Selected Bibliography
Arnett, Peter. Live from the Battlefield: From Vietnam to Baghdad, 35 Years in the World’s War Zones. Simon & Shuster, 1993.
Borroughs, Bryan. Days of Rage: America’s Radical Underground, the FBI, and the Forgotten Age of Revolutionary Violence. Penguin Books, 2016.
Boyte, Harry C., and Frank Riessman. The New Populism: The Politics of Empowerment. Temple University Press, 1986.
Brandt, Ned. Growth Company: Dow Chemical’s First Century. Michigan State University Press, 1997.
Carver, Ron, David Cortright, and Barbara Doherty. Waging Peace in Vietnam: US Soldiers Who Opposed the War. New Village Press, 2019.
Churchill, Ward, and Jim Vander Wall, The COINTELPRO Papers: Documents from the FBI’s Secret War against Dissent in the United States. Black Classic Press, 2022.
Cortright, David. Peace: A History of Movements and Ideas. Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Dancis, Bruce. Resister: A Story of Protest and Prison during the Vietnam War. Cornell University Press, 2014.
Eckstein, Arthur M. Bad Moon Rising: How the Weather Underground Beat the FBI and Lost the Revolution. Yale University Press, 2016.
Eisenhower, Dwight D. Mandate for Change. Doubleday, 1963.
Flacks, Mickey, and Dick Flacks. Making History/Making Blintzes: How Two Red Diaper Babies Found Each Other and Discovered America. Rutgers University Press, 2018.
Gitlin, Todd. The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage. Bantam Books, 1987.
Goodwyn, Lawrence. The Populist Moment: A Short History of the Agrarian Revolt in America, Oxford University Press, 1978.
Kaiser, Charles. 1968 in America: Music, Politics, Chaos, Counterculture, and the Shaping of a Generation. Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.
Karnow, Stanley. Vietnam: A History. Viking, 1991.
King, Mel. Chain of Change: Struggles for Black Community Development. South End Press, 1981.
Kurlansky, Mark. 1968: The Year That Rocked the World. Ballantine Books, 2003.
Lauter, Paul. Our Sixties: An Activist’s History. University of Rochester Press, 2020.
Lembcke, Jerry. The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam. New York University Press, 2000.
Lyman, Richard W. Stanford in Turmoil: Campus Unrest, 1966–1972. Stanford University Press, 2009.
McNamara, Craig. Because Our Fathers Lied: A Memoir of Truth and Family, from Vietnam to Today. Little Brown & Company, 2022.
McNamara, Robert S. In Retrospect: The Tragedy and Lessons of Vietnam. Crown, 1995.
Neer, Robert. Napalm: An American Biography. Belknap Press, 2013.
O’Donnell, Jr., Lawrence. Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics. Penguin Press, 2017.
Paget, Karen. Patriotic Betrayal: The Inside Story of the CIA’s Secret Campaign to Enroll American Students in the Crusade against Communism. Yale University Press, 2015.
Richardson, Peter. A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America. New Press, 2010.
Risen, James, and Thomas Risen. The Last Honest Man: The CIA, the FBI, the Mafia, and the Kennedys—and One Senator’s Fight to Save Democracy. Little, Brown & Company, 2023.
Rothstein, Richard. The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America. W. W. Norton, 2018.
Sale, Kirkpatrick. SDS: Student for a Democratic Society. Random House, 1973
Viorst, Milton. Fire in the Streets: America in the 1960’s. Simon & Shuster, 1979.
Wells, Tom. The War Within: America’s Battle over Vietnam. University of California Press, 1994.
Woodward, C. Vann. Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel. Oxford University Press, 1963.
Further Reading
Ayres, Bill. Fugitive Days: A Memoir. Beacon Press, 2001.
Branch, Taylor. At Canaan’s Edge: America in the King Years, 1965–68. Simon & Shuster, 2006.
Embree, Alice. Voice Lessons. Briscoe Center for American History, 2023.
Gottlieb, Sherry Gershon. Hell No, We Won’t Go! Resisting the Draft During the Vietnam War. Viking, 1991.
Harris, David. Dreams Die Hard: Three Men’s Journey through the Sixties. St. Martin’s, 1982.
Hayden, Tom. Reunion: A Memoir. Random House, 1988.
Kazin, Michael. What It Took to Win: A History of the Democratic Party. Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2022.
Knight, Peter. Dark Powers: Conspiracies and Conspiracy Theory in History and Literature. Duke University Press, 2008.
Lewis, John. Walking with the Wind: A Memoir of the Movement. Harcourt Brace, 1998.
Miller, James. Democracy Is in the Streets: From Port Huron to the Siege of Chicago. Simon & Shuster, 1987.
Raiford, Leigh, and Renee Christine Romano. The Civil Rights Movement in American Memory. University of Georgia Press, 2006.
Ricks, Thomas E. Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022.
Rudd, Mark. Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen. William Morrow, 2009.
von Hoffman, Nicholas. We Are the People Our Parents Warned Us Against: The Classic Account of the 1960s Counter-Culture in San Francisco. Quadrangle, 1968.
Wilkerson, Cathy. Flying Close to the Sun: My Life and Times as a Weatherman. Seven Stories Press, 2007.
Wright, James. Enduring Vietnam: An American Generation and Its War. St. Martin’s Press, 2017.
Zaroulis, Nancy, and Gerald Sullivan, Who Spoke Up? American Protest against the War in Vietnam 1963–1975. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1984.