American History Revised (89 page)

Morse, Arthur D.
While Six Million Died: A Chronicle of American Apathy.
Random House, 1967.

Morse, John T., Jr.
American Statesmen.
Houghton Mifflin, 1898.

Murray, Charles.
Real Education.
Crown, 2008.

Myers, Margaret G.
A Financial History of the United States.
Columbia University Press, 1970.

Nettels, Curtis P.
The Emergence of a National Economy. 1775–1815.
Harper & Row, 1962.

Newman, John M.
JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue and the Struggle for Power.
Warner Books, 1992.

Nicholas, Lynn H.
The Rape of Europa: The Fate of Europe’s Treasures in the Third Reich and the Second World War.
Alfred A. Knopf, 1994.

Noble, William.
Bookbanning in America.
Paul S. Eriksson, 1990.

Nolan, Alan T.
Lee Considered.
University of North Carolina Press, 1991.

Norman, Michael M, and Elizabeth M. Norman.
Tears in the Darkness: The Story of the Bataan Death March and Its Aftermath.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2009.

Nye, Peter Joffre, with Jeff Groman and Mark Tyson.
The Six-Day Bicycle Races: America’s Jazz-Age Sport.
Van Der Plas Publications/Cycle Publishing, 2006.

Oates, Stephen B.
With Malice Toward None: The Life of Abraham Lincoln.
Harper & Row, 1977.

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Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Myths.
Harper & Row, 1984.

Ogelsby, Carl.
The JFK Assassination: The Facts and the Theories.
Signet Books, 1992.

Olmsted, Frederick Law.
The Cotton Kingdom: A Traveller’s Observations on Cotton and Slavery in the American Slave Trade.
2 vols. Mason Brothers (New York), 1861.

Packard, Vance.
The Ultra Rich: How Much Is Too Much.
Little, Brown, 1989.

Packer, George.
The Assassin’s Gate.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2005.

Panati, Charles. Extraordinary Origins of Everyday Things. Harper & Row, 1987.

Parrish, Thomas.
The American Flag.
Simon & Schuster, 1973.

Partridge, Bellamy, and Otto Bettman.
As We Were: Family Life in America, 1850–1900.
McGraw-Hill, 1946.

Patterson, Jerry E.
The Vanderbilts.
Harry N. Abrams, 1989.

Patton, Phil.
Made in U.S.A.
Grove Weidenfeld, 1992.

Paulos, John Allen.
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences.
Hill & Wang, 1988.

Payton, Walter, with Don Yaeger.
Never Die Easy: the Autobiography of Walter Payton.
Villard Books, 2000.

Perry, Mark.
Grant and Twain.
Random House, 2004.

Persico, Joseph E.
Roosevelt’s Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage.
Random House, 2001.

Peterson, Edward N.
The American Occupation of Germany.
Wayne State University Press, 1977.

Peterson, Peter G. Facing Up: How to Rescue the Economy from Crushing Debt and Restore the American Dream. Simon & Schuster, 1993.

___________. Running on Empty: How the Democratic and Republican Parties Are Bankrupting Our Future and What We Can Do About It. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004.

Petillo, Carol M.
Douglas MacArthur: The Philippine Years.
Indiana University Press, 1981.

Phillips, Cabell.
The Truman Presidency.
Macmillan, 1966.

Pierpont, Claudia Roth.
Passionate Minds: Women Rewriting the World.
Random House/Vintage Books, 2001.

Pogue, Forrest C.
George C. Marshall: Statesman.
Viking, 1987.

Porter, Bruce D.
War and the Rise of the State: The Military Foundations of Modern Politics.
MacMillan Free Press, 1994.

Posner, Gerald.
Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK.
Random House, 1993.

Potter, David M.
Lincoln and His Party in the Secession Crisis.
Yale University Press, 1942.

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People of Plenty: Economic Abundance and the American Character.
University of Chicago Press, 1954.

Powell, Jim.
Great Emancipations: How the West Abolished Slavery.
Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Prange, Gordon W.
Miracle at Midway.
Penguin Books, 1982.

Preble, Christopher A.
John F. Kennedy and the Missile Gap.
Northern Illinois University Press, 2004.

Prestowitz, Clyde.
Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions.
Basic Books, 2002.

Price, Charles.
A Golf Story: Bobby Jones.
Athenaeum, 1986.

Prout, Henry G.
A Life of George Westinghouse.
Beard Books, 2001 (reprint of 1921 edition).

