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Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown, the Woman Behind Cosmopolitan Magazine

2014-10-27T21:46:07Z

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{{Infobox book
| name = Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown, the Woman Behind Cosmopolitan Magazine
| author = Jennifer Scanlon
| publisher = Penguin Books
| pub_date = 2009
| pages = 285
| isbn = 978-0-19-534205-5
| image = [[File:badgirls.jpg]]
}}

In the only biographical work on a notable feminist before Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique in 1963, Bowdoin College professor, Jennifer Scanlon, gives readers an in-depth look surrounding Helen Gurley Brown- the “woman behind Cosmopolitan Magazine.” With a great deal of research and scavenging around Helen Gurley Brown’s personal papers in the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College, a women’s college in Massachusetts, Scanlon writes a personal memoir behind the life and success of Helen Gurley Brown, while also arguing that Brown was indeed the pioneer of the second wave of feminism. In contrast to Betty Friedan’s audience in the Feminine Mystique in 1963, Helen Gurley Brown published the controversial, yet popular book, Sex and the Single Girl a year prior in 1962. Scanlon argues that Helen Brown reached a different group of women and feminists; a group that doesn’t get enough credit.

Scanlon writes, “Brown’s particular version of feminism, more likely practiced by single women than by housewives, and by working-class secretaries rather than middle-class students, has largely been left out of established histories of postwar feminism’s emergence and ascendance. Yet Helen Gurley Brown was there from the start, documenting and promoting the beliefs and practices of the sexy single girl, who challenged the status quo with her unrelenting presence, her sexual and economic desires, and her refusal to give in to the dictates of postwar domesticity” (x-xi).

In chapter one, “Growing up Gurley, and a Girl,” Scanlon investigates the foundations of Brown’s life prior to her success. Having grown up in the depression era in a small town in Arkansas, Brown understood from the beginning that she did not belong in this rural setting. She “never felt proud of the people or the places she came from, and once she left Arkansas, she never returned there to live” (10). Sadly, her Father, Ira, died when Helen was very young, so she grew up with her Mother, Cleo, as the widow taking on huge responsibilities in working and providing for both Brown and her little sister, Mary. Even though Brown resented her Mother a great deal throughout her life for all of the bitterness following Ira’s death, she eventually grew to respect her as her Mother took on the roles as a parent and sole provider.

When both daughters were becoming of age, Cleo decided to take them and head west to Los Angeles, California, where Ira once lived. Sadly, Mary developed polio while renting out a small two-bedroom apartment, so they moved to a bungalow near Los Angeles’s orthopedic hospital (13-14). While Mary received multiple treatments and muscle transplants, Brown supported her family but was receiving a fan base within her high school. Even though Brown had a very low self-esteem, she found herself very popular among her high school students at John H. Francis Polytechnic High School. While she never defined herself as “beautiful,” she more or less discovered that all of her success and praise from students around her boosted her confidence and made her feel sexy. Scanlon writes, “Like many women of her generation and after, she eventually came to realize that success and power produced their own beauty” (18). The first chapter ends with Brown’s success at Woodbury College- a secretarial school. After graduation, Brown bounced from secretarial job to secretarial job throughout Los Angeles, as her Mother and sister moved back to Arkansas. Brown stayed and enjoyed her single life of work and play.

Following in chapter two, “Work Life, Romantic Entanglements,” Brown continued to enjoy her status as a secretary and quickly discovered how sexual relationships with bosses at work can sometimes help a sexy, confident woman reach the top. Eventually, she worked her way into a position as an executive secretary to Don Belding of Foote, Cone, and Belding, an advertising agency in Los Angeles. It was during this time when Brown developed a huge interest in writing and public relations. Furthermore, she considered herself a professional, but she understood that the males still dominated the work industry and there was no way she was able to break through the glass ceiling anytime soon (28).

While chapter two discusses her secretarial jobs throughout Los Angeles, chapter three, titled, “David Brown” discusses her long-awaited marriage and concrete plans of domestic roles that she despised for so long before the age of thirty-seven. After years of sexual relationships and the carefree lifestyle of being single during her twenties and early thirties, Brown decided she needed to settle down. She was ready for a long-term commitment to a “man of substance” (42). Eventually, her friends set her up with David Brown, a film studio executive and successful copyright. Although she was new to domesticity and firm commitment to a man, she and David would prove a perfect combination of an everlasting marriage- they both appreciated each other’s independence, confidence, and aspirations.

Following with chapters four and five, Scanlon emphasizes an extreme height in Brown’s career when she published Sex and the Single Girl in 1962. This publication was more or less a nonfiction guide to being a single and enjoying the pleasures of free sexual relationships and independence in the workplace. Brown took a huge leap and publicized the realities of sex in 1962, which was controversial at the time as she pointed out the sexual relationships between married men and single women. Although she was bashed by many critics, the book was a huge success. It was a male-dominated approach where Brown pointed that using sex and money for feminine power was deemed highly successful. Scanlon writes, “In Sex and the Single Girl, single women can refuse to marry if it isn’t right for them, refrain from buying into outmoded definitions of female sexuality, find work they feel passionate about and find meaning in, enliven their domestic surroundings to meet their needs, and enjoy being women under what Brown would consider fairly liberated conditions” (82).

Chapter six, “Sexy from the Start” surrounds Scanlon’s main argument as naming Brown the earliest and lead pioneer in the second wave of feminism. She argues that too many scholars assume Betty Friedan the leader of the second wave of feminism with her 1963 publication, The Feminine Mystique, but Scanlon believes otherwise with proof in the 1962 publication Sex and the Single Girl which appeared well before Friedan. Following the stark contrasts and few comparisons between Brown and Friedan, Scanlon discusses the ways in which Brown promoted Sex and the Single Girl in the world market until 1965 in chapter seven.

