XVI. The Contemporary World

A. The Catalyst Years

1. The Arts
a. Music
i. Rock
(1) Van Halen
(a) Greg Renoff
(i) Van Halen Rising: How a Southern California Backyard Party Band Saved Heavy Metal. Toronto: ECW Press, 2015: Ch. 11-13.
(ii) Ted Templeman: A Platinum Producer's Life in Music. Toronto: ECW Press, 2020: Ch. 8, 11-12.
(b) Others
Christe, Ian. Everybody Wants Some: The Van Halen Saga, rev. ed. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2008: Ch. 4-9.
Monk, Noel E., and Joe Layden. Runnin' With the Devil: A Backstage Pass to the Wild Times, Loud Rock, and the Down and Dirty Truth Behind the Making of Van Halen. New York City: Dey Street Books, 2017: Ch. 1-14.
Tolinski, Brad, and Chris Gill. Eruption: Conversations With Eddie Van Halen. New York City: Hatchette Books, 2021: Ch. 3-4.
(2) Heavy Metal
Christe. Sound of the Beast: The Complete Headbanging History of Heavy Metal, rev. ed. New York City: Perennial Currents, 2004: Ch. 3-5.
Dio, Ronnie James [Ronald Padavona], Mick Wall, and Wendy Dio. Rainbow in the Dark: The Autobiography. New York City: Permuted Press, 2021: Ch. 14.
Konow, David. Bang Your Head: The Rise and Fall of Heavy Metal. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2002: Ch. 5.
Lemmy [Ian Kilminster], and Janiss Garza. White Line Fever: The Autobiography. New York City: Citadel Press, 2002: Ch. 7-9.
Marks, Craig, and Rob Tannenbaum. I Want My MTV: The Uncensored Story of the Music Video Revolution, rev. ed. New York City: Plume, 2012: Ch.12.
McIver, Joel. To Live Is to Die: The Life and Death of Metallica's Cliff Burton, 2nd rev. ed. London: Jawbone Press, 2023: Ch. 2-5.
Mustaine, Dave, and Layden. Mustaine: A Heavy Metal Memoir, rev. ed. New York City: It Books, 2013: Ch. 3-5.
Wiederhorn, Jon, and Katherine Turman. Louder Than Hell: The Definitive Oral History of Metal. New York City: It Books, 2013: Ch. 3-4, 6, 8.
(3) Punk
Andersen, Mark, and Mark Jenkins. Dance of Days: Two Decades of Punk in the Nation's Capital. New York City: Soft Skull Press, 2000: Ch. 2-4.
McNeil, Legs, and Gillian McCain. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Grove Press, 2016: Ch. 32-33, 36-37, 39-44.
Vee, Tesco [Robert Vermeulen], and Dave Stimson. Touch and Go: The Hardcore Punk Fanzine '79-'83. Ed. Steve Miller. New York City: Bazillion Points, 2010.
(4) Steely Dan
Jones, Peter. The Nightfly: The Life of Steely Dan's Donald Fagen. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2022: Ch. 5-6.
Sweet, Brian. Steely Dan: Reelin’ in the Years, 4th rev. ed. London: Omnibus Press, 2018: Ch. 7-10.
(5) Other
Barnes, Jimmy [James Dixon Swan]. Working Class Man. Sydney: HarperCollins Publishers, 2017: Ch. 10-24.
Bergsman, Steve. I Put a Spell on You: The Bizarre Life of Screamin' Jay Hawkins. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2019: Ch. 10.
Bill Bruford: The Autobiography, rev. ed. London: Foruli Classics, 2013: Ch. 12-13.
Hoskyns, Barney. Lowside of the Road: A Life of Tom Waits. London: Faber and Faber, 2009: Pt. 1, Ch. 7-8; Pt. 2, Ch. 1-2.
Kiedis, Anthony, and Larry Sloman. Scar Tissue. New York City: Hyperion, 2004: Ch. 6.
Prato, Greg. The Yacht Rock Book: The Oral History of the Soft, Smooth Sounds of the 70s and 80s. London: Jawbone Press, 2018.
Smith, Sid. In the Court of King Crimson. London: Helter Skelter Publishing, 2001: Ch. 10-11.
Waksman, Steve. This Ain't the Summer of Love: Conflict and Crossover in Heavy Metal and Punk. Berkeley, Calif.: U of California P, 2009: Ch. 5-7.
Weigel, Dave. The Show That Never Ends: The Rise and Fall of Prog Rock. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2017: Ch. 10.
ii. Post-Punk
Birch, Will. Cruel to Be Kind: The Life and Music of Nick Lowe. New York City: Da Capo Press, 2019: Ch. 9-12.
Blackwell, Chris, and Paul Morley. The Islander: My Life in Music and Beyond. New York City: Gallery Books, 2022: Ch. 10-11, 13.
Boch, Richard. The Mudd Club. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2017.
Costello, Elvis [Declan Patrick Aloysius McManus]. Unfaitful Music & Disappearing Ink. New York City: Blue Rider Press, 2015: Ch. 3, 5, 13, 16-17, 19-23, 26, 28.
Flanagan, Harley. Hard-Core: Life of My Own. Ed. Laura Lee Flanagan. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2016: Ch. 3-8.
Gendron, Bernard. Between Monmartre and the Mudd Clubb: Popular Music and the Avant-Garde. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2002: Ch. 12-13.
Harry, Debbie [Angela Trimble], and Sylvie Simmons. Face It. Ed. Rob Roth. New York City: Dey Street, 2019: Ch. 7-10.
Kostelanetz, Richard. SoHo: The Rise and Fall of an Artist's Colony. New York City: Routledge, 2003: Ch. 33.
Marks & Tannenbaum, Ch. 9.
Moore, Thurston, and Bryon Coley. No Wave: Post-Punk, Underground, New York, 1976-1980. New York City: Abrams Image, 2008.
Reynolds, Simon. Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984. London: Faber and Faber, 2005.
iii. Hip Hop
Chang, Jeff. Can't Stop Won't Stop: A History of the Hip-Hop Generation. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2005: Ch. 8-10.
Grandmaster Flash [Joseph Robert Saddler], Ritz, and Geoff Martin. The Adventures of Grandmaster Flash: My Life, My Beats. New York City: Broadway Books, 2008: Pt. 3-4.
iv. The L.A. Scene
Carducci, Joe. Enter Naomi: SST, L.A. and All That …. Centennial, Wyo.: Redoubt Press, 2007: Ch. 2-8, 10, 15, 17, 20-21.
Evans, Robert [Robert Shapera][and Charles Michener]. The Kid Stays in the Picture. Ed. Marinka Peschmann. 1994. Rpt. London: Faber & Faber, 2003: Ch. 32, 35.
Hoskyns. Waiting for the Sun: A Rock ‘n’ Roll History of Los Angeles, rev. ed. New York City: Backbeat Books, 2009: Ch. 7-8.
Kiedis & Sloman, Ch. 5.
Konow, Ch. 6.
MacLeod, Dewar. Kids of the Black Hole: Punk Rock in Postsuburban California. Norman, Okla.: U of Oklahoma P, 2010.
Markey, David et al. We Got Power!: Hardcore Punk Scenes From 1980s Southern California. New York City: Bazillion Points, 2012.
Mattioli, Heath, and David Spacone. Disco’s Out … Murder’s In!: The True Story of Frank the Shank and L.A.’s Deadliest Punk Rock Gang. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2015: Ch. 1-13.
Morris, Keith, and Jim Ruland. My Damage: The Story of a Punk Rock Survivor. Boston: Da Capo Press, 2016.
Rollins, Henry [Henry Garfield]. Get in the Van: On the Road With Black Flag, rev. ed. Los Angeles: 2.13.61 Publications, 2004.
Ruland, Jim. Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise & Fall of SST Records. New York City: Hatchette Books, 2022: Ch. 1-6.
Smith, Sam. "Let's Have a War: Hardcore Punk vs. the L.A. Suburbs." Historical Studies Journal Spring 2014: 51-66.
Spitz, Marc, and Brendan Mullen. We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2001: Ch. 8, 12, 14-15, 19-36.
v. Jazz
a. Gil Scott-Heron
Baram, Marcus. Gil Scott-Heron: Pieces of a Man. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 2014: Ch. 27-30.
Scott-Heron, Gil. The Last Holiday: A Memoir. New York City: Grove Press, 2012: Ch. 28-29.
b. Other
Dr. John [Malcolm "Mac" Rebennack Jr.], and Jack Rummel. Under a Hoodoo Moon: The Life of the Night Tripper. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 1994: Ch. 14.
Milkowski, Bill. Jaco: The Extraordinary and Tragic Life of Jaco Pastorius, rev. ed. San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2005: Ch. 5.
Nicholson, Stuart. Jazz Rock: A History. New York City: Schirmer Books, 1998: Ch. 12.
vi. Funk
Szwed, John F. So What: The Life of Miles Davis. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2003: Ch. 10.
Vincent, Rickey. Funk: The Music, the People and the Rhythm of the One. New York City: St. Martin's Griffin, 1996: Ch. 19-20.
Wesley, Fred Jr. Hit Me, Fred: Recollections of a Sideman. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 2002: Ch. 9.
vii. Other
Kushins, C.M. Nothing’s Bad Luck: The Lives of Warren Zevon. New York City: Da Capo, 2019: Ch. 5-6.
Leiber, Jerry et al. Hound Dog: The Leiber & Stoller Autobiography. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2009: Ch. 30.
Levinson, Peter J. September in the Rain: The Life of Nelson Riddle. 2001. Rpt. Lanham, Md.: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2005: Ch. 9-10.
Mercer, Michelle. Footprints: The Life and Music of Wayne Shorter. New York City: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2004: Ch. 14-16.
Pollack, Neal. Never Mind the Pollacks: A Rock and Roll Novel. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2003: Pt. 5.
Reid, Jan, and Shawn Sahm. Texas Tornado: The Times and Music of Doug Sahm. Austin, Texas: U of Texas P, 2010: Ch. 13.
Scott-Heron, Ch. 30, 32-33.
Shapiro, Marc. Passion and Pain: The Life of Hector Lavoe. New York City: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2007: Ch. 7-9.
Tau, Michael. Extreme Music: Silence to Noise and Everything in Between. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2022: Pt. 3, Ch. 6.
Templeman & Renoff, Ch. 9-10.
Veal, Michael E. Fela: The Life & Times of an African Musical Icon. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2000: Ch. 6.
White, Timothy. Catch a Fire: The Life of Bob Marley, 8th rev ed. New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 2006: Ch. 17.
b. The Comedians
i. “Saturday Night Live”
(1) John Belushi
The Essential Mae Brussell: Investigations of Fascism in America. Ed. Alex Constantine. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2014: Ch. 15.
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. 31.
Woodward, Bob. Wired: The Short Life and Fast Times of John Belushi. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1984: Ch. 1, 9-19.
(2) Others
Hill, Doug, and Jeff Weingrad. Saturday Night: A Backstage History of Saturday Night Live. 1986. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 1987: Ch. 34-41.
Perrin, Dennis. Mr. Mike: The Life and Work of Michael O'Donoghue. New York City: Avon Books, 1998: Ch. 8.
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. 3.
ii. "Caddyshack"
Martin, Scott. The Book of Caddyshack: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Greatest Movie Ever Made. Lanham, Md. Taylor Trade Publishing, 2007.
Nashawaty, Chris. Caddyshack: The Making of a Hollywood Cinderella Story. New York City: Flatiron Books, 2018: Ch. 6-16.
iii. Others
Allen, Steve. Hi-Ho, Steverino!: My Adventures in the Wonderful Wacky World of TV. Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, 1992: Ch. 19.
Davis, Tom. Thirty-Nine Years of Short-Term Memory Loss. New York City: Grove Press, 2009: Ch. 10, 17.
Idle, Eric. Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography. New York City: Crown Archetype, 2018: Ch. 17, 30.
Karp, Josh. A Futile and Stupid Gesture: How Doug Kenney and National Lampoon Changed Comedy Forever. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2006: Ch. 14.
King, Alan [Irwin Alan Kniberg], and Chris Chase. Name Dropping: The Life and Lies of Alan King. New York City: Scribner, 1996: Ch. 14.
Nashawaty, Ch. 17.
Oppenheimer, Jerry. Seinfeld: The Making of an American Icon. New York City: HarperCollins, 2002: Ch. 25.
Rabin, Nathan, and Al Yankovic. Weird Al: The Book. New York City: Abrams Image, 2012.
Reid, Tim [Timothy Isabel Jr.], Tom Dreesen, and Ron Rapoport. Tim & Tom: An American Comedy in Black and White. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2008: Ch. 10.
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. 15-28, 31, 34-35.
c. Cuisine
i. John F. Mariani
(1) 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. 16.
(2) How Italian Food Conquered the World. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011: Ch. 12-13.
ii. Others
Kamp, David. The United States of Arugula: How We Became a Gourmet Nation. New York City: Broadway Books, 2006: Ch. 9-12.
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. 9-10.
Pilcher, Jeffrey M. Planet Taco: A Global History of Mexican Food. New York City: Oxford UP, 2012: Ch. 7.
d. Cinema
i. Hong Kong
Bordwell, David. Planet Hong Kong: Popular Cinema and the Art of Entertainment, rev. ed. Madison, Wis.: Irvington Way Institute Press, 2011: Ch. 1, 5.
O'Brien, Daniel. Spooky Encounters: A Gwailo's Guide to Hong Kong Horror. Manchester, U.K.: Headpress/Critical Vision, 2003: Ch. 1.
ii. Hollywood
Bach, Steven. Final Cut: Art, Money, and Ego in the Making of Heaven's Gate, the Film That Sank United Artists, rev. ed. New York City: Newmarket Press, 1999: Ch. 3-24.
Biskind, Peter. Star: How Warren Beatty Seduced America. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2010: Ch. 7-8.
Prince, Stephen et al. A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood Under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980-1989. 2000. Rpt. Berkeley, Calif.: U of California P, 2002: Ch. 1, 6-7, 10.
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. 6.
iii. "Raging Bull"
Anderson, Chris, Sharon McGehee, and Jake La Motta. Raging Bull II. Secaucus, N.J.: Lyle Stuart, 1986: Ch. 18.
Levy, Shawn. De Niro: A Life. New York City: Crown Archetype, 2014: Ch. 12-13.
iv. Other
Destroy All Movies!!!: The Complete Guide to Punks on Film. Ed. Zack Carlson and Bryan Connolly. Seattle: Fantagraphics, 2010.
Singer, Matt. Opposable Thumbs: How Siskel & Ebert Changed Movies Forever. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2023: Ch. 10.
e. Furniture
Bulegato, Fiorella, and Sergio Polano. Michele de Lucchi: From Here to There and Beyond. 2004. Trans. Richard Sadleir. Milan, Italy: Electa Architecture, 2005: Ch. 3.
Fiell, Charlotte, and Peter Fiell. Modern Furniture Classics: Postwar to Post-Modernism. 1991. Rpt. New York City: Thames & Hudson, 2001: Ch. 5.
f. Theater
Mordden, Ethan. The Happiest Corpse I’ve Ever Seen: The Last 25 Years of the Broadway Musical. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004: Ch. 1-8, 10.
Seibert, Brian. What the Eye Hears: A History of Tap Dancing. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015: Ch. 18.
g. Video Games
Amis, Martin. Invasion of the Space Invaders. London: Hutchinson, 1982.
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. 6-7.
h. Andy Warhol [Andrew Warhola]
Colacello, Bob. Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 2014: Ch. 33-44.
The Andy Warhol Diaries, 2nd rev. ed. Ed. Pat Hackett. New York City: Twelve Books, 2014.
i. Literature
Ellroy, James [Lee Earle Ellroy]. The Hilliker Curse: My Pursuit of Women. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2010: Ch. 7.
Rectenwald, Michael. Springtime for Snowflakes: “Social Justice” and Its Postmodern Parentage: A Memoir. Nashville, Tenn.: New English Review Press, 2018: Ch. 4.
Woolever, Laurie. Bourdain: The Definitive Oral Biography. New York City: Ecco, 2021: Ch. 5.
j. Broadcasting
Fong-Torres, Ben. The Hits Just Keep on Coming: The History of Top 40 Radio, corr. ed. San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2001: Ch. 18.
Marks & Tannenbaum, Ch. 1, 3-8, 10-11, 13-14.
Mullen, Megan. The Rise of Cable Programming in the United States: Revolution or Evolution? Austin, Texas: U of Texas P, 2003: Ch. 5-6.
M. Singer, Ch. 5-7.
k. Other
Baldwin, Alec [Alexander R. Baldwin III]. Nevertheless: A Memoir. New York City: Harper, 2017: Ch. 4-6.
Black, Bob. Beneath the Underground. Portland, Ore.: Feral House, 1994: Ch. 1.
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. 12.
Fischl, Eric, and Michael Stone. Bad Boy: My Life on and Off the Canvas. 2012. Rpt. New York City: Arcade Publishing, 2016: Ch. 8-13.
Ford, Luke. A History of X: 100 Years of Sex in Film. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1999: Ch. 8-9.
Frank, Josh, and Charlie Buckholtz. In Heaven Everything Is Fine: The Unsolved Life of Peter Ivers and the Lost History of “New Wave Theatre”. 2008. Rpt. Berkeley, Calif.: Soft Skull Press, 2010: Ch. 7-10.
Gautrand, Jean-Claude. Robert Doisneau, 1912-1994, rev. ed. Trans. Chris Miller. Cologne, Germany, Taschen, 2014: Ch. 5.
Harry & Simmons, Ch. 11.
James, Clive [Vivian James]. North Face of Soho: Unreliable Memoirs, Vol. IV. London: Picador, 2006: Ch. 16.
Jencks, Charles. Post-Modernism: The New Classicism in Art and Architecture. New York City: Rizzoli, 1987.
Kron, Joan, and Suzanne Slesin. High-Tech: The Industrial Style and Source Book for Home. New York City: Clarkson N. Potter, 1978.
Schwartz, Jonathan. All in Good Time: A Memoir. New York City: Random House, 2004: Ch.19.
Shaffer & Ritz, Ch. 27-29.
Sinatra, Barbara, and Wendy Holden. Lady Blue Eyes: My Life With Frank. New York City: Crown Archetype, 2011: Ch. 12-13.
Theodoracopulos, Taki. Princes, Playboys, and High-Class Tarts. Princeton, N.J.: Karz-Cohl Publishing, 1984.
2. The 1980 Election
a. The Ted Kennedy Campaign
Cummings, Richard. The Pied Piper: Allard Lowenstein and the Liberal Dream. 1985. Rpt. New York City: InPrint.com, 2000: Ch. 63, 65.
Davis, John H. The Kennedys: Dynasty and Disaster, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: S.P.I. Books, 1992: Ch. 69-71.
Taraborrelli, J. Randy. After Camelot: A Personal History of the Kennedy Family – 1968 to the Present. New York City: Grand Central Publishing, 2012: Pt. 12.
b. Lou Cannon
i. Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2003: Ch. 29-30.
ii. President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime, rev. ed. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2000: Ch. 8.
c. Stephen F. Hayward
i. The Age of Reagan, Vol. I: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964-1980. 2001. Rpt. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2009: Ch. 13-14.
ii. The Age of Reagan, Vol. II: The Conservative Counterrevolution, 1980-1989. New York City: Crown Forum, 2009: Ch. 1.
d. Craig Shirley
i. Rendevous With Destiny: Ronald Reagan and the Campaign That Changed America. Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2009: Ch. 2, 4-26, 29-37.
ii. Reagan Rising: The Decisive Years, 1976-1980. New York City: Broadside Books, 2017: Ch. 8-17.
e. Others
Bowen, Russell S. The Immaculate Deception: The Bush Crime Family Exposed. Carson City, Nev.: America West Publishers, 1991: Ch. 5.
Brookes, Warren T. The Economy in Mind. New York City: Universe Books, 1982: Ch. 1.
Brownstein, Ronald. The Power and the Glitter: The Hollywood-Washington Connection, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 1992: Ch. 8.
Buckley, William F. Jr. The Reagan I Knew. New York City: Basic Books, 2008: Ch. 12-13.
Cadava, Geraldo. The Hispanic Republican: The Shaping of an American Political Identity, From Nixon to Trump, rev. ed. New York City: Ecco, 2021: Ch. 6-7.
Carroll, Peter N. It Seemed Like Nothing Happened: America in the 1970s, 2nd rev. ed. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers UP, 2000: Ch. 18.
Cramer, Richard Ben. What It Takes: The Way to the White House, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 1993: Ch. 109.
Cronkite, Walter, and Don Carleton. Conversations With Cronkite. Austin, Texas: Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, University of Texas at Austin, 2010: Ch. 25.
Drummey, James J. The Establishment’s Man. Appleton, Wis.: Western Islands, 1991: Ch. 2.
Edsall, Thomas Byrne, and Mary D. Edsall. Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics, rev. ed. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1992: Ch. 8.
Friedman, Murray. The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge UP, 2005: Ch. 12.
Gillespie, J. David. Challengers to Duopoly: Why Third Parties Matter in American Two-Party Politics. Columbia, S.C.: U of South Carolina P, 2012: Ch. 9.
Haig, Alexander M. Jr., and Charles McCarry. Inner Circles: How America Changed the World: A Memoir. New York City: Warner Books, 1992: Ch. 40.
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. 1.
Jenkins, Philip. Decade of Nightmares: The End of the Sixties and the Making of Eighties America. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford UP, 2006: Ch. 6.
Kondracke, Morton, and Fred Barnes. Jack Kemp: The Bleeding-Heart Conservative Who Changed America. New York City: Sentinel, 2015: Ch. 3.
Kuhn, David Paul. The Neglected Voter: White Men and the Democratic Dilemma. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007: Ch. 8.
Mann, James. Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet. New York City: Viking, 2004: Ch. 6.
Mears, Walter R. Deadlines Past: Forty Years of Presidential Campaigning: A Reporter's Story. Kansas City, Mo.: Andrews McMeel Publishing, 2003: Ch. 6.
Nash, George H. The Conservative Intellectual Movement in American Since 1945, 2nd rev. ed. Wilmington, Del : Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 2006: Ch. 12.
Neff, James. Mobbed Up: Jackie Presser's High-Wire Life in the Teamsters, the Mafia, and the F.B.I. New York City: The Atlantic Monthly Press, 1989: Ch. 22.
Niskanen, William A. Reaganomics: An Insider's Account of the Policies and the People. New York City: Oxford UP, 1988: Ch. 1.
Nofziger, Lyn. Nofziger. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1992: Ch. 8.
North, Gary. Rapture Fever: Why Dispensationalism Is Paralyzed. Tyler, Texas: Institute for Christian Economics, 1993: Ch. 11.
Perloff, James. The Shadows of Power: The Council on Foreign Relations and the American Decline, rev. ed. Appleton, Wis.: Western Islands, 1989: Ch. 11.
Persico, Joseph E. Casey: From the OSS to the CIA. 1990. Rpt. New York City: Penguin, 1991: Ch. 14.
Sabin, Paul. Public Citizens: The Attack on Big Government and the Remaking of American Liberalism. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2021: Ch. 9.
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. 20-21.
Schweizer, Peter. Reagan's War: The Epic Story of His Forty-Year Struggle and Final Triumph Over Communism. New York City: Doubleday, 2002: Ch. 11.
Smallwood, Frank. The Other Candidates: Third Parties in Presidential Elections. Hanover, N.H.: UP of New England, 1983: Ch. 3-6.
Stockman, David A. The Triumph of PoliticsThe Inside Story of the Reagan Revolution, rev. ed. New York City: Avon Books, 1987: Ch. 2.
3. The Crime Scene
a. The Mafia
i. Philadelphia
Demaris, Ovid [Ovide E. Desmarais]. The Boardwalk Jungle. New York City: Bantam Books, 1986: Ch. 28.
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 17-19.
ii. The Five Families
(1) The Gambino Family
(a) Jerry Capeci and Gene Mustain
(i) Mob Star: The Story of John Gotti. Indianapolis: Alpha, 2002: Ch. 17-18.
(ii) Murder Machine: A True Story of Murder, Madness, and the Mafia, rev. ed. New York City: Onyx, 1993: Ch. 14-18.
(b) Others
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. 5-8.
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. 33.
(2) The Bonano Family
(a) Joseph D. Pistone et al.
Pistone, 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. 4, 13-14.
Pistone, and Richard Woodley. Donnie Brasco: My Undercover Life in the Mafia, rev. ed. New York City: Signet, 1989: Ch. 17-20.
(b) Other
Breslin, Jimmy. The Good Rat: A True Story. New York City: HarperCollins, 2008: Ch. 11, 15.
S. Raab, Ch. 53, 55-56.
(3) The Hills
Hill, Gregg, and Gina Hill. On the Run: A Mafia Childhood. New York City: Warner Books, 2004: Ch. 3-17.
Hill, Henry, and Gus Russo. Gangsters and Goodfellas: The Mob, Witness Protection, and Life on the Run. New York City: M. Evans & Co., 2004: Ch. 1, 7, 9-12, 15.
(4) Other
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. 19-21.
S. Raab, Ch. 21-23.
iii. Sicily
Longrigg, Clare. Boss of Bosses: A Journey Into the Heart of the Sicilian Mafia. 2008. Rpt. New York City: Thomas Dunne Books, 2009: Ch. 4.
Sterling, Claire. Octopus: The Long Reach of the International Sicilian Mafia. 1990. Rpt. London: Harper Collins, 1993: Ch. 13-14.
iv. Other
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. 1, 6.
Davis, John H. Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. New York City: McGraw-Hill, 1989: Ch. 56.
Deitche, Scott. Cigar City Mafia: A Complete History of the Tampa Underworld, rev. ed. Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, 2005: Ch. 39.
Ellroy. My Dark Places: An L.A. Crime Memoir. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996: Ch. 25.
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. 11-13.
Leonard, Elmore. Get Shorty. New York City: Delacorte Press, 1990: Ch. 1.
Tuohy, Brian. The Fix Is Still In: More Corruption and Conspiracies the Pro Sports Leagues Don't Want You to Know. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2019: Ch. 10.
b. Southern Florida
i. Edna Buchanan
(1) The Corpse Had a Familiar Face: Covering Miami, America's Hottest Beat. 1987. Rpt. New York City: Berkeley Books, 1991: Ch. 1, 10.
(2) Never Let Them See You Cry: More From Miami, America's Hottest Beat. 1992. Rpt. New York City: Berkeley Books, 1993: Ch. 5.
ii. Leonard
(1) Split Images. 1981. Rpt. New York City: William Morrow, 1999: Ch. 1-18.
(2) LaBrava. New York City: Arbor House, 1983.
iii. Other
Allman, T.D. Miami: City of the Future. New York City: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1987: Ch. 1, 3.
Bustos, Sergio, and Luisa Yanez. Miami’s Criminal Past: Uncovered. Charleston, S.C.: The History Press, 2007: Ch. 4.
Chepesiuk, Ron. 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. 9.
Eddy, Paul et al. The Cocaine Wars. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1988: Ch. 5-6, 13-15.
Farzad, Roben. Hotel Scarface: Where Cocaine Cowboys Partied and Plotted to Control Miami. New York City: New American Library, 2017: Ch. 1, 4-32.
Griffin, Nicholas. The Year of Dangerous Days: Riots, Refugees, and Cocaine in Miami 1980. New York City: 37 Ink/Simon & Schuster, 2020: Ch. 1-5, 7, 8, 14-15, 17-20, 22-27, 29-33.
Goddard, Donald. The Insider: The FBI's Undercover “Wiseguy” Goes Public. New York City: Pocket Books, 1992: Ch. 10-12.
Lernoux, Penny. In Banks We Trust, rev. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 1986: Ch. 7.
McClintick, David. Swordfish: A True Story of Ambition, Savagery, and Betrayal. New York City: Pantheon Books, 1993: Ch. 1-3, 8.
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. 41, 43-59, 61-62.
c. Drugs
Bowden, Mark. Doctor Dealer, rev. ed. New York City: Grove Press, 2001: Ch. 5-6.
Chepesiuk. Narcos Inc.: The Rise and Fall of the Cali Cartel, rev. ed. 2007. Rpt. Dublin: Maverick House, 2017: Pt. 2, Ch. 3-5; Pt. 3, Ch. 12.
Denton, Sally. The Bluegrass Conspiracy: An Inside Story of Power, Greed, Drugs and Murder, rev. ed. Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse Star, 2001: Ch. 12-14.
Glenny, Misha. McMafia: A Journey Through the Global Criminal Underworld. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2008: Ch. 11.
Goddard, Ch. 13.
Eddy, Ch. 19.
Gray, Mike. Drug Crazy: How We Got Into This Mess and How We Can Get Out. 1998. Rpt. New York City: Routledge, 2000: Ch. 6.
McClintick, Ch. 5-7, 9-32.
Mermelstein, Max, Robin Moore, and Richard Smitten. Inside the Cocaine Cartel. 1990. Rpt. New York City: S.P.I. Books, 1994: Ch. 1-4.
Jon Roberts & E. Wright, Ch. 42, 60.
Shannon, Elaine. Desperados: Latin Drug Lords, U.S. Lawmen, and the War America Can't Win, rev. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 1989: Ch. 6, 8.
d. Los Angeles
Cannell, Stephen J. The Prostitutes' Ball. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2010: Ch. 23, 29, 36.
Parker, Robert B. A Savage Place. New York City: Delacorte Press/Seymour Lawrence, 1981.
Rothmiller, Mike, and Ivan G. Goldman. L.A. Secret Police: Inside the LAPD Elite Spy Network. New York City: Pocket Books, 1992: Ch. 9-10.
Stadiem, William. Madame Claude: Her Secret World of Pleasure, Privilege, and Power. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2018: Ch. 9-10.
e. Serial Killers
Ellroy. Killer on the Road. 1986. Rpt. New York City: Perennial, 2002: Ch. 20-21.
McGowan, David. Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder. New York City: iUniverse, 2004: Ch. 21.
Preston, Douglas, and Mario Spezi. The Monster of Florence, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Grand Central, 2013: Ch. 1-2, 4-7, 11-13.
f. Greater New York City
Fearon, Peter. Hamptons Babylon: Life Among the Super-Rich on America's Riviera. Secaucus, N.J.: Birch Lane Press, 1998: Ch. 8.
Lethem, Jonathan. Motherless Brooklyn. 1999. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Contemporaries, 2000.
Weiss, Gary. Born to Steal: When the Mafia Hit Wall Street. 2003. Rpt. New York City: Grand Central Publishing, 2014: Ch. 27.
g. Irish Crime Syndicates
English, T.J. Paddy Whacked: The Untold Story of the Irish American Gangster. 2005. Rpt. New York City: William Morrow/Barnes & Noble, 2013: Ch. 13.
English. The Westies: Inside New York's Irish Mob, rev. ed. New York City: St. Martin's Griffin, 2006: Ch. 13-14.
English. Where the Bodies Were Buried: Whitey Bulger and the World That Made Him. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2015: Ch. 2, 9, 13-14.
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. 6-7, 9, 12.
h. The Yakuza
Adelstein, Jake. The Last Yakuza: Life and Death in the Japanese Underworld, rev. ed. Minneapolis: Scribe Publications, 2023: Ch. 3, 5.
Kaplan, David E., and Alec Dubro. Yakuza: Japan’s Criminal Underworld, 2nd rev. ed. Berkeley, Calif.: U of California P, 2012: Ch. 6-8.
i. Other Crime Syndicates
Dickie, John. Blood Brotherhoods: A History of Italy's Three Mafias, rev. ed. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2014: Ch. 57.
English. The Corporation: An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld. New York City: William Morrow. 2018: Ch. 11-12.
Friedman, Robert I. Red Mafiya: How the Russian Mob Has Invaded America. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2000: Ch. 8.
j. Financial Crime
(1) 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. 8.
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. 13.
(2) Other
Ammann, Daniel. The King of Oil: The Secret Lives of Marc Rich. New York City: St. Martin ’s Press, 2009: Ch. 9-13.
Ross, Gary. Stung: The Incredible Obsession of Brian Molony. 1987. Rpt. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2011: Ch. 5-11.
k. Max Allan Collins
i. The Baby Blue Rip-Off: A Mallory Novel. 1983. Rpt. Las Vegas: Thomas & Mercer, 2012: Ch. 12.
ii. Quarry's Ex. London: Hard Case Crime, 2011: Ch. 1, 3-12.
l. Other
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. 21.
Essential Mae Brussell, Ch. 12.
Garfield, Brian. Necessity. New York Cty: St. Martin's/Marek, 1984.
Goddard, Ch. 14-15.
Herzog, Arthur. Vesco: From Wall Street to Castro's Cuba: The Rise, Fall, and Exile of the King of White Collar Crime. 1987. Rpt. New York City: Authors Choice, 2003: Ch. 36.
Kwitny, Jonathan. The Crimes of Patriots: A True Tale of Dope, Dirty Money, and the CIA, corr. ed. New York City: Touchstone, 1988: Ch. Ch. 25.
Lance, Peter. Cover Up: What the Government Is Still Hiding About the War on Terror. New York City: ReganBooks, 2004: Ch. 8.
E. Leonard, Split Images, Ch. 19-21.
Porrello. $uperthief: A Master Burglar, the Mafia, and the Great California Bank Heist. Novelty, Ohio: Next Hat Press, 2006: Ch. 27.
4. Europe
a. The United Kingdom
Beckett, Francis, and David Hencke, The Blairs and Their Court, rev. ed. London: Aurum, 2004: Ch. 5.
Caryl, Christian. Strange Rebels: 1979 and the Birth of the 21st Century. New York City: Basic Books, 2013: Ch. 12, 14, 23.
Hamill, Pete. The Guns of Heaven. 1984. Rpt. New York City: Hard Case Crime, 2006: Ch. 1-6.
Moorcock, Michael. King of the City. New York City: William Morrow, 2000: Ch. 13-16.
Sherman, Alfred. Paradoxes of Power: Reflections on the Thatcher Interlude. Ed. Mark Garnett. 2005. Rpt. Exeter, U.K.: Andrews UK, 2016: Ch. 5.
Westlake, Donald E. Kahawa, rev. ed. Rpt. New York City: Mysterious Press, 1995: Ch. 8, 19.
Wheatcroft, Geoffrey. The Strange Death of Tory England, rev. ed. London: Penguin Books, 2005: Ch. 6, 8.
b. Italy
Clarridge, Duane R., and Digby Diehl. A Spy for All Seasons: My Life in the CIA. New York City: Scribner, 1997: Ch. 10.
Day, Michael. Being Berlusconi: The Rise and Fall From Cosa Nostra to Bunga Bunga. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015: Ch. 3.
H. Hill & G. Russo, Ch. 13.
c. The Eastern Bloc
Aksyonov, Vassily. Island of Crimea. 1981. Trans. Michael W. Heim. New York City: Random House, 1983.
Caryl, Ch. 15, 20.
Wyden, Peter. Wall: The Inside Story of Divided Berlin. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1989: Ch. 41, 48, 50-51, 55-56.
d. Other
Hamill, Ch. 7-9.
5. The Third World
a. Central Asia
Coll, Steve. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, From the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001, rev. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 2005: Ch. 3.
Margolis, Eric S. War at the Top of the World: The Struggle for Afghanistan, Kashmir, and Tibet, rev. ed. New York City: Routledge, 2002: Ch. 21.
b. West Asia
Ball, George W., and Douglas B. Ball. The Passionate Attachment: America's Involvement With Israel, 1947 to the Present. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1992: Ch. 14.
Ben-Menashe, Ari. Profits of War: Inside the Secret U.S.-Israeli Arms Network. New York City: Sheridan Square Press, 1992: Ch. 5-6.
Green, Stephen. Living by the Sword: American and Israel in the Middle East 1968-1987. London: Faber and Faber, 1988: Ch. 9-10.
Hersh, Seymour M. The Samson Option: Israel 's Nuclear Arsenal and American Foreign Policy, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 1993: Ch. 7.
Kinzer, Stephen. Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America’s Future, rev. ed. New York City: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2011: Ch. 5.
Lance. Triple Cross: How Bin Laden’s Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI, rev. ed. New York City: HarperCollins, 2009: Ch. 1.
Ostrovsky, Victor, and Claire Hoy. By Way of Deception, rev. ed. New York City: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1991: Ch. 1.
Parsi, Trita. Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the United States, rev. ed. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2008: Ch. 9-10.
Shlaim, Avi. The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2014: Ch. 10.
Unger, Craig. House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the World's Two Most Powerful Dynasties, rev. ed. New York City: Scribner, 2004: Ch. 6.
Van Creveld, Martin. The Land of Blood and Honey: The Rise of Modern Israel. New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2010: Ch. 4.
"Warraq, Ibn." The Islam in Islamic Terrorism: The Importance of Beliefs, Ideas, and Ideology. Nashville, Tenn.: New English Review Press, 2017: Ch. 20-21.
c. Latin America
Garvin, Glenn. Everybody Had His Own Gringo: The CIA and the Contras. Washington, D.C.: Brassey's (U.S.), 1992: Ch. 3.
N. Griffin, Ch. 6, 9-13, 16, 28.
Parry, Robert. Lost History: Contras, Cocaine, the Press & ‘Project Truth.’ Arlington, Va.: The Media Consortium, 1999: Ch. 1, 9.
Vargas Llosa, Mario. The Real Life of Alejandro Mayta. 1984. Trans. Alfred Mac Adam. New York City: Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1986.
c. Africa
Updike, John. The Coup, corr. ed. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
Westlake, Kahawa, Ch. 2-3, 5-7, 9-18, 20-76.
d. Elsewhere
Jacobson, Sid, and Ernie Colón. The 9/11 Report: A Graphic Adaptation. New York City: Hill and Wang, 2006: Ch. 2.
Scott, Janny. A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother. New York City: Riverhead Books, 2011: Ch. 8.
6. Business
a. The Computer Industry
Kidder, Tracy. The Soul of a New Machine, rev. ed. New York City: The Modern Library, 1997: Ch. 2-16, Epilogue.
Cringely, Robert X. [Mark Stephens] Accidental Empires: How the Boys of Silicon Valley Make Their Millions, Battle Foreign Competition, and Still Can't Get a Date, rev. ed. New York City: HarperBusiness, 1996: Ch. 4, 6-10, 13-14.
Isaacson, Walter. Steve Jobs, rev. ed. New York City: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2013: Ch. 8-14.
Segaller, Stephen. Nerds 2.0.1: A Brief History of the Internet, rev. ed. New York City: TV Books, 1999: Ch. 8-10, 13.
b. Finance
Howard, Dylan et al. Epstein: Dead Men Tell No Tales: Spies, Lies & Blackmail. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2019: Ch. 3.
Levine, Dennis B., and William Hoffer. Inside Out: An Insider's Account of Wall Street. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1991: Ch. 8.
Sterngold, James. Burning Down the House: How Greed, Deceit, and Bitter Revenge Desroyed E.F. Hutton. New York City: Summit Books, 1990: Ch. 6.
c. Jerome Tuccille
i. Trump, 3rd rev. ed. New York City: Jove Books, 1988: Ch. 33-36.
ii. Rupert Murdoch, rev. ed. New York City: Donald I. Fine, 1990: Ch. 1.
d. Other
Barrett, Paul M. Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun, rev. ed. New York City: Broadway Books, 2013: Ch. 2.
Bruck, Connie. Master of the Game: Steve Ross and the Creation of Time Warner. 1994. Rpt. New York City: Penguin Books, 1995: Ch. 5-6.
Caryl, Ch. 18, 24.
Leamer, Laurence. King of the Night: The Life of Johnny Carson, rev. ed. New York City: Avon Books, 2005: Ch. 17.
Petzinger, Thomas Jr. Oil & Honor: The Texaco-Pennzoil Wars. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1987: Ch. 5.
Westlake, Kahawa, Ch. 1, 4.
7. Milton Friedman
a. Money Mischief: Episodes in Monetary History. New York City: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992: Ch. 9.
b. Free to Chose: A Personal Statement, rev. ed. Orlando, Fla.: Harvest/Harcourt, 1990.
8. The Marxists
Agee, Philip. On the Run. 1987. Rpt. London: Bloomsbury, 1988: Ch.14-15.
Andrew, Christopher M., and Vasili Mitrokhin, The Sword and the Shield: The Mitrokhin Archive and the Secret History of the KGB. New York City: Basic Books, 1999: Ch. 30.
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. 7-9.
Klein, Aaron, and Brenda J. Elliott. The Manchurian President. Washington, D.C.: WND Books, 2010: Ch. 11.
Kristeva, Julia. The Samurai. 1990. Trans. Barbara Bray. New York City: Columbia UP, 1992: Ch. 17-18, 20.
9. Soviet Expatriates
Limonov, Edward [Eduard Veniaminovich Savenko]. His Butler's Story. Trans. Judson Rosengrant. New York City: Grove Press, 1987.
Polovchak, Walter, and Kevin Klose. Freedom's Child: A Courageous Teenager's Story of Fleeing His Parents — and the Soviet Union —to Live in America. New York City: Random House, 1988: Ch. 1, 4-8, 10-18.
10. Barack Hussein Obama Jr.
Obama, Barack. Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, rev. ed. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2004: Ch. 5-7.
Sailer, Steve. America's Half-Blood Prince: Barack Obama's Story of Race and Inheritance. Washington, Conn.: VDARE Foundation, 2008: Ch. 6.
11. Espionage
Gardner, John. License Renewed. 1981. Rpt. London: Orion, 2012.
B. Garfield. Checkpoint Charlie. New York City: The Mysterious Press, 1981.
Knightley. The Second Oldest Profession: Spies and Spying in the Twentieth Century, rev. ed. London: Pimlico, 2003: Ch. 15.
Maas, Peter. Manhunt. 1986. Rpt. New York City: Ibooks, 2002: Ch. 18-28.
Melvern, Linda, Nick Anning, and David Hebditch. Techno-Bandits. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1984: Ch. 5.
Soley, Lawrence C., and John S. Nichols. Clandestine Radio Broadcasting: A Study of Revolutionary and Counterrevolutionary Electronic Communication. New York City: Praeger, 1987: Ch. 5.
Webb, Gary. Dark Alliance: The CIA, the Contras, and the Crack Cocaine Explosion. New York City: Seven Stories Press, 1998: Ch. 8.
Wise, David. The Spy Who Got Away: The Inside Story of the CIA Agent Who Betrayed His Country. 1988. Rpt. London: Fontana, 1989: Ch. 4.
12. Banco Ambrosiano
Epstein, Edward Jay [Edward Levinson]. The Annals of Unsolved Crime. New York City: Melville House, 2013: Ch. 8.
Posner, Gerald L. God’s Bankers: A History of Money and Power at the Vatican. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2015: Ch. 1, 22, 24-27.
Tosches, Nick. Power on Earth. New York City: Arbor House, 1986: Ch. 11.
13. The Cold War
Crile, George. Charlie Wilson's War: The Extraordinary Story of the Covert Operation That Changed the History of Our Times. 2003. Rpt. London: Atlantic Books, 2007: Ch. 6.
G.L. Posner, God’s Bankers, Ch. 23.
Seagrave, Sterling. Yellow Rain: A Journey Through the Terror of Chemical Warfare. 1981. Rpt. London: Abacus, 1982: Ch. 10.
14. E. Michael Jones
a. Degenerate Moderns: Modernity As Rationalized Sexual Misbehavior. San Francisco: Ignatius, 1993: Ch. 8.
b. Libido Dominandi: Sexual Liberation and Political Control. South Bend, Ind.: St. Augustine's Press, 2000: Pt. 3, Ch. 19.
15. Joyce Carol Oates
a. Sourland: Stories. New York City: Ecco, 2010: Pt. 1.
b. Black Dahlia and White Rose. New York City: Ecco, 2012: Pt. 2.
16. Laird Wilcox
a. American Extremists: Militias, Supremacists, Klansmen, Communists and Others, rev. ed. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1996: Ch. 11-15.
b. Crying Wolf: Hate Crime Hoaxes in America, 2nd rev. ed. Olathe, Kan.: Laird Wilcox, 1996: Ch. 5.
17. Other
Allman, Ch. 2.
Andersen, Christopher P. Bill and Hillary: The Marriage. New York City: William Morrow and Co., 1999: Ch. 5.
Baker, Nicholson. The Mezzanine. New York City: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.
Bartley, Robert L. The Seven Fat Years — and How to Do It Again, rev. ed. New York City: The Free Press, 1995: Ch. 3-8.
Belfort, Jordan. Catching the Wolf of Wall Street. New York City: Bantam Books, 2009: Ch. 6-7.
Bodansky, Yossef. Target America & the West: Terrorism Today. New York City: S.P.I. Books, 1993: Ch. 5.
Brinkley, Douglas. Cronkite. New York City: Harper, 2012: Ch. 31.
Carlisle, Anne. Liquid Sky: The Novel. New York City: Dolphin/Doubleday, 1987.
Caryl, Ch. 13.
Celant, Germano et al. Giorgio Armani. New York City: Guggenheim Museum, 2000.
M.A. Collins. Scratch Fever, rev. ed. Drums, Pa.: Perfect Crimes Books, 2012.
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. 9-11.
Draper, Robert. Rolling Stone Magazine: The Uncensored History. New York City: Doubleday, 1990: Pts. 3-4.
England, Vaudine. Fortune's Bazaar: The Making of Hong Kong. New York City: Scribner, 2023: Ch. 15.
Frieden, Bernard J., and Lynne B. Sagalyn. Downtown, Inc.: How America Rebuilds Cities. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 1989: Ch. 10.
Goad, Jim. Shit Magnet: One Man's Miraculous Ability to Absorb the World's Guilt. Los Angeles: Feral House, 2002: Ch. 4-5.
N. Griffin, Ch. 21.
Hamill, Ch. 10-29.
Heimann, Jim, David L. Ulin, and Kevin Starr. Los Angeles: Portrait of a City. Ed. Heimann. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2009: Ch. 7.
Hornby, Nick. High Fidelity. New York City: Riverhead Books, 1995.
Huddy, Ch. 10.
Johnson, Paul. Modern Times: The World From the '20s to the '80s, 1st ed. New York City: Harper & Row, 1983: Ch. 20.
Kessler, Ronald. The Richest Man in the World: The Story of Adnan Khashoggi, rev. ed. New York City: Warner Books, 1988: Ch. 13.
Kiedis & Sloman, Ch. 4.
Kostelanetz, Ch. 38.
Leamer. Madness Under the Royal Palms: Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach, rev. ed. New York City: Hyperion, 2009: Ch. 14.
Ledeen, Michael. Freedom Betrayed: How America Led a Global Democratic Revolution, Won the Cold War, and Walked Away. Washington, D.C.: The AEI Press, 1996: Ch. 3.
Lee, Robert W. The United Nations Conspiracy. Belmont, Mass.: Western Islands Publishers, 1981: Appendix B.
Lethem. The Fortress of Solitude. 2003. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 2004: Pt. 1, Ch. 14-18.
Lim, Louisa. Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong. New York City: Riverhead Books, 2022: Ch. 4.
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. 2.
Nocera, Joseph. A Piece of the Action: How the Middle Class Joined the Money Class. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1994: Ch. 10-12.
Pedersen, Laura. Buffalo Gal: A Memoir. Golden, Colo.: Fulcrum, 2008: Ch. 22-33.
Peikoff, Leonard. The Ominous Parallels: The End of Freedom in America. New York City: Stein and Day, 1982: Ch. 6, 14.
Miller, Tom. The Panama Hat Trail, rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: Adventure Press/National Geographic, 2001: Ch. 8.
Perkins, John. The New Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, 3rd rev. ed. Oakland, Calif.: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2023: Ch. 28.
Retro Hell: Life in the '70s and '80s, From Afros to Zotz. Ed. Darby Romeo. Boston: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown & Co., 1997.
Roberts, Paul Craig, and Lawrence M. Stratton. The Tyranny of Good Intentions: How Prosecutors and Bureaucrats Are Trampling the Constitution in the Name of Justice, rev. ed. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2008: Ch. 5.
Schulman, Bruce J. The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics. New York City: The Free Press, 2001: Ch. 8.
Schulman, J. Neil. Alongside Night, 3rd rev. ed. Pahrump, Nev.: Pulpless.com, 2013.
Shabazz, Jamel. A Time Before Crack. New York City: powerHouse Books, 2005.
Silverman, Chip. Diner Guys. New York City: Birch Lane Press, 1989: Ch. 7.
Simpson, John. Strange Places, Questionable People. London: Macmillan, 1998: Ch. 10.
Stillman, Whit. The Last Days of Disco, With Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards. New York City: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2000: Ch. 1-26.
Williamson, Chilton Jr. Roughnecking It. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1982.
Wilson, Ian. The Shroud, 2nd rev. ed. London: Bantam Press, 2010: Ch. 19.
Young, Kevin. Bunk: The Rise of Hoaxes, Humbug, Plagiarists, Phonies, Post-Facts, and Fake News. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press, 2017: Ch. 17.
Zito, Chuck, and Layden. Street Justice. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 2002: Ch. 12-14.

