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Suggestions for Further Study
The Rise of Sunbelt Conservatism

 

Heidenry, John. What Wild Ecstasy: The Rise and Fall of the Sexual Revolution. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.

Berube, Allan. Coming Out Under Fire: The History of Gay Men and Women in World War Two. New York: Plume, 1991.

D'Emilio John and Estelle B. Freedman. Intimate Matters: A History of Sexuality in America. New York: Perennial Library, 1989.

Faux, Maurin. Roe v. Wade: The Untold Story of the Landmark Supreme Court Decision That Made Abortion Legal. New York: Macmillan, 1988.

Berman, William. America's Right Turn :  From Nixon to Bush.  Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994.

Greene, John Robert. The Limits of Power: The Nixon and Ford Administrations. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.

Putnam, Jackson K. Modern California Politics, 1917-1980. San Francisco: Boyd & Fraser Pub. Co., 1980.

More Books of Interest

Kerouac, Jack. On the Road. New York: Viking, 1997.

The 1952 novel that drove the Beat movement.

Solinger, Rickie.  The Abortionist: A Woman Against the Law.  New York : Free Press, 1994.

Biography of Ruth Barnett, a Portland, OR, doctor who performed abortions during the 1950s.

Goldberg, Robert Alan. Barry Goldwater. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995.

A biography of the late Arizona senator.

Mervin, David. Ronald Reagan and the American Presidency. New York: Longman, 1990.

A biography.

Film, Video and Sound

Howls, Raps & Roars: Recordings from the San Francisco Poetry Renaissance. 4 compact discs. 1993.

Recorded 1955-1970, featuring readings by Allen Ginsburg, Lenny Bruce, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and many others.

The Jack Kerouac Collection. 2 compact discs. 1990.

Readings by Kerouac featuring piano accompaniment by Steve Allen on the 1st disc and saxophone accompaniment by Zoot Sims and Al Cohn on 2nd disc.

Kerouac. Produced and directed by John Antonelli. 73 m. 1995. Videorecording.

Award-winning docu-drama about, Jack Kerouac. Combines rare footage featuring Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti and William Burroughs with music by Charles Mingus, Duke Ellington and Zoot Sims. In Knight Library.

Millhouse, A White Comedy. Produced and directed by Emile de Antonio. 90m. 1987[?]. Videorecording.

A compilation of newsreel and TV footage with interviews with various political commentators dealing with the public career of Richard M. Nixon. In Knight Library.

Web Sites

 

Put Yourself There: 
      Debates, Documents, and First Person Accounts

Charters, Ann, ed. The Portable Beat Reader. New York: Viking, 1992.

A collection of beat literature.

Morgan, Robin, ed. Sisterhood is Powerful: An Anthology of Writings from the Women's Liberation Movement. New York: Random House, 1970.

Thompson, Hunter S. Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72. New York: Warner, 1973.


The author’s account of his experiences covering the 1972 democratic primary campaigns and his take on American politics in the early 1970s
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