In chapter eight, “Normal Like Me,” Scanlon analyzes the role of single women in television and how it truly did not occur until the groundbreaking series, “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” However, Brown pushed for a television series much like the Mary Tyler Moore show throughout the 1960s. She wanted to celebrate single women in a situation comedy, but this appreciation would not happen until the 1970s. Scanlon writes, “Television producers had not yet begun to think of single women either as credible characters or as an advertising demographic worth pitching programs to,” but Brown would push for her own sitcom “The Single Girl Sandra,” until she was offered a huge opportunity at Cosmopolitan in 1965 (140, 144).

The heart of the book for Scanlon would be life as editor of Cosmopolitan and feminist advocate in the second and third waves, promoting sexual rights with abortion and birth control in chapters nine through eleven. With Cosmopolitan, Brown needed “to devise a more efficient means of connecting with her constituency” (150). With that in mind, she addressed single, even married women individually and empowered the “Cosmo Girl” by reporting on their sexual, hardworking, and independent lifestyles, not advocating it (152). Once a magazine looking at bankruptcy, Brown turned the entire publication around and instilled the strategies that continues to make Cosmopolitan one of the leading magazines for women to this day. In the final chapter, “An Editor Steps Down, Reluctantly,” Scanlon concludes on the reasons why Brown stepped down as editor of Cosmopolitan. After thirty-two years at Cosmo, Brown witnessed the emergence of other magazines that empowered the same “sex-friendly” views, like Glamour and Seventeen (222). After a great deal of time as editor, Brown believed it was appropriate to resign. However, as the current leading editor of Cosmopolitan International, she is still promoting her own wave of feminism today, and there are “Cosmo Girls” everywhere who continue to embrace their individuality, sexuality, and confidence in and out of the work place.

Jennifer Scanlon, ''Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Live of Helen Gurley Brown, the Woman Behind Cosmopolitan Magazine'' (New York: Penguin Books, 2009).

Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown, the Woman Behind Cosmopolitan Magazine

2014-10-27T21:44:42Z

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Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown, the Woman Behind Cosmopolitan Magazine

2014-10-27T21:43:18Z

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{{Infobox book
| name = Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown, the Woman Behind Cosmopolitan Magazine
| author = Jennifer Scanlon
| publisher = Penguin Books
| pub_date = 2009
| pages = 285
| isbn = 978-0-19-534205-5
| image = [[File:badgirls.jpg]]
}}