Pusey, Merlo J.
Charles Evans Hughes.
The Macmillan Company, 1951.

Ramsland, Katherine.
Cemetery Stories.
HarperCollins, 2001.

Rapoport, Ron.
The Immortal Bobby: Bobby Jones and the Golden Age of Golf.
John Wiley & Sons, 2005.

Ravenel, Harriott H.
Life and Times of William Lowndes of South Carolina, 1782–1822.
Houghton Mifflin, 1901.

Reader’s Digest Strange Stories, Amazing Facts of America’s Past:
Reader’s Digest Association, 1990.

Rehnquist, William H.
Centennial Crisis: The Disputed Election of 1876.
Alfred A. Knopf, 2004.

Reisner, Marc.
Cadillac Desert: The American West and Its Disappearing Water.
Penguin, 1987.

Remini, Robert V.
Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833–1845.
Harper & Row, 1984.

Renehan, Edward J., Jr.
The Lion’s Pride: Theodore Roosevelt and His Family.
Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Commodore: The Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt.
Basic Books, 2007.

Rhodes, Benjamin D. The Anglo-American Winter War with Russia, 1918–1919. Greenwood Press, 1988.

Rhodes, Richard.
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb.
Simon & Schuster, 1995.

Riddle, Donald H.
The Truman Committee.
Rutgers University Press, 1964.

Ritter, Halsted L.
Washington as a Businessman.
Sears Publishing Co., 1931.

Ritter, Lawrence S., and Mark Rucker.
The Babe: A Life in Pictures.
Ticknor & Fields, 1988.

Roberts, Andrew. A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Since 1900. HarperCollins, 2006.

Robinson, Lloyd.
The Stolen Election: Hayes versus Tilden—1876.
Forge Books, 2001 (reprint of 1968 edition).

Roleff, Tamara L, ed.
The Atom Bomb.
Greenhaven Press, 2000.

Roosevelt, Theodore.
The Naval War of 1812.
Naval Institute Press, 1987 (reprint of 1882 edition).

Rorimer, James J.
Survival: The Salvage and Protection of Art in War.
Abelard Press, 1950.

Rosenberg, Emily S.
A Date Which Will Live: Pearl Harbor in American Memory.
Duke University Press, 2003.

Rosenberg, Nathan, and L. E. Birdzell Jr.
How the West Grew Rich.
Basic Books, 1986.

Rosenthal, A. M.
Thirty-Eight Witnesses.
McGraw-Hill, 1964.

Ross, Shelley.
Fall from Grace: Sex, Scandal, and Corruption in American Politics from 1702 to the Present.
Random House, 1988.

Russell, Charles E.
Haym Salomon and the Revolution.
Cosmopolitan, 1930.

Sakolski, A. M.
The Great American Land Bubble: The Amazing Story of Land-Grabbing, Speculations, and Booms from Colonial Days to the Present Time.
Harper & Bros., 1932.

Santayana, George.
Dominations and Powers: Reflections on Liberty, Society, and Government.
Scribner’s, 1951.

Schaffer, Ronald.
Wings of Judgment: American Bombing in World War II.
Oxford University Press, 1985.

Schaller, Marshall.
Douglas MacArthur, The Far Eastern General.
Oxford University Press, 1989.

Schama, Simon.
Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution.
HarperCollins, 2006.

Schivelbusch, Wolfgang.
The Railway Journey: Trains and Travel in the 19th Century.
Urizen Books, 1980.

Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. The Cycles of American History. Houghton Mifflin, 1986.

__________. The Disuniting of America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society. W. W. Norton, 1993.

Schweizer, Peter.
Reagan’s War.
Anchor, 2003.

Scott, James.
The Attack on the Liberty: The Untold Story of Israel’s Deadly 1967 Assault on a U.S. Spy Ship.
Simon & Schuster, 2009.

Scott, James Brown.
Robert Bacon: Life and Letters.
Ayer Publishing, 1975.

Setright, L. J. K.
Drive On! A Social History of the Motor Car.
Granta Books (UK), 2003.

Severo, Richard, and Lewis Milford.
The Wages of War: When America’s Soldiers Came Home—from Valley Forge to Vietnam.
Simon & Schuster, 1989.

Shaara, Michael.
The Killer Angels.
Ballantine Books, 1975.

Shammas, Carole.
Inheritance in America.
Rutgers University Press, 1990.

Sheriff, Carol.
The Artificial River.
Hill & Wang, 1997.

