Books

Some Cold War books

• Paul Erickson, Judy L. Klein, Lorraine Daston, Rebecca Lemov, Thomas Sturm and Michael D. Gordin - How Reason Almost Lost Its Mind: The Strange Career of Cold War Rationality
• Barbara Barksdale Clowse - Brainpower for the Cold War: The Sputnik Crisis and the National Defense Education Act of 1958
• Frances Stonor Saunders - The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters
• Ron Robin - Ron Robin, The Making of the Cold War Enemy: Culture and Politics in the Military-Intellectual Complex
• John Fousek - To Lead the Free World: American Nationalism and the Cultural Roots of the Cold War

DARPA

• Sharon Weinberger - Imagineers of War: The Untold Story of DARPA, the Pentagon Agency that Changed the World
• Annie Jacobsen - The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America’s Top-Secret Military Research Agency

Assorted books

• Charles W. Cheape - Strictly Business: Walter Carpenter at Du Pont and General Motors

From Anti-Intellectualism in American Life

• Mable Newcomer - The Big Business Executive (1955)
• Edward Kirkland - Dream and Thought in the Business Community, 1850-1900 (1956)
• Sigmund Diamond - The Reputation of American Businessmen (1955)
• John H. Bunzel - The American Small Businessman (1962)
• W. Lloyd Warner and James Abegglen - Big Business Leaders in America

From Design for Victory: World War II Posters on the American Home Front

• Melvyn Dubofsky - Technological Change and Workers' Movements
• Joel Seidman - American Labor from Defense to Reconversion
• John Morton Blum - V Was for Victory: Politics and American Culture During World War II
• Frank W. Fox - Madison Avenue Goes to War: The Strange Military Career of American Advertising, 1941-1945
• Maureen Honey - Creating Rosie the Riveter: Class, Gender, and Propaganda During World War II
• Lary May, ed. - Recasting America: Culture and Politics in the Age of Cold War
• Francis X. Sutton - The American Business Creed
• William Whyte - Is Anybody Listening?: How and Why U.S. Business Fumbles When It Talks to Human Beings
• Allan M. Winkler - Politics of Propaganda: The Office of War Information, 1942-1945

Bancroft Prizewinners

• Ira Katznelson - Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time
• Thomas G. Andrews - Killing for Coal: America's Deadliest Labor War
• Allan Brandt - The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America
• Robert D. Richardson - William James: In the Maelstrom of American Modernism
• Susan Lee Johnson - Roaring Camp: The Social World of the California Gold Rush
• James T. Patterson - Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974
• William Cronon - Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West
• Lizbeth Cohen - Making a New Deal: Industrial Workers in Chicago, 1919-1939
• Alfred D. Chandler Jr. - The Visible Hand: The Managerial Revolution in American Business

From Nelson Lichtenstein's A Contest of Ideas

• Nelson Lichtenstein - Labor's War at Home: The CIO in World War II
• Howard John Harris - The Right to Manage: Industrial Relations Policies of American Business in the 1940s
• Sanford M. Jacoby - Employing Bureaucracy: Managers, Unions, and the Transformation of Work in the 20th Century
• Kim Phillips-Fein - Invisible Hands: The Businessmen's Crusade Against the New Deal
• Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle (Eds.) - The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980
• Colin Gordon - New Deals: Business, Labor, and Politics in America, 1920 - 1935
• David Plotke - Building a Democratic Political Order: Reshaping American Liberalism in the 1930s and 1940s
• Alan Brinkley - The End Of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
• Lewis A. Erenberg and Susan E. Hirsch - The War in American Culture: Society and Consciousness During WWII
• Lawrence Samuel - Pledging Allegiance: American Identity and the Bond Drive of World War II
• Philip Drucker - The Concept of a Corporation
• C. Wright Mills - The New Men of Power
• Howard Brick - Transcending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern American Thought
• Julia C. Ott - When Wall Street Met Main Street
• Daniel Nelson - Managers and Workers: Origins of the Twentieth-Century Factory
• Stephen Meyer - The Five Dollar Day: Labor Management and Social Control in the Ford Motor Company, 1908-1921

From Kim Phillips-Fein's Invisible Hands

• Daniel Bell - The Radical Right
• Gary Gerstle, "Race and the Myth of the Liberal Consensus," Journal of American History 82, no. 2 [Sept. 1995].
• David Farber and Jeff Roche, eds. - The Conservative Sixties
• George Nash - The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945
• Alan Matusow - The Unraveling of America: A History of Liberalism in the 1960s
• Nelson Lichtenstein - State of the Union: A Century of American Labor
• Bruce Nissen, ed. - U.S. Labor Relations, 1945-1989
• Elizabeth Fones-Wolf - Selling Free Enterprise
• Jefferson Cowie - Capital Moves: RCA's Seventy-Year Quest for Cheap Labor
• Howell Harris - The Right to Manage
• Sanford Jacboy - Modern Manors
• Herman Krooss - Executive Opinion: What Business Leaders Said and Thought on Economic Issues 1920s-1960s
• Karen Miller - The Voice of Business: Hill & Knowlton and Postwar Public Relations
• Charles McGovern - Sold America: Consumption and Citizenship: 1890-1945
• Lizbeth Cohen - A Consumer's Republic
• Pamela Laird - Advertising Progress: American Business and the Rise of Consumer Marketing
• Kim McQuid - Big Business and Presidential Power
• Robert Collins - The Business Response to Keynes, 1924-1964
• David Vogel - Fluctuating Fortunes: The Political Power of Business in America
• Steve Fraser and Gary Gerstle, eds. - Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy
• Nelson Lichtenstein, ed. - Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First Century Capitalism
• Ernest Julius Englander and Allen Kaufman, "The End of Managerial Ideology," Enterprise and Society 5, no 3. (Sept 2004)
• Jefferson Cowie - "Vigorously Left, Right, and Center," in Beth Bailey and David Farber, America in the Seventies

Publications

• Time
• Saturday Evening Post
• Look
• Life
• New York Times
• Wall Street Journal
• Business Week
• Fortune
• Harvard Business Review
• Atlantic Monthly
• Harper's
• Printer's Ink

Resources

• The American Presidency Project [link]
• CORE Economy: "The Economy" ebook [link]