Twentieth Century United States

Book Summaries

• Donna Alvah. Unofficial Ambassadors: American Military Families Overseas and the Cold War, 1946-1965 (2007).
• Luis Alvarez. The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II (2008).
• Karen Anderson. Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations, and the Status of Women During World War II (1981).
• Michael Aronson. Nickelodeon City: Pittsburgh at the Movies, 1905-1929 (2008).
• Eric Avila. Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles (2004).
• Beth Bailey. America’s Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force (2009).
• Beth Bailey & David Farber. The First Strange Place: The Alchemy of Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii (1992).
• Beth Bailey. From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America (1989).
• Mark Brilliant. Californication: Race, Ethnicity, and Unity in Twentieth Century California (2012).
• Amy Bridges. Morning Glories (1999).
• Laura Briggs. Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico (2002).
• Alan Brinkley. Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression (1983).
• Charlotte Brooks. Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends: Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California (2009).
• Catherine Fisher Collins. The Imprisonment of African American Women: Causes, Conditions, and Future Implications (1997).
• Robert Caro. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York(1974)
• Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor. American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for the Nation and Chicago (2001)
• Lizabeth Cohen. A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America (2003).
• Lizabeth Cohen. Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939 (2008).

• Nancy F. Cott. Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation (2002).
• Pete Daniel, Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s (2000)
• Mike Davis. City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles (2006).
• Mike Davis & Michael Sprinker. Magical Urbanism: Latinos Reinvent the US Big City (2001).
• Michael J. Dear. The Postmodern Urban Condition (2001).
• Robert C. Donnelly. Dark Rose (2011).
• Steven Erie. Globalizing L.A.: Trade, Infrastructure, and Regional Development (2004).
• Steven P. Erie. Beyond Chinatown: The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, and the Environment in Southern California (2006).
• Elizabeth Ewen. Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars (1985).
• Dannelly Farrow. Dixie's Daughters (2003).
• Barbara Ferman. Challenging the Growth Machine: Neighborhood Politics in Chicago and Pittsburgh (1996).
• Marcie Ferris and Mark Greenberg. Jewish Roots in Southern Soil: A New History (2006).
• John M. Findlay. Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940 (1993).
• Steven Gregory. Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community (1999).
• Jason Hackworth. The Neoliberal City: Governance, Ideology, and Development in American Urbanism (2006).
• William Ivy Hair. Carnival of Fury: Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900 (2008).
• Tona J. Hangen. Redeeming the Dial: Radio, Religion, and Popular Culture in America (2013).
• Andrew Hartman. A War for the Soul of America: A History of the Culture Wars (2015)
• Chester W. Hartman. Yerba Buena: land grab and community resistance in San Francisco, (1974).
• Georgina Hickey. Hope and Danger in the New South City: Working-Class Women and Urban Development in Atlanta, 1890-1940 (2005).
• Richard Hofstadter. The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it (1989).
• Daniel Horowitz. Betty Friedan and the Making of “The Feminine Mystique”: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism (2000).
• John A. Jakle and Keith A. Sculle. Lots of Parking: Land Use in a Car Culture (2004).
• Daniel Martinez HoSang. Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California(2010)
• Jonathan Hughes (Editor)& Simon Sadler (Editor).Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism (2000).
• Daniel Hurewitz. Bohemian Los Angeles: and the Making of Modern Politics (2007).
• Marilynn S. Johnson. The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II (1994).
• Tony Judt. Ill Fares the Land (2011).
• Larry D. Kramer. The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review (2004).
• Joel Kotkin. The Next Hundred Million:America in 2050 (2010)
• Kevin M. Kruse. White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism (2007).
• Matthew D. Lassiter. The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South (2007).
• Gary L. Lehring. The Political Construction of Sexuality by the U. S. Military (2003).
• William R. Leach. Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture (1994).
• Michael F. Logan. Fighting Sprawl and City Hall: Resistance to Urban Growth in the Southwest (1995).
