Book report for 1302

The purpose of this assignment is to familiarize you with a major work in the historiography of American history and have you analyze it for its thesis, proof, and relationship to the Divine textbook.   The report must be 1500 words in length and typed or word processed, and it must be handed in by the date specified in the course calendar.  It will be marked either OK for credit or you will be told what you need to do to make it OK for credit and will then have until the date specified in the course calendar for making corrections.

Part I
In this part of the report, you will identify the author's hypothesis.  An hypothesis is a statement capable of proof.   Thus the statement, "X maintains the Cold War resulted from an abrupt shift in policy under Truman" is an hypothesis, while "This book is about Truman and the Cold War" is not.   You will want to consult the introduction and conclusion of the book where the author most frequently expresses his/her hypothesis succinctly.  You will need to write a paragraph or so explaining the hypothesis in all its complexity.

Part II
In this part you will give several examples of how the author substantiates his/her hypothesis.  What proof does he/she put forward?  Choose examples carefully to show how the author validates the hypothesis.

Part III
In this part you will determine whether you are persuaded by the author's argument.  Using the examples from Part II, you will determine whether they in fact validate the hypothesis.  Is there any other way of interpreting the data?  Why or why not?  Is the data complete?  Remember to challenge the author to prove every point he/she makes.

Part IV
In this part you will evaluate sources and footnotes.   Are the footnotes accurate and to the point?  What sources has the author consulted?  Are both sides of the conflict represented to the same degree, or is the author relying too heavily on only one set of sources?

Part V
In this part you will compare the author's interpretation in the book you have chosen to similar material in the online textbook.   Do they author agree?   Why or why not?
Remember to cite all references to the book you are reporting on and to the textbook.  Page numbers in parenthesis will be sufficient citation.  In determining whether the report is OK for credit, I will consider whether it follows standard rules of English spelling, grammar and punctuation.  Feel free to consult with me if you have questions about this project.

