GENERAL REFERENCES
GENERAL
John Brooks, The Great Leap: The Past Twenty-five Years in America (New York: Harper & Row, 1966);
Paul Allen Carter, Another Part of the Fifties (New York: Columbia University Press, 1983);
Chronicle of the 20th Century (Mount Kisco, N.Y.: Chronicle Publications, 1987);
Collier's Encyclopedia Yearbook (New York: Crowell-Collier, 1950-1959);
Current Biography Yearbook (New York: Wilson, [various years]);
John Patrick Diggins, The Proud Decades (New York: Norton, 1988);
John W. Dodds, Everyday Life in Twentieth Century America (New York: Putnam, 1965);
Jane Duden, 1950s (New York: Crestwood House, 1989);
David Halberstam, The Fifties (New York: Villard Books, 1993);
Jeffrey Peter Hart, When the Going Was Good: American Life in the Fifties (New York: Crown, 1982);
Brett Harvey, The Fifties: A Women's Oral History (New York: HarperCollins, 1993);
Paul Johnson, Modern Times: From the Twenties to the Nineties, revised edition (New York: HarperCollins, 1991);
Peter Lewis, The Fifties (New York: Lippincott, 1978);
Gerald McConnell, Thirty Years of Award Winners (New York: Hastings House, 1981);
Jeffrey Merritt, Day by Day: The Fifties (New York: Facts on File, 1979);
Douglas T. Miller and Marion Nowak, The Fifties: The Way We Really Were (Garden City, N. J.: Doubleday, 1977);
John Montgomery, The Fifties (London: George Allen &Unwin, 1966);
J. Ronald Oakley, God's Country: America in the Fifties (New York: Dembner Books, 1986);
Michael Downey Rice, Prentice-Hall Dictionary of Business, Finance, and Law (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1983);
This Fabulous Century, 1950-1960 (Alexandria, Va.: Time-Life Books, 1970);
Time Lines on File (New York: Facts on File, 1988);
James Trager, The People's Chronology (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1979);
Dan Wakefield, New York in the Fifties (Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1992);
Claire Walter, Winners: The Blue Ribbon Encyclopedia of Awards (New York: Facts on File, 1982);
Leigh Carol Yuster and others, eds., Ulrich's International Periodicals Directory: A Classified Guide to Current Periodicals, Foreign and Domestic, 1986-1987, twenty-fifth edition, volume 2 (New York & London: R.R. Bowker, 1986).
ARTS
Liz-Anne Bawden, The Oxford Companion to Film (New York: Oxford University Press, 1976);
Carl Belz, The Story of Rock, second edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 1972);
Gerald Bordman, The Oxford Companion to the American Theatre (New York: Oxford University Press, 1984);
Elston Brooks, I've Heard Those Songs Before, Volume II: The Weekly Top Ten Hits of the Last Six Decades (Fort Worth, Tex.: The Summit Group, 1991);
Ann Charters, ed., Dictionary of Literary Biography 16: The Beats: Literary Bohemians in Postwar America (Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman/Gale Research, 1983);
Samuel B. Charters, The Bluesmen, (New York: Oak, 1967);
Jim Curtis, Rock Eras: Interpretations of Music and Society, 1954-1984 (Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1987);
Thadious M. Davis and Trudier Harris, ed., Dictionary of Literary Biography 33: Afro-American Fiction Writers
After 1955 (Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman/Gale Research, 1984);
Davis and Harris, ed., Dictionary of Literary Biography 38: Afro-American Writers After 1955: Dramatists and Prose Writers (Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman/Gale Research, 1985);
Martin Duberman, Black Mountain: An Exploration in Community (New York: Dutton, 1972);
J. W. Ehrlich, ed., Howl of the Censor (San Carlos, Cal.: Nourse Publishing, 1961);
Marc Eliot, Rockonomics: The Money Behind the Music (New York: Franklin Watts, 1989);
Philip H. Ennis, The Seventh Stream: The Emergence of Rock'n'roll in American Popular Music (Hanover, U.K.: Wesleyan University Press, 1992);
A. G. S. Enser, Filmed Books and Plays, 1928-1983 (Aldershot, U.K.: Gower, 1985);
David Ewen, History of Popular Music (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1961);
Leonard Feather, The Book of Jazz: A Guide to the Entire Field (New York: Horizon, 1965);
Leslie Fiedler, An End To Innocence (Boston: Beacon, 1955);
Joseph J. Fucini and Susan Fucini, Entrepreneurs: The Men and Women Behind Famous Brand Names and How They Made It (Boston: G.K. Hall, 1985);