B. The Big '80s

1. The World of Wealth
a. The Bush Dynasty
i. Poppy
R.B. Cramer, Ch. 1, 9, 50-52, 80, 108, 110, 116, 126-127, 130, Epilogue.
Kessler. 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. 17.
Sutton, Antony C. Two Faces of George Bush. Dresden, N.Y.: Wiswell Ruffin House, 1988: Ch. 9-10.
ii. Dubya
Chernus, Ira. Monsters To Destroy: The Neoconservative War on Terror and Sin. Boulder, Colo.: Paradigm Publishers, 2006: Ch. 3-4.
Lott, Jeremy. The Warm Bucket Brigade: The Story of the American Vice Presidency. Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, 2007: Ch. 16.
Minutaglio, Bill. First Son: George W. Bush and the Bush Family Dynasty, rev. ed. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2001: Ch. 12.
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. 29.
iii. R.J. Stone et al.
R.J. Stone & St. J. Hunt, Ch. 6-7.
R.J. Stone, and Robert Morrow. The Clintons’ War on Women, rev. ed. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2016: Ch. 11.
iv. Others
Anderson, Jack, and Daryl Gibson. Peace, War, and Politics: An Eyewitness Account. New York City: Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, 1999: Ch. 26.
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. 17, 19.
Bowen, Ch. 8.
Bryce, Robert. Pipe Dreams: Greed, Ego, and the Death of Enron, rev. ed. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2003: Ch. 12.
Cadava, Ch. 9.
Kelley, Kitty. The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty, rev. ed. New York City: Anchor Books, 2005: Ch. 20.
Pizzo, Stephen, Mary Fricker, and Paul Muolo. Inside Job: The Looting of America's Savings and Loans, rev. ed. New York City: HarperPerennial, 1991: Ch. 28.
C. Unger, House of Bush, House of Saud, Ch. 10.
b. Enron
Bryce, Pipe Dreams, Ch. 4, 6, 8.
Corn, David. The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception, rev. ed. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2004: Ch. 11.
McLean, Bethany, and Peter Elkind. The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Portfolio Trade, 2013: Ch. 2-4.
c. The Computer Industry
Battelle, John. The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture, rev. ed. New York City: Portfolio, 2006: Ch. 5.
Ceruzzi, Paul E. A History of Modern Computing, rev. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2003: Ch. 9.
Cringely, Ch. 11.
Deutschman, Alan. The Second Coming of Steve Jobs. New York City: Broadway Books, 2000: Ch. 1, 3.
Freiberger, Paul, and Michael Swaine. Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal Computer, rev. ed. New York City: McGraw-Hill, 1999: Ch. 9-10.
Isaacson, Ch. 15-19.
McCorduck, Pamela. This Could Be Important: My Life and Times With the Artificial Intelligentsia. Pittsburgh: Carnegie Mellon University/ETC Press/Signature, 2019: Ch. 21-22.
Segaller, Ch. 11.
Symonds, Matthew, and Larry Ellison. Softwar: An Intimate Portrait of Larry Ellison and Oracle, rev. ed. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2004: Ch. 5.
d. Wheeling and Dealing
i. Wall Street
(1) Dennis Levine
Frantz, Douglas. Levine & Co.: Wall Street's Insider Trading Scandal. 1987. Rpt. New York City: Avon Books, 1988: Ch. 6-15.
D.B. Levine & Hoffer, Ch. 9-12.
(2) Drexel Burnham Lambert
Bruck. The Predators' Ball: The Inside Stoy of Drexel Burnham and the Rise of the Junk Bond Raiders, rev ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 1989: Ch. 5-14.
D.B. Levine & Hoffer, Ch. 13-19, 26.
Stewart, James B. Den of Thieves, rev. ed. New York City: Simon and Schuster Paperbacks, 1992: Ch. 4-8.
(3) William D. Cohan
(a) The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Frères & Co. New York City: Broadway Books, 2007: Ch. 9-10.
(b) House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street, rev. ed. New York City: Anchor Books, 2010: Ch. 19, 20.
(c) Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World. 2011. Rpt. New York City: Anchor Books, 2012: Ch. 9-10, 12-1.
(4) Other
Auletta, Ken. Greed and Glory on Wall Street: The Fall of the House of Lehman, rev. ed. New York City: Warner Books, 1987.
Authers, John. The Fearful Rise of Markets: Gobal Bubbles, Synchronized Meltdowns, and How to Prevent Them in the Future. Upper Saddle River, N.J.: FT Press, 2010: Ch. 6, 8.
Belfort, Catching the Wolf of Wall Street, Ch. 8, 11-12, 14.
Bloomberg, Michael, and Matthew Winkler. Bloomberg by Bloomberg. New York City: John Wiley & Sons, 1997: Ch. 1, 3.
Brooks, John. The Takeover Game: The Men, the Moves, and the Wall Street Money Behind Today's Nationwide Merger Wars. 1987. Rpt. Washington, D.C.: Beard Books, 1999: Ch. 3, 5, 7-8.
Cramer, James J. Confessions of a Street Addict. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2002: Ch. 2-3.
Chernow, Ron. The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Grove Press, 2010: Ch. 33-36.
Cole, Benjamin Mark. The Pied Pipers of Wall Street: How Analysts Sell You Down the River. Princeton, N.J.: Bloomberg Press, 2001: Ch. 5.
Dunbar, Nicholas. Inventing Money: The Story of Long-Term Capital Management and the Legends Behind It. Chichester, U.K.: John Wiley & Sons, 2000: Ch. 5.
Green, Joshua. Devil’s Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency. New York City: Penguin Press, 2017: Ch. 4.
Groysberg, Boris, and Paul M. Healey. Wall Street Research: Past, Present, and Future. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford Economics and Finance, 2013: Ch. 1.
Hoover, Thomas. The Samurai Strategy. New York City: Bantam Books, 1988.
Knee, Jonathan A. The Accidental Investment Banker: Inside the Decade That Transformed Wall Street, rev. ed. New York City: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2007: Ch. 1, 10.
Kranish, Michael, and Scott Helman. The Real Romney, rev. ed. New York City: Harper, 2012: Ch. 6.
Leonard, Chris. The Lords of Easy Money: How the Federal Reserve Broke the American Economy. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2022: Ch. 8.
Lernoux, Ch. 11.
Levy, Leon, and Eugene Linden. The Mind of Wall Street. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2002: Ch. 9.
Lewis, Michael. Liar's Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street, rev. ed. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2014.
Mahar, Maggie. Bull!: A History of the Boom and Bust, 1982-2004. New York City: HarperBusiness, 2003: Ch. 2, 4-5.
Patterson, Scott. Dark Pools: The Rise of the Machine Traders and the Rigging of the U.S. Stock Market, rev. ed. New York City: Crown Business, 2013: Ch. 5-6.
Pedersen, Ch. 34.
Petzinger, Ch. 6 -17, 25-28.
Smith, Roy C. The Money Wars: The Rise and Fall of the Great Buyout Boom of the 1980s. 1990. Rpt. Washington, D.C.: BeardBooks, 2000: Ch. 4-6, 9-10.
Sterngold, Ch. 1, 7-24.
Stockman. The Great Deformation: The Corruption of Capitalism in America. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2013: Ch. 15, 17, 19, 27-28.
Taylor, John. Storming the Magic Kingdom: Wall Street, the Raiders, and the Battle for Disney. 1987. Rpt. New York City: Balleintine Books, 1988.
Tuccille. Wall Street Blues: A Novel of Corruption and Office Sex. 1988. Rpt. Mill Valley, Calif.: Pulpless.com, 1999.
Yago, Glenn. Junk Bonds: How High Yield Securities Restructured Corporate America. New York City: Oxford UP, 1991: Ch. 6, 8, 11-12.
ii. Las Vegas
Earley, Pete. Super Casino: Inside the "New" Las Vegas. New York City: Bantam Books, 2000: Ch. 5.
Smith, John L. Sharks in the Desert: The Founding Fathers and Current Kings of Las Vegas. Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, 2005: Ch. 29.
Moldea, Dan E. Interference: How Organized Crime Influences Professional Football, rev. ed. New York City: Open Road Integrated Media, 2014: Ch. 47.
iii. Savings & Loans
J.R. Adams, The Big Fix: Inside the S&L Scandal, rev. ed. New York City: John Wiley & Sons, 1991: Ch. 1.
Barth, James R. The Great Savings and Loan Debacle. Washington, D.C. The AEI Press, 1991: Ch. 1, 3.
O'Shea, James. The Daisy Chain: How Borrowed Billions Sank a Texas S&L. New York City: Pocket Books, 1991: Ch. 6, 8, 10, 13-15, 18.
Pizzo, Stephen, Mary Fricker, and Paul Muolo. Inside Job: The Looting of America's Savings and Loans, rev. ed. New York City: HarperPerennial, 1991: Ch. 1, 4-7, 10-11, 15, 21-22, 27.
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. 7.
iv. Law Firms
(1) Williams & Connolly
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. 14-15, 17-20.
Thomas, Evan. The Man to See: Edward Bennett Williams: Ultimate Insider; Legendary Trial Lawyer. 1991. Rpt. New York City: Touchstone/Simon and Schuster, 1992: Ch. 1, 41.
(2) 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. 11, 13-14, 17.
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. 17-19.
v. Advertising
80s All-American Ads. Ed. Heimann. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2005.
Pincas, Stéphane, and Marc Loiseau. A History of Advertising. 2006. Rpt. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2008: Ch. 5.
vi. Jeffrey Epstein
E.J. Epstein. Assume Nothing: Encounters With Assassins, Spies, Presidents, and Would-Be Masters of the Universe. New York City: Encounter Books, 2023: Ch. 34.
Goodman, Alana, and Daniel Halper. A Convenient Death: The Mysterious Demise of Jeffrey Epstein. New York City: Sentinel, 2020: Ch. 13.
vii. Alan Greenspan
Sheehan, Ch. 6.
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. 20.
viii. Donald Trump
(1) Trump et al.
Trump, Donald J., and Tony Schwartz. Trump: The Art of the Deal. 1987. Rpt. New York City: Ballentine Books, 2004: Ch. 1, 10-14.
Trump, and Charles Leerhsen. Trump: The Art of Survival, rev. ed. New York City: Warner Books, 1991: Ch. 4, 6-10.
Trump, and Kate Bohner. Trump: The Art of the Comeback. New York City: Times Books/Random House, 1997.
(2) Leamer
(a) The President's Butler. Washington, D.C.: Foggy Bottom Books, 2016: Ch. 13-19, 21-35.
(b) Mar-a-Lago: Inside the Gates of Power at Donald Trump's Presidential Palace. New York City: Flatiron Books, 2019: Ch. 3-5, 10.
(3) Others
Barrett, Wayne. Trump: The Greatest Show on Earth: The Deals, the Downfall, the Reinvention, rev. ed. New York City: Regan Arts, 2016: Ch. 9-14.
D’Antonio, Michael. The Truth About Trump, rev. ed. New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Griffin, 2016: Ch. 8-9.
Johnson, Nelson. Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City. Medford, N.J.: Plexus Publishing, 2002: Ch. 12.
Karl, Jonathan. Front Row at the Trump Show, rev. ed. New York City: Dutton, 2021: Ch. 1.
O’Brien, Timothy L. TrumpNation: The Art of Being The Donald, rev. ed. New York City: Grand Central Publishing, 2016: Ch. 4-5, 7.
Tuccille, Trump, Ch. 37-55.
ix. E.J. Epstein
(1) The Rise and Fall of Diamonds: The Shattering of a Brilliant Illusion. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1982: Ch. 23.
(2) Assume Nothing. New York City: Encounter Books, 2023: Ch. 26-27.
x. Other
J.R. Adams & Frantz, Ch. 13.
Andrews, Helen. Boomers: The Men and Women Who Promised Freedom and Delivered Disaster. New York City: Sentinel, 2021: Ch. 4.
Anka, Paul, and David Dalton. My Way. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 2013: Ch. 11.
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. 4-5.
Bartholomew, James. The Richest Man in the World: The Sultan of Brunei. 1989. Rpt. Harmondsworth, U.K.: Penguin, 1990: Ch. 1, 5, 7, 11-12, 16, 19.
Bruck, Master of the Game, Ch. 7-9.
Burrough, and John Helyar. Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Collins Business, 2008: Ch. 3-4, 6-18.
Byron, Christopher. Martha Inc.: The Incredible Story of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, rev. ed. New York City: John Wiley & Sons, 2003: Ch. 7-11.
Cohan. Power Failure: The Rise and Fall of an American Icon. New York City: Portfolio/Penguin, 2022: Ch. 9-12, 14.
Duncan, Richard. The Dollar Crisis: Causes, Consequences, Cures, rev. ed. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons (Asia), 2005: Ch. 2, 5, 8.
Enrich, David. Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction, rev. ed. New York City: Custom House, 2021: Ch. 2, 6, 16.
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Report: Final Report of the National Commission on the Causes of the Financial and Economic Crisis in the United States. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 2011: Ch. 5, 8.
Gross, Michael. House of Outrageous Fortune: Fifteen Central Park West, the World’s Most Powerful Address. New York City: Atria Books, 2014: Pt. 9.
Hazlett, Thomas Winslow. The Political Spectrum: The Tumultuous Liberation of Wireless Technology, From Herbert Hoover to the Smartphone. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2017 Ch. 17.
Issenberg, Sasha. The Sushi Economy: Globalization and the Making of a Modern Delicacy. New York City: Gotham Books, 2007: Ch. 11.
Klarman, Seth A. Margin of Safety: Risk-Adverse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor. 1991. Rpt. Washington, D.C.: BeardBooks, 2001: Ch. 4.
Knoedelseder, William. Bitter Brew: The Rise and Fall of Anheuser-Busch and America’s King of Beers. New York City: HarperBusiness, 2012: Ch. 13-17.
Maggin, Donald L. Bankers, Builders, Knaves, and Thieves: The $300 Million Scam at ESM. Chicago: Contemporary Books, 1989: Ch. 6-7.
McInerney, Jay. Brightness Falls. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992: Ch. 1, 3, 5, 13-14, 16-19, 21-22, 24, 26, 28-31, 33-34, 36, 38-39, 43-44.
Pinkerton, Stewart. The Fall of the House of Forbes: The Inside Story of the Collapse of a Media Empire. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2011: Ch. 3, 6, 19, 27.
G.L. Posner. Citizen Perot: His Life and Times. New York City: Random House, 1996: Ch. 12.
G. Russo. Supermob: How Sidney Korshak and His Criminal Associates Became America’s Hidden Power Brokers. New York City: Bloomsbury, 2006: Ch. 22.
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. 8, 10, 15.
Schweikart, Larry, and Lynne Pierson Doti. American Entrepreneur: The Fascinating Story of the People Who Defined Business in the United States, rev. ed. New York City: AMACOM, 2010: Ch. 12.
Sharkey, Joe. Bedlam: Greed, Profiteering, and Fraud in a Mental Health System Gone Crazy. New York City: Thomas Dunne/St. Martin's Press, 1994: Ch. 1, 4-8, 11-12, 14.
Smiley, Jane. Good Faith. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003.
Risso-Gill, Christopher. There’s Always Something to Do: The Peter Cundill Investment Approach. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s UP, 2011: Ch. 6-11.
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. 56-58.
Stockman, Great Deformation, Ch. 29.
Tillman, Robert. Global Pirates: Fraud in the Offshore Insurance Industry. Boston: Northeastern UP, 2002: Ch. 2.
Tucker, Jeffrey. Bourbon for Breakfast: Living Outside the Statist Quo. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2010: Ch. 63.
Vuic, Jason. The Yugo: The Rise and Fall of the Worst Car in History. New York City: Hill and Wang, 2010: Ch. 4, 7-11.
Weiss. Retail Gangster: The Insane, Real-Life Story of Crazy Eddie. New York City: Hachette Books, 2022: Ch. 8-22.
e. The Backlash
i. The Drexel Burnham Prosecution
Bruck, The Predator's Ball, Ch. 15-17.
Fischel, Daniel R. Payback: The Conspiracy to Destroy Michael Milken and His Revolution. New York City: HarperBusiness, 1995.
D.B. Levine & Hoffer, Ch. 36-37.
J.B. Stewart, Den of Thieves, Ch. 14.
ii. The Savings & Loan Crisis
J.R. Adams, Ch. 3, 9, 11, 13, 15.
O'Shea, Ch. 21-24.
Pizzo, Fricker & Muolo, Ch. 8, 12, 24, 29.
iii. BCCI
J.R. Adams & Frantz, Ch. 18-19.
Beaty & Gwynne, Ch. 14-15.
iv. Levine
Frantz, Ch. 16-22.
D.B. Levine & Hoffer, Ch. 1-3, 20-25, 27-33.
v. Other
Anderson, William L., and Candice E. Jackson. "It's the Economy, Stupid: Rudy Giuliani, the Wall Street Prosecutions, and the Recession of 1990-91." Journal of Libertarian Studies Fall 2005: 19-36.
Borman, Frank, and Robert J. Serling. Countdown: An Autobiography. New York City: Silver Arrow Books/William Morrow, 1988: Ch. 22-24.
J. Brooks, Ch. 11-12.
Cohan, House of Cards, Ch. 18.
Eisler, Shark Tank, Ch. 19-20.
Maggin, Ch. 1, 8-14.
Nocera, Ch. 17.
J.B. Stewart, Den of Thieves, Ch. 9-13, 15.
Vuic, Ch. 12-16.
Weiss, Retail Gangster, Ch. 23.
Yago, Ch. 10.
f. Armorers
Atkinson, Rick. The Long Gray Line, rev. ed. New York City: Henry Holt, 2009: Ch. 19.
P.M. Barrett, Ch. 3-5, 8.
Doherty, Brian. Gun Control on Trial: Inside the Supreme Court Battle Over the Second Amendment. Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2008: Ch. 4.
g. Transportation
Cudahy, Brian J. Box Boats: How Container Ships Changed the World. New York City: Fordham UP, 2006: Ch. 6.
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. 9.
h. Other
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. 12.
Bloom, John. Eccentric Orbits: The Iridium Story: How the Largest Man-Made Constellation in the Heavens Was Built by Dreamers in the Arizona Desert, Targeted for Destruction by Panicked Executives, and Saved by a Single Palm Beach Retiree Who Battled Motorola, Cajoled the Pentagon, Wrestled With Thirty Banks, Survived an Attack by Congress, Infiltrated the White House, Found Allies Through the Black Entertainment Network, and Wooed a Mysterious Arab Prince to Rescue the Only Phone That Links Every Inch of the Planet. New York City: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2016: Ch. 4.
Brewton, Pete. The Mafia, CIA, and George Bush. New York City: S.P.I. Books, 1992: Ch. 5.
Byron. Testosterone Inc.: Tales of CEOs Gone Wild. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2004: Ch. 10-11, 13-14, 21, 24.
Forden, Sara Gay. House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour and Greed, rev. ed. New York City: Perennial 2021: Ch. 6-9.
Frieden & Sagalyn, Ch. 12.
Goldratt, Eliyahu M., Jeff Cox, and David Whitford. The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, 4th rev. ed. Great Barrington, Mass.: North River Press, 2012.
Grant, George. The Dispossessed: Homelessness in America. Fort Worth, Texas: Dominion Press, 1986: Ch. 1-2.
Greenfield, Lauren. Generation Wealth. London: Phaidon Press, 2017.
Hazlett, Ch. 14.
Kahn, E.J. Jr. The Problem Solvers: A History of Arthur D. Little, Inc. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1986: Ch. 1.
Kessler, The Richest Man in the World, Ch. 1, 14.
Klein, Edward. The Kennedy Curse: Why America's First Family Has Been Haunted by Tragedy for 150 Years. New York City: St. Martin's, 2003: Ch. 7.
Lee, Stan [Stanley Martin Lieber], and George Mair. Excelsior!: The Amazing Life of Stan Lee. New York City: Fireside, 2002: Ch. 19.
Martin, Clancy. How to Sell. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
Nocera, Ch. 13-16.
J. Oppenheimer. Crazy Rich: Power, Scandal, and Tragedy Inside the Johnson & Johnson Dynasty. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2013: Ch. 26.
Perkins, Ch. 30-31.
G.L. Posner. Pharma: Greed, Lies, and the Poisoning of America. New York City: Avid Reader Press, 2020: Ch. 37-41.
Robertson, David C., and Bill Breen. Brick by Brick: How LEGO Rewrote the Rules of Innovation and Conquered the Global Toy Industry. New York City: Crown Business, 2013: Ch. 2.
Rosenbaum, Ron. Manhattan Passions: True Tales of Power, Wealth, and Excess. New York City: Beech Tree Books/William Morrow, 1987.
Salerno, Joseph T. Money, Sound and Unsound. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2010: Ch. 18.
Salter, James [James A. Horowitz]. Dusk and Other Stories. 1988. Rpt. London: Picador, 1994.
Sprague, Irvine H. Bailout: An Insider's Account of Bank Failures and Rescues. 1986. Rpt. Washington, D.C.: BeardBooks, 2000: Ch. 1, 6-12.
E. Thomas, The Man to See, Ch. 34, 38, 43-44.
Walsh, William I. The Rise and Decline of The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company. Secaucus, N.J.: Lyle Stuart, 1986: Ch. 14-15.
Webb, Whitney. One Nation Under Blackmail: The Sordid Union Between Intelligence and Crime That Gave Rise to Jeffrey Epstein. Walterville, Ore. Trine Day, 2022: Vol. II, Ch. 15.
2. The Reagan Administration
a. Reaganomics
i. Greenspan
Sheehan, Ch. 8-9.
Tuccille, Alan Shrugged, Ch. 17-19, 21-24.
ii. Other
Bartlett, Bruce R. Reaganomics: Supply-Side Economics in Action, rev. ed. New York City: Quill, 1982: Ch. 1-6, 18, Appendix G.
Birnbaum, Jeffrey H., and Alan S. Murphy. Showdown at Gucci Gulch: Lawmakers, Lobbyists, and the Unlikely Triumph of Tax Reform. 1987. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 1988.
Kondracke & Barnes, Ch. 4, 7.
Meltzer, Allen H. A History of the Federal Reserve, Vol. II, Book Two: 1970-86. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2009: Ch. 9.
Niskanen, Ch. 2-5, 7-8, 10.
P.C. Roberts. The Supply-Side Revolution: An Insider's Account of Policymaking in Washington. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1984: Ch. 4-10.
Weaver, Paul H. The Suicidal Corporation: How Big Business Fails America. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1988: Ch. 17.
b. Foreign Affairs
i. Central America
(1) Parry
(a) Fooling America: How Washington Insiders Twist the Truth and Manufacture the Conventional Wisdom. New York City: William Morrow and Co., 1992: Ch. 5, 10-13.
(b) Lost History, Ch. 2-4.
(2) Others
Cannon, President Reagan, Ch. 14.
Clarridge & Diehl, Ch. 11-12, 15.
Fitzgerald, A. Ernest. The Pentagonists: An Insider’s View of Waste, Mismanagement, and Fraud in Defense Spending. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1989: Appendix C.
Murray Friedman, Ch. 9.
Garvin, Ch. 10, 14, 16.
Haig [McCarry]. Caveat: Realism, Reagan, and Foreign Policy. New York City: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1984: Ch. 7.
McClintock, Michael. Instruments of Statecraft: U.S. Guerrilla Warfare, Counterinsurgency, and Counter-Terrorism, 1940-1990. New York City: Pantheon Books, 1992: Ch. 17.
Menges, Constantine Christopher. Inside the National Security Council: The True Story of the Making and Unmaking of Reagan's Foreign Policy. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1988: Ch. 3-6, 11.
Quigley, John. The Ruses for War: American Interventionism Since World War II, rev. ed. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2007: Ch. 20-21.
Rodriguez, Felix I., and John Weisman. Shadow Warrior. 1989. Rpt. New York City: Pocket Books, 1990: Ch. 19.
Terrell, Jack, and Ron Martz. Disposable Patriot: Revelations of a Soldier in America's Secret Wars. Washington, D.C.: National Press Books, 1992: Ch. 1-15, 20.
ii. Grenada
Adams, James. Secret Armies, rev. ed. London: Pan Books, 1989: Ch. 19.
R. Atkinson, The Long Gray Line, Ch. 18.
Kinzer. Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change From Hawaii to Iraq. New York City: Times Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2006: Ch. 10, 14.
Menges, Ch. 2.
Quigley, Ch. 23-25.
iii. Iran-Contra
(1) Primary Sources
Taking the Stand: The Testimony of Lieutenant Colonel Oliver L. North. New York City: Pocket Books, 1987.
The Tower Commission Report: The Full Text of the President's Special Review Board. New York City: Bantam Books/Times Books, 1987.
(1) Parry
(a) Fooling America, Ch. 14-16.
(b) Lost History, Ch. 5-7, 10-11.
(3) Other
Ben-Menashe, Ch. 7, 10-12, 20.
Burton, Fred. Ghost: Confessions of a Counterterrorism Agent. New York City: Random House, 2008: Ch. 12-13.
Cadava, Ch. 8.
Cannon, President Reagan, Ch. 19-20.
Clarridge & Diehl, Ch. 18, 22-24.
R.B. Cramer, Ch. 6.
DeYoung, Karen. Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell. 2006. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 2007: Ch. 9.
Eisler, Masters of the Game, Ch. 16.
E.J. Epstein. Deception: The Invisible War Between the KGB and the CIA. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1989: Ch. 14.
Evans-Pritchard, Ambrose. The Secret Life of Bill Clinton: The Unreported Stories. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1997: Ch. 20-21.
Garvin, Ch. 12.
Gewirtz, David. Where Have All the Emails Gone? Palm Bay, Fla.: Zatz, 2007: Ch. 2.
Harris, Shane. The Watchers: The Rise of America's Surveillance State. New York City: The Penguin Press, 2010: Ch. 4.
Hayward, Vol. II, Ch. 6, 11.
Jackley, John L. Hill Rat: Blowing the Lid Off Congress. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1992: Ch. 8-9, Appendix 3-5, 7.
Kessler, The Richest Man in the World, Ch. 15.
Livingstone, David. Black Terror, White Soldiers: Islam, Fascism and the New Age. Scotts Valley, Calif.: Sabilillah Publicatons, 2013: Ch. 29.
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. 18-20.
Mann. The Rebellion of Ronald Reagan: A History of the End of the Cold War. New York City: Viking, 2009: Pt. 3, Ch. 4.
Marshall, 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. 1, 6-11.
Martin, David C., and John Walcott. Best Laid Plans: The Inside Story of America's War Against Terrorism. New York City: Harper & Row Publishers, 1988: Ch. 11.
De Marenches, Count Alexandre, and David A. Andelman. The Fourth World War: Diplomacy and Espionage in the Age of Terrorism. New York City: William Morrow and Co., 1992: Ch. 1.
McClintock, Ch. 14-16, 18.
Menges, Ch. 7, 12-13.
Novak, Robert D. The Prince of Darkness: 50 Years Reporting in Washington. New York City: Crown Forum, 2007: Ch. 34.
Oren, Michael B. [Michael Bornstein]. Power, Faith and Fantasy: America and the Middle East: 1776 to the Present, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2011: Ch. 28.
Paglen, Trevor. Blank Spots on the Map: The Dark Geography of the Pentagon’s Secret World. New York City: Dutton, 2009: Ch. 14.
Persico, Ch. 1, 28, 33-35.
Polovchak & Klose, Ch. 19.
Prados, John. Safe for Democracy: The Secret Wars of the CIA, 3rd rev. ed. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2006: Ch. 21-22.
Raviv, Dan, and Yossi Melman. Every Spy a Prince: The Complete History of Israel 's Intelligence Community, rev. ed. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1991: Ch. 15.
Regan, Donald T. For the Record: From Wall Street to Washington, rev. ed. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 1989: Ch. 2-5, 18-19.
Rizzo, John. Company Man: Thirty Years of Controversy and Crisis in the CIA. New York City: Scribner, 2014: Ch. 5-7.
Jon Roberts & E. Wright, Ch. 66.
Rodriguez & Weisman, Ch. 16-18.
Segev, Samuel. The Iranian Triangle: The Untold Story of Israel's Role in the Iran-Contra Affair. Trans. Haim Watzman. New York City: Free Press, 1988: Ch. 6-11.
Stockman. Trumped!: A Nation on the Brink of Ruin … and How to Bring It Back. Baltimore Laissez Faire Books, 2016: Ch. 21.
R.J. Stone & St. J. Hunt, Ch. 24-25.
Terrell & Martz, Ch. 16-18.
Tyler, Patrick. A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East — From the Cold War to the War on Terror. New York City: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2009: Ch. 8.
Ventura, Jesse [James George Janos], and Dick Russell. American Conspiracies: Lies, Lies, and More Dirty Lies That the Government Tells Us, rev. ed. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011: Ch. 10.
G. Webb, Ch. 5, 9-14, 17-21.
Weiner, Tim. Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA, rev. ed. New York City: Anchor Books, 2008: Ch. 41.
iv. The Mideast
(1) Saudi Arabia
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.
G.L. Posner. Secrets of the Kingdom: The Inside Story of the Saudi-U.S. Connection. New York City: Random House, 2005: Ch. 8-9.
(2) Afghanistan
Cooley, John K. Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America, and International Terrorism, 2nd rev. ed. London: Pluto Press, 2002: Ch. 5-7.
Snyder, Alvin A. Warriors of Disinformation: How Lies, Videotape, and the USIA Won the Cold War. 1995. Rpt. New York City: Arcade Publishing, 2012: Ch. 12.
(3) Other
James Adams, Secret Armies, Ch. 20, 24.
Bacevich, Andrew J. America’s War for the Greater Middle East: A Military History. New York City: Random House, 2016: Ch. 3-6.
G.W. Ball & D.W. Ball, Ch. 6-7.
Bovard, James. Terrorism and Tyranny: Trampling Freedom, Justice and Peace to Rid the World of Evil, rev. ed. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004: Ch. 2.
Burton, Ch. 7-8, 10-11, 14, 16.
Friedman, Thomas L. From Beirut to Jerusalem, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Anchor Books, 1995: Ch. 8.
Haig, Caveat, Ch. 9, 15.
S. Harris, Ch. 1, 3.
D.C. Martin & Walcott, Ch. 2-4, 10.
Parsi, Ch. 11.
Pfarrer, Chuck. Warrior Soul: The Memoir of a Navy SEAL. New York City: Random House, 2004: Pt. 2.
v. Nuclear Arms Negotiations
Nelson, Craig. The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era. New York City: Scribner, 2014: Ch. 15.
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. 19-22.
Ritter, Scott. Scorpion King: America's Suicidal Embrace of Nuclear Weapons From FDR to Trump, rev. ed. Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2020: Ch. 1.
Rosenbaum. How the End Begins: The Road to a Nuclear World War III. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2011: Ch. 9.
vi. Other
W. Barrett, and Adam Fifield. Rudy!: An Investigative Biography of Rudolph Giuliani. New York City: Basic Books, 2000: Ch. 6.
W.F. Buckley, The Reagan I Knew, Ch. 18.
Cannon, President Reagan, 16, 21.
Clarridge & Diehl, Ch. 14.
Colodny, Len, and Tom Shachtman. The Forty Years War: The Rise and Fall of the Neocons, From Nixon to Obama. New York City: Harper, 2009: Ch. 22-23.
Dueck, Colin. Hard Line: The Republican Party and U.S. Foreign Policy Since World War II. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2010: Ch. 6.
S. Green, Ch. 11.
Haig, Caveat, Ch. 1-6, 10-14.
Halper, Stefan, and Jonathan Clarke. America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge UP, 2004: Ch. 5.
Havill, Adrian. Deep Truth: The Lives of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. Secaucus, N.J.: Birch Lane Press, 1993: Ch. 17, Appendix B.
Hayward, Vol. II, Ch. 3.
D.E. Hoffman, Ch. 2-3, 7, 10-12.
P. Jenkins, Ch. 8.
Karnow, Stanley. In Our Image: America's Empire in the Philippines. 1989. Rpt. New York City: Ballentine Books, 1990: Ch. 1, 15.
Mamdani, Mahmood. Saviours and Survivors: Darfur, Politics and the War on Terror. Cape Town, South Africa: HSRC Press, 2009: Ch. 7.
J. Mann, Rebellion of Ronald Reagan, Pt. 1, Ch. 1, 4-9; Pt. 2, Ch. 1, 3-8; Pt. 3, Ch. 1-2, 5-13, 15; Pt. 4, Ch. 1-8.
Marshall, Peter Dale Scott, and Jane Hunter. The Iran-Contra Connection: Secret Teams and Covert Operations in the Reagan Era. Boston: South End Press, 1987: Ch. 2.
Melvern, Anning & Hebditch, Ch. 7.
Menges, Ch. 8-10.
Parry, Ch. 13.
Pfarrer, Pt. 1, 3.
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. 8.
Regan, Ch. 15, 17.
Schwarz, Frederick. Beating the Unbeatable Foe: One Man’s Victory Over Communism, Leviathan, and the Last Enemy*. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1996: Ch. 37.
Schweizer, Reagan's War, Ch. 13-14, 16-17, 20-23.
Snyder, Ch. 1, 3-11, 13.
Unger, David C. The Emergency State: America’s Pursuit of Absolute Security at All Costs. New York City: The Penguin Press, 2012: Ch. 10.
c. The Assasination Attempt
Kessler. In the President’s Secret Service, Ch. 15.
Haig, Caveat, Ch. 8.
Regan, Ch. 9.
Wilber, Del Quentin. Rawhide Down: The Near Assasination of President Reagan. New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 2011.
d. Kessler
i. In the President’s Secret Service, Ch. 12-13.
ii. First Family Detail: Secret Service Agents Reveal the Hidden Lives of the Presidents, rev. ed. New York City: Crown Forum, 2015: Ch. 12, 14.
e. Other
Anderson, Martin. Revolution: The Reagan Legacy, rev. ed. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 1990.
Balko, Radley. Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces, rev. ed. PublicAffairs, 2021: Ch. 6.
W.F. Buckley, The Reagan I Knew, Ch. 15-16, 19.
Bushkin, Henry. Johnny Carson. Boston: Eamon Dolan/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2013: Ch. 9.
Cannon, President Reagan, Ch. 1-2, 5, 7, 9-10, 12, 17-18, 22.
Cousins, Norman. The Pathology of Power. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1987: Ch. 10-11.
Donaldson, Sam. Hold on, Mr. President!, rev. ed. New York City: Fawcett Crest, 1988: Ch. 1, 6.
T.B. Edsall & M.D. Edsall, Ch. 9-10.
Hanrahan, John. Government by Contract. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1983: Ch. 6-7.
Hayward, Vol. II, Ch. 2, 4-5, 7-10, 12-13.
Kelley, Ch. 21.
Knoedelseder, William. Stiffed: A True Story of MCA, the Music Business, and the Mafia. 1993. Rpt. New York City: HarperPerennial, 1994: Ch. 38-40, 42, 45, 47.
MacKenzie, John P. Absolute Power?: How the Unitary Executive Theory Is Undermining the Constitution. New York City: Century Foundation Press, 2008: Ch. 4-5.
J. Mann, Rise of the Vulcans, Ch. 7-10.
Martin, William. With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America, rev. ed. New York City: Broadway Books, 2005: Ch. 10.
Mears, Ch. 7.
Newman, Katherine S. Falling From Grace: Downward Mobility in the Age of Affluence, rev. ed. Berkeley, Calif.: U of California P, 1999: Ch. 5.
Niskanen, Ch. 6, 9.
Nofziger, Ch. 10.
Noonan, Peggy. What I Saw at the Reagan Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era, rev. ed. New York City: Random House, 2010.
Novak, Ch. 30, 32.
Pauken, Thomas W. The Thirty Years War: The Politics of the Sxities Generation. Ottawa, Ill.: Jameson Books, 1995: Ch. 14-17.
Paul, Ron. End the Fed. New York City: Grand Central Publishing, 2009: Ch. 5.
Pizzo, Fricker & Muolo, Ch. 23, Appendix A.
Reagan, Ron. My Father at 100. New York City: Viking, 2011: Ch. 9.
Reedy, George E. The Twilight of the Presidency: From Johnson to Reagan, rev. ed. New York City: New American Library, 1987: Ch. 12.
Regan, Ch. 1, 8, 10-14, 16.
Schwab, Larry. The Illusion of a Conservative Reagan Revolution. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1991.
Schweizer, Reagan's War, Ch. 12.
Smith, Hedrick. The Power Game: How Washington Works. 1988. Rpt. New York City: Ballentine Books, 1996: Ch. 1, 12-13.
Stadiem. Moneywood: Hollywood in Its Last Age of Excess. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 2013: Ch. 1.
Stockman, Triumph of Politics, Ch. 3-12.
Taraborrelli. Sinatra: Behind the Legend, rev. ed. New York City: Grand Central Publishing, 2015: Ch. 41.
Thomas, Kenn, and Jim Keith. The Octopus: Secret Government and Death of Danny Casolaro, rev. ed. Los Angeles: Feral House, 2004: Ch. 2-4, 9, 19.
Troy, Gil. Morning in America: How Ronald Reagan Invented the 1980s. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2005.
Troy, Tevi. Intellectuals and the American Presidency: Philosophers, Jesters, or Technicians? Lanham, Md. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002: Ch. 7.
Woodward. Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1999: Pt. 3.
3. Western Asia
a. Israel
i. Espionage
(1) The Pollard Affair
Blizter, Wolf. Territory of Lies: The Exclusive Story of Jonathan Jay Pollard: The American Who Spied on His Country for Israel and How He Was Betrayed. New York City: Harper & Row Publishers, 1989: Ch. 1, 5-14.
Rosenthal, Steven T. Irreconcilable Differences? The Waning of the American Jewish Love Affair with Israel. Hanover, N.H.: Brandeis UP, 2001: Ch. 5.
(2) Melman & Raviv
(a) Every Spy a Prince, Ch. 13.
(b) Behind the Uprising, 14, 18-20.
(3) Ostrovsky
(a) Ostrovsky. The Other Side of Deception: A Rogue Agent Exposes the Mossad's Secret Agenda. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994.
(b) Ostrovsky and Hoy, Ch. 2-8, 12, 15-16.
(4) Other
Ben-Menashe, Ch. 14-19.
Bergman, Ronen. Rise and Kill First: The Secret History of Israel’s Targeted Assassinations. New York City: Random House, 2018: Ch. 17-18.
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. 12-13.
Doron, Meir, and Joseph Gellman. Confidential: The Life of Secret Agent Turned Hollywood Tycoon Arnon Milchan. Lynbrook, N.Y.: Gefen Books, 2011: Ch. 1, 14, 16.
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. 8-9, 15.
ii. Nuclear Weapons
Hersh, Samson Option, Ch. 22.
Rosenbaum, How the End Begins, Ch. 7.
iii. The First Intifada
Bergman, Ch. 19.
Bregman, Ahron. Cursed Victory: A History of Israel and the Occupied Territories, rev. ed. New York City: Pegasus Books, 2015: Ch. 6-7.
T.L. Friedman, Ch. 14-15.
Melman & Raviv, Behind the Uprising: Israelis, Jordanians and Palestinians. New York City: Greenwood Press, 1989: Ch. 1.
Morris, Benny. Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001, rev. ed New York City: Vintage Books, 2001: Ch. 12.
Rosenthal, Ch. 6.
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. 4.
iv. Barry Chamish
(1) The Fall of Israel. Edinburgh, U.K.: Cannongate Publishers, 1992.
(2) The Stinger, Not the Stung: Israel's Not So Civil War. Raleigh, N.C.: Lulu Press, 2012: Ch. 3.
v. Amos Perlmutter et al.
Perlmutter, Amos. The Life and Times of Menachem Begin. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1987: Ch. 2, 36.
Perlmutter, Michael I. Handel, and Uri Bar-Joseph. Two Minutes Over Baghdad, rev. ed. London: Frank Cass, 2003: Ch. 11-19, 21, 24.
vi. Other
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. 11.
Doron & Gellman, Ch. 13, 15.
T.L. Friedman, Ch. 11-13.
Golan, Matti. The Road to Peace: A Biography of Simon Peres. Trans. Akiva Ron. New York City: Warner Books, 1989: Ch. 9-10, 12-14.
Sharon, Ariel [Ariel Scheinermann], and David Chanoff. Warrior: The Autobiography of Ariel Sharon, rev. ed. 1989. Rpt. New York City: Touchstone Books, 2001: Ch. 28.
Shlaim, Ch. 11-12.
b. Iraq
Allawi, Ali A. The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2007: Ch. 2.
Friedman, Alan. Spider's Web: The Secret History of How the White House Illegally Armed Iraq. New York City: Bantam Books, 1993: Ch. 1-8.
Galbraith, Peter W., and Christopher Van Hollen Jr. Chemical Weapons Use in Kurdistan: Iraq's Final Offensive: A Staff Report to the Committee on Foreign Relations, United States Senate. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1988.
Perkins, Ch. 33.
Perlmutter, Handel & Bar-Joseph, Ch. 20, 22.
Wilson, Joseph C. IV. The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies That Led to War and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity: A Diplomat's Memoir. New York City: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2004: Ch. 4.
c. Lebanon
i. Hezbollah
Cambanis, Thanassis. A Privilege to Die: Inside Hezbollah's Legions and Their Endless War Against Israel. New York City: Free Press, 2010: Ch. 1.
Ehrenfeld, Rachel. Funding Evil: How Terrorism Is Financed Ã¢â‚¬â€œ and How to Stop It, 2nd rev. ed. New Rochelle, N.Y.: MultiEducator, 2011: Ch. 4.
ii. Other
Bergman, Ch. 15-16, 23.
Folman, Ari, and David Polonsky. Waltz With Bashir: A Lebanon War Story. New York City: Metropolitan Books, 2008.
T.L. Friedman, Ch. 6-7, 9-10.
Glass, Charles. Tribes With Flags: A Journey Curtailed. 1990. Rpt. London: Picador, 1992: Ch. 17-28.
D.C. Martin & Walcott, Ch. 5-6, 8.
B. Morris, Ch. 11.
Reed, Eli, and Fouad Ajami. Beirut: City of Regrets. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1988.
Rosenthal, Ch. 4.
Sharon & Chanoff, Ch. 30-32.
d. Al-Qaeda
Burke, Jason. Al-Qaeda: The True Story of Radical Islam, rev. ed. London: I.B. Tauris, 2004: Ch. 5.
Margolis, Eric S. American Raj: Liberation or Domination? Toronto: Key Porter Books, 2008: Ch. 8.
Stern, Jessica, J.M. Berger, and Megan K. McBride. ISIS: The State of Terror. New York City: Ecco, 2015: Ch. 3.
Wright, Lawrence. The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 2011: Ch. 6-9.
e. Saudi Arabia
Mackey, Sandra. The Saudis: Inside the Desert Kingdom, rev. ed. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2002: Ch. 16-18.
C. Unger, House of Bush, House of Saud, Ch. 4.
f. Afghanistan
Schultheis, Rob. Night Letters: Inside Wartime Afghanistan, rev. ed. Guilford, Conn.: The Lyons Press, 2001: Ch. 3-17.
Yousaf, Brig. Gen. Mohammad (ret.), and Maj. Mark Adkin. Afghanistan – the Bear Trap: The Defeat of a Superpower. 1992. Rpt. Barnsley, U.K.: Leo Cooper, 2001.
g. The PLO
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. 5.
Napoleoni, Loretta. Terror Incorporated: Tracing the Dollars Behind the Terror Networks, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Seven Stories Press, 2005: Ch. 6.
h. Robert Baer
i. See No Evil: The True Story of a Ground Soldier in the CIA's War on Terrorism, rev. ed. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2002: Ch. 6-10, 12
ii. Sleeping With the Devil: How Washington Sold Our Soul for Saudi Crude, rev. ed. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2004: Ch. 8.
iii. The Devil We Know: Dealing With the New Iranian Superpower. New York City: Crown Publishers, 2008: Ch. 1-2, 10.
i. Glass
i. Tribes With Flags, Ch. 1-16.
ii. Syria Burning: ISIS and the Death of the Arab Spring. New York City: OR Books, 2015: Ch. 1, 4.
j. Other
Allawi, Ch. 23.
Ammann, Ch. 15.
Bodansky, Target America, Ch. 2, 4, 6, 8.
Cannon, President Reagan, Ch. 15.
Crile, Ch. 7, 10-12, 14-17, 19, 22, 24-25, 27-34.
Fiennes, Ranulph. Killer Elite, rev. ed. New York City: Ballantine Books, 2011: Ch. 44.
T.L. Friedman, Ch. 17.
S. Green, Ch. 13.
Hersh. Chain of Command: The Road From 9/11 to Abu Ghraib. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2004: Pt. 2, Ch. 1.
Jerome, Carole. The Man in the Mirror. Toronto: Key Porter Books, 1987: Pt. 7.
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. 46.
D.C. Martin & Walcott, Ch. 7, 9.
Lance, Triple Cross, Ch. 2-5.
Melman & Raviv, Ch. 12-13, 16.
Parry, Fooling America, Ch. 7.
Parsi, Ch. 12.
Perlmutter, Handel & Bar-Joseph, Ch. 23, 25-26.
Posner, Steve. Israel Undercover: Secret Warfare and Hidden Diplomacy in the Middle East. Syracuse, N.Y.: Syracuse UP, 1987: Ch. 23, 29.
Quigley, Ch. 22.
Tyler, Ch. 7.
"Warraq," The Islam in Islamic Terrorism, Ch. 4.
4. The Marxists
a. The Soviet Union
i. Espionage
(1) The KGB
Andrew, and Oleg Gordievsky. KGB: The Inside Story of Its Foreign Operations From Lenin to Gorbachev. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 1990: Ch. 15, Appendix C.
Earley. Comrade J: The Untold Secrets of Russia's Master Spy in America After the End of the Cold War. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2007: Ch. 5-8.
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. 1, 6-9.
E.J. Epstein, Deception, Ch. 13.
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. 26.
(2) Other
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. 17.
"Suvorov, Viktor" [Vladimir Bogdanovich Rezun]. Inside Soviet Military Intelligence. New York City: Macmillan, 1984: Pt. 1, Ch. 1, 3-12; Pt. 2.
ii. The Chernobyl Disaster
Medvedev, Grigori. The Truth About Chernobyl, rev. ed. Trans. Evelyn Rossiter. New York City: Basic Books, 1991: Ch. 2-6.
Craig Nelson, Ch. 14.
iii. Afghanistan
Arnold, Anthony. The Fateful Pebble: Afghanistan’s Role in the Fall of the Soviet Empire. Novato, Calif.: Presidio, 1993: Ch. 7-9.
Cooley, Ch. 8.
iv. Perestroika
Brown, Archie. The Rise and Fall of Communism. New York City: Ecco, 2009: Ch. 24.
Shelton, Judy. The Coming Soviet Crash: Gorbachev's Desperate Purusit of Credit in Western Financial Markets. New York City: The Free Press, 1989: Ch. 3, 7, 10.
v. Other
Bukovsky, Vladimir, and Pavel Stroilov. EUSSR: The Soviet Roots of European Integration. Worcester Park, U.K.: Sovereignty Publications, 2004.
E.J. Epstein, Deception, Ch. 16.
Hanson, Philip. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Economy: An Economic History of the USSR From 1945. 2003. Rpt. London: Routledge, 2014: Ch. 6-8.
D.E. Hoffman, Ch. 13.
Klebnikov, Paul. Godfather of the Kremlin: Boris Berzovsky and the Looting of Russia. New York City: Harcourt, 2000: Ch. 1-2.
Leitenberg, Milton, Raymond A. Zilinskas, and Jens H. Kuhn. The Soviet Biological Weapons Program: A History. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2012: Ch. 21.
Lucas, Edward. The New Cold War: The Future of Russia and the Threat to the West, rev. ed. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009: Ch. 1.
O’Sullivan, John. The President, the Pope, and the Prime Minister: Three Who Changed the World. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2006: Ch. 7.
Palmer, Tom G. Realizing Freedom: Libertarian Theory, History, and Practice. Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2009: Ch. 14.
Schweizer, Reagan's War, Ch. 18.
Vaksberg, Arkady. The Soviet Mafia. Trans. John Roberts and Elizabeth Roberts. London: Weindenfeld and Nicolson, 1991: Ch. 4, 6-8, 10.
b. Other
Agee, Ch. 16.
Feigon, Lee. China Rising: The Meaning of Tiananmen. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 1990: Ch. 4.
Flynn, Daniel J. Intellectual Morons: How Ideology Makes Smart People Fall for Stupid Ideas. 2004. Rpt. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2005: Ch. 5.
Garvin, Ch. 13.
Gottfried. Encounters: My Life with Nixon, Marcuse, and Other Friends and Teachers. Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2009: Ch. 5.
Grant. Trial and Error: The American Civil Liberties Union and Its Impact on Your Family. 1989. Rpt. Franklin, Tenn.: Adroit Press, 1993: Ch. 1.
A. Klein & Elliott, Ch. 14.
Kornai, János [János Kornhauser]. By Force of Thought: Irregular Memoirs of an Intellectual Journey, rev. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2006: Ch. 17-18.
Kristeva, Ch. 19, 21-24.
