009: Ch. 22.
21. Hal Lindsey
a. The Late Great Planet Earth, rev. ed. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, 1977.
b. The 1980s: Countdown to Armageddon. King of Prussia, Pa.: Westgate Press, 1980.
22. Livingstone
a. Black Terror, White Soldiers: Islam, Fascism and the New Age. Scotts Valley, Calif.: Sabilillah Publicatons, 2013: Ch. 26.
b. Transhumanism: The History of a Dangerous Idea. Scotts Valley, Calif.: CreateSpace, 2015: Ch. 22.
23. Peter Manso
a. Ptown: Art, Sex, and Money on the Outer Cape. New York City: Lisa Drew/Scribner, 2002: Ch. 15, 21, 26, 28.
b. Mailer: His Life and Times, rev. ed. New York City: Washington Square Press, 2008: Ch. 10-12.
24. Oates
a. Wonderland, 2nd rev. ed. 1992. Rpt. New York City: Modern Library, 2006: Pt. 1.
b. Will You Always Love Me? and Other Stories, rev. ed. William Abrahams/Dutton, 1996: Pt. 1.
c. I Am No One You Know: Stories. New York City: Ecco, 2004: Pt. 1.
d. Dear Husband,: Stories. New York City: Ecco Press, 2009: Pt. 1.
e. Give Me Your Heart: Tales of Mystery and Suspense. Boston: Otto Penzler/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010.
f. Evil Eye: Four Novellas of Love Gone Wrong. New York City: The Mysterious Press, 2013.
g. Beautiful Days: Stories. New York City: Ecco, 2018: Pt. 1.
23. Ishmael Reed
a. Shrovetide in Old New Orleans. 1978. Rpt. New York City: Atheneum, 1989.
b. God Made Alaska for the Indians. New York City: Garland, 1982.
25. The Seagraves
a. The Marcos Dynasty. New York City: Harper & Row, 1988: Ch. 11-15, 17-18.
b. Gold Warriors: America’s Secret Recovery of Yamashita’s Gold, rev. ed. London: Verso, 2005: Ch. 12-15.
26. Updike
a. The Rabbit Novels, Vol. II. New York City: Ballantine Books, 2003.
b. Collected Later Stories. Ed. Christopher Carduff. New York City: Library of America, 2013.
27. Gore Vidal [Eugene Luther Vidal Jr.]
a. Kalki. New York City: Random House, 1978.
b. Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir, 1964-2006. New York City: Doubleday, 2006: Ch. 42-43.
Kaplan, Fred. Gore Vidal: A Biography. New York City: Doubleday, 1999: Ch. 17-18.
28. Westlake
a. Dancing Aztecs. 1976. Rpt. New York City: Overlook Duckworth, 2013.
b. Call Me a Cab. London: Hard Case Crime, 2022.
29. Other
Anderson, Patrick. High in America: The True Story Behind NORML and the Politics of Marijuana. New York City: The Viking Press, 1981: Ch. 1, 4-19.
Bamford, James. A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies, rev. ed. New York City: Anchor Books, 2005: Ch. 6.
Barker, Kim. The Tailiban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan. New York City: Doubleday, 2011: Ch. 2.
H. Barker & Y. Taylor, Ch. 6-7.
Bax, Martin. The Hospital Ship. New York City: New Directions, 1976.
Bottum, Ch. 16.
Burgess, Complete Enderby, Pt. 4.
F. Burton & Bruning, Ch. 1, 3, 15.
P.N. Carroll, Ch. 3-4, 7-8, 13-16.
Cowie, Ch. 5.
Duncan, Ch. 7.
Edison, You Are a Complete Disappointment, Ch. 7.
Eisler, Shark Tank, Ch. 1, 3, 6, 9, 15.
English. Dangerous Rhythms: Jazz and the Underworld. New York City: William Morrow, 2023: Ch. 14.
Evans, Peter. Nemesis: The True Story: Aristotle Onassis, Jackie O, and the Love Triangle That Brought Down the Kennedys. New York City: ReganBooks, 2004: Ch. 25-31.
Faith & Action: The Collected Articles of R.J. Rushdoony From the Chalcedon Report, 1965-2004, Vol. I: Authority, Humanism & Morality. Vallecito, Calif.: Chalcedon/Ross House Books, 2019: Ch. 102.
Fearon, Ch. 9, 12.
Fiennes, Ch. 2, 4, 15-19.
Fleisher, David, and David Freedman. Death of an American: The Killing of John Singer. New York City: Continuum, 1983: Ch. 1, 5-16.
Fletcher, Ch. 2.
Frank, Thomas. The Conquest of Cool: Business Culture, Counterculture, and the Rise of Hip Consumerism. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1997: Ch. 11.
Franzen, Jonathan. Crossroads. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.
Grant, Ch. 8-9.
R.W. Greene, Ch. 7-8.
Greer, John Michael. Apocalypse Not: Everything You Know About 2012, Nostradamus and the Rapture Is Wrong. Berkeley, Calif.: Viva Editions, 2011: Ch. 6.
Greider, Ch. 2.
Hack, Richard. Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos and Letters – the Definitive Biography of the First American Billionaire. Beverly Hills, Calif.: New Millennium Press, 2001: Ch. 19-20.
Hayward, Ch. 7.
Herman, Arthur. The Idea of Decline in Western History. New York City: Free Press, 1997: Ch. 11.
Irwin, Ch. 3, 5.
Jacobs, David Michael. The UFO Controversy in America. 1975. Rpt. New York City: Signet/New American Library, 1976: Ch. 10.
C. James. Fame in the 20th Century. New York City: Random House, 1993: Ch. 7.
P. Johnson, Recovery of Freedom, Ch. 12, 15-19.
Kalechofsky, Roberta. The Martyrdom of Stephen Werner. 1975. Rpt. Marblehead, Mass.: Micah Publications, 2004.
Katz, Howard S. The Warmongers. Ed. Susan Harris. New York City: Books in Focus, 1979.
Kessler, Moscow Station, Ch. 5.
Killen, Andreas. 1973 Nervous Breakdown: Watergate, Warhol, and the Birth of Post-Sixties America. New York City: Bloomsbury, 2006.
Knightley, Phillip. The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker From the Crimea to Iraq, 2nd rev. ed. 2003. Rpt. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2004: Ch. 18.
Klein, Joe. “A Supermarket of Paranoia: America's Millionaires Run Scared in New Orleans." Rolling Stone 4 Feb. 1982: 6.
Kwitny. The Mullendore Murder Case. 1974. Rpt. Mattituck, N.Y.: Amereon, 1990: Ch. 1, 11-35.
Larabee, Ch. 5.
Lasch-Quinn, Elisabeth. Race Experts: How Racial Etiquette, Sensitivity Training, and New Age Therapy Hijacked the Civil Rights Revolution. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2001: Ch. 5.
Lysiak, Matthew. The Drudge Revolution: The Untold Story of How Talk Radio, Fox News, and a Gift Shop Clerk With an Internet Connection Took Down the Mainstream Media. Dallas: BenBella Books, 2020: Ch. 1.
Marshall, P.D. Scott & Hunter, Ch. 4.