Harry F. Gaugh, Willem de Kooning (New York: Abbeville Press, 1983);
Louis D. Gianetti, Understanding Movies (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1987);
Barry K. Grant, ed., Film Genre: Theory and Criticism (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1977);
Jeff Greenfield, Television: The First Fifty Years (New York: Abrams, 1977);
Donald J. Greiner, ed., Dictionary of Literary Biography 5: American Poets Since World War II, 2 volumes (Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman/Gale Research, 1980);
Serge Guilbaut, How New York Stole the Idea of Modern Art: Abstract Expressionism, Freedom, and the Cold War, translated by Arthur Goldhammer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983);
Allen Guttman, From Ritual to Record (New York: Columbia University Press, 1978);
Mary Emma Harris, The Arts at Black Mountain College (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1987);
Trudier Harris, ed., Dictionary of Literary Biography 76: Afro-American Writers, 1940-1955 (Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman/Gale Research, 1988);
Jeffrey Helterman and Richard Layman, eds., Dictionary of Literary Biography 2: American Novelists Since World War II (Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman/Gale Research, 1978);
Robert Carleton Hobbs and Gail Levin, Abstract Expressionism: The Formative Years (Ithaca, N.Y. and New York: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art and Whitney Museum of American Art, 1978);
Penelope Houston, The Emergence of Film Art: The Evolution and Development of the Motion Picture as an Art, from 1900 to the Present (New York: Norton, 1979);
Frederick R. Karl, American Fictions, 1940-1980: A Comprehensive History and Critical Evaluation (New York: Harper & Row, 1983);
Alfred Kazin, Bright Book of Life, (Boston: Little, Brown, 1973);
James E. Kibler, Jr., ed., Dictionary of Literary Biography 6: American Novelists Since World War II, Second Series. (Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman/Gale Research, 1980);
Lawrence O. Koch, Yardbird Suite: A Compendium of the Music and Life of Charlie Parker (Bowling Green, Ohio: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1988);
Mervin Lane, ed., Black Mountain College: Sprouted Seeds: An Anthology of Personal Accounts (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1990);
Mike Leadbitter and Neil Slaven, Blues Records 1943-1966 (New York: Oak, 1968);
Ernest Lindgren, The Art of the Film (New York: Macmillan, 1963);
Herbert I. London, Closing the Circle: A Cultural History of the Rock Revolution (Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1984);
John MacNicholas, ed., Dictionary of Literary Biography 7: Twentieth-Century American Dramatists (Detroit: Bruccoli Clark Layman/Gale Research, 1981);
Robert Myron and Abner Sundell, Modern Art in America (New York: Crowell-Collier, 1971);
Frank O'Hara, Art Chronicles, 1954-1966 (New York: George Braziller, 1975);
Norman Podhoretz, Doings and Undoings: the Fifties and After in American Writing (New York: Farrar, Straus, 1964);
G. Howard Poteet, Published Radio, Television, and Film Scripts (Troy, N.Y.: Whitston, 1975);
Robert George Reisner, Bird: The Legend of Charlie Parker (New York: Da Capo Press, 1962);
Barney Rosset, ed., Evergreen Review Reader, 1957—1967: A Ten-Year Anthology (New York: Grove, 1968);
Paul Rotha, with Richard Griffith, The Film Till Now (London: Spring Books, 1967);
Irving Sablosky, American Music (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1969);
Irving Sandler, The New York School: The Painters and Sculptors of the Fifties (New York: Harper & Row, 1978);
Russell Sanjet, From Print to Plastic: Publishing and Promoting Americas Popular Music 1900-1980 (Brooklyn, N.Y.: Institute for Studies in American Music, 1983);
Eileen Southern, The Music of Black Americans: A History, second edition (New York: Norton, 1983);
Tony Tanner, City of Words: American Fiction, 1950-1970 (New York: Harper & Row, 1971);
C. Robertson Trowbridge, Yankee Publishing, Inc.: Fifty Years of Preserving New England's Culture While Extending Its Influence (New York: Newcomen Society, 1986);
Joel Whitburn, The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits, fifth edition (New York: Billboard Books, 1992).