J. Mann, Rebellion of Ronald Reagan, Pt. 3, Ch. 14.
Muravchik, Joshua. Heaven on Earth: The Rise, Fall, and Afterlife of Socialism, rev. ed. New York City: Encounter Books, 2019: Ch. 11.
Nourzhanov, Kirill, and Christian Bleuer. Tajikistan: A Political and Social History. Canberra, A.C.T.: Australian National University E Press, 2013: Ch. 6.
Wyden, Ch. 57-59.
5. The Cold War
a. Technology Transfers
Melvern, Anning & Hebditch, Ch. 1, 15.
Sutton. The Best Enemy Money Can Buy. Billings, Mont.: Liberty House Press, 1986: Appendices H-I.
b. The Clyde Conrad Spy Ring
Herrington, Stuart A. Traitors Among Us: Inside the Spy Catcher’s World. 1999. Rpt. San Diego: Harcourt, 2000: Ch. 1, 3-6, 9-12, 14-34, 38.
Navarro, Joe. Three Minutes to Doomsday: An Agent, a Traitor, and the Worst Espionage Breach in US History. New York City: Scribner, 2017: Ch. 1-7.
c. Aldrich Ames
Earley. Confessions of a Spy: The Real Story of Aldrich Ames. 1997. Rpt. New York City: Berkley Books, 1998: Ch. 12-20.
Maas. 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. 4, 6.
d. 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. 15.
ii. 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. 16-19, 21.
e. Kessler
i. Moscow Station: How the KGB Penetrated the American Embassy. New York City: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989: Ch. 1, 3, 6-22.
ii. Spy Vs. Spy: The Shocking True Story of the FBI's Secret War Against Soviet Agents in America, rev. ed. New York City: Pocket Books, 1989.
iii. 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. 1, 6-32.
f. Other
James Adams, Secret Armies, Ch. 15, 18, 21-23.
Bearden, Milt, and James Risen. The Main Enemy: The Inside Story of the CIA's Final Showdown With the KGB. 2003. Rpt. New York City: Presidio Press/Ballentine Books, 2004: Pt. 1; Pt. 2, Ch. 1-12.
Burton, James G. The Pentagon Wars: Reformers Challenge the Old Guard. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1993: Ch. 7-12.
Earley, Pete. Family of Spies: Inside the John Walker Spy Ring. New York City: Bantam Books, 1988: Ch. 1-2, 40-79.
Essential Mae Brussell, Ch. 16.
E.A. Fitzgerald, Ch. 10-17.
Glenny, Ch. 1.
Huber, Jeff. Bathtub Admirals. Largo, Fla.: Künati, 2008: Pt. 1.
D.E. Hoffman, Ch. 9.
Kaplan, Fred M. The Insurgents: David Petraeus and the Plot to Change the American Way of War. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2013: Ch. 4, 6.
Kennedy, Robert F. Jr. The Wuhan Cover-Up: And the Terrifying Bioweapons Arms Race. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing/Children's Health Defense, 2023: Ch. 15.
Leebaert, Derek. The Fifty-Year Wound: The True Price of America's Cold War Victory. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2002: Ch. 10-11.
Macintyre, Ben. The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War, rev. ed. New York City: Broadway Books, 2019: Ch. 8-15.
Mackenzie, Angus. Secrets: The CIA’s War at Home. Berkeley, Calif.: U of California P, 1997: Ch. 10.
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. 1, 6, 9.
O’Sullivan, Ch. 3, 8-9.
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. 4.
Prados. The US Special Forces: What Everyone Needs to Know. New York City: Oxford UP, 2015: Ch. 4.
Sanchez, Lt. Gen. Ricardo (ret.), and Donald T. Phillips. Wiser in Battle: A Soldier's Story. New York City: Harper, 2008: Ch. 3.
F. Schwarz, Ch. 38.
Schweizer, Reagan's War, Ch. 19.
Spinney, Franklin C. Defense Power Games, rev. ed. Alexandria, Va.: Franklin C. Spinney, 1998: Ch. 4-5.
Stoll, Clifford. The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage, rev. ed. New York City: Pocket Books, 2005.
Van Oudenaren, John. Détente in Europe: The Soviet Union and the West Since 1953. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 1991: Ch. 10.
Wyden, Ch. 52-53.
6. Cocaine
a. The Clintons
Morris, Roger. Partners in Power: The Clintons and Their America. New York City: John Macrae/Henry Holt and Co., 1996: Ch. 18.
R.J. Stone & Morrow, Ch. 8-10.
b. Robert Mazur
J.R. Adams & Frantz, Ch. 10-12, 14-17.
Mazur, Robert. The Infiltrator: The True Story of One Man Against the Biggest Drug Cartel in History. 2009. Rpt. Boston: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Co., 2016: Ch. 2-22.
c. Chepesiuk
i. Narcos Inc., Pt. 1; Pt. 2, Ch. 6, 8.
ii. Gangsters of Miami, Ch. 11.
d. McInerney
i. Story of My Life. New York City: Atlantic Monthly Press, 1988.
ii. Brightness Falls, Ch. 23, 32, 35, 37, 40, 47.
d. Others
James Adams. The Financing of Terror, Ch. 9.
Bowden, Doctor Dealer, Ch. 8-13.
Carr, David. The Night of the Gun: A Reporter Investigates the Darkest Story of His Life. His Own. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2008: Ch. 1-2, 5, 9, 11-12, 14-29, 31, 35-36.
M.A. Collins. A Shroud for Aquarius. New York City: Walker and Co., 1985: Ch. 2-21.
Denton, Ch. 15-21.
Eddy, Ch. 7, 11, 21-22.
Farzad, Ch. 33-46.
Hernández, Anabel. Narcoland: The Mexican Drug Lords and Their Godfathers, rev. ed. Trans. Iain Bruce. London: Verso, 2014: Ch. 3, 5.
Huddy, Ch. 12.
Levine, Michael. Deep Cover: The Inside Story of How DEA Infighting, Incompetence, and Subterfuge Lost Us the Biggest Battle of the Drug War. 1990. Rpt. Lincoln, Neb.: iUniverse.com, 2000.
Marshall & P.D. Scott, Cocaine Politics, Ch. 6.
McClintick, Ch. 33-54.
Mermelstein, R. Moore & Smitten, Ch. 5-17, 19-25.
Mustain & Capeci, Murder Machine, Ch. 22.
Crile, Ch. 9, 12.
Fontova, Humberto. Fidel: Hollywood's Favorite Tyrant. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2005: Ch. 4.
Gray, Ch. 7.
Gugliotta, Guy and Jeff Leen. Kings of Cocaine: Inside the Medellin Cartel — an Astonishing True Story of Murder, Money, and International Corruption. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1989: Ch. 6-14, 16-34.
Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude, Pt. 3, Ch. 6-7, 9.
Moldea, Interference, Ch. 50.
Pelecanos, George P. The Sweet Forever. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1998.
Posner, Gerald L. Miami Babylon: Crime, Wealth, and Power — a Dispatch From the Beach. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2009: Ch. 12.
Jon Roberts & E. Wright, Ch. 63-65, 67-73, 75-77.
Shannon, Ch. 1, 9-24.
Streatfeild, Dominic. Cocaine (An Unauthorized Biography). New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2001: Ch. 13-17, 19.
Torgoff, Martin. Can’t Find My Way Home: America in the Great Stoned Age, 1945-2000. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2004: Ch. 11-12.
G. Webb, Ch. 15-16.
7. The United Kingdom
Beckett & Hencke, Ch. 5-7.
Buruma, Ian. Anglomania: A European Love Affair. New York City: Random House, 1998: Ch. 15.
Fiennes, Ch. 28-35, 39-43.
Maas, Father and Son, Ch. 6, 10, 17.
Moorcock, Ch. 17-21.
A. Sherman, Ch. 6.
Taki. Nothing to Declare: A Memoir. New York City: Morgan Entrekin/Atlantic Monthly Press, 1991.
G. Thomas, Ch. 14.
8. The United States
a. Greater New York City
W. Barrett & Fifield, Ch. 7-9.
Cannato, Vincent J. American Passage: The History of Ellis Island. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2009: Ch. 19.
Carroll, Michael Christopher. Lab 257: The Disturbing Story of the Government's Secret Plum Island Germ Laboratory. New York City: William Morrow, 2004: Ch. 9-10.
Cea, Robert. No Lights, No Sirens: The Corruption and Redemption of an Inner City Cop. New York City: William Morrow, 2005.
M.A. Collins. Midnight Haul. Woodstock, Vt.: Foul Play Press/The Countryman Press, 1986.
Doughty, Mike. The Book of Drugs: A Memoir. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2012.
Easton, Bret Ellis. American Psycho. New York City: Vintage Books, 1991.
Fearon, Ch. 13-14.
Gaines, Donna. Teenage Wasteland: Suburbia's Dead End Kids, rev. ed. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1998.
Lance. 1000 Years for Revenge: International Terrorism and the FBI – the Untold Story. New York City: ReganBooks, 2003: Ch. 2.
Lysiak, Ch. 6.
Maas, Father and Son, Ch. 7, 9, 20.
McInerney, Brightness Falls, Ch. 4, 6, 8, 10, 20, 25, 41, 46, 48.
New York Unbound: The City and the Politics of the Future. Ed. Peter D. Salins. New York City: Basil Blackwell, 1988: Ch. 8, 11.
Raban, Jonathan. Hunting Mister Heartbreak: A Discovery of America. 1990. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Depatures, 1998: Ch. 2.
Rall, Ted, and Pablo G. Callejo. The Year of Loving Dangerously. New York City: NBM ComicsLit, 2009.
Siegel, Fred. The Prince of the City: Giuliani, New York, and the Genius of American Life, rev. ed. New York City: Encounter Books, 2007: Ch. 2.
Vaca, Nicolás C. The Presumed Alliance: The Unspoken Conflict Between Latinos and Blacks and What It Means for America. New York City: Rayo, 2004: Ch. 8.
Wolfe, Tom. The Bonfire of the Vanities. New York City: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1987.
Zabar, Lori. Zabar's: A Family Story, With Recipes. New York City: Schocken Books, 2022: Ch. 9.
b. New England
i. Massachusetts
Angier, Roswell et al. City Limits: Images of Boston in Transition. 1987. Rpt. Boston: Northeastern UP, 2019.
Kornai, By Force of Thought, Ch. 16.
Manso, Peter. Ptown: Art, Sex, and Money on the Outer Cape. New York City: Lisa Drew/Scribner, 2002: Ch. 23.
R.B. Parker. Crimson Joy. New York City: Delacorte Press, 1988.
ii. Other
Eisler. Revenge of the Pequots: How a Small Native American Tribe Created the World's Most Profitable Casino. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2001: Ch. 5-7, 9.
Stanton, Mike. The Prince of Providence: The True Story of Buddy Cianci, America's Most Notorious Mayor, Some Wiseguys, and the Feds. New York City: Random House, 2003: Ch. 6-7.
c. Southern Florida
Allman, Ch. 15-16.
Chepesiuk, Gangsters of Miami, Ch. 14.
Didion, Joan. Miami. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1987.
Eddy, Paul et al. The Cocaine Wars. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1988: Ch. 16-18.
Ferris, Joshua. A Calling for Charlie Barnes. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2021: Ch. 38-39.
Liss, David. The Ethical Assassin. New York City: Ballentine Books, 2007.
G.L. Posner, Miami Babylon, Ch. 11, 13-21.
Raban, Ch. 7.
Rieff, David. Going to Miami: Exiles, Tourists, and Refugees in the New America. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1987.
Willeford, Charles. The Way We Die Now. 1988. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2005.
d. California
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. 1.
Cashill, Jack. 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. 16.
Sonenshein, Raphael J. Politics in Black and White: Race and Power in Los Angeles. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 1993: Ch. 12, 16.
e. Elsewhere
R. Atkinson, The Long Gray Line, Ch. 20.
Dalton, Joseph. Washington’s Golden Age: Hope Ridings Miller, the Society Beat, and the Rise of Women Journalists. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018: Ch. 16.
Demaris, Ch. 29, 31.
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. 6.
Lysiak, Ch. 3-4, 8.
Mullis, Kary. Dancing Naked in the Mind Field. 1998. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 2000: Ch. 13.
O’Brien, Tim. July, July. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2002: Ch. 19.
Siwy, Bruce. Jailing the Johnstown Judge: Joe O'Kicki, the Mob, and Corrupt Justice. Charleston, S.C.: The History Press, 2022: Ch. 3-4.
Teaford, Jon C. Post-Suburbia: Government and Politics in the Edge Cities. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1997: Ch. 1, 6-7.
9. Central Asia
a. Afghanistan
Coll, Ghost Wars, Ch. 8-9.
Ehrenfeld, Ch. 2.
b. Pakistan
Burton, Ch. 19-26.
E.J. Epstein, Assume Nothing, Ch. 25.
Musharraf, Pervez. In the Line of Fire: A Memoir. New York City: Free Press, 2006: Ch. 9.
Riedel, Bruce. Deadly Embrace: Pakistan, America, and the Future of the Global Jihad. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2011: Ch. 3.
c. Elsewhere
E.S. Margolis, War at the Top of the World, Ch. 3-5.
Miniter, Richard. Mastermind: The Many Faces of the 9/11 Architect, Khalid Shaikh Mohammed. New York City: Sentinel, 2011: Ch. 3.
10. AIDS
a. Roy Cohn
Von Hoffman, Nicholas. Citizen Cohn. 1988. Rpt. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2023: Pt. 1.
Zion, Sidney. The Autobiography of Roy Cohn. Secaucus, N.J.: Lyle Stuart, 1988: Ch. 16.
b. Other
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. 29.
Duesberg, Dr. Peter, and Bryan J. Ellison. Inventing the AIDS Virus. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1996: Ch. 1, 5-12, Appendix A-D.
Fiennes, Ch. 45.
Fumento, Michael. The Myth of Heterosexual AIDS, rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1993: Ch. 1-2, 4-12, 15-23.
Harmon, Sandra. Mafia Son: The Scarpa Mob Family, the FBI, and a Story of Betrayal. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2009: Ch. 18.
Jaki, Stanley L. The Only Chaos and Other Essays. Lanham, Md.: UP of America/Intercollegiate Studies Institute, 1990: Ch 9.
R.F. Kennedy 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. 2-6.
Lynes, Barry. The Healing of Cancer: The Cures, the Cover-Ups and the Solution Now. Queensville, Ont.: Marcus Books, 1989: Ch. 8.
Manso, Ch. 25.
Mullis, Ch. 18-19.
J. Oppenheimer, Crazy Rich, Ch. 48.
G.L. Posner. Pharma, Ch. 36.
Shilts, Randy. And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic, rev. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 1988: Ch. 6-59.
Starr, Douglas. Blood: An Epic History of Medicine and Commerce. 1998. Rpt. New York City: Perennial, 2002: Ch. 15-17.
R.J. Stone & Morrow, Ch. 17.
Tuccille. Dillerland: The Story of Media Mogul Barry Diller. New York City: Alyson Books, 2009: Ch. 13.
11. Africa
a. South Africa
Fiennes, Ch. 25.
Malan, Rian. My Traitor's Heart: A South African Exile Returns to Face His Country, His Tribe, and His Conscience. 1990. Rpt. New York City: Grove Press, 2000: Pt. 2.
Williams, Walter E. South Africa's War Against Capitalism, rev. ed. Cape Town: Juta Publishers, 1990: Ch. 6-7.
b. Elsewhere
Mamdani, Ch. 8.
12. Arts & Entertainment
a. Music
i. Rock
(1) Metal
Christe, Sound of the Beast, Ch. 6-12, 14, 17.
R.J. Dio, Wall & W. Dio, Ch. 15-17.
Konow, Ch. 7-11.
Lemmy & Garza, Ch. 10.
Marks & Tannenbaum, Ch. 38.
McIver, Ch. 6-14, 17.
Mustaine & Layden, Ch. 6-11.
Wiederhorn & Turman, Ch. 5, 7, 9-11.
(2) Post-Punk
M. Andersen & M. Jenkins, Ch. 5-11.
Blush, Steven. American Hardcore: A Tribal History, rev. ed. Ed. George Petros. Los Angeles: Feral House, 2010.
Carducci, Ch. 9, 18.
Cole, Joe. Planet Joe. Los Angeles: 2.13.61, 1992.
H. Flanagan, Ch. 9-11.
Mattioli & Spacone, Ch. 14.
Ruland, Ch. 7-12.
Spitz & Mullen, Ch. 37.
(3) Van Halen
Christe, Everybody Wants Some, Ch. 11-12.
Monk & Layden, Ch. 15-18.
Templeman & Renoff, Ch. 13-14.
Tolinski & C. Gill, Ch. 5-6.
(4) Stevie Ray Vaughan
Patoski, Joe Nick, and Bill Crawford. Stevie Ray Vaughan: Caught in the Crossfire. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 1993: Ch. 9-21.
Paul, Alan, and Andy Aledort. Texas Flood: The Inside Story of Stevie Ray Vaughan. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 2019: Ch. 11-22.
(5) Other
J. Barnes, Ch. 25-32.
Coleman, Rick. Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'n' Roll. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2006: Ch. 19.
Hoskyns, Lowside of the Road, Pt. 2, Ch. 3-4.
Kiedis & Sloman, Ch. 7.
Shaffer & Ritz, Ch. 33-34.
Sid Smith, Ch.12.
Soffee, Anne Thomas. Nërd Girl Rocks Paradise City: A True Story of Faking It in Hair Metal L.A. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2005: Ch. 1.
ii. R&B
De Visé, Daniel. King of the Blues: The Rise and Reign of B.B. King. New York City: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2021: Ch. 19.
Farley, Charles. Soul of the Man: Bobby “Blue” Bland. Jackson, Miss.: UP of Mississippi, 2011: Ch. 13.
George, Nelson. The Death of Rhythm & Blues. New York City: Pantheon Books, 1988: Ch. 7.
Jackson, John A. A House on Fire: The Rise and Fall of Philadelphia Soul. New York City: Oxford UP, 2004: Ch. 16.
James, Etta [Jamesetta Hawkins], and Ritz. Rage to Survive: The Etta James Story. New York City: Villard Books, 1995: Ch. 31-33.
Parker, Maceo. 98% Funky Stuff: My Life in Music. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2013: Ch. 33-35.
G.L. Posner. Motown: Music, Money, Sex, and Power. 2002. Rpt. New York City: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2005: Ch. 26, 28, 30-32.
Smith, R.J. The One: The Life and Music of James Brown. New York City: Gotham Books, 2012: Ch. 23.
Wesley, Ch. 10.
iii. Hip Hop
Baram, Ch. 32.
Grandmaster Flash, Ritz & G. Martin, Pt. 5.
Marks & Tannenbaum, Ch. 37.
iv. The Crooners
(1) Frank Sinatra
Sinatra & Holden, Ch. 14-15.
Taraborelli, Ch. 42-44.
(2) Dean Martin
Martin, Ricci, and Christopher Smith. That’s Amore: A Son Remembers Dean Martin. Lanham, Md.: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2002: Ch. 10.
Schoell, William. Martini Man: The Life of Dean Martin. Dallas: Taylor Publishing, 1999: Ch. 22.
(3) David Evanier
(a) Making the Wise Guys Weep: The Jimmy Roselli Story. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998: Ch. 1, 13.
(b) All the Things You Are: The Life of Tony Bennett. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2011: Ch. 10.
(4) Other
Tormé, Mel. It Wasn't All Velvet. New York City: Viking, 1988: Ch. 43.
v. The Business
Bronson, Harold. The Rhino Records Story: Revenge of the Music Nerds. New York City: SelectBooks, 2013: Ch. 7.
Knoedelseder, Stiffed, Ch. 1, 5-6, 8, 15, 20, 23-24, 27, 29-30, 32-37, 41-42, 44, 48, 52.
Knopper, Steve. Appetite for Destruction: The Spectacular Crash of the Record Industry in the Digital Age. New York City: Free Press, 2009: Ch. 1-2.
Yetnikoff, Walter and Ritz. Howling at the Moon: The Odyssey of a Montrous Music Mogul in an Age of Excess. New York City: Broadway Books, 2004: Pt. 3.
vi. Other
Bacharach, Burt, and Robert Greenfield. Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music. New York City: HarperCollins, 2013: Ch. 18.
Baram, Ch. 31, 33.
Birch, Ch. 13.
Carducci, Ch. 11.
Coryell, Larry [Lorenz Albert Van Delinder III]. Improvising: My Life in Music. New York City: Backbeat Books, 2007: Ch. 32-35.
E. Costello, Ch. 27, 29, 31, 36.
Freeman, Philip. Running the Voodoo Down: The Electric Music of Miles Davis. San Francisco: Backbeat Books, 2005: Ch. 10-12.
Iglauer, Bruce, and Patrick A. Roberts. Bitten by the Blues: The Alligator Records Story. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2018: Ch. 11-14.
Kushins, Ch. 7-9.
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. 15.
Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude, Pt.3, Ch. 8.
Lydon, Michael. Ray Charles: Man and Music, rev. ed. New York City: Routledge, 2004: Pt. 6.
McDougall, Christopher. Girl Trouble: The True Saga of Superstar Gloria Trevi and the Teenage Sex Cult That Stunned the World. New York City: Rayo, 2004. Ch. 2-6.
Milkowski, Ch. 1, 6-8.
J. Reid & Sahm, Ch. 14.
S. Reynolds. Retromania: Pop Culture’s Addiction to Its Own Past. London: Faber and Faber, 2011: Ch. 4-5, 10.
M. Shapiro, Ch. 10-11.
B. Sweet, Ch. 11.
Tau, Pt. 1, Ch. 3-4; Pt. 2, Ch. 2; Pt. 4, Ch. 1.
Veal, Ch. 7.
b. L.A. Sleaze
i. The Pornographers
MacDonnell, Allan. Prisoner of X: 20 Years in the Hole at Hustler Magazine. Los Angeles: Feral House, 2006: Ch. 3-8.
Watts, Steven. Mr. Playboy: Hugh Hefner and the American Dream. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2008: Ch. 17-19.
ii. Stadiem
Adams, Alex [Elizabeth A. Kuntze], and Stadiem. Madam 90210: My Life As Madam to the Rich and Famous. New York City: Villard Books, 1993: Ch. 1, 3-9.
Stadiem, Moneywood, Ch. 7.
iii. Other
Beall, Will. L.A. Rex. New York City: Riverhead Books, 2006: Ch. 6, 12.
Eszterhas, Joe. Hollywood Animal: A Memoir. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004: Ch. 6-8, 26, 30.
Evans, Ch. 38, 40.
H. Hill & G. Russo, Ch. 16.
Kiedis & Sloman, Ch. 8.
Motley Crüe, and Neil Strauss. The Dirt. New York City: Regan Books, 2001.
Soffee, Ch. 2-6.
Wright, Lawrence. Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013: Ch. 6.
c. Hollywood
i. "The Tonight Show"
Bushkin, Ch. 11-15.
Johnny Came Lately: An Autobiography by Fred de Cordova, Executive Producer of "The Tonight Show". 1988. Rpt. New York City: Pocket Books, 1989: Pt. 1.
Leamer, King of the Night, Ch. 1, 18-22.
ii. Buchwald vs. Paramount
Hill, Michael. Funny Business: The Legendary Life and Political Satire of Art Buchwald. New York City: Random House, 2022: Ch. 11.
O'Donnell, Pierce, and Dennis McDougal. Fatal Subtraction: The Inside Story of Buchwald v. Paramount, rev. ed. West Hollywood, Calif.: Dove Books, 1996: Ch. 1-2, 4-7, 9, 14-16.
iii. Other
S. Allen [Robert Westbrook]. Murder on the Glitter Box. New York City: Zebra Books, 1989.
Auletta. Three Blind Mice: How the TV Networks Lost Their Way, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 1992: Ch. 20, 23.
P.M. Barrett, Ch. 7.
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. 14-16.
Biskind, Star, Ch. 9-10.
Bronson, Ch. 17.
Brownstein, Ch. 10.
Caine, Michael [Maurice Joseph Micklewhite Jr.]. What's It All About?: An Autobiography. 1992. Rpt. New York City: Ballantine Books, 1994: Ch. 38, 41.
Corman, Roger, and Jim Jerome. How I Made a Hundred Moves in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime. New York City: Random House, 1990: Ch. 16-17.
Dunne, John Gregory. Monster: Living Off the Big Screen. 1997. Rpt. London: Pan, 2000.
Epstein, Dwayne, and Christopher Marvin. Lee Marvin: Point Blank. Tucson, Ariz.: Schaffner Press, 2013: Ch. 14.
Evans, Ch. 36-37, 39, 41-42.
Friedkin, William. The Friedkin Connection: A Memoir. New York City: Harper, 2013: Ch. 12-13.
Shawn Levy, De Niro, Ch. 14-15.
McDougal. The Last Mogul: Lew Wasserman, MCA and the Hidden History of Hollywood. New York City: Crown Publishers, 1998: Ch. 32-34.
McInerney, Brightness Falls, Ch. 45.
Prince et al., Ch. 2-5, 8.
Ryan, Scott. Moonlighting: An Oral History. Columbus, Ohio: Fayetteville Mafia Press, 2021.
Salamon, Julie. The Devil's Candy: The Anatomy of a Hollywood Fiasco, rev. ed. New York City: Da Capo Press, 2002: Ch. 2.
Stadiem, Moneywood, Ch. 5-6, 8-12.
O. Stone, Ch. 7-10.
Tuccille, Dillerland, Ch. 1, 13-15.
d. The Comedians
i. "Saturday Night Live"
D. Hill & Weingrad, Ch. 42-44.
Shaffer & Ritz, Ch. 35.
ii. "The Simpsons"
Groening, Matt. Simpsons World: The Ultimate Episode Guide, Seasons 1-20. New York City: Harper, 2010.
Ortved, John. The Simpsons: An Uncensored, Unauthorized History. New York City: Faber & Faber, 2009: Ch. 3.
Reiss, Mike, and Mathew Klickstein. Springfield Confidential: Jokes, Secrets, and Outright Lies From a Lifetime Writing for The Simpsons. New York City: Dey St., 2018: Ch. 1.
iii. Jerry Seinfeld
Oppenheimer, Seinfeld, Ch. 26-30.
Tracy, Kathleen. Jerry Seinfeld: The Entire Domain. Secaucus, N.J.: Birch Lane Press, 1998: Ch. 3-4.
iv. Mel Brooks
Brooks, Mel [Melvin Kaminsky]. All About Me: My Remarkable Life in Show Business. New York City: Ballantine Books, 2021: Ch. 18-19.
Parish, James Robert. It's Good to Be the King: The Seriously Funny Life of Mel Brooks. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2007: Ch. 29.
v. Other
Carter, Bill. The War for Late Night: When Leno Went Early and Television Went Crazy, rev. ed. New York City: Plume, 2011: Ch. 3, 9.
Idle, Ch. 19-20.
Newhart, Bob [George Robert Newhart]. I Shouldn't Even Be Doing This!: And Other Things That Strike Me as Funny. New York City: Hyperion, 2006: Ch. 16.
O'Donnell, Pierce, and McDougal. Fatal Subtraction, Ch. 17, 22.
T. Reid, Dreesen & Rapoport, Ch. 11.
Reiss & Klickstein, Ch. 2-3.
Shaffer & Ritz, Ch. 36.
Shydner, Ch. 29-30, 32-33, 36-78, 80.
Sullivan, James. Seven Dirty Words: The Life and Crimes of George Carlin. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2010: Ch. 9-10.
e. Publishing
i. Comics
Bell, Blake. Strange and Stranger: The World of Steve Ditko. Seattle: Fantagraphic Books, 2008: Ch. 11.
Jews and American Comics: An Illustrated History of an American Art Form. Ed. Paul Buhle. New York City: The New Press, 2008: Ch. 2.
ii. Other
Bain, Donald. Murder, HE Wrote: A Successful Writer’s Life. 2002. Rpt. West Lafayette, Ind.: NotaBell Books, 2006: Ch. 21.
Edison, Mike. 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. 2, 6-7.
Korda, Michael. Another Life: A Memoir of Other People. New York City: Random House, 1999: Ch. 32-33.
McInerney, Brightness Falls, Ch. 2, 7, 9, 12, 15, 27, 42.
Westlake. A Likely Story. 1984. Rpt. New York City: Tom Doherty Associates, 1986.
f. Cuisine
Buford, Bill. Heat: An Amateur's Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006: Ch. 2.
Mariani, How Italian Food Conquered the World, Ch. 14.
McNamee, Ch. 11-14.
g. Cocktails
Lanza. The Cocktail: The Influence of Spirits on the American Psyche. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 1995: Ch. 14.
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. 3.
h. Broadcasting
M. Singer, Ch. 8-9.
Walker, Jesse. Rebels on the Air: An Alternative History of Radio in America. New York City: New York UP, 2001: Ch. 9.
i. Akiko Busch
i. Floorworks: Bringing Rooms to Life With Surface Design and Decoration. New York City: Bantam Books, 1988.
ii. Wallworks: Creating Unique Environments With Surface Design and Decoration. New York City: Bantam Books, 1988.
j. James Gavin
i. Deep in a Dream: The Long Night of Chet Baker, corr. ed. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2003: Ch. 17-19.
ii. Intimate Nights: The Golden Age of New York Cabaret, rev. ed. New York City: Back Stage Books, 2006: Ch. 11.
iii. Stormy Weather: The Life of Lena Horne. New York City: Atria Books, 2009: Ch. 20.
iv. Is That All There Is?: The Strange Life of Peggy Lee. New York City: Atria Books, 2014: Ch. 17.
k. Other
C. Anderson, McGehee & La Motta, Ch. 19-23
Bacevich. Twilight of the American Century. Notre Dame, Ind.: U of Notre Dame P, 2018: Ch. 5.
A. Baldwin, Ch. 7.
Caine, What's It All About?, Ch. 39-40, 42-45.
Davis, Sammy Jr., Jane Boyar, and Burt Boyar. Sammy: An Autobiography: With Material Newly Revised From Yes I Can and Why Me?. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2000: Ch. 47-50.
Earl, Ch. 13.
Edison, I Have Fun Everywhere I Go, Ch. 1, 4-5, 8.
Edwards, Gavin. Bad Motherfucker: The Life and Times of Samuel L. Jackson, the Coolest Man in Hollywood. New York City: Hachette Books, 2021: Ch. 6.
Fischl & M. Stone, Ch. 1, 14.
Fuller, Samuel, Christa Lang Fuller, and Jerome Henry Rudes. A Third Face: My Tale of Writing, Fighting, and Filmmaking. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002: Ch. 50-54.
Grippo, Robert M., and Christopher Hoskins. Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2004: Ch. 7.
Hammarstrom, David Lewis. Fall of the Big Top: The Vanishing American Circus. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 2008: Ch. 7-10.
Havill, Ch. 18.
Hennessey & J. McGowan, Ch. 8-9.
Kostelanetz, Ch. 30, 39.
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. 19.
Lee, Hermione. Tom Stoppard: A Life. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021: Ch. 18-22.
Lennon, J. Michael. Norman Mailer: A Double Life. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2013: Ch. 13.
Logan, Bey. Hong Kong Action Cinema. 1995. Rpt. Woodstock, N.Y.: The Overlook Press, 1996: Ch. 10.
Marks & Tannenbaum, Ch. 15-36.
McKeen, William. Outlaw Journalist: The Life and Times of Hunter S. Thompson. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008: Ch. 16-17.
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. 25.
Michaelis, David. Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography. New York City: Harper, 2007: Ch. 27.
Miller, Tom. The Panama Hat Trail, rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: Adventure Press/National Geographic, 2001: Ch. 20, 23, 33-34.
Nelson, Cletus, and Adam Parfrey. Citizen Keane: The Big Lies Behind the Big Eyes. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2014: Ch. 7.
D. O'Brien, Ch. 2-4.
T. Reid, Dreesen & Rapoport, Ch. 4.
Rense, Paige. Architectural Digest: Autobiography of a Magazine 1920-2010. New York City: Rizzoli, 2018: Ch. 4.
Santa Cruz Seaside Co. The Santa Cruz Boardwalk: A Century by the Sea. Berkeley, Calif.: Ten Speed Press, 2007: Ch. 6.
J. Schwartz, Ch. 20.
Shaffer & Ritz, Ch. 38.
Tormé, Ch. 44.
Tuccille, Rupert Murdoch, Ch. 17, 26.
Tuohy, Ch. 8.
Van Peebles, Melvin, and Mario Van Peebles. No Identity Crisis: A Father and Son's Own Story of Working Together. New York City: Fireside, 1990.
Wasser, Frederick. Veni, Vidi, Video: The Hollywood Empire and the VCR. Austin, Texas: U of Texas P, 2001: Ch. 5-6.
Wright, Gwendolyn. USA: Modern Architectures in History. London: Reaktion Books, 2008: Ch. 7.
13. The Crime Scene
a. Organized Crime
i. The Mafia
(1) Cleveland
Goddard, Ch. 22.
Neff, Ch. 24-28.
Porrello, Rick. To Kill the Irishman: The War That Crippled the Mafia, rev. ed. Cleveland: Next Hat Press, 2001: Ch. 19.
(2) Philadelphia
(a) George Anastasia
(i) Blood and Honor: Inside the Scarfo Mob, the Mafia’s Most Violent Family, rev. ed. Philadelphia: Camino Books, 2004: Ch. 1, 7, 10-25.
(ii) Mobfather: The Story of a Wife and Son Caught in the Web of the Mafia, rev. ed. Philadelphia: Camino Books, 2006: Ch. 1, 8-18.
(iii) The Last Gangster: From Cop to Wiseguy to FBI Informant: Big Ron Previte and the the Fall of the American Mob. New York City: Regan Books, 2004: Ch. 3.
(iv) Mobfiles: Mobsters, Molls, and Murder. Philadelphia: Camino Books, 2008.
(b) Other
Pearson & McShane, Ch. 21, 23.
(3) The Five Families
(a) The Gambinos
Anastasia. Gotti’s Rules: The Story of John Alite, Junior Gotti, and the Demise of the American Mafia. New York City: HarperCollins, 2015: Ch. 2-10.
Breslin, The Good Rat, Ch. 16.
Capeci, Mob Star, Ch. 2-6, 19-32.
Maas. Underboss: Sammy the Bull Gravano’s Story of Life in the Mafia. 1997. Rpt. New York City: HarperTorch, 2004: Ch. 13-20.
J.F. O'Brien & Kurins, Ch. 9-16, 18-29, 33-74.
S. Raab, Ch. 32, 34-36.
(b) Anthony Bourdain
(i) Bone in the Throat. New York City: Villard Books, 1995.
(ii) The Bobby Gold Stories. New York City: Bloomsbury, 2002.
(c) Capeci et al.
(i) Murder Machine, Ch. 19-21, 23-28.
(ii) 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. 9-12.
(c) Cirni, Jim [James N. Cirnigliaro]
(i) The Kiss Off. New York City: Soho, 1987.
(ii) The Come On: A Novel of Suspense. New York City: Soho, 1989.
(d) Lou Eppolito and Steven Caracappa
Eppolito, Lou, and Bob Drury. Mafia Cop. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1992: Ch. 21-28.
Lawson, Guy, and William Oldham. The Brotherhoods: The True Story of Two Cops Who Murdered for the Mafia, rev. ed. New York City: Pocket Books, 2007: Ch. 2-3.
Pistone & Brandt, Ch. 19-20.
(e) The Franzeses
Franzese, Michael [Michael Grillo]. Blood Covenant, 2nd rev. ed. New Kensington, Pa.: Whitaker House, 2018: Pt. 1, Ch. 65-116, Pt. 2, Ch. 1-25.
Mortensen, Chris. Playing for Keeps: How One Man Kept the Mob From Sinking Its Hooks Into Pro Football. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1991: Ch. 1-7, 11-14.
(f) Pistone et al.
Pistone & Brandt, Ch. 7, 17.
Pistone & Woodley, Ch. 1.
(g) Tosches
(i) Power on Earth, Ch. 12.
(ii) Cut Numbers. New York City: Harmony Books, 1988.
(h) Others
Breslin, The Good Rat, Ch. 8-10.
Carlo, Philip. The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2006: Ch. 42-56.
Chepesiuk. Hard Target: The United States War Against International Drug Trafficking, 1982-1997. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland & Co., 1999: Ch. 9.
Cohen, Rich. Sweet and Low: A Family Story. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006: Ch. 20-21.
James B. Jacobs, Christopher Panarella, and Jay Worthington. Busting the Mob: United States v. Cosa Nostra. New York City: New York UP, 1994: Ch. 3.
Knoedelseder. Stiffed, Ch. 16.
Lance. Deal With the Devil: The FBI’s Secret Thirty-Year Relationship With a Mafia Killer. New York City: William Morrow, 2013: Ch. 14-15, 17-18, 20.
“Lundy, Mike” [Bain]. Raven. Secaucus, N.J.: Lyle Stuart, 1985: 16, 26.
McLoughlin, Tim. Heart of the Old Country. New York City: Akashic Press, 2001.
S. Raab, Ch. 24-28, 41, 48-51.
Zion, Ch. 15.
(4) Sicily
Dickie. Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia, rev. ed. London: Stoddard and Houghton, 2007: Ch. 10.
Longrigg, Ch. 5.
C. Sterling, Ch. 15-20.
(5) M.A. Collins
(a) Quarry in the Middle. New York City: Hard Case Crime, 2009.
(b) Killing Quarry. London: Hard Case Crime, 2019.
(6) Other
Burdick, Thomas, and Charlene Mitchell. Blue Thunder: How the Mafia Owned and Finally Murdered Cigarette Boat King Donald Aronow. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1990: Ch. 1-2, 4-6, 9-10, 12, 17, 19-25.
Capeci. The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Mafia, rev. ed. Indianapolis: Alpha, 2004: Ch. 19-20.
Cédilot & Noël, Ch. 7-8.
Corbitt, Michael, and Sam Giancana. Double Deal: The Inside Story of Murder, Unbridled Corruption, and the Cop Who Was a Mobster. New York City: William Morrow, 2003: Ch. 1, 26-33.
J.H. Davis, Mafia Kingfish, Ch. 57-58, 60.
Deitche, Ch. 32, 40-41, 48.
Dickie, Blood Brotherhoods, Ch. 59-66.
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. 4.
Goddard, Ch. 19.
D.N. Griffin & Cullotta, Ch. 14.
Harmon, Ch. 17, 19-21.
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. 6-11.
Humphreys, Adrian. The Weasel: A Double Life in the Mafia. Mississauga, Ont.: John Wiley & Sons Canada, 2012: Ch. 20-37.
J.B. Jacobs, Panarella & Worthington, Ch. 1-2, 4-5.
Konigsberg, Eric. Blood Relation. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2005: Ch. 12.
Moldea, Interference, Ch. 48-49, 51-52.
Ouseley, William. Mobsters in Our Midst: The Kansas City Crime Family. Kansas City, Mo.: Kansas City Star Books, 2011: Ch. 22.
Pizzo, Fricker & Muolo, Ch. 13-14.
G. Russo, Ch. 21.
Waldron, Lamar, and Thom Hartmann. Legacy of Secrecy: The Long Shadow of the JFK Assassination, rev. ed. Berkeley, Calif.: Counterpoint, 2009: Ch. 65.
Zuckerman, Michael J. Vengeance Is Mine: Jimmy “The Weasel” Fratianno Tells How He Brought the Kiss of Death to the Mafia. New York City: Macmillan Publishing Co., 1987: Ch. 14, 16.
ii. Prison
Earley, Pete. The Hot House: Life Inside Leavenworth Prison. New York City: Bantam Books, 1992.
D.B. Levine & Hoffer, Ch. 34-35.
Mermelstein, R. Moore & Smitten, Ch. 18.
Pearson & McShane, Ch. 24.
Perkinson, Robert. Texas Tough: The Rise of America's Prison Empire. New York City: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2010: Ch. 9.
Porrello, $uperthief, Ch. 1, 28-30, 32-33.
Zito & Layden, Ch. 16-21.
iii. Boston
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. 13-14.
Lehr & O'Neill, Ch. 8, 15.
Maas, Father and Son, Ch. 16, 18-19.
R.B. Parker. Playmates. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1989.
iv. The Police
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. 20-22.
P.M. Barrett, Ch. 1, 6.
Huddy, Ch. 13.
Iceberg Slim [Robert Lee Moppins Jr.]. Shetani’s Sister. New York City: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2015: Ch. 1, 3, 7-8.
“Lundy,” Raven, Ch. 2-3, 5-15, 17-25, 27.
Pelecanos. The Night Gardener. New York City: Little, Brown and Co., 2006: Ch. 1, 40.
Rothmiller & Goldman, Ch. 12, 14-15.
Simon, David. Homicide: A Year on the Killing Streets, rev. ed. New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 2006.
Westlake. Why Me? 1983. Rpt. New York City: T. Doherty, 1985: Ch. 8, 17, 27, 31, 33, 43.
Willeford. New Hope for the Dead. 1985. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2004.
v. The Triads
Booth, Martin. The Dragon Syndicates: The Global Phenomenon of the Triads, rev. ed. 1999. Rpt. New York City: Carroll & Graf, 2000: Pt. 5, Ch. 5.
English, Whitey's Payback, Pt. 1, Ch. 3.
G.L. Posner, Warlords of Crime: Chinese Secret Societies — The New Mafia. 1988. Rpt. Penguin Books, 1990: Ch. 1, 4, 7-9, 14, 16.
Wang, Peng. The Chinese Mafia: Organized Crime, Corruption, and Extra-Legal Protection. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford UP, 2017: Ch. 8.
vi. Motorcycle Gangs
Menginie, Anthony “LT,” and Kerrie Droban. Prodigal Father, Pagan Son: Growing Up Inside the Dangerous World of the Pagans Motorcycle Club. New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2011: Ch. 1-4.
Zito & Layden, Ch. 15.
vii. Chepesiuk
(1) Gangsters of Miami, Ch. 10, 13.
(2) Black Gangsters of Chicago. Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, 2007: Ch. 10, 12.
(3) Gangsters of Harlem: The Gritty Underworld of New York’s Most Famous Neighborhood. Fort Lee, N.J.: Barricade Books, 2007: Ch. 11-12.
viii. M.A. Collins
(1) Nolan Series
(a) Hard Cash, rev. ed. Drums, Pa.: Perfect Crime Books, 2012.
(b) Spree, rev. ed. Drums, Pa.: Perfect Crime Books, 2012.
(c) Skim Deep. London: Hard Case Crime, 2020.
(2) Quarry Series
(a) Quarry’s Vote, 2nd rev. ed. London: Hard Case Crime, 2015.
(b) The Wrong Quarry. London: Hard Case Crime, 2014.
ix. "Lundy"
(1) Raven, Ch. 1, 4.
(2) Baby Farm. Secaucus, N.J.: Lyle Stuart, 1987: Ch. 1-8, 10-12, 39-46.
x. Westlake
(1) Why Me?, Ch. 1-5, 7, 9-14, 16, 18-26, 28-30, 32, 34-42, 44, 46.
(2) Thieves’ Dozen. New York City: Mysterious Press, 2004.
xi. English
(1) The Westies, Ch. 15-17.
(2) The Corporation, Ch. 13, 15.
(3) Whitey's Payback, Pt. 2, Ch. 3.
xii. Other
Allman, Ch. 4.
Beall, Ch. 10.
Block, Alan A. Masters of Paradise: Organized Crime and the Internal Revenue Service in the Bahamas, rev. ed. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 1998: Ch. 10.
Buford. Among the Thugs. 1991. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Departures, 1993.
Burrough, Ch. 23.
H. Carr, Ch. 12.
Farren, Mick. Speed-Speed-Speedfreak: A Fast History of Amphetamine. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2010: Ch. 12.
Goddard, Ch. 1, 17-18, 20-21.
Herzog, Ch. 37-39.
Iceberg Slim, Ch. 2, 4-6, 9-16.
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. 19.
Lehr & O'Neill, Ch. 10-11, 13-14, 16.
Manso, Ch. 20.
Mann, Michael, and Meg Gardiner. Heat 2: A Novel. New York City: Michael Mann Books/William Morrow, 2022: Pt. 2, 4.
Mattioli & Spacone, Ch. 15-18.
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. 14.
Porrello, $uperthief, Ch. 31.
Rabinowitz, Dorothy. No Crueler Tyrannies: Accusation, False Witness, and Other Terrors of Our Times. New York City: Free Press, 2003.
Seymour, Cheri. The Last Circle: Danny Casolaro’s Investigation Into the Octopus and the PROMIS Software Scandal. Walterville, Ore.: TrineDay, 2010: Ch. 1-2, 8, 25.
R.J. Stone & St. J. Hunt, Ch. 27.
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. 25.
C. Unger. House of Trump, House of Putin: The Untold Story of Donald Trump and the Russian Mafia, rev. ed. New York City: Dutton, 2019: Ch. 2.
W. Webb, Vol. II, Ch. 18.
Weiss, Retail Gangster, Ch. 24-28.
Whiting, Robert. Tokyo Underworld: The Fast Times and Hard Life of an American Gangster in Japan. 1999. Rpt. London: Constable & Robinson, 2012: Ch. 7-8.
b. Unorganized Crime
i. Leonard
a. Stick. New York City: William Morrow, 1983.
b. Glitz. New York City: Arbor House, 1985.
c. Bandits. New York City: Arbor House, 1987.
ii. Others
Bustos & Yanez, Ch. 5.
Ellroy, Killer on the Road, Ch. 1, 22-28.
Fero, Kelly. The Zani Murders. Austin, Texas: Texas Monthly Press, 1990: Ch. 20.
Latzer, Barry. The Rise and Fall of Violent Crime in America. New York City: Encounter Books, 2016: Ch. 4.
D. McGowan, Ch. 4, 6, 9, 15.
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. 3-11.
D. Preston & Spezi, Ch. 14-17, 19-23.
Starr, Jason. Tough Luck. New York City: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2003.
Woolever, Ch. 8.
14. The Clintons
a. Whitewater
Coulter, Ann H. High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Case Against Bill Clinton. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1998: Ch. 14.
Moldea. A Washington Tragedy: Bill & Hillary Clinton and the Suicide of Vincent Foster, rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: Moldea.com, 2015: Pt. 2, Ch. 27-28.
R. Morris, Ch. 18.
J.B. Stewart. Blood Sport: The President and His Adversaries, rev. ed. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1997: Ch. 5-6.
b. General
C. P. Andersen, Bill and Hilary, Ch. 6.
Evans-Pritchard, Ch. 16.
Flowers, Gennifer, and Jacquelyn Dapper. Passion and Betrayal. Del Mar, Calif.: Emery Dalton Books, 1995: Ch. 6-8.
Jeffries, Donald. Hidden History: An Exposé of Modern Crimes, Conspiracies, and Cover-Ups in American Politics. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2014: Ch. 6.
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. 8.
E. Klein. The Truth About Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President. New York City: Sentinel, 2005: Ch. 14.
R. Morris, Ch. 14, 16, 20.
R.J. Stone & Morrow, Ch. 18.
K. Thomas & Keith, Ch. 20.
15. The Executive Police Agencies
a. The CIA
i. E.J. Epstein
(1) Deception, Ch. 10, 12.
(2) Assume Nothing, 2023: Ch. 32.
ii. Kessler
(1) Inside the CIA: Revealing the Secrets of the World's Most Powerful Spy Agency, rev. ed. New York City: Pocket Books, 1994: Ch. 7.
(2) The CIA at War: Inside the Secret Campaign Against Terror, rev. ed. New York City: St. Martin's Griffin, 2004: Ch. 9-11.
iii. Antonio J. Mendez et al.
Mendez, Antonio J., and Malcolm McConnell. The Master of Disguise: My Secret Life in the CIA. 1999. Rpt. New York City: HarperPerennial, 2000: Ch. 10.
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. 2-11.
iv. Prados
(1) Safe for Democracy, Ch. 20, 23.
(2) The Ghosts of Langley: Into the CIA's Heart of Darkness. New York City: The New Press, 2017: Ch. 5.
v. Others
Bowen, Ch. 10.
Carle, Glenn L. The Interrogator: An Education. New York City: Nation Books, 2011.
Clarridge & Diehl, Ch. 17, 19-21.
Coll, Ghost Wars, Ch. 5, 7.
Earley, Confessions of a Spy, Ch. 8-11.
Garvin, Ch. 9.
Haas, Roland W. Enter the Past Tense: My Secret Life as a CIA Assassin. Washington, D.C.: Potomac Books, 2007: Ch. 18-20.
Jacobsen. Surprise, Kill, Vanish: The Secret History of CIA Paramilitary Armies, Operators, and Assassins. New York City: Little, Brown and Co., 2019: Ch. 17.
Maas, Manhunt, Ch. 5.
Mackenzie, Ch. 7-9, 13.
Parry, Ch. 14.
Persico, Ch. 15-27, 29-32.
Rizzo, Ch. 3-4.
E. Thomas, The Man to See, Ch. 42.
Trento, Joseph J. The Secret History of the CIA, rev. ed. 2005. Rpt. New York City: MJF Books/Fine Communications, 2007: Ch. 56.
T. Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Ch. 38-40, 42.
Wise, Ch. 1-2, 5-30.
b. The FBI
i. Kessler
(1) The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI, rev. ed. New York City: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2003: Ch. 17-18, 22, 28.
(2) The Secrets of the FBI, rev. ed. New York City: Crown Forum, 2012: Ch. 11, 15.
ii. Others
Goddard, Ch. 16, 23-26.
Maas, Peter. Father and Son. New York City: Simon and Schuster, 1989: Ch. 2.
J.F. O'Brien & Kurins, Ch. 30-32.
T. Weiner. Enemies: A History of the FBI. New York City: Random House, 2012: Ch. 39-40.
Westlake, Why Me?, Ch. 6, 15.
c. The West Europeans
De Marenches & Andelman, Ch. 11.
d. Others
Burdick & C. Mitchell, Ch. 11.
Burton, Ch. 1-6, 9, 15, 17-18, 27-28.
Earley, Pete, and Gerald Shur. WITSEC: Inside the Federal Witness Protection Program. New York City: Bantam Books, 2002: Pt. 4.
Hager, Nicky. Secret Power, rev. ed. Nelson, New Zealand: Craig Potton Publishing, 2007: Ch. 1, 7, 10-13.
Jacobsen. Area 51: An Uncensored History of America's Top Secret Military Base, rev. ed. New York City: Back Bay Books, 2012: Ch. 1.
Maas, Father and Son, Ch. 15.
Mackenzie, Ch. 11.
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. 5.
G. Thomas, Ch. 10, 12, 20.
16. The Blacks
a. The Obamas
i. Chicago
E. Klein. The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2012: Ch. 1, 5.
Maraniss, David. Barack Obama: The Story. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2012: Ch. 18.
Obama, Ch. 8-14.
Sailer, Ch. 7.
Schlafly, Phyllis, and George Neumayr. No Higher Power: Obama’s War on Religious Freedom. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2012: Ch. 4, 6.
Sperry, Paul. The Great American Bank Robbery: The Unauthorized Report About What Really Caused the Great Recession. Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, 2011: Ch. 3.
ii. Kenya
Obama, Ch. 15-18.
Sailer, Ch.11.
iii. Other
Brown, Floyd, and Lee Troxler. Obama Unmasked: Did Slick Hollywood Handlers Create the Perfect Candidate? Bellevue, Wash.: Merril Press, 2008: Ch. 2-3.
Cashill. "You Lie!": The Evasions, Omissions, Fabrications, Frauds, and Outright Falsehoods of Barack Obama. New York City: Broadside Books, 2014: Ch. 2, 4.
Forman, James Jr. Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America. New York City: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2017: Ch. 5.
Maraniss, Ch. 16-17.
Sailer, Ch. 5, 10.
Toobin, Jeffrey. The Oath: The Obama White House and the Supreme Court. 2012. Rpt. New York City: Anchor Books, 2013: Ch. 1.
b. Others
Abbott, Elizabeth. Haiti: A Shattered Nation, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Overlook Duckworth, 2011: Ch. 10-14.
C.P. Andersen. Barack and Michelle: Portrait of an American Marriage. New York City: William Morrow, 2009: Ch. 4.
Chafets, Ze'ev [William Chafets]. Devil's Night: And Other True Tales of Detroit. 1990. Rpt. New York City: Vintage, 1991: Ch. 1-6.
Cross, Charles R. Room Full of Mirrors: A Biography of Jimi Hendrix. New York City: Hyperion, 2005: Ch. 1-2.
Beall, Ch. 4, 8.
Chang, Ch. 13.
Maren, Michael. The Road to Hell: The Ravaging Effects of Foreign Aid and International Charity. New York City: The Free Press, 1997: Ch. 3-7, 10.
Reed, Ishmael. "Steven Spielberg Plays Howard Beach." Writin' is Fightin': Thirty-Seven Years of Boxing on Paper. New York City: Atheneum, 1988: 145-157.
Rosen, Ira. Ticking Clock: Behind the Scenes at 60 Minutes. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2021: Ch. 7.
Timmerman, Kenneth R. Shakedown: Exposing the Real Jesse Jackson. Washington, D.C.: Regenery Publishing, 2002: Ch. 5-8.
Whitehead, Colson. Sag Harbor. New York City: Doubleday, 2009.
Wideman, John Edgar. Philadelphia Fire. New York City: Holt, 1990.
17. The Media
a. Buchanan
i. Corpse Had a Familiar Face, Ch. 14.
ii. Never Let Them See You Cry, Ch. 20.
b. Woodward and C. Bernstein
Havill, Ch. 19.
Shepard, Alicia. Woodward and Bernstein: Life in the Shadow of Watergate. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley and Sons, 2007: Ch. 11.
c. CBS
i. Walter Cronkite
Brinkley, Ch. 32-33.
Cronkite & Carleton, Ch. 26.
ii. Mike Wallace
Rader, Peter. Mike Wallace: A Life. New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2012: Ch. 20-23.
Wallace, Mike [Myron Leon Wallace], and Gary Paul Gates. Between You and Me: A Memoir. New York City: Hyperion, 2005: Ch. 7.
iii. "60 Minutes"
Daniel, Douglass K. Harry Reasoner: A Life in the News. Austin, Texas: U of Texas P, 2007: Ch. 10.
Hewitt, Don. Tell Me a Story: Fifty Years and 60 Minutes in Television. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2001: Ch. 9.
Rosen, Ch. 3, 6, 9-14, 25.
iv. Others
Auletta, Three Blind Mice, Ch. 3, 6, 9, 12, 14, 19.
d. Supermarket Tabloids
Hogshire, Jim. Grossed-Out Surgeon Vomits Inside Patient!: An Insider's Look at Supermarket Tabloids. Venice, Calif.: Feral House, 1997: Ch. 3, 5, 7.
Westlake. Trust Me on This. New York City: The Mysterious Press, 1988.
e. Rupert Murdoch
Tuccille, Rupert Murdoch, Ch. 1, 12-16, 18-25, 27-29.
Wolff, Michael. The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch, rev. ed. New York City: Broadway Books, 2010: Ch. 7, 9.
f. ABC
Auletta, Three Blind Mice, Ch. 2, 5, 7, 10, 17.
Donaldson, Ch. 7, 13-14, 16.
g. The New York Times
Corry, John. My Times: Adventures in the News Trade. New York City: Grosset/Putnam, 1993: Ch. 13.
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. 38-43.
h. Others
Auletta, Three Blind Mice, Ch. 1, 4, 8, 11, 13, 15-16, 18, 21-22, 24-25.
Bloomberg and Winkler, Ch. 4, 6.
D. Carr, Ch. 7.
Ciccone, F. Richard. Royko: A Life in Print. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2001: Ch. 15-17.
Cohan, Power Failure, Ch. 13.
Kahn. Year of Change: More About The New Yorker & Me. New York City: Viking, 1988.
Kup: A Man, an Era, a City: Irv Kupcinet’s Autobiography With Paul Neimark. Chicago: Bonus Books, 1988: Ch. 24, 28.
Novak, Ch. 31, 33, 35.
Palmer, Ch. 33.
Simpson, Ch. 11-12.
Westlake, Why Me?, Ch. 45.
Williams, Harold A. The Baltimore Sun, 1837-1987. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1987: Ch. 17.
18. The Conservatives
a. The Sunbelt
Fahey, Todd Brendan. Hell Bottled Up! Chronicles of a Late Propaganda Minister. Los Angeles: Far Gone Books, 2000.
Watkins, Ronald J. High Crimes and Misdemeanors: The Term and Trials of Former Governor Evan Mecham. New York City: William Morrow and Co., 1990: Ch. 5-45.
b. Other
Bartley, Ch. 9-16.
Bellow, Saul. Ravelstein. New York City: Viking, 2000.
DeConde, Alexander. Gun Violence in America: The Struggle for Control. Boston: Northeastern UP, 2001: Ch. 15.
Edwards, Lee. The Power of Ideas: The Heritage Foundation at 25 Years. Ottawa, Ill.: Jameson Books, 1997: Ch. 4.
Gottfried, Encounters, Ch. 6-7.
Kelley, John L. Bringing the Market Back In: The Political Revitalization of Market Liberalism. New York City: New York UP, 1997: Ch. 5-6.
Kondracke & Barnes, Ch. 5-6, 8.
W. Martin, Ch. 9.
Nofziger, Ch. 10-11.
Pauken, Ch. 18.
Preston, Keith. The Vanishing Tradition: Perspectives on American Conservatism. Ed. Paul Gottfried. Ithaca, N.Y.: Northern Illinois UP, 2020: Ch. 2.
19. The Congress
Bovard. The Fair Trade Fraud. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 1991: Ch. 9.
W.F. Buckley. The Rake. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2007: Ch. 11, 14-17.
Jackley, Ch. 4-7, 10-11, Appendix 1-2, 6.
Kessler. Inside Congress: The Shocking Scandals, Corruption, and Abuse of Power Behind the Scenes on Capitol Hill. New York City: Pocket Books, 1997: Ch. 7, 12, .
Pizzo, Fricker & Muolo, Ch. 25, Appendix B.
Remini, Robert V. The House: The History of the House of Representatives. New York City: The Library of Congress/Smithsonian Books/Collins, 2006: Ch. 18.
H. Smith, Ch. 4.
20. The Cyberpunks
a. Bruce Sterling
i. Globalhead. 1992. Rpt. London: Phoenix, 1996.
ii. Islands in the Net. New York City: Arbor House/William Morrow, 1988.
b. Others
Greenberg, Andy. This Machine Kills Secrets: Julian Assange, the Cypherpunks, and Their Fight to Empower Whistleblowers, rev. ed. New York City: Plume, 2013: Ch. 7.
Poulsen, Kevin. Kingpin: How One Hacker Took Over the Billion-Dollar Cybercrime Underground. New York City: Crown Publishers, 2011: Ch. 1.
Shiner, Lewis. Deserted Cities of the Heart. 1988. Rpt. New York City: Bantam Books, 1989.
Stephenson, Neal. The Big U. 1984. Rpt. New York City: Perennial, 2001.
21. The 1988 U.S. Presidential Election
Bai, Matt. The Front Runner. 2014. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 2018.
Broder, David S., and Woodward. The Man Who Would Be President: Dan Quayle. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1992: Ch. 1, 3.
Campaign for President: The Managers Look at '88. Ed. David R. Runkel. Dover, Mass.: Auburn House Publishing Co., 1989.
R.B. Cramer, Ch. 1-3, 10-11, 14, 17, 21, 23, 25, 28, 31-42, 44-49, 53, 59-60, 62, 64, 66-68, 70, 72, 74, 76-77, 79, 81, 86-88, 90, 92-95, 97-107, 111-115, 117-125, 128-129.
DeConde, Ch. 16.
T.B.Edsall & M.D. Edsall, Ch. 11.
Kondracke & Barnes, Ch. 9.
D.P. Kuhn, Ch. 13.
J. Mann, Rebellion of Ronald Reagan, Pt. 4, Ch. 9.
W. Martin, Ch. 11.
Mears, Ch. 8.
Parry, Fooling America, Ch. 1-2.
J. Reid. Let the People In: The Life and Times of Ann Richards. Austin, Texas: U of Texas P, 2012: Ch. 14.
Sutton, Two Faces of George Bush, Ch. 12.
22. Religion
a. 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. 5-7.
Frattini, Eric. The Entity: Five Centuries of Secret Vatican Espionage, rev. ed. Trans. Dick Cluster. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2008: Ch. 20.
Jenkins, Philip. The New Anti-Catholicism: The Last Acceptable Prejudice. New York City: Oxford UP, 2003: Ch. 7.
Martin, Malachi. The Jesuits: The Society of Jesus and the Betrayal of the Roman Catholic Church. New York City: Linden Press/Simon & Schuster, 1987: Ch. 3-5.
G.L. Posner, God’s Bankers, Ch. 28.
b. Other
Boyer, Paul. When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Harvard UP, 1992: Ch. 10.
Guinn, Jeff. Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and a Legacy of Rage. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2023: Ch. 5, 8.
23. The Philippines
McCoy, Alfred W. Policing America’s Empire: The United States, the Philippines, and the Rise of the Surveillance State. Madison, Wis.: U of Wisconsin P, 2009: Ch. 13.
Seagrave, Sterling. The Marcos Dynasty. New York City: Harper & Row, 1988: Ch. 20-21.
24. Other Drugs
Chepesiuk, Hard Target, Ch. 2, 5, 7, 23.
Clark, Claire D. The Recovery Revolution: The Battle Over Addiction Treatment in the United States. New York City: Columbia UP, 2017: Ch. 6.
DeGrandpre, Richard. The Cult of Pharmacology: How America Became the World’s Most Troubled Drug Culture. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 2006: Ch. 2.
R.F. Kennedy Jr., The Wuhan Cover-Up, Ch. 32.
Lee, Martin A. Smoke Signals: A Social History of Marijuana: Medical, Recreational, and Scientific. New York City: Scribner, 2012: Ch. 5-6.
25. The Jews
Chafets. Members of the Tribe: On the Road in Jewish America. New York City: Bantam Books, 1988.
Sanua, Marianne R. Let Us Prove Strong: The American Jewish Committee, 1945-2006. Waltham, Mass.: Brandeis UP, 2007: Ch. 10.
Wilcox, Crying Wolf, Ch. 1, 6.
26. Aerospace
Chambers, Mark A. Images of Modern America: NASA Kennedy Space Center. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2016: Ch. 6.
Cook, Nick. The Hunt for Zero Point: Inside the Classified World of Antigravity Technology. 2001. Rpt. New York City: Broadway Books, 2002: Ch. 12.
Essential Mae Brussell, Ch. 17.
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. 5.
27. Latin America
a. Brazil
Guillermoprieto, Alma. Samba. 1990. Rpt. London: Bloomsbury, 1991: Ch. 1, 6-8, 10-16.
Updike. Brazil. Franklin Center, Pa.: Franklin Library, 1994: Ch. 29-30.
b. Panama
Tom Miller, Ch. 1-5, 9-10, 13, 15-18, 22, 27, 29, 32.
Perkins, Ch. 29.
b. Elsewhere
James Adams, Secret Armies, Ch. 17.
Lindsey, David. Black Gold, Red Death. 1983. Rpt. London: Little, Brown and Co., 1995.
Preston, Julia, and Sam Dillon. Opening Mexico: The Making of a Democracy. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004: Ch. 4-6.
28. The Globalists
Hancock, Graham. Lords of Poverty. 1989. Rpt. Nairobi, Kenya: Camerapix Publishers, 2004: Pt. 1, 3-5.
Maren, Ch. 8.
Jim Tucker’s Bilderberg Diary: One Reporter’s 25-Year Battle to Shine the Light on the World Shadow Government. Washington, D.C.: American Free Press, 2005: Ch. 2-7.
Wood, Patrick. Technocracy: The Hard Road to World Order. Mesa, Ariz.: Coherent Publishing, 2018: Ch. 2.
29. The Kennedy Dynasty
J.H. Davis, The Kennedys, Ch. 72.
Leamer. Sons of Camelot: The Fate of an American Dynasty. New York City: William Morrow, 2004: Ch. 23-30.
Taraborrelli, After Camelot, Pt. 16.
30. France
Houellebecq, Michel [Michel Thomas]. The Elementary Particles. 1998. Trans. Frank Wynne. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000: Pt. 2, Ch. 12-13.
Moynahan, Brian. The French Century: An Illustrated History of Modern France. Paris: Flammarion, 2007: Ch. 15.
31. The Rest of the World
James Adams, Secret Armies, Ch. 16, 25.
Hung, Ho-Fung. City on the Edge: Hong Kong Under Chinese Rule. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge UP, 2022: Ch. 6.
Maas, Father and Son, Ch. 12-13.
Thornton, Mark. The Skyscraper Curse: And How Austrian Economists Predicted Every Major Economic Crisis of the Last Century. Auburn, Ala.: Mises Institute, 2018: Ch. 16.
32. The U.S. Supreme Court
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. 5-8.
Eisler. The Last Liberal: William J. Brennan, Jr., and the Decisions That Transformed America. 1993. Rpt. Washington, D.C.: Beard Books, 2005: Ch. 21.
Toobin. The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court, rev. ed. New York City: Anchor Books, 2008: Ch. 2, 14.
Cheri Seymour, Ch. 11.
33. The Schools
Blumenfeld, Samuel L. NEA: Trojan Horse of American Education, rev. ed. Boise, Idaho: The Paradigm Co., 1990: Ch. 21.
Blumenfeld, and Alex Newman. Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians Are Using Government Schools to Destroy America's Children. Washington, D.C.: WND Books, 2015: Ch. 4, 13.
Rufo, Christopher F. America's Cultural Revolution: How the Radical Left Conquered Everything. New York City: Broadside Books, 2023: Ch. 15.
Tittle, Diana. Welcome to Heights High: The Crippling Politics of Restructuring America’s Schools. Columbus, Ohio: Ohio State UP, 1995: Ch. 1-7.
34. Frederick Barthelme
a. Moon Deluxe. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1983.
b. Second Marriage. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1984.
c. Tracer. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1985.
d. Chroma. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1987.
e. Two Against One. New York City: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1988.
f. The Law of Averages: New and Selected Stories. Washington, D.C.: Counterpoint, 2000.
35. Jacobsen
i. Area 51, Ch. 20.
ii. Phenonema, Ch. 20, 24.
36. C. James
a. Poem of the Year. London: Jonathan Cape, 1983.
b. The Remake. 1987. Rpt. London: Pan Books, 1988.
c. Brrm! Brrm!, or, The Man From Japan, or Perfume at Anchorage: A Novel. London: Jonathan Cape, 1991.
d. Fame in the 20th Century. New York City: Random House, 1993: Ch. 8.
e. North Face of Soho, Ch. 17.
f. The Blaze of Obscurity. London: Picador, 2009: Ch. 1-18.
37. James Howard Kunstler
a. Blood Solstice. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday & Co., 1986.
b. The Halloween Ball. New York City: Bantam Books, 1987.
38. Oates
a. Last Days: Stories. New York City: E.P. Dutton, 1984.
b. Raven's Wing and Other Stories. New York City: E.P. Dutton, 1986.
“Smith, Rosamond.” Lives of the Twins. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1987.
39. Philip Roth
Bailey, Blake. Philip Roth: The Biography. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2021: Ch. 32-35.
Roth, Philip. Patrimony. 1991. Rpt. in Novels & Other Narratives 1986-1991. Ed. Ross Miller. New York City: The Library of America, 2008: 581-729.
40. Updike
a. In the Beauty of the Lilies. Franklin Center, Pa.: Franklin Library, 1996: Pt. 4.
b. S. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.
Begley, Adam. Updike. New York City: Harper, 2014: Ch. 10.
41. Gore Vidal [Eugene Luther Vidal Jr.]
Kaplan, Fred. Gore Vidal: A Biography. New York City: Doubleday, 1999: Ch. 19.
Vidal, Gore. Point to Point Navigation: A Memoir, 1964-2006. New York City: Doubleday, 2006: Ch. 13, 46.
42. Williamson
a. Desert Light. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 1987.
b. The Homestead. New York City: Grove Weidenfeld, 1990.
c. The Immigration Mystique: America’s False Conscience, rev. ed. Monterey, Va.: American Immigration Control Foundation, 1997: Ch. 3.
43. Other
Aksyonov. In Search of Melancholy Baby. New York City: Random House, 1987.
J. Anderson & Gibson, Ch. 24.
Appy, Christian G. American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity. New York City: Viking, 2015: Ch. 9.
N. Baker. Room Temperature. 1990. Rpt. London: Granta Books, 1998.
Baker, Stewart A. Skating on Stilts: Why We Aren’t Stopping Tomorrow’s Terrorism. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 2010: Ch. 9.
Barthelme, Donald. Paradise. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1986.
Bartholomew, Ch. 8, 10, 14.
Berger, Raoul. Federalism: The Founders' Design. Norman, Okla.: U of Oklahoma P, 1987: Ch. 8.
Block, Lawrence. Step by Step: A Pedestrian Memoir. New York City: William Morrow, 2009: Ch. 14.
Blonsky, Marshall. American Mythologies. New York City: Oxford UP, 1992: Ch. 1-17.
Bowart, Walter H. [Walter Howard Kirby]. Operation Mind Control, rev. ed. Fort Bragg, Calif.: Flatlands Editions, 1994: Ch. 26.
W.F. Buckley, The Rake, Ch.10, 12-13, 18-23.
H. Carr, Ch. 11, 15-16.
Chang, Ch. 16.
Copeland, Miles A. Jr. The Game Player: Confessions of the CIA's Original Political Operative. London: Aurum Press, 1989: Ch. 24.
Coupland, Douglas. Hey Nostradamus! New York City: Bloomsbury, 2003.
Cowie, Jefferson. Stayin' Alive: The 1970s and the Last Days of the Working Class. New York City: The New Press, 2010: Ch. 8.
Crile, Ch. 13, 18, 20-21, 23, 26.
Dalla & Alson, Ch. 12-13.
DeLillo, Don. White Noise. 1985. Rpt. New York City: Penguin Books, 1986.
DeYoung, Ch. 8.
Dracos, Ted. Ungodly: The Passions, Torments and Murder of Atheist Madalyn Murray O'Hair. New York City: Free Press, 2003: Ch. 14.
The Eighties: A Reader. Ed. Gilbert T. Sewall. Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1997.
Eisler, Shark Tank, Ch. 16.
E.J. Epstein, Annals of Unsolved Crime, Ch. 4, 6.
Eugenides, Jeffrey. The Marriage Plot. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.
Fiennes, Ch. 27.
Franzen, Jonathan. The Twenty-Seventh City. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1988: Ch. 1, 3-24.
Frieden & Sagalyn, Ch. 11, 14.
Galinsky, Michael et al. Malls Across America. Ed. Peter Miles. Göttingen, Germany: Steidl-Miles, 2013.
Garvin, Ch. 4, 6-8, 15.
Gottfried. Conservatism in America: Making Sense of the American Right. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007: Ch. 3.
Hanrahan, Ch. 8.
Harris, Robert, and Jeremy Paxman. A Higher Form of Killing: The Secret Story of Gas and Germ Warfare, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2002: Ch. 11.
H. Hill & G. Russo, Ch. 14.
Irwin, Phil (The Whiskey Rebel). Jobjumper, rev. ed. Philadelphia: Steel Cage Books, 2008: Ch. 11-12.
Isaacson, Ch. 20.
M. Jacobson, Ch. 7.
P. Jenkins, Ch. 7, 9-11.
P. Johnson. Modern Times: The World From the Twenties to the Nineties, rev. ed. New York City: HarperPerennial, 1992: Ch. 20.
E.M. Jones, Libido Dominandi, Pt. 3, Ch. 20.
Kaplan, Sam Hall. L.A. Lost & Found: An Architectural History of Los Angeles. New York City: Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1987: Ch. 1, 9.
Kiriakou, John, and Michael Ruby. The Reluctant Spy: My Secret Life in the CIA’s War on Terror. 2010. Rpt. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2012: Ch. 2.
Lance. 1000 Years for Revenge, Ch. 3.
Leland, John. Hip: The History, rev. ed. New York City: HarperPerennial, 2005: Ch. 14.
Lethem, The Fortress of Solitude, Pt. 3, Ch. 13-14.
Levy, Alan. Nazi Hunter: The Wisenthal File, rev. ed. New York City: Carroll & Graf, 2002: Ch. 37-40.
Livingstone. Terrorism and the Illuminati: A Three Thousand Year History. Charleston, S.C.: BookSurge, 2007: Ch. 26.
Maas, Father and Son, Ch. 4, 11.
McCorduck, Ch. 19-20, 23-24.
D. McGowan, Ch. 3.
McInerney, Brightness Falls, Ch. 11.
Tom Miller, Ch. 19.
Miniter, Mastermind, Ch. 2.
North, Rapture Fever, Ch. 7-8.
O’Sullivan, Ch. 5-6.
Patterson, James T. The Dread Disease: Cancer and Modern American Culture. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1987: Ch. 11.
Perloff, Ch. 13.
Prerau, David. Seize the Daylight: The Curious and Contentious Story of Daylight Saving Time. 2005. Rpt. New York City: Basic Books, 2009: Ch. 9.
Rayner, Richard. Los Angeles Without a Map. New York City: Weidenfeld & Nicholson, 1989.
J. Reid, Let the People In, Ch. 10-13.
Reed. "300 Years of 1984." Writin' is Fightin' : Thirty-Seven Years of Boxing on Paper. New York City: Atheneum, 1988: 57-82.
Robb, David L. Operation Hollywood: How the Pentagon Shapes and Censors the Movies. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2004: Ch. 20-22, 24-28, 30-31, 33-35, 42.
P.C. Roberts and Stratton, Tyranny of Good Intentions, Ch. 6.
Ronson, Jon. The Men Who Stare at Goats. London: Picador, 2004: Ch. 1, 4.
B.J. Schulman, Ch. 9.
Schweizer, Reagan's War, Ch. 15.
J. Scott, Ch. 9.
Scott, Otto J [Otto Scott-Estrella Jr.]. The Other End of the Lifeboat. Chicago: Regnery Books, 1985: Pt. 2.
Cheri Seymour, Ch. 6, 9.
Sherwood, Carlton. Inquisition: The Persecution and Prosecution of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Gateway, 1991: Ch. 1, 5-10.
H. Smith, Ch. 3, 5, 10, 17.
Sweet, Matthew. Operation Chaos: The Vietnam Deserters Who Fought the CIA, the Brainwashers, and Themselves. New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 2018: Ch. 16.
Terrell & Martz, Ch. 19.
Turner, Fred. From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digitial Utopianism. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2006: Ch. 5-6.
Walker, Jesse. The United States of Paranoia: A Conspiracy Theory, rev. ed. New York City: Harper Perennial, 2014: Ch. 11.
Westlake. High Adventure. 1985. Rpt. Sarasota, Fla.: Mystery Vault, 2001.
M. Wolff, The Man Who Owns the News, Ch. 12.
Wolff, Tobias. Back in the World. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1985.
Wyden, Ch. 62-63.

C. The American Imperium

1. The Bush Dynasty
a. The George H.W. Bush Administration
i. The End of the Cold War
(1) Espionage
(a) The Clyde Conrad Spy Ring
Herrington, Ch. 35, 37.
J. Navarro, Ch. 8-24.
(b) Other
Bearden & Risen, Pt. 2, Ch. 13-14; Pt. 3.
Knightley, The Second Oldest Profession, Ch. 16.
(2) Bacevich
(a) American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 2002: Ch. 3.
(b) Twilight of the American Century, Ch. 20.
(3) Other
Albright, Joseph, and Marcia Kunstel. Bombshell: The Secret Story of America's Unknown Atomic Spy Conspiracy. New York City: Times Books/Random House, 1997: Ch. 28-30.
J. Anderson & Gibson, Ch. 25.
Bagus, Philipp. The Tragedy of the Euro. Auburn, Ala.: The Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2010: Ch. 5.
A. Brown, Ch. 25-27, 29.
W.F. Buckley. The Fall of the Berlin Wall. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2004: Ch. 4-5.
Chernus, Ch. 2.
Coll, Ghost Wars, Ch. 10.
ElBaradi, Mohamed. The Age of Deception: Nuclear Diplomacy in Treacherous Times. New York City: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2011: Ch. 2.
Gardner, John. The Man From Barbarossa. 1991. Rpt. New York City: Berkley Books, 1992.
Gup, Ted. The Book of Honor: The Secret Lives and Deaths of CIA Operatives, rev. ed. New York City: Anchor Books, 2001: Ch. 13.
D.E. Hoffman, Ch. 14-22.
Kornai, János [János Kornhauser]. The Road to a Free Economy: Shifting From a Socialist System: The Example of Hungary, rev. ed. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 1990.
Leebaert, Ch. 12.
Leitenberg, Zilinskas & J.H. Kuhn, Ch. 22-23.
J. Mann, Rebellion of Ronald Reagan, Pt. 4, Ch. 10.
A.J. Mendez, J. Mendez & Bruce Henderson, Ch. 12-13.
Niemietz, Kristian. Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies. London: Institute of Economic Affairs, 2019: Ch. 11.
North, Rapture Fever, Ch. 1, 12-13.
F. Schwarz, Ch. 44.
Schweizer, Reagan's War, Ch. 24.
Simpson, Ch. 13.
Stockman, Trumped!, Ch. 22.
Tomsen, Peter. The Wars of Afghanistan: Messianic Terrorism, Tribal Conflicts, and the Failures of Great Powers. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2011: Ch. 11.
Tzouliadis, Tim. The Forsaken: An American Tragedy in Stalin’s Russia. New York City: The Penguin Press, 2008: Ch. 26.
ii. Panama
Perkins, Ch. 32.
Quigley, Ch. 27-30.
iii. The Persian Gulf War
(1) Jacobsen
(a) The Pentagon’s Brain, Ch. 16.
(b) Surprise, Kill, Vanish, Ch. 18.
(2) G.L. Posner
(a) Why America Slept, Ch. 5.
(b) Secrets of the Kingdom, Ch. 11.
(3) Others
Atkinson. Crusade: The Untold Story of the Persian Gulf War. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1993.
Bacevich, America’s War for the Greater Middle East, Ch. 7.
Boot, Max. The Savage Wars of Peace: Small Wars and the Rise of American Power. New York City: Basic Books, 2002: Ch. 14.
Bovard, Terrorism and Tyranny, Ch. 13.
Brenner, Joël Glenn. The Emperors of Chocolate: Inside the Secret World of Hershey and Mars. 1999. Rpt. New York City: Broadway Books, 2000: Ch. 1.
D. Cheney & L. Cheney, Ch. 6-7.
Clarke, Richard A. Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror, rev. ed. New York City: Free Press, 2004: Ch. 3.
DeYoung, Ch. 10.
ElBaradi, Ch. 1.
Franks, Gen. Tommy (ret.), and McConnell. American Soldier. New York City: ReganBooks/HarperCollins Publishers, 2004: Ch. 5.
A. Friedman, Ch. 11-12.
Hackworth, Col. David A. (ret.), and Tom Mathews. Hazardous Duty: One of America's Most Decorated Soldiers Reports From the Front With the Truth About the U.S. Military Today. 1996. Rpt. New York City: Perennial, 2001: Ch. 1-2.
Halberstam, David. War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals, rev. ed. New York City: Touchstone, 2002: Ch. 5.
Hiro, Dilip. Cold War in the Islamic World: Saudi Arabia, Iran and the Struggle for Supremacy. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford UP, 2018: Ch. 8.
Kelly, Michael. Martyrs' Day: Chronicle of a Small War, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 2001.
Kessler, Inside the CIA, Ch. 15.
Kiriakou & Ruby, Ch. 3.
Knightley. The First Casualty: The War Correspondent as Hero and Myth-Maker From the Crimea to Iraq, 2nd rev. ed. 2003. Rpt. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2004: Ch. 19.
Lance. 1000 Years for Revenge, Ch. 6.
McNab, Andy [Steven Billy Mitchell]. Bravo Two Zero. 1993. Rpt. London: Chivers Press, 1995: Ch. 1, 3-14.
Nagl, Lt. Col. John A. (ret.). Knife Fights: A Memoir of Modern War in Theory and Practice. New York City: The Penguin Press, 2014: Ch. 1.
Parry, Fooling America, Ch. 6, 8-9.
Quigley, Ch. 31.
Salinger, Pierre, and Eric Laurent. Secret Dossier: The Hidden Agenda Behind the Gulf War. Trans. Howard Curtis. New York City: Penguin Books, 1991.
Sanchez & D.T. Phillips, Ch. 4.
Simons, G.L. The Scourging of Iraq: Sanctions, Law, and Natural Justice, rev. ed. Basingstoke, U.K.: Macmillan, 1997.
Simpson, Ch. 14.
Sniegoski, Stephen J. The Transparent Cabal: The Neoconservative Agenda, War in the Middle East, and the National Interest of Israel. Norfolk, Va.: Engima Editions, 2008: Ch. 5.
Snyder, Ch. 14.
Swofford, Andrew. Jarhead: A Marine's Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles. New York City: Scribner, 2003.
G. Thomas, Ch. 16.
Tyler, Ch. 9.
C. Unger, House of Bush, House of Saud, Ch. 8-9.
The War We Could Not Stop: The Real Story of the Battle for Iraq. Ed. Randeep Ramesh. London: Faber and Faber, 2003: Ch. 1.
J.C. Wilson, Ch. 5-7.
Witherow, John, and Aidan Sullivan. The Sunday Times War in the Gulf: A Pictorial History. London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1991.
Woodward. The Commanders, rev. ed. New York City: Touchstone Books, 2002: Pt. 1.
iv. The War on Drugs
Bowden. Killing Pablo: The Hunt for the World's Greatest Outlaw. New York City: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2001.
Chepesiuk, Hard Target, Ch. 6.
DeGrandpre, Ch. 3.
Marshall. Drug Wars: Corruption, Counterinsurgency and Covert Operations in the Third World. Forestville, Calif: Cohan & Cohen Publishers, 1991: Ch. 5.
v. Alan Greenspan
Sheehan, Ch. 10, 22.
Tuccille, Alan Shrugged, Ch. 25-26.
vi. Bacevich
(1) American Empire, Ch. 6.
(2) America’s War for the Greater Middle East, Ch. 8.
vii. Kessler
(1) Inside the White House, Ch. 6.
(2) The Bureau, Ch. 23, 27.
(3) In the President’s Secret Service, Ch. 15.
(4) First Family Detail, Ch. 9, 11, 14-15.
viii. Woodward
(1) The Commanders, Pt. 2.
(2) Shadow, Pt. 4.
ix. Other
J. Anderson & Gibson, Ch. 27.
Barth, Ch. 4.
Bowen, Ch. 11.
Broder & Woodward, Ch. 5, 7-9.
Cadava, Ch. 10.
D. Cheney & L. Cheney, Ch. 5.
Coll, Ghost Wars, Ch. 11-12.
Colodny & Shachtman, Ch. 24.
DeFrank, Thomas M. Write It When I'm Gone: Remarkable Off-the-Record Conversations with Gerald R. Ford. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2007: Ch. 9.
DeYoung, Ch. 11.
Drummey, Ch. 3-8.
Dueck, Ch. 7.
A. Friedman, Ch. 9-10, 13-16.
Halberstam, Ch. 1, 6-7, 14, 16-20.
Kelley, Ch. 22-23.
Kondracke & Barnes, Ch. 10.
Lott, Ch. 1.
J. Mann, Rise of the Vulcans, Ch. 11-14.
R. Morris, Ch. 17.
Novak, Ch. 36.
Parry, Fooling America, Ch. 3-4.
Podhoretz, John. Hell of a Ride: Backstage at the White House Follies 1989-1993. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
G.L. Posner. Why America Slept: The Failure to Prevent 9/11. New York City: Random House, 2003: Ch. 6.
Ritter, Scorpion King, Ch. 14.
P.C. Roberts and Stratton, Tyranny of Good Intentions, Ch. 13.
The Rothbard Reader. Ed. Salerno and Matthew McCaffrey. Auburn, Ala.: Mises Institute, 2016: Ch. 22.
B. Sterling. The Hacker Crackdown: Law and Disorder on the Electronic Frontier. New York City: Bantam Books, 1992: Pt. 3.
R.J. Stone & Hunt, Ch. 26.
T. Troy, Ch. 8.
D.C. Unger, Ch. 11.
b. The George W. Bush Administration
i. Peacetime
Baker, Peter. Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House. 2013. Rpt. New York City: Anchor Books, 2014: Ch. 5-.
Bovard, Bush Betrayal, Ch. 4.
D. Cheney & L. Cheney, Ch. 10.
Coll, Ghost Wars, Ch. 30-31.
Corn, Ch. 4, 6, 8.
DeYoung, Ch. 15.
Draper. Dead Certain: The Presidency of George W. Bush. New York City: Free Press, 2007: Ch. 5.
S. Halper & J. Clarke, Ch. 4.
Kessler, In the President’s Secret Service, Ch. 25.
J. Mann, Rise of the Vulcans, Ch. 17-18.
Meyer, Christopher. DC Confidential: The Controversial Memoirs of Britain's Ambassador to the U.S. at the Time of 9/11 and the Run-Up to the Iraq War, rev. ed. London: Phoenix, 2006: Ch. 19.
Sniegoski, Ch. 8.
R.J. Stone & St. J. Hunt, Ch. 31.
Suskind, Ron. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, the White House, and the Education of Paul O'Neill, rev. ed. New York City: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2004: Ch. 1-5.
C. Unger, House of Bush, House of Saud, Ch. 12-13.
D.C. Unger, Ch. 13.
Woodward. State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2006: Ch. 3-9.
ii. The 9/11 Attack and Aftermath
(1) The Commission
(a) David Ray Griffin
(i) The 9/11 Commission Report: Omissions and Distortions. Northhampton, Mass.: Olive Branch Press, 2005.
(ii) The New Pearl Harbor Revisited: 9/11, the Cover-Up, and the Expose, 2nd rev. ed. Northhampton, Mass.: Olive Branch Press, 2008: Ch. 5, 7-8, 10.
(b) Lance
(i) Cover Up, Ch. 11-20.
(ii) Triple Cross, Ch. 38, 41-42.
(c) Others
Classified Woman: The Sibel Edmonds Story: A Memoir. Alexandria, Va: Sibel Edmonds, 2012: Ch. 14, 16.
Felsenthal, Carol. Clinton in Exile: A President out of the White House, rev. ed. New York City: Harper, 2009: Ch. 7.
Jacboson & Colón, Ch. 1, 7-13.
Shenon, Philip. The Commission: The Uncensored History of the 9/11 Investigation. New York City: Twelve, 2008.
(2) The Torture Policies
(a) Karen J. Greenberg
(i) The Torture Papers: The Road to Abu Ghraib. Ed. Karen J. Greenberg and Joshua L. Dratel. New York City: Cambridge UP, 2005.
(ii) The World According to TomDispatch: America in the New Age of Empire. Ed. Tom Engelhardt. London: Verso, 2008: Ch. 15.
(b) McCoy
(i) A Question of Torture: CIA Interrogation, From the Cold War to the War on Terror, rev. ed. New York City: Owl Books, 2007: Ch. 3-6.
(ii) Torture and Impunity: The U.S. Doctrine of Coercive Interrogation. Madison, Wis.: U of Wisconsin P, 2012: Ch. 6-7.
(b) Others
Bergen, Peter L. The Longest War: The Enduring Conflict Between America and al-Qaeda. New York City: Free Press, 2011: Ch. 7.
Kiriakou & Ruby, Ch. 13-14.
Danner, Mark. Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror. New York City: New York Review Books, 2004.
Mitchell, James E., and Bill Harlow. Enhanced Interrogation: Inside the Minds and Motives of the Islamic Terrorists Trying to Destroy America. New York City: Crown Forum, 2016.
S. Patterson, Ch. 16.
Pitter, Laura and Leslie Haskell. No More Excuses: A Roadmap to Justice for CIA Torture. Ed. Joseph Saunders et al. New York City: Human Rights Watch, 2015.
Rajiva, Lila. The Language of Empire: Abu Ghraib and the American Media. New York City: Monthly Review Press, 2005.
The Report of The Constitution Project's Task Force on Detainee Treatment. Washington, D.C.: The Constitution Project, 2013: Ch. 1, 4-9.
Rizzo, Ch. 11, 14-16.
Ronson, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Ch. 7-9, 11, 13.
Shipler, David K. Rights at Risk: The Limits of Liberty in Modern America. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012: Ch. 1.
Siems, Larry. The Torture Report: What the Documents Say About America’s Post-9/11 Torture Program. New York City: OR Books, 2011.
Task Force on Preserving Medical Professionalism in National Security Detention Centers. Ethics Abandoned: Medical Professionalism and Detainee Abuse in the War on Terror. New York City: Institute on Medicine as a Profession, 2013.
Toobin, The Nine, Ch. 18.
The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration, and Abuse. Ed. Marjorie Cohn. New York City: New York UP, 2011: Ch. 8, 12, 13.
United States. Dept. of Justice. Office of Professional Responsibility. Investigation Into the Office of Legal Counsel's Memoranda Concerning Issues Relating to the Central Intelligence Agency's Use of "Enhanced Interrogation Techniques" on Suspected Terrorists. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 2009.
Zimbardo, Philip. The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. New York City: Random House, 2007: Ch. 14-15.
(3) The FBI
(a) Kessler
(i) The Bureau, Ch. 35-36.
(ii) Secrets of the FBI, Ch. 7-10.
(iii) The Terrorist Watch: Inside the Desperate Race to Stop the Next Attack. 2007. Rpt. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2008: Ch. 2, 5-7, 10, 12, 14, 17, 20, 24-26.
(b) Others
American Civil Liberties Union. Unleashed and Unaccountable: The FBI's Unchecked Abuse of Authority. New York City: American Civil Liberties Union, 2013.
Classified Woman: The Sibel Edmonds Story: A Memoir. Alexandria, Va: Sibel Edmonds, 2012: Ch. 1-13, 15, 17-20.
The FBI and Religion: Faith and National Security Before and After 9/11. Ed. Sylvester A. Johnson and Steven Weitzman. Oakland, Calif.: U of California P, 2017: Ch. 13-14.
Mueller, John, and Mark Stewart. Chasing Ghosts: The Policing of Terrorism. New York City: Oxford UP, 2016: Ch. 6.
T. Weiner, Enemies, Ch. 44.
Zegart, Amy B. Spying Blind: The CIA, the FBI, and the Origins of 9/11. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2007: Ch. 7.
(4) The CIA
(a) Kessler
(i) The Terrorist Watch, Ch. 1, 11, 21.
(ii) The CIA at War, Ch. 16-22, 25.
(b) Others
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. 1-2.
Jacobsen, Surprise, Kill, Vanish, Ch. 25.
Prados, The Ghosts of Langley, Ch. 9.
Risen. State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration, rev. ed. New York City: Free Press, 2007: Ch. 1-2, 9-10.
Tenet, George J., and Harlow. At the Center of the Storm: The CIA During America's Time of Crisis, rev. ed. New York City: Harper Perennial, 2008: Ch. 9-11, 13-15.
Zegart, Ch. 5.
(5) Bacevich
(a) American Empire, Ch. 8-9.
(b) Washington Rules: America's Path to Permanent War. New York City: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2010: Ch. 6.
(c) America’s War for the Greater Middle East, Ch. 12.
(d) Twilight of the American Century, Ch. 7, 11.
(6) James Bamford
(a) A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's Intelligence Agencies, rev. ed. New York City: Anchor Books, 2005: Ch. 1-4, 12-13.
(b) The Shadow Factory: The Ultra-Secret NSA From 9/11 to the Eavesdropping on America. New York City: Doubleday, 2008.
(7) Bergen
(a) The Longest War, Ch. 1, 3, 8, 20.
(b) Manhunt: The Ten-Year Search for Bin Laden From 9/11 to Abbottabad. New York City: Crown Publishers, 2012: Ch. 1, 5.
(8) Bovard
(a) The Bush Betrayal, Ch. 1-3, 10-14.
(b) Attention Deficit Democracy. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005: Ch. 3, 6.
(9) D.R. Griffin
(a) The New Pearl Harbor Revisited, Ch. 1-4, 6, 9.
(b) Cognitive Infiltration: An Obama Appointee's Plan to Undermine the 9/11 Conspiracy Theory. Northampton, Mass.: Olive Branch Press, 2011.
(c) 9/11 Unmasked: An International Review Panel Investigation. Northampton, Mass.: Olive Branch Press, 2018.
(10) Hersh
(a) Chain of Command, Pt. 1, Ch. 1, 3; Pt. 2, Ch. 3.
(b) Reporter: A Memoir. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018: Ch. 19.
(11) Kessler
(a) In the President’s Secret Service, Ch. 23, 26, 28.
(b) The Terrorist Watch, Ch. 3-4, 9, 13, 15-16, 19, 22-23, 27.
(12) Lance
(a) 1000 Years for Revenge, Ch. 1, 39-41.
(b) Triple Cross, Ch. 36-37.
(13) Marrs
(a) The Rise of the Fourth Reich: The Secret Societies That Threaten to Take Over America. New York City: William Morrow, 2008: Ch. 15.
(b) The Terror Conspiracy Revisited: What Really Happened on 9/11, and Why We’re Still Paying the Price, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Disinformation, 2011.
(14) Miniter
(a) Shadow War: The Untold Story of How Bush is Winning the War on Terror. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2004: Ch. 1, 3-6.
(b) Mastermind, Ch. 8, 12.
(15) G.L. Posner
(a) Why America Slept, Ch. 1, 3-5, 9, 11-13, 15-19.
(b) Secrets of the Kingdom, Ch. 1.
(16) Bill Sammon
(a) Fighting Back: The War on Terrorism — From Inside the Bush White House. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2002.
(b) Strategery: How George W. Bush Is Defeating Terrorists, Outwitting Democrats, and Confounding the Mainstream Media. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2006: Ch. 18.
(17) Scahill
(a) Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army, rev. ed. New York City: Nation Books, 2008: Ch. 17.
(b) Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield. New York City: Nation Books, 2013: Ch. 1, 6-8, 11, 16-23.
(18) Michael Scheuer
(a) Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror, rev. ed. Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books, 2005: Ch. 1, 6-8.
(b) Through Our Enemies’ Eyes: Osama bin Laden, Radical Islam, and the Future of America, rev. ed. Dulles, Va.: Potomac Books, 2006: Ch. 1-2, 14-15.
(c) Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq, rev ed. New York City: Free Press, 2009: Ch. 5-8.
(19) Suskind
(a) The One Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America's Pursuit of Its Enemies Since 9/11, rev. ed. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2007.
(b) The Way of the World: A Story of Truth and Hope in an Age of Extremism, rev. ed. New York City: Harper Perennial, 2009.
(20) Other
Aaronson, Trevor. The Terror Factory: Inside the FBI’s Manufactured War on Terrorism, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Ig Publishing, 2018.
Allan, Chantal. Bomb Canada and Other Unkind Remarks in the American Media. Edmonton, Alb.: AU Press, 2009: Ch. 5.
Appy, Ch. 11.
N. Baker. Checkpoint. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.
P. Baker, Ch. 7-9, 11.
S.A. Baker, Ch. 1-2, 4, 6-8, 10-12, 14.
Barkun, Michael. A Culture of Conspiracy: Apocalyptic Visions in Contemporary America, rev. ed. Berkeley, Calif.: U of California P, 2013: Ch. 10.
P.M. Barrett, Ch. 18.
Battelle, Ch. 8.
Betts, Richard K. Enemies of Intelligence: Knowledge and Power in American National Security. New York City: Columbia UP, 2007: Ch. 5.
Bovard, Terrorism and Tyranny, Ch. 1, 3-6, 8-9, 11, 14-16.
Bowden, Mark. The Finish: The Killing of Osama bin Laden, rev. ed. New York City: Grove Press, 2013: Ch. 1.
Boykin, Lt. Gen. William G. “Gerry” (ret.) et al. Sharia: The Threat to America: An Exercise in Competitive Analysis – Report of Team B II. Washington, D.C.: The Center for Security Press, 2010: Ch. 7.
Bradford, William C. "Trahison des Professeurs: The Critical Law of Armed Conflict Academy as an Islamist Fifth Column." National Security Law Journal Spring/Summer 2015: 278-461.
Brasch, Walter M. America's Unpatriotic Acts: The Federal Government's Violation of Constitutional and Civil Rights. New York City: Peter Lang, 2005.
Brill, Steven. After: How America Confronted the September 12 Era. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
Brzezinski, Matthew. Fortress America: On the Frontlines of Homeland Security — an Inside Look at the Coming Surveillance State. New York City: Bantam Books, 2004.
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. 10.
Cannell. Cold Hit. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2005.
D. Carr, Ch. 54.
Cassel, Elaine. The War on Civil Liberties: How Bush and Ashcroft Have Dismantled the Bill of Rights. Chicago: Lawrence Hill Books, 2004.
Chernus, Ch. 7-9, 11, 14.
R.A. Clarke, Ch. 1, 10-11.
D. Cheney & L. Cheney, Ch. 11, 14-15.
Colodny & Shachtman, Ch. 28-30.
Corn, Ch. 9.
D’Souza, Dinesh. The Enemy at Home: The Cultural Left and Its Responsibility for 9/11, rev. ed. New York City: Broadway Books, 2008.
Danner. Spiral: Trapped in the Forever War. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2016: Pt. 1.
Debunking 9/11 Myths: Why Conspiracy Theories Can't Stand Up to the Facts: In In-Depth Investigation by PopularMechanics. Ed. David Dunbar and Brad Reagan. New York City: Hearst Books, 2006.
Deist, Jeff. A Strange Liberty: Politics Drops Its Pretenses. Auburn, Ala.: Mises Institute, 2023: Ch. 2.
DeLillo, Don. Falling Man. New York City: Scribner, 2007.
Deliso, Christopher. The Coming Balkan Caliphate: The Threat of Radical Islam to Europe and the West. Westport, Conn.: Praeger Security International, 2007: Ch. 6, 8.
