Barlow, Thomas Becket (1990; 2002)

Frank Barlow.
Thomas Becket.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1986; 1990.
London: The Folio Society, 2002.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

This book is on the Recommended Reading Short List in Cantor's The Civilization of the Middle Ages (1993).

Some Wikipedia Articles:

• Frank Barlow (1911–2009).
• The Anarchy (1135-1153).
• Henry II of England (1133-1189, r.1154–1189) aka Henry Curtmantle and Henry Plantagenet.
• Thomas Becket (c.1118-1170).
• Becket controversy (1163-1170).
• Constitutions of Clarendon (1164).
• Investiture Controversy (11th & 12th centuries).
• House of Plantagenet (ruled England during 12th-15th centuries).
• England in the Middle Ages.
• History of England.
• Kingdom of England (927–1707).
• Anglo-Norman England (11th-15th centuries).
• Angevin Empire (12th - early 13th centuries).

Turner, Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s (2008)

Alwyn W. Turner.
Crisis? What Crisis?: Britain in the 1970s.
London: Aurum Press, 2008.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com; Amazon.co.uk; book webpage at author's website.

Author Information:

• Alwyn W. Turner, his website.
• Omniana, blog of Alwyn W. Turner.
• Alwyn W. Turner, Twitter.
• Alwyn W. Turner, University of Chichester.
• Alwyn W. Turner, The Quarto Group (publisher).
• Alwyn Turner, YouTube channel.

Video and Audio:

• Alwyn Turner, "Changing Britain | Keynote" (followed by discussion with David Kynaston), Southbank Centre, London, 18 April 2015.
  (Event webpage at Southbank Centre.)
• Andrew Marr with Alwyn Turner, Tristram Hunt, Janet Daley, and Martin Rowson, The 'death of socialism'?, Start the Week, BBC Radio 4, 02 April 2012 (copy on YouTube).
  This discussion frequently touches on Turner's ebook Things Can Only Get Bitter: The Lost Generation of 1992, Aurum Press, 2012. [Amazon.com; Amazon.co.uk.] Extract at New Statesman.

Stampp, The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877 (1967)

Kenneth M. Stampp.
The Era of Reconstruction, 1865-1877.
New York: Vintage Books / Random House, 1967.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Links:

• Kenneth M. Stampp, Wikipedia.
• History of the United States (1849–65), Wikipedia.
• History of the United States (1865–1918), Wikipedia.
• Reconstruction Era, Wikipedia.

Wheen, How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions (2004)

Francis Wheen.
How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World: A Short History of Modern Delusions.
London: Fourth Estate, 2004.
New York: PublicAffairs, 2004.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

The book was initially published in the USA with the title Idiot Proof: Deluded Celebrities, Irrational Power Brokers, Media Morons, and the Erosion of Common Sense [Google Books] but the later USA paperback edition reverted to the UK title How Mumbo-Jumbo Conquered the World.

Author information:

• Francis Wheen (b. 1957), Wikipedia.
• Francis Wheen, Twitter.
• Francis Wheen, Fourth Estate Publisher.
• Private Eye.
• Francis Wheen, "Francis Wheen's top 10 modern delusions," The Guardian, 03 February 2004.
• "A life in writing," Interview by Nicholas Wroe, The Guardian, 28 August 2009.

Video: Francis Wheen

• Francis Wheen and Chris Lehmann, "Book Discussion on Idiot Proof," Borders Books and Music, Washington, D.C., BookTV, C-SPAN, 24 June 2004.

Book Reviews:

• David McKie, "Twaddle unswaddled," The Guardian, 07 February 2004.
• Chris Lehmann, "Balderdashing Into Doom," The Washington Post, 22 June 2004.

Wheen, Strange Days Indeed: The 1970s: The Golden Days of Paranoia (2010)

Francis Wheen.
Strange Days Indeed: The 1970s: The Golden Days of Paranoia.
London: Fourth Estate / HarperCollinsPublishers, 2009, 2010.
New York: PublicAffairs, 2010.

Book information: Publisher, UK hardcover; Publisher, UK paperback; Google Books, UK hardcover; Google Books, UK paperback; Amazon.co.uk hardcover; Amazon.co.uk paperback; Google Books, US hardcover; Amazon.com, US hardcover.

Francis Wheen:

• Francis Wheen, Wikipedia.
• "A life in writing," Interview by Nicholas Wroe, The Guardian, 28 August 2009.
• Francis Wheen, Twitter.
• Francis Wheen, Fourth Estate Publisher.

Book Reviews:

• Denis MacShane, "Strange Days Indeed, By Francis Wheen," The Independent, 4 September 2009.
• Andrew Anthony, "Strange Days Indeed by Francis Wheen," The Observer, 5 September 2009.
• Andy Beckett, "Strange Days Indeed by Francis Wheen," The Guardian, 11 September 2009.
• Simon O'Hagan, "Strange Days Indeed, By Francis Wheen," The Independent, 20 September 2009.
• Peter Carlson, Book review, The Washington Post, 7 March 2010.