In the only biographical work on a notable feminist before Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique in 1963, Bowdoin College professor, Jennifer Scanlon, gives readers an in-depth look surrounding Helen Gurley Brown- the “woman behind Cosmopolitan Magazine.” With a great deal of research and scavenging around Helen Gurley Brown’s personal papers in the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College, a women’s college in Massachusetts, Scanlon writes a personal memoir behind the life and success of Helen Gurley Brown, while also arguing that Brown was indeed the pioneer of the second wave of feminism. In contrast to Betty Friedan’s audience in the Feminine Mystique in 1963, Helen Gurley Brown published the controversial, yet popular book, Sex and the Single Girl a year prior in 1962. Scanlon argues that Helen Brown reached a different group of women and feminists; a group that doesn’t get enough credit.
Scanlon writes, “Brown’s particular version of feminism, more likely practiced by single women than by housewives, and by working-class secretaries rather than middle-class students, has largely been left out of established histories of postwar feminism’s emergence and ascendance. Yet Helen Gurley Brown was there from the start, documenting and promoting the beliefs and practices of the sexy single girl, who challenged the status quo with her unrelenting presence, her sexual and economic desires, and her refusal to give in to the dictates of postwar domesticity” (x-xi).
In chapter one, “Growing up Gurley, and a Girl,” Scanlon investigates the foundations of Brown’s life prior to her success. Having grown up in the depression era in a small town in Arkansas, Brown understood from the beginning that she did not belong in this rural setting. She “never felt proud of the people or the places she came from, and once she left Arkansas, she never returned there to live” (10). Sadly, her Father, Ira, died when Helen was very young, so she grew up with her Mother, Cleo, as the widow taking on huge responsibilities in working and providing for both Brown and her little sister, Mary. Even though Brown resented her Mother a great deal throughout her life for all of the bitterness following Ira’s death, she eventually grew to respect her as her Mother took on the roles as a parent and sole provider.
When both daughters were becoming of age, Cleo decided to take them and head west to Los Angeles, California, where Ira once lived. Sadly, Mary developed polio while renting out a small two-bedroom apartment, so they moved to a bungalow near Los Angeles’s orthopedic hospital (13-14). While Mary received multiple treatments and muscle transplants, Brown supported her family but was receiving a fan base within her high school. Even though Brown had a very low self-esteem, she found herself very popular among her high school students at John H. Francis Polytechnic High School. While she never defined herself as “beautiful,” she more or less discovered that all of her success and praise from students around her boosted her confidence and made her feel sexy. Scanlon writes, “Like many women of her generation and after, she eventually came to realize that success and power produced their own beauty” (18). The first chapter ends with Brown’s success at Woodbury College- a secretarial school. After graduation, Brown bounced from secretarial job to secretarial job throughout Los Angeles, as her Mother and sister moved back to Arkansas. Brown stayed and enjoyed her single life of work and play.
Following in chapter two, “Work Life, Romantic Entanglements,” Brown continued to enjoy her status as a secretary and quickly discovered how sexual relationships with bosses at work can sometimes help a sexy, confident woman reach the top. Eventually, she worked her way into a position as an executive secretary to Don Belding of Foote, Cone, and Belding, an advertising agency in Los Angeles. It was during this time when Brown developed a huge interest in writing and public relations. Furthermore, she considered herself a professional, but she understood that the males still dominated the work industry and there was no way she was able to break through the glass ceiling anytime soon (28).
While chapter two discusses her secretarial jobs throughout Los Angeles, chapter three, titled, “David Brown” discusses her long-awaited marriage and concrete plans of domestic roles that she despised for so long before the age of thirty-seven. After years of sexual relationships and the carefree lifestyle of being single during her twenties and early thirties, Brown decided she needed to settle down. She was ready for a long-term commitment to a “man of substance” (42). Eventually, her friends set her up with David Brown, a film studio executive and successful copyright. Although she was new to domesticity and firm commitment to a man, she and David would prove a perfect combination of an everlasting marriage- they both appreciated each other’s independence, confidence, and aspirations.
Following with chapters four and five, Scanlon emphasizes an extreme height in Brown’s career when she published Sex and the Single Girl in 1962. This publication was more or less a nonfiction guide to being a single and enjoying the pleasures of free sexual relationships and independence in the workplace. Brown took a huge leap and publicized the realities of sex in 1962, which was controversial at the time as she pointed out the sexual relationships between married men and single women. Although she was bashed by many critics, the book was a huge success. It was a male-dominated approach where Brown pointed that using sex and money for feminine power was deemed highly successful. Scanlon writes, “In Sex and the Single Girl, single women can refuse to marry if it isn’t right for them, refrain from buying into outmoded definitions of female sexuality, find work they feel passionate about and find meaning in, enliven their domestic surroundings to meet their needs, and enjoy being women under what Brown would consider fairly liberated conditions” (82).
Chapter six, “Sexy from the Start” surrounds Scanlon’s main argument as naming Brown the earliest and lead pioneer in the second wave of feminism. She argues that too many scholars assume Betty Friedan the leader of the second wave of feminism with her 1963 publication, The Feminine Mystique, but Scanlon believes otherwise with proof in the 1962 publication Sex and the Single Girl which appeared well before Friedan. Following the stark contrasts and few comparisons between Brown and Friedan, Scanlon discusses the ways in which Brown promoted Sex and the Single Girl in the world market until 1965 in chapter seven.
In chapter eight, “Normal Like Me,” Scanlon analyzes the role of single women in television and how it truly did not occur until the groundbreaking series, “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” However, Brown pushed for a television series much like the Mary Tyler Moore show throughout the 1960s. She wanted to celebrate single women in a situation comedy, but this appreciation would not happen until the 1970s. Scanlon writes, “Television producers had not yet begun to think of single women either as credible characters or as an advertising demographic worth pitching programs to,” but Brown would push for her own sitcom “The Single Girl Sandra,” until she was offered a huge opportunity at Cosmopolitan in 1965 (140, 144).
The heart of the book for Scanlon would be life as editor of Cosmopolitan and feminist advocate in the second and third waves, promoting sexual rights with abortion and birth control in chapters nine through eleven. With Cosmopolitan, Brown needed “to devise a more efficient means of connecting with her constituency” (150). With that in mind, she addressed single, even married women individually and empowered the “Cosmo Girl” by reporting on their sexual, hardworking, and independent lifestyles, not advocating it (152). Once a magazine looking at bankruptcy, Brown turned the entire publication around and instilled the strategies that continues to make Cosmopolitan one of the leading magazines for women to this day. In the final chapter, “An Editor Steps Down, Reluctantly,” Scanlon concludes on the reasons why Brown stepped down as editor of Cosmopolitan. After thirty-two years at Cosmo, Brown witnessed the emergence of other magazines that empowered the same “sex-friendly” views, like Glamour and Seventeen (222). After a great deal of time as editor, Brown believed it was appropriate to resign. However, as the current leading editor of Cosmopolitan International, she is still promoting her own wave of feminism today, and there are “Cosmo Girls” everywhere who continue to embrace their individuality, sexuality, and confidence in and out of the work place.

Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown, the Woman Behind Cosmopolitan Magazine

2014-10-27T21:42:46Z

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{{Infobox book
| name = Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown, the Woman Behind Cosmopolitan Magazine
| author = Jennifer Scanlon
| publisher = Penguin Books
| pub_date = 2009
| pages = 285
| isbn = 978-0-19-534205-5
| image = [[File:badgirls.jpg]]
}}