McDonald, Lawrence G., and Patrick Robinson. A Colossal Failure of Common Sense: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Lehman Brothers. New York City: Crown Business, 2009: Ch. 1.
McLeod, Michael. Anatomy of a Beast: Obsession and Myth on the Trail of Bigfoot. Berkeley, Calif.: U of California P, 2009: Ch. 8-9.
Meckler, Laura. Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity. New York City: Henry Holt and Co.. 2023: Ch. 6-7, 9.
Mercer, Ilana. Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America From Post-Apartheid South Africa. Seattle: Stairway Press, 2011: Ch. 4.
Mickey Cohen, Ch. 27.
Mullis, Ch. 8.
Nathan & Snedeker, Ch. 2.
Nelkin, Dorothy, and Michael Pollak. The Atom Beseiged: Extraparliamentary Dissent in France and Germany. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1981: Ch. 5-14.
Oppenheimer, Crazy Rich, Ch. 22-25, 35-38, 40, 46-47.
A. Parry, Ch. 40.
Percy, Walker. The Second Coming. New York City: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1980.
Perlstein, Ch. 26.
Prerau, David. Seize the Daylight: The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time. 2005. Rpt. New York City: Basic Books, 2009: Ch. 8.
Putnam, Robert D., David E. Campbell, and Shaylyn Romney Garrett. American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us, rev. ed. New York City: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2012: Ch. 8.
J. Red, Ch. 9.
Robin, Jennifer. Death Confetti: Pickers, Punks, and Transit Ghosts in Portland, Oregon. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2016.
Ross, Ch. 3-4.
Sandbrook, Ch. 2-4, 6, 9, 13.
Schaeffer, Francis A. How Should We Then  Live?: The Rise and Decline of Western Thought and Culture. 1976. Rpt. Wheaton, Ill.: Crossway Books, 1983: Ch. 13.
Schrag, Peter. The Decline of the WASP. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1971.
Sherwood, Ch. 4, 13.
Shirley, Rendezvous With Destiny, Ch. 3.
Shydner, Ch. 2-3.
H.R. Simpson, Ch. 13.
Simpson, John. Strange Places, Questionable People. London: Macmillan, 1998: Ch. 8.
Siwy, Bruce. Jailing the Johnstown Judge: Joe O'Kicki, the Mob, and Corrupt Justice. Charleston, S.C.: The History Press, 2022: Ch. 14.
“Smith, Adam” [George Goodman]. Supermoney, rev. ed. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2006: Ch. 1-2.
R.J. Smith, Ch. 21.
Spielman, Ed. The Mighty Atom: The Life and Times of Joseph L. Greenstein. 1979. Rpt. London: Secker & Warburg, 1980: Ch. 11-13.
Stein, Jean. Edie: An American Biography. Ed. George Plimpton. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1982: Ch. 41-45.
Theodoracopulos, Taki. The Greek Upheaval: Kings, Demogogues and Bayonets. London: Stacey International, 1976: Ch. 1-5, 14.
D. Talbot, Ch. 18-20, 22-24, 30-31.
Trillin, Calvin. Floater. New Haven, Conn.: Ticknor & Fields, 1980.
E. Thomas, Ch. 29-30.
G. Webb, Ch. 3-4.
Warren, Donald I. The Radical Center: Middle Americans and the Politics of Alienation. Notre Dame, Ind.: U of Notre Dame P, 1976.
Wheen, Ch. 9.
Willeford, Charles. The Shark-Infested Custard. 1993. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2005.
Yankelovich, Daniel. The New Morality: A Profile of American Youth in the 70's. New York City: McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1974.

F. The Boomers

1. The Clintons
a. R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr.
i. Boy Clinton: The Political Biography. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1996: Ch. 1.
ii. The Clinton Crack-Up: The Boy President’s Life After the White House. Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, 2007: Ch. 5.
b. Christopher P. Andersen
(1) Bill and Hillary: The Marriage. New York City: William Morrow and Co., 1999: Ch. 4.
(2) American Evita: Hillary Clinton’s Path to Power. New York City: William Morrow, 2004: Ch. 3.
c. Others
Evans-Pritchard, Ambrose. The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1997: Ch. 17, 19.
Flowers, Gennifer, and Jacquelyn Dapper. Passion and Betrayal.  Del Mar, Calif.: Emery Dalton Books, 1995: Ch. 3-5.
E. Klein, Ch. 10, 12-13.
R. Morris. Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America. New York City: John Macrae/Henry Holt and Co., 1996: Ch. 9-12.
J.B. Stewart. Blood Sport: The President and His Adversaries, rev. ed. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1997: Ch. 1-4.
R.J. Stone ^& Morrow, Ch. 2-4, 12-13, 21.
2. Jeffrey Epstein
Howard, Dylan et al. Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales: Spies, Lies & Blackmail. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2019: Ch. 2.
Jones, Alex, and Kent Heckenlively. The Great Awakening: Defeating the Globalists and Launching the Next Great Renaissance. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2023: Ch. 9.
3. Others
Andrews, Ch. 7.
Baritz, Loren. The Good Life: The Meaning of Success for the American Middle Class. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1989: Ch. 6.
Blitzer, Wolf. Territory of Lies: The Rise, Fall, and Betrayal of Jonathan Jay Pollard. 1989. Rpt. New York City: Harper & Row Publishers, 1990: Ch. 4.
Bowden, Mark. Doctor Dealer, rev. ed. New York City: Grove Press, 2001: Ch. 1-4, 7.
Buckley, The Rake, Ch. 8.
Buford, Ch. 1.
Bryce. Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron, rev. ed. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2003: Ch. 7.
Byron, Testosterone Inc., Ch. 23.
Carr, David. The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2008: Ch. 3-4, 6, 8, 10.
Chasteen, John Charles. Getting High: Marijuana Through the Ages. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016: Ch. 1.
Coryell, Ch. 31.
R.B. Cramer, Ch. 78.
Cursed From Birth: The Short, Unhappy Life of William S. Burroughs Jr. Ed. David Ohle. 2001. Rpt. New York City: Soft Skull Press, 2006: Ch. 3-4.
T. Davis, Ch. 5-7.
Denton, Sally. The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs and Murder, rev. ed. Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse Star, 2001: Ch. 1.
DeLillo. Players. 1977. Rpt. New York City: Vintage, 1983.
Ellroy. The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010: Ch. 5-6.
Havill, Ch. 14.
Hougan. Decadence: Radical Nostalgia, Narcissism and Decline in the '70s. New York City: William Morrow & Co., 1975.
Isaacson, Ch. 3, 7.
P. Jenkins, Decade of Nightmares, Ch. 1.
Jones, E. Michael. Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control. South Bend, Ind.: St. Augustine's Press, 2000: Pt. 3, Ch. 15-18.
Kranish, Michael, and Scott Helman. The Real Romney, rev. ed. New York City: Harper, 2012: Ch. 4.
R. Lindsey, Ch. 7, 13.
McInerny, Jay. Ransom. New York City: Vintage Books, 1985.
Ortved, Ch. 1.
Trump & Leerhsen, Ch. 3.