BUSINESS AND THE ECONOMY
John Brooks, The Autobiography of American Business (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1974);
Keith L. Bryant, Jr., and Henry C. Dethloff, A History of American Business. (Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1983);
Bryant, ed., Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography Railroads in the Age of Regulation, 1900-1980 (Columbia, S.C.: Bruccoli Clark Layman / New York: Facts On File, 1988)
Edward F. Denison, The Sources of Economic Growth in the United States and the Alternatives Before Us (New York: Committee for Economic Development, 1962);
John M. Dobson, A History of American Enterprise (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1988);
John K. Galbraith, Economic Development (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1964);
George Gilder, The Spirit of Enterprise (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984);
Charles E. Gilland, Jr., ed., Readings in Business Responsibility (Braintree, Mass.: D. H. Mark Publishing, 1969);
James R. Green, The World of the Worker: Labor in Twentieth-Century America (New York: Hill & Wang, 1980);
William M. Leary, ed., Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography: The Airline Industry (Bruccoli Clark Layman / New York: Facts On File, 1992)
Ann R. Markusen, The Rise of the Gunbelt: The Military Remapping of Industrial America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1991);
George S. May, ed., Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography: Banking and Finance, 1913—1989 (Bruccoli Clark Layman / New York: Facts On File, 1990)
Glenn Porter, ed., Encyclopedia of American Economic History: Studies of the Principal Movements and Idea, 3 volumes (New York: Scribners, 1980);
Joseph C. Pusateri, A History of American Business (Arlington Heights, Ill.: Harlan Davidson, 1984);
John B. Rae, The American Automobile: A Brief History (Chicago & London: University of Chicago Press, 1965);
Sidney Ratner, James H. Soltow, and Richard Sylla, The Evolution of the American Economy (New York: Basic Books, 1979);
Archie Robinson, George Meany and His Times: A Biography (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1981);
Graham Robinson, Pictorial History of the Automobile (New York: W. H. Smith, 1987);
Larry Schweikart, ed., Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography: Banking and Finance, 1913—1989 (Bruccoli Clark Layman / New York: Facts On File, 1990)
Bruce Seely, ed., Encyclopedia of American Business History and Biography: Iron and Steel in the Twentieth Century (Bruccoli Clark Layman / New York: Facts On File, 1993)
Herbert Alexander Simon, The New Science of Management Decision (New York: Harper & Row, 1960);
Athan G. Theoharis, The Boss (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1988).
EDUCATION
Philippe Aries, Centuries of Childhood (New York: Knopf, 1962);
Leslie Lee Chisholm, The Work of the Modern High School (New York: Macmillan, 1953);
Columbia University Teachers College, Are Liberal Arts Colleges Becoming Professional Schools? (New York: Columbia University Teachers College, 1958);
James B. Conant, Citadel of Learning (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1956);
Conant, The Revolutionary Transformation of the American High School (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1959);
William Clyde De Vane, The American University in the Twentieth Century (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1957);
Robert M. Hutchins, Conflict in Education in a Democratic Society (New York: Harper, 1953);
Hutchins, Some Observations on American Education (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1956);
Russell Kirk, Academic Freedom (Chicago: Regnery, 1955);
Mary Knapp and Herbert Knapp, One Potato, Two Potato … The Secret Education of American Children (New York: Norton, 1976);
John Francis Latimer, What's Happened to Our High Schools (Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs Press, 1958);
Gordon C. Lee, An Introduction to Education in America (New York: Holt, 1957);
Fritz Machlup, The Production and Distribution of Knowledge in the United States (Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1962);
Iona Archibald Opie, The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959);
Philip W. Perdew, The American Secondary School in Action (Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 1959);
Hyman G. Rickover, Education and Freedom (New York: Dutton, 1959);
Wilbur Schramm, J. Lyle, and I. de Sola Pool, The People Look at Educational Television (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1963);
Schramm, ed., The Eighth Art (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1962);
Jean Piaget, Play, Dreams and Imitation in Childhood (New York: Norton, 1962);
Joseph Turow, Entertainment, Education, and the Hard Sell: Three Decades of Network Children's Television (New York: Praeger, 1981).
