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Authors: Hugh Brogan
C. VANN WOODWARD,
The Strange Career of Jim Crow
(New York, Oxford University Press, 3rd revised edn, 1974).
LINCOLN STEFFENS,
The Shame of the Cities
.
JOHN M. BLUM,
The Republican Roosevelt
(Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1954).
PATRICK RENSHAW,
The Wobblies
(London, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1967).
GEORGE E. MOWRY,
The California Progressives
(Berkeley, University of California Press, 1951).
JOHN M. BLUM,
Woodrow Wilson and the Politics of Morality
(Boston, Little, Brown, 1956).
GEORGE KENNAN,
American Diplomacy 1900–1950
(Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1951).
BARBARA TUCHMAN,
The Zimmermann Telegram
(New York, Dell, 1958).
GENE SMITH,
When the Cheering Stopped
(London, Hutchinson, 1964).
WILLIAM E. LEUCHTENBURG,
The Perils of Prosperity 1914–1932
(Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1958).
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD,
The Great Gatsby
.
ANDREW SINCLAIR,
Prohibition
(London, Faber, 1962).
SAMUEL LUBELL,
The Future of American Politics
(Garden City, NY, Doubleday, 2nd revised edn 1956).
J. K. GALBRAITH,
The Great Crash
(London, Hamish Hamilton, 1955).
STUDS TERKEL,
Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression
(New York, Pantheon, 1970).
WILLIAM E. LEUCHTENBURG,
Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal
(New York and London, Harper & Row, 1963).
JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS,
Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox
(New York, Harcourt, Brace, 1956).
D. W. BROGAN,
The American Political System
(London, Hamish Hamilton, with new introduction, 1943).
DEAN ACHESON,
Morning and Noon
(London, Hamish Hamilton, 1967).
RICHARD POLENBERG,
One Nation Divisible
(Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1980).
HERBERTFEIS,
The Road to Pearl Harbor
(Princeton,
NJ
, Princeton University Press, 1950).
JAMES MACGREGOR BURNS,
Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom
(London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1971).
DANIEL YERGIN
Shattered Peace: The Origins of the Cold War and the National Security State
(Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, 1980).
DEANACHESON,
Present at the Creation
(London, Hamish Hamilton, 1969).
DAVID CAUTE
,
The Great Fear
(London, Seeker & Warburg, 1978).
RICHARD H. ROVERE,
Senator Joe McCarthy
(London, Methuen, 1960).
THEODORE H. WHITE,
The Making of the President 1960
(London, Cape, 1962).
TAYLOR BRANCH,
Parting the Waters
(New York, Simon & Schuster, 1988).
DAVID J. GARROW
,
Bearing the Cross: Martin Luther King and Southern Christian Leadership Conference
(New York, Morrow, 1986).
MICHAEL HARRINGTON,
The Other America: Poverty in the United States
(Harmondsworth, Penguin Books, revised edn, 1971).
ROBERT F. KENNEDY,
Thirteen Days: The Cuban Missile Crisis
(London, Macmillan, 1969).
GERALD POSNER,
Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of
JFK
(London, Warren, 1994).
NEIL SHEEHAN
(ed.),
The Pentagon Papers
(Chicago, Quadrangle Books, 1971).
MICHAEL R. BESCHLOSS,
Taking Charge: the Johnson White House Tapes, 1963–1964
(New York, Simon and Schuster, 1998).
GUENTER LEWY
,
America in Vietnam
(New York, Oxford University Press, 1978).
J. ANTHONY LUKAS,
Nightmare: The Underside of the Nixon Years
(New York, Viking, 1976).
DAVID P. CALLEO
,
The Imperious Economy
(Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1982).
MICHAEL FRENCH,
US Economic History Since 1945
(Manchester, Manchester University Press, 1997).
WILLIAM ISSEL,
Social Change in the United States 1945–1983
(London, Macmillan, 1985).
JOHN DUMBRELL,
American Foreign Policy: Carter to Clinton
(London, Macmillan, 1997).
IWANW. MORGAN
,
Beyond the Liberal Consensus: A Political History of the United States Since 1965
(London, Hurst, 1994).
