I. Books
for In Class Presentations:
Assignments:
Books on the Sixties:
Willina Clark, Theodore Roszak, The Making of a
Counter Culture
Heather Felice, Charles A. Reich, The Greening of
America
Tara Krisher, Terry H. Anderson, The Movement and
the Sixties
Chrisi Davis, Tod Gitlin, The Sixties
Travis Copeland, Timothy Miller, The Hippies and
American Values
Books on Neoconservatism
Jeff Whitfield, Norman Podhoretz, Breaking Ranks
Chhaya Sei, Irving Kristal, Neoconservatism, The
Autobiography of an Idea
Ayana Wisdom-Johnson, John Ehrman, The Rise of
Neoconservatism, Intellectuals and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1994
Clay Davis, George H. Nash, The Conservative
Intellectual Movement in America
II.
Books for End of Term Book Report:
Students
select from the following list:
Henry George, Progress and Poverty
Jacob Riis, How the Other Half Lives
Lincoln Steffens, The Shame of the Cities
Vine Deloria Jr., Custer Died for Your Sins, 1983
W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk, 1903
Josiah Strong, Our Country
C. Vann Woodward, The Strange Career of Jim Crow
Ida Tarbell, The History of the Standard Oil Company
Andrew Carnegie, The Gospel of Wealth
William Graham Sumner, What the Social Classes Owe to
Each Other
Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
Aleksandr I.
Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago
Ann Applebaum, Gulag,
A History
Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom
Michael Harrington, The Other America
Max Weber, The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism (1905).
Edmond O.. Wilson, The
Future of Life
Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.
C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity
Robert Nisbet, The Quest for Community
Sigmund
Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams
Richard Hofstadter, The Age of Reform
John Kenneth
Galbraith, The Affluent Society
John Kenneth Galbraith, The New Industrial State
William F. Buckley Jr., God and Man at Yale
Richard M. Weaver, Ideas Have
Consequences
Thomas Sowell, Ethnic America
Betty Friedan, The Feminine Mystique (1963
C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite
Eugene D. Genovese, Roll Jordan Roll
Douglas Southall Freeman, R. E. Lee
Walter Lippmann, The Good Society
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind
Theodore Roszak, The Making of a Counter Culture
Oscar Lewis, The Children of Sanchez
Mark Twain, The Gilded Age
William Graham Sumner, What Social Classes Owe to Each Other
Henry Demorest Lloyd, Wealth Against Commonwealth
Thorestein Veblen, Theory of the Leisure Class
Walter Rauschenbusch, Christianity and the Social Crisis
Walter Lipman, A Preface to Politics
Louis Brandeis, Other People’s Money
Margaret Mead, Coming of Age in
Samoa
Twelve Southerners, I’ll Take My Stand
H. D. Laswell, Politics, Who Gets What , When, How?
W.J. Cash, The Mind of the South
Joseph Campbell, The Hero With a Thousand Faces
David Riesman, The Lonely Crowd
C. Wright Mills, The Power Elite
W.W. Rostow, Stages of Economic Growth
Theodore Roszak, The Making of a Counter-Culture
Daniel Bell, The Coming of Post Industrial Society
E.O. Wilson, Sociobiology
David Halberstam, The Best and the Brightest
Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism
Norman Forster, Humanism in America
Reinhold Niebuhr, Moral Man and Immoral Society
Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History
William H. Whyte, The Organization Man
Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Harvey Cox, The Secular City
Betty Friedan, The Femine Mystique
Carl Sagan, Dragons of Eden
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, 1952
Richard Wright -- Native Son, 1940
John Dos Passos -- U.S.A., 1930
Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
Frank Norris, The Octopus
William Faulkner -- The Sound and the Fury, 1926
Norman Mailer -- The Naked and the Dead, 1948
Malcolm X and Alex Haley -- The Autobiography of Malcolm X, 1965
John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath, 1937
Robert Penn Warren -- All the Kings Men, 1946
William Dean Howells, The Rise of Silas Lapham
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Herland
Thomas Wolfe, Look Homeward Angel
William Faulkner, Absalom, Absalom
William Faulkner, The Sound and Fury
John Steinbeck, Grapes
of Wrath
Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls
Eugene O’Neill, Long Day’s Journey into Night
Ayn Rand, The Fountainhead
John Hersey, Hiroshima
B.F. Skinner, Walden Two
Herman Wouk, The Caine Mutiny
Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March