In the only biographical work on a notable feminist before Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique in 1963, Bowdoin College professor, Jennifer Scanlon, gives readers an in-depth look surrounding Helen Gurley Brown- the “woman behind Cosmopolitan Magazine.” With a great deal of research and scavenging around Helen Gurley Brown’s personal papers in the Sophia Smith Collection at Smith College, a women’s college in Massachusetts, Scanlon writes a personal memoir behind the life and success of Helen Gurley Brown, while also arguing that Brown was indeed the pioneer of the second wave of feminism. In contrast to Betty Friedan’s audience in the Feminine Mystique in 1963, Helen Gurley Brown published the controversial, yet popular book, Sex and the Single Girl a year prior in 1962. Scanlon argues that Helen Brown reached a different group of women and feminists; a group that doesn’t get enough credit.
Scanlon writes, “Brown’s particular version of feminism, more likely practiced by single women than by housewives, and by working-class secretaries rather than middle-class students, has largely been left out of established histories of postwar feminism’s emergence and ascendance. Yet Helen Gurley Brown was there from the start, documenting and promoting the beliefs and practices of the sexy single girl, who challenged the status quo with her unrelenting presence, her sexual and economic desires, and her refusal to give in to the dictates of postwar domesticity” (x-xi).
In chapter one, “Growing up Gurley, and a Girl,” Scanlon investigates the foundations of Brown’s life prior to her success. Having grown up in the depression era in a small town in Arkansas, Brown understood from the beginning that she did not belong in this rural setting. She “never felt proud of the people or the places she came from, and once she left Arkansas, she never returned there to live” (10). Sadly, her Father, Ira, died when Helen was very young, so she grew up with her Mother, Cleo, as the widow taking on huge responsibilities in working and providing for both Brown and her little sister, Mary. Even though Brown resented her Mother a great deal throughout her life for all of the bitterness following Ira’s death, she eventually grew to respect her as her Mother took on the roles as a parent and sole provider.
When both daughters were becoming of age, Cleo decided to take them and head west to Los Angeles, California, where Ira once lived. Sadly, Mary developed polio while renting out a small two-bedroom apartment, so they moved to a bungalow near Los Angeles’s orthopedic hospital (13-14). While Mary received multiple treatments and muscle transplants, Brown supported her family but was receiving a fan base within her high school. Even though Brown had a very low self-esteem, she found herself very popular among her high school students at John H. Francis Polytechnic High School. While she never defined herself as “beautiful,” she more or less discovered that all of her success and praise from students around her boosted her confidence and made her feel sexy. Scanlon writes, “Like many women of her generation and after, she eventually came to realize that success and power produced their own beauty” (18). The first chapter ends with Brown’s success at Woodbury College- a secretarial school. After graduation, Brown bounced from secretarial job to secretarial job throughout Los Angeles, as her Mother and sister moved back to Arkansas. Brown stayed and enjoyed her single life of work and play.
Following in chapter two, “Work Life, Romantic Entanglements,” Brown continued to enjoy her status as a secretary and quickly discovered how sexual relationships with bosses at work can sometimes help a sexy, confident woman reach the top. Eventually, she worked her way into a position as an executive secretary to Don Belding of Foote, Cone, and Belding, an advertising agency in Los Angeles. It was during this time when Brown developed a huge interest in writing and public relations. Furthermore, she considered herself a professional, but she understood that the males still dominated the work industry and there was no way she was able to break through the glass ceiling anytime soon (28).
While chapter two discusses her secretarial jobs throughout Los Angeles, chapter three, titled, “David Brown” discusses her long-awaited marriage and concrete plans of domestic roles that she despised for so long before the age of thirty-seven. After years of sexual relationships and the carefree lifestyle of being single during her twenties and early thirties, Brown decided she needed to settle down. She was ready for a long-term commitment to a “man of substance” (42). Eventually, her friends set her up with David Brown, a film studio executive and successful copyright. Although she was new to domesticity and firm commitment to a man, she and David would prove a perfect combination of an everlasting marriage- they both appreciated each other’s independence, confidence, and aspirations.
Following with chapters four and five, Scanlon emphasizes an extreme height in Brown’s career when she published Sex and the Single Girl in 1962. This publication was more or less a nonfiction guide to being a single and enjoying the pleasures of free sexual relationships and independence in the workplace. Brown took a huge leap and publicized the realities of sex in 1962, which was controversial at the time as she pointed out the sexual relationships between married men and single women. Although she was bashed by many critics, the book was a huge success. It was a male-dominated approach where Brown pointed that using sex and money for feminine power was deemed highly successful. Scanlon writes, “In Sex and the Single Girl, single women can refuse to marry if it isn’t right for them, refrain from buying into outmoded definitions of female sexuality, find work they feel passionate about and find meaning in, enliven their domestic surroundings to meet their needs, and enjoy being women under what Brown would consider fairly liberated conditions” (82).
Chapter six, “Sexy from the Start” surrounds Scanlon’s main argument as naming Brown the earliest and lead pioneer in the second wave of feminism. She argues that too many scholars assume Betty Friedan the leader of the second wave of feminism with her 1963 publication, The Feminine Mystique, but Scanlon believes otherwise with proof in the 1962 publication Sex and the Single Girl which appeared well before Friedan. Following the stark contrasts and few comparisons between Brown and Friedan, Scanlon discusses the ways in which Brown promoted Sex and the Single Girl in the world market until 1965 in chapter seven.
In chapter eight, “Normal Like Me,” Scanlon analyzes the role of single women in television and how it truly did not occur until the groundbreaking series, “The Mary Tyler Moore Show.” However, Brown pushed for a television series much like the Mary Tyler Moore show throughout the 1960s. She wanted to celebrate single women in a situation comedy, but this appreciation would not happen until the 1970s. Scanlon writes, “Television producers had not yet begun to think of single women either as credible characters or as an advertising demographic worth pitching programs to,” but Brown would push for her own sitcom “The Single Girl Sandra,” until she was offered a huge opportunity at Cosmopolitan in 1965 (140, 144).
The heart of the book for Scanlon would be life as editor of Cosmopolitan and feminist advocate in the second and third waves, promoting sexual rights with abortion and birth control in chapters nine through eleven. With Cosmopolitan, Brown needed “to devise a more efficient means of connecting with her constituency” (150). With that in mind, she addressed single, even married women individually and empowered the “Cosmo Girl” by reporting on their sexual, hardworking, and independent lifestyles, not advocating it (152). Once a magazine looking at bankruptcy, Brown turned the entire publication around and instilled the strategies that continues to make Cosmopolitan one of the leading magazines for women to this day. In the final chapter, “An Editor Steps Down, Reluctantly,” Scanlon concludes on the reasons why Brown stepped down as editor of Cosmopolitan. After thirty-two years at Cosmo, Brown witnessed the emergence of other magazines that empowered the same “sex-friendly” views, like Glamour and Seventeen (222). After a great deal of time as editor, Brown believed it was appropriate to resign. However, as the current leading editor of Cosmopolitan International, she is still promoting her own wave of feminism today, and there are “Cosmo Girls” everywhere who continue to embrace their individuality, sexuality, and confidence in and out of the work place.