Denby, David. American Sucker. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 2004: Ch. 25.
Devji, Faisal. Landscapes of the Jihad: Militancy, Morality, Modernity. London: Hurst & Co., 2005: Ch. 6.
DeYoung, Ch. 16-17.
Douthat, Ross Gregory. Privilege: Harvard and the Education of the Ruling Class. New York City: Hyperion, 2005: Ch. 9.
Draper, Dead Certain, Ch. 7.
Eland, Ivan. The Empire Has No Clothes: U.S. Foreign Policy Exposed. Oakland, Calif.: The Independent Institute, 2004: Ch. 5-7.
The Enemy Combatant Papers: American Justice, the Courts and the War on Terror. Ed. Greenberg, Dratel, and Jeffrey S. Grossman. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge UP, 2008.
E.J. Epstein, Annals of Unsolved Crime, Ch. 5.
Finkel, David. Thank You for Your Service. New York City: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2013.
Flanagan, Richard. The Unknown Terrorist. New York City: Grove Press, 2006.
Flynn, Steven. America the Vulnerable: How Our Government Is Failing to Protect Us From Terrorism. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers/Council on Foreign Relations, 2004.
Franks and McConnell, Ch. 7.
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. 3.
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. 6-7.
Gertz, Bill. Breakdown: The Failure of American Intelligence to Defeat Global Terror, rev. ed. New York City: Plume, 2003.
Gewirtz, Ch. 1, 3-13, Appendix A-D.
Gibson, William. Pattern Recognition. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2003.
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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. 2.
S. Halper & J. Clarke, Ch. 9-10.
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Hamid, Mohsin. The Reluctant Fundamentalist. Orlando, Fla.: Harcourt, 2007: Ch. 1-5.
Harris, Lee. Civilization and Its Enemies: The Next Stage of History. New York City: Free Press, 2004: Ch. 1-3.
S. Harris, Ch. 11-30.
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Jacobsen, The Pentagon’s Brain, Ch. 19, 23.
M. Jacobson, Ch. 1.
Jeffries, Ch. 9.
R.F. Kennedy Jr., The Wuhan Cover-Up, Ch. 16.
Kiriakou & Ruby, Ch. 10-12.
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MacKenzie, Ch. 1, 7-9.
J. Mann, Rise of the Vulcans, Ch. 19-20.
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C. Meyer, Ch. 20, 22.
J. Mueller & M. Stewart, Ch. 1-5, 7-9, Appendix A-C.
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Musharraf, Prologue, Ch. 20-25.
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Norton, Ch. 9.
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Sniegoski, Ch. 9.
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T. Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Ch. 50.
West, Diana. American Betrayal: The Secret Assault on Our Nation’s Character. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 2013: Ch. 1, 12.
Westin, David. Exit Interview. New York City: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012: Ch. 5.
With Liberty to Monitor All: How Large-Scale US Surveillance Is Harming Journalism, Law, and American Democracy. New York City: Human Rights Watch/American Civil Liberties Union, 2014.
Wolcott, James. Attack Poodles and Other Media Mutants: The Looting of the News in a Time of War. New York City: Miramax Books, 2004.
Woodward. Bush at War, rev. ed. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2003.
World According to TomDispatch, Ch. 1-3, 5, 25, 27, 32.
L. Wright, Looming Tower, Ch. 20.
Zegart, Ch. 1-3, 8.
iii. Afghanistan
(1) Bergen
(a) The Longest War, Ch. 4-6, 11.
(b) Manhunt, Ch. 2-3.
(2) Coll
(a) Ghost Wars, Ch. 32.
(b) Directorate S: The C.I.A. and America’s Secret Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001-2016. New York City: Penguin Press, 2018: Ch. 1-22.
(3) Scheuer
(a) Imperial Hubris, Ch. 2.
(b) Marching Toward Hell: America and Islam After Iraq, rev ed. New York City: Free Press, 2009: Ch. 3.
(4) Others
Anderson, Ben. No Worse Enemy: The Inside Story of the Chaotic Struggle for Afghanistan. Oxford, U.K.: Oneworld, 2011: Pt. 1.
P. Baker, Ch. 10.
Barker, Kim. The Tailiban Shuffle: Strange Days in Afghanistan and Pakistan. New York City: Doubleday, 2011: Ch. 1, 3-12, 22, 25, 27.
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. 5-21.
Bovard, Bush Betrayal, Ch. 15.
The Case for Withdrawal From Afghanistan. Ed. Nick Turse. London: Verso, 2010: Ch. 7-12, 14-18, 22.
Chayes, Sarah. Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2015: Ch. 3.
The Constitution Project, Ch. 2.
Corn, Ch. 10.
Davis, Daniel L. Dereliction of Duty II: Senior Military Leaders' Loss of Integrity Wounds Afghan War Effort. New York City: New York Times Co., 2012.
Fick, Nathaniel. One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer. 2006. Rpt. London: Phoenix, 2007: Ch. 9-17.
Franks and McConnell, Ch. 8-9.
G. Friedman, Ch. 8-10.
Fury, Ch. 1, 4-17.
Gall, Carlotta. The Wrong Enemy: America in Afghanistan, 2001-2014, rev. ed. Boston: Mariner Books, 2015: Ch. 1-2, 6-7, 10.
Gentile, Gian. Wrong Turn: America’s Deadly Embrace of Counterinsurgency. New York City: The New Press, 2013: Ch. 5.
Gopal, Anand. No Good Men Among the Living: America, the Taliban, and the War Through Afghan Eyes. New York City: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2014.
Hersh, Chain of Command, Pt. 3.
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. 25.
Jacobsen, Surprise, Kill, Vanish, Ch. 21-22, 26-27.
Junger, Sebastian. War, rev. ed. New York City: Twelve, 2011.
Kinzer, Overthrow, Ch. 12.
Meek, Ch. 1-4, 6-7.
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. 4, 6.
B. Murphy, Ch. 14-15.
Nagl, Ch. 7.
Naylor, Sean. Not a Good Day to Die: The Untold Story of Operation Anaconda. New York City: Berkley Caliber Books, 2005.
Paglen, Blank Spots on the Map, Ch. 15-16.
Quigley, Ch. 37.
Rashid, Ahmed. Descent Into Chaos: The United States and the Failure of Nation Building in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Central Asia. 2008. Rpt. London: Penguin Books, 2009: Ch. 4-5, 7, 9-10, 12, 14-15, 17.
Risen, State of War, Ch. 7.
Scahill, Blackwater, Ch. 14.
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction. What We Need to Learn: Lessons From Twenty Years of Afghanistan Reconstruction. Arlington, Va.: Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, 2021.
Sperry, Paul. Crude Politics: How Bush's Oil Cronies Hijacked the War on Terrorism. Nashville, Tenn.: WND Books, 2003.
Stewart, Rory. The Places in Between, rev. ed. New York City: Harvest/Harcourt, 2006.
Tenet & Harlow, Ch. 12.
To Afghanistan and Back: A Graphic Travelogue by Ted Rall, rev. ed. New York City: NBM, 2003.
Tomsen, Ch. 22-23.
Trofimov, Yaroslav. Faith at War: A Journey on the Frontlines of Islam, From Baghdad to Timbuktu, rev. ed. New York City: Picador, 2006: Ch. 10-11.
Waldman, Amy. The Submission. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 2011. Rpt. New York City: Picador, 2012.
West, Bing. The Wrong War: Grit, Strategy, and the Way Out of Afghanistan, rev. ed. New York City: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2012: Ch. 1-2.
iv. Iraq Attaq
(1) The Documents
Danner. The Secret Way to War: The Downing Street Memo and the Iraq War's Buried History. New York City: New York Review Books, 2006.
Eisner, Peter, and Knut Royce. The Italian Letter: How the Bush Administration Used a Fake Letter to Build the Case for the War in Iraq. Emmaus, Pa.: Rodale, 2007.
Prados. Hoodwinked: The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War. New York City: The New Press, 2004.
(2) The CIA
Drumheller & Monaghan, Ch. 3-7.
Kessler, The CIA at War, Ch. 23-24.
Tenet & Harlow, Ch. 16-25.
(3) Bacevich
(a) America’s War for the Greater Middle East, Ch. 13-14.
(b) Twilight of the American Century, Ch. 1, 32-40.
(4) Aaron Glantz
(a) How America Lost Iraq. New York City: Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin, 2005.
(b) Winter Soldier: Iraq and Afghanistan: Eyewitness Accounts of the Occupation. Chicago: Haymarket Books, 2008.
(5) Jacobsen
(a) The Pentagon’s Brain, Ch. 21.
(b) Surprise, Kill, Vanish, Ch. 24.
(6) Risen
(a) State of War, Ch. 3-6.
(b) Pay Any Price, Ch. 1, 6.
(7) Ritter
(a) War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn't Want You to Know. New York City: Context Books, 2002.
(b) Frontier Justice: Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Bushwacking of America. New York City: Context Books, 2003.
(8) Thomas E. Ricks
(a) Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq, rev. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 2007.
(b) The Gamble: General David Petraeus and the American Military Adventure in Iraq, 2006-2008, rev. ed. New York City: The Penguin Press, 2010.
(9) Sammon
(a) Strategery, Ch. 2-3, 14.
(b) The Evangelical President: George Bush's Struggle to Spread a Moral Democracy Throughout the World. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2007: Ch. 3, 5-6, 10.
(10) Scahill
(a) Blackwater, Ch. 3-10, 13, 16.
(b) Dirty Wars, Ch. 13-15.
(11) Woodward
(a) Plan of Attack. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2004.
(b) State of Denial, Ch. 10-30, 33-45.
(c) The War Within: A Secret White House History 2006-2008. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2008.
(12) J.C. Wilson
J. Moore, Ch. 14.
J.C. Wilson, Ch.15-20.
(13) Other
Abrams, David. Fobbit. New York City: Black Cat, 2012.
Agresto, John. Mugged by Reality: The Liberation of Iraq and the Failure of Good Intentions. New York City: Encounter Books, 2007.
Ahmad, Muhammad Idrees. The Road to Iraq: The Making of a Neoconservative War. Edinburgh, U.K.: Edinburgh UP, 2014: Pt. 1, 3-4.
Allawi, Ch. 4-25.
Anderson, Jon Lee. The Fall of Baghdad. New York City: The Penguin Press, 2004.
Atkinson. In the Company of Soldiers: A Chronicle of Combat. New York City: Henry Holt & Co., 2004.
P. Baker, Ch. 12, 14-15.
Bamford, A Pretext for War, Ch. 10, 14.
Beckett & Hencke, Ch. 15.
The Constitution Project, Ch. 3.
Benard, Cheryl et al. The Battle Behind the Wire: U.S. Prisoner and Detainee Operations From World War II to Iraq. Santa Monica, Calif.: RAND National Defense Research Institute, 2011: Ch. 5.
Bergen, The Longest War, Ch. 9-10, 16.
Black, Edwin. Banking on Baghdad: Inside Iraq's 7,000-Year History of War, Profit and Conflict. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2004: Ch. 1.
Bodansky. The Secret History of the Iraq War. New York City: ReganBooks, 2004: Ch. 1-12, 14-19.
Boudreau, Tyler E. Packing Inferno: The Unmaking of a Marine. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2008.
Bovard, Bush Betrayal, Ch. 15.
Buzzell, Colby. My War: Killing Time In Iraq. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2005: Pt. 2-4.
Carney, Stephen A. Allied Participation in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Washington, D.C.: United States. Army. Center of Military History, 2011.
Chandrasekaran, Rajiv. Imperial Life in the Emerald City: Inside Iraq’s Green Zone. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
D. Cheney & L. Cheney, Ch. 12, 14.
Chernus, Ch. 10.
Corn, Ch. 12, 14.
Crawford, John. The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq. New York City: Riverhead Books, 2005.
Danelo, David J. Blood Stripes: The Grunt’s View of the War in Iraq. Mechanicsburg, Pa.: Stackpole Books, 2006.
DeYoung, Ch. 18-21.
Dorrien, Gary. Imperial Designs: Neoconservatism and the New Pax America. New York City: Routledge, 2004: Ch. 5.
Draper, Dead Certain, Ch. 8-11, 21.
Eland. Partitioning for Peace: An Exit Strategy for Iraq. Oakland, Calif.: The Independent Institute, 2009.
ElBaradi, Ch. 3.
Fick, Ch. 18-38.
Filkins, Dexter. The Forever War: Dispatches From the War on Terror. 2008. Rpt. London: Vintage, 2009: Pt. 2.
Finkel. The Good Soldiers. 2009. Rpt. London: Atlantic Books, 2010.
Fountain, Ben. Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. New York City: Ecco, 2012.
Franks and McConnell, Ch. 10-12.
Frederick, Jim. Black Hearts: One Platoon’s Plunge Into Madness in the Triangle of Death and the American Struggle in Iraq. New York City: Harmony Books, 2010.
G. Friedman, Ch. 11-13.
Fuller, Graham E. A World Without Islam. New York City: Little, Brown and Co., 2010: Ch. 9, 13-14.
Gentile, Ch. 4.
Gordon, Michael R., and Gen. Bernard E. Trainor (ret.). Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 2007.
B. Graham, Ch. 11-12, 14.
Hastings, Michael. The Last Magazine. New York City: Blue Rider Press, 2014: Pt. 2; Pt. 3, Ch. 13, 16; Pt. 4, Ch. 17.
Hedges, Chris, and Laila Al-Arian. Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians. New York City: Nation Books, 2008.
Hersh, Chain of Command, Pt. 1, Ch. 2, 4; Pt. 4-6.
Huff, Ch. 4-5.
The Iraq Study Group Report. New York City: Vintage Books, 2006.
Isikoff, Michael, and Corn. Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War, rev. ed. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2007.
Johnson, Chalmers. Dismantling the Empire: America's Last Best Hope. New York City: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2010: Ch. 3.
F.M. Kaplan, Ch. 12-14, 16-17.
Kessler, The Terrorist Watch, Ch. 18.
Kinzer, Overthrow, Ch. 13.
Kiriakou & Ruby, Ch. 15.
Klay, Phil. Redeployment. New York City: The Penguin Press, 2014.
Knightley, The First Casualty, Ch. 21.
Kyle, Chris, Jim DeFelice, and Scott McEwen. American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in U.S. Military History. New York City: William Morrow, 2012.
Laughland, Ch. 18.
Laufer, Peter. Mission Rejected: U.S. Soldiers Who Say No to Iraq. White River Junction, Vt.: Chelsea Green Publishing Co., 2006.
J. Mann, Rise of the Vulcans, Ch. 21.
Mearsheimer & Walt, Ch. 8.
Meek, Ch. 15.
C.C. Miller & Royer, Ch. 5.
Mitchell, Greg. So Wrong for So Long: How the Press, the Pundits — and the President —Failed on Iraq. New York City: Union Square Press, 2008.
Moore, James. Bush’s War for Reelection: Iraq, the White House, and the People. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2004: Ch. 1-6, 12-13, 16.
B. Murphy, Ch. 5, 7-13, 17-25.
Musheno, Michael C., and Susan M. Ross. Deployed: How Reservists Bear the Burden of Iraq. Ann Arbor, Mich.: The U of Michigan P, 2008: Ch. 2-6, Appendix A-C.
Nagl, Ch. 3-6.
Nance, Malcolm. The Terrorists of Iraq: Inside the Strategy and Tactics of the Iraq Insurgency, 2003-2014, rev. ed. Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, 2015: Ch. 1-12.
Novak, Ch. 1, 43-44.
Oates. Carthage. New York City: Ecco, 2014: Ch. 6.
Ostrowski, Ch. 39-40, 42.
Packer, George. The Assassins' Gate: America in Iraq, rev. ed. New York City: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2006.
Palmer, Ch. 24.
Parenti, Christian. The Freedom: Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq. New York City: The New Press, 2004.
Pelletière, Stephen C. Israel in the Second Iraq War: The Influence of Likud. Santa Barbara, Calif.: ABC-CLIO, 2010: Ch. 1-2, 5.
Perret, Geoffrey. Commander in Chief: How Truman, Johnson, and Bush Turned a Presidential Power Into a Threat to America's Future. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007: Ch. 26-28.
Plaster, U.S. Army Reserve Maj. John L. The Ultimate Sniper: An Advanced Training Manual for Military and Police Snipers, rev. ed. Boulder, Colo.: Paladin Press, 2006: Ch. 20.
Preble, Christopher et al. Exiting Iraq: Why the U.S. Must End the Military Occupation and Renew the War Against al Qaeda. Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2004.
Quigley, Ch. 38.
Reporting Iraq: An Oral History of the War by the Journalists Who Covered It. Ed. Mike Hoyt et al. Hoboken, N.J.: Melville House Publishing, 2007.
Ronson, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Ch. 16.
Rothfield, Lawrence. The Rape of Mesopotamia: Behind the Looting of the Iraq Museum. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2009.
Sanchez & D.T. Phillips, Ch. 9-22.
Scheuer, Marching Toward Hell, Ch. 4.
Seierstad, Åsne. A Hundred and One Days: A Baghdad Journal. 2003. Trans. Ingrid Christophersen. 2004. Rpt. New York City: Basic Books, 2005.
Sniegoski, Ch. 1, 10-14, 17-19.
Stent, Ch. 4.
Taibbi, Great Derangement, Ch. 4.
G. Thomas, Ch. 19.
Trofimov, Ch. 6-9.
Turner, Brian. Here, Bullet, rev. ed. Northumberland, U.K.: Bloodaxe, 2007.
United States. Cong. House. Committee on Government Reform‚ Minority Staff. Special Investigations Division. Iraq on the Record: The Bush Administration's Public Statements on Iraq. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 2004.
Van Buren, Peter. We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People. New York City: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2011.
Vance. Christianity and War and Other Essays Against the Warfare State, rev. ed. Pensacola, Fla.: Vance Publications, 2008: Ch. 5.
Vincent, Steve. In the Red Zone: A Journey Into the Soul of Iraq. Dallas: Spence Publishing Co., 2004.
Walker, Nico. Cherry. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018: Ch. 23-42.
War We Could Not Stop, Ch. 2-18.
T. Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Ch. 49.
B. West, and USMC Maj. Gen. Ray L. Smith (ret.). The March Up: Taking Baghdad With the 1st Marine Division. New York City: Bantam Books, 2003.
Westin, Ch. 6, 8.
Wheeler, Marcy. Anatomy of Deceit: How the Bush Administration Used the Media to Sell the Iraq War and Out a Spy. Berkeley, Calif.: Vaster Books, 2007.
World According to TomDispatch, Ch. 1-3, 5, 8, 11-12, 16, 20.
Wright, Evan. Generation Kill: Devil Dogs, Iceman, Captain America and the New Face of American War, rev. ed. New York City: Berkley Caliber, 2008.
Zucchino, David. Thunder Run: The Armored Strike to Capture Baghdad. New York City: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2004.
v. Iran
ElBaradi, Ch. 5, 9, 11.
Gardiner, U.S. Air Force Col. Sam (ret.). The End of the "Summer of Diplomacy": Assessing U.S. Military Options on Iran. New York City: The Century Foundation Press, 2006.
Ritter, Scott. Target Iran: The Truth About the White House's Plan for Regime Change. New York City: Nation Books, 2006: Ch. 2-5.
Sniegoski, Ch. 16.
vi. The 2004 Election
Bai. The Argument: Inside the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics, rev. ed. New York City: Penguin Press, 2008: Ch. 1.
P. Baker, Ch. 17, 19.
Block, Walter E. Toward a Libertarian Society. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2014: Ch. 4.
Chernus, Ch. 12.
Dean, John. Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush, rev. ed. New York City: Warner Books, 2005: Ch. 7.
Draper, Dead Certain, Ch. 12-14.
Fisher, Dana. Activism, Inc. How the Outsourcing of Grassroots Campaigns Is Strangling Progressive Politics in America. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford UP, 2006: Ch. 5.
Heilemann, John, and Mark Halperin. Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime, rev. ed. New York City: Harper Perennial, 2010: Ch. 1.
Sammon, Strategery, Ch. 4-8, 10-11.
Gumbel, Andrew. Steal This Vote: Dirty Elections and the Rotten History of Democracy in America. New York City: Nation Books, 2005: Ch. 13.
Rothschild, Ch. 14.
R.J. Stone & St. J. Hunt, Ch. 33.
Tyrrell, R. Emmett Jr. The Clinton Crack-Up: The Boy President’s Life After the White House. Nashville, Tenn.: Thomas Nelson, 2007: Ch. 7.
Vidal, Point to Point Navigation, Ch. 31.
Westin, Ch. 7.
Woodward, State of Denial, Ch. 31.
vii. Hurricane Katrina
(1) W.E. Block
Block, W.E. Toward a Libertarian Society. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2014: Ch. 17.
Block, W.E., and Llewellyn H. Rockwell Jr. "Katrina and the Future of New Orleans." Telos Summer 2007: 170-185.
(2) Other
World According to TomDispatch, Ch. 28.
viii. Sammon
(1) Strategery, Ch. 1, 12, 15-17.
(2) Evangelical President, Ch. 2, 4.
ix. Cheney
D. Cheney & L. Cheney, Ch. 16.
Lott, Ch. 19.
x. Other
P. Baker, Ch. 13, 16, 18, 20-37.
R. Baker, Ch. 21, 23-24.
Bartlett. Impostor: How George W. Bush Bankrupted America and Betrayed the Reagan Legacy. New York City: Doubleday, 2006: Ch. 2-5, 11.
Bovard. The Bush Betrayal. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004: Ch. 5-9, 17.
Colodny & Shachtman, Ch. 27.
Dean, Ch. 1-6.
Draper, Dead Certain, Ch. 6, 15-20, 22.
Hersh, Chain of Command, Pt. 6, Ch. 2.
Kelley, Ch. 27.
Kessler, First Family Detail, Ch. 21, 23.
Kucinich, Dennis, David Swanson, and Elizabeth de la Vega. The 35 Articles of Impeachment and the Case for Prosecuting George W. Bush. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2008.
Kuo, Ch. 9-11.
Norton, Anne. Leo Strauss and the Politics of American Empire. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2004: Ch. 5.
J. Reid, Let the People In, Ch. 30.
Ritter, Scorpion King, Ch. 15.
Sniegoski, Ch. 15.
Stent, Ch. 5-8.
Suskind, The Price of Loyalty, Ch. 6, 8-9.
Jeffrey Tucker, Ch. 39.
Tyler, Ch. 12.
Woodward, State of Denial, Ch. 32.
c. Other
P. Baker, Ch. 3-4.
Bartlett, Impostor, Ch. 1.
Bock, Alan W. Ambush at Ruby Ridge: How Government Agents Set Randy Weaver Up and Took His Family Down. 1995. Rpt. New York City: Berkley Books, 1996: Ch. 1, 3-10.
D. Cheney & L. Cheney, Ch. 9.
Chernus, Ch. 5.
Corn, Ch. 2-3.
Draper, Dead Certain, Ch. 1, 3-4.
Dueck, Ch. 8.
Kelley, Ch. 24-26.
Kuo, Ch. 7-8.
MacDonnell, Ch. 16.
C. Meyer, Ch. 17-18.
Minutaglio, Ch. 1, 13-16.
Ruppert, Ch. 4.
Sperry, The Great American Bank Robbery, Ch. 10.
R.J. Stone & St. J. Hunt, Ch. 4, 8-9, 30, 34-35.
Woodward, State of Denial, Ch. 1-2.
2. The Clinton Administration
a. Anti-Terrorism
i. TWA Flight 800
(1) Lance
(a) 1000 Years for Revenge, Ch. 33.
(b) Cover Up, Ch. 5-6.
(c) Triple Cross, Ch. 22-23.
(2) Other
Cashill. TWA 800: The Crash, the Cover-Up, and the Conspiracy. Washington, D.C.: Regnery History, 2016.
ii. Lance
(a) 1000 Years for Revenge, Ch. 13-24, 28-29, 32, 34-38.
(b) Triple Cross, Ch. 12, 21, 26, 29-30, 32.
iii. Other
Berntsen & Pezzullo, Ch. 1, 3-4.
Boykin, et al., Ch. 8.
Burton, Ch. 30, 32-35.
R.A. Clarke, Ch. 4-9.
Coll, Ghost Wars, Ch. 21-23, 25, 27, 29.
Harmon, Ch. 30, 32-33.
S. Harris, Ch. 9-10.
Jacobsen, Surprise, Kill, Vanish, Ch. 20.
Jacobson & Colón, Ch. 4.
Labévière, Richard. Dollars for Terror: The United States and Islam, rev. ed. Trans. Martin DeMers. New York City: Algora Publishing, 2000: Ch. 17.
Mayer, Jane. The United States and Torture, Ch. 6.
Miniter. Losing bin Laden: How Bill Clinton's Failures Unleased Global Terror. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2003: Ch. 2, 4-11.
R. Patterson, Lt. Col. Robert "Buzz" (ret.). Dereliction of Duty: An Eyewitness Account of How Bill Clinton Compromised America's National Security. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2003: Ch. 7.
Rizzo, Ch. 8-9.
Scheuer, Marching Toward Hell, Ch. 2.
L. Wright, Looming Tower, Ch. 11, 14.
b. Waco
Bowart, Ch. 33.
The FBI and Religion, Ch. 12.
Gregory, Anthony. " 'God Help Us, We Want the Press': The 1993 Waco Disaster and Government Media Relations." Diss. UC Berkeley, 1993.
Guinn, Waco, Ch. 19-39.
M. Jacobson, Ch. 18.
Kessler, The Bureau, Ch. 24.
Reavis, Dick J. The Ashes of Waco: An Investigation. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1995
Ronson, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Ch. 12.
c. The Vince Foster Suicide
Coulter, Ch. 15.
Kessler, Secrets of the FBI, Ch. 13, 23, 25, 27-28.
Moldea, A Washington Tragedy, Pt. 1; Pt. 2, Ch. 1-26, 29; Pt. 3-4.
R.J. Stone & Morrow, Ch. 14.
d. Somalia
Bowden. Black Hawk Down: A Story of Modern War, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Grove Press, 2010.
Fletcher, Martin. Breaking News: A Stunning and Memorable Account of Reporting From Some of the Most Dangerous Places in the World. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2008. Ch. 6.
Hackworth, & T. Mathews, Ch. 4, 6.
Halberstam, Ch. 23.
Maren, Ch. 1, 12-14.
Miniter, Losing bin Laden, Ch. 3.
G.L. Posner, Why America Slept, Ch. 7.
Quigley, Ch. 32.
Scahill, Dirty Wars, Ch. 10.
e. Haiti
Goff, U.S. Army Master Sgt. Stan (ret.). Hideous Dream: A Soldier's Memoir of the U.S. Invasion of Haiti. New York City: Soft Skull Press, 2000.
Hackworth, & T. Mathews, Ch. 8.
f. General Foreign Intervention
i. Bacevich
(1) American Empire, Ch. 2, 5.
(2) America’s War for the Greater Middle East, Ch. 9-10.
ii. Others
Allawi, Ch. 3.
Brooks, Rosa. How Everything Became War and the Military Became Everything: Tales From the Pentagon. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2016: Ch. 11.
Campbell, W. Joseph. 1995: The Year the Future Began. Oakland, Calif.: U of California P, 2015: Ch. 4.
Deliso, Ch. 1.
Gertz. Betrayal: How the Clinton Administration Undermined American Security. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1999.
Government of the Shadows: Parapolitics and Criminal Sovereignty. Ed. Eric Wilson and Tim Lindsey. London: Pluto Press, 2009: Ch. 10.
Fontova, Fidel, Ch. 14-15.
Hackworth, & T. Mathews, Ch. 3, 7, 9-10.
An Informed Faith: The Position Papers of R.J. Rushdoony, Vol. III: Heresies & Philosophies; Statism & Liberty, Ch. 218.
Jacobsen, Surprise, Kill, Vanish, Ch. 19, 21.
Quigley, Ch. 33-36.
Riedel, Ch. 6.
Sanchez & D.T. Phillips, Ch. 7.
Sniegoski, Ch. 6-7.
Stent, Ch. 1-2.
Tyler, Ch. 10-11.
D.C. Unger, Ch. 12.
g. Oklahoma City
W.J. Campbell, Ch. 2.
E.J. Epstein, Annals of Unsolved Crime, Ch. 30.
Evans-Pritchard, Ch. 1-7, Appendix A.
Harmon, Ch. 34.
Hoffman, David. The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror. Venice, Calif.: Feral House, 1998.
M. Jacobson, Ch. 20.
Kessler, The Bureau, Ch. 34.
Lance. 1000 Years for Revenge, Ch. 30.
G.L. Posner, Why America Slept, Ch. 10.
h. The 1996 Election
Mears, Ch. 10.
Pinkerton, Ch. 28.
S.B. Smith. For Love of Politics — Bill and Hillary Clinton: The White House Years. New York City: Random House, 2007: Ch. 11.
Woodward. The Choice: How Clinton Won, rev. ed. New York City: Touchstone, 1997.
i. Impeachment
Barr, Bob. The Meaning of Is: The Squandered Impeachment and Wasted Legacy of William Jefferson Clinton. Atlanta: Stroud & Hall Publishers, 2004: Ch. 4-7.
Connaughton, Jeff. The Payoff: Why Wall Street Always Wins. Westport, Conn.: Prospecta Press, 2012: Ch. 9.
Coulter, Ch. 1.
E. Klein, Hillary, Ch. 4-5, 20-23, 25.
MacDonnell, Ch. 15.
C. Meyer, Ch. 12.
Schippers, David P., and Alan P. Henry. Sellout: The Inside Story of Clinton's Impeachment. Washington, D.C.: Henry Regnery, 2000.
S.B. Smith, For Love of Politics, Ch. 12-15.
Westin, Ch. 2.
Woodward. Shadow, Pt. 5.
j. The Departure
Ammann, Ch. 18.
Eisler, Masters of the Game, Ch. 28.
Felsenthal, Ch. 1-2.
Olson, Barbara. The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2001.
S.B. Smith, For Love of Politics, Ch. 18.
R.J. Stone & Morrow, Ch. 16.
Tyrrell, Clinton Crack-Up, Ch. 2, 4.
k. Greenspan
Sheehan, Ch. 11.
Tuccille, Alan Shrugged, Ch. 27.
l. C. P. Andersen
(1) Bill and Hilary, Ch. 1, 7-8.
(2) American Evita: Hillary Clinton’s Path to Power. New York City: William Morrow, 2004: Ch. 4-5.
m. Kessler
(1) The Bureau, Ch. 25-26, 29-30.
(2) In the President’s Secret Service, Ch. 19, 21.
(3) First Family Detail, Ch. 2, 18.
n. E. Klein
i. Hillary, Ch. 15-19, 24, 26-34.
ii. Unlikeable: The Problem With Hillary. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2015: Ch. 6, 10.
o. Other
Aldrich, Gary. Unlimited Access: An FBI Agent Inside the White House, rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: Henry Regnery, 1998.
Armentano, Dominick T. Antitrust: The Case for Repeal, rev. ed. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 1999: Ch. 1.
Baer, See No Evil, Ch. 1, 19-21.
Barr, Ch. 1-3, 8-9.
Bartlett, Impostor, Ch. 7.
P.M. Barrett, Ch. 11, 16.
Bryce, Pipe Dreams, Ch. 14.
Byron, Testosterone Inc., Ch. 16, 18.
Bovard. "Feeling Your Pain": The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years, rev. ed. New York City: Palgrave, 2001.
W.J. Campbell, Ch. 5.
Campos, Paul. The Obesity Myth: Why America's Obsession With Weight Is Hazardous to Your Health. New York City: Gotham Books, 2004: Ch. 15.
Connaughton, Ch. 7.
Coulter, Ch. 2-13, 16-19.
Courtwright, Ch. 10.
DeConde, Ch. 17-19.
DeFrank, Ch. 7.
DiLorenzo, Thomas J. Organized Crime: The Unvarnished Truth About Government. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2012: Ch. 12.
Dorrien, Ch. 4.
Eisler, Masters of the Game, Ch. 21-22, 24, 26-27.
Eszterhas. American Rhapsody. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2000.
Evans-Pritchard, Ch. 8-15, 22, Appendix B.
Flowers & Dapper, Ch. 9-14.
Franks and McConnell, Ch. 6.
Goad, Ch. 8.
Halberstam, Ch. 2, 11, 22, 24-28, 36-37, 40-44.
Henwood, Doug. My Turn: Hillary Clinton Targets the Presidency, rev. ed. New York City: Seven Stories Press, 2016: Ch. 2.
Hersh, Chain of Command, Pt. 2, Ch. 2.
E.M. Jones, Libido Dominandi, Pt. 3, Ch. 21.
M. Kelly. Things Worth Fighting For, Pt. III.
Kessler, Inside the White House, Ch. 7.
Knightley, The First Casualty, Ch. 20.
D.P. Kuhn, Ch. 14.
McDonald, Oonagh. Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac: Turning the American Dream Into a Nightmare, rev. ed. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2013: Ch. 1-6, 8, 13.
Novak, Ch. 38.
R. Patterson, Ch. 1-6, 8.
Poe, Richard. Hillary’s Secret War: The Clinton Conspiracy to Muzzle Internet Journalists. Nashville, Tenn.: World Net Daily, 2004: Ch. 1-2, 5-7, 9.
G.L. Posner, Why America Slept, Ch. 8, 14.
Sammon, Strategery, Ch. 13.
Siegel. The Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class, rev. ed. New York City: Encounter Books, 2015: Ch. 14.
S.B. Smith, For Love of Politics, Ch. 1-10, 16-17.
Sobran, Joseph. Hustler: The Clinton Legacy. Ed. Tom McPherren. Vienna, Va.: Griffin Communications, 2000.
Sperry, The Great American Bank Robbery, Ch. 1-2, 4, 6-9, 11.
J.B. Stewart, Pt. 3.
R.J. Stone & Morrow, Ch. 5-6, 15, 25-27.
Tenet & Harlow, Ch. 1-5, 7-8.
T. Troy, Ch. 9.
Tyrrell. Boy Clinton: The Political Biography. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1996: Ch. 6, 10-11.
J. Walker, Rebels on the Air, Ch. 10.
W. Webb, Vol. II, Ch. 16-17.
3. The 2008 Election
a. Obama
i. Cashill
(1) Deconstructing Obama: The Life, Loves, and Letters of the First Postmodern President. New York City: Threshold Editions, 2011.
(2) "You Lie!", Ch. 5.
ii. Others
Adiche, Chimamanda Ngozi. Americanah. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013: Ch. 40.
Carney, Timothy P. Obamanomics: How Barack Obama Is Bankrupting You and Enriching His Wall Street Friends, Corporate Lobbyists, and Union Bosses. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2009: Ch. 2.
Corsi, Jerome R. Where's the Birth Certificate?: The Case That Barack Obama Is Not Eligible to Be President. Los Angeles: WND Books, 2011: Ch. 1, 5, 11-12, Appendix B.
F. Brown & Troxler, Ch. 7-10.
E. Klein, Amateur, Ch. 13, 21.
Limbaugh, David. Crimes Against Liberty: An Indictment of President Obama, rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2011: Ch. 3.
Margolis, Matt. The Scandalous Presidency of Barack Obama. New York City: Bombardier Books, 2018.
O’Leary, Brad. The Audacity of Deceit: Barack Obama’s War on American Values. Los Angeles: WND Books, 2008.
Smith, Ben. Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral. New York City: Penguin Press, 2023: Ch. 12.
b. The Clintons
Allen, Jonathan, and Amie Parnes. HRC: State Secrets and the Rebirth of Hillary Clinton. New York City: Crown Publishers, 2014: Ch. 1-2.
Henwood, Ch. 4.
E. Klein, Unlikeable, Ch. 7.
c. Other
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. 7.
Debenedetti, Gabriel. The Long Alliance: The Imperfect Union of Joe Biden and Barack Obama. New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 2022: Ch. 3-5.
Doherty. Ron Paul's Revolution: The Man and the Movement He Inspired. New York City: Broadside Books, 2012: Ch. 1, 6.
Felsenthal, Ch. 10.
Heilemann & Halperin, Game Change, Ch. 5-23.
Kessler, In the President’s Secret Service, Ch. 27.
Kranish & Helman, Ch. 11.
Oates. A Widow's Story: A Memoir. New York City: Ecco, 2011: Ch. 65.
J. Oppenheimer, Crazy Rich, Ch. 1.
Wolffe, Richard. Renegade: The Making of a President, rev. ed. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2010: Ch. 1, 3-8.
4. The Obama Administration
a. Foreign Policy
i. Central Asia
(1) The bin Laden Killing
J. Allen & Parnes, HRC, Ch. 11.
Bergen, Manhunt, Ch. 8, 11-14
Bowden, The Finish, Ch. 3-4, 6-9.
Kessler, Secrets of the FBI, Ch. 31.
Scahill, Dirty Wars, Ch. 48-49.
(2) Afghanistan
(a)Bacevich
(i) The Case for Withdrawal From Afghanistan, Ch. 21.
(ii) America’s War for the Greater Middle East, Ch. 15.
(b) Others
B. Anderson, Pt. 2-5.
The Case for Withdrawal From Afghanistan, Ch. 19-20.
Chandrasekaran. Little America: The War Within the War for Afghanistan. 2012. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 2013: Ch. 2-18.
Coll, Directorate S, Ch. 23-35.
Robinson, Linda. One Hundred Victories: Special Ops and the Future of American Warfare. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2013.
Tomsen, Ch. 24.
Valentine, Ch. 6.
(3) Other
Bacevich, Twilight of the American Century, Ch. 31.
The Case for Withdrawal From Afghanistan, Ch. 13.
Chayes, Ch. 1, 3-5, 11.
Danner, Spiral, Pt. 2.
Gall, Ch. 11-12.
F.M. Kaplan, Ch. 21.
Rashid. Pakistan on the Brink: The Future of America, Pakistan, and Afghanistan. New York City: Viking, 2012: Ch. 1, 4-6, 8-9.
Singh, Robert. Barack Obama’s Post-American Foreign Policy: The Limits of Engagement. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2012: Ch. 4.
ii. Libya
Attkisson, Sharyl. Stonewalled: One Reporter’s Fight for Truth in Obama’s Washington. New York City: Harper, 2014: Ch. 4.
Zuckoff, Mitchell et al. 13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi. New York City: Twelve, 2014.
iii. E. Klein
(1) Amateur, Ch. 17, 19.
(2) Blood Feud: The Clintons vs. the Obamas. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2014: Ch. 9, 20-21, 25, 31.
(3) Unlikeable, Ch. 8-9, 12, 15-16, 18, 23, 25.
(4) Guilty As Sin: Uncovering New Evidence of Corruption and How Hillary Clinton and the Democrats Derailed the FBI Investigation. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2016: Ch. 9, 15-16, 19.
(5) All Out War: The Plot to Destroy Trump. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, Regnery Publishing, 2017: Ch. 18.
iv. Scahill
Scahill et al. The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2016.
Scahill, Dirty Wars, Ch. 25-29, 31-39, 41-42, 44-47, 50-57.
v. Turse
(1) The Changing Face of Empire: Special Ops, Drones, Spies, Proxy Fighters, Secret Bases, and Cyber Warfare. Chicago: Dispatch Books/Haymarket Books, 2012.
(2) Tomorrow’s Battlefield: U.S. Proxy Wars and Secret Ops in Africa. Chicago: Dispatch Books/Haymarket Books, 2015.
vi. Other
J. Allen & Parnes, HRC, Ch. 3-10, 13, 15, 17-19.
Bacevich, America’s War for the Greater Middle East, Ch. 16-18.
Beinart, Peter. The Crisis of Zionism. New York City: Times Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2012: Ch. 7-8.
Bergen, The Longest War, Ch. 18-19.
Cashill, "You Lie!", Ch. 9, 11.
The Constitution Project, Ch. 10.
ElBaradi, Ch. 12.
Fitton, Tom. A Republic Under Assault: The Left's Ongoing Attack on American Freedom. New York City: Threshold Editions, 2020: Ch. 3.
Fund, John H., and Hans von Spakovsky. Who’s Counting?: How Fraudsters and Bureaucrats Put Your Vote at Risk. Encounter Books, 2012: Ch. 7.
Gallagher, Matt. Youngblood. New York City: Atria Books, 2016.
Henwood, Ch. 5.
F.M. Kaplan, Ch. 20.
Klaidman, Daniel. Kill or Capture: The War on Terror and the Soul of the Obama Presidency. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
Limbaugh, Ch. 14-15.
M. Margolis, and Mark Noonan. The Worst President in History: The Legacy of Barack Obama, rev. ed. New York City: Bombardier Books, 2018.
Riedel, Ch. 5, 7.
Ritter, Scorpion King, Ch. 16-17.
Singh, Ch. 1-3, 5-9.
Sperry, The Great American Bank Robbery, Ch. 5.
Stent, Ch. 9-10.
Stockman, Trumped!, Ch. 24, 26.
R.J. Stone & Morrow, Ch. 23.
B. West, Wrong War, Ch. 3-16.
Woodward. Obama's Wars. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2010.
b. ObamaCare
Attkisson, Stonewalled, Ch. 5.
Borelli, Deneen. Blacklash: How Obama and the Left Are Driving Americans to the Government Plantation. New York City: Threshold Editions, 2012: Ch. 7.
T.P. Carney, Obamanomics, Ch. 4-5.
Cashill, "You Lie!", Ch. 12.
Goodman, John C. Priceless: Curing the Healthcare Crisis. Oakland, Calif.: Independent Institute, 2012: Ch. 16-17.
Malkin, Michelle. Culture of Corruption: Obama and His Team of Tax Cheats, Crooks, and Cronies, rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2010: Ch. 8.
c. The 2012 Election
J. Allen & Parnes, HRC, Ch. 12, 14, 16.
Corsi, Jerome R. What Went Wrong: The Inside Story of the GOP Debacle of 2012 ... and How It Can Be Avoided Next Time. Washington, D.C.: WND Books, 2013.
Halperin & Heilemann. Double Down: Game Change 2012. New York City: The Penguin Press, 2013: Ch. 1-4, 14-23.
E. Klein, Blood Feud, Ch. 1, 4, 10-19.
d. Cashill
i. 'If I Had a Son': Race, Guns, and the Railroading of George Zimmerman. 2013. Rpt. Omaha, Neb.: Notable Trials Library, 2014.
ii. "You Lie!", Ch. 6-8, 10, 13.
e. Corsi
i. Where's the Birth Certificate?, Ch. 2, 13.
ii. Killing the Deep State: The Fight to Save President Trump. West Palm Beach, Fla.: Humanix Books, 2016: Ch. 7.
f. E. Klein
i. Amateur, Ch. 6-10, 12, 15-16, 20, 22.
ii. Blood Feud, Ch. 2-3, 5-7, 22, 26, 32.
iii. Unlikeable, Ch. 22, 24.
g. Other
Antle, W. James III. Devouring Freedom: Can Big Government Ever Be Stopped? Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2013: Ch. 7.
Attkisson, Stonewalled, Ch. 2-3, 6.
Blackwell, J. Kenneth, and Ken Klukowski. The Blueprint: Obama's Plan to Subvert the Constitution and Build an Imperial Presidency. Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press, 2010.
Borelli, Ch. 2, 6.
T.P. Carney, Obamanomics, Ch. 1, 3, 6-7, 9.
Debenedetti, Ch. 6-13.
Devine, Donald J. America’s Way Back: Reclaiming Freedom, Tradition, and Constitution. Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2013: Ch. 2.
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. 9-14.
DiLorenzo, Ch. 8.
Factor, Mallory, and Elizabeth Factor. Shadowbosses: Government Unions Control America and Rob Taxpayers Blind. New York City: Center Street, 2012: Ch. 4.
Freddoso, David. Gangster Government: Barack Obama and the New Washington Thugocracy. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2011.
Greenwald, With Liberty and Justice for Some, Ch. 4.
Kantor, Jodi. The Obamas. New York City: Little, Brown & Co., 2012.
Kessler, First Family Detail, Ch. 1, 4, 25.
Lewis, Hunter. Crony Capitalism in America: 2008-2012. Edinburg, Va.: AC2, 2013: Ch. 5-6, 13, 17.
Limbaugh, Ch. 4-12.
Malkin, Culture of Corruption, Ch. 1-7.
McCarthy, Andrew C. Faithless Execution: Building the Political Case for Obama’s Impeachment. New York City: Encounter Books, 2014.
McClanahan, Brion. 9 Presidents Who Screwed Up America, and Four Who Tried to Save Her. Washington, D.C.: Regnery History, 2016: Ch. 9.
Norquist, Grover G., and John R. Lott Jr. Debacle: Obama's War on Jobs and Growth and What We Can Do Now to Regain Our Future. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2012.
Pacepa & Rychlak, Ch. 41.
Pavlich, Katie. Fast and Furious: Barack Obama’s Bloodiest Scandal and Its Shameless Cover-Up. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2012.
Schlafly & Neumayr, Ch. 1-3, 7-9, 11-15.
Schweizer, Peter. Secret Empires: How the American Political Class Hides Corruption and Enriches Family and Friends, rev. ed. New York City: Harper, 2019: Ch. 9-10.
Shapiro, Ben. The People vs. Barack Obama: The Criminal Case Against the Obama Administration. New York City: Threshold Editions, 2014.
Siegel, The Revolt Against the Masses, Ch. 17.
Wolffe, Ch. 9.
Woodward. The Price of Politics, rev. ed. New York City: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2013.
5. The Congress
a. The Senate
i. Obama
C.P. Andersen, Barack and Michelle, Ch. 7.
Freddoso. The Case Against Barack Obama: The Unlikely Rise and Unexamined Agenda of the Media's Favorite Candidate. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2008: Ch. 4-6.
Heilemann & Halperin, Game Change, Ch. 2, 4.
Sailer, Ch. 1, 12.
ii. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y.
C.P. Andersen, American Evita, Ch. 2.
Henwood, Ch. 3.
iii. Others
Bai, The Argument, Ch. 11.
Debenedetti, Ch. 1-2.
Eisler, Masters of the Game, Ch. 32-33.
b. The House
Bendavid, Naftali. The Thumpin': How Rahm Emanuel and the Democrats Learned to Be Ruthless and Ended the Republican Revolution. New York City: Doubleday, 2007: Ch. 1, 3-10.
Jackley, Ch. 1-2, 12-13.
Stockman, Trumped!, Ch. 10.
c. Schweizer
i. Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Theirs Friends Get Rich off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest of Us to Prison. 2011. Rpt. New York City: Mariner Books, 2012: Pt. 1.
ii. Red-Handed: How American Elites Get Rich Helping China Win. New York City: Harper, 2022: Ch. 3.
d. Other
J.R. Adams, Secret Armies, Ch. 2.
W.F. Buckley, The Rake, Ch. 29, 31-32, 38-41, 43, 48, 50.
Connaughton, Ch. 1, 13-15.
The Constitution Project, Ch. 11.
Grim, Ryan. The Squad: AOC and the Hope of a Political Revolution. New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 2023.
Heilemann & Halperin, Game Change, Ch. 3.
Hunter, Derek. Outrage, Inc.: How the Liberal Mob Ruined Science, Journalism, and Hollywood. New York City: Broadside, 2018: Ch. 3.
Kaiser, Robert G. Act of Congress: How America’s Essential Institution Works, and How It Doesn’t. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2013: Ch. 4-24.
Kessler, Inside Congress, Ch. 9-10.
E. Klein, Guilty As Sin, Ch. 8.
Kranish & Helman, Ch. 7.
J. Moore, Ch. 15.
Novak, Ch. 39.
Odishelidze, Alexander, and Arthur B. Laffer. Pay to the Order of Puerto Rico. Fairfax, Va.: Allegiance Press, 2004: Ch. 10-11.
Rockwell. Fascism vs. Capitalism. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2013: Ch. 5.
Sammon, Evangelical President, Ch. 7.
Suskind. Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President. New York City: Harper, 2011: Ch. 1, 7-20.
Taibbi, Great Derangement, Ch. 2, 6.
Tyrrell, Clinton Crack-Up, Ch. 8.
6. The Neconservatives
Bacevich, Twilight of the American Century, Ch. 2, 6.
Bryce. Gusher of Lies: The Dangerous Delusions of “Energy Independence”. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2008: Ch. 8.
Colodny & Shachtman, Ch. 26.
Dorrien, Ch. 6.
Murray Friedman, Ch. 13.
S. Halper & J. Clarke, Ch. 1, 3, 6-7.
Livingstone, Black Terror, White Soldiers, Ch. 31.
7. The Executive Police Agencies
a. The CIA
i. The Danny Casolaro Murder
Cheri Seymour, Ch. 10.
K. Thomas & Keith, Ch. 23.
ii. Kessler
(1) Inside the CIA, Ch. 1, 4, 11, 16, 19-20, 24, 27.
(2) The CIA at War, Ch. 1-3, 7, 13-15.
iii. Prados
(1) William Colby and the CIA: The Secret Wars of a Controversial Spymaster. 2003. Rpt. Lawrence, Kan.: UP of Kansas, 2009: Ch. 1.
