American Realities with Bill Youngs
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      • Preface
      • Chapter 1: The Ministers and Their Times
      • Chapter 2: The Minister's Calling
      • Epilogue
      • Appendix: Length of Ministerial Settlement
      • Abbreviations
    • The Congregationalists >
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    • Eleanor Roosevelt: A Personal and Public Life >
      • Prologue: The South Pacific, 1943 >
        • Eleanor Roosevelt South Pacific
      • A Victorian Family
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      • Growing Up
      • Eleanor and Franklin
      • A Politician's Wife
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      • On Her Own
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      • History as a Story
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      • Volume One >
        • The Native Americans
        • The English Background
        • The British American
        • Reform in Colonial America
        • Divided Loyalties
        • The American Revolution
        • Testing the Constitution
        • Republican Nationalism
        • The Limits of Jacksonian Democracy
        • Abolitionists and Anti-abolitionists
        • Texas Revolution
        • Reform in the Early Republic
        • Manifest Destiny
        • A Slave's Story
        • The Civil War >
          • Two Soldiers
      • Volume Two >
        • The “Taming” of the West
        • Beyond Emancipation
        • The New Industrial Era
        • The Birth of Environmentalism
        • New Immigrants
        • Expanding American Democracy
        • World War I
        • Modernity versus Tradition
        • The New Deal
        • Total War
        • The Cold War
        • The Civil Rights Movement
        • Turmoil on the Campuses
        • The New Computer Age
        • America, the Cold War, and Beyond
      • Additional Essays >
        • Norsemen in the New World
    • The Fair and the Falls >
      • Part I: Possessing the Falls >
        • Chapter One: James Glover: Purchasing the Falls
        • Chapter Two: Waiting for the Indians
        • Chapter Three: Harnessing the Falls
        • Chapter Four: "The World's Fair of the Northwest"
        • Chapter Five: The City Beside the Falls
      • Part II: Rediscovering the Falls >
        • Chapter Six: The Twilight of Old Spokane
        • Chapter Seven: Urban Blight and Urban Renewal
        • Chapter Eight: King Cole and The Heart of a City
        • Chapter Nine: Visualizing a World's Fair
      • Part III Redesigning the Falls >
        • Chapter Ten: From Spokane to Paris >
          • Tom Foley's Turn
        • Chapter Eleven: Wooing the Foreign Exhibitors
        • Chapter Twelve: Wooing the Domestic Exhibitors
        • Chapter Thirteen: The Environmental Debate
        • Chapter Fourteen: Building the Fair
        • Chapter Fifteen: Marketing, Money, and Management
      • Part IV: The Fair by the Falls >
        • Chapter Sixteen: Opening Day
        • Chapter Seventeen: A Mingling of Peoples
        • Chapter Eighteen: Days at the Fair
        • Chapter Nineteen: The Press of New Ideas
        • Chapter Twenty: The Final Tally
      • Part V: An American Environment >
        • Chapter Twenty-One: Spokane Falls, An American Environment
      • The Fair and the Falls Map
Bibliography

ALPEROVITZ, GAR. Atomic Diplomacy (1985). Argues that America’s use of the bomb helped cause the cold war.
BOYER, PAUL S. By the Bomb’s Early Light (1985). American responses to the news of the bomb.
CHANG, IRIS. The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (1997). Graphic account of the Japanese devastation of a Chinese city.
DOWER, JOHN. War Without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War (1986). Documents the brutality practiced by all sides in the Pacific War.
FEIS, HERBERT. The Atomic Bomb and the End of World War II (1966). Explains the diplomatic significance of the bomb.
FRANK, RICHARD B. Downfall: The End of the Imperial Japanese Empire (1999). Argues that the use of the atomic bomb was instrumental in ending the war and saving millions of lives.
HACHIYA, MICHIHIKO. Hiroshima Diary (1955). A doctor’s memories of the atomic bomb and its aftermath.
HERSEY, JOHN. Hiroshima (1949). Classic account of what it was like to be in Hiroshima in August 1945.
LINDEE, M. SUSAN. Suffering Made Real: American Science and the Survivors at Hiroshima (1994). Studies of the medical effects of Hiroshima on the survivors.
NEWMAN, ROBERT P. Enola Gay and the Court of History (2004). Explains how views on the bombing of Hiroshima have evolved since 1945.
OSADA, ARATA, COMPILER. Children of the A-Bomb (1963). Children’s memories of the bomb.
RHODES, RICHARD. The Making of the Atomic Bomb (1988). Description on how the bomb was built.
ROSS, BILL D. Iwo Jima (1985). Account of one island battle that helps explain American reluctance to invade Japan.
SANGER, S. L. Working on the Bomb (1995). Oral history based on interviews with Hanford workers who helped build the atomic bomb.
SCHELL, JONATHAN. The Fate of the Earth (1982). Discusses the dangers of modern nuclear warfare.
SIEMES, JOHN A., S. J. “Hiroshima: Eyewitness.” Saturday Review, May 11, 1946. A Jesuit priest’s memories of the bombing.
SPITZER, ABE. We Dropped the A-Bomb (1946). Radio operator’s account.
THOMAS, GORDON, AND MAX MORGAN WITTS. Enola Gay (1977). Well-researched account of the bombing.
TIBBETS, PAUL W., JR., ET AL. “15 Years Later: The Men Who Bombed Hiroshima.” Coronet Magazine, August 1960. Interview with the crewmen of the Enola Gay.
TOLAND, JOHN. The Rising Sun (1970). Good overview of the Japanese empire from 1936 to 1945.
WYDEN, PETER. Day One: Before Hiroshima and After (1984). The story of those who made the atomic bomb—and were themselves surprised by its power.

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