A Short History of the United States

Reading List 341

ch a p t er 8: The Great Depression, the New Deal,

and World War II

David Kennedy, Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression
and War ( 1999 ).
Robert S. McElvaine, The Great Depression: America, 1929–1940 ( 1984 ).
Herbert Feis, Churchill, Roo se velt, Stalin ( 1957 ).
Henry Steele Commager, The Story of World War II ( 1945 ).
Chester Wilmot, The Struggle for Europe ( 1952 ).
Robert Jungk, Brighter Than a Thousand Suns ( 1958 ).
Martin Sherwin, A World Destroyed: The Atom Bomb and the Grand Al-
liance ( 1975 ).

ch a p t er 9: The Cold War and Civil Rights

John Lewis Gaddis, The Cold War ( 2005 ).
James Patterson, Great Expectations: The United States, 1945–1974 ( 1996 ).
Wa lter LaFeber, America, Rus sia, and the Cold War, 1945–1966 ( 1967 ).
Ellen Schrecker, The Age of McCarthyism ( 2002 ).
David McCullough, Tr u m a n ( 1992 ).
Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., A Thousand Days ( 1965 ).
Robert Dallek, Lyndon Johnson ( 2005 ).
David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest ( 1972 ).

ch a p ter 1 0: Violence, Scandal, and the End of the Cold War

Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, All the President’s Men ( 1974 ).
Stanley Kutler, The Wars of Watergate ( 1990 ).
Jonathan Schell, The Time of Illusion ( 1976 ).
Arthur Link and William Catton, American Epoch, 1938–1980 ( 1980 ).
Kevin Phillips, The Emerging Republican Majority ( 1969 ).
Bruce Schulman, The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture,
Society, and Politics ( 2001 ).
John Karaagac, Between Promise and Policy: Ronald Reagan and Conser-
vative Reformism ( 2000 ).
Haynes Johnson, Sleepwalking through History: America in the Reagan
Years ( 1992 ).