(2) Safe for Democracy, Ch. 24.
(3) The Ghosts of Langley, Ch. 8, 10.
iv. Others
Coll, Ghost Wars, Ch. 13-15, 20.
Doron & Gellman, Appendix A.
Drumheller & Monaghan, Ch. 9-12.
Earley, Confessions of a Spy, Ch. 8-11.
Faddis, Charles S. Beyond Repair: The Decline and Fall of the CIA. Guilford, Conn.: Lyons Press, 2010.
Kiriakou & Ruby, Ch. 21-26.
Maas, Manhunt, Ch. 7, 9-10, 14-16.
Mackenzie, Ch. 14.
Moran, Lindsay. Blowing My Cover: My Life as a CIA Spy. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2005.
Pavone, Chris. The Expats. New York City: Crown Publishers, 2012.
Ritter. Iraq Confidential: The Untold Story of the Intelligence Conspiracy to Undermine the UN and Overthrow Saddam Hussein. London: I.B. Tauris, 2005.
Rizzo, Ch. 17.
Shorrock, Ch. 4.
T. Weiner, Legacy of Ashes, Ch. 43-48.
Zegart, Ch. 4.
b. The FBI
i. Lance
(1) 1000 Years for Revenge, Ch. 7.
(2) Deal With the Devil, Ch. 33, 35, 37, 41-42, Appendix H.
(3) Triple Cross, Ch. 20, 24.
ii. Others
Kessler, Secrets of the FBI, Ch. 1-2, 12, 14, 16-20, 22, 24, 26, 29-30, 32.
Maas, Manhunt, Ch. 1, 8, 11-13.
The FBI and Religion, Ch. 15.
E. Klein, Guilty As Sin, Ch. 10-12, 17-18, 28.
T. Weiner, Enemies, Ch. 41-43, 45.
Zegart, Ch. 6.
c. Kessler
Kessler, In the President’s Secret Service, Ch. 4, 6, 8-9, 11, 14, 16, 20, 24, 29-30.
Kessler, First Family Detail, Ch. 9, 11, 14-15, 17, 20, 22, 28.
d. Other
Burton, Ch. 29, 36.
Durham, John H. Report on Matters Related to Intelligence Activities and Investigations Arising out of the 2016 Presidential Campaigns. Washington, D.C.: United States. Department of Justice. Office of Special Counsel, 2023.
Miller, Todd. Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches From the Front Lines of Homeland Security. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2014: Ch. 1-6, 8-11.
Tosches. Trinities. 1994. Rpt. New York City: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 1996: Ch. 24.
Whitehead, John W. Battlefield America: The War on the American People. New York City: SelectBooks, 2015: Ch. 28.
8. The Defense Department
a. Jacobsen
i. The Pentagon’s Brain, Ch. 17-18, 20, 22.
ii. Phenomena, Ch. 22.
b. Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction
i. Why the Afghan Government Collapsed. Arlington, Va.: Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, 2023.
ii. Why the Afghan Security Forces Collapsed. Arlington, Va.: Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction, 2023.
c. Others
Bacevich, American Empire, Ch. 8.
Bakken, Tim. The Cost of Loyalty: Dishonesty, Hubris, and Failure in the U.S. Military. New York City: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020: Ch. 3, 6.
Bowart, Ch. 31.
R. Brooks, Ch. 1-8, 16, 19.
Buzzell, Pt. 1.
Farrell, Joseph P., and De Hart. Transhumanism: A Grimoire of Alchemical Agendas. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2011: Ch. 6.
Fick, Ch. 1-8, 39.
Fury, Ch. 18.
B. Graham, Ch. 8.
Hackworth, & T. Mathews, Ch. 11-13.
Haas, Ch. 21-23.
Huber, Pt. 2-5.
F.M. Kaplan, Ch. 3, 5, 9-11, 15, 18-19, 22, 24-26.
Lance. 1000 Years for Revenge, Ch. 9.
J. Moore, Ch. 7.
C.C. Miller & Royer, Ch. 2-3, 7.
B. Murphy, Ch. 1-4, 6.
Nagl, Ch. 2, 8.
Neer, Robert M. Napalm: An American Biography. Cambridge, Mass.: The Belknap Press of Havard UP, 2013: Ch. 14.
Paglen, Blank Spots on the Map, Ch. 1-5, 8-9, 11.
D.L. Robb, Ch. 1-2, 4-19, 29.
Sanchez & D.T. Phillips, Ch. 5-6, 8, 23-24.
Schmidle, USMC Lt. Gen. Robert E. (ret.), and USN Rear Adm. Mark Montgomery (ret.). A Report on the Fighting Culture of the United States Navy Surface Fleet: Conducted at the Direction of Senator Tom Cotton, Congressman Jim Banks, Congressman Dan Crenshaw, Congressman Mike Gallagher. Washington, D.C.: United States. Senate. Office of Sen. Tom Cotton, 2021.
Rosenbaum, How the End Begins, Ch. 7.
Spinney, Ch. 1-3, 6.
Stockman, Trumped!, Ch. 25.
Turse. The Complex: How the Military Invades Our Everyday Lives. New York City: Metropolitan Books, 2008: Ch. 3, 5-25.
Vogel, Steve. The Pentagon: A History: The Untold Story of the Race to Build the Pentagon — and to Restore It Sixty Years Later. New York City: Random House, 2007: Ch. 19-21.
N. Walker, Ch. 9-21, 43-44.
Wong, Leonard, and Stephen J. Gerras. Lying to Ourselves: Dishonesty in the Army Profession. Carlisle Barracks, Pa.: Strategic Studies Institute/United States Army War College Press, 2015.
9. The Kennedy Dynasty
a. E. Klein
i. Kennedy, Ch. 6.
ii. Amateur, Ch. 14.
iii. Blood Feud, Ch. 28.
b. Other
J.H. Davis, The Kennedys, Ch. 73.
Jeffries, Ch. 7.
Leamer, Sons of Camelot, Ch. 31-53.
Taraborrelli, After Camelot, Pt. 17-23.
10. The Schools
a. Harvard University
Au-Yeung & Jeans, Ch. 3.
Kerlow, Eleanor. Poisoned Ivy: How Egos, Ideology, and Power Politics Almost Ruined Harvard Law School. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 1994.
b. Shaker Heights, Ohio
Meckler, Laura. Dream Town: Shaker Heights and the Quest for Racial Equity. New York City: Henry Holt and Co.. 2023: Ch. 12-13, 15.
Tittle, Ch. 8-15, 17-19.
c. Other
Bawer, Bruce. The Victims’ Revolution: The Rise of Identity Studies and the Closing of the Liberal Mind. New York City: Broadside Books, 2012: Ch. 7.
Beckerman, Marty. Killennials. Los Angeles: Marty Beckerman, 2018.
Blumenfeld & A. Newman, Ch. 3, 14, 16-18, 23, 27-29.
Brennan, Jason, and Philip Magness. Cracks in the Ivory Tower: The Moral Mess of Higher Education. New York City: Oxford UP, 2019.
Gaming the Metrics: Misconduct and Manipulation in Academic Research. Ed. Mario Biagioli and Alexandra Lippman. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2020.
Golden, Daniel. The Price of Admission: How America's Ruling Class Buys Its Way Into Elite Colleges -- and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates, rev. ed. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2007.
D. Hunter, Ch. 1.
Iserbyt, Charlotte Thomson. The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America: A Chronological Paper Trail. Ravenna, Ohio: Conscience Press, 1999: Ch. 8.
Leslie, W. Bruce. Images of America: Princeton University: The First 275 Years. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2022: Ch. 10.
Lukianoff, Greg. Unlearning Liberty: Campus Censorship and the End of American Debate, rev. ed. New York City: Encounter Books, 2014.
Pappas, Theodore. Plagarism and the Culture War: The Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Other Prominent Americas, rev. ed. Tampa, Fla.: Hallberg Publishing Corp., 1998: Ch. 1.
Ridgley, Stanley K. Brutal Minds: The Dark World of Left-Wing Brainwashing in Our Universities. West Palm Beach, Fla.: Humanix Books, 2023.
Risselada, David. Without a Shot Indeed: Inducing Compliance to Tyranny Through Conditioning and Persuasion. Chicago: Total Publishing, 2021: Ch. 2-3.
Schweizer, Red-Handed, Ch. 8.
Wolters, Raymond. Race and Education, 1954-2007. Columbia, Mo.: U of Missouri P, 2008: Ch. 10.
Yates, Steven. Civil Wrongs: What Went Wrong With Affirmative Action. San Francisco: ICS Press/Institute for Contemporary Studies, 1994: Ch. 2-3.
11. The Clintons
a. Corsi
i. Partners in Crime: the Clintons' Scheme to Monetize the White House for Personal Profit. Washington, D.C.: WND Books, 2016: Ch. 1-8, 10.
ii. Killing the Deep State, Ch. 8.
a. E. Klein
i. Blood Feud, Ch. 8, 23-24, 27, 29-30, 33.
ii. Unlikeable, Ch. 1-4, 11, 13-14, 17, 19-21, 26-31.
iii. Guilty As Sin, Ch. 1-6, 13-14, 20.
iv. All Out War, Ch. 37.
b. Tyrrell
i. Boy Clinton, Ch. 1.
ii. Clinton Crack-Up, Ch. 1, 3, 6.
c. Others
J. Allen & Parnes, HRC, Ch. 20-21.
Dixon, Chuck et al. Clinton Cash: A Graphic Novel. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2016.
Felsenthal, Ch. 3-6, 8-9, 11-13.
A. Goodman & D. Halper, Ch. 12.
Henwood, Ch. 6.
Malkin, Culture of Corruption, Ch. 9.
Ostrowski, Ch. 43.
Rosen, Ch. 22.
Schweizer, Peter. Clinton Cash: The Untold Story of How and Why Foreign Governments and Businesses Helped Make Bill and Hillary Rich, rev. ed. New York City: Harper, 2016.
R.J. Stone & Morrow, Ch. 7, 24.
12. The Establishment Media
a. The New York Times
Mnookin, Seth. Hard News: Twenty-One Brutal Months at The New York Times and How They Changed the American Media, rev. ed. New York City: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2005: Pt. 2-3.
B. Smith, Ch. 26.
Tifft & A.S. Jones, Ch. 44-53.
Usher, Nikki. Making News at the New York Times. Ann Arbor, Mich.: The U of Michigan P, 2014.
M. Wolff. Autumn of the Moguls: My Misadventures With the Titans, Poseurs, and Money Guys Who Mastered and Messed Up Big Media, rev. ed. London: Harper Perennial, 2004: Pt. 2, Ch. 21.
K. Young, Ch. 18.
b. Other
Attkisson, Stonewalled, Ch. 1.
Baron, Martin. Collision of Power: Trump, Bezos, and The Washington Post. New York City: Flatiron Books, 2023.
Bernstein, Jake. The Laundromat: Inside the Panama Papers, Illicit Money Networks, and the Global Elite. New York City: Picador, 2019: Ch. 11-13, 16-17.
Brinkley, Ch. 34-35.
Bruner, Seamus. Controligarchs: Exposing the Billionaire Class, Their Secret Deals, and the Globalist Plot to Dominate Your Life. New York City: Sentinel, 2023: Ch. 8.
Corsi, Killing the Deep State, Ch. 9.
Dice, Mark [Mark Shouldice]. The Liberal Media Industrial Complex. San Diego: The Resistance Manifesto, 2019.
Gelsanliter, David. Fresh Ink: Behind the Scenes at a Major Metropolitan Newspaper. Denton, Texas: U of North Texas P, 1995.
A. Goodman & D. Halper, Ch. 15.
E. Klein, All Out War, Ch. 8.
D. Hunter, Ch. 2, 4.
Krakauer, Steve. Uncovered: How the Media Got Cozy With Power, Abandoned Its Principles, and Lost the People. New York City: Center Street, 2023: Ch. 1-4, 6-14.
Malkin, Michelle. Open Borders Inc.: Who's Funding America's Destruction? Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2019: Ch. 8.
Michaeli, Ethan. The Defender: How the Legendary Black Newspaper Changed America: From the Age of the Pullman Porters to the Age of Obama. New York City: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016: Ch. 23-24.
O'Keefe, James. American Muckraker: Rethinking Journalism for the 21st Century. New York City: Post Hill Press, 2022.
Poe, Ch. 3.
Risselada, Ch. 7.
Rosen, Ch. 15-17, 32-34.
B. Smith, Ch. 7, 11, 13.
Ungar-Sargon, Batya. Bad News: How Woke Media Is Undermining Democracy. New York City: Encounter Books, 2021: Ch. 5-11.
K. Young, Ch. 16.
13. Espionage
a. Edward Snowden
E.J. Epstein. How America Lost Its Secrets: Edward Snowden, the Man and the Theft. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2017: Ch. 1-18, 23, 27-29.
Greenwald. No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State. New York City: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2014.
Snowden, Edward. Permanent Record. New York City: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2019: Ch. 7-29.
b. Other
Diffie, Whitfield, and Susan Landau. Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption, rev. ed. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2007: Ch. 8-11.
E. Klein, All Out War, Appendix A.
Marrs, PSI Spies, Ch. 8.
Redden, Jim. Snitch Culture: How Citizens Are Turned Into the Eyes and Ears of the State, rev. ed. Venice, Calif.: Feral House, 2001: Ch. 1-4, 7, 15-17.
Rosen, Ch. 28.
Ruskin, Gary. Spooky Business: Corporate Espionage Against Nonprofit Organizations. Washington, D.C.: Essential Information, 2013.
14. The Environmentalists
Horner, Christopher C. Red Hot Lies: How Global Warming Alarmists Use Threats, Fraud, and Deception to Keep You Misinformed. Washington, D.C.: Henry Regnery Publishing, 2008.
D. Hunter, Ch. 6.
Morano, Marc. Green Fraud: Why the Green New Deal Is Worse Than You Think. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2021: Ch. 1, 3-10, 12-15.
Pendley, William. War on the West: Government Tyranny on America’s Great Frontier. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1995: Ch. 1-2, 10.
Singer, S. Fred, and Dennis T. Avery. Unstoppable Global Warming: Every 1,500 Years, rev. ed. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008: Ch. 13.
15. The Police
American Civil Liberties Union. War Comes Home: The Excessive Militarization of American Policing. New York City: American Civil Liberties Union, 2014.
Balko, Ch. 7-11.
Carpenter, Dick M. II et al. Policing for Profit: The Abuse of Civil Asset Forfeiture, rev. ed. Arlington, Va.: Institute for Justice, 2015.
Carson, Dale C., and Wes Denham. Arrest-Proof Yourself: An Ex-Cop Reveals How Easy It Is for Anyone to Get Arrested, How to Just Say No to Car Searches, How to Legally Defend Yourself With Firearms, How to Keep Lawmen Out of Your Phone and Computer, rev. ed. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2014.
16. The Lobbyists
Smith, Grant F. Big Israel: How Israel’s Lobby Moves America. Washington, D.C.: Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy, 2016: Ch. 1-3, 5, 8-9, 11.
Stone, Peter H. Casino Jack and the United States of Money: Superlobbyist Jack Abramoff and the Buying of Washington, rev. ed. New York City: Melville House, 2010.
17. The Labor Unions
M. Factor & E. Factor, Ch. 1, 3, 5-8, 10.
Fitch, Robert. Solidarity for Sale: How Corruption Destroyed the Labor Movement and Undermined America’s Promise. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2006: Ch. 8.
18. The Tame Conservatives
a. Gottfried
i. Conservatism in America, Ch. 6.
ii. Antifascism: The Course of a Crusade. Ithaca, N.Y.: Northern Illinois UP, 2021: Ch. 6.
Kelly, Julie. Disloyal Opposition: How the # NeverTrump Right Tried -- and Failed -- to Take Down the President. New York City: Encounter Books, 2020: Ch. 3-9.
The Vanishing Tradition: Perspectives on American Conservatism. Ed. Gottfried. Ithaca, N.Y.: Northern Illinois UP, 2020: Ch. 1, 4, 10.
19. The Real Opposition
a. The Drudge Report
Lysiak, Ch. 9-33.
B. Smith, Ch. 4.
b. Ron Paul
i. A Foreign Policy of Freedom: "Peace. Commerce, and Honest Friendship." Lake Jackson, Texas: Foundation for Rational Economics and Education, 2007: Ch. 8-17.
ii. End the Fed. New York City: Grand Central Publishing, 2009: Ch. 1, 6-8, 10-15.
Deist, Ch. 46.
Doherty, Ron Paul's Revolution, Ch. 5, 7-9.
Rockwell, Fascism vs. Capitalism, Ch. 1, 16, 19.
c. P.C. Roberts
i. How the Economy Was Lost: The War of the Worlds. Petrolia, Calif.: CounterPunch/AK Press, 2010.
ii. The Neoconservative Threat to World Order: America’s Perilous War for Hegemony. Atlanta: Clarity Press, 2015.
d. Murray N. Rothbard
i. The Logic of Action, Vol. II: Applications and Criticism From the Austrian School. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar, 1997: Ch. 10.
ii. The Irrepressible Rothbard: The Rothbard-Rockwell Report Essays of Murray N. Rothbard. Ed. Rockwell. Burlingame, Calif.: Center for Libertarian Studies, 2000.
e. George Hawley
i. Right-Wing Critics of American Conservatism. Lawrence, Kan.: UP of Kansas, 2016: Ch. 10.
ii. Making Sense of the Alt-Right. New York City: Columbia UP, 2017: Ch. 1-4, 6.
f. Alex Jones
Jones, Alex. The Great Reset and the War for the World. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2022.
A. Jones, and Kent Heckenlively. The Great Awakening: Defeating the Globalists and Launching the Next Great Renaissance. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2023: Ch. 1-6, 8, 11-13.
g. Toobin
i. The Nine, Ch. 8.
ii. The Oath, Ch. 18.
h. K. Preston
i. The Tyranny of the Politically Correct: Totalitarianism in the Postmodern Age. London: Black House Publishing, 2016.
ii. Attack the System: A New Anarchist Perspective for the 21st Century, rev. ed. London: Black House Publishing, 2017: Pt. 2-4.
i. Gottfried
i. The Conservative Movement, rev. ed. New York City: Twayne Publishers, 1993: Ch. 7.
ii. Encounters, Ch. 8.
iii. Revisions and Dissents: Essays. DeKalb, Ill.: NIU Press, 2017: Ch. 9.
j. Others
Anatomy of the Crash: The Financial Crisis of 2020. Ed. Tho Bishop. Auburn, Ala.: Mises Institute, 2020: Ch. 18-19.
Anton, Michael. The Stakes: America at the Point of No Return. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2020.
Bai, The Argument, Ch. 2-10, 12.
Blumenfeld & A. Newman, Ch. 31.
Caldwell, Christopher. The Age of Entitlement: America Since the Sixties. New York City:Simon & Schuster, 2020: Ch. 8.
Carlson, Tucker. Ship of Fools: How a Selfish Ruling Class Is Bringing America to the Brink of Revolution. New York City: Free Press, 2018.
T.P. Carney, Obamanomics, Ch. 8.
Chepesiuk, Hard Target, Ch. 22.
Corsi, Killing the Deep State, Ch. 11-12.
Deist, Ch. 30, 32.
Dempsey, Gary T. Old Folly in a New Disguise: Nation Building to Combat Terrorism (Policy Analysis No. 429). Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2002.
Doherty, Gun Control on Trial, Ch. 2, 5-6.
Eatwell, Roger, and Matthew Goodwin. National Populism: The Revolt Against Liberal Democracy. London: Pelican, 2018.
L. Edwards, Ch. 5-7, 9.
M. Factor & E. Factor, Ch. 9.
Fontova. Exposing the Real Che Guevara: And the Useful Idiots Who Idolize Him, rev. ed. New York City: Sentinel, 2008: Ch. 8.
Francis. Revolution from the Middle. Raleigh, N.C.: Middle American Press, 1997.
Gray, Ch. 10-11.
J. Green, Ch. 5-6.
Greenberg, Ch. 4-5.
Halbrook, Stephen P. The Right to Bear Arms: A Constitutional Right of the People or a Privilege of the Ruling Class? New York City: Bombardier Books, 2021: Ch. 10.
Hanania, Richard. The Origins of Woke: Civil Rights Law, Corporate America, and the Triumph of Identity Politics. New York City: Broadside Books, 2023: Ch. 7.
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. 1, 8-10.
Healy, Ch. 9.
Hood, John. Investor Politics: The New Force That Will Transform American Business, Government, and Politics in the Twenty-First Century. Philadelphia: Templeton Foundation Press, 2001: Ch. 9.
Huq, Aziz Z. Twelve Steps to Restore Checks and Balances. Brennan Center for Justice at New York University School of Law, 2008.
Kondracke & Barnes, Ch. 11-13.
Lachman, Gary. Dark Star Rising: Magick and Power in the Age of Trump. New York City: TarcherPerigee, 2018: Ch. 4.
Main, Carla T. Bulldozed: “Kelo,” Eminent Domain, and the American Lust for Land. New York City: Encounter Books, 2007: Ch. 8.
Marcy, Richard T. The Vanishing Tradition, Ch. 8.
W. Martin, Ch. 12-13.
O’Hagan, Andrew. The Secret Life: Three True Stories of the Digital Age. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.
Palmer, Ch. 21.
Pendley, Ch. 12.
Poe, Ch. 8, 10-12.
Popper, Nathaniel. Digital Gold: Bitcoin and the Inside Story of the Misfits and Millionaires Trying to Reinvent Money, rev. ed. New York City: Harper, 2015.
Raimondo, Justin [Dennis Raimondo]. Reclaiming the American Right: the Lost Legacy of the Conservative Movement. 1993. Rpt. Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2008: Ch. 9-10.
Rectenwald, Springtime for Snowflakes, Ch. 1-2, Appendix A-B.
Rockwell, Fascism vs. Capitalism, Ch. 1, 6.
Rosen, Ch. 30.
Rozeff, Michael S. The U.S. Constitution and Money: Corruption and Decline. East Amherst, N.Y.: Michael S. Rozeff, 2010: Ch. 13.
D. Schulman, Ch. 13-14.
Scotchie, Joseph. Revolt From the Heartland: The Struggle for an Authentic Conservatism, rev. ed. London: Taylor and Francis, 2017: Ch. 6.
B. Smith, Ch. 15, 34.
Soave, Robby. Panic Attack: Young Radicals in the Age of Trump. New York City: All Points Books, 2019: Ch. 8.
Soukup, Stephen R. Dictatorship of Woke Capital: How Political Correctness Captured Big Business, rev. ed. New York City: Encounter Books, 2023: Ch. 9.
B. Sterling, Hacker Crackdown, Pt. 4.
Stockman, Trumped!, Ch. 15.
J.W. Whitehead, Ch. 32-34.
Wilson, Cody. Come and Take It: The Gun Printer’s Guide to Thinking Free. New York City: Gallery Books, 2016.
Wood, Ch. 11.
Woods, Thomas E. Jr. Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2010: Ch. 1, 5.
20. The 2016 Election
a. Corsi
i. Partners in Crime, Ch. 9.
ii. Killing the Deep State, Ch. 1-4.
iii. Silent No More: How I Became a Political Prisoner of Mueller's "Witch Hunt." New York City: Post Hill Press, 2019.
iv. Coup d'État: Exposing Deep State Treason and the Plan to Re-Elect President Trump. New York City: Post Hill Press, 2020.
b. E. Klein
i. Guilty As Sin, Ch. 7, 21-27, 29-31.
ii. All Out War, Ch. 1, 3-5, 7, 9,-14, 19, 29.
c. Leamer
i. The President's Butler, Ch. 1, 41-66.
ii. Mar-a-Lago, Ch. 13.
d. Roger J. Stone
R.J. Stone. The Making of the President 2016: How Donald Trump Orchestrated a Revolution. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2017.
R.J. Stone & St. J. Hunt, Ch. 1.
e. Others
Alexander, Dan. White House, Inc.: How Donald Trump Turned the Presidency Into a Business. New York City: Portfolio/Penguin, 2020: Ch. 2.
J. Allen & Parnes. Shattered: Inside Hillary Clinton’s Doomed Campaign. New York City: Crown, 2017.
Attkisson. The Smear: How Shady Political Operatives and Fake News Control What You See, What You Think, and How You Vote. New York City: Harper, 2018: Ch. 7-10.
Bacevich, Twilight of the American Century, Ch. 43.
Bongino, Dan, D.C. McAllister, and Matt Palumbo. Spygate: The Attempted Sabotage of Donald J. Trump. New York City: Post Hill Press, 2018.
Debenedetti, Ch. 15-16.
Deist, Ch. 9.
Drummond, Nicholas. The Vanishing Tradition, Ch. 7.
Enrich, Ch. 34.
Gottfried, Revisions and Dissents, Ch. 14.
J. Green, Ch. 1, 7-11.
Hawley, Making Sense of the Alt-Right, Ch. 5.
Henwood, Ch. 7.
Hirsch, Alan. A Short History of Presidential Election Crises (and How to Prevent the Next One). San Francisco: City Lights Books, 2020: Ch. 5.
Jordan, Mary. The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2020: Ch. 10.
Karl, Front Row at the Trump Show, Ch. 2-7.
J. Kelly, Disloyal Oppposition, Ch. 1-2.
Krakauer, Ch. 5.
Leibovich, Mark. Thank You for Your Servitude: Donald Trump's Washington and the Price of Submission. New York City: Penguin Press, 2022: Ch. 1-5.
O’Rourke, P.J. How the Hell Did This Happen?: The U.S. Election of 2016. New York City: Grove Press, 2017.
Pollak, Joel B., and Larry Schweikart. How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2017.
Reynolds, Jeff. Behind the Curtain: Inside the Network of Progressive Billionaires and Their Campaign to Undermine Democracy. New York City: Bombardier Books, 2019: Ch. 1.
Rosen, Ch. 23.
Sims, Cliff. Team of Vipers: My 500 Extraordinary Days in the Trump White House. New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2019: Ch. 1-3.
B. Smith, Ch. 28-29.
Stockman, Trumped!, Ch. 1.
Taibbi. Insane Clown President: Dispatches From the 2016 Circus. New York City: Spiegel & Grau, 2017.
C. Unger, House of Trump, House of Putin, Ch. 19-20.
Ward, Vicky. Kushner, Inc.: Greed. Ambition. Corruption: The Extraordinary Story of Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2019: Ch. 8-10.
Zaitchik, Alexander. The Gilded Rage: A Wild Ride Through Donald Trump's America. New York City: Hot Books, 2016.
21. The Coronavirus Pandemic
a. R.F. Kennedy Jr.
i. The Real Anthony Fauci, Ch. 1.
ii. A Letter to Liberals: Censorship and COVID: An Attack on Science and American Ideals. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2022.
iii. Vax-Unvaxx: Let the Science Speak. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing/Children's Health Defense, 2023: Ch. 10.
iv. The Wuhan Cover-Up, Ch. 37-38, 42-63.
b. Marc Morano
i. Green Fraud, Ch. 11.
ii. The Great Reset: Global Elites and the Permanent Lockdown. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2022.
c. Naomi Wolf
i. The Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, Covid-19 and the War Against the Human. Fort Lauderdale, Fla.: All Seasons Press, 2022.
ii. Facing the Beast: Courage, Faith, and Resistance in a New Dark Age. White River Junction, Vt.: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2023.
d. Others
Atlas, Dr. Scott W. A Plague Upon Our House: My Fight at the Trump White House to Stop COVID From Destroying America. New York City: Liberatio Protocol, 2021.
Axe, Douglas, William M. Briggs, and Jay W. Richards. The Price of Panic: How the Tyranny of Experts Turned a Pandemic Into a Catastrophe. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2020.
Berenson, Alex. Pandemia: How Coronavirus Hysteria Took Over Our Government, Rights, and Lives. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2021.
Bhattacharya, Dr. Jay et al. Questions for a COVID-19 Commission. Chicago: Norfolk Group, 2023.
Blaylock, Russell L. "COVID Update: What Is the Truth?" Surgical Neurology International 22 Apr. 2022: 167.
Chumley, Cheryl K. Socialists Don't Sleep: Christians Must Rise or America Will Fall. West Palm Beach, Fla.: Humanix Books, 2021: Ch. 12.
Deace, Steve, and Daniel Horowitz. Rise of the Fourth Reich: Confronting COVID Fascism With a New Nuremberg Trial, So This Never Happens Again. New York City: Post Hill Press, 2023.
Defending Liberty: Essays in Honor of David Gordon. Ed. Douglas B. Rasmussen and Jakub Bożydar Wiśniewski. Auburn, Ala.: Mises Institute, 2022: Ch. 1, 5.
Deist, Ch. 16-17, 24, 27.
Dowd, Ed. "Cause Unknown"": The Epidemic of Sudden Deaths in 2021 and 2022. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2022.
Desmet, Matthias. The Psychology of Totalitarianism. Trans. Els Vanbrabant. White River Junction, Vt.: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2022.
Gertz. How China's Communist Party Made the World Sick. New York City: Encounter Books, 2020.
Hemingway, Mollie. Rigged: How the Media, Big Tech, and the Democrats Seized Our Elections. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2021: Ch. 3.
Huff, Ch. 1, 17-22.
A. Jones & Heckenlively, Ch. 10.
Kheriaty, Dr. Aaron. The New Abnormal: The Rise of the Biomedical Security State. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2022.
Kory, Dr. Pierre, and Jenna McCarthy. The War on Ivermectin: The Medicine That Saved Millions and Could Have Ended the COVID Pandemic. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing/Ican Press, 2023.
C. Leonard, Ch. 14.
Malone, Dr. Robert W. et al. Lies My Gov't Told Me: And the Better Future Coming. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2022.
M. Margolis. Airborne: How Liberal Media Weaponized the Coronavirus Against Donald Trump. New York City: Bombardier Books, 2020.
Markson, Sharri. What Really Happened in Wuhan: The Cover-Ups, the Conspiracies, and the Classified Research. Sydney: HarperCollins Publishers, 2021.
McDonald, Dr. Mark. United States of Fear: How America Fell Victim to a Mass Delusion Psychosis. New York City: Bombardier Books, 2021.
Meckler, Ch. 14.
Mercola, Dr. Joseph, and Ronnie Cummins. The Truth About COVID-19: Exposing the Great Reset, Lockdowns, Vaccine Passports, and the New Normal. White River Junction, Vt.: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2021.
Miller, Ian. Unmasked: The Global Failure of Covid Mask Mandates. New Tork City: Post Hill Press, 2022.
Murphy, Robert P. Understanding Money Mechanics. Auburn, Ala.: Mises Institute, 2021: Ch. 7.
Navarro, Peter. In Trump Time: A Journal of America's Plague Year. St. Petersburg, Fla.: All Seasons Press, 2021: Ch. 2-16.
Paul, Rand, U.S. Sen. R-Ky., and Kelley Ashby Paul. Deception: The Great COVID Cover-Up. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2023.
Pollock, Alex J., and Howard B. Adler. Surprised Again!: The COVID Crisis and the New Market Bubble. Philadelphia: Paul Dry Books, 2022.
Risselada, Ch. 8-9.
Senger, Michael P. Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World. San Francisco: Michael P. Senger, 2021: Ch. 4-9.
Tamny, John. When Politicians Panicked: The New Coronavirus, Expert Opinion, and a Tragic Lapse of Reason. New York City: Post Hill Press, 2021.
United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of Inspector General. The National Institutes of Health and EcoHealth Alliance Did Not Effectively Monitor Awards and Subawards, Resulting in Missed Opportunities to Oversee Research and Other Deficiencies. Washington, D.C.: United States. Department of Health and Human Services. Office of Inspector General, 2023.
Vladeck, Stephen L. The Shadow Docket: How the Supreme Court Uses Stealth Rulings to Amass Power and Undermine the Republic. New York City: Basic Books, 2023: Ch. 5.
22. Big Pharma
a. R.F. Kennedy Jr.
i. The Real Anthony Fauci, Ch. 7-10.
ii. The Wuhan Cover-Up, Ch. 1, 17-26, 28-29, 31, 33-35, 39, 41.
b. Others
Critser, Greg. Generation Rx: How Prescription Drugs Are Altering American Lives, Minds, and Bodies. 2005. Rpt. Boston: Mariner Books, 2006: Ch. 2-5.
Gøtzsche, Peter C. Deadly Medicines and Organised Crime: How Big Pharma Has Corrupted Healthcare. 2013. Rpt. London: CRC Press, 2015.
Grundvig, James Ottar. Master Manipulator: The Explosive True Story of Fraud, Embezzlement, and Government Betrayal at the CDC. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2016.
G.L. Posner, Pharma, Ch. 1, 42-52.
Rosen, Ch. 31.
Watters, Ethan. Crazy Like Us: The Globalization of the American Psyche. New York City: Free Press, 2010.
23. Technology
Angwin, Julia. Dragnet Nation: A Quest for Privacy, Security, and Freedom in a World of Relentless Surveillance, rev. ed. New York City: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2015.
Goldsmith, Jack, and Tim Wu. Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World, rev. ed. Oxford, U.K.: Oxford UP, 2008.
Morozov, Evgeny. The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of Internet Freedom. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2011.
Schweizer, Red-Handed, Ch. 4.
Stockman, Trumped!, Ch. 19.
Soukup, Ch. 10.
W. Webb, Vol. II, Ch. 20-21.
24. Antifa
Gottfried, Antifascism, Ch. 1.
Ngo, Andy. Unmasked: Inside Antifa's Radical Plan to Destroy Democracy. New York City: Center Street, 2021: Ch. 1-4, 7-12.
Posobiec, Jack. The Antifa: Stories From Inside the Black Bloc. Washington, D.C.: The Calamo Press, 2021: Ch. 1-6, 14-20.
25. The U.S. Supreme Court
Biskupic, Ch. 9-16.
Brock, David. The Real Anita Hill: The Untold Story, rev. ed. New York City: The Free Press, 1994.
Hemingway. Justice on Trial: The Kavanaugh Trial and the Future of the Supreme Court. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2019.
Toobin, The Nine, Ch. 4-6, 9-13, 15-17, 19-25.
Tushnet, Mark. A Court Divided: The Rehnquist Court and the Future of Constitutional Law, rev. ed. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2006.
Vladeck, Ch. 2, 7.
26. BCCI
J.R. Adams & Frantz, Ch. 1.
Beaty & Gwynne, Ch. 1-6, 10-11.
27. The Environmentalists
Darwall, Rupert. The Folly of Climate Leadership: Net Zero and Britain's Disasterous Energy Policies. Northbrook, Ill.: RealClear Foundation, 2023.
Delingpole, James. Watermelons: How Environmentalists Are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Children’s Future, rev. ed. London: Biteback Publishing, 2012.
J. Reynolds, Ch. 3.
28. Jeffrey Epstein
Howard, Ch. 1, 4-16.
W. Webb, Vol. II, Ch. 19.
29. Bacevich
a. American Empire, Ch. 4.
b. The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War, rev. ed. New York City: Oxford UP, 2013: Ch. 8.
30. T.P. Carney
a. Carney, Timothy P. The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2006: Ch. 1-2, 6, 8-10.
b. Obamanomics, Ch. 10.
31. E.J. Epstein
a. Annals of Unsolved Crime, Ch. 32.
b. Assume Nothing, Ch. 24, 30.
32. Pepe Escobar
a. Obama Does Globalistan. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Nimble Books, 2009.
b. Empire of Chaos: The Roving Eye Collection, Vol. I. Ann Arbor, Mich.: Nimble Books, 2014.
33. Chalmers Johnson
a. The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of Empire. 2004. Rpt. London: Verso, 2006: Ch. 3-6, 9-10.
b. Dismantling the Empire, Ch. 2, 8-11, 13-15.
34. E. Klein
a. Amateur, Ch. 2-3, 18.
b.All Out War, Ch. 6, 15-17, 20-26, 28, 30, 33-34, 38-39.
35. Mark Leibovich
a. This Town: Two Parties and a Funeral — Plus Plenty of Valet Parking! — in America's Gilded Capital, rev. ed. New York City: Blue Rider Press, 2014.
b. Thank You for Your Servitude, Ch. 22-23.
36. Kevin B. MacDonald
a. Separation and Its Discontents: Toward an Evolutionary Theory of Anti-Semitism, rev. ed. Bloomington, Ind.: 1st Books, 2004: Ch. 9.
b. The Culture of Critique: An Evolutionary Analysis of Jewish Involvement in Twentieth-Century Century Intellectual and Political Movements, rev. ed. Bloomington, Ind.: 1st Books Library, 2002: Ch. 8.
37. Sean McFate
a. The Modern Mercenary: Private Armies and What They Mean for World Order. New York City: Oxford UP, 2014: Ch. 1-3, 5, 10, 12.
b. The New Rules of War: Victory in the Age of Durable Disorder. New York City: William Morrow, 2019.
38. Douglas Murray
a. The Strange Death of Europe: Immigration, Identity, Islam, rev. ed. London: Bloomsbury Continuum, 2018: Ch. 3-19.
b. The War on the West. New York City: Broadside Books, 2022.
39. Rectenwald
a. Springtime for Snowflakes, Ch. 5-12.
b. The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty: Unraveling the Global Agenda. Nashville, Tenn.: New English Review Press, 2023: Ch. 1-7, 11-12, 14-17.
40. Scahill
a. Blackwater, Ch. 2, 15, 18-19.
b. Dirty Wars, Ch. 24.
41. Bruce Schneier
a. Schneier on Security. Indianapolis: Wiley Publishing, 2008.
b. Carry On: Sound Advice From Schneier on Security. Indianapolis: Wiley, 2014: Ch. 1-2, 4-8.
c. Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2015.
d. We Have Root: Even More Advice From Schneier on Security. Indianapolis: Wiley, 2019.
42. Schweizer
i. Throw Them All Out: How Politicians and Theirs Friends Get Rich off Insider Stock Tips, Land Deals, and Cronyism That Would Send the Rest of Us to Prison. 2011. Rpt. New York City: Mariner Books, 2012: Pt. 2-3.
ii. Secret Empires, Ch. 1-8, 11-12.
iii. Profiles in Corruption: Abuse of Power by America's Progressive Elite. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2020: Ch. 1, 4, 9.
iv. Red-Handed, Ch. 1-2, 5-7, 9.
43. Siegel
a. The Prince of the City, Ch. 3-22, 25.
b. 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. 8, 12-13, 17-19.
c. The Revolt Against the Masses, Ch. 17.
44. Other Components of the Imperium
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Anatomy of the Crash, Ch. 1-6, 8-17.
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Andrews, Ch. 8.
Antle, Ch. 1-6, 9-10.
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Attarian, John. Social Security: False Consciousness and Crisis. New Brunswick, N.J.: Transaction Publishers, 2002: Ch. 11.
Attkisson, The Smear, Ch. 2-6.
Baer, Sleeping With the Devil, Ch. 1-3, 10, 12.
Baldwin, Peter. The Copyright Wars: Three Centuries of Trans-Atlantic Battle. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2014: Ch. 7-8.
Bamford, A Pretext for War, Ch. 7-8.
W. Barrett & Fifield, Ch. 1, 10-21.
Beinart, Ch. 2-3, 9.
Belien, Paul. A Throne in Brussels: Britain, the Saxe-Coburgs and the Belgianisation of Europe. Exeter, U.K.: Imprint Academic, 2005: Ch. 7.
J. Bernstein, Ch. 10, 15.
Bilderberg Diary, Ch. 8-24.
E. Black. War Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to Create a Master Race, rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: Dialog Press, 2012: Ch. 21.
Bogdanich, Walt, and Michael Forsythe. When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm. New York City: Doubleday, 2022: Ch. 1, 3-8, 10-14.
Borelli, Ch. 1, 5, 7.
Bowart, Ch. 34, 39-40.
Brewton, Ch. 22-23.
Brown, Brendan. Euro Crash: How Asset Price Inflation Destroys the Wealth of Nations, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
F. Brown & Troxler, Ch. 4-6.
Bruner, Ch. 7, 9.
Bryce, Gusher of Lies, Ch. 2-3.
Buckley, F.H. American Secession: The Looming Threat of a National Breakup. New York City: Encounter Books, 2020.
Callahan, David. Fortunes of Change: The Rise of the Liberal Rich and the Remaking of America. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
H. Carr, Ch. 19.
M.C. Carroll, Ch. 2, 11-15.
Cashill. What’s the Matter With California?, Ch. 21-23, 26, 28.
Chaffetz, Jason. The Puppeteers: The People Who Control the People Who Control America. New York City: Broadside Books, 2023.
Chambers, Ch. 7.
D. Cheney & L. Cheney, Ch. 8.
Codevilla, Angelo M. Between the Alps and a Hard Place: Switzerland in World War II and Moral Blackmail Today. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2000: Ch. 1, 5-6.
Cohan, Money and Power, Ch. 14-21, 23-24.
Colodny & Shachtman, Ch. 25.
Connaughton, Ch. 8, 10.
Corsi, Killing the Deep State, Ch. 5-6, 10.
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Debenedetti, Ch. 17-20.
Deist, Ch. 1, 3-7, 13-15, 19, 23, 25-26, 28-29, 31, 34-35, 37, 40, 42.
DeLillo. Point Omega. New York City: Scribner, 2010.
Deliso, Ch. 7.
M. Devine, Ch. 1-5, 8, 15-21.
DeYoung, Ch. 1, 12-14.
DiLorenzo, Ch. 41.
Dinh, Linh. Postcards From the End of America. New York City: Seven Stories Press, 2017.
Douthat, Privilege, Ch. 1-8.
Dutton, Edward. Spiteful Mutants: Evolution, Sexuality, Religion, and Politics in the 21st Century Whitefish, Mont.: Radix, 2022.
T.B. Edsall & M.D. Edsall, Ch. 12.
Edwards, Bradley J., and Brittany Henderson. Relentless Pursuit: My Fight for the Victims of Jeffrey Epstein. New York City: Gallery Books, 2020.
Ehrenfeld, Ch. 1, 6.
Eisler, Masters of the Game, Ch. 23, 25, 29-31, 34.
ElBaradi, Ch. 8, 10.
Ferguson, Ch. 6-7.
Fitton, Ch. 1, 4-5.
Francis, Samuel T. America Extinguished: Mass Immigration and the Disintegration of American Culture. Monterey, Va.: Americans for Immigration Control, 2002.
G. Friedman, Ch. 3, 5.
Fumento, Ch. 24, Appendix A-B.
Fund & Von Spakovsky, Ch. 8, 10-11.
Furchtgott-Roth, Diana, and Jared Meyer. Disinherited: How Washington Is Betraying America's Young. New York City: Encounter Books, 2015.
Ganser, Daniele. NATO’s Secret Armies: Operation Gladio and Terrorism in Western Europe. London: Frank Cass, 2004: Ch. 2-3.
Gelernter, David. America-Lite: How Imperial Academia Dismantled Our Culture (and Ushered in the Obamacrats). New York City: Encounter Books, 2012: Ch. 7-9.
Gibson, William. Spook Country. New York City: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2007.
A. Goodman & D. Halper, Ch. 1-5, 7-11, 13-14, 16.
Gottfried, Antifascism, Ch. 5.
Graham, Paul C. Confederaphobia: An American Epidemic. Columbia, S.C.: Shotwell Publishing, 2017.
J. Green, Ch. 2.
Gress, David. From Plato to NATO: The Idea of the West and Its Opponents. New York City: The Free Press, 1998: Ch. 11-12.
Gurri, Martin. The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium, rev. ed. San Francisco: Stripe Press, 2018.
Hager, Appendix B.
Halberstam, Ch. 21, 39.
Halperin & Heilemann. Double Down, Ch. 5-13.
Hammarstrom, Ch. 12-13.
Harmon, Ch. 1, 28, 35-36, 38, 39.
S. Harris, Ch. 5-8.
Harsanyi, David. Eurotrash: Why America Must Reject the Failed Ideas of a Dying Continent. New York City: Broadside Books, 2021.
Hazlett, Ch. 12, 16.
Heaney, Steve, and Damien Lewis. Operation Mayhem. London: Orion Books, 2014.
Hemingway, Rigged, Ch. 4, 8.
Hirsch, Ch. 5.
Huff, Ch. 6-16.
D. Hunter, Ch. 5, 7-10, 12.
Ingle, Bob, and Sandy McClure. The Soprano State: New Jersey’s Culture of Corruption, rev. ed. New York City: St. Martin’s, 2009: Ch. 1-7, 10.
James, Letitia. Report of Investigation Into Allegations of Sexual Harassment by Governor Andrew M. Cuomo. Albany, N.Y.: State of New York. Office of the Attorney General, 2021.
Jasper, William F. Global Tyranny … Step by Step: The United Nations and the Emerging New World Order. Appleton, Wis.: Western Islands, 1992: Ch. 8.
Jeffries, Ch. 15.
Johnson, Nicholas. Big Dead Place: Inside the Strange and Menacing World of Antarctica. Los Angeles: Feral House, 2005.
Katusa, Marin. The Colder War: How the Global Energy Trade Slipped From America’s Grasp. Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley/Casey Research, 2014: Ch. 12.
Kaufmann, Eric. "Liberal Fundamentalism: A Sociology of Wokeness." American Affairs Winter 2020: 188-208.
J. Kelly. January 6: How Democrats Used the Capitol Protest to Launch a War on Terror Against the Political Right. New York City: Bombardier Books, 2022.
M. Kelly. Things Worth Fighting For: Collected Writings. New York City: The Penguin Press, 2004: Pt. IV.
S.P. King & R. Roth, Ch. 7-21.
A. Klein & Elliott, Ch. 6, 13.
Knoedelseder, Stiffed, Ch. 54.
Kranish & Helman, Ch. 9-10, 12.
Kuvvet, Emre. "Political Affiliations of Federal Reserve Economists." The Independent Review Fall 2022: 165-179.
Labévière, Ch. 8, 10.
Lance, Deal With the Devil, Ch. 38-40.
Larabee, Ann. The Wrong Hands: Popular Weapons Manuals and Their Historic Challenges to a Democratic Society. New York City: Oxford UP, 2015: Ch. 7.
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. 6-7.
Laughland, John. A History of Political Trials: From Charles I to Saddam Hussein. Oxford, U.K.: Peter Lang, 2008: Ch. 17.
Leamer. The Price of Justice: A True Story of Greed and Corruption. New York City: Times Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2013.
Ledeen, Ch. 4-6.
Lee, Edward. The Fight for the Future: How People Defeated Hollywood and Saved the Internet — for Now. Chicago: The Fight for the Future, 2013.
M.A. Lee, Ch. 7-8.
C. Leonard, Ch. 1, 4-7, 9, 11-13, 15-16.
Levant, Ezra. Shakedown: How Our Government Is Undermining Democracy in the Name of Human Rights, rev. ed. Toronto/McClelland & Stewart, 2009.
H. Lewis, Ch. 1-3, 7-12, 14-16, 18-30.
Litman, Jessica. Digital Copyright, 2nd rev. ed. Ann Arbor, Mich.: U of Michigan P, 2017: Ch. 6-13.
Mac Donald, Heather. The Diversity Delusion: How Race and Gender Pandering Corrupt the University and Undermine Our Culture. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 2018.
MacKenzie, Ch. 6.
Malkin, Open Borders Inc., Ch. 1-7, Appendix A-H, J.
Mamdani, Pt. 1.
Manso, Ch. 1, 3, 10, 22, 24, 27, 29.
Maren, Ch. 15-16.
E.S. Margolis, American Raj, Ch. 6.
Mazarr, Michael J. "The Risks of Ignoring Strategic Insolvency." The Washington Quarterly Fall 2012: 7-22.
McCoy. In the Shadows of the American Century: The Rise and Decline of US Global Power. Chicago: Dispatch Books/Haymarket Books, 2017: Ch. 7-8.
McEwan, Ian. Solar. London: Jonathan Cape, 2010.
Mears, Ch. 9, 11.
Mearsheimer & Walt, Ch. 1-6.
Meckler, Ch. 16-18.
Meier, Barry. Spooked: The Trump Dossier, Black Cube, and the Rise of Private Spies. London: Sceptre, 2021.
Meredith, Robyn. The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of Us, rev. ed. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2008: Ch. 4, 9.
C. Meyer, Ch. 2-11, 13-16, 21, 23-24.
Nathan & Snedeker, Ch. 12.
Novak, Ch. 37.
O'Neil, Tyler. Making Hate Pay: The Corruption of the Southern Poverty Law Center. New York City: Bombadier Books, 2020: Ch. 1, 4-9.
Ofshe, Richard, and Ethan Watters. Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria. Berkeley, Calif.: U of California P, 1994.
J. Oppenheimer, Crazy Rich, Ch. 3-4, 20-21.
Pacepa & Rychlak, Ch. 40.
Perkins, Ch. 34-38, 46.
Pomerantz, Mark. People vs. Donald Trump: An Inside Account. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2023.
G.L. Posner, Citizen Perot, Ch. 16-21.
Potter, Andrew. The Authenticity Hoax: How We Get Lost Finding Ourselves. Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2010: Ch. 6, 8.
Perret, Ch. 24.
Piereson, James. Shattered Consensus: The Rise and Decline of America's Postwar Political Order. New York City: Encounter Books, 2015: Ch. 4-5.