• Roger W. Lotchin. Fortress California, 1910-1961: From Warfare to Welfare (2002).
• Lisa Lowe. Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics (1996).
• Robert S. Lynd & Helen Merrell Lynd. Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture (1959).
• Catherine Lutz. Homefront: A Military City and the American 20th Century (2001).
• Nancy MacLean. Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace (2008).
• Isaac Martin. The Permanent Tax Revolt: How Property Tax Transformed America (2008).
• Douglas Massey & Nancy Denton. American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass (1993).
• Elaine Tyler May. America and The Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation (2010).
• Carol Lynn McKibben. Racial Beachhead: Diversity and Democracy in a Military Town (2012).
• Lisa McGirr. Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (2002).
• James Miller. Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977 (2000).
• Glen M. Mimura. Ghostlife of Third Cinema: Asian American Film and Video (2009).
• John Hull Mollenkopf. The Contested City (1983).
• Maggi M. Morehouse. Fighting in the Jim Crow Army: Black Man and Women Remember World War II (2000).
• Edward P. Morgan. What Really Happened to the Sixties: How Mass Media Culture Failed American Democracy (2011)
• Charles Moskos Jr. and John Sibley Butler. All That We Can Be: Black Leadership and Racial Integration the Army Way (1996).
• Andrew H. Myers. Black, White, and Olive Drab: Racial Integration at Fort Jackson, South Carolina and the Civil Rights Movement (2006).
• Armando Navarro. The Cristal Experiment: A Chicano Struggle for Community Control (1998).
• Becky M. Nicolaides. My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965 (2002).
• Margaret Pugh O’Mara. Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley (2004).
• Gilbert Osofsky. Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto : Negro New York, 1890-1930 (1996).
• Rick Perlstein. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America(2009).
• Rebecca Jo Plant. Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America (2012).
• Brenda Gayle Plummer. Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988 (2003).
• Jerald E. Podair. The Strike that Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis (2002).
• Doris Marie Provine. Unequal Under Law: Race in the War on Drugs (2007).
• Daniel T. Rodgers. Contested Truths: Keywords in American Politics Since Independence (1998).
• David Roediger. The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (1991).
• Adam Rome. The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism (2001).
• Richard Ronald. The Ideology of Home Ownership: Homeowner Societies and the Role of Housing (2008).
• Peter Henry Rossi & Robert A. Dentler. The Politics of Urban Renewal: The Chicago Findings (1981).
• Sheila Rowbotham Dreamers of a New Day: Women Who Invented the Twentieth Century (2010).
• Mike Royko. Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago (1971)
• Roger Sanjek. The Future of Us All: Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York City (1998).
• Jennifer Scanlon. Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown, the Woman Behind Cosmopolitan Magazine (2009).
• Bruce Schulman & Bruce J. Schulman. The Seventies: The Great Shift In American Culture, Society, And Politics (2002).
• Joel Schwartz. The New York Approach: Robert Moses, Urban Liberals, and Redevelopment of the Inner City (1993).
• Gary S. Selby Martin Luther King and the Rhetoric of Freedom: The Exodus Narrative in America's Struggle for Civil Rights (2008)
• Josh Sides. Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco (2009).
• Nayan Shah. Intimacy:Contesting Race, Sexuality and Law in the American Northwest (2012).
• David J. Silbey. A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899-1902 (2007).
• Rickie Solinger. Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States (2002).
• Allan H. Spear. Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto, 1890-1920 (1969).
• Todd Swanstrom. The Crisis of Growth Politics: Cleveland, Kucinich, and the Challenge of Urban Populism (1988).
• Ronald Takaki. Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb (1996).
• Penny M. Von Eschen. Satchmo Blows Up The World: Jazz Ambassadors Play The Cold War (2004).
• Robert Wiebe. The Search for Order, 1877 - 1920 (1967).
• Andrew Wiese. Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century (2004)
• Rhonda Y. Williams. The Politics of Public Housing: Black Women’s Struggles Against Urban Inequality (2004).
• William Appleman Williams. The Tragedy of American Diplomacy (2009).
• Gwendolyn Wright. Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America (1983).
• Young B. Marilyn. The Vietnam Wars 1945-1990 (1991).
• Zimmerman, Andrew. Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South (2010).
• Washington Harriet. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (2006)