G. The Opposition

1. Reagan
W.F. Buckley, The Reagan I Knew, Ch. 6, 9-11.
Cannon, Governor Reagan, Ch. 23-25, 28.
P.N. Carroll, Ch. 17.
Colacello, Ronnie & Nancy, Ch. 17.
Edsall & Edsall, Ch. 6.
J. Mann. The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War. New York City: Viking, 2009: Pt. 3, Ch. 3.
Nofziger, Ch. 7.
Novak, Ch. 24.
Schweizer, Reagan's War, Ch. 6.
Shirley, Reagan Rising, Ch. 7.
2. The Religious Right
W. Martin, Ch. 7-8.
McVicar, Michael J. Christian Reconstruction: R.J. Rushdoony and American Religious Conservatism. Chapel Hill, N.C. U of North Carolina P, 2015: Ch. 6.
3. Others
G. Allen, Richard Nixon, Ch. 16.
Baker, Peter. Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House. 2013. Rpt. New York City: Anchor Books, 2014: Ch. 2.
Bartley, Robert L. The Seven Fat Years — and How to Do It Again, rev. ed. New York City: The Free Press, 1995: Ch. 2.
Bartlett, Ch. 11-14, Appendix E.
Biskupic, Ch. 4.
J.L. Buckley, Ch. 3-5, 9-10.
Caldwell, Christopher. The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties. New York City:Simon & Schuster, 2020: Ch. 5.
Cashill, What’s the Matter With California?, Ch. 8.
Critser, Greg. Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies. 2005. Rpt. Boston: Mariner Books, 2006: Ch. 1.
DeConde, Ch. 14.
Doherty, Brian. Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2007: Ch. 8.
Edwards. The Power of Ideas: The Heritage Foundation at 25 Years. Ottawa, Ill.: Jameson Books, 1997: Ch. 1-3.
Fox, Joel. The Legend of Proposition 13: The Great California Tax Revolt. Bloomington, Ind.: Xlibris, 2003.
Gottfried. Encounters: My Life with Nixon, Marcuse, and Other Friends and Teachers. Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2009: Ch. 4, 9.
Kelley, John L. Bringing the Market Back in: The Political Revitalization of Market Liberalism. New York City: New York UP, 1997: Ch. 4.
Kondracke, Morton, and Fred Barnes. Jack Kemp: The Bleeding-Heart Conservative Who Changed America. New York City: Sentinel, 2015: Ch. 2.
Moldea, Dark Victory, Ch. 32.
O’Sullivan, Ch. 1, 4.
Pauken, Ch. 13.
Roberts, Paul Craig. The Supply-Side Revolution: An Insider's Account of Policymaking in Washington. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1984: Ch. 1-3.
Paul, Ron. Swords Into Plowshares: A Life in Wartime and a Future of Peace and Prosperity. Clute, Texas: Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, 2015: Ch. 3.
Schuettinger & Butler, Ch. 16-20.
Sherman, Alfred. Paradoxes of Power: Reflections on the Thatcher Interlude. Ed. Mark Garnett. 2005. Rpt. Exeter, U.K.: Andrews UK, 2016: Ch. 2-4.
Shirley, Reagan Rising, Ch. 6.
Smith, James Allen. The Idea Brokers: Think Tanks and the Rise of the New Policy Elite. New York City: The Free Press, 1991: Ch. 9-10.
Speaking Out: The Autobiography of Lester Garfield Maddox. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1975: Ch. 11-12.
Vine, Ch. 8-12.
Wanniski, Jude. The Way the World Works, rev. 4th ed. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1998: Ch. 12.
Wyden, Ch. 39.
Ziegler, Ch. 2.

H. Street Life

1. Organized Crime
a. The Mafia
i. The Outfit
(1) Max Allan Collins
(a) Nolan Series
(i) Two for the Money, rev. ed. New York City: Hard Case Crime, 2004.
(ii) Double Down, 2nd rev. ed. London: Hard Case Crime, 2021.
(b) Quarry Series
(i) The First Quarry. New York City. Hard Case Crime, 2008.
(ii) Quarry’s Cut, rev. ed. Baltimore: Perfect Crime Books, 2010.
(2) Others
Coen, Jeff. Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2009.
Corbitt, Michael, and Sam Giancana. Double Deal: The Inside Story of Murder, Unbridled Corruption, and the Cop Who Was a Mobster. New York City: William Morrow, 2003: Ch. 19-25.
S. Giancana and Chuck Giancana. Double Cross: The Explosive Inside Story of the Mobster Who Controlled America, rev. ed. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2014: Ch. 1.
Griffin, Dennis N., and Frank Cullotta. Cullotta: The Life of a Chicago Criminal, Las Vegas Mobster, and Government Witness. Las Vegas: Huntington Press, 2007: Ch. 7.
Iceberg Slim [Robert Lee Moppins Jr.]. Death Wish: A Story of the Mafia. 1977. Rpt. New York City: Cash Money Content, 2013: Ch. 1-2, 4-5, 7, 10, 13-15, 17-28.
Maier, Ch. 45.
ii. Las Vegas
D.N. Griffin & Cullotta, Ch. 1, 8-10.
Neff, James. Mobbed Up: Jackie Presser's High-Wire Life in the Teamsters, the Mafia, and the F.B.I. New York City: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989: Ch. 14.
Smith, John L. Sharks in the Desert: The Founding Fathers and Current Kings of Las Vegas. Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, 2005: Ch. 5.
iii. Southern Florida
Burdick, Thomas, and Charlene Mitchell. Blue Thunder: How the Mafia Owned and Finally Murdered Cigarette Boat King Donald Aronow. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1990: Ch.13-16.
Chepesiuk. Gangsters of Miami: True Tales of Mobsters, Gamblers, Hit Men, Con Men and Gang Bangers From the Magic City. Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, 2010: Ch. 12.
Lernoux, Ch. 3.
iv. Cleveland
(1) Rick Porrello
(a) The Rise and Fall of the Cleveland Mafia: Corn, Sugar and Blood. Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, 1995: Ch. 10.
(b) To Kill the Irishman: The War That Crippled the Mafia, rev. ed. Cleveland: Next Hat Press, 2001: Ch. 1, 10-18.
(c) $uperthief: A Master Burglar, the Mafia, and the Great California Bank Heist. Novelty, Ohio: Next Hat Press, 2006: Ch. 9.
(2) Other
Neff, Ch. 10-11.
v. Philadelphia
(1) George Anastasia
(a) Blood and Honor: Inside the Scarfo Mob, the Mafia’s Most Violent Family, rev. ed. Philadelphia: Camino Books, 2004: Ch. 4-6.
(b) Mobfather: The Story of a Wife and Son Caught in the Web of the Mafia, rev. ed. Philadelphia: Camino Books, 2006: Ch. 4-7.
(c) The Last Gangster: From Cop to Wiseguy to FBI Informant: Big Ron Previte and the Fall of the American Mob. New York City: Regan Books, 2004: Ch. 2.
(2) Others
Demaris, Boardwalk Jungle, Ch. 10, 14-16.
Maas. Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano’s Story of Life in the Mafia. 1997. Rpt. New York City: HarperTorch, 2004: Ch. 10.