BOOK LIST FOR 1302
David Wallace Adams, Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928
Gar Alperovitz, Atomic Diplomacy
Stephen Ambrose, Nixon
Lloyd Ambrosius, Woodrow Wilson and the American Diplomatic Tradition: The Treaty Fight in Perspective
David Anderson, Trapped by Success: The Eisenhower Administration and Vietnam, 1953-61
Karen Anderson, Wartime Women: Sex Roles, Family Relations and the Status of Women During World War II
Ralph Andrist, The Long Death: The Last Days of the Plains Indians
Beth Bailey, From Front Porch to Back Seat; Courtship in Twentieth Century America
James Barrett, Work and Community in the Jungle: Chicago's Packinghouse Workers, 1894-1922
Robert Beisner, Twelve Against Empire: The Anti-Imperialists, 1898-1900
Michael Bellesiles, Arming America: The Origins of a National Gun Culture
Edward Berlin, King of Ragtime: Scott Joplin and His Era
Larry Berman, Planning a Tragedy: The Americanization of the War in Vietnam
William Berman, William Fulbright and the Vietnam War: The Dissent of a Political Realist
Alison Bernstein, American Indians and World War II
Alan Berube, Coming Out Under Fire; The History of Gay Men and Women in WW II
Michael Beschloss, The Crisis Years: Kennedy and Khrushchev, 1960-63
Margaret Bixler, Winds of Freedom: The Story of the Navaho Code Talkers of World War II
Kathleen Blee, Women of the Klan: Racism and Gender in the 1920s
James G Blight and David Welch, On the Brink, Americans and Soviets Reexamine the Cuban Missile Crisis
William Boddy, Fifties Television: The Industry and its Critics
Robert R. Bowie, Waging Peace: How Eisenhower Shaped an Enduring Cold War Strategy
Paul Boyer, By the Bomb’s Early Light: American Thought and Culture at the Dawn of the Atomic Age
Arnold Brackman, Other Nuremberg: The Untold Story of the Tokyo War Crimes Trial
H. W. Brands, Cold Warriors
H. W. Brands, Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power
Alan Brinkley, Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin and the Great Depression
Robert Bruce, Bell: Alexander Graham Bell and the Conquest of Solitude
Robert Burk, Dwight D. Eisenhower: Hero and Politician
Anne Butler, Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American West, 1865-1890
Joe Carr, Prairie Nights to Neon Lights: The Story of Country Music in West Texas
Mina Carson, Settlement Folk: Social Thought and the American Settlement Movement, 1885-1930
J.W. Chambers, To Raise an Army: The Draft Comes to Modern America
David Chalmers, Hooded Americanism: The History of the KKK
N.H. Clark, Deliver Us From Evil: An Interpretation of American Prohibition
Mark Clodfelter, Limits of Air Power: The American Bombing of North Vietnam
Jean Cole, Women Pilots of World War II
Nancy Cott, Public Vows: A History of Marriage and the Nation
Ruth Schwartz Cowen, A Social History of American Technology
Alfred Crosby, America’s Forgotten Pandemic: the Influenza of 1918
Robert Dallek, Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960
M.W. Davis, Woman's Place is at the Typewriter: Office Work and Office Workers, 1870-1930
Linda Ditmar, From Hanoi to Hollywood: The Vietnam War in American Film
Robert Divine, Eisenhower and Sputnik
Robert Divine, Eisenhower and the Cold War
Sara M. Evans, Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America
Carol Felsenthal, Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Francis Fitzgerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars, and the End of the Cold War
Richard Fried, Nightmare in Red: the McCarthy Era in Perspective
John Lewis Gaddis, The Long Peace
John Lewis Gaddis, Strategies of Containment
Mario Garcia, Mexican Americans; Leadership, Ideology, and Identity, 1930-1960
Raymond Garthoff, Detente and Confrontation
John Garraty, The Great Depression
Haim Genizi, America's Fair Share: The Admission and Resettlement of Displaced Persons, 1945-52
Marc Gilbert, Tet Offensive
Ray Ginger, Six Days or Forever? Tennessee vs. John Scopes
Todd Gitlin, The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage
David Goldfield, Promised Land, The South Since 1945
Maurine Weiner Greenwald, Women, War and Work: The Impact of World War I on Women Workers in the United States
James Gregory, American Exodus, Dust Bowl Migration and Okie Culture in California
Richard Griswold del Castillo, La Familia: Chicano Families in the Urban Southwest, 1848 to Present
Max Hastings, The Korean War
Samuel Hays, Beauty, Health and Permanence: Environmental Politics in the United States, 1955-85
George Herring, America’s Longest War: the United States and Vietnam, 1950-1975
Barbara Hobson, Uneasy Virtue: The Politics of Prostitution and the American Reform Tradition
Michael Hogan, A Cross of Iron: Harry Truman and the Origins of the National Security State
Nathan Huggins, Harlem Renaissance
Mary Ann Humphrey, My Country, My Right to Serve: Experiences of Gay Men and Women in the Military, WW II to the present
Kenneth Jackson, Crabgrass Frontier
Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
John Jakle, City Lights: Illuminating the American Night
Jenna Wiseman Joselit, Our Gang
Lawrence Kaplan, NATO and the United States, The Enduring Alliance
David Kaiser, American Tragedy: Kennedy, Johnson and the Origins of the Vietnam War
Alice Kessler-Harris, Out to Work
Thomas Kessner, The Golden Door: Italian and Jewish Immigrant Mobility in New York City, 1880-1915
Warren Kimball, The Most Unsorted Act: Lend-Lease, 1939-1940
Henry Kissinger, Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy
Richard Kluger, Simple Justice: A History of Brown vs. Board of Education
Thomas Knock, To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order
John Kobler, Ardent Spirits: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition
Gina Kolata, The Story of the Great Influenza Pandemic of 1918