FASHION
Bettina Ballard, In My Fashion (New York: McKay, 1960);
Michael Batterberry, Mirror, Mirror: A Social History of Fashion (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1977);
Curtis F. Brown, Star-Spangled Kitsch (New York: Universe Books, 1975);
Garrett Davis Byrnes, Fashion in Newspapers (New York: Columbia University Press, 1951);
Jane Dorner, Fashion in the Forties and Fifties (London: Ian Allen, 1975);
The Encyclopedia of Fashion (New York: Abrams, 1986);
Beryl William Epstein, Young Faces in Fashion (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1956);
Madge Garland, The Changing Form of Fashion (New York: Praeger, 1970);
Richard Horn, Fifties Style: Then and Now (New York: Beech Tree Books, 1985);
Georgina Howell, In Vogue: Six Decades of Fashion (London: Allen Lane, 1975);
Lesley Jackson, The New Look: Design in the Fifties (London: Thames & Hudson, 1991);
Udo Kultermann, Architecture in the 20th Century (New York: Reinhold, 1993);
Jane Mulvagh, "Vogue" History of 20th Century Fashion (New York: Viking, 1988);
John Peacock, 20th Century Fashion: the Complete Sourcebook (New York: Thames & Hudson, 1993);
Mary Shaw Ryan, Clothing: A Study in Human Behavior (New York: Holt, Rinehart Winston, 1966);
Anne Stegemeyer, Who's Who in Fashion (New York: Fairchild, 1988);
Jane Trahey, Harper's Bazaar: One Hundred Years of the American Female (New York: Random House, 1967);
Randle Bond Truett, The First Ladies in Fashion (New York: Hastings House, 1954);
Elizabeth Wilson, Adorned in Dreams: Fashion and Modernity (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987);
Tom Wolfe, From Bauhaus to Our House (New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1981);
Doreen Yarwood, Fashion in the Western World, 1500-1990 (New York: Drama Book Publishing, 1992).
GOVERNMENT AND POLITICS
Michael Barone, Our Country: The Shaping of America from Roosevelt to Reagan (New York: Free Press, 1990);
Max Beloff, The American Federal Government (New York: Oxford University Press, 1959);
Ralph Barton Berry, The Citizen Decides: A Guide to Responsible Thinking in Time of Crisis (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1951);
Alexander M. Bickel, Politics and the Warren Court (New York: Harper & Row, 1965);
Daniel J. Boorstin, The Genius of American Politics Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1953);
Chester Bowles, American Politics in a Revolutionary World (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1956);
Taylor Branch, Parting the Waters: America in the King Years, 1954-1963 (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988);
Franklin L. Burdette, Readings for Republicans (New York: Oceana, 1960);
Noel Fairchild Busch, Adlai E. Stevenson of Illinois: A Portrait (New York: Farrar, Straus & Young, 1952);
Marquis William Childs, Eisenhower for President? or, Who Will Get Us Out of the Mess We Are ln? (New York: Exposition Press, 1951);
Horace Coon, Triumph of the Eggheads (New York: Random House, 1955);
Elmer Holmes Davis, But We Were Born Free (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1954);
Robert J. Donovan, Eisenhower: The Inside Story (New York: Harper, 1956);
John Foster Dulles, War or Peace (New York: Macmillan, 1950);
Arthur Alphonse Ekich, The Decline of American Liberalism (New York: Longmans, Green, 1955);
Ralph Edward Flanders, The American Century (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1950);
Benjamin Frankel, The Cold War, 1945-1991: Leaders and Other Important Figures in the United States and Western Europe (Detroit: Gale Research, 1992);
Milton Friedman and Rose Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1962);
Lawrence H. Fuchs, The Political Behaviour of American Jews (Glencoe, I11.: Free Press, 1956);
John Gunther, Eisenhower, the Man and the Symbol (New York: Harper, 1952);
Louis Harris, Is There a Republican Majority? Political Trends, 1952-1956 (New York: Harper, 1954);
Gordon A. Harrison, The Road to the Right: The Tradition and Hope of American Conservatism (New York: Morrow, 1954);
Louis Hartz, The Liberal Tradition in America (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1955);
Quincy Home and Arthur Schlesinger, Guide to Politics, 1954 (New York: Dial, 1954);
Marinn Doris Irish, The Politics of American Democracy (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1959);
Walter Johnson, How We Drafted Stevenson (New York: Knopf, 1955);
James Keogh, This Is Nixon (New York: Putnam, 1956);
Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind (Chicago: Regnery, 1953);
Arthur Larson, A Republican Looks at His Party (New York: Harper, 1956);
David Low, The Fearful Fifties: A History of the Decade (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1960);
Samuel Lubell, Revolt of the Moderates (New York: Harper, 1956);
John Lukacs, Outgrowing Democracy: A History of the United. States in the Twentieth Century (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1984);
Lukacs, Passing of the Modern Age (New York: Harper & Row, 1970);
Robert MacNeil, The People Machine: The Influence of Television on American Politics (New York: Harper & Row, 1968);
Clarence Manion, The Key to Peace: A Formula for the Perpetuation of Real Americanism (Chicago: Heritage Foundation, 1950);
John Bartlow Martin, Adlai Stevenson (New York: Harper, 1952);
Martin Merson, Private Diary of a Public Servant (New York: Macmillan, 1955);
Raymond Moley, How to Keep Our Liberty: A Program for Political Action (New York: Knopf, 1952);
Judah Nadich, Eisenhower and the Jews (New York, 1953);
Steve Neal, The Eisenhowers: Reluctant Dynasty (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1978);
Merlo John Pusey, Eisenhower the President (New York: Macmillan, 1956);
Benjamin F. Reading, Democracy Can Succeed—How? (New York: Parthenon Press, 1956);
Edward Reed, ed. Readings for Democrats (New York: Oceana, 1960);
Clinton Lawrence Rossiter, Conservatism in America (New York: Knopf, 1955);
Joseph H. Sharlitt, Fatal Error: The Miscarriage of Justice That Sealed the Rosenbergs' Fate (New York: Scribners, 1989);
Marty Snyder, My Friend Ike (New York: F. Fell, 1956);
Adlai E. Stevenson, The New America (New York: Harper, 1957);
Stevenson, What I Think (New York: Harper, 1956);
Ralph de Toledano, Nixon (New York: Holt, 1956);
Arthur Bernon Tourtellot, An Anatomy of American Politics: Innovation versus Conservatism (Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1950);
Francis Graham Wilson, The Case for Conservatism (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1951);
William Frank Zornow, America at Mid-Century: the Truman Administration, the Eisenhower Administration (Cleveland: H. Allen, 1959).
