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Selected Bibliography

The Nation's Forum and the History of Sound Recordings | The First World War | America During the Early Twentieth Century | Selected Books About Nation's Forum Speakers


The Nation's Forum and the History of Sound Recordings

Gelatt, Roland. The Fabulous Phonograph. New York: Macmillan, 1977.

Goldenberg, David. "Nation's Forum; A History and Discography." The Discographer, 2:195-200.

The First World War

Marshall, S.L.A. The American Heritage History of World War I. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1964.

Mock, James R. Words That Won the War; The Story of the Committee on Public Information, 1917-1919. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1939.

Cornbise, Alfred E. War as Advertised: The Four Minute Men and America's Crusade, 1917-1918. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: The American Philosophical Society, 1984.

America During the Early Twentieth Century

Barck, Oscar T. and Blake, Nelson M. Since 1900: A History of the United States in Our Times. New York: Macmillan, 1965.

Sullivan, Mark. Our Times, 1900-1925. New York: Scribner, 1936.

Selected Books About Nation's Forum Speakers

Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933)

Coolidge, Calvin. The Autobiography of Calvin Coolidge. Rutland, Vermont: Academy Books, 1984.

Murray, Robert K. The Politics of Normalcy: Governmental Theory and Practice in the Harding-Coolidge Era. New York: Norton, 1973.

White, William Allen. A Puritan in Babylon; The Story of Calvin Coolidge. Gloucester, Massachusetts: Patterson Smith, 1973.

James Middleton Cox (1870-1957)

Cebula, James E. James M. Cox: Journalist and Politician. New York: Garland, 1985.

Cox, James M. Journey Through My Years. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1946.

James Watson Gerard (1867-1951)

Gerard, James W. My Four Years in Germany. New York: George H. Doran Co., 1917.

Trask, David F. Captains & Cabinets. Columbia, Missouri: University of Missouri Press, 1972.

Samuel Gompers (1850-1924)

Chasan, Will. Samuel Gompers: Leader of American Labor. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1971.

Gompers, Samuel. Seventy Years of Life and Labor. Ithaca, New York: ILR Press, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University, 1984.

Grubbs, Frank L. Samuel Gompers and the Great War: Protecting Labor's Standards. Wake Forest, North Carolina: Meridional Publications, 1982.

Myers, David R., ed. Samuel Gompers, A Selected List of References About the Man and his Times. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, 1986.

Stearn, Gerald Emanuel. Gompers. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1971.

Warren Gamaliel Harding (1865-1923)

Murray, Robert K. The Politics of Normalcy: Governmental Theory and Practice in the Harding-Coolidge Era. New York: Norton, 1973.

_____________ . The Harding Era; Warren G. Harding and his Administration. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1969.

Russell, Francis. The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding in His Times. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968.

Sinclair, Andrew. The Available Man; The Life Behind the Mask of Warren Gamaliel Harding. New York: Macmillan, 1965.

General John Joseph Pershing (1860-1948)

Palmer, Frederick. John J. Pershing, General of the Armies; A Biography. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania: Military Service Publishing Company., 1948

Pershing, John J. My Experiences in the World War. Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania: Tab Books, 1989.

Vandiver, Frank. Black Jack: The Life and Times of John J. Pershing. College Station, Texas: Texas A & M University Press, 1977.

Corinne Roosevelt Robinson (1861-1933)

Robinson, Corinne Roosevelt. My Brother, Theodore Roosevelt. New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1932.

Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882-1945)

Burns, James MacGregor. Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox. Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1989.

Davis, Kenneth S. FDR: The Beckoning of Destiny, 1882-1928; A History. New York: Putnam, 1971.

Freidel, Frank B. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Boston: Little, Brown, 1952-56.

Gallagher, Hugh G. FDR's Splendid Deception. New York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1985.

Roosevelt, Franklin D. The Roosevelt Reader; Selected Speeches, Messages, Press Conferences, and Letters of Franklin D. Roosevelt. New York: Rinehart, 1957.

Ward, Geoffrey. A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.


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