BIBLIOGRAPHY

The 1920s
Great Depression and the New Deal
World War II
Segregation in the South
American society and the Cold War
Cold War Politics, 1945-1960
1960s: Culture and Society
The Civil Rights Movement
Politics, 1960-1980
Politics since 1980
Society and Culture since 1980
Historiographical Issues
Background Reading
Internet Resources

POLITICS, 1960-1980

The Decline of Liberalism
Allen J. Matusow, The Unraveling of America: A History of Liberalism in the 1960s
Alonso Hamby, Liberalism and its Challengers
Fraser and Gerstle, The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order
E. J. Dionne, Why Americans Hate Politics (1991)
Ronald Radosh, Divided they Fell: The Demise of the Democratic Party 1964-1996 (1996)
Kennedy
Irving Bernstein, Promises Kept
Richard Reeves, Kennedy: Profile of Power (1993)
David Burner, John F. Kennedy and a New Generation (1988)
James Giglio, The Presidency of John F. Kennedy (1991)
Theodore White, The Making of a President, 1960 (1961)
Walter McDougall, The Heavens and the Earth: A Political History of the Space Age (1985)
Johnson and the Great Society
Irwin Unger, The Best of Intentions: The Triumph and Failure of the Great Society under Kennedy, Johnson and Nixon (1996)
Robert Dallek, Flawed giant: Lyndon Johnson and his times, 1961-1973
Doris Kearns, Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream
Jill Quagno, The Color of Welfare: How Racism Undermined the War on Poverty (1994)
John A Andrews III, Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
Edward Berkowitz, America's Welfare State (1991)
Carl Brauer, 'Kennedy, Johnson and the War on Poverty' Journal of American History (1982)
Gareth Davies, From Opportunity to Entitlement: The Transformation and Decline of Great Society Liberalism
Martha Davis, Brutal Need: Lawyers and the Welfare Rights Movement, 1960-1973 (1993)
Mel Grinspan ed., The Great Society Revisited: Success, Failure or Remorse? (1993)
Ira Katznelson, 'Was the Great Society a Lost Opportunity?' in Fraser and Gerstle, The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order 185-211 (1989)
New Left
Maurice Isserman, If I Had a Hammer, The Death of the Old Left and the Birth of the New Left (1987)
The New Conservatism
Dan T. Carter, The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics
Dan T. Carter, From George Wallace to Newt Gingrich
Joan Hoff, Nixon reconsidered (1994)
Stanley Kutler, The wars of Watergate: the last crisis of Richard Nixon (1990)
Allen J. Matusow, Nixon's economy: booms, busts, dollars, and votes (1998)
Melvin Small, The presidency of Richard Nixon (1999)
Jerome Himmelstein, To the Right: The Transformation of American Conservatism
Michael Kazin "The Grass-Roots Right: New Histories of U.S. Conservatism in the Twentieth Century," American Historical Review 97 (February 1992): 136-55.
Kenneth S. Stern A force upon the plain : the American militia movement and the politics of hate (1997)
Alan Brinkley et al, "Forum on American Conservatism," American Historical Review 99 (April 1994): 409-52. (JSTOR)
Michael Kazin "The Grass-Roots Right: New Histories of U.S. Conservatism in the Twentieth Century," American Historical Review 97 (February 1992): 136-55
George Nash, The Conservative INtellectual Movement since 1945 (1976)
Michael Kazin, "The Grass-Roots Right: New Histories of U.S. Conservatism in the Twentieth Century" American Historical Review (Feb 1992): 136-55.
James D. Hunter, Culture Wars: The Struggle to Define America (1991)
Matthew Moen, The Christian Right and Congress (1989)
Robert Liebman and Robert Wunthow, eds., The New Christian Right: Mobilisation and Legitemation 91983)
Peter Steinfels, The Neoconservatives: The Men Who Are Changing American Politics (1979)
E. J. Dione, Jr., Why Americans Hate Politics
Carter
Barton Kaufman, The Presidency of James Earl Carter (1993)
Thomas Ferguson and Joal Rogers, Right Turn: The Decline of the Democrats and the Future of American Politics (1986)
Thomas Edsall, The New Politics of Inequality (1984)
Jack Germond and Julius Witcover, Blue Smoke and Mirrors: How Reagan win and Why Carter Lost the Election of 1980 (1981)
Walter Dean Burnham, "The 1980 Election: Earthquake, Realignment, Reaction, or What?" in The Hidden Election, ed. Thomas Ferguson and Joal Rogers (1981)