LAW
Howard Ball, The Warren Court's Conceptions of Democracy (Cranbury: Associated University Presses, 1971);
R. Stephen Browning, ed., From Brown to Bradley (Cincinnati: Jefferson Law Book, 1975);
John Denton Carter, The Warren Court and the Constitution (Gretna, U.K.: Pelican, 1973);
Mildred Houghton Comfort, J. Edgar Hoover, Modern Knight Errant (Minneapolis: Denison, 1959);
David P. Currie, The Constitution in the Supreme Court: The Second Century (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990);
Warren Freedman, Society on Trial: Current Court Decisions and Social Change (Springfield, I11.: Thomas, 1965);
Alvin H. Goldstein, The Unquiet Death of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg (New York: Hill, 1975);
William W. Keller, The Liberals and J. Edgar Hoover (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1989);
Robert G. McCloskey, The Modern Supreme Court (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1972);
Kenneth O'Reilly, Hoover and the Un-Americans (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1983);
Richard Gid Powers, G-Men: Hoovers FBI in American Popular Culture (Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 1983);
Ronald Radosh and Joyce Milton, The Rosenberg File: A Search for Truth (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1983);
Arnold S. Rice, The Warren Court, 1953-1969 (Mill-wood, N.Y.: Associated Faculty Press, 1987);
Richard H. Sayler, Barry B. Boyer, and Robert E. Gooding, Jr., eds., The Warren Court (New York: Chelsea House, 1969);
Bernard Schwartz, The Law in America (New York: American Heritage, 1974);
Schwartz, Super Chief: Earl Warren and His Supreme Court (New York: New York University Press, 1983);
Robert Shnayerson, The Illustrated History of the Supreme Court of the United States (New York: Abrams, 1986);
Burton B. Turkus, Murder, Inc. (New York: Da Capo Press, 1992);
G. Edward White, Earl Warren (New York: Oxford University Press, 1982);
Stephen J. Whitfield, A Death in the Delta (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991);
LIFESTYLES AND SOCIAL TRENDS
Beth L. Bailey, From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1988);
Roger G. Barker and Herbert F. Wright, One Boy's Day: A Specific Record of Behavior (New York: Harper, 1951);
Winni Breines, Young, White, and Miserable: Growing Up Female in the Fifties (Boston: Beacon, 1992);
Robert H, Bremner, et al., eds., Children and Youth in America: A Documentary History, 3 volumes (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1970);
The Culture of Consumption: Critical Essays in American History, 1880-1980 (New York: Pantheon, 1983);
Benita Eisler, Private Lives: Men and Women of the Fifties (New York: Franklin Watts, 1986);
Jacques Ellul, The Technological Society, translated by John Wilkinson (New York: Knopf; 1964);
Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (New York: Norton, 1963);
John K. Galbraith, A Life in Our Times (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1981);
Galbraith, The New Industrial State (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1967);
Park Dixon Goist, From Main Street to State Street: Town, City, and Community in America (Port Washington, N.Y.: Kennikat, 1977);
Kenneth T. Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier: The Suburbanization of America (New York: Oxford University Press, 1985);
Carl Kaufmann, Man Incorporate: The Individual and His Work in an Organized Society (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1967);
William Kowinski, The Mailing of America: An Inside Look at the Great Consumer Paradise (New York: Morrow, 1985);
Bart Landry, The New Black Middle Class (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987);
John K. M. McCaffery, ed., The American Dream: A Half-Century View from "American Magazine" (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1964);
Daniel O. Price, Changing Characteristics of the Negro Population (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1969);
Milton Rokeach, The Nature of Human Values (New York: Free Press, 1973);
Ellen K. Rothman, Hands and Hearts: A History of Courtship in America (New York: Basic Books, 1984);
Mary P. Ryan, Womanhood in America: From Colonial Times to the Present (Danbury, Conn.: Franklin Watts, 1977);
Peter L. Skolnik, Fads: America's Crazes, Fevers, and Fancies From the 1890s to the 1970s (New York: Crowell, 1978);
Roger H. Smith, ed., The American Reading Public: What It Reads, Why It Reads (New York: R. R. Bowker, 1963);
Rick Tilman, C. Wright Mills: A Native Radical and His American Intellectual Roots (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1984);
William F. Whyte, The Organization Man (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1956).
