History 3501 Book Report Lists

 

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:

 

Non Fiction

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

 

Fiction

 

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