Pearson, Don, and Larry McShane. Last Don Standing: The Secret Life of Mob Boss Ralph Natale. New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2017: Ch 9-10, 13-16, 22.
vi. The Five Families
(1) The Lucheses
(a) The Hills
Hill, Gregg, and Gina Hill. On the Run: A Mafia Childhood. New York City: Warner Books, 2004: Ch. 1-2.
Hill, Henry, and Gus Russo. Gangsters and Goodfellas: The Mob, Witness Protection, and Life on the Run. New York City: M. Evans & Co., 2004: Ch. 6, 8.
Pileggi, Nicholas. Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1985: Ch. 12-22.
(b) Other
Breslin. The Good Rat: A True Story. New York City: HarperCollins, 2008: Ch. 7, 13.
Capeci, Jerry, and Tom Robbins. Mob Boss: The Life of Little Al D’Arco, the Man Who Brought Down the Mafia. 2013. Rpt. New York City: St. Martin’s Paperbacks, 2015: Ch. 8.
Raab, Ch. 1, 43.
(2) The Gambinos
(a) Capeci et al.
(i) Murder Machine: A True Story of Murder, Madness, and the Mafia, rev. ed. New York City: Onyx, 1993: Ch. 4-9, 11-13.
(ii) Mob Star: The Story of John Gotti, 2nd rev. ed. Indianapolis: Alpha, 2002: Ch. 1, 10-16.
(b Lou Eppolito
Eppolito, Lou, and Bob Drury. Mafia Cop. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1992: Ch. 1-3, 19-20.
Pistone & Brandt, Ch. 18.
(c) Others
Knoedelseder, Stiffed, Ch. 3, 9.
Maas, Underboss, Ch. 4-9, 11-12.
O'Brien, Joseph F., and Andris Kurins. Boss of Bosses: The Fall of the Godfather: The FBI and Paul Castellano. 1991. Rpt. London: Pocket Books, 1993: Ch. 17.
Roberts, Jon [Jon Riccobono], and Evan Wright. American Desperado: My Life – From Mafia Soldier to Cocaine Cowboy to Secret Government Asset. New York City: Crown Publishers, 2011: Ch. 19-20, 22-27, 40.
(3) The Columbos
(a) The Scarpas
(i) Lance
Cover Up: What the Government Is Still Hiding About the War on Terror. New York City: ReganBooks, 2004: Ch. 7.
Deal With the Devil, Ch. 8, 11, 43, Appendix B.
(ii) Other
Harmon, Sandra. Mafia Son: The Scarpa Mob Family, the FBI, and a Story of Betrayal. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2009: Ch. 11-13, 15-16.
Hoffman, William, and Lake Headley. Contract Killer: The Explosive Story of the Mafia's Most Notorious Hit Man, Donald "Tony the Greek" Frankos. New York City: Thunder's Mouth Press, 1992: Ch. 1, 12-18.
(b) Other
Franzese, Michael [Michael Grillo]. Blood Covenant, 2nd rev. ed. New Kensington, Pa.: Whitaker House, 2018: Pt. 1, Ch. 24-64.
(4) Others
Breslin, The Good Rat, Ch. 2, 17.
Capeci & Robbins, Ch. 7.
Maas. Made in America. 1979. Rpt. London: Corgi Books, 1981.
Patrick, Vincent. The Pope of Greenwich Village. 1979. Rpt. Los Gatos, Calif.: Smashwords Edition, 2014.
Raab, Ch. 54.
Talese, Gay. Honor Thy Father, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Harper Perennial, 2009: Ch. 31-32.
Wolf, George, and Joseph DiMona. Frank Costello: Prime Minister of the Underworld. 1974. Rpt. London: Futura Publications, 1976: Pt. 1, Ch. 1; Pt. 5, Ch. 19.
vi. Pistone
Pistone & Woodley, Ch. 3-16.
Pistone & Brandt, Ch. 1-3, 5, 10, 12, 22.
vii. Sicily
Chepesiuk. Hard Target: The United States War Against International Drug Trafficking, 1982-1997. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 1999: Ch. 8.
Dickie, John. Blood Brotherhoods: A History of Italy's Three Mafias, rev. ed. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2014: Ch. 52, 55.
Sterling. Octopus: The Long Reach of the International Sicilian Mafia. 1990. Rpt. London: Harper Collins, 1993: Ch. 9.
viii. Aladena "Jimmy the Weasel" Fratianno
Demaris. The Last Mafioso: The Treacherous World of Jimmy Fratianno. 1981. Rpt. New York City: Ishi Press International, 2010: Ch. 28-53.
Zuckerman, Michael J. Vengeance Is Mine: Jimmy “The Weasel" Fratianno Tells How He Brought the Kiss of Death to the Mafia. New York City: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1987: Ch. 1-2, 4-13, 15.
ix. The Teamsters
Brandt. “I Heard You Paint Houses”: Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran, and Closing the Case on Jimmy Hoffa, 2nd rev. ed. Hanover, N.H.: Steerforth Press, 2016: Ch. 24, 26-31.
Moldea. The Hoffa Wars: The Rise and Fall of Jimmy Hoffa, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Open Road Integrated Media, 2015: Ch. 1, 14-19.
J. Neff, Ch. 13, 18-19, 23.
Pearson & McShane, Ch. 11.
x. Elmore Leonard
(a) Mr. Majestyk. 1974. Rpt. New York City: HarperCollins, 2012.
(b) Gold Coast. 1980. Rpt. New York City: HarperTorch, 2002.
xi. Other
Anka & Dalton, Ch. 8.
A.A. Block, Space, Time, and Organized Crime, Ch. 7-10.
Brandt, Ch. 25.
Brewton, Ch. 15.
Carlo, Philip. The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2006: Ch. 22-38, 40-41.
Capeci. The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Mafia, rev. ed. Indianapolis: Alpha, 2004: Ch. 17.
H. Carr, Ch. 10.
Cédilot, André, and André Noël. Mafia Inc.: The Long, Bloody Reign of Canada's Sicilian Clan, rev. ed. Trans. Michael Gilson. Toronto: Random House Canada, 2011: Ch. 5.
J.H. Davis, Mafia Kingfish, Ch. 48, 51-55.
Deitche, Scott. Cigar City Mafia: A Complete History of the Tampa Underworld, rev. ed. Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, 2005: Ch. 27-30, 35-37.
Dickie, Blood Brotherhoods, Ch. 53, 56.
Earley, Pete, and Gerald Shur. WITSEC: Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program. New York City: Bantam Books, 2002: Pt. 3.
Ellroy, Blood's a Rover, Ch. 84-85.
E.J. Epstein, Annals of Unsolved Crime, Ch. 21, 28.
Ingle, Bob, and Sandy McClure. The Soprano State: New Jersey’s Culture of Corruption, rev. ed. New York City: St. Martin’s, 2009: Ch. 8-9.
Garfield. The Hit and the Marksman. Waterville, Maine: Five Star, 2003.
R.W. Greene, Ch. 11.
“Hohimer, Frank” [John Seybold]. Thief. 1975. Rpt. New York City: Playboy Paperbacks, 1981: Ch. 12.