Powers, Kirsten. The Silencing: How the Left Is Killing Free Speech. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2015.
Price, Lance. The Spin Doctor’s Diary: Inside Number 10 With New Labour. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2005.
Rankin, Aidan. The Politics of the Forked Tongue: Authoritarian Liberalism. London: New European Publications, 2002: Ch. 1-2, 4, 6, 8.
J. Reid, Let the People In, Ch. 17, 20-28.
Reilly, Wilfred. Hate Crime Hoax: How The Left Is Selling a Fake Race War. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2019.
J. Reynolds, Ch. 2, 4-6.
Rickards. Currency Wars: The Making of the Next Global Crisis, rev. ed. New York City: Portfolio/Penguin, 2012: Ch. 6-8.
Report on the Investigation Into Unauthorized Removal, Retention, and Disclosure of Classified Documents Discovered at Locations Including the Penn Eiden Center and the Delaware Private Residence of President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Washington, D.C.: United States. Department of Justice. Special Counsel's Office, 2024.
Rieff. Los Angeles: Capital of the Third World. 1991. Rpt. London: Phoenix, 1993.
Risselada, Ch. 1, 4-6, 10.
Roberts, Paul Craig, and Lawrence M. Stratton. The New Color Line: How Quotas and Privilege Destroy Democracy. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1995: Ch. 10-12.
Rothkopf, David J. Superclass: The Global Power Elite and the World They Are Making, rev. ed. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009.
Ronson, The Men Who Stare at Goats, Ch. 6.
Rufo, Ch. 4, 8-9, 13, 16-17.
Ruppert, Ch. 1-2, 5, 31-32.
Russia in the Arctic. Ed. Stephen J. Blank. Carlisle, Pa.: Strategic Studies Institute, 2011: Ch. 1.
Sammon, Evangelical President, Ch. 8-9, 11-13.
Seabrook, Nick. One Person, One Vote: A Surprising History of Gerrymandering in America. New York City: Pantheon Books, 2022: Ch. 8.
J. Scott, Ch. 10-11.
Sharkey, Ch. 2-3, 9, 13, 15, 17.
Sheehan, Ch. 23, 27-29.
Shorrock, Ch. 1, 5, 7-8, 10.
Shipler, Ch. 4.
Snyder, Ch. 15-17.
Soave, Ch. 1-7.
Sonenshein, Raphael J. Politics in Black and White: Race and Power in Los Angeles. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 1993: Ch. 13, 15.
Soukup, Ch. 8, 11-12.
Stent, Ch. 11.
Stockman, Trumped!, Ch. 2-9, 11-14, 16-17.
Sutton. Trilaterals Over America, rev. ed. San Pedro, Calif.: GSG & Associates Publishers, 1995: Appendix B.
Taibbi. Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches From a Rotting Empire. New York City: Black Cat, 2007.
Tate, Kristin B. The Liberal Invasion of Red State America. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2020.
Taylor, Jeff. Where Did the Party Go?: William Jennings Bryan, Hubert Humphrey, and the Jeffersonian Legacy. Columbia, Mo.: U of Missouri P, 2006: Ch. 12.
K. Thomas & Keith, Ch. 1, 7, 10, 12, 16-18.
Toobin, The Oath, Ch. Ch. 2-17, 19-23.
T. Troy, Ch. 10.
United States. House of Representatives. The Censorship Industrial Complex: U.S. Government Support for Domestic Censorship and Disinformation Campaigns, 2016-2022: Testimony by Michael Shellenberger to the House Select Committee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 2023.
United States. House of Representatives. Committee on the Judiciary and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. Financial Surveillance in the United States: How Federal Law Enforcement Commandeered Financial Institutions to Spy on Americans. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 2024.
United States. House of Representatives. Committee on the Judiary and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government. The Weaponization of "Disinformation" Pseudo-Experts and Bureacrats: How the Federal Government Partnered With Universities to Censor Americans' Political Speech. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 2023.
Van Creveld, Martin. Men, Women and War. London: Cassell & Co., 2001: Ch. 22.
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Vidal, Point to Point Navigation, Ch. 3.
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Walt. The Hell of Good Intentions: America’s Foreign Policy Elite and the Decline of U.S. Primacy. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2018: Ch. 1-5, 7.
G. Webb, Ch. 22-23.
Weinberg, Steven. Lake Views: This World and the Universe. The Belknap Press of Harvard UP. Cambridge, Mass., 2009: Ch. 14, 23.
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Wessell, David. Red Ink: Inside the High-Stakes Politics of the Federal Budget. New York City: Crown Business, 2012: Ch. 1, 3, 5.
Westin, Ch. 4.
J.W. Whitehead, Ch. 1-27, 29-31.
Wilcox, Crying Wolf, Ch. 2, 4, 7, 9.
M. Wolff. The Fall: The End of Fox News and the Murdoch Dynasty. New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 2023.
Wood, Ch. 3, 5-10.
World According to TomDispatch, Ch. 4, 21, 30-31.
Yates, Ch. 1, 4-6.
K. Young, Ch. 14.
Ziegler, Mary. Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present, rev. ed. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2023: Ch. 4-7.
45. The Trump Administration
a. Karl
i. Front Row at the Trump Show, Ch. 8-24.
ii. Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show. New York City: Dutton, 2021.
b. Others
Alexander, Ch. 3-4, 6-11.
Bacevich, Twilight of the American Empire, Ch. 42.
Enrich, Ch. 35.
Fitton, Ch. 2.
Hemingway, Rigged, Ch. 1-2, 5-7, 9-10.
Jordan, Ch. 1-2, 11-12.
Kessler. The Trump White House: Changing the Rules of the Game. New York City: Crown Forum, 2018.
E. Klein, All Out War, Ch. 27, 31-32.
Leamer, Mar-a-Lago, Ch. 1, 14-16.
Leibovich, Thank You for Your Servitude, Ch. 6-21.
Lozada, Carlos. What Were We Thinking: A Brief Intellectual History of the Trump Era. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2020.
C.C. Miller & Royer, Ch. 8-10.
P. Navarro, Ch. 1, 17-21.
Rosen, Ch. 29.
Sims, Ch. 4-15.
Walt, Ch. 6.
Ward, Ch. 11-22, 24-25.
M. Wolff. Landslide: The Final Days of the Trump Presidency. New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 2021.
Woodward. Rage. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2020.
46. The '90s Boom
a. Enron
Bartlett, Impostor, Ch. 6.
T.P. Carney, The Big Ripoff, Ch. 11.
Cruver, Brian. Anatomy of Greed: The Unshredded Truth From an Enron Insider. New York City: Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2002.
Bryce, Pipe Dreams, Ch. 1, 9-11, 13, 15-51.
McLean & Elkind, Ch. 5-22.
Swartz, Mimi, and Sherron Watkins. Power Failure: The Inside Story of the Collapse of Enron, rev. ed. New York City: Currency Doubleday, 2004: Ch. 1, Ch. 3-20, Appendix A-E.
b. The Business Press
i. Wired
Turner, Ch. 7.
Wolf, Gary. Wired: A Romance. New York City: Random House, 2003: Ch. 2-14.
ii. Other
Bloomberg and Winkler, Ch. 5.
Ledbetter, James. Starving to Death on $200 Million: The Short, Absurd Life of "The Industry Standard". New York City: Public Affairs, 2003.
Pinkerton, Ch. 8-9, 21-24, 29-35.
c. Long Term Capital Management
Authers, Ch. 12.
Cohan, House of Cards, Ch. 21.
N. Dunbar, Ch. 6-8.
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. 2-10.
Sheehan, Ch. 15.
Stockman, Great Deformation, Ch. 1.
d. Google
Battelle, Ch. 4, 6.
Levy, Steven. In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2011.
e. Greenspan
Sheehan, Ch. 12-14, 16-21.
Tuccille, Alan Shrugged, Ch. 28-34.
f. Belfort
i. The Wolf of Wall Street. 2007. Rpt. New York City: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2013.
ii. Catching the Wolf of Wall Street, Ch. 1-5, 9-10, 13, 15-24, 26-29.
g. Martha Stewart
Byron, Martha Inc., Ch. 12-22.
M. Wolff, Autumn of the Moguls, Pt. 2, Ch. 18.
h. Po Bronson
i. The First $20 Million is Always the Hardest: A Silicon Valley Novel. New York City: Random House, 1997.
ii. The Nudist on the Late Shift. New York City: Random House, 1999.
i. M. Wolff
(1) Burn Rate: How I Survived the Gold Rush Years on the Internet. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
(2) Autumn of the Moguls, Pt 1; Pt. 2, Ch. 1-17, 19-20, 22-24.
j. Other
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. 1, 3-8, 10.
Amelio, Gil, and William L. Simon. On the Firing Line: My 500 Days at Apple. 1998. Rpt. New York City: HarperPerennial, 1999.
Au-Yeung & Jeans, Ch. 4.
Authers, Ch. 9-11, 13-14.
Battelle, Ch. 3.
J. Bloom, Ch. 1, 3, 5-14.
Byron, Testosterone Inc., Ch. 17, 19, 21-22.
Caldwell, The Age of Entitlement, Ch. 7.
Calverley, John P. When Bubbles Burst: Surviving the Financial Fallout, rev. ed. London: Nicholas Brealey Publishing, 2009: Ch. 4.
W.J. Campbell, Ch. 1.
Cassidy, John. Dot.con: How America Lost Its Mind and Money in the Internet Era, rev. ed. New York City: Harper Perennial, 2003.
Ceruzzi, Ch. 9.
Cohan, House of Cards, Ch. 22.
B.M. Cole, Ch. 1, 3-4, 6.
Coll, Ghost Wars, Ch. 17.
J. Cramer, Ch. 4-23.
Cudahy, Ch. 7.
Denby, Ch. 1-24, 26-28.
Deutschman, Ch. 4-6.
Duncan, Ch. 9.
English-Lueck, J.A. Cultures@Silicon Valley, rev. ed. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford UP, 2017.
Enrich, Ch. 3-5, 7-8.
Ferris. Then We Came to the End, rev. ed. New York City: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Co., 2014.
Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, Ch. 4, 6.
Forden, Ch. 1, 11-19.
Gasparino, Charles. Blood on the Street: The Sensational Inside Story of How Wall Street Analysts Duped a Generation of Investors. New York City: The Free Press, 2005.
Gersemann, Olaf. Cowboy Capitalism: European Myths, American Reality, rev. ed. Washington, D.C.: Cato Institute, 2004: Ch. 5.
Gleick, James. What Just Happened: A Chronicle From the Information Frontier. New York City: Pantheon Books, 2002.
Gottlieb, Lori, and Jesse Jacobs, Inside the Cult of Kibu and Other Tales of the Millennial Gold Rush. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Publishing, 2002.
Hamid, Ch. 1-5.
Isaacson, Ch. 23-30, 34.
Knee, Ch. 2-3, 5-6, 9, 11-14.
LeFevre, John. Straight to Hell: True Tales of Deviance, Debauchery, and Billion-Dollar Deals. New York City: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2015.
L. Levy & Linden, Ch. 10.
Lewis. Next: The Future Just Happened. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2001.
Mahar, Ch. 6-19.
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. 2-3.
Newman, Peter C. The Canadian Establishment, Vol. III: Titans: How the New Canadian Establishment Seized Power. Toronto: Viking, 1998: Ch. 4-6, 9, 12-15.
Nocera, Ch. 18-19.
Paternot, Stephan, and Andrew Essex. A Very Public Offering: A Rebel's Story of Business Excess, Success, and Reckoning, rev. ed. New York City: Actarus Press, 2018.
S. Patterson, Ch. 2-3, 7-15.
Poulsen, Ch. 3-5.
Pynchon, Ch. 1-28.
Raviv. Comic Wars: How Two Tycoons Battled Over the Marvel Comics Empire — and Both Lost. New York City: Broadway Books, 2002: Ch. 3-20.
Rushkoff, Douglas. Exit Strategy: The Original Version. New York City: Grand Central Publishing, 2001.
Schweikart & Doti, Ch. 13-14.
Segaller, Ch. 14-17.
Sinclair, Carla. Signal to Noise. San Francisco: HarperEdge, 1997.
B. Smith, Ch. 1-2.
Smith, Greg. Why I Left Goldman Sachs: A Wall Street Story. New York City: Grand Central, 2012: Ch. 1-2.
Symonds & L. Ellison, Ch. 1-3, 8-11, 15-16, 21-22.
Thiel, Peter A., and Blake Masters. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or, How to Build the Future. New York City: Crown Business, 2014: Ch. 2.
Wayner, Peter. Free for All: How Linux and the Free Software Movement Undercut the High-Tech Titans. New York City: HarperCollins World, 2001.
Weiss, Born to Steal, Ch. 22-23, 25, 41, 45, 49.
Williams, Greg. Boomtown. New York City: Sewanee Writers' Series/The Overlook Press, 2004.
Wishart, Adam, and Regula Bochsler. Leaving Reality Behind: eToy vs. eToys.com and Other Battles to Control Cyberspace. New York City: Ecco, 2003.
Zuckerman, Gregory. The Greatest Trade Ever: The Behind-the-Scenes Story of How John Paulson Defied Wall Street and Made Financial History, rev ed. New York City: Crown Business, 2010: Ch. 4.
47. The Global Financial Crisis of 2008
a. Iceland
Bagus, and David Howden. Deep Freeze: Iceland's Economic Collapse. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2011.
Lewis. Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World, rev. ed. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2012: Ch. 1.
b. Government Reports
Financial Crisis Inquiry Report, Ch. 1, 7, 9-22.
United States. Congress. House. Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Republican Staff. The Role of Government Affordable Housing Policy in Creating the Global Financial Crisis of 2008. Washington, D.C.: GPO, 2009.
c. Cohan
Cohan, House of Cards, Ch. 1-12, 27-31.
Cohan, Money and Power, Ch. 22.
d. M. Lewis
i. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine, rev. ed. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2011: Ch. 2-10.
ii. Boomerang, Ch. 2-5.
e. Salerno
i. Ch. 21-22.
ii. "A Reformulation of Austrian Business Cycle Theory in Light of the Financial Crisis." The Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Spring 2012: 3-44.
f. Others
Aliber & Kindleberger, Ch. 14.
Authers, Ch. 1, 17-27.
Booth, Philip. "Catholic Social Teaching and the Financial Crash." P. Booth et al. Catholic Social Teaching and the Market Economy, rev. ed. London: The Institute of Economic Affairs, 2014: Ch. 13.
T.P. Carney, Obamanomics, Ch. 8.
Clarey, Aaron. Behind the Housing Crash: Confessions From an Insider. Minneapolis: Aaron Clarey, 2008: Ch. 2, 4-19.
Connaughton, Ch. 2, 4-5.
French, Douglas E. Walk Away: The Rise and Fall of the Home-Ownership Myth. Auburn, Ala.: Ludwig von Mises Institute, 2010: Ch. 1-3, 5-10.
Gilbert, Mark. Complicit: How Greed and Collusion Made the Credit Crisis Unstoppable. New York City: Bloomberg Press, 2010.
Greenwald, With Liberty and Justice for Some, Ch. 3.
Jong-Fast, Molly. The Social Climber's Handbook. New York City: Villard Trade Paperbacks, 2011.
Kaiser, Ch. 1, 3.
Katz, Alyssa. Our Lo4: How Real Estate Came to Own Us. New York City: Bloomsbury, 2009: Ch. 2-6.
H. Lewis, Ch. 4.
Malanga, Steven. The New New Left: How American Politics Works Today. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2005.
L.G. McDonald & P. Robinson, Ch. 8-12.
O. McDonald, Ch. 9-12, 14-15.
R.P. Murphy, Ch. 6, 11.
Ron Paul, End the Fed, Ch. 9.
Randazzo, Anthony. Rebuilding Wall Street: A Review of the White House Proposal for Reforming Financial Services Regulation. Los Angeles: Reason Foundation, 2009.
Sheehan, Ch. 24-26.
Sorkin, Andrew Ross. Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System – and Themselves, rev. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 2010.
Sowell, Thomas. The Housing Boom and Bust, rev. ed. New York City: Basic Books, 2010.
G. Smith, Ch. 6-7.
Stockman, Great Deformation, Ch. 2-3, 21-26, 30-32.
Suskind, Confidence Men, Ch. 2-6.
Tempelman, Jerry H. "Austrian Business Cycle Theory and the Global Financial Crisis: Confessions of a Mainstream Economist." Quarterly Journal of Austrian Economics Spring 2010: 1-15.
Thornton, Ch. 17-19, 21.
Jeffrey Tucker, Ch. 13, 37, 62.
Wessel. In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke's War on the Great Panic, rev. ed. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2010: Ch. 1, 3, 4-14.
Weidemer, David, Robert A. Weidemer, and Cindy S. Spitzer. Aftershock: Protect Yourself and Profit in the Next Global Financial Meltdown, rev. ed. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2011: Ch. 2-3, 5.
Woods. Meltdown: A Free-Market Look at Why the Stock Market Collapsed, the Economy Tanked, and Government Bailouts Will Make Things Worse. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2009: Ch. 1-4, 6-7.
G. Zuckerman, Ch. 2-3, 5-14.
48. Other Business
a. Finance
Ammann, Ch. 1-2, 17, 19-20.
J. Bernstein, Ch. 3, 6, 8-9, 14.
Cohan, The Last Tycoons, Ch. 11-13, 15-21.
Enrich, Ch. 9, 11-12, 14-15, 17-20, 22-27, 29-31.
Godiwalla, Nina. Suits: A Woman on Wall Street. New York City: Atlas & Co., 2011.
Knee, Ch. 15-16.
C. Leonard, Ch. 10.
L.G. McDonald & P. Robinson, Ch. 4-7.
Mahar, Ch. 20-21.
McMeel, Cortright. Short. New York City: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2010.
S. Patterson, Ch. 1, 4, 17-25.
Risso-Gill, Ch. 12-22.
Roose, Kevin. Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street’s Post-Crash Recruits. New York City: Grand Central Publishing, 2014.
G. Smith, Ch. 3-5, 8-11.
Weiss, Born to Steal, Ch. 2-14, 16, 18-21.
b. Social Media
i. Facebook
Kirkpatrick, David. The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World. 2010. Rpt. New York City: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2011.
Mezrich, Ben. The Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal. 2009. Rpt. New York City: Anchor Books, 2010.
ii. Other
Abraham & Kearns, Ch. 14.
Battelle, Ch. 7, 9-11.
Merchant, Brian. The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone. New York City: Little, Brown and Co., 2017.
Shafrir, Doree. Startup. New York City: Little, Brown and Co., 2017.
B. Smith, Ch. 3, 5-6, 8-10, 14, 16-25, 27, 30-33, 35.
c. Food
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. 16-18, 20.
Ruhlman, Michael. Grocery: The Buying and Selling of Food in America. New York City: Abrams Press, 2017: Ch. 5, 22.
Sax. The Tastemakers: Why We're Crazy for Cupcakes but Fed Up With Fondue (Plus Baconomics, Superfoods, and Other Secrets From the World of Food Trends). Toronto: Signal/McClelland & Stewart, 2014: Ch. 5-7, 9-10.
Zabar, Ch. 10.
d. Beverages
Edison, I Have Fun Everywhere I Go, Ch. 12.
Knoedelseder, Bitter Brew, Ch. 18-22.
Mitenbuler, Reid. Bourbon Empire: The Past and Future of America’s Whiskey. 2015. Rpt. New York City: Penguin Books, 2016: Ch. 17-18.
e. Computing
Ellis, Ryan, and Yuan Stevens. Bounty Everything: Hackers and the Making of the Global Bug Marketplace. New York City: Data & Society, 2022.
García Martínez, Antonio. Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley, rev. ed. New York City: Harper, 2018.
Lacy, Sarah. Once You're Lucky, Twice You're Good: The Rebirth of the Silicon Valley and the Rise of Web 2.0. New York City: Gotham Books, 2008.
Mickle, Tripp. After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul. New York City: William Morrow, 2022.
Symonds & L. Ellison, Ch. 6-7, 12-14, 24-25, 27.
f. The Trumps
i. Leamer
(1) The President's Butler, Ch. 1, 41-66.
(2) Mar-a-Lago, Ch. 6-9, 11-12.
ii. Others
Alexander, Ch. 5.
Au-Yeung & Jeans, Ch. 6-29.
W. Barrett, Ch. 1.
J. Bernstein, Ch. 18.
Enrich, Ch. 10, 13, 28, 32-33.
E.J. Epstein, Assume Nothing, 2023: Ch. 29.
Jordan, Ch. 5-9.
T.L. O'Brien, Ch. 6, 8.
C. Unger, House of Trump, House of Putin, Ch. 13.
Ward, Ch. 2-7.
g. Other
Bakke, Gretchen. The Grid: The Fraying Wires Between Americans and Our Energy Future. New York City: Bloomsbury, 2016: Ch. 5.
P.M. Barrett, Ch. 9, 12-15, 17, 19.
J. Bloom, Ch. 15.
Brenner, Ch. 2-4, 21-23.
Bruck, Master of the Game, Ch. 10.
Carreyrou, John. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, rev. ed. New York City: Vintage Books, 2020.
Cohan, Power Failure, Ch. 15-28.
R. Cohen, Ch. 1.
Doron & Gellman, Ch. 20-21.
Edison, I Have Fun Everywhere I Go, Ch. 13-15.
Fishman, Charles. The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works -- and How It's Transforming the American Economy, rev. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 2007: Ch. 1, 3-9.
B. Graham, Ch. 6.
G.L. Posner. Citizen Perot: His Life and Times. New York City: Random House, 1996: Ch. 2.
Hazlett, Ch. 8-9, 15, 18.
Higgins, Tim. Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century. New York City: Doubleday, 2021.
Hwang, Tim. Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet. New York City: FSG Originals x Logic, 2020.
Martin, Paul. Villains, Scoundrels, and Rogues: Incredible True Tales of Mischief and Mayhem. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 2014: Ch. 28.
Meabon, Linda L. Zippo Manufacturing Company. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2003: Ch. 5.
90s All-American Ads. Ed. Heimann. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2018.
Peterson, Shawn. PEZ: From Austrian Invention to American Icon. Charleston, S.C.: The History Press, 2016: Ch. 5-7, 14.
Robertson & Breen, Ch. 3-11.
Sax, David. The Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2016.
D. Schulman, Ch. 9, 11-12.
Vieregge, Quentin. Cult Pop Culture: How the Fringe Became Mainstream, Vol. III: Everyday Cult. Ed. Bob Batchelor. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, 2012: Ch. 7.
Walker, Rob. Buying In: The Secret Dialogue Between What We Buy and Who We Are. New York City: Random House, 2008.
49. Arts and Entertainment
a. Television
i. The Late Night Wars
(1) Bill Carter
(a) The Late Shift: Letterman, Leno, and the Network Battle for the Night, rev. ed. New York City: Hyperion, 1995: Ch. 1, 3-13.
(b) The War for Late Night, Ch. 1-2, 4-8, 10-12.
(2) Other
McMahon, Ch. 32-33.
Shaffer & Ritz, Ch. 40.
ii. "60 Minutes"
Hewitt, Ch. 10-11.
Rader, Ch. 24-28.
Rosen, Ch. 18-22, 26-27.
iii. "Seinfeld"
Armstrong, Jennifer Keishin. Seinfeldia: How a Show About Nothing Changed Everything. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2016: Ch. 2-13, 15.
Bjorklund, Dennis. Seinfeld Reference: The Complete Encyclopedia With Biographies, Character Profiles & Episode Summaries. Los Gatos, Calif.: Smashwords Edition, 2012.
Oppenheimer. Seinfeld, Ch. 32-33, 36, 38.
Tracy, Ch. 5-19.
iv. "The Sopranos"
De Stefano, George. An Offer We Can't Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America. New York City: Faber and Faber, 2006: Ch. 5.
Imperioli, Michael, Steve Schirripa, and Philip Lerman. Woke Up This Morning: The Definitive Oral History of The Sopranos. New York City: William Morrow, 2021.
McLeod, Deborah. Cult Pop Culture: How the Fringe Became Mainstream, Vol. I: Film and Television. Ed. Batchelor. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, 2012: Ch. 11.
v. Paul A. Cantor
(1) Gilligan Unbound: Pop Culture in the Age of Globalization. Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2001: Pt. 2.
(2) The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture: Liberty vs. Authority in American Film and TV. Lexington, Ky.: UP of Kentucky, 2012: Ch. 3, 6, 9-10.
vi. Other
Biskind. Pandora's Box: How Guts, Guile, and Greed Upended TV. New York City: William Morrow, 2023: Ch. 2-8.
W.F. Buckley, The Rake, Ch. 49.
Carlo, Ch. 57-58.
Cult Pop Culture, Vol. I, Ch. 13, 17, 20.
T. Davis, Ch. 19.
D’Antonio, Ch. 10-15.
James. Play All: A Bingewatcher's Notebook. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2016.
Marks & Tannenbaum, Ch. 39-53.
McKibben, Bill. The Age of Missing Information. New York City: Random House, 1992.
Muto, Joe. An Athiest in the FOXhole: A Liberal’s Eight-Year Odyssey Inside the Heart of the Right-Wing Media. New York City: Dutton, 2013.
Salkin, Allen. From Scratch: The Uncensored History of the Food Network, rev. ed. New York City: Berkley Books, 2014: Ch. 2-14.
Sammon, Strategery, Ch. 9.
M. Singer, Ch. 11-12.
Tuccille, Dillerland, Ch. 16-34.
Woolever, Ch. 16-59.
b. Literature
i. The Revived Comic Novel
(1) The New York Press Alumni
(a) Jonathan Ames
(i) Wake Up, Sir! New York City: Scribner, 2004.
(ii) I Love You More Than You Know. New York City: Black Cat, 2006.
(b) Marty Beckerman
(i) Death to All Cheerleaders: One Adolescent Journalist's Cheerful Diatribe Against Teenage Plasticity. Anchorage, Alaska: Marty Beckerman, 2000.
(ii) Generation S.L.U.T. (Sexually Liberated Urban Teens): A Brutal Feel-Up Session With Today's Sex-Crazed Adolescent Populace. New York City: Pocket Books/MTV Books, 2004.
(iii). '90s Island. Anchorage, Alaska: BookBaby, 2013.
(c) Jim Knipfel
(i) The Buzzing. New York City: Vintage Contemporaries, 2003.
(ii) The Blow-Off. New York City: Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, 2011.
(d) Sam Lipsyte
(i) The Ask. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
(ii) No One Left to Come Looking for You. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2022.
(e) Amy Sohn
(i) Run Catch Kiss. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1999.
(ii) My Old Man. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2004.
(iii) Prospect Park West. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2009.
(iv) Motherland. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2012.
(f) Other
Vizzini, Ned. Be More Chill. New York City: Miramax Books/Hyperion, 2004.
(2) Tracy Quan
(a) The Diary of a Manhattan Call Girl: A Nancy Chan Novel. New York City: Crown Publishers, 2001.
(b) Diary of a Married Call Girl: A Nancy Chan Novel. New York City: Three Rivers Press, 2005.
(c) Diary of a Jetsetting Call Girl. 2008. Rpt. London: Mischief, 2012.
(3) Paula Marantz Cohen
(a) Jane Austen in Boca. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2002.
(b) Much Ado About Jessie Kaplan. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 2004.
(c) Jane Austen in Scarsdale, or Love, Death, and the SATs. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 2006.
(4) Ferris
(a) To Rise Again at a Decent Hour. New York City: Little, Brown and Co., 2014.
(b) A Calling for Charlie Barnes. New York City: Little, Brown and Co., 2021: Ch. 1-10, 17, 20-21, 23-25, 28, 31, 34-35, 37, 40-68.
(5) Others
Andersen, Kurt. Turn of the Century. New York City: Random House, 1999.
Barrett, Jo. The Men's Guide to the Women's Bathroom, rev. ed. New York City: Avon, 2008.
Beatty, Paul. The Sellout. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Eddie, David. Chump Change. Toronto: Random House of Canada, 1996.
Crittenden, Danielle. amanda bright@home. New York City: Warner Books, 2003.
Franzen. The Corrections. New York City: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2001.
Kunstler. Maggie Darling: A Modern Romance. New York City: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2004.
Lethem. Chronic City. New York City: Doubleday, 2009.
Magnuson, James. Famous Writers I Have Known. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2014.
Miles, Jonathan. Dear American Airlines. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 2008.
Nelson, Michael J. Mike Nelson’s Death Rat!: A Novel. New York City: HarperEntertainment, 2003.
Rushdie, Salman. Fury. New York City: Random House, 2001.
Russo, Richard. That Old Cape Magic. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009.
Salem, J.J. Tan Lines. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2008.
Shiner. Slam. 1990. Rpt. New York City: St. Martin's Griffin, 2001.
Stillman, Ch. 27.
Westlake, Donald E. The Hook. New York City: The Mysterious Press, 2000.
Willis, Connie. Bellwether. New York City: Bantam Spectra, 1996.
Wolcott. The Catsitters. 2001. Rpt. New York City: Perennial, 2002.
Woolever, Ch. 9-15.
Zappa, Moon Unit. America the Beautiful. New York City: Scribner Paperback Fiction, 2001.
ii. Comic Books
S. Lee & Mair, Ch. 18.
Simon, Joe. My Life in Comics. London: Titan Books, 2011: Ch. 17.
iii. Other
The Brickeaters: A Novel by The Residents. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2018.
Bruen, Ken, and J. Starr. PIMP. London: Hard Case Crime, 2016: Ch. 3.
Codrescu, Andrei. The Poetry Lesson. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton UP, 2010.
Cult Pop Culture: How the Fringe Became Mainstream, Vol. II: Literature and Music. Ed. Batchelor. Santa Barbara, Calif.: Praeger, 2012: Ch. 2, 6.
Kernan, Alvin. The Death of Literature. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 1990: Ch. 8.
Reiss & Klickstein, Ch. 15.
K. Young, Ch. 6-7, 10, 21.
c. Music
i. Rock
(1) Metal
Christe, Sound of the Beast, Ch. 13, 15-16, 18-20.
Konow, Ch. 12.
Lemmy & Garza, Ch. 11-12.
McIver, Ch. 15-16.
Mustaine & Layden, Ch. 12-17.
(2) Van Halen
Christe, Everybody Wants Some, Ch. 13-20.
Tolinski & C. Gill, Ch. 10-12.
(3) Other
J. Barnes, Ch. 33-51.
Bergsman, Ch. 11.
Bruford, Ch. 9.
Edison, I Have Fun Everywhere I Go, Ch. 9-11.
H. Flanagan, Ch. 12-16.
Hoskyns, Lowside of the Road, Pt. 2, Ch. 5-8.
Kennedy, Dan. Rock On. Chapel Hill, N.C.: Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2008.
Kiedis & Sloman, Ch. 9-15.
Leonard. Be Cool. New York City: Delacorte Press, 1999: Ch. 19, 22, 24.
A. Paul & Aledort, Ch. 23-26.
Ruland, Ch. 13-14.
Shiner. Say Goodbye, rev. ed. Burton, Mich.: Subterranean Press, 2008.
Sid Smith, Ch. 13.
Soffee, Ch. 7-8.
D. Weigel, Ch. 11.
ii. The Crooners
(1) Sinatra
T. Reid, Dreesen & Rapoport, Ch. 13.
Sinatra & Holden, Ch. 16-18.
Summers, Anthony, and Robbyn Swan. Sinatra: The Life. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005: Ch. 35-36.
Taraborelli, Ch. 46-47.
(2) D. Evanier
(a) Jimmy Roselli, Ch. 14.
(b) All the Things You Are, Ch. 11-13.
iii. Steely Dan
P. Jones, Ch. 7-8.
B. Sweet, Ch. 12-17.
iv. The Business
Bronson, Ch. 9, 18.
Knoedelseder, Stiffed, Ch. 53, 55.
Knopper, Ch. 3-7.
Ruen, Chris. Freeloading: How Our Insatiable Appetite for Free Content Is Starving Creativity. New York City: OR Books, 2012.
Templeman & Renoff, Ch. 15-16.
Witt, Stephen. How Music Got Free: A Story of Obsession and Invention, rev. ed. New York City: Penguin Books, 2016.
v. Other
Adinolfi, Francesco. Mondo Exotica: Sounds, Visions, Obsessions of the Cocktail Generation, rev. ed. Ed. And Trans. Karen Pinkus and Jason Vivrette. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 2008: Ch. 18.
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. 1, 16.
M. Andersen & M. Jenkins, Ch. 12-15.
Bacharach & R. Greenfield, Ch. 20-24, 27.
Baram, Ch. 33-36, 38-42.
Coryell, Ch. 36-40.
Barker, Hugh, and Yuval Taylor. Faking It: The Quest for Authenticity in Popular Music. New York City: W.W. Norton & Co., 2007: Ch. 9-10.
E. Costello, Ch. 30, 32-35.
De Visé, Ch. 20-21.
P. Freeman, Ch. 13.
Farley, Ch. 14-17.
Gavin, Is That All There Is?, Ch. 18.
E. James & Ritz, Ch. 34.
E. Leonard, Be Cool, Ch. 4-8, 10, 13, 15-16, 21.
Kushins, Ch. 10-13.
Lydon, Pt. 7.
McDougall, Ch. 1, 7-15.
M. Parker, Ch. 10.
S. Reynolds, Retromania, Ch. 1-3, 12.
Seibert, Ch. 19, 21.
M. Shapiro, Ch. 1, 12-13.
R.J. Smith, Ch. 25.
Wesley, Ch. 11.
Tau, Pt. 1 Ch. 5; Pt. 3 Ch. 1; Pt. 4 Ch. 2, 7; Pt. 5 Ch. 2; Pt. 7.
Iglauer & P.A. Roberts, Ch. 15-20.
Whiteis, David. Southern Soul-Blues. Urbana, Ill.: U of Illinois P, 2013: Ch. 6-8, 10-11.
d. Cinema
(1) Hollywood
(a) MCA
Bruck. When Hollywood Had a King: The Reign of Lew Wasserman, Who Leveraged Talent Into Power and Influence. New York City: Random House, 2003: Ch. 6.
McDougal, Last Mogul, Ch. 35-36.
(b) "Goodfellas"
H. Hill & G. Russo, Ch. 17.
Shawn Levy, De Niro, Ch. 17.
(c) Quentin Tarantino
Carradine, David. The Kill Bill Diary: The Making of a Tarantino Classic As Seen Through the Eyes of a Screen Legend. New York City: Harper, 2006.
G. Edwards, Ch. 10.
(d) E.J. Epstein
i. The Big Picture: Money and Power in Hollywood, rev. ed. New York City: Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006: Pt. 2-6.
ii. The Hollywood Economist 2.0: The Hidden Financial Reality Behind the Movies. New York City: Melville House, 2012.
(e) Leonard
(i) Get Shorty, Ch. 2, 4-5, 7-15, 17-21, 24-26, 28.
(ii) Be Cool, Ch. 3, 20.
(f) Others
Base, Ch. 17-18.
Biskind, Star, Ch. 11-14.
Bruen & J. Starr, Ch. 2, 6-7, 11, 14, 20-21, 23, 28, 32.
Caine. The Elephant to Hollywood: The Autobiography. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2010: Ch. 1, 13, 15-23.
Cannell. Hollywood Tough. New York City: St. Martin’s Press, 2003: Ch. 1-2, 6, 15, 17, 20, 25-26, 35-36, 40, 50.
Cantor, The Invisible Hand in Popular Culture, Ch. 4-5.
Doron & Gellman, Ch. 17, 19.
Edelman, Rob, and Audrey Kupferberg. Matthau: A Life. Lanham, Md.: Taylor Trade Publishing, 2002: Ch. 26-30.
G. Edwards, Ch. 7-9, 11-26.
Eszterhas, Hollywood Animal, Ch. 10, 12, 14-16, 18-21, 23, 25, 27-29,31-33.
Evans, Ch. 43-44.
Friedkin, Ch. 16.
Shawn Levy, De Niro, Ch. 18, 22-29.
McDougal, Fatal Subtraction, Ch. 10, 18-21, 23, 25-41.
North. The War on Mel Gibson: The Media vs. The Passion. Powder Springs, Ga.: American Vision, 2004: Ch. 1-4.
Salamon, Ch. 1, 4-17.
Young, Toby. The Sound of No Hands Clapping: A Memoir. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2006: Ch. 2, 6, 12, 14, 16, 20-24.
Waxman, Sharon. Rebels on the Backlot: Six Maverick Directors and How They Conquered the Hollywood Studio System, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Harper Perennial, 2013.
Wenner, Jann, and Corey Seymour. Gonzo: The Life of Hunter S. Thompson. New York City: Little, Brown and Co., 2007: Ch. 11.
(2) Off-Hollywood
(a) Hong Kong
Boardwell, Ch. 10-11.
D. O'Brien, Ch. 5.
(b) Other
Batchelor, Bob. Cult Pop Culture, Vol. I, Ch. 5.
Biskind. Down and Dirty Pictures: Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2004.
Caine, What's It All About?, Ch. 46-47.
Fuller, Fuller & Rudes, Ch. 1, 56-60.
Isaacson, Ch. 22, 33.
Shawn Levy, De Niro, Ch. 19-21, 30.
Maerz, Melissa. Alright, Alright, Alright: The Oral History of Richard Linklater's Dazed and Confused. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2020.
Pekar, Harvey et al. Our Movie Year. New York City: Ballantine Books, 2004.
Sohn. The Actress. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Vidal, Point to Point Navigation, Ch. 48.
T. Young, No Hands Clapping, Ch. 9.
Zuckoff. Robert Altman: The Oral Biography. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2009: Ch. 25, 27, 29-30.
e. The Comedians
i. Seinfeld
Armstrong, Ch. 14.
Oppenheimer, Ch. 34-35, 37, 39-41.
ii. "The Simpsons"
Ortved, Ch. 4-18.
Reiss & Klickstein, Ch. 4-10, 18-19.
iii. M. Brooks
M. Brooks, Ch. 25.
J.R. Parish, Ch. 30-32.
iv. Other
Dangerfield, Rodney [Jacob Cohen]. It's Not Easy Bein' Me: A Lifetime of No Respect but Plenty of Sex and Drugs. New York City: HarperEntertainment, 2004: Ch. 14, 16-17.
Epstein, Lawrence J. The Haunted Smile: The Story of Jewish Comedians in America. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2001: Pt. 4, Ch. 12.
Farley, Tom Jr., and Tanner Colby. The Chris Farley Show: A Biography in Three Acts. 2008. Rpt. New York City: Penguin Books, 2009: Ch. 5-10.
Idle, Ch. 18, 21-23, 25-29, 31-32.
Nesteroff, Kliph. The Comedians: Drunks, Thieves, Scoundrels, and the History of American Comedy. New York City: Grove Press, 2015: Ch. 12-13.
Reiss & Klickstein, Ch. 12-13, 17.
Shydner, Ch. 81-82.
f. Cuisine
Buford, Heat, Ch. 4, 6, 13, 15.
Grimes, William. Appetite City: A Culinary History of New York. New York City: North Point Press, 2009: Ch. 16.
Issenberg, Ch. 10.
Liske, Dave. The Flint Coney: A Savory History. Charleston, S.C.: American Palate, 2022: Ch. 6.
Mariani, How Italian Food Conquered the World, Ch. 16, 18-19.
McNamee, Ch. 15-18.
Ralat, José R. American Tacos: A History and Guide. Austin, Texas: U of Texas P, 2020: Ch. 4.
Sax, The Tastemakers, Ch. 1-4.
g. The Pornographers
Ford, Ch. 10.
MacDonnell, Ch. 1, 9-14, 17.
Watts, Ch. 20-21.
h. Halloween
i. Lesley Pratt Bannatyne
(1) Halloween: An American Holiday, an American History. 1990. Rpt. Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Co., 1998: Ch. 6-7.
(2) Halloween Nation: Behind the Scenes of America's Fright Night, rev. ed. New Orleans: Pelican Publishing, 2020: Ch. 6.
ii. Other
Rogers, Nicholas. Halloween: From Pagan Ritual to Party Night. New York City: Oxford UP, 2002: Ch. 7-8.
i. Professional Sports
Bamberger, Michael, and Alan Shipnuck. The Swinger. New York City: Simon & Schuster/Sports Illustrated Books, 2011.
Tuohy, Ch. 3-5, 7, 17-18, 20.
j. Video Games
Hennessey & J. McGowan, Ch. 10.
Kushner, David. Jacked: The Outlaw Story of Grand Theft Auto. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2012: Ch. 2-25.
Tuohy, Ch. 16.
k. Hunter S. Thompson
Carroll, E. Jean. Hunter: The Strange and Savage Life of Hunter S. Thompson, rev. ed. Warwick, N.Y.: 1500 Books, 2010: Ch. 19-20.
McKeen, Ch. 18.
Wenner & Corey Seymour, 9-10, 12-13.
l. Polynesiana
i. Sven A. Kirsten
(1) Tiki Modern — and the Wild World of Witco. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2007: Ch. 19.
(2) Tiki Pop: America Imagines Its Own Polynesian Paradise. Cologne, Germany: Musée du Quai Branly/Taschen, 2014: Ch. 36.
ii. Other
Henderson, Jason, and Adam Foshko. California Tiki: A History of Polynesian Idols, Pineapple Cocktails and Coconut Palm Trees. Charleston, S.C.: The History Press, 2018: Ch. 9.
Simonson, Ch. 30.
m. Interior Design
Rense, Ch. 5.
Yelavich, Susan. Contemporary World Interiors. London: Phaidon Press, 2007.
n. Libations
Adams, Jad. Hideous Absinthe: A History of the Devil in a Bottle. London: I.B. Tauris, 2004: Ch. 12.
Simonson, Ch. 4-29, 31-36.
o. Other
Andrews, Ch. 3.
Bain. Murder, HE Wrote: A Successful Writer’s Life. 2002. Rpt. West Lafayette, Ind.: NotaBell Books, 2006: Ch. 20.
A. Baldwin, Ch. 8-14.
Biskind, Pandora's Box, Ch. 9-13.
Bulgato & Polano, Ch. 4-5.
Carducci, Ch. 12, 16.
Chang, Ch. 15.
Edison, I Have Fun Everywhere I Go, Ch. 16-20.
Fischl & M. Stone, Ch. 15-20.
Fong-Torres, Ch. 19.
Gavin, Stormy Weather, Ch. 21.
Grippo & Hoskins, Ch. 8-9.
Gruber, Michael. The Forgery of Venus. New York City: HarperCollins, 2008.
Hammarstrom, Ch. 11, 14, 18-19.
Harry & Simmons, Ch. 13-14.
D. Hunter, Ch. 11.
C. James, Blaze of Obscurity, Ch. 19-30.
Jordan, Ch. 4.
Korda, Ch. 34.
Klugman, Jack, and Burton Rocks. Tony and Me: A Story of Friendship. West Linn, Ore.: Good Hill Press, 2005: Ch. 7-8.
H. Lee, Ch. 23-35.
Lennon, Ch. 14-15.
E. Leonard, Be Cool, Ch. 1, 12, 26.
S. Levy. The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art and Scandal at Hollywood's Chateau Marmont. New York City: Doubleday, 2019: Pt. 6.
McManus, James. Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2009: Ch. 39-41, 46-52.
Michaelis, Ch. 28.
Mordden, Ch. 9, 11-12.
Orbanes, Philip E. Monopoly®: The World’s Most Famous Game – and How It Got That Way. Cambridge, Mass.: Da Capo Press, 2006: Ch. 13-16.
Peterson, Ch. 8-11, 15.
J. Schwartz, Ch. 21.
Shaffer & Ritz, Ch. 41.
Wasser, Ch. 7.
Westlake. The Fourth Dimension Is Death. 1989. Rpt. New York City: Felony & Mayhem, 2006.
T. Young, No Hands Clapping, Ch. 7-8, 10, 17.
Zito & Layden, Ch. 22.
50. The Crime Scene
a. Organized Crime
i. The Mafia
(1) Philadelphia
(a) Anastasia
(i) The Goodfella Tapes. New York City: Avon Books, 1998.
(ii) The Last Gangster, Ch. 1, 4-20.
(iii) Gotti’s Rules, Ch. 14.
(b) Other
Pearson & McShane, Ch. 25-27.
(2) The Five Families
(a) The Gambinos
Anastasia. Gotti’s Rules, Ch. 11-13, 15, 20.
Capeci, Mob Star, Ch. 33-35.
Garcia, Joaquin “Jack,” and Michael Graubart Levin. Making Jack Falcone: An Undercover FBI Agent Takes Down a Mafia Family, rev. ed. New York City: Pocket Star Books, 2009.
J.B. Jacobs, Panarella & Worthington, Ch. 6.
Knoedelseder, Stiffed, Ch. 10-13, 17-19.
Maas, Underboss, Ch. 21-24.
S. Raab, Ch. 37-39.
Rosen, Ch. 24.
(b) The Colombos
(i) Lance
Cover Up, Ch. 10.
Deal With the Devil, Ch. 22-32, 34, Appendix E.
Triple Cross, Ch. 39.
(ii) Other
Harmon, Ch. 22-27, 29, 31, 37.
S. Raab, Ch. 30-31.
(c) Lance
(i) Deal With the Devil, Ch. 36.
(ii) Triple Cross, Ch. 40.
(d) Others
Breslin, The Good Rat, Ch. 1, 3-4, 8-9, 12, 14, 18-19, 21-22.
Capeci & Tom Robbins, Ch. 1, 13-20.
Cirni. The Big Squeeze. New York City: Soho Press, 1991.
M.A. Collins. NYPD Blue: Blue Beginning. New York City: Signet, 1995: Ch. 1, 6, 16.
Lawson & Oldham, Ch. 4-5, 8, 10-18.
S. Raab, Ch. 42, 44-45, 47, 57-60.
Weiss, Born to Steal, Ch. 24, 26, 28-30, 32-40, 42, 46-48, 52.
(3) Los Angeles
Cannell, Hollywood Tough, Ch. 14, 21-24, 29-31, 41.
Kamininsky, Stuart M. The Rockford Files: Devil on My Doorstep. New York City: Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, 1998.
(4) Montreal
Cédilot & Noël, Ch. 9-18.
D'A. O'Connor & M. O'Connor, Ch. 20.
(5) Sicily
Dickie, Cosa Nostra, Ch. 5.
Longrigg, Ch. 6-17.
Robb, Peter. Midnight in Sicily, rev. ed. New York City: Picador/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007: Ch. 1, 3, 12.
(6) Capeci
(a) Jerry Capeci's Gang Land. New York City: Alpha, 2003.
(b) Idiot's Guide to the Mafia, Pt. 6.
(7) Other
Bazell, Josh. Beat the Reaper. New York City: Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
Bearman, Peter. Doormen. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2005: Ch. 7.
Blauner, Peter. Casino Moon. 1994. Rpt. New York City: Hard Case Crime, 2009.
Bourdain. Gone Bamboo. New York City: Villard, 1997.
Burdick & C. Mitchell, Ch. 26.
Deitche, Ch. 42-46, 49.
Dickie, Blood Brotherhoods, Ch. 68, 70-71.
Fitch, Ch. 7.
D.N. Griffin & Cullotta, Ch. 15-17.
Humphreys, Ch. 38-50.
Knoedelseder, Stiffed, Ch. 21-22, 25-26, 28, 31, 46, 49-51.
Konigsberg, Ch. 3, 13, 16.
Lehr & O'Neill, Pt. 3.
E. Leonard, Get Shorty, Ch. 3, 16, 22-23, 27.
Pistone & Brandt, Ch. 23.
Tosches, Trinities, Ch. 1-2, 4-5, 7, 9-10, 14, 16-21, 23, 25-26, 28-30, 33-34.
Weiss, Born to Steal, Ch. 17.
ii. Los Angeles
(1) The Mexican Mafia
Cannell, Hollywood Tough, Ch. 7-10.
Rafael, Tony. The Mexican Mafia, rev. ed. New York City: Encounter Books, 2009: Ch. 1-11, 13-16, 18-19.
(2) Cannell
(a) Shane Scully Series
(i) The Viking Funeral. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2002.
(ii) Hollywood Tough, Ch. 3-5, 11-13, 16, 18-19, 27-28, 32-34, 37-39, 42-49.
(iii) Vertical Coffin. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2004.
(iv) White Sister. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2006.
(v) Three Shirt Deal: A Shane Scully Novel. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2008.
(vi) On the Grind. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2009.
(vii) The Pallbearers. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2010.
(viii) The Prostitutes' Ball. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2010: Ch. 1-22, 24-28, 30-35, 37-54.
(ix) Vigilante. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2011.
(b) Other
(i) King Con. New York City: William Morrow and Co., 1997.
(ii) Riding the Snake. New York City: William Morrow and Co., 1998.
(3) Leonard
(a) Be Cool, Ch. 2, 9, 11, 14, 18.
(b) Road Dogs. New York City: William Morrow, 2009: Ch. 7-30.
(4) T. Jefferson Parker
(a) L.A. Outlaws. New York City: Dutton, 2008.
(b) The Renegades. New York City: Dutton, 2009.