Shields-West, Eileen.
The World Almanac of Presidential Campaigns.
Pharos Books, 1992.

Shillony, Ben-Ami.
Politics and Culture in Wartime Japan.
Oxford University Press, 1981.

Shover, John L.
First Majority—Last Minority: The Transforming of Rural Life in America.
Northern Illinois University Press, 1976.

Silverman, Kenneth.
The Life and Times of Cotton Mather.
Columbia University Press, 1985.

Simpson, Howard W.
Invisible Armies: The Impact of Disease on American History.
Bobbs-Merrill, 1980.

Skowronek, Stephen.
The Politics Presidents Make.
Harvard University Press, 1993.

Slaughter, Anne-Marie.
The Idea That Is America: Keeping Faith with Our Values in a Dangerous World.
Perseus Books, 2007.

Smith, Elbert P.
Francis Preston Blair.
Macmillan Free Press, 1980.

Smith, Gene.
Lee and Grant.
New American Library, 1984.

Snyder, Louis L.
The War: 1939–1945.
Messner, 1962.

Sobel, Robert.
The Great Boom: 1950–2000: How a Generation of Americans Created the World’s Most Prosperous Society.
St. Martin’s Press, 2000.

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The Money Manias: The Eras of Great Speculation in America 1770–1970.
Beard Books, 2000 (reprint of 1973 edition).

Southwick, Leslie H. Presidential Also-Rans and Running Mates, 1788–1980. McFarland, 1984.

Sowell, Thomas.
Ethnic America.
Basic Books, 1981.

Spector, Ronald H.
Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan.
MacMillan/Free Press, 1985.

Stanton, Doug.
In Harm’s Way.
Henry Holt, 2001.

Steinberg, Alfred.
The First Ten: The Founding Presidents and Their Administrations.
Doubleday, 1967.

Stilgoe, John R.
Common Landscape of America, 1580 to 1845.
Yale University Press, 1982.

Stoler, Mark A.
George C. Marshall: Soldier Statesman of the American Century.
Twayne, 1989.

Stratton, Joanna L.
Pioneer Women: Voices from the Kansas Frontier.
Simon & Schuster, 1981.

Strouse, Jean.
Morgan: American Financier.
Random House, 1999.

Surowieki, James.
The Wisdom of Crowds.
Doubleday, 2004.

Swiggett, Howard.
The Extraordinary Mr. Morris.
Doubleday, 1952.

Takaki, Ronald.
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America.
Little, Brown, 1993.

Tally, Steve.
Bland Ambition.
Harcourt, 1992.

Teague, Michael.
Mrs. L: Conversations with Alice Roosevelt Longworth.
Doubleday, 1981.

Tedlow, Richard S.
Giants of Enterprise: Seven Business Innovators and the Empires They Built.
HarperBusiness, 2001.

Thomas, Dana.
Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster.
Penguin, 2007.

Thomas, Frank.
Last Will and Testament: Wills Ancient and Modern.
St. Martin’s Press, 1972.

Thomas, Gordon, and Max Morgan Witts.
Enola Gay.
Stein & Day, 1977.

Thoreau, Henry David.
Walden.
Princeton University Press, 1973.

Thorndike, Joseph J., Jr.
The Very Rich: A History of American Wealth.
American Heritage, 1976.

Tindall, Bruce, and Mark Watson.
Did Mohawks Wear Mohawks?
Quill, 1990.

Tocqueville, Alexis de.
Democracy in America.
Alfred A. Knopf, 1945 edition.

Train, John.
John Train’s Most Remarkable Occurrences.
HarperCollins, 1990.

Trumbo, Dalton.
Johnny Got His Gun.
Citadel Press, 1991.

Tuchman, Barbara W.
Practicing History.
Ballantine Books, 1982.

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The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam.
Alfred A. Knopf, 1984.

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The First Salute: A View of the American Revolution.
Cardinal Books (UK), 1989.

Twain, Mark. 1601, and Is Shakespeare Dead? Oxford University Press, 1996.

Tye, Larry. Rising from the Rails: Pullman Porters and the Making of the Black Middle Class. Henry Holt, 2004.

van der Vat, Dan.
The Grand Scuttle: The Sinking of the German Fleet at Scapa Flow in 1919.

Hodder and Stoughton (London), 1982.

Vanderbilt, Arthur T., II. Fortune’s Children: The Fall of the House of Vanderbilt. William Morrow, 1989.

Vidal, Gore.
United States: Essays 1952–1992.
Random House, 1992.