Humphreys, Adrian. The Weasel: A Double Life in the Mafia. Mississauga, Ont.: John Wiley & Sons Canada, 2012: Ch. 17-19.
In My Own Words: The Underworld Autobiography of Michael Mickey Cohen as Told to John Peer Nugent. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1975: Ch. 26, 28.
Konigsberg, Eric. Blood Relation. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005: Ch. 11.
Moldea. Interference: How Organized Crime Influences Professional Football, rev. ed. New York City: Open Road Integrated Media, 2014: Ch. 24-28, 30-35, 37-41.
Ouseley, William. Mobsters in Our Midst: The Kansas City Crime Family. Kansas City, Mo.: Kansas City Star Books, 2011: Ch. 11-20.
Pearson & McShane, Ch. 12.
Rothmiller & I.G. Goldman, Ch. 7, 9.
Russo, Ch. 16.
Siwy, Ch. 5.
b. The Triads
Chepesiuk, Hard Target, Ch. 11.
G.L. Posner. Warlords of Crime: Chinese Secret Societies — The New Mafia. 1988. Rpt. New York City: Penguin Books, 1990: Ch. 12, 15.
c. Boston
H. Carr, Ch. 5, 7, 9.
Lehr, Dick, and Gerard O'Neill. Black Mass: The Irish Mob, the FBI, and a Devil's Deal. 2nd rev. ed. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2015: Ch. 1, 3-5.
d. Other
Burrough, Days of Rage, Ch. 13.
Chepesiuk, Hard Target, Ch. 17.
M.A. Collins. American Gangster. New York City: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 2007: Ch. 1-26.
Dickie, Blood Brotherhoods, Ch. 46-50, 58.
English. The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob, rev. ed. New York City: St. Martin's Griffin, 2006: Ch. 7-12.
Evans-Pritchard, Ch. 18, Appendix C.
Friedman, Robert I. Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2000: Ch. 2, 7.
Garfield. Recoil. 1977. Rpt. New York City: Mysterious Press, 2013.
Herzog, Ch. 15-24, 26-30, 32-35, 40.
D.E. Kaplan & Dubro, Ch. 5, 9-12.
Kwitny, Crimes of Patriots, Ch. 17.
C. Unger, House of Trump, House of Putin, Ch. 1.
2. Detroit
a. Donald Goines
i-a. Crime Partners. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1974.
i-b. Death List. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1974.
i-c. Kenyatta's Escape. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1974: Ch. 1, 3
i-d. Kenyatta's Last Hit. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1975: Ch. 3.
ii. Daddy Cool. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1974.
"Stone, Eddie" [Carlton Hollander]. Donald Writes No More: A Biography of Donald Goines, rev. ed. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1988: Ch. 10, 15.
b. Leonard
i. Swag. 1976. Rpt. New York City: William Morrow, 2013.
ii. City Primeval: High Noon in Detroit. New York City: Arbor House, 1980.
c. Other
M.A. Collins. Fly Paper, rev. ed. Drums, Pa.: Perfect Crime Books, 2012: Ch. 5-9, 11.
3. L.A.
a. Ellroy
i. My Dark Places: An L.A. Crime Memoir. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996: Ch. 11.
ii. Blood's a Rover, Ch. 80-81, 86, 94-96, 98, 104, 106, 109-110, 113, 115, 120, 126, 128.
b. Goines
i-a. Kenyatta's Last Hit, Ch. 1-2, 4-11.
i-b. Kenyatta's Escape, Ch. 10-12.
ii. Inner City Hoodlum. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1975.
E. Stone, Ch. 1, 11-13.
c. Others
Hawes, Hampton, and Dan Asher. Raise Up Off Me. 1974. Rpt. New York City: Thunder's Mouth Press, 2001: Ch. 27-28.
Hougan, Spooks, Ch. 8.
O’Grady, John, and Nolan Davis. O’Grady: The Life and Times of Hollywood’s No. 1 Private Eye. Los Angeles: J.P. Tarcher, 1974: Ch. 1, 13.
Rafael, Tony. The Mexican Mafia, rev. ed. New York City:  Encounter Books, 2009: Ch. 12.
Rosen, Ira. Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2021: Ch. 8.
Wambaugh, Joseph. The Choirboys. 1975. Rpt. New York City: Dell Publishing, 1976.
G. Webb, Ch. 7.
4. Drugs
a. The Colombians
i. Chepesiuk
(1) Hard Target, Ch. 12.
(2) Narcos Inc.: The Rise and Fall of the Cali Cartel, rev. ed. 2007. Rpt. Dublin: Maverick House, 2017: Ch. 2-3.
ii. Others
Gugliotta, Guy and Jeff Leen. Kings of Cocaine: Inside the Medellin Cartel — an Astonishing True Story of Murder, Money, and International Corruption. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1989: Ch. 2, 4-5, 15.
Shannon, Elaine. Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen, and the War America Can't Win, rev. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 1989: Ch. 5.
b. Marijuana
Grinspoon, Dr. Lester, and James B. Bakalar. Marihuana Reconsidered, 2nd rev. ed. Oakland, Calif.: Quick American Archives, 1994: Ch. 14.
Higdon, James. The Cornbread Mafia: A Homegrown Syndicate’s Code of Silence and the Biggest Marijuana Bust in America History. Gilford, Conn.: Lyons Press, 2012: Ch. 4-5.
Lee, Martin A. Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana: Medical, Recreational, and Scientific. New York City: Scribner, 2012: Ch. 4.
Porrello, $uperthief, Ch. 26.
Torgoff, Martin. Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2004: Ch. 8.
c. Frank Lucas
Chepesiuk, Sergeant Smack, Ch. 9.
Lucas, Frank, and Aliya S. King. Original Gangster: My Life As NYC’s Biggest, Baddest Drugs Baron. 2009. Rpt. London: Ebury, 2012: Ch. 14-26.
d. Chepesiuk
i. Hard Target, Ch. 2, 5, 7.
ii. Gangsters of Miami, Ch. 7-8.
iii. Sergeant Smack, Ch. 5, 7, 10-14, 16-17.
e. Donald Goddard
i. The Insider: The FBI's Undercover "Wiseguy"Goes Public. New York City: Pocket Books, 1992: Ch. 8-9.
ii. Undercover: The Secret Lives of a Federal Agent. 1988. Rpt. London: Grafton, 1991: Ch. 1, 5-11.
f. Jonathan Marshall
i. Drug Wars: Corruption, Counterinsurgency and Covert Operations in the Third World. Forestville, Calif: Cohan & Cohen Publishers, 1991: Ch. 1-2.
ii. Cocaine Politics, Ch. 5.
g. Others
Carlo, Ch. 39.
Charbonneau, Jean-Pierre. The Canadian Connection. 1974. Trans. James Stewart. Ottawa, Ont.: Optimum Publishing Co., 1976: Ch. 1.
Clark, Claire D. The Recovery Revolution: The Battle Over Addiction Treatment in the United States. New York City: Columbia UP, 2017: Ch. 5.
DeGrandpre, Richard. The Cult of Pharmacology: How America Became the World’s Most Troubled Drug Culture. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 2006: Ch. 6.
Denton, Ch. 6-9.