(c) Iron River. New York City: Dutton, 2010.
(5) Joseph Wambaugh
(a) Hollywood Station. New York City: Little, Brown and Co., 2006.
(b) Hollywood Crows. New York City: Little, Brown and Co., 2008.
(c) Hollywood Hills. New York City: Little, Brown and Co., 2010.
(6) Other
J.R. Baker & Rivele, Ch. 23.
Faust, Christa. Money Shot. New York City: Hard Case Crime, 2008.
Vernon, Robert L. L.A. Justice: Lessons From the Firestorm. Colorado Springs, Colo.: Focus on the Family, 1993: Ch. 1-7, 10-15.
iii. Biker Gangs
Anastasia, George, and Ralph Cipriano. Doctor Dealer: A Doctor High on Greed, a Biker Gang High on Opioids, and the Woman Who Paid the Ultimate Price. New York City: Berkley, 2020.
Menginie & Droban, Ch. 5-21.
Queen, William. Under and Alone: The True Story of the Undercover Agent Who Infiltrated America's Most Violent Outlaw Motorcycle Gang. New York City: Random House, 2005: Ch. 1-2, 4-15.
iv. The Russian Mafia
Chepesiuk, Hard Target, Ch. 16.
R.I. Friedman, Ch. 1, 4-6, 10-11.
Glenny, Ch. 3-4.
C. Unger, House of Trump, House of Putin, Ch. 8, 10, 12, 14.
v. The Camorra
Dickie, Blood Brotherhoods, Ch. 72-74.
Saviano, Roberto. Gomorrah. 2006. Trans. Virginia Jewiss. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007.
vi. Pan-Latin Caribbean Crime Syndicates
Chepesiuk, Narcos Inc., Pt. 2, Ch. 7, 9; Pt. 3, Ch. 10-11, 13-15; Pt. 4.
English, The Corporation, Ch. 14, 16-21.
Farzad, Ch. 47-55.
Jon Roberts & E. Wright, Ch. 1, 12, 21, 74, 78.
Cheri Seymour, Ch. 14.
vii. The Yakuza
(1) Adelstein
(a) Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan. New York City: Pantheon Books, 2009.
(b) The Last Yakuza, Ch. 7-9, 11-33.
(2) Others
Glenny, Ch. 13.
"Kirino, Natsuo" [Mariko Hashioka]. Out. 1997. Trans. Stephen Snyder. 2003. Rpt. New York City: Vintage, 2005.
viii. The Triads
Glenny, Ch. 14.
P. Wang, Ch. 4, 6.
ix. Other Crime Syndicates
a. English
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. 2-16.
English, Whitey's Payback, Pt. 3, Ch. 2.
b. Others
Chepesiuk, Black Gangsters of Chicago, Ch. 11, 13.
Dickie, Blood Brotherhoods, Ch. 67, 69, 75-77.
Glenny, Ch. 2, 5-10, 12.
x. White-Collar Crime
Adelstein, and Nathalie Stucky. Pay the Devil in Bitcoin: The Creation of a Cryptocurrency and How Half a Billion Dollars of It Vanished From Japan. New York City: Pantheon Books, 2017.
Belfort, Catching the Wolf of Wall Street, Ch. 25.
Markopolos, Harry et al. No One Would Listen: A True Financial Thriller, rev. ed. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, 2010.
xi. L. Block
(1) The Matthew Scudder Series
(a) A Dance at the Slaughterhouse. 1991. Rpt. New York City: Avon Books, 1992.
(b) A Walk Among the Tombstones. 1992. Rpt. London: Hard Case Crime, 2014.
(c) A Time to Scatter Stones. Burton, Mich.: Subterranean Press, 2019.
(2) The Keller Series
(a) Hit Man. New York City: William Morrow, 1998.
(b) Hit List. New York City: William Morrow, 2000.
(3) Other
(b) The Girl With the Deep Blue Eyes. London: Hard Case Crime, 2015.
xii. M.A. Collins
(1) Blue Beginnings, Ch. 2-5, 7-15.
(2) The Last Quarry. New York City: Hard Case Crime, 2006.
(3) American Gangster. New York City: Tor/Tom Doherty Associates, 2007: Ch. 27.
xiii. Oates
(1) Black Dahlia and White Rose, Pt. 4.
(2) Carthage, Ch. 9-10, 14.
xiv. Pelecanos
(1) Right As Rain Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2001.
(2) Soul Circus. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2003.
(3) The Cut. New York City: Reagan Arthur/Little, Brown and Co., 2011.
xv. Westlake
(1) "Richard Stark"
(a) Comeback. New York City: The Mysterious Press, 1997.
(b) Backflash. New York City: The Mysterious Press, 1998.
(c) Flashfire. 2000. Rpt. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2011.
(d) Breakout. New York City: Mysterious Press, 2002.
(e) Ask the Parrot. New York City: Mysterious Press, 2006.
(f) Dirty Money. New York City: Grand Central Publishing, 2008.
(2) Other
(a) Smoke. New York City: The Mysterious Press, 1995.
(b) Put a Lid on It. New York City: The Mysterious Press, 2002.
xv. Other
J.R. Adams & Frantz, Ch. 20-22.
Anastasia. Gotti’s Rules, Ch. 16-19.
Beall, Ch. 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13-37.
M. Booth, Pt. 5, Ch. 4.
“Brandt, Harry” [Richard Price]. The Whites. New York City: Henry Holt and Co., 2015.
W.F. Buckley, The Rake, Ch. 44.
Carlo, Ch. 59-61.
H. Carr, Ch. 17-18, 20.
Chepesiuk, Hard Target, Ch. 1, 19-21.
R. Cohen, Ch. 22-24, 27-28.
Denton, Ch. 22.
English, Whitey's Payback, Pt. 2, Ch. 2; Pt. 3, Ch. 1.
Farren, Ch. 10.
Finch, Phillip. Sugarland. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 1992: Ch. 1-2, 29.
Gischler, Victor. Fast Charlie. 2001. Rpt. London: Hard Case Crime, 2023.
Gray, Ch. 2, 8.
Hernández, Ch. 6-7, 9-11.
Higdon, Ch. 12.
Huddy, Ch. 1-2, 14-34.
Irving, Clifford. Final Argument. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1993: Ch. 1, 4, 7, 9-14, 17, 19-33.
Judelson, Ira, and Daniel Paisner. The Fixer: The Notorious Life of a Front-Page Bail Bondsman. New York City: Touchstone, 2014.
Lashner, William. Veritas. New York City: ReganBooks, 1997: Ch. 1-32, 34-53, 55-56.
E. Leonard, Road Dogs, Ch. 1-6.
M. Mann & Gardiner, Pt. 1, 3, 5-6.
Mortensen, Ch. 15-21.
Napoleoni, Ch. 12, 14-17.
D'A. O'Connor & M. O'Connor, Ch. 19, 21-22.
J. Oppenheimer, Crazy Rich, Ch. 5.
Pistone & Brandt, Ch. 15.
Reding, Nick. Methland: The Death and Life of an American Small Town. New York City: Bloomsbury, 2009.
Cheri Seymour, Ch. 3, 12.
D. Simon, and Ed Burns. The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood, rev. ed. Edinburgh, U.K.: Canongate, 2009.
Tillman, Ch. 3.
Tosches, Trinities, Ch. 3, 6, 8, 11-13, 15, 22, 27, 31-32.
Tuohy, Ch. 11.
Venkatesh, Sudhir Alladi. Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets. New York City: Penguin Books, 2008.
G. Webb, Ch. 24.
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. 1-4, 8-14.
b. Unorganized Crime
i. Southern California
(1) O.J. Simpson
W.J. Campbell, Ch. 3.
Dunne, Dominick. Another City, Not My Own: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir. 1997. Rpt. New York City: Ballentine Books, 2009.
E.J. Epstein, Annals of Unsolved Crime, Ch. 31.
Lange, Tom, Philip Vannatter, and Moldea. Evidence Dismissed: The Inside Story of the Police Investigation of O.J. Simpson, rev. ed. Los Angeles: LVM Books, 2016.
Mullis, Kary. Dancing Naked in the Mind Field. 1998. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 2000: Ch. 4.
Reed, Ishmael. Juice! Champaign, Ill.: Dalkey Archive Press, 2011.
(2) Other
Bruen & J. Starr, Ch. 12-13, 16-19, 25-27, 29-30, 31.
Cannell. At First Sight: A Novel of Obsession. New York City: Vanguard Press, 2008.
Ebner, Mark C. Six Degrees of Paris Hilton: Inside the Sex Tapes, Scandals, and Shakedowns of the New Hollywood. New York City: Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2008.
Faust. Choke Hold. London: Hard Case Crime, 2011.
Kamininsky. The Rockford Files: The Green Bottle. New York City: Forge/Tom Doherty Associates, 1996.
Kirchner, Paul. The Deadliest Men: The World's Deadliest Combatants Through the Ages. Boulder, Colo.: Paladin Press, 2001: Ch. 40.
Leonard. Be Cool, Ch. 17, 23, 25.
ii. Greater New York
(1) L. Block
(a) The Devil Knows You're Dead. New York City: William Morrow and Co., 1993.
(b) Even the Wicked. New York City: William Morrow and Co., 1997.
(c) Small Town. New York City: William Morrow, 2003.
(2) J. Starr
(a) Cold Caller. 1997. Rpt. New York City: Oldcastle Books, 2014.
(b) Nothing Personal. 1998. Rpt. New York City: Oldcastle Books, 2014.
(c) Fake I.D. 2000. Rpt. New York City: Hard Case Crime, 2009.
(d) Hard Feelings. New York City: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2002.
(e) Twisted City. New York City: Vintage Crime/Black Lizard, 2004.
(f) Lights Out. New York City: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2006.
(g) The Follower. New York City: St. Martin's Minotaur, 2007.
(h) The Max. New York City: Hard Case Crime, 2008.
(i) Panic Attack. 2009. Rpt. Hoboken, N.J.: Polis Books, 2015.
(j) Savage Lane. Hoboken, N.J.: Polis Books, 2015.
(k) PIMP, Ch. 1, 4-5, 9-10, 22, 24.
(l) Fugitive Red. Sarasota, Fla.: Oceanview Publishing, 2018.
(m) The Next Time I Die. London: Hard Case Crime, 2022.
(3) Westlake
(a) Dortmunder Series
(i) Drowned Hopes. New York City: The Mysterious Press, 1990.
(ii) Don’t Ask. New York City: The Mysterious Press, 1993.
(ii) Bad News. New York City: Mysterious Press, 2001.
(iii) The Road to Ruin. New York City: Mysterious Press, 2004.
(iv) Watch Your Back! New York City: Mysterious Press, 2005.
(v) What’s So Funny? New York City: Warner Books, 2007.
(vi) Get Real. New York City: Grand Central Publishing, 2009.
(b) Other
“Carmichael, Judson Jack” [Westlake]. The Scared Stiff. New York City: Otto Penzler/Carroll & Graf Publishers, 2002.
Westlake. The Ax. New York City: The Mysterious Press, 1997.
(4) Others
"Aleas, Richard" [Charles Ardai]. Little Girl Lost. New York City: Hard Case Crime, 2004.
Atwood, Russell. Losers Live Longer. New York City: Hard Case Crime, 2009.
Bloom, Stephen G. Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America, rev. ed. New York City: Harcourt, 2001: Ch. 16.
Brooklyn Noir. Ed. Tim McLoughlin. New York City: Akashic Books, 2004: Pt. 2-4.
Oates. Rape: A Love Story. New York City: Otto Penzler/Carroll & Graf, 2003.
Owen, Frank X. Clubland: The Fabulous Rise and Murderous Fall of Club Culture. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2003.
“Porkpie, Jonny." The Corpse Wore Pasties. New York City: Hard Case Crime, 2009.
Weiss, Born to Steal, Ch. 15.
iii. Serial Killers
D. Preston & Spezi, Ch. 24-33, 35-60.
Vronsky, Peter. American Serial Killers: The Epidemic Years, 1950-2000. New York City: Berkley, 2021: Ch. 7.
iv. Colin Flaherty
(1) “White Girl Bleed a Lot”: The Return of Racial Violence to America and How the Media Ignore It, 5th rev. ed. New York City: WND Books, 2013.
(2) “Don’t Make the Black Kids Angry”: The Hoax of Black Victimization and Those Who Enable It. Los Gatos, Calif.: Smashwords Edition, 2015.
v. Knipfel
(1) Noogie’s Time to Shine. New York City: Virgin Books, 2007.
(2) Residue. Pasadena, Calif.: Red Hen Press, 2015.
vi. Leonard
(1) Tishomingo Blues. New York City: William Morrow, 2002.
(2) Mr. Paradise. New York City: William Morrow, 2004.
(3) Raylan. New York City: William Morrow, 2012.
vii. Oates
(1) "R. Smith"
(a) Snake Eyes. New York City: Dutton, 1992.
(b) Double Delight. New York City: Dutton, 1997.
(c) Starr Bright Will be With You Soon. New York City: Dutton, 1999.
(2) Other
(a) Daddy Love. New York City: The Mysterious Press, 2013.
viii. Pelecanos
(1) A Firing Offense, rev. ed. New York City: Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Co., 2011.
(2) Nick's Trip. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 1993: Ch. 1, 3-32.
(3) Down by the River Where the Dead Men Go, rev. ed. New York City: Back Bay Books, 2011.
(4) Shame the Devil. Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2000.
(5) Night Gardener, Ch. 2-39.
(6) The Turnaround. New York City: Little, Brown and Co., 2008: Ch. 5-28.
(7) The Double. New York City: Little, Brown and Co., 2013.
ix. Westlake
(1) Baby, Would I Lie?: A Romance of the Ozarks. New York City: The Mysterious Press, 1994.
(2) What’s the Worst That Could Happen? New York City: The Mysterious Press, 1996.
x. Other
Attwood, Shaun. Hard Time: Life With Sheriff Joe Arpaio in America's Toughest Jail. 2010. Rpt. New York City: Skyhorse Publishing, 2011: Ch. 1.
P.M. Barrett, Ch. 10.
F. Barthelme, and Steven Barthelme. Double Down: Reflections on Gambling and Loss. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1999: Ch. 12-18.
Bruen & J. Starr, Ch. 15.
Bustos & Yanez, Ch. 6.
Byron, Testosterone Inc., Ch. 15.
Carlotto, Massimo, and Marco Videtta. Poisonville. 2005. Trans. Antony Shugaar. New York City: Europa Editions, 2009.
Cashill, What’s the Matter With California?, Ch. 36.
Clark, Jack. Nobody’s Angel. 1996. Rpt. New York City: Hard Case Crime, 2010.
Collins, Barbara, and M.A. Collins. Murder – His and Hers: Short Stories. Unity, Maine: Five Star, 2001.
Goad, Ch. 6-7, 9-16.
King, Gary C. The Texas 7: A True Story of Murder and a Daring Escape. New York City: St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2001: Ch. 14-20.
Latzer, Ch. 5.
Lucas, Frank, and Aliya S. King. Original Gangster: My Life As NYC’s Biggest, Baddest Drugs Baron. 2009. Rpt. London: Ebury, 2012: Ch. 27-28.
Manso, Ch. 30.
D. McGowan, Ch. 1-2, 20.
Poulsen, Ch. 2, 6-36.
Sublett, Jesse. Boiled in Concrete. New York City: Viking, 1992.
Torgoff, Ch. 13-15.
N. Walker, Ch. 52-70.
K. Young, Ch. 20.
c. Prison
Anastasia, George. Gotti’s Rules: The Story of John Alite, Junior Gotti, and the Demise of the American Mafia. New York City: HarperCollins, 2015: Ch. 1.
Attwood, Ch. 2-39.
Baram, Ch. 37.
Lance, Cover Up, Ch. 4.
Thomas, Cullen. Brother One Cell: An American Coming of Age in South Korea's Prisons. New York City: Viking, 2007: Ch. 1-22, 24-42.
Weiss, Born to Steal, Ch. 43.
Wilson, Christopher P. Learning to Live With Crime: American Crime Narrative in the Neoconservative Turn. Columbus, Ohio: The Ohio State UP, 2010: Ch. 5.
51. Western Asia
a. Dar al-Islam
i. Osama bin Laden
(a) Bergen
(i) Holy War, Inc.: Inside the Secret World of Osama bin Laden, rev. ed. New York City: Touchstone, 2002.
(ii) Manhunt, Ch. 4, 6, 9.
(b) Miniter
(i) Losing bin Laden, Ch. 1.
(ii) Shadow War, Ch. 2.
(c) Scheuer
(i) Imperial Hubris, Ch. 4-5.
(ii) Through Our Enemies’ Eyes, Ch. 3-5, 8-13.
(iii) Osama bin Laden. New York City: Oxford UP, 2011: Ch. 1, 4-7.
(d) Others
Bacevich, America’s War for the Greater Middle East,Ch. 11.
Bamford, A Pretext for War, Ch. 9.
Bowden, The Finish, Ch. 2, 5.
J. Burke, Al-Qaeda, Ch. 9.
G. Friedman, Ch. 3.
Gall, Ch. 13.
D.R. Griffin. Osama bin Laden: Dead or Alive? Northampton, Mass.: Olive Branch Press, 2009.
Jacboson & Colón, Ch. 5-6.
Johnson, Ian. A Mosque in Munich: Nazis, the CIA, and the Muslim Brotherhood in the West. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2010: Ch. 16.
E. Klein, All Out War, Ch. 35-36, Appendix B-C.
Labévière, Ch. 1.
Lance, Triple Cross, Ch. 13.
Miniter, Mastermind, Ch. 4-7, 9-11.
Rashid. Descent Into Chaos, Ch. 11, 13.
Risen, State of War, Ch. 8.
L. Wright, Looming Tower, Ch. 10, 12-13, 15.
ii. Pakistan
(1) Rashid
(a) Descent Into Chaos, Ch. 6, 8, 18.
(b) Pakistan on the Brink, Ch. 2-3, 7.
(2) Others
K. Barker, Ch. 13-18, 20-21, 23-24, 26.
Bayrasli, Elmira. From the Other Side of the World: Extraordinary Entrepreneurs, Unlikely Places. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2015: Ch. 3.
ElBaradi, Ch. 7.
E.J. Epstein, Annals of Unsolved Crime, Ch. 26.
Gall, Ch. 4-5, 8-9.
Lieven, Anatol. Pakistan: A Hard Country. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2011: Ch. 1, 3, 5-7.
Musharraf, Ch. 10, 12-16, 29-32.
Tomsen, Ch. 12-14, 17, 20.
iii. Saudi Arabia
Henderson, Simon. After King Abdullah: Succession in Saudi Arabia. Washington, D.C.: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2009: Ch. 2-6.
Matthiesen, Toby. The Other Saudis: Shiism, Dissent and Sectarianism. New York City: Cambridge UP, 2015: Ch. 5-7.
G.L. Posner, Secrets of the Kingdom, Ch. 15.
Tomsen, Ch. 15.
Trofimov, Ch. 1-2.
iv. Afghanistan
E.S. Margolis, American Raj, Ch. 9.
Martin, Mike. An Intimate War: An Oral History of the Helmand Conflict, 1978-2012. New York City: Oxford UP, 2014: Ch. 3-6.
Rall. After We Kill You, We Will Welcome You Back as Honored Guests: Unembedded in Afghanistan. New York City: Hill and Wang, 2014.
Tomsen, Ch. 1, 18-19, 21.
v. Turkey
Baran, Zeyno. Torn Country: Turkey Between Secularism and Islamism. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 2010: Ch. 3-4, 6.
Bayrasli, Ch. 1.
vi. Hezbollah
Cambanis, Ch. 2-7.
Trofimov, Ch. 12.
vii. Baer
(a) See No Evil, Ch. 14-18.
(b) Sleeping With the Devil, Ch. 1-3, 11.
(c) The Devil We Know, Ch. 7.
viii. J. Burke
a. Al-Qaeda, Ch.1, 7-8, 11-16, 18-19.
b. The New Threat: The Past, Present, and Future of Islamic Militancy. New York City: The New Press, 2015: Ch. 5-9.
ix. Lance
a. 1000 Years for Revenge, Ch. 4-5, 8, 10-12, 25-27, 31.
b. Cover Up, Ch. 2-3.
c. Deal With the Devil, Appendix F-G.
d. Triple Cross, Ch. 6-11, 14-19, 25, 27-28, 31, 33-35.
x. "Warraq"
(1) Why I Am Not a Muslim. Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, 1995: Ch. 1, 17.
(2) The Islam in Islamic Terrorism, Ch. 2, 22.
x. Other
Balasim, Hassan. The Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq. Trans. Jonathan Wright. New York City: Penguin Books, 2014.
Bergen, The Longest War, Ch. 12-15, 17.
Blumenthal, Max. The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza. New York City: Nation Books, 2015: Ch. 1-8, 10-18.
Bodansky, Target America, Ch. 3.
Bryce, Gusher of Lies, Ch. 7, 18-20.
Bullough, Oliver. Let Our Fame Be Great: Journeys Among the Defiant People of the Caucasus. 2010. Rpt. London: Penguin Books, 2011: Pt. 3.
Burr, J. Millard, and Robert O. Collins. Alms for Jihad: Charity And Terrorism In The Islamic World. New York City: Cambridge UP, 2006: Ch. 7-8, 10-11.
Caldwell, Christopher. Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam, and the West. 2009. Rpt. New York City: Anchor Books, 2010: Ch. 6-10.
Chayes, Ch. 6-8.
Cole, Juan. The New Arabs: How the Millennial Generation Is Changing the Middle East. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2014.
Coll, Ghost Wars, Ch. 16, 18-19, 26.
Collins, Aukai. My Jihad: The True Story of an American Mujahid's Amazing Journey From Usama Bin Laden's Training Camps to Counterterrorism With the FBI and CIA. 2002. Rpt. New York City: Pocket Star Books, 2003: Pt. 1, 3.
Cooley, Ch. 9, 11.
Coughlin, Stephen. Catastrophic Failure: Blindfolding America in the Face of Jihad. Washington, D.C.: Center for Security Policy Press, 2015: Pt. 4-12.
Deliso, Ch. 2-4.
Devji, Ch. 1, 3-5.
Dwyer, Jim et al. Two Seconds Under the World: Terror Comes to America -- the Conspiracy Behind the World Trade Center Bombing, rev. ed. New York City: Ballantine Books, 1995.
ElBaradi, Ch. 6.
E.J. Epstein, Annals of Unsolved Crime, Ch. 23-24.
Esposito, John L. Islam: The Straight Path, 4th rev. ed. New York City: Oxford UP, 2011: Ch. 6.
Fergusson, James. The World's Most Dangerous Place: Inside the Outlaw State of Somalia. Boston: Da Capo Press, 2013: Ch. 12-14.
Fiennes, Ch. 46.
Filkins, Pt. 1.
Gall, Ch. 3, 14.
Gaubatz, P. David, and Sperry. Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That’s Conspiring to Islamize America. Los Angeles: WND Books, 2009.
Hersh, Chain of Command, Pt. 6, Ch. 1, 3; Pt. 7.
Hiro, Ch. 10, 12-14, 16.
Houellebecq. Submission. Trans. Lorin Stein. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2015.
Jodidio, Philip. AE: Architecture in the Emirates. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2007.
Kaufmann, Eric. Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth? Demography and Politics in the Twenty-First Century. London: Profile Books, 2010: Ch. 4-5.
Kessler, The Terrorist Watch, Ch. 8.
Kohlmann, Evan. Al-Qaeda’s Jihad in Europe: The Afghan-Bosnian Network. Oxford, U.K.: Berg, 2004: Ch. 2-10.
Labévière, Ch. 4-5, 14-16, 18.
Leopold, Jason. News Junkie. Los Angeles: Process, 2006: Ch. 3-4.
Livingstone, Black Terror, White Soldiers, Ch. 34.
Malkin, Open Borders Inc., Appendix I.
E.S. Margolis, American Raj, Ch. 1.
McLoughlin, Peter. "Easy Meat: Multiculturalism, Islam and Child Sex Slavery. Nobby Beach, Qld.: Law and Freedom Foundation, 2014.
Milani, Abbas. The Myth of the Great Satan: A New Look at America's Relations with Iran. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 2010: Ch. 1.
Nance, Ch. 13-15.
Napoleoni, Ch. 1, 7, 9, 11, 13.
Palmer, Ch. 22-23.
Phillips, Melanie. Londonistan: How Britain Is Creating a Terror State Within, rev. ed. London: Gibson Square, 2007.
Ritter, Target Iran, Ch. 6.
Rosenbaum, How the End Begins, Ch. 8.
Ruppert, Ch. 8.
Salti, Rasha. World According to TomDispatch, 2008: Ch. 18.
Scheuer, Imperial Hubris, Ch. 3.
Simpson, Ch. 17.
Spencer, Robert. Onward Muslim Soldiers: How Jihad Still Threatens America and the West. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2003: Ch. 9-10.
Scahill, Dirty Wars, Ch. 5, 12, 30, 40, 43.
Scruton, Roger. The West and the Rest: Globalization and the Terrorist Threat. Wilmington, Del.: ISI Books, 2002: Ch. 4-5.
Stakelbeck, Erick. The Terrorist Next Door: How the Government Is Deceiving You About the Islamist Threat. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 2011.
J. Stern, J.M. Berger, & McBride, Ch. 1-2, 4-11.
Tenet & Harlow, Ch. 6.
Trofimov, Ch. 3-5, 13-14.
C. Unger, House of Bush, House of Saud, Ch. 11.
Updike. Terrorist. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006.
Worth, Robert F. A Rage for Order: The Middle East in Turmoil, From Tahrir Square to ISIS. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
Zelnick, Robert. Israel's Unilateralism: Beyond Gaza. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 2006: Ch. 4-5.
b. Israel
Beinart, Ch. 1, 4.
Bergman, Ch. 24-35.
Blumenthal, Ch. 9.
Bodansky, The Secret History of the Iraq War, Ch. 13.
Bregman, Ch. 8-14.
Chamish. Save Israel! Jerusalem: Zionist Book Club, 2002: Ch. 1-3, 5-8.
Chasnoff, Joel. The 188th Crybaby Brigade: A Skinny Kid From Chicago Fights Hezbollah -- A Memoir. New York City: Free Press, 2010.
Cook, Jonathan. Blood and Religion: The Unmasking of the Jewish and Democratic State. London: Pluto Press, 2006.
R.B. Cramer. How Israel Lost: The Four Questions. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2004: Ch. 2, 4.
Doron & Gellman, Ch. 18.
Fletcher, Ch. 9.
Levey, Gregory. Shut Up, I'm Talking, and Other Diplomacy Lessons I Learned in the Israeli Government: A Memoir. New York City: Free Press, 2008.
Mearsheimer & Walt, Ch.11.
B. Morris, Ch. 13-14.
Muravchik, Josha. Making David Into Goliath: How the World Turned Against Israel. New York City: Encounter Books, 2014: Ch. 10-11.
Parsi, Ch. 16.
Rashid. Descent Into Chaos, Ch. 16, 19.
Ritter, Target Iran, Ch. 1.
Rosenthal, Ch. 7, 9.
Shlaim, Ch. 13-19.
G. Thomas, Ch. 17, 27-33.
Van Creveld, The Land of Blood and Honey, Ch. 5.
Zelnick, Ch. 1-3, 6-8.
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. 3, 8.
c. Other
T.L. Friedman, Ch. 18-19.
Gutmann, Stephanie. The Other War: Israelis, Palestinians and the Struggle for Media Supremacy. San Francisco: Encounter Books, 2005.
Parsi, Ch. 1, 13-15, 17, 20, Appendix A-C.
Perkins, Ch. 44.
Yousef & Brackin, Ch. 1, 5-27.
52. Europe
a. Little Britain
i. "Dalrymple, Theodore" [Anthony Daniels]
(1) Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass. Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2002.
(2) Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality, rev. ed. London: Gibson Square, 2015.
ii. Sean Gabb
(1) Cultural Revolution, Culture War: How Conservatives Lost England, and How to Get It Back. London: The Hampden Press, 2007.
(2) Freedom of Speech in England: Its Present State and Likely Prospects. London: The Hampden Press, 2013.
iii. Others
Adiche, Ch. 23-30.
Beckett & Hencke, Ch. 8-14, 16.
Caldwell, Reflections on the Revolution in Europe, Ch. 3-4, 12.
Collins, Paul. Sixpence House: Lost in a Town of Books. New York City: Bloomsbury, 2003.
The Economic Consequences of Scottish Independence. Ed. David Bell, David Eiser, and Klaus Beckmann. Hamburg, Germany: Helmut Schmidt University, 2014.
Eshun, Eskow. Black Gold of the Sun: Searching for Home in Africa and Beyond. 2005. Rpt. New York City: Pantheon Books, 2006: Ch. 4-5.
Fiennes, Ch. 47, 49.
Goodhart, David. The Road to Somewhere: The Populist Revolt and the Future of Politics. London: Hurst & Co., 2017: Ch. 1-2, 5-9.
A History of the French in London: Liberty, Equality, Opportunity. Ed. Debra Kelly and Martyn Cornick. London: Institute of Historical Research, 2013: Ch. 15.
Meek, Ch. 5, 14.
Moorcock, Ch. 1-3, 22-27.
Patch, Harry, and Richard van Emden. The Last Fighting Tommy: The Life of Harry Patch, Last Veteran of the Trenches, 1898-2009, 2nd rev. ed. London: Bloomsbury, 2009: Ch. 11.
Prince Harry, Duke of Sussex [Henry Charles Albert David Windsor-Mountbatten]. Spare. New York City: Random House, 2023.
Read, Piers Paul. The Misogynist. London: Bloomsbury, 2010: Ch. 1-15, 17, 19-28.
A. Sherman, Ch. 7.
G. Thomas, Ch. 1.
Vidal, Point to Point Navigation, Ch. 27.
West, Ed. The Diversity Illusion: How Immigration Broke Britain and How to Solve It. 2013. Rpt. London: Gibson Square: 2014: Ch. 1, 4-14.
Wheatcroft, Ch. 9-12.
T. Young, No Hands Clapping, Ch. 1, 3-5, 11, 13, 15, 18-19, 25.
b. Russia
i. E.J. Epstein
(1) Annals of Unsolved Crime, Ch. 22, 25, 27.
(2) How America Lost Its Secrets, Ch. 24. 26.
ii. Others
Ames, Mark, and Taibbi. The eXile: Sex, Drugs, and Libel in the New Russia. New York City: Grove Press, 2000.
Bayrasli, Ch. 6.
J. Bernstein, Ch. 7.
Cherkashin & Feifer, Ch. 10.
Earley, Comrade J, Ch. 1, 9-39.
Farrell. The Philosopher’s Stone: Alchemy and the Secret Research for Exotic Matter. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2009: Ch. 6.
R.I. Friedman, Ch. 9.
Hollingsworth, Mark, and Stewart Lansley. Londongrad: From Russia With Cash: The Inside Story of the Oligarchs. London: Fourth Estate, 2009.
Katusa, Ch. 1-2, 6-9.
Klebnikov, Ch. 3-10.
E. Klein, All Out War, Ch. 2.
E. Lucas, 2-5, 7-8.
Pacepa & Rychlak, Ch. 34, 37-38.
Pomerantsev, Peter. Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: Adventures in Modern Russia. 2014. Rpt. London: Faber and Faber, 2015.
Russia in the Arctic, Ch. 2-4.
Satter, David. Darkness at Dawn: The Rise of the Russian Criminal State. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2003.
C. Unger, House of Trump, House of Putin, Ch. 9, 11, 15, 18.
c. France
Lévy, Justine. Nothing Serious. 2004. Trans. Charlotte Mandell. Hoboken, N.J.: Melville House Publishing, 2005.
Mayle, Peter. The Marseille Caper. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
Moynahan, Ch. 16.
d. Italy
Cappellani, Ottavio. Sicilian Tragedee. 2007. Trans. Frederika Randall. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
Dickie. Delizia!: The Epic History of the Italians and Their Food. 2007. Rpt. New York City: Free Press, 2008: Ch. 1, 19-20.
Read, Ch. 18.
e. Other
Adam, Hans Christian et al. Berlin: Portrait of a City. Ed. Benedikt Taschen. Cologne, Germany: Taschen, 2007: Ch. 5.
Bagus, Tragedy of the Euro, Ch. 4, 6-11.
L. Block, Step by Step, Ch. 15.
Day, Ch. 4-17.
Fletcher, Ch. 8.
Goodhart, Ch. 3-4.
Halberstam, Ch. 3-4, 8-10, 12-13, 29-32, 34-35, 38.
Kornai, By Force of Thought, Ch. 19-21.
E. Lucas, Ch. 6.
Lukacs, John. The End of the 20th Century and the End of the Modern Age. New York City: Ticknor & Field, 1993.
Perkins, Ch. 45.
Phillips, Arthur. Prague. New York City: Random House, 2002.
Simpson, Ch. 15.
Vuic, Ch. 17.
53. Las Vegas
Dalla, & Alson, Ch. 1, 14-19.
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. 16.
Earley, Super Casino: Inside the "New" Las Vegas. New York City: Bantam Books, 2000: Ch. 6-33.
E. Leonard, Get Shorty, Ch. 6.
J.L. Smith, Ch. 15, 18, 21, 35-36, 38.
Visalli, Santi. Las Vegas. New York City: Universe Publishing, 1996.
54. Conspiracy Theory
a. The Casolaro Murder
Cheri Seymour, Ch. 5, 13, 18-24.
K. Thomas & Keith, Ch. 22.
b. Other
Barkun, Ch. 1-2, 6, 11.
Hancock 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. 10, 13, 15.
M. Jacobson, Ch. 2-3, 8-14, 16-17, 21-24.
Knight, Peter. Conspiracy Culture: From the Kennedy Assassination to The X-Files. London: Routledge, 2000: Ch. 1, 6.
Pipes, Daniel. Conspiracy: How the Paranoid Style Flourishes and Where It Comes From. New York City: Free Press, 1997: Ch. 1.
J. Walker, United States of Paranoia, Ch. 12.
55. Central Asia
a. The Caucasus
Ascherson, Neal. Black Sea. London: Jonathan Cape, 1995: Ch. 10.
Baer, See No Evil, Ch. 13.
Bird, Chris. To Catch a Tartar: Notes From the Caucasus. London: John Murray, 2002.
Ruppert, Ch. 7.
Scahill, Blackwater, Ch. 11.
b. Pakistan
Bayrasli, Ch. 3.
Coll, Ghost Wars, Ch. 24, 28.
Musharraf, Ch. 11, 28.
c. Elsewhere
Bayrasli, Ch. 5.
Chayes, Ch. 9.
Meredith, Ch. 6.
Nourzhanov & Bleuer, Ch. 7, 9.
56. Africa
a. South Africa
Horowitz, Donald L. A Democratic South Africa?: Constitutional Engineering in a Divided Society. Berkeley, Calif.: U of California P, 1991.
Mercer, Ilana. Into the Cannibal’s Pot: Lessons for America From Post-Apartheid South Africa. Seattle: Stairway Press, 2011: Ch. 1, 3.
b. Nigeria
Adiche, Ch. 2, 4-8, 42, 44-55.
Bayrasli, Ch. 2.
Pierce, Steven. Moral Economies of Corruption: State Formation and Political Culture in Nigeria. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 2016: Ch. 4-5.
c. Other
Chayes, Ch. 10.
Eshun, Ch. 1, 6-7.
Fergusson, Ch. 1-11, 15.
Fletcher, Ch. 7.
Hancock. The Sign and the Seal: The Quest for the Lost Ark of the Covenant. 1992. Rpt.: London: Arrow, 2001: Ch. 8, 17-18.
Laughland, Ch. 16.
Maren, Ch. 9.
McFate, The Modern Mercenary, Ch. 11.
Perkins, Ch. 43.
Riggan, Jennifer. The Struggling State: Nationalism, Mass Militarization, and the Education of Eritrea. Philadelphia: Temple UP, 2016.
Simpson, Ch. 1, 18.
Smith, Ian. Bitter Harvest: Zimbabwe and the Aftermath of Its Independence, 2nd rev. ed. London: John Blake, 2001: Ch. 24.
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. 1, 11-14.
57. Latin America
a. Mexico
Bayrasli, Ch. 4.
Fuentes, Carlos. Vlad. 2004. Trans. E. Shaskan Bumas and Alejandro Branger. Champaign, Ill.: Dalkey Archive Press, 2012: Ch. 1-10, 12-14.
The Fugitive Reporters of Blog del Narco. Dying for the Truth: Undercover Inside Mexico’s Violent Drug War. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2012.
Grant, Richard. Bandit Roads: Into the Lawless Heart of Mexico. 2008. Rpt. London; Abacus, 2009.
Hearn, Adrian H. Diaspora and Trust: Cuba, Mexico, and the Rise of China. Durham, N.C.: Duke UP, 2016: Ch. 2.
Oppenheimer, Andres. Bordering on Chaos: Guerrillas, Stockbrokers, Politicians and Mexico's Road to Prosperity. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1996.
Portis, Charles. Gringos. 1991. Rpt. Collected Works. Ed. Jay Jennings. New York City: Library of America, 2023: 681-897.
J. Preston & Dillon, Ch. 1, 8-13, 15, 17.
Quinones, Sam. True Tales From Another Mexico: The Lynch Mob, the Popsicle Kings, Chalino, and the Bronx. Albuquerque, N.M.: U of New Mexico P, 2001.
Shiner. Glimpses, rev. ed. Burton, Mich.: Subterranean Press, 2008: Ch. 5.
b. Cuba
Hearn, Ch. 1.
Robinson, Eugene. Last Dance in Havana: The Final Days of Fidel and the Start of the New Cuban Revolution. New York City: Free Press, 2004.
c. Argentina
Read, Ch. 16.
Shiner. Dark Tangos. Burton, Mich.: Subterranean Press, 2011.
d. Other
Carver, Robert. Paradise With Serpents: Travels in the Lost World of Paraguay. London: Harper Perennial, 2007: Ch. 2-6, 8-14, 16-21.
Gonsalves, Marc et al. Out of Captivity: Surviving 1,967 Days in the Columbian Jungle. New York City: William Morrow, 2009.
Grann, David. The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon. 2009. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Departures, 2010: Ch. 2-3, 7, 11, 13, 19, 21, 23, 25.
Todd Miller, Ch. 7.
Niemietz, Ch. 9.
Neuman, William. Things Are Never So Bad That They Can't Get Worse: Inside the Collapse of Venezuela. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2022: Ch. 1-3, 5, 7-32.
Perkins, Ch. 1-3, 41.
Vargas Llosa. The Discreet Hero. Trans. Edith Grossman. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2016.
58. Chicago
a. Obama
C.P. Andersen, Barack and Michelle, Ch. 1, 5-6.
Bergen, Manhunt, Ch. 7.
Corsi. The Obama Nation: Leftist Politics and the Cult of Personality. New York City: Threshold Editions, 2008: Ch. 6.
Freddoso, The Case Against Barack Obama, Ch. 1-3, 9-11.
E. Klein, Amateur, Ch. 4.
Limbaugh, Ch. 1-2, 13.
b. The Newspapers
K. Barker, Ch. 19.
Ciccone, Ch. 1.
59. Southern Florida
Nash, Eric P., and Randall C. Robinson Jr. MiMo: Miami Modern Revealed. San Francisco: Chronicle Books, 2004: Ch. 10.
G.L. Posner, Miami Babylon, Ch. 22-38.
Rieff. The Exile: Cuba in the Heart of Miami. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 1993.
60. The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill
Achenbach, Joel. A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher. New York City: Simon & Schuster, 2011.
Ventura & Russell, Ch. 16.
61. East Asia
a. The Philippines
Finch, Ch. 3-28.
McCoy, Policing America's Empire, Ch. 14-16.
Syjuco, Miguel. Ilustrado. New York City: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010.
b. The People's Republic of China
i. Hong Kong Special Administrative Region
Cheung, Karen. The Impossible City: A Hong Kong Memoir. New York City: Random House, 2022.
Hung, Ch. 1, 4, 7-9.
Lim, Ch. 1, 5-8.
Mathews, Gordon. Ghetto at the Center of the World: Chungking Mansions, Hong Kong. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 2011.
ii. Other
Anatomy of the Crash, Ch. 7.
Bayrasli, Ch. 7.
Bergstrom, Mary. All Eyes East: Lessons From the Front Lines of Marketing to China’s Youth. New York City: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.
Buruma. Bad Elements: Chinese Rebels From Los Angeles to Beijing. New York City: Random House, 2001: Pt. 1; Pt. 2, Ch. 3; Pt. 3.
Chorzempa, Martin. The Cashless Revolution: China's Reinvention of Money and the End of America's Domination of Finance and Technology. New York City: PublicAffairs, 2023.
E.J. Epstein, How America Lost Its Secrets, Ch. 22.
Feigon, Ch. 5-10.
Freeman, Michael, and Xiao Dan Wang. China Contemporary. London: Thames & Hudson, 2008.
Jenner, W.J.F. The Tyranny of History: The Roots of China’s Crisis, rev. ed. London: Penguin Books, 1994: Ch. 12.
McCorduck, Ch. 31.
Meredith, Ch. 3, 5, 7.
Perkins, Ch. 39-40.
Schwarz, Ch. 39.
Senger, Michael P. Snake Oil: How Xi Jinping Shut Down the World. San Francisco: Michael P. Senger, 2021: Ch. 2.
Shepard, Wade. Ghost Cities of China: The Story of Cities Without People in the World’s Most Populated Country. London: Zed Books, 2015.
Stockman, Trumped!, Ch. 18.
Taiwan and China: Fitful Embrace. Ed. Lowell Dittmer. Oakland, Calif.: U of California P, 2017: Ch. 5-6, 13.
P. Wang, Ch. 3, 5.
c. Singapore
Buruma, Bad Elements, Pt. 2, Ch. 1.
Kwan, Kevin. Crazy Rich Asians. 2013. Rpt. New York City: Anchor Books, 2014.
d. Elsewhere
Buruma, Bad Elements, Pt. 2, Ch. 2.
ElBaradi, Ch. 4.
Higgs, Robert. Against Leviathan: Government Power and a Free Society. Oakland, Calif.: The Independent Institute, 2004: Ch. 23.
Massey, Sujata. Girl in a Box. New York City: HarperCollins Publishers, 2006.
Perkins, Ch. 42.
Reid, T.R. Confucius Lives Next Door: What Living in the East Teaches Us About Living in the West. 1999. Rpt. New York City: Vintage Books, 2000: Ch. 1-3, 5-10.
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. 7, 11.
Taiwan and China, Ch. 1-4, 7-12, 14-15.
62. The Rest of the World
Abbott, Ch. 15.
Baer, Sleeping With the Devil, Ch. 9.
Cutler, Ian. Jim Christy: A Vagabond Life. Port Townsend, Wash.: Feral House, 2019: Ch. 8.
Fuentes. Adam in Eden. Trans. Trans. Bumas and Branger. Champaign, Ill.: Dalkey Archive Press, 2012.
Laughland, Ch. 14-15.
Meredith, Ch. 8.
Rogers, Jim. Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Investor's Road Trip. New York City: Random House, 2003.
Simpson, Ch. 16, 19.
S.B. Smith, For Love of Politics, Ch. 30.
Troost, J. Maarten. Getting Stoned With Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu. New York City: Broadway Books, 2006.
63. Social Mores
a. Tucker Max
i. I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell, 2nd rev. ed. New York City: Citadel Press/Kensington Publishing Corp., 2009.
ii. Assholes Finish First, rev. ed. New York City: Gallery Books, 2011.
iii. Hilarity Ensues. Austin, Texas: Blue Heeler Books, 2012.
iv. Sloppy Seconds: The Tucker Max Leftovers. Austin, Texas: Blue Heeler Books, 2012.
b. Joseph M. Reagle Jr.
i. Reading the Comments: Likers, Haters, and Manipulators at the Bottom of the Web. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2015.
ii. Hacking Life: Systematized Living and Its Discontents. Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, 2019.
c. Others
Au-Yeung & Jeans, Ch. 5.
Blakeley, Kiri. Can't Think Straight: A Memoir of Mixed-Up Love. New York City: Citadel Press/Kesnington Publishing Corp., 2011.
Bolen, W.R. Total Frat Move. New York City: Grand Central Publishing, 2013.
Boyd, Danah. It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2014.
Douthat. Bad Religion: How We Became a Nation of Heretics. New York City: Free Press, 2012: Ch. 7.
Gillespie, Tarleton. Custodians of the Internet: Platforms, Content Moderation, and the Hidden Decisions That Shape Social Media. New Haven, Conn.: Yale UP, 2018.
Isaacson, Ch. 21.
Marin, Rick. Cad: Confessions of a Toxic Bachelor. New York City: Hyperion, 2003.
Potter, Ch. 5, 7.
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. 1-3, 5-7, 9-15.
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Roiphe, Katie. Last Night in Paradise: Sex and Morals at the Century's End. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1997.
Ronson. So You’ve Been Publicly Shamed. New York City: Riverhead Books, 2015.
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F. Schwarz, Ch. 41.
Straus, Jillian. Unhooked Generation: The Truth About Why We're Still Single. New York City: Hyperion, 2006.
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Vernon, Ch. 16-22.
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64. The Jews
R. Cohen, Ch. 25-26, 30-34.
Rosenthal, Ch. 10.
Sanua, Ch. 11-12.
65. The Roman Catholic Church
a. Benedict XVI [Joseph Ratzinger]
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b. Other
C. Bernstein & Politi, Pt. 8.
P. Jenkins, The New Anti-Catholicism, Ch. 1, 6, 10.
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G.L. Posner, God’s Bankers, Ch. 29-43.
66. Images of America Series
Carlucci, Phil. Images of America: Long Island Golf. Charleston, S.C.: Arcadia Publishing, 2015: Ch. 7.
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67. F. Barthelme
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68. Coupland
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b. Shampoo Planet. New York City: Pocket Books, 1992.
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j. Binge: 60 Short Stories to Make Your Brain Feel Different. New York City: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.
69. Ferris
a. The Unnamed. 2010. Rpt. New York City: Back Bay Books, 2013.
b. The Dinner Party and Other Stories. New York City: Little, Brown and Co., 2017.
70. Franzen
a. Strong Motion. New York City: Farrar Straus Giroux, 1992.
b. Purity. New York City: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2015.
71. Houellebecq
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b. The Elementary Particles. Pt. 1, Ch. 1-3; Pt. 2, Ch. 1-11, 14, 16-22; Pt. 3.
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72. Lethem
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b. A Gambler’s Anatomy. New York City: Doubleday, 2016.
73. Oates
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h. Dear Husband,. New York City: Ecco Press, 2009: Pt. 2.
i. Sourland, Pt. 3.
j. A Widow's Story, Ch. 1-42, 44-64, 66-68, 70-73, 75-86.
k. Black Dahlia and White Rose, Pt. 3.
l. Carthage, Ch. 15, 7-8, 11-13, 15-17.
m. Lovely, Dark, Deep: Stories. New York City: The Ecco Press, 2014.
n. Night, Neon: Tales of Mystery and Suspense. New York City: The Mysterious Press, 2021.
74. Tom Perrotta
a. Little Children. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2004.
b. The Abstinence Teacher. New York City: St. Martin's Press, 2007.
75. P. Roth
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Bailey, Ch. 36-50.
76. B. Sterling
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77. Updike
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Begley, Ch. 11-12.
78. Gore Vidal
a. The Golden Age. New York City: Doubleday, 2000: 427-464.
b. Point to Point Navigation, Ch. 7, 16, 22, 50-53.
79. David Foster Wallace
a. Oblivion: Stories. 2004. Rpt. New York City: Back Bay Books, 2005.
b. Consider the Lobster and Other Essays. 2005. Rpt. Boston: Back Bay Books, 2007.
80. Wolfe
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b. I Am Charlotte Simmons. New York City: Farrar Straus Giroux, 2004.
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81. L. Wright
a. Looming Tower, Ch. 16-19.
b. Going Clear, Ch. 7-11.
82. Other
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Adiche, Ch. 1, 3, 9-22, 31-39, 41, 43.
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Authers, Ch. 15-16.
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Bartley, Ch. 1, 17-18.
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Blonsky, Ch. 18-19.
S.G. Bloom, Ch. 1-15, 18, 20.
Boyle, T. Coraghessan. The Relive Box and Other Stories. New York City: Ecco, 2017.
W.F. Buckley, The Rake, Ch. 26, 28, 30, 33-37, 42, 45-47, 51.
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Carducci, Ch. 19.
D. Carr, Ch. 32-34, 37, 43-44, 49, 51-53, 55.
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Chafets, Devil's Night, Ch. 7.
Cohan, House of Cards, Ch. 23-26.
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N. Cook, Ch. 7-10, 23.
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De Stefano, Ch. 8-9.
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Franzese, Pt. 2, Ch. 26-48.
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Hastings, Pt. 1; Pt. 3, Ch. 14-15; Pt. 4, Ch. 18-20; Pt. 5-8.
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Irwin, Ch. 1, 13-17.
Isaacson, Ch. 31, 35-42.
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Mullis, Ch. 2.
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