Twentieth Century United States

2014-10-27T21:29:22Z

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==Book Summaries==
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* Alex Cummings. [[Here's How to Make a New Page: The Revenge, 1955-1957|Here's How to Make a New Page]] (2013).
* Luis Alvarez. [[The Power of the Zoot|The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II]] (2008).
* Karen Anderson. [[Wartime Women|Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations, and the Status of Women During World War II]] (1981).
* Eric Avila. [[Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight|Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles]] (2004).
* Beth Bailey. [[America’s Army|America’s Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force]] (2009).
* Beth Bailey & David Farber. [[The First Strange Place|The First Strange Place: The Alchemy of Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii]] (1992).
* Beth Bailey. [[From Front Porch to Back Seat|From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America]] (1989).
* Mark Brilliant. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/californication-race-ethnicity-and-unity-in-twentieth-century-california/ Californication: Race, Ethnicity, and Unity in Twentieth Century California] (2012).
* Amy Bridges. [[Morning Glories]] (1999).
* Laura Briggs. [[Reproducing Empire|Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico]] (2002).
* Alan Brinkley. [[Voices of Protest|Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression]] (1983).
* Charlotte Brooks. [[Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends|Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends: Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California]] (2009).
* Robert Caro. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/08/12/dog-days-classics-robert-caros-controversial-portrait-of-robert-moses-and-new-york/ The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York](1974)
* Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/dog-days-classics-political-boss-and-midwestern-pharaoh-richard-j-daleys-chicago-legacy/ American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for the Nation and Chicago] (2001)
* Lizabeth Cohen. [[A Consumers’ Republic|A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America]] (2003).
* Lizabeth Cohen. [[Making a New Deal|Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939]] (2008).
* Nancy F. Cott. [[Public Vows|Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation]] (2002).
* Pete Daniel, [[Lost Revolutions|Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s]] (2000)
* Mike Davis. [[City of Quartz|City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles]] (2006).
* Mike Davis & Michael Sprinker. [[Magical Urbanism|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.|Globalizing L.A.: Trade, Infrastructure, and Regional Development]] (2004).
* Steven P. Erie. [[Beyond Chinatown|Beyond Chinatown: The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, and the Environment in Southern California]] (2006).
* Elizabeth Ewen. [[Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars]] (1985).
* Barbara Ferman. [[Challenging the Growth Machine|Challenging the Growth Machine: Neighborhood Politics in Chicago and Pittsburgh]] (1996).
* John M. Findlay. [[Magic Lands|Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940]] (1993).
* Steven Gregory. [[Black Corona|Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community]] (1999).
* Jason Hackworth. [[The Neoliberal City|The Neoliberal City: Governance, Ideology, and Development in American Urbanism]] (2006).
* William Ivy Hair. [[Carnival of Fury|Carnival of Fury: Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900]] (2008).
* Tona J. Hangen. [[Redeeming the Dial|Redeeming the Dial: Radio, Religion, and Popular Culture in America]] (2013).
* Chester W. Hartman. [[Yerba Buena|Yerba Buena: land grab and community resistance in San Francisco,]] (1974).
* Georgina Hickey. [[Hope and Danger in the New South City|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|The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it]] (1989).
* Daniel Horowitz. [[Betty Friedan and the Making of “The Feminine Mystique”|Betty Friedan and the Making of “The Feminine Mystique”: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism]] (2000).
* Daniel Martinez HoSang. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/erasing-race-whiteness-california-and-the-colorblind-bind/ Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California](2010)
* Jonathan Hughes (Editor)& Simon Sadler (Editor).[[Non-Plan|Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism]] (2000).
* Daniel Hurewitz. [[Bohemian Los Angeles|Bohemian Los Angeles: and the Making of Modern Politics]] (2007).
* Marilynn S. Johnson. [[The Second Gold Rush|The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II]] (1994).
* Tony Judt. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/neoliberalisms-license-to-ill/ Ill Fares the Land] (2011).
* Larry D. Kramer. [[The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review]] (2004).
* Joel Kotkin. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/americas-ace-in-the-hole-is-of-course-its-awesomeness/ The Next Hundred Million:America in 2050] (2010)
* Kevin M. Kruse. [[White Flight|White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism]] (2007).
* Matthew D. Lassiter. [[The Silent Majority|The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South]] (2007).
* William R. Leach. [[Land of Desire|Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture]] (1994).
* Michael F. Logan. [[Fighting Sprawl and City Hall|Fighting Sprawl and City Hall: Resistance to Urban Growth in the Southwest]] (1995).
* Roger W. Lotchin. [[Fortress California, 1910-1961|Fortress California, 1910-1961: From Warfare to Welfare]] (2002).
* Lisa Lowe. [[Immigrant Acts|Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics]] (1996).
* Robert S. Lynd & Helen Merrell Lynd. [[Middletown|Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture]] (1959).
* Catherine Lutz. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/3187/ Homefront: A Military City and the American 20th Century] (2001).
* Nancy MacLean. [[Freedom Is Not Enough|Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace]] (2008).
* Isaac Martin. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/stalking-the-tax-man-the-pervasive-influence-of-the-property-tax-revolt/ The Permanent Tax Revolt: How Property Tax Transformed America] (2008).
* Douglas Massey & Nancy Denton. [[American Apartheid|American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass]] (1993).
* Elaine Tyler May. [[America and The Pill|America and The Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation]] (2010).
* Carol Lynn McKibben. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/3187/ Racial Beachhead: Diversity and Democracy in a Military Town] (2012).
* Lisa McGirr. [[Suburban Warriors|Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right]] (2002).
* James Miller. [[Flowers in the Dustbin|Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977]] (2000).
* Glen M. Mimura. [[Ghostlife of the Third Cinema|Ghostlife of Third Cinema: Asian American Film and Video]] (2009).
* John Hull Mollenkopf. [[The Contested City]] (1983).
* Maggi M. Morehouse. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/double-victory-from-wwii-to-the-avf-african-americans-and-the-u-s-military/ Fighting in the Jim Crow Army: Black Man and Women Remember World War II] (2000).
* Edward P. Morgan. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/a-mediating-mess-how-american-post-wwii-media-undermined-democracy/ What Really Happened to the Sixties: How Mass Media Culture Failed American Democracy] (2011)
* Charles Moskos Jr. and John Sibley Butler. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/double-victory-from-wwii-to-the-avf-african-americans-and-the-u-s-military/ All That We Can Be: Black Leadership and Racial Integration the Army Way] (1996).
* Andrew H. Myers. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/3187/ Black, White, and Olive Drab: Racial Integration at Fort Jackson, South Carolina and the Civil Rights Movement] (2006).
* Armando Navarro. [[The Cristal Experiment|The Cristal Experiment: A Chicano Struggle for Community Control]] (1998).
* Becky M. Nicolaides. [[My Blue Heaven|My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965]] (2002).
* Margaret Pugh O’Mara. [[Cities of Knowledge|Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley]] (2004).
* Gilbert Osofsky. [[Harlem|Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto : Negro New York, 1890-1930]] (1996).
* Rick Perlstein. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/essence-precedes-existence-the-problem-of-identity-politics-in-hurewitzs-bohemian-la/ Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America](2009).
* Rebecca Jo Plant. [[Mom|Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America]] (2012).
* Brenda Gayle Plummer. [[Window on Freedom|Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988]] (2003).
* Jerald E. Podair. [[The Strike that Changed New York|The Strike that Changed New York: Blacks, Whites, and the Ocean Hill-Brownsville Crisis]] (2002).
* Doris Marie Provine. [[Unequal Under Law|Unequal Under Law: Race in the War on Drugs]] (2007).
* Daniel T. Rodgers. [[Contested Truths|Contested Truths: Keywords in American Politics Since Independence]] (1998).
* David Roediger. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/08/30/dog-days-classics-the-wages-of-whiteness-and-the-white-people-who-love-them/ The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class] (1991).
* Adam Rome. [[The Bulldozer in the Countryside|The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism]] (2001).
* Richard Ronald. [[The Ideology of Home Ownership|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 Politics of Urban Renewal: The Chicago Findings]] (1981).
* Mike Royko. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/dog-days-classics-political-boss-and-midwestern-pharaoh-richard-j-daleys-chicago-legacy/ Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago] (1971)
* Roger Sanjek. [[The Future of Us All|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 Seventies: The Great Shift In American Culture, Society, And Politics]] (2002).
* Joel Schwartz. [[The New York Approach|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. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/making-san-francisco-josh-sides-erotic-city/ Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco] (2009).
* Nayan Shah. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/intimate-citizenship-the-influence-of-marriage-sexuality-and-transience-on-national-membership/Stranger 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|Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States]] (2002).
* Allan H. Spear. [[Black Chicago|Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto, 1890-1920]] (1969).
* Todd Swanstrom. [[The Crisis of Growth Politics|The Crisis of Growth Politics: Cleveland, Kucinich, and the Challenge of Urban Populism]] (1988).
* Ronald Takaki. [[Hiroshima|Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb]] (1996).
* Penny M. Von Eschen. [[Satchmo Blows Up The World|Satchmo Blows Up The World: Jazz Ambassadors Play The Cold War]] (2004).
* Robert Wiebe. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/dog-day-classics-robert-h-wiebe-and-the-search-for-order/ The Search for Order, 1877 - 1920] (1967).
* Andrew Wiese. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/getting-to-the-mountaintop-the-suburban-dreams-of-african-americans/ Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century] (2004)
* Rhonda Y. Williams. [[The Politics of Public Housing|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|Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America]] (1983).
*Zimmerman, Andrew. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/the-ties-that-bind-the-transnational-trick-of-immobilizing-the-mobile/ Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South] (2010).
*Washington Harriet. [[Medical Apartheid|Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present]] (2006)