Kupchan, Charles, The End of the American Era: US Foreign Policy and the Geopolitis of the Twenty-First Century
Mark Landis, Joseph McCarthy: The Politics of Chaos
Edward Larson, Summer for the Gods: the Scopes Trial and America's Continuing Debate over Science and Religion
Judith Leavith, Brought to Bed: Childbearing in America, 1750-1950
Robert Leckie, Conflict: the History of the Korean War
Wm. M LeoGrande, Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America, 1977-1992
Robert S. Litwak, Detente and the Nixon Doctrine
Harold Livesay, Samuel Gompers & Organized Labor in America
C.A. MacDonald, Korea: The War Before Vietnam
William Manchester, The American Caesar
Manning Marable, W.E.B. DuBois: Black Radical Democrat
Carole Marks, Farewell, We’re Good and Gone: The Great Black Migration
Karal Ann Marling, As Seen on TV: The Visual Culture of Everyday Life in the 1950s
Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden: Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in America
Christopher Matthews, Kennedy, Nixon and the Rivalry that Shaped Postwar America
Glenna Matthews, Just a Housewife: the Rise and Fall of Domesticity in America
Elaine May, Great Expectations: Marriage and Divorce in Post-Victorian America
Elaine May, Homeward Bound: American Families in the Cold War Era
Francis MacDonald, Insidious Foes: The Axis Fifth Column and the American Home Front
Robert MacElvaine, The Great Depression
David McBride, From TB to AIDS: Epidemics Among Urban Blacks Since 1900
Jeffrey Meikle, American Plastic
John Patrick McDowell, The Social Gospel in the South
Ruth Milkman, Gender at Work: The Dynamics of Job Segregation by Sex during World War II
Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
Marian Morton, Emma Goldman and the American Left
Robert Murray, The Harding Era
Donald Neff, Warriors at Suez
Humbert Nelli, The Business of Crime: Italians & Syndicate Crime in the US
Jack Nelson, Terror in the Night: The Klan's Campaign against the Jews
John Newhouse, Cold Dawn
Daniel Novak, The Wheel of Servitude: Black Forced Labor After Emancipation
James S. Olson and Randy Roberts, Where the Dominos Fell, America and Vietnam, 1945-1990
Gilbert Osofsky, Harlem: The Making of a Ghetto
F.D. Pasley, Al Capone: The Biography of a Self-Made Man
James T. Patterson, America's Struggle Against Poverty 1900-1985
Thomas G. Patterson, On Every Front: The Making and Unmaking of the Cold War
Gordon Prange, At Dawn We Slept
Geoffrey Perrett, Days of Sadness, Years of Triumph
Julie Leininger Pycior, LBJ and Mexican Americans: The Paradox of Power
Stephen Rabe, Eisenhower and Latin America
Arnold Rampersad, The Art and Imagination of W.E. B DuBois
William Rehnquist, All Laws But One: Civil Liberties in Wartime
Philip Reilly, The Surgical Solution: A History of Involuntary Sterilization in the United States
Marc Reisner, Cadillac Desert
Greg Robinson, By Order of the President: FDR and the Internment of Japanese-Americans
David Rosner, Deadly Dust: Silicosis and the Politics of Occupational Disease in 20thc America
E.M. Rudwick, W.E.B. DuBois: Propogandist of Negro Protest
John Gerard Ruggie, Winning the Peace: America and World Order in the New Era
Edward & Frederick Schapmeier, Dirksen of Illinois
Lois Scharf, Eleanor Roosevelt: First Lady of American Liberalism
Robert Schulzinger, Henry Kissinger: Doctor of Diplomacy
Stanley Sandler, Segregated Skies: All Black Combat Squadrons of WW II
Glenn Seaborg, Kennedy, Khrushchev and the Test Ban Treaty
David Shannon, Between Wars
Neil Shehhan, A Bright, Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam
David Shi, Facing Facts: Realism in American Thought and Culture, 1850-1920
Harvard Sitkoff, The Struggle for Black Equality, 1954-1980
Douglas Smith, The New Deal in the Urban South
Donald Smythe, Pershing: General of the Armies
Dorothy Schneider, Into The Breach: American Women Overseas in World War I
John Stilgoe, Borderland: The Origins of the American Suburb, 1820-1930
Richard Slotkin, Gunfighter Nation: The  Myth of the Frontier in Twentieth Century America
Robert Snyder. The Voice of the City: Vaudeville and Popular Culture in New York
Gerald Sorin, Tradition Transformed: The Jewish Experience in America
Robert Strong, Working in the World: Jimmy Carter and the Making of Foreign Policy
Leslie Woodcock Tentler, Wage-Earning Women: Industrial Work and Family Life in the United States 1900-1930
Richard Thornton, The Nixon-Kissinger Years: Reshaping of American Foreign Policy
Ronald Tobery, Technology as Freedom; the New Deal and the Electrical Modernization of the American Home
Kathleen Turner, Lyndon Johnson's Dual War: Vietnam and the Press
Irwin Unger, The Movement: A History of the American New Left, 1959-72
Adam Ulam, The Rivals: America and Russia Since World War II
Robert Utley, Frontier Regulars: The United States Army and the Indian
Brian Van de Mark, Into the Quagmire: Lyndon Johnson and the Escalation of the Vietnam War
Jill Watts, God, Harlem U.S,A,: The Father Divine Story
George Ernest Webb, The Evolution Controversy in America
Arthur & Lila Weinberg, Clarence Darrow: A Sentimental Rebel
Stephen Whitfield, The Culture of the Cold War
William Julius Wilson, The Declining Significance of Race: Blacks and Changing American Institutions
Randall Woods, Dawning of the Cold War: The United States' Quest for Order
David Wyman, The Abandonment of the Jews: America and the Holocaust
Mark Wyman, Round-Trip to America: The Immigrants Return to Europe, 1880-1930
Neil Wynn, From Progressivism to Prosperity: World War I and American Society
Marilyn Young, The Vietnam Wars, 1945-90
Nancy Zarroulis & G. Sullivan, Who Spoke Up? American Protest Against the War in Vietnam, 1963-1975
Robert Zieger, American Workers, American Unions, 1920-1985