by Sally Denton
Morgan, Ted. FDR: A Biography. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1985.
Mugglebee, Ruth. Father Coughlin of the Shrine of the Little Flower. Boston: L. C. Page, 1933.
Nasaw, David. The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Nevins, Allan. Herbert H. Lehman and His Era. New York: Charles Scribner, 1963.
Noel-Baker, Philip. The Private Manufacture of Armaments. London: Victor Gollancz, 1936.
Pacyga, Dominic A. Chicago: A Biography. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Patterson, James T. Congressional Conservatism and the New Deal: The Growth of the Conservative Coalition in Congress, 1933–1939. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1967.
[Pearson, Drew, and Robert S. Allen]. More Merry-Go-Round. New York: Liveright Publishers, 1932.
Pecora, Ferdinand. Wall Street Under Oath: The Story of Our Modern Money Changers. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1939.
Peel, Roy V., and Thomas C. Donnelly. The 1932 Election: An Analysis. New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1935.
Perino, Michael. The Hellhound of Wall Street: How Ferdinand Pecora’s Investigation of the Great Crash Forever Changed American Finance. New York: Penguin, 2010.
Pernicone, Nunzio. Carlo Tresca: Portrait of a Rebel. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005.
Phillips-Fein, Kim. Invisible Hands: The Making of the Conservative Movement from the New Deal to Reagan. New York: W. W. Norton, 2009.
Picchi, Blaise. The Five Weeks of Giuseppe Zangara: The Man Who Would Assassinate Roosevelt. Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 1998.
Rollins, Alfred B., Jr. Roosevelt and Howe. New York: Knopf, 1962.
Roosevelt, Eleanor. This I Remember. New York: Harper, 1949.
Roosevelt, Elliott, ed. F.D.R.: His Personal Letters, Early Years. 3 vols. New York: Duell, Sloan & Pearce, 1947.
Roosevelt, Elliott, and James Brough. Mother R: Eleanor Roosevelt’s Untold Story. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1977.
Roosevelt, James, and Bill Libby. My Parents: A Different View. Chicago: Playboy Press, 1976.
Roosevelt, James, and Sidney Shalett. Affectionately, F.D.R. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1959.
Roosevelt, Sara Delano. My Boy Franklin. New York: R. Long & R. R. Smith, 1933.
Rosen, Elliot A. Hoover, Roosevelt and the Brains Trust. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977.
Rosenman, Samuel I., ed. The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt. New York: Russell & Russell, 1969.
_____. Working with Roosevelt. New York: Harper, 1952.
Ross, Alex. The Rest Is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century. New York: Picador, 2007.
Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr. The Age of Roosevelt. Vol. 1, The Crisis of the Old Order (First Mariner Edition, 2003). Vol. 2, The Coming of the New Deal (1959). Vol. 3, The Politics of Upheaval. (1960). Boston: Houghton Mifflin.
———, ed. Congress Investigates: A Documented History, 1792–1974. Vol. 4. New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1975.
Schmidt, Hans. Maverick Marine: General Smedley D. Butler and the Contradictions of American Military History. Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987.
Schwarz, Jordan A. The Interregnum of Despair: Hoover, Congress, and the Depression. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1970.
Seldes, George. One Thousand Americans. New York: Bonbi & Gaer, 1947.
_____. Sawdust Caesar: The Untold History of Mussolini and Fascism. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1935.
_____. You Can’t Do That: A Survey of the Forces Attempting, in the Name of Patriotism, to Make a Desert of the Bill of Rights. New York: Modern Age Books, 1938.
Shannon, David A. The Great Depression. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1960.
Sharlet, Jeff. The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power. New York: Harper Perennial, 2008.
Shlaes, Amity. The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. New York: Harper Perennial, 2007.
Slayton, Robert A. Empire Statesman: The Rise and Redemption of Al Smith. New York: Free Press, 2001.
Sobel, Robert. The Great Bull Market. New York: W. W. Norton, 1968.
Spivak, John L. A Man in His Time. New York: Horizon Press, 1967.
Steel, Ronald. Walter Lippmann and the American Century. Boston: Little Brown, 1980.
Sternsher, Bernard. Rexford Tugwell and the New Deal. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1964.
Stiles, Lela. The Man Behind Roosevelt. New York: World Publishing, 1954.
Summers, Anthony. Official and Confidential: The Secret Life of J. Edgar Hoover. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1993.
Swing, Raymond. Forerunners of American Fascism. New York: J. Messner, 1935.
Terkel, Studs. Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression. New York: Pantheon, 1970.
Tugwell, Rexford Guy. The Brains Trust. New York: Viking, 1969.
_____. The Democratic Roosevelt. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1957.
_____. In Search of Roosevelt. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1972.
Tully, Grace. F.D.R., My Boss. New York: Scribner, 1949.
Vanderbilt, Cornelius Jr. Man of the World: My Life on Five Continents. New York: Crown Publishing, 1959.
Ward, Geoffrey C. Before the Trumpet. New York: Harper & Row, 1985.
Ward, Louis B. Father Charles E. Coughlin: An Authorized Biography. Detroