US History since the Civil War - HIS 1220

US HISTORY FROM RECONSTRUCTION, 122: ANNALIESE M BONACQUISTA

 

BOOK LIST #2

 

WORLD WAR II:

-When books went to war : the stories that helped us win World War II / Molly Guptill Manning

-Encyclopedia of World War II : a political, social, and military history / Spencer C. Tucker (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-Aircraft of World War II / Aaron R. Murray

-The Battle of the Bulge : turning back Hitler's final push / by Bill Cain

-World War II at Camp Hale : blazing a new trail in the Rockies / David R. Witte

-World War II : the definitive visual history : from Blitzkrieg to the atom bomb / senior editor, Alison Sturgeon

-World War II / John Perritano

-Unsung heroes of World War II : the story of the Navajo code talkers / Deanne Durrett

-World War II : a primary source history / Colin Hynson

-The guns at last light : the war in Western Europe, 1944-1945 / Rick Atkinson (Audiobook version) (Large Type Version)

-Pearl Harbor : FDR leads the nation into war / Steven M. Gillon

-Pearl Harbor : from infamy to greatness / Craig Nelson

-Pearl Harbor : 75 years later : a day of infamy and its legacy / editor, Susan Elkin ; writer, Tessa Link

-Pearl Harbor Christmas : a world at war, December 1941 / Stanley Weintraub

-Countdown to Pearl Harbor : the twelve days to the attack / Steve Twomey

-Remember Pearl Harbor : American and Japanese survivors tell their stories / by Thomas B. Allen (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-Trapped at Pearl Harbor : escape from Battleship Oklahoma / Stephen Bower Young (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-All the gallant men : an American sailor's firsthand account of Pearl Harbor / Donald Stratton with Ken Gire

-Target Tokyo : Jimmy Doolittle and the raid that avenged Pearl Harbor / James M. Scott

-Pacific payback : the carrier aviators who avenged Pearl Harbor at the Battle of Midway / Stephen L. Moore

-The Coral Sea 1942 : the first carrier battle / by Mark Stille

-The Battle of Midway / Craig L. Symonds

-Never call me a hero : a legendary American dive-bomber pilot remembers the Battle of Midway / N. Jack "Dusty" Kleiss, with Timothy and Laura Orr

-The mantle of command : FDR at war, 1941-1942 / Nigel Hamilton

-Red blood, black sand : fighting alongside John Basilone from boot camp to Iwo Jima / Chuck Tatum

-Iwo Jima : World War II veterans remember the greatest battle of the Pacific / [edited by] Larry Smith

-Flags of our fathers / James Bradley with Ron Powers

-An army at dawn : the war in North Africa, 1942-1943 / Rick Atkinson

-D-Day / Martin Gilbert

-Omaha Beach on D-Day / photographs, Robert Capa ; story, Jean-David Morvan & Séverine Tréfouël

-D-Day, June 6, 1944 : the climactic battle of World War II / Stephen E. Ambrose

-D-day landings : the story of the Allied invasion / written by Richard Platt

-Pointblank directive : three generals and the untold story of the daring plan that saved D-day / L. Douglas Keeney (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

 

PRESIDENTIAL:

-Harry S. Truman / Robert Dallek

-Citizen soldier : a life of Harry S. Truman / Aida D. Donald

-When the buck stops with you : Harry S. Truman on leadership / Alan Axelrod

-Eisenhower : the White House years / Jim Newton

-Dwight D. Eisenhower / Tom Wicker

-The Supreme Commander : the war years of General Dwight D. Eisenhower / Stephen E. Ambrose

-Being Nixon : a man divided / Evan Thomas

-John F. Kennedy / Alan Brinkley  (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-John F. Kennedy and the race to the moon / John M. Logsdon

-Lyndon B. Johnson / Charles Peters

-Five presidents : my extraordinary journey with Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, and Ford / Clint Hill with Lisa McCubbin

-Richard Nixon : the life / John A. Farrell

-One man against the world : the tragedy of Richard Nixon / Tim Weiner

-Arrogance of power : the secret world of Richard Nixon / Anthony Summers with Robbyn Swan

-The 1970s from Watergate to disco / Stephen Feinstein (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-1973 nervous breakdown : Watergate, Warhol, and the birth of post-sixties America / Andreas Killen

-Woodward and Bernstein : life in the shadow of Watergate / Alicia Shepard

-All the Presidents Men / Woodward & Bernstein

-The Final Days / Woodward & Bernstein (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-Jimmy Carter / Julian E. Zelizer

-Jimmy Carter : president and peacemaker / Nancy Whitelaw

-Through the year with Jimmy Carter : 366 daily meditations from the 39th president / Jimmy Carter with Steve Halliday

-A full life : reflections at ninety / Jimmy Carter

-Ronald Reagan : fate, freedom, and the making of history / John Patrick Diggin

-Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher : a political marriage / Nicholas Wapshott

-The rebellion of Ronald Reagan : a history of the end of the Cold War / James Mann

-Destiny and power : the American odyssey of George Herbert Walker Bush / Jon Meacham

-41 : a portrait of my father / George W. Bush

-Bill Clinton / Michael Tomasky

-Man of the world : the further endeavors of Bill Clinton / Joe Conason

-George W. Bush : portrait of a leader : the first four years of the presidency as seen by the White House photographers / foreword by Karen Hughes

-The Last Republicans: Inside the Extraordinary Relationship Between George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush / Mark Updegrove

-Barack Obama : the story / David Maraniss

-Barack Obama / Stephen Krensky

 

THE COLD WAR:

-The Cold War : a new history / John Lewis Gaddis

-The end of the Cold War : 1985-1991 / Robert Service

-Weapons of the Cold War / by Matt Doeden

-Total Cold War : Eisenhower's secret propaganda battle at home and abroad / Kenneth Osgood (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-The Korean War : a history / Bruce Cumings

-The Korean War : no victors, no vanquished / Stanley Sandler

-Encyclopedia of the Korean War : a political, social, and military history / Spencer C. Tucker (IN-LIBRARY USE ONLY)

 

CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT & THE 1960S/70S:

-Emmett Till : the murder that shocked the world and propelled the civil rights movement / Devery S. Anderson

-The King years : historic moments in the civil rights movement / Taylor Branch

-Martin Luther King, Jr. / Marshall Frady (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-Brown v. Board of Education : a civil rights milestone and its troubled legacy / James T. Patterson

-Simple justice : the history of Brown v. Board of Education and Black America's struggle for equality / by Richard Kluger

-A mighty long way : my journey to justice at Little Rock Central High School / Carlotta Walls LaNier

-1954 : the year Willie Mays and the first generation of black superstars changed major league baseball forever / by Bill Madden

-Jackie Robinson : a biography (ebook)/ Arnold Rampersad

-The crusades of Cesar Chavez : a biography / Miriam Pawel

-America's uncivil wars : the sixties era : from Elvis to the fall of Richard Nixon / Mark Hamilton Lytle

-Heart of the rock : the Indian invasion of Alcatraz / by Adam Fortunate Eagle

-Behind the trail of broken treaties : an Indian declaration of independence / by Vine Deloria, Jr

-This Indian country : American Indian political activists and the place they made / Frederick E. Hoxie

-Woodstock : a new look / Greg Walter, Lisa Grant

-From Tupelo to Woodstock : youth, race, and rock-and-roll in America, 1954-1969 / Carl Francese and Richard S. Sorrell

-Small town talk : Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and friends in the wild years of Woodstock / Barney Hoskyns

-Witness to the revolution : radicals, resisters, vets, hippies, and the year America lost its mind and found its soul / Clara Bingham

 

VIETNAM:

-Ho Chi Minh / William J. Duiker

-Ho Chi Minh : a biography / Pierre Brocheux ; translated by Claire Duiker

-Fighting dirty : the inside story of covert operations from Ho Chi Minh to Osama Bin Laden / Peter Harclerode

-Vietnam : the real war / a photographic history by the Associated Press ; introduction by Pete Hamill

-The Vietnam War : an intimate history / Geoffrey C. Ward

-Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War : a political, social, and military history / Spencer C. Tucker (IN-LIBRARY USE ONLY)

-Weapons, gear, and uniforms of the Vietnam War / by Shelley Tougas

-Voices from the Vietnam War : stories from American, Asian, and Russian veterans / Xiaobing Li

 

CONTEMPORARY CONFLICTS:

-Shield and sword : the United States Navy and the Persian Gulf War / Edward J. Marolda and Robert J. Schneller, Jr

-Blood, sweat and steel : frontline accounts from the Gulf, Afghanistan and Iraq, 1990-2010 / Peter Darman

-Desert Storm / John Perritano

-Jarhead : a Marine's chronicle of the Gulf War and other battles / Anthony Swofford

-American orientalism : the United States and the Middle East since 1945 / Douglas Little