100 Years of the Automobile (Los Angeles: Petersen, 1985);
MEDIA
Bart Andrews, Lucy & Ricky & Fred & Ethel: The Story of "I Love Lucy" (New York: Dutton, 1976);
Irwyn Applebaum, The World According to Beaver (New York: Bantam, 1984);
Association of National Advertisers, Magazine Circulation and Rate Trends: 1940-1967 (New York: ANA, 1969);
Erik Barnouw, Tube of Plenty, second edition (New York: Oxford University Press, 1990);
Charles O. Bennett, Facts Without Opinion: First Fifty Years of the Audit Bureau of Circulation (Chicago: ABC, 1965);
A. William Bluem, Documentary in American Television (New York: Hastings House, 1965);
Tim Brooks, The Complete Directory to Prime Time TV Stars: 1946-Present (New York: Ballantine, 1987);
Robert Campbell, The Golden Years of Broadcasting: A Celebration of the First 50 Years of Radio and TV on NBC (New York: Scribners, 1972);
Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik, Watching TV: Four Decades of American Television (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1982);
John Dunning, Tune in Yesterday: The Ultimate Encyclopedia of Old-Time Radio 1925-1976 (Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1976);
Walter B. Emery, National and International Systems of Broadcasting: Their History, Operation, and Control (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, 1969);
Jay S. Harris, ed., TV Guide: The First 25 Years (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1978);
Laurence W. Lichty and Malachi Topping, American Broadcasting: A Source Book on the History of Radio and Television (New York: Hastings House, 1975);
J. Fred MacDonald, Dont Touch That Dial: Radio Programming in American Life from 1920 to 1960 (Chicago: Hall, 1979);
MacDonald, Television and the Red Menace (New York: Praeger, 1985);
MacDonald, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964);
Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964);
Alexander McNeil, Total Television: A Comprehensive Guide to Programming from 1948-1980 (New York: Penguin, 1980);
James Robert Parish, Actor's Television Credits: 1950-1972 (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1973);
Jeb Perry, Universal Television: The Studio and Its Programs, 1950-1980 (Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1983);
Harry J. Skornia, Television and Society: An Inquest and Agenda for Improvement (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1965);
Gary A. Steiner, The People Look at Television (New York: Knopf, 1963);
Christopher Sterling, ed., Broadcasting and Mass Media: A Survey Bibliography (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1974);
Sterling, ed., The History of Broadcasting: Radio to Television, 32 volumes (New York: New York Times/Arno, 1972);
Sterling, ed., Telecommunications, 34 books (New York: New York Times/Arno, 1974);
Vincent Terrace, The Complete Encyclopedia of Television Programs: 1947-1979, second edition (New York: Barnes, 1980);
Antoon J. van Zuilen, The Life Cycle of Magazines: A Historical Study of the Decline and Fall of the General Interest Mass Audience Magazine in the United States During the Period 1946-1972 (Ulthoorn, The Netherlands: Graduate Press, 1977).