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==Book Summaries==
* Donna Alvah. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/women-and-children-first-the-importance-of-gender-and-military-families-in-the-cold-war-era/ Unofficial Ambassadors: American Military Families Overseas and the Cold War, 1946-1965] (2007).
* Alex Cummings. [[Here's How to Make a New Page: The Revenge, 1955-1957|Here's How to Make a New Page]] (2013).
* Luis Alvarez. [[The Power of the Zoot|The Power of the Zoot: Youth Culture and Resistance during World War II]] (2008).
* Karen Anderson. [[Wartime Women|Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations, and the Status of Women During World War II]] (1981).
* Brookelynn Ashworth. [[Bad Girls Go Everywhere: The Life of Helen Gurley Brown, the Woman Behind Cosmopolitan Magazine]] (2009).
* Eric Avila. [[Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight|Popular Culture in the Age of White Flight: Fear and Fantasy in Suburban Los Angeles]] (2004).
* Beth Bailey. [[America’s Army|America’s Army: Making the All-Volunteer Force]] (2009).
* Beth Bailey & David Farber. [[The First Strange Place|The First Strange Place: The Alchemy of Race and Sex in World War II Hawaii]] (1992).
* Beth Bailey. [[From Front Porch to Back Seat|From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth-Century America]] (1989).
* Mark Brilliant. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/11/29/californication-race-ethnicity-and-unity-in-twentieth-century-california/ Californication: Race, Ethnicity, and Unity in Twentieth Century California] (2012).
* Amy Bridges. [[Morning Glories]] (1999).
* Laura Briggs. [[Reproducing Empire|Reproducing Empire: Race, Sex, Science, and U.S. Imperialism in Puerto Rico]] (2002).
* Alan Brinkley. [[Voices of Protest|Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, & the Great Depression]] (1983).
* Charlotte Brooks. [[Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends|Alien Neighbors, Foreign Friends: Asian Americans, Housing, and the Transformation of Urban California]] (2009).
* Robert Caro. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/08/12/dog-days-classics-robert-caros-controversial-portrait-of-robert-moses-and-new-york/ The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York](1974)
* Adam Cohen and Elizabeth Taylor. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/dog-days-classics-political-boss-and-midwestern-pharaoh-richard-j-daleys-chicago-legacy/ American Pharaoh: Mayor Richard J. Daley - His Battle for the Nation and Chicago] (2001)
* Lizabeth Cohen. [[A Consumers’ Republic|A Consumers’ Republic: The Politics of Mass Consumption in Postwar America]] (2003).
* Lizabeth Cohen. [[Making a New Deal|Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939]] (2008).
* Nancy F. Cott. [[Public Vows|Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation]] (2002).
* Pete Daniel, [[Lost Revolutions|Lost Revolutions: The South in the 1950s]] (2000)
* Mike Davis. [[City of Quartz|City of Quartz: Excavating the Future in Los Angeles]] (2006).
* Mike Davis & Michael Sprinker. [[Magical Urbanism|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.|Globalizing L.A.: Trade, Infrastructure, and Regional Development]] (2004).
* Steven P. Erie. [[Beyond Chinatown|Beyond Chinatown: The Metropolitan Water District, Growth, and the Environment in Southern California]] (2006).
* Elizabeth Ewen. [[Immigrant Women in the Land of Dollars]] (1985).
* Barbara Ferman. [[Challenging the Growth Machine|Challenging the Growth Machine: Neighborhood Politics in Chicago and Pittsburgh]] (1996).
* John M. Findlay. [[Magic Lands|Magic Lands: Western Cityscapes and American Culture After 1940]] (1993).
* Steven Gregory. [[Black Corona|Black Corona: Race and the Politics of Place in an Urban Community]] (1999).
* Jason Hackworth. [[The Neoliberal City|The Neoliberal City: Governance, Ideology, and Development in American Urbanism]] (2006).
* William Ivy Hair. [[Carnival of Fury|Carnival of Fury: Robert Charles and the New Orleans Race Riot of 1900]] (2008).
* Tona J. Hangen. [[Redeeming the Dial|Redeeming the Dial: Radio, Religion, and Popular Culture in America]] (2013).
* Chester W. Hartman. [[Yerba Buena|Yerba Buena: land grab and community resistance in San Francisco,]] (1974).
* Georgina Hickey. [[Hope and Danger in the New South City|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|The American Political Tradition: And the Men Who Made it]] (1989).
* Daniel Horowitz. [[Betty Friedan and the Making of “The Feminine Mystique”|Betty Friedan and the Making of “The Feminine Mystique”: The American Left, the Cold War, and Modern Feminism]] (2000).
* Daniel Martinez HoSang. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/10/06/erasing-race-whiteness-california-and-the-colorblind-bind/ Racial Propositions: Ballot Initiatives and the Making of Postwar California](2010)
* Jonathan Hughes (Editor)& Simon Sadler (Editor).[[Non-Plan|Non-Plan: Essays on Freedom, Participation and Change in Modern Architecture and Urbanism]] (2000).
* Daniel Hurewitz. [[Bohemian Los Angeles|Bohemian Los Angeles: and the Making of Modern Politics]] (2007).
* Marilynn S. Johnson. [[The Second Gold Rush|The Second Gold Rush: Oakland and the East Bay in World War II]] (1994).
* Tony Judt. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/01/24/neoliberalisms-license-to-ill/ Ill Fares the Land] (2011).
* Larry D. Kramer. [[The People Themselves: Popular Constitutionalism and Judicial Review]] (2004).
* Joel Kotkin. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/03/23/americas-ace-in-the-hole-is-of-course-its-awesomeness/ The Next Hundred Million:America in 2050] (2010)
* Kevin M. Kruse. [[White Flight|White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism]] (2007).
* Matthew D. Lassiter. [[The Silent Majority|The Silent Majority: Suburban Politics in the Sunbelt South]] (2007).
* William R. Leach. [[Land of Desire|Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture]] (1994).
* Michael F. Logan. [[Fighting Sprawl and City Hall|Fighting Sprawl and City Hall: Resistance to Urban Growth in the Southwest]] (1995).
* Roger W. Lotchin. [[Fortress California, 1910-1961|Fortress California, 1910-1961: From Warfare to Welfare]] (2002).
* Lisa Lowe. [[Immigrant Acts|Immigrant Acts: On Asian American Cultural Politics]] (1996).