Eddy, Paul et al. The Cocaine Wars. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1988: Ch. 3, 8, 10, 20.
E.J. Epstein, Agency of Fear, Ch. 33.
Farren, Mick. Speed-Speed-Speedfreak: A Fast History of Amphetamine. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2010: Ch. 8.
Farzad, Roben. Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami. New York City: New American Library, 2017: Ch. 3.
Fogle, James. Drugstore Cowboy. New York City: Delta Fiction, 1990.
Goines. Dopefiend. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1971.
Hernández, Anabel. Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers, rev. ed. Trans. Iain Bruce. London: Verso, 2014: Ch. 1-2, 4, 8.
James & Ritz, Ch. 25-27.
Krüger & Meldon, Ch. 9-12, 19.
Kwitny, Crimes of Patriots, Ch. 14, 16.
Lertzman, Richard A., and William J. Birnes. Dr. Feelgood: The Shocking Story of the Doctor Who May Have Changed History by Treating and Drugging JFK, Marilyn, Elvis, and Other Prominent Figures. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2013: Ch. 11-12.
R. Lindsey, Ch. 11-12, 24.
Moldea, Interference, Ch. 42.
O'Connor, D'Arcy, and Miranda O'Connor. Montreal's Irish Mafia: The True Story of the Infamous West End Gang. Mississauga, Ont.: John Wiley & Sons Canada, 2011: Ch. 15.
Odishelidze, Alexander, and Arthur B Laffer. Pay to the Order of Puerto Rico. Fairfax, Va.: Allegiance Press, 2004: Ch. 14.
Jon Roberts & E. Wright, Ch. 31-39.
Sabbag, Robert. Snowblind: A Brief Career in the Cocaine Trade, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Grove Press, 2010: Ch. 1, 3-17.
Shannon, Ch. 7.
Streatfeild, Dominic. Cocaine (An Unauthorized Biography). New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2001: Ch. 11-12, 18.
Sutton, Two Faces of George Bush, Ch. 11.
Teresa, Vincent. Wiseguys. 1978. Rpt. London: Panther, 1979.
Torgoff. Can’t Find My Way Home, Ch. 10.
5. The Blacks
a. The Pimps
Goines. Street Players. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1973.
Hall, Susan, and Bob Adelman. Gentleman of Leisure: A Year in the Life of a Pimp. 1972. Rpt. New York City: powerHouse Books, 2006.
Milner, Christine, and Richard Milner. Black Players: The Secret World of Black Pimps. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1972.
c. Chepesiuk
i. Hard Target, Ch. 14-15.
ii. Black Gangsters of Chicago. Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, 2007: Ch. 7-8.
iii. Black Caesar, Ch. 4-8.
iv. Sergeant Smack, Ch. 15.
b. Goines
i. White Man's Justice, Black Man's Grief. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1973.
ii. Eldorado Red. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1974.
iii. Kenyatta's Escape, Ch. 9.
Gifford, Pimping Fictions, Ch. 3.
c. Iceberg Slim
i. Death Wish, Ch. 3, 6, 8-9, 11-12, 14, 16.
ii. Doom Fox. New York City: Grove Press, 1998: Ch. 17-18.
Gifford. Street Poison: The Biography of Iceberg Slim. New York City: Doubleday, 2015: Ch. 9.
d. Others
Barnes, Leroy “Nicky,” and Tom Folsom. Mr. Untouchable. New York City: RuggedLand, 2007.
Burrough, Days of Rage, Ch. 8-9, 11.
Chang, Ch. 5-7.
Ellroy, Blood's a Rover, Ch. 82-83, 88, 91-92, 97, 100, 103, 108, 112.
English. Whitey's Payback, and Other True Stories of Gangsterism, Murder, Corruption, and Revenge. New York City: Mysterious Press/Open Road Integrated Media, 2013: Pt. 1, Ch. 2.
Forman, James Jr. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. New York City: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017: Ch. 1-2, 4.
Gifford, Pimping Fictions, Ch. 4.
Howard, Clark. Zebra: The True Account of 179 Days of Terror in San Francisco. 1979. Rpt. Berkley Books, 1980.
Ianni, Francis A.J. Black Mafia: Ethnic Succession in Organized Crime. 1974. Rpt. London: New English Library, 1975: Ch. 1-2, 6, Appendix B.
Tidyman, Ernest. Goodbye, Mr. Shaft. 1973. Rpt. London: Corgi, 1976: Ch. 2, 4-12.
6. Greater New York
a. The Police
Daley, Robert. Prince of the City: The True Story of a Cop Who Knew Too Much. 1978. Rpt. Kingston, R.I.: Moyer Bell, 2005.
Fleetwood, Hugh. The Order of Death. 1976. Rpt. London: Faber and Faber, 2013.
Gelb, Barbara. On the Track of Murder: Behind the Scenes With a Homicide Commando Squad. New York City: William Morrow and Co., 1975.
Maas. Serpico, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Harper Perennial, 2005: Ch. 1-2, 15-18.
b. L. Block
i. Time to Murder and Create. 1976. Rpt. London: Orion Books, 1997.
ii. When the Sacred Ginmill Closes. 1986. Rpt. New York City: Jove Books, 1990.
iii. The Night and the Music: The Matthew Scudder Stories. Dublin, Ohio: Telemachus Press, 2011.
c. Mickey Spillane [Frank Morrison Spillane]
i. The Erection Set. 1972. Rpt. London: Orion, 2015.
ii. Kiss Her Goodbye, rev. ed. London: Titan Books, 2021.
d. Tidyman
i. Shaft: The Original Novel. 1970. Rpt. Mt. Laurel, N.J.: Dynamite Entertainment, 2016.
ii. Shaft Among the Jews. New York City: The Dial Press, 1972.
iii. Goodbye, Mr. Shaft, Ch. 1, 3.
iv. The Last Shaft. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1975.
e. Westlake
i. “Tucker Coe”
(1) Wax Apple, rev. ed. Unity, Maine: Five Star, 2000.
(2) A Jade in Aries, rev. ed. Unity, Maine: Five Star, 2001.
(3) Don’t Lie to Me: A Mitchell Tobin Mystery, rev. ed. Waterville, Maine: Five Star, 2001.
ii. Other
(1) Bank Shot. 1972. Rpt. New York City: Mysterious Press, 1987.
(2) Cops and Robbers. 1972. Rpt. New York City: Mysterious Press, 1993.
f. Other
Bloom, Stephen G. Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America, rev. ed. New York City: Harcourt, 2001: Ch. 17.
Capeci, Murder Machine, Ch. 10.
English. Savage City: A Generation on the Edge. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2011: Ch. 15-18.
Eppolito & Drury, Ch. 14-18.
Garfield. Death Wish. 1972. Rpt. New York City: Overlook Duckworth, 2018: Ch. 1-12, 14-21.
Grogan, Emmett [Eugene Leo Grogran]. Final Score. 1976. Rpt. London: Panther, 1978: 2-3, 5-6, 8, 10, 12-14, 16-19, 21-43.
Hoffman, Paul. "What the Hell Is Justice?": The Life and Trials of a Criminal Lawyer. Chicago: Playboy Press, 1974: Ch. 1, 6, 9, 12-13.