MEDICINE AND HEALTH
Leonard Berkowitz, Aggression: A Psychological Analysis (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1962);
The Cambridge World History of Human Disease (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993);
Rick J. Carlson, The End of Medicine (New York: Wiley, 1975);
Frederic Fox Cartwright, Disease and History (New York: Crowell, 1972);
James H. Cassedy, Medicine in America: A Short History (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1991);
Faith Clark, ed., Symposium III: The Changing Patterns of Consumption of Food, International Congress of Food Science and Technology, Proceedings of the Congress Symposia, 1962, vol. 5 (New York: Gordon & Breach Science, 1967);
Companion Encyclopedia of the History of Medicine (London: Routledge, 1993);
Marjorie Curson, Jonas Salk, Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Silver Burdett, 1990);
Bernard Dixon, Beyond the Magic Bullet (New York: Harper & Row, 1978);
John Patrick Dolan, Health and Society: A Documentary History of Medicine (New York: Seabury, 1978);
Martin Duke, The Development of Medical Techniques and Treatments: From Leeches to Heart Surgery (Madison, Conn.: International Universities Press, 1991);
Esmond R. Long,, A History of Pathology (New York: Dover, 1965);
Albert S. Lyons, Medicine: An Illustrated History (New York: Abrams, 1978);
William A. Nolen, A Surgeons World (Mew York: Random House, 1972);
Sherwin B. Nuland, Doctors: the Biography of Medicine (New York: Knopf, 1988);
John R. Paul, M.D., A History of Poliomyelitis (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 1971);
Stanley Joel Reiser, Medicine and the Reign of Technology (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978);
Rosemary Stevens, American Medicine and the Public Interest (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1971);
Elliot S. Valenstein, Great and Desperate Cures (New York: Basic Books, 1986).
RELIGION
Nancy T. Ammerman, Bible Believers: Fundamentalists in the Modern World (New Brunswick, N. J.: Rutgers University Press, 1987);
Michael Baignet and Richard Leigh, The Dead Sea Scrolls Deception (New York: Summit, 1991);
Bernham P. Beckwith, The Decline of U.S. Religious Faith, 1912-1984 (Palo Alto, Cal: B. P. Beckwith, 1985);
Robert N. Bellah and Frederick E. Greenspahn, eds., Uncivil Religion: Irreligious Hostility in America (New York: Crossroads, 1987);
Charles C. Brown, Niebuhr and His Age: Reinhold Niebuhr's Prophetic Role in the Twentieth Century (Philadelphia: Trinity Press International, 1992);
Jackson W. Carroll, Beyond Establishment: Protestant Identity in a Post-Protestant Age (Louisville, Ky.: Westminster/John Knox, 1993);
Samuel McCrea Cavert, The American Churches in the Ecumenical Movement, 1900-1968 (New York: Association Press, 1968);
John Cooney, The American Pope: The Life and Times of Francis Cardinal Spellman (New York: Times Books, 1984);
Harvey Cox, Turning East: The Promise and Peril of the New Orientalism (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1977);
John L. Eighmy, Churches in Cultural Captivity: A History of the Social Attitudes of Southern Baptists (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987);
Carol V. George, God's Salesman: Norman Vincent Peale and the Power of Positive Thinking (New York: Oxford University, 1992);
Langdon B. Gilkey, Catholicism Confronts Modernism: A Protestant View (New York: Seabury, 1975);
Gilkey, Gilkey on Tillich (New York: Crossroad, 1990);
Donald G. Jones and Russell, eds., American Civil Religion (San Francisco: Mellen Research University Press, 1990);
Wayne W. Mahan, Tillich's System (San Antonio: Trinity University Press, 1974);
Bernard Martin, The Existentialist Theology of Paul Tillich (New York: Bookman Associates, 1963);
William C. Martin, A Prophet with Honor: The Billy Graham Story (New York: Morrow, 1991);
Martin Marty, Pilgrims in Their Own Land: 500 Years of Religion in America (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1984);
Robert Moats Miller, Bishop G. Bromley Oxnam: Paladin of Liberal Protestantism (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1990);
Wilhelm and Marion Pauck, Paul Tillich: His Life and Thought (New York: Harper & Row, 1976);
Ronald H. Stone, Reinhold Niebuhr: Prophet to Politicians (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1972);
Brooks R. Walker, Christian Fright Peddlers (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1964);
Edmund Wilson, The Dead Sea Scrolls, 1947-1969 (New York: Oxford University Press, 1969).
SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
Gary M. Abshire, ed., The Impact of Computers on Society and Ethics: A Bibliography (Morristown, N. J.: Creative Computing, 1980);
Jack Beizer, Albert G. Holzman, and Allen Kent, eds., Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology, 16 volumes (New York: Marcel Dekker, 1975-1981);
Herman H. Goldstein, The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann (Princeton, N. J.: Princeton University Press, 1972);
J. Haugelan, Artificial Intelligence: The Very Idea (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1985);
Leslie Katz, ed., Fairy Tales for Computers (Boston: Nonpareil Books, 1969);
Anthony O. Lewis, ed., Of Men and Machines (London: Dutton, 1963);
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology fourth edition, 14 volumes (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1977);
Sam Mescowitz, ed., The Coming of Robots (New York: Collier, 1963);
N. Metropolis, ed., A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century (New York: Academic Press, 1980);
Lewis Mumford, The Myth of the Machine: The Pentagon of Power (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1964);
Cass Schichtle, The National Space Program from the Fifties to the Eighties (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1983);
Science & Technology Desk Reference, edited by Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Science and Technology Department (Detroit: Gale Research, 1993);
Robert Silverberg, ed., Men and Machines (New York: Meredith Press, 1968);
Herbert Alexander Simon, Sciences of the Artificial (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1969);
C. P. Snow, The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1961).
SPORTS
Charles C. Alexander, Our Game: An American Baseball History (New York: Holt, 1991);
Arthur R. Ashe, Jr., A Hard Road to Glory: A History of the African-American Athlete Since 1946 (New York: Warner, 1988);
William J. Baker and John M. Carrol, eds., Sports in Modern America (Saint Louis: River City Publishers, 1981);
Jim Benagh, Incredible Olympic Feats (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976);
Edwin H. Cady, The Big Game: College Sports and American Life (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1978);
Roger Caillois, Man, Play, and Games (London: Thames & Hudson, 1962);
Erich Camper, Encyclopedia of the Olympic Games (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1972);
John Durant, Highlights of the Olympics (New York: Hastings House, 1965);
James B. Dworkin, Owners Versus Players: Baseball and Collective Bargaining (Boston: Auburn House, 1981);
Ellen W. Gerber, Jan Feshlin, Pearl Berlin, and Waneen Wyrick, The American Woman in Sport (Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1974);
Elliott J. Gorn, The Manly Art (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1986);
Peter J. Graham and Horst Ueberhorst, editors, The Modern Olympic Games (Cornwall, N.Y.: Leisure Press, 1976);
Will Grimsley, Golf: Its History, People and Events (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1966);
Grimsley, Tennis: Its History, People and Events (Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1971);
Allen Guttman, A Whole New Ball Game: An Interpretation of American Sports (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 1988);
Dorothy V. Harris, ed., Women and Sport (College Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1972);
Robert J. Higgs, Sports: A Reference Guide (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1982);
Neil D. Isaacs, All the Moves: A History of College Basketball (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1975);
Bill James, The Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract (New York: Villard Books, 1986);
William O. Johnson, All That Glitters Is Not Gold (New York: Putnam, 1972);
Roger Kahn, The Boys of Summer (New York: Harper & Row, 1972);
Kahn, The Era: 1947-1956, When the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers Ruled the World (New York: Ticknor & Fields, 1993);
Ivan N. Kaye, Good Clean Violence: A History of College Football (Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1973);
Lee Lowenfish, The Imperfect Diamond: A History of Baseball's Labor Wars (New York: Da Capo, 1991);
Richard D. Mandel, Sport: A Cultural History (New York: Columbia University Press, 1984);
Robert Mechicoff and Steven Estes, A History and Philosophy of Sport and Physical Education (Dubuque, Iowa: William C. Brown, 1993);
James A. Michener, Sports in America (New York: Random House, 1976);
Jack Olsen, The Black Athlete: A Shameful Story (New York: Time-Life Books, 1968);
Robert W. Peterson, Only the Ball Was White (Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1970);
Benjamin G. Rader, American Sports: From the Age of Folk Games to the Age of Spectators (Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1983);
Martin Ralbovsky, Destiny's Darlings (New York: Hawthorn Books, 1974);
Steven A. Riess, ed., The American Sporting Experience (West Point, N.Y.: Leisure Press, 1984);
Charles Rosen, Scandals of'51 (New York: Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1978);
William F. Russell, Go Up for Glory (New York: Coward-McCann, 1966);
Leverett T. Smith, Jr., The American Dream and the National Game (Bowling Green: Bowling Green University Popular Press, 1975);
Betty Spears and Richard A. Swanson, History of Sport and Physical Education, third edition (Dubuque, Iowa: William C. Brown, 1983);
Jules Tygel, Baseball's Great Experiment (New York: Oxford University Press, 1983);
David Q. Voigt, America Through Baseball (Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1976);
Herbert Warren Wind, The Gilded Age of Sport (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1961);
Wind, The Realm of Sport (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1966);
Earle F. Zeigler, ed., A History of Physical Education and Sport in the United States and Canada (Champaign, 111.: Stipes Publishing Company, 1975).