Abolitionism
(see also
Anti-slavery
),
199
,
283
,
287
,
290
,
292–4
,
295
,
296
,
298
,
301
,
302
,
304
,
305
,
306
,
307
,
348
,
412
,
414
,
620
and John Brown,
308–9
and Civil War,
323–4
,
328
,
329
,
331
,
332
Acheson, Dean,
592
,
593
,
594
,
602
,
625
Adams, Abigail,
171n
Adams, Charles Francis,
301
,
312
Adams, John (Pres. 1797–1801),
50
,
155
,
176
,
187
,
193
,
195
,
210
,
263
,
271
,
500
as patriot leader,
137
and Declaration of Independence,
174–5
and Peace of Paris,
185
as Vice-Pres.,
257
as Pres.,
209
,
211–12
,
252n
,
261–2
,
272
quoted
, on James Otis,
125
; on revolutionary crowd,
127
; on the Revolution,
135
; on Samuel Adams,
138
; on Boston taverns,
139
; on Boston Tea Party,
159
Adams, John Quincy (Pres. 1825–
9
),
66
,
254
,
255
,
266
,
271
,
272–3
,
276
,
296
,
370
,
449
early life and character,
138–9
as first political boss,
139
as patriot leader,
141n
,
147–50
,
153–4
,
156
,
159
and Boston Tea Party,
159
and ratification of Constitution,
201–2
‘affirmative action’,
676
Africa,
4
,
11
,
28
,
101–3
,
280–81
,
295
,
438
,
450
,
619
,
681
African-Americans
(see also
Free blacks
;
Freedmen, black
;
Slavery
;
Slaves
),
62
,
95
,
99
,
101
,
102–3
,
105
,
243
,
280
,
284
,
288–9
in revolutionary crowd,
127
in the North,
127
,
293
,
372
,
619
,
620
,
622
,
624
,
675
and Abraham Lincoln,
344
under Reconstruction,
349–72
passim
in New York City,
401
in the South,
433
in the Depression,
620
and New Deal,
538–9
,
545
,
547
,
582
black middle class,
626
,
642
,
644
Bakke case,
676
Africans,
28
,
64
,
68
,
99
,
103
,
107
,
108
,
199
,
281
,
285
,
287
Agnew, Spiro T.,
667
Agricultural Adjustment Act,
525
,
538
Agricultural Adjustment Administration (‘Triple A’),
535–9
,
549
Agriculture, Secretary of,
536
,
539
,
611
Agriculture
(see also
Cotton
;
Farmers
;
Maize
;
Wheat
),
250
,
286
,
288
,
358
,
366
,
379–80
,
396
,
618
,
637
Agriculture, US Department of,
454
Aguinaldo, Emilio,
441
Alabama,
67
,
187
,
227
,
283
,
286
,
294
,
307
,
311
,
361
,
364
,
372
,
423
,
618
and civil rights movement,
627
,
635
,
660–61
Alabama, Florida
, and
Shenandoah
, CSS,
334
Alabama, University of,
661
Alamance River, Battle of the,
153
Alamogordo, New Mexico,
585
Purchase of,
356
Albany, New York,
35
Albany Plan and conference,
109
,
106
,
131
,
142
Albany Regency,
267
,
269
,
272
,
276
,
369
Albemarle Sound,
52
Aldrich, Sen. Nelson Wilmarth,
456
,
492
Algeciras Conference,
468
Algeria,
652
Alien and Sedition Acts (1798),
262
,
272–3
,
478
Allen, Rev. John,
179
Allen, William,
96
Altgeld, Gov. John Peter,
430
,
431
,
433
Alton, Illinois,
293n
Amalgamated Clothing Workers,
535
America First Committee,
558
,
559
,
567–8
American Colonisation
Society,
295
American Federation of Labor (AFL),
404
,
419–21
,
459
,
477
,
506
,
530
,
531–2
,
535
,
567
,
603
,
621
American Historical Association,
393
American Legion,
588
American Missionary Association,
361
American Party
see
‘Know Nothings’
American Railway Union,
421
‘American way of life’,
93
,
192
,
273
,
437
,
588
Amherst, Gen. Sir Jeffrey,
112
,
120
Anden regime see
Old order
Anderson, Major Robert,
314
,
316
Angell, Norman,
476
Anglicanism
see
Church of England
;
Episcopalianism
Animals, North American, extinction of,
9
Annapolis, Maryland,
194
US Naval Academy,
656
Anthony, Susan Brownell,
464n
Anti-Americanism,
658
Anti-Catholicism,
162n
,
404
,
465
,
504