Ferguson, et al., editors, The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective (2010)

Niall Ferguson, Charles S. Maier, Erez Manela and Daniel J. Sargent, editors.
The Shock of the Global: The 1970s in Perspective
Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press, 2010.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Links:

• 1970s, Wikipedia.
• Globalization, Wikipedia.
• Economic globalization, Wikipedia.

Engelhardt, The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation (1995; 1998; 2007)

Tom Engelhardt.
The End of Victory Culture: Cold War America and the Disillusioning of a Generation.
Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.
First published: New York: Basic Books / HarperCollins Publishers Inc., 1995.
A revised edition was published in 2007.

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Tom Engelhardt Links:

• Tom Engelhardt, Wikipedia.
• TomDispatch.com edited by Tom Engelhardt.
• Tom Engelhardt articles at TomDispatch.com.
• The American Empire Project, Metropolitan Books / Henry Holt and Company, Inc. / Macmillan -- a book imprint founded and edited by Tom Engelhardt.

Wikipedia Articles:

• History of the United States (1945–64).
• History of the United States (1964–80).
• Post–World War II economic expansion.
• United States in the 1950s.
• 1950s.
• 1960s.
• 1970s.
• 1980s.

Miller, New World Coming : The 1920s and the Making of Modern America (2003)

Nathan Miller.
New World Coming : The 1920s and the Making of Modern America.
New York: Scribner (Simon & Schuster), 2003.
Da Capo Press (Perseus Books Group), 2004.

Book information: Publisher, paperback; Publisher, e-book; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Author information:

• "Prolific U.S. Naval Historian, Biographer Nathan Miller Dies," The Washington Post, 25 October 2004.
• Frederick N. Rasmussen, "Nathan Miller, 77, reporter, author," The Baltimore Sun, 26 October 2004.

Some Wikipedia Articles:

• Roaring Twenties, Wikipedia.
• 1920s, Wikipedia.
• History of the United States (1918–45), Wikipedia.
• List of years in literature: 1920s, Wikipedia.

Allen, Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s (1931)

Frederick Lewis Allen.
Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s.
New York: Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2010.
First published: New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1931.

Book Information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Author Information:

• Frederick Lewis Allen (1890-1954).
• Allen wrote a similar book on the 1930s:
  Frederick Lewis Allen. Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America, September 3, 1929 to September 3, 1939. New York: Harper & Row, Publishers, 1940.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]
• Frederick Lewis Allen. The Big Change: America Transforms Itself: 1900-1950. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1952. Revised edition, New Brunswick, New Jersey: Transaction Publishers, 1993.
  [Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

Wikipedia Articles:

• Roaring Twenties.
• 1920s.
• History of the United States (1918–45).
• List of years in literature: 1920s

Gitlin, The Sixties (1993)

Todd Gitlin.
The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage, revised edition.
New York: Bantam Books (Random House), 1993 (first published 1987).

Book information: Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.

Some Todd Gitlin links:

• Todd Gitlin, Wikipedia.
• Todd Gitlin, ToddGitlin.net, his website.
• Todd Gitlin, Graduate School of Journalism, Columbia University.
• Todd Gitlin articles at The Nation.
• Todd Gitlin articles at Salon.com.
• Todd Gitlin, "The Wonderful American World of Informers and Agents Provocateurs," TomDispatch.com, 27 June 2013.

I have collected links/references, including many lecture videos, on the history of the United States during the 1960s in my posts for the following books:

• Farber, The Age of Great Dreams: America in the 1960s (1994).
• Patterson, Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974 (1996).

Gitlin's book is a mixture: part personal and political memoir of the SDS and New Left; part historical survey of the 1960s. Readers should probably have read one of the more general historical survey books like that of Farber or Patterson before reading Gitlin's book.

Some Wikipedia Articles:

• Students for a Democratic Society (1960-1969).
• Port Huron Statement (1962).
• New Left (1960s).
• Weathermen / Weather Underground.
• COINTELPRO.
• United States in the 1950s.
• 1960s.
• History of the United States (1945–64).
• History of the United States (1964–80).
• Post–World War II economic expansion.
• Counterculture of the 1960s.
• Vietnam War.
• African-American Civil Rights Movement (1955–68).
• Feminist Movement.

A more recent book by Todd Gitlin:

Todd Gitlin. Occupy Nation: The Roots, the Spirit, and the Promise of Occupy Wall Street. New York: It Books / HarperCollins Publishers, 2012.
[Publisher; Google Books; Amazon.com.]

• Todd Gitlin, "OCCUPY The Moment, The Movement, The Future," University of Illinois at Chicago, 24 February 2012. Vimeo video.
• Book TV at Columbia University: Todd Gitlin, "Occupy Nation", BookTV.org, C-SPAN2, 04 June 2012.
  In this C-SPAN conversation Gitlin also answers questions about his political activism during the 1960s.
• "Occupy's Predicament: The Moment and the Prospects for Movement," London School of Economics, 18 October 2012.
  LSE event webpage. YouTube video.
• "A Book Talk with Todd Gitlin," Machiah Center, New Gloucester, Maine and Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, 11 September 2012.
  Machiah Center event webpage. YouTube video.