Kostelanetz, Ch. 40.
Lethem, Jonathan. The Fortress of Solitude. 2003. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 2004: Pt. 1, Ch. 1-13.
Mahler, Ch. 42, 44-45.
McNeil & McCain, Ch. 9.
Pileggi. Blye, Private Eye. 1976. Rpt. New York City: Pocket Books, 1987: Ch. 1-9, 11-15.
Porrello, $uperthief, Ch. 10-11.
Traub, James. The Devil's Playground: A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square. New York City: Random House, 2004: Ch.10-11, 14.
Walker, David F. et al. Shaft: Imitation of Life. Mt. Laurel, N.J.: Dynamite Entertainment, 2016.
Zito, Chuck, and Joe Layden. Street Justice. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 2002: Ch. 7-9, 11.
7. Florida
J.R. Adams, Ch. 7.
Buchanan, Edna, Never Let Them See You Cry: More From Miami, America's Hottest Beat. 1992. Rpt. New York City: Berkeley Books, 1993: Ch. 12.
Gugliotta & Leen, Ch. 1.
Irving. Final Argument. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1993: Ch. 2-3, 6, 8, 15-16, 18.
Lernoux, Ch. 8.
G.L. Posner. Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth, and Power — a Dispatch From the Beach. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2009: Ch. 8-9.
Jon Roberts & E. Wright, Ch. 28-30.
8. The Leftover '60s Radicals
Burrough, Days of Rage, Ch. 14.
Stern, Susan. With the Weathermen: The Personal Journal of a Revolutionary Woman. 1975. Rpt. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers UP, 2007: Ch. 12-16.
9. Southern California
a. Mike Jahn
i. The Unfortunate Replacement. New York City: Popular Library, 1975.
ii. The Deadliest Game. New York City: Popular Library, 1976.
b. Others
Baker, Sgt. John R., and Stephen J. Rivele. Vice: One Cop’s Story of Patrolling America’s Most Dangerous City. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 2011: Ch. 10-19.
Cannell, Stephen J. The Pallbearers. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2010: Ch. 1.
Grogan, Ch. 1, 4, 9, 11.
Porrello, $uperthief, Ch. 13-16.
Rothmiller & I.G. Goldman, Ch. 2-5.
10. San Francisco Bay Area
Ellroy. Killer on the Road. 1986. Rpt. New York City: Perennial, 2002: Ch. 12-14.
English, Whitey's Payback, Pt. 2, Ch. 1.
Gores, Joe. Interface. 1974. Rpt. London: Orion, 2004.
Thompson, Josiah. Gumshoe: Reflections in a Private Eye. 1988. Rpt. London: Pan, 1990.
Winston, Ali, and Darwin BondGraham. The Riders Come Out at Night: Brutality, Corruption, and Cover-Up in Oakland. New York City: Atria Books, 2023: Ch. 7.
11. Serial Killers
Ellroy, Killer on the Road, Ch. 15-19.
Hanna, David. Harvest of Horror: Mass Murder in Houston. New York City: Belmont Tower Books, 1975.
Terry, Maury. The Ultimate Evil: The Truth About the Cult Murders: Son of Sam & Beyond, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Barnes & Noble Books, 1999: Ch. 1-8, 10-20, 22.
Vronsky, Peter. American Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years, 1950-2000. New York City: Berkley, 2021: Ch. 5-6.
12. Japan
Adelstein, Jake. The Last Yakuza: Life and Death in the Japanese Underworld, rev. ed. Minneapolis: Scribe Publications, 2023: Ch. 2.
Rome, Florence. The Tattooed Men: An American Woman Reports on the Japanese Criminal Underworld. New York City: Delacorte Press, 1975: Ch. 1-2, 5-6, 10-11, 13.
Whiting, Robert. Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan. 1999. Rpt. London: Constable & Robinson, 2012: Ch. 6.
13. M.A. Collins
a. Quarry Series
i. Quarry's Choice. London: Hard Case Crime, 2015.
ii. Quarry in the Black. London: Hard Case Crime, 2016.
iii. Quarry’s Climax. London: Hard Case Crime, 2017.
b. Other
i. No Cure for Death: A Mallory Novel. 1983. Rpt. Las Vegas: Thomas & Mercer, 2012.
ii. Fly Paper, Ch. 1-4, 10, 12-17.
14. Garfield
a. Relentless. 1972. Rpt. New York City: Mysterious Press/Open Road Integrated Media, 2012.
b. The Threepersons Hunt. 1974. Rpt. Greenwich, Conn.: Fawcett Publications, 1975.
c. Death Wish, Ch. 13.
d. Death Sentence. 1975. Rpt. New York City: Bantam Books, 1990.
e. Fear in a Handful of Dust. 1978. Rpt. New York City: Mysterious Press, 1985.
f. Suspended Sentences. 1993. Rpt. New York City: Mysterious Press/Open Road Integrated Media, 2011.
15. Goines
a. Cry Revenge. Los Angeles: Holloway House Publishing Co., 1974.
b (1). Kenyatta's Escape, Ch. 2, 4-8.
b (2). Kenyatta's Last Hit, Ch. 12-14.
16. Robert B. Parker
a. God Save the Child. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1974.
b. Promised Land. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1976.
17. George Pelecanos
a. King Suckerman. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1997.
b. Nick's Trip. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 1993: Ch. 2.
c. The Turnaround. New York City: Little, Brown and Co., 2008: Ch. 1-4.
d. What It Was. New York City: Little, Brown and Co., 2012.
18. "Richard Stark" [Westlake]
a. Deadly Edge. 1971. Rpt. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2010.
b. Lemons Never Lie. 1971. Rpt. New York City: Hard Case Crime, 2006.
c. Plunder Squad. 1972. Rpt. Rpt. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2010.
d. Butcher’s Moon. 1974. Rpt. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2011.
19. Other
L. Block. Not Comin' Home to You, rev. ed. New York City: Open Road Integrated Media, 2010.
Bustos, Sergio, and Luisa Yanez. Miami’s Criminal Past: Uncovered. Charleston, S.C.: The History Press, 2007: Ch. 3.
Carlo, Ch. 21.
Dalla, Nolan, and Peter Alson. One of a Kind: The Rise and Fall of Stuey "The Kid" Unger, the World's Greatest Poker Player. New York City: Atria Books, 2005: Ch. 5.
Denton, Ch. 11.
Dorman, Ch. 11.
Ellroy, Blood's a Rover, Ch. 78-79, 89, 93, 105, 122.
English. The Corporation: An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld. New York City: William Morrow. 2018: Ch. 4-5, 7-8, 10.
Goddard, Ch. 4.
R.W. Greene, Ch. 3-4.
Grogan, Ch. 15, 20.
P. Jenkins, Decade of Nightmares, Ch. 5.
Krüger & Meldon, Ch. 20.
Liddy, Ch. 29-30.
McGowan, Ch. 7, 14, 16.
Messick, and Burt Goldblatt. Kidnapping: The Illustrated History. New York City: The Dial Press, 1974: Ch. 6.
Moldea. The Hunting of Cain: A True Story of Money, Greed, and Fratricide. New York City: Atheneum, 1983.
