American Realities with Bill Youngs
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      • Table of Contents
      • Preface
      • Chapter 1: The Ministers and Their Times
      • Chapter 2: The Minister's Calling
      • Epilogue
      • Appendix: Length of Ministerial Settlement
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    • 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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      • 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

CAUTE, DAVID. The Great Fear (1978). Surveys anti-Communist activities during the presidencies of Truman and Eisenhower.

DEAN, ROBERT D. The Imperial Brotherhood: Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy (2001). How ideas of masculinity helped shape American foreign policy and led to a purge of suspected homosexuals in the State Department during the McCarthy Era.

DMYTRYK, EDWARD. Odd Man Out: A Memoir of the Hollywood Ten (1996). Account of the persecution of alleged Communists in Hollywood by one of the accused who later became an informer.

DOHERTY, THOMAS. Cold War, Cool Medium: Television, McCarthyism, and American Culture (2003). Explores the simultaneous rise of television and McCarthyism, with the new medium facilitating both the rise and fall of McCarthy.

GOODMAN, WALTER. The Committee (1968). History of the House Un-American Activities Committee.

HOFSTADTER, RICHARD. The Paranoid Style in American Politics (1952, 1963). Classic examination of the tendency of some Americans to see conspiracies where none exist.

REEVES, THOMAS C. The Life and Times of Joe McCarthy (1982). Superbly researched and carefully balanced account of McCarthy’s life.

SCHRECKER, ELLEN. Many Are the Crimes: McCarthyism in America (1998). Explores communism and anticommunism in America from 1919 to the 1950s.

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