SELECTED RESOURCES FROM THE LIBRARIES
Books
Chapple, J. M. (1940). Willkie and American unity, including face to face with presidents. New York: Joe
Mitchell Chapple.
Chisholm, S. (1973). The good fight. New York: Harper & Row.
Cohen, D. (1978). Undefeated: The life of Hubert H. Humphrey. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications.
Cramer, R. B. (1995). Bob Dole. New York: Vintage Books.
Drew, E. (2002). Citizen McCain. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Finan, C. M. (2002). Alfred E. Smith: The happy warrior. New York: Hill and Wang.
Frady, M. (1996). Wallace. New York: Random House.
Kranish, M. (2004). John F. Kerry: The complete biography by the Boston Globe reporters who know him
best. New York: Public Affairs.
Martin, J. (2002). Nader : Crusader, spoiler, icon. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus Pub.
Middendorf, J. W. (2006). A glorious disaster: Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign and the origins of
the conservative movement. New York: Basic Books.
Posner, G. L. (1996). Citizen Perot: His life and times. New York: Random House.
Salvatore, N. (2007). Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and socialist. Urbana: University of Illinois Press.
Sandbrook, D. (2004). Eugene McCarthy : The rise and fall of postwar american liberalism. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf.
Saunders, D. J. (2000). The world according to Gore. San Francisco: Encounter Books.
Unger, N. C. (2000). Fighting Bob la Follette: The righteous reformer. Chapel Hill: University of North
Carolina Press.
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Film
Vittoria, S., Goodman, A., & First Run/Icarus Films. (2005). One bright shining moment : the forgotten
summer of George McGovern. New York, NY: First Run Features.
Databases
American National Biography
Vanderbilt Television News Archive - NBC Evening News. (Jan. 25, 1972). Campaign ’72, Shirley
Chisholm. United States. NBC News.
Vanderbilt Television News Archive - NBC Evening News – Brian Williams. (May 29, 1998). Goldwater
Death. United States. NBC News.
For research assistance in this area, contact Boston College Political Science Librarian, Leslie R. Homzie
(homzie@bc.edu).
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