D'A. O'Connor & M. O'Connor, Ch. 10-11, 18.
Pearson & McShane, Ch. 20.
Porrello, $uperthief, Ch. 12, 17-25.
Silverman, Chip. Diner Guys. New York City: Birch Lane Press, 1989: Ch. 6.
Siwy, Ch. 3.
Stern, Ch. 16.
Thomas, Donald. Villains’ Paradise: A History of Britain’s Underworld. 2005. Rpt. New York City: Pegasus, 2006: Ch. 20.
W. Tucker, Ch. 13-14.
Von Doviak, Scott. Lowdown Road. London: Hard Case Crime, 2023: Ch. 20-37.
Westlake. Nobody’s Perfect. 1977. Rpt. New York City: Mysterious Press, 1989.

I. Chicago

Allswang, John M. Bosses, Machines, and Urban Voters, rev. ed. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1986: Ch. 6.
Ciccone, F. Richard. Royko: A Life in Print. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2001: Ch. 11-14.
Freddoso, David. The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2008: Ch. 8.
O'Connor, Len. Clout: Mayor Daley and His City. 1975. Rpt. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1984: Ch. 12.
Royko, Mike. Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago, rev. ed. New York City: Plume, 1988: Ch. 1, 4.

J. Las Vegas

Dalla & Alson, Ch. 6-8.
Denton & R. Morris. The Money and the Power: The Making of Las Vegas and Its Hold on America, 1947-2000. 2001. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 2002: Ch. 14-15.
Dunne, John Gregory. Vegas: A Memoir of a Dark Season. 1974. Rpt. New York City: Warner Books, 1975.
Puzo, Mario. Inside Las Vegas. New York City: Grosset & Dunlap, 1977.
J.L. Smith, Ch. 14, 26, 33.

K. The Rest of the World

1. Southeast Asia
a. Indonesia
Maraniss, Ch. 13.
Perkins, Ch. 11.
Soeharto's New Order and Its Legacy: Essays in Honour of Harold Crouch. Ed. Edward Aspinall and Greg Fealy. Canberra, A.C.T.: Australian National University E Press, 2010: Ch. 2, 6.
McCoy. Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State. Madison, Wis.: U of Wisconsin P, 2009: Ch. 12.
Polly, Ch. 25.
b. Other
Bartholomew, James. The Richest Man in the World: The Sultan of Brunei. 1989. Rpt. Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin, 1990: Ch. 4, 6, 9, 18.
2. Latin America
a. Panama
Miller, Tom. The Panama Hat Trail, rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: Adventure Press/National Geographic, 2001: Ch. 8.
Perkins, Ch. 14-15, 19.
b. Whelan
i. Allende: Death of a Marxist Dream. Westport, Conn.: Arlington House Publishers, 1981.
ii. Out of the Ashes, Ch. 8-12.
c. Other
Bolaño, Roberto. The Savage Detectives. 1998. Trans. Natasha Wimmer. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
Ellroy, Blood's a Rover, Ch. 124.
Fuentes, Carlos. The Hydra Head. Trans. Margaret Sayers Peden. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1978.
Miller, Tom. The Panama Hat Trail, rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: Adventure Press/National Geographic, 2001: Ch. 8.
Perkins, Ch. 23-24, 26.
Timerman, Jacobo. Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number. Trans. Toby Talbot. 1981. Rpt. Madison, Wis.: U of Wisconsin P, 2002: Ch. 1-4, 7-8, 10-11.
Updike. Brazil. Franklin Center, Pa.: Franklin Library, 1994: Ch. 17-28.
G. Webb, Ch. 2.
3. The Carribbean
Abbott, Elizabeth. Haiti: A Shattered Nation, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Overlook Duckworth, 2011: Ch. 7-9.
Kusche, Larry. The Bermuda Triangle Mystery -- Solved, rev. ed. 1986. Rpt. Edison, N.J.: Galahad Books, 2006: Ch. 48-53.
Naipaul, V.S. Guerrillas. 1975. Rpt. London: Picador, 2002.
Westlake, Donald E. Under an English Heaven. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1972: Ch. 31-32.
4. Africa
a. Frederick Forsyth
Forsyth, Frederick. The Dogs of War. New York City: The Viking Press, 1974.
Wheen, Ch. 6.
b. Other
E.J. Kahn. The First Decade: A Report on Independent Black Africa. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1972.
Pierce, Steven. Moral Economies of Corruption: State Formation and Political Culture in Nigeria. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 2016: Ch. 3.
Preston, Richard. The Hot Zone. 1994. Rpt. New York City: Anchor Books, 1995.
Wheen, Ch. 11.
5. Other
J. Anderson & Gibson, Ch. 21.
Buckley, The Rake, Ch. 9.
Cooley, Ch. 4.
Cutler, Ian. Jim Christy: A Vagabond Life. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2019: Ch. 6-7.
Herzog, Ch. 31.
Kessler, The Richest Man in the World, Ch. 11.
Laughland, John. A History of Political Trials: From Charles I to Saddam Hussein. Oxford, U.K.: Peter Lang, 2008: Ch. 13.
Maraniss, Ch. 15.
Napoleoni, Ch. 5.
Scahill, Jeremy. Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, rev. ed. New York City: Nation Books, 2008: Ch. 12.
H.R. Simpson, Ch. 10.
J. Simpson, Ch. 5-7, 9.

L. The Journalists

1. S.M. Hersh
S.M. Hersh, Reporter, Ch. 11-12, 16-17.
Russo, Ch. 19.
2. H.S. Thompson
Bronson, Ch. 11.
Carroll, E. Jean. Hunter: The Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson, rev. ed. Warwick, N.Y.: 1500 Books, 2010: Ch. 13, 15, 17.
McKeen, Ch. 9-11, 13-15.
Wenner & Corey Seymour, Ch. 5, 7-8.
3. Woodward & C. Bernstein
Havill, Ch. 13, 16.
A. Shepard, Ch. 8-9.
4. "60 Minutes"
a. M. Wallace
Rader, Ch. 13-19.
M. Wallace & Gates, Ch. 10, 15-18.
b. Harry Reasoner
Daniel, Douglass K. Harry Reasoner: A Life in the News. Austin, Texas: U of Texas P, 2007: Ch. 9.
Reasoner, Harry. Before the Colors Fade: A Look Back. 1981. Rpt. New York City: Quill, 1983: Ch. 13.
b. Others
Hewitt, Don. Tell Me a Story: Fifty Years and 60 Minutes in Television. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2001: Ch. 8.
Rosen, Ch. 1.
5. Rupert Murdoch
Mahler, Ch. 5, 8, 41.
Tuccille. Rupert Murdoch, rev. ed. New York City: Donald I. Fine, 1990: Ch. 5-10.
Wolff, Michael. The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch, rev. ed. New York City: Broadway Books, 2010: Ch. 1, 6.
6. ABC News
Daniel, Ch. 7-8.
Donaldson, Ch. 4.
7. Others
Eisler, Shark Tank, Ch. 8, 12.
E.J. Epstein, Assume Nothing, Ch. 16, 19-21.
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