* Robert S. Lynd & Helen Merrell Lynd. [[Middletown|Middletown: A Study in Modern American Culture]] (1959).
* Catherine Lutz. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/3187/ Homefront: A Military City and the American 20th Century] (2001).
* Nancy MacLean. [[Freedom Is Not Enough|Freedom Is Not Enough: The Opening of the American Workplace]] (2008).
* Isaac Martin. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/05/04/stalking-the-tax-man-the-pervasive-influence-of-the-property-tax-revolt/ The Permanent Tax Revolt: How Property Tax Transformed America] (2008).
* Douglas Massey & Nancy Denton. [[American Apartheid|American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass]] (1993).
* Elaine Tyler May. [[America and The Pill|America and The Pill: A History of Promise, Peril, and Liberation]] (2010).
* Carol Lynn McKibben. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/3187/ Racial Beachhead: Diversity and Democracy in a Military Town] (2012).
* Lisa McGirr. [[Suburban Warriors|Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right]] (2002).
* James Miller. [[Flowers in the Dustbin|Flowers in the Dustbin: The Rise of Rock and Roll, 1947-1977]] (2000).
* Glen M. Mimura. [[Ghostlife of the Third Cinema|Ghostlife of Third Cinema: Asian American Film and Video]] (2009).
* John Hull Mollenkopf. [[The Contested City]] (1983).
* Maggi M. Morehouse. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/double-victory-from-wwii-to-the-avf-african-americans-and-the-u-s-military/ Fighting in the Jim Crow Army: Black Man and Women Remember World War II] (2000).
* Edward P. Morgan. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2013/01/14/a-mediating-mess-how-american-post-wwii-media-undermined-democracy/ What Really Happened to the Sixties: How Mass Media Culture Failed American Democracy] (2011)
* Charles Moskos Jr. and John Sibley Butler. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2013/02/11/double-victory-from-wwii-to-the-avf-african-americans-and-the-u-s-military/ All That We Can Be: Black Leadership and Racial Integration the Army Way] (1996).
* Andrew H. Myers. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/05/26/3187/ Black, White, and Olive Drab: Racial Integration at Fort Jackson, South Carolina and the Civil Rights Movement] (2006).
* Armando Navarro. [[The Cristal Experiment|The Cristal Experiment: A Chicano Struggle for Community Control]] (1998).
* Becky M. Nicolaides. [[My Blue Heaven|My Blue Heaven: Life and Politics in the Working-Class Suburbs of Los Angeles, 1920-1965]] (2002).
* Margaret Pugh O’Mara. [[Cities of Knowledge|Cities of Knowledge: Cold War Science and the Search for the Next Silicon Valley]] (2004).
* Gilbert Osofsky. [[Harlem|Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto : Negro New York, 1890-1930]] (1996).
* Rick Perlstein. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/09/15/essence-precedes-existence-the-problem-of-identity-politics-in-hurewitzs-bohemian-la/ Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America](2009).
* Rebecca Jo Plant. [[Mom|Mom: The Transformation of Motherhood in Modern America]] (2012).
* Brenda Gayle Plummer. [[Window on Freedom|Window on Freedom: Race, Civil Rights, and Foreign Affairs, 1945-1988]] (2003).
* Doris Marie Provine. [[Unequal Under Law|Unequal Under Law: Race in the War on Drugs]] (2007).
* Daniel T. Rodgers. [[Contested Truths|Contested Truths: Keywords in American Politics Since Independence]] (1998).
* David Roediger. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/08/30/dog-days-classics-the-wages-of-whiteness-and-the-white-people-who-love-them/ The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class] (1991).
* Adam Rome. [[The Bulldozer in the Countryside|The Bulldozer in the Countryside: Suburban Sprawl and the Rise of American Environmentalism]] (2001).
* Richard Ronald. [[The Ideology of Home Ownership|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 Politics of Urban Renewal: The Chicago Findings]] (1981).
* Mike Royko. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/08/18/dog-days-classics-political-boss-and-midwestern-pharaoh-richard-j-daleys-chicago-legacy/ Boss: Richard J. Daley of Chicago] (1971)
* Roger Sanjek. [[The Future of Us All|The Future of Us All: Race and Neighborhood Politics in New York City]] (1998).
* Bruce Schulman & Bruce J. Schulman. [[The Seventies|The Seventies: The Great Shift In American Culture, Society, And Politics]] (2002).
* Joel Schwartz. [[The New York Approach|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. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/11/20/making-san-francisco-josh-sides-erotic-city/ Erotic City: Sexual Revolutions and the Making of Modern San Francisco] (2009).
* Nayan Shah. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/03/07/intimate-citizenship-the-influence-of-marriage-sexuality-and-transience-on-national-membership/Stranger 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|Beggars and Choosers: How the Politics of Choice Shapes Adoption, Abortion, and Welfare in the United States]] (2002).
* Allan H. Spear. [[Black Chicago|Black Chicago: The Making of a Negro Ghetto, 1890-1920]] (1969).
* Todd Swanstrom. [[The Crisis of Growth Politics|The Crisis of Growth Politics: Cleveland, Kucinich, and the Challenge of Urban Populism]] (1988).
* Ronald Takaki. [[Hiroshima|Hiroshima: Why America Dropped the Atomic Bomb]] (1996).
* Penny M. Von Eschen. [[Satchmo Blows Up The World|Satchmo Blows Up The World: Jazz Ambassadors Play The Cold War]] (2004).
* Robert Wiebe. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2012/08/27/dog-day-classics-robert-h-wiebe-and-the-search-for-order/ The Search for Order, 1877 - 1920] (1967).
* Andrew Wiese. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/01/16/getting-to-the-mountaintop-the-suburban-dreams-of-african-americans/ Places of Their Own: African American Suburbanization in the Twentieth Century] (2004)
* Rhonda Y. Williams. [[The Politics of Public Housing|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|Building the Dream: A Social History of Housing in America]] (1983).
*Zimmerman, Andrew. [http://tropicsofmeta.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/the-ties-that-bind-the-transnational-trick-of-immobilizing-the-mobile/ Alabama in Africa: Booker T. Washington, the German Empire, and the Globalization of the New South] (2010).