-The leadership secrets of Colin Powell / Oren Harari

-It worked for me : in life and leadership / Colin Powell with Tony Koltz

-Cultures of war: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9-11, Iraq / John W. Dower

-The new Pearl Harbor : disturbing questions about the Bush administration and 9/11 / by David Ray Griffin

-Cradle of conflict : Iraq and the birth of modern U.S. military power / Michael Andrew Knights

-We interrupt this broadcast : the events that stopped our lives-- : from the Hindenburg explosion to the attacks of September 11 / Joe Garner (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-Heroes of 9/11 / by Allan Zullo

-9/11 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq : a chronology and reference guide / Tom Lansford

-The Constitution and 9/11 : recurring threats to America's freedoms / Louis Fisher

-The 9/11 encyclopedia (eBook)/ Stephen E. Atkins

 

WOMEN’S HISTORY:

-Rosie the riveter: women working on the home front in World War II / Penny Colman (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-The Women's Army Corps / Mattie E. Treadwell (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-The women's army corps, 1945-1978, / Bettie J. Morden (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-Clipped wings: the rise and fall of the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs) of World War II / Molly Merryman

-Beyond Rosie the Riveter: Women of World War II in American popular graphic art / Donna B. Knaff (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-Rosie the Riveter: women in World War II, Sean Price (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-Rosie the Riveter, Christine Petersen (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-Rosie the riveter revisited : women, the war, and social change, Sherna Berger Gluck (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-Eleanor and Harry : the correspondence of Eleanor Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman / edited and with commentary by Steve Neal ; foreword by Gloria Steinem

-Something from the oven : reinventing dinner in 1950s America / Laura Shapiro

-Betty Friedan and the making of The feminine mystique : the American left, the cold war, and modern feminism with a new preface by the author / Daniel Horowitz

-Mom : the transformation of motherhood in modern America / Rebecca Jo Plant

-Before Roe v. Wade : voices that shaped the abortion debate before the Supreme Court's ruling / edited by Linda Greenhouse and Reva Siegel

-Rosa Parks / Douglas Brinkley

-The rebellious life of Mrs. Rosa Parks / Jeanne Theoharis

-A strange stirring : the Feminine mystique and American women at the dawn of the 1960s / Stephanie Coontz

-After Roe : the lost history of the abortion debate / Mary Ziegler

-My life on the road / Gloria Steinem

-What Roe v. Wade should have said : the nation's top legal experts rewrite America's most controversial decision / edited with an introduction by Jack M. Balkin

-The girls who went away : the hidden history of women who surrendered children for adoption in the decades before Roe v. Wade / Ann Fessler

-All too human : the love story of Jack and Jackie Kennedy / Edward Klein

-Bobby and Jackie : a love story / C. David Heymann

-Band of sisters: American women at war in Iraq, Kirsten Holmstedt (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-Contemporary cases in women's rights, Leslie Friedman Goldstein (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-Sandra Day O'Connor : how the first woman on the Supreme Court became its most influential justice / Joan Biskupic

-Sandra Day O'Connor : Supreme Court justice, Lisa McElroy (OFFSITE AT PROSPECTOR)

-Notorious RBG : the life and times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg / Irin Carmon and Shana Knizhnik

-Sisters in law : how Sandra Day O'Connor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg went to the Supreme Court and changed the world / Linda Hirshman

-A to Z of American women leaders and activists / Donna Langston

-The meaning of Michelle : 16 writers on the iconic first lady and how her journey inspires our own / edited by Veronica Chambers

-Becoming, Michelle Obama

 

RANDOM:

-The fall of the Berlin Wall / William F. Buckley, Jr

-The year that changed the world : the untold story behind the fall of the Berlin Wall / Michael Meyer

-The 1990s / Richard A. Schwartz

-Restless giant : the United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore / James T. Patterson

-The future : six drivers of global change / Al Gore

-The voting wars : from Florida 2000 to the next election meltdown / Richard L. Hasen

-Hall of mirrors : the Great Depression, the great recession, and the uses-and misuses-of history / Barry Eichengreen

-Pinched : how the great recession has narrowed our futures and what we can do about it / Don Peck

-Love wins : the lovers and lawyers who fought the landmark case for marriage equality / Debbie Cenziper and Jim Obergefell

-From the closet to the altar : courts, backlash, and the struggle for same-sex marriage / Michael J. Klarman

-Who lives, who dies, who decides? : abortion, neonatal care, assisted dying, and capital punishment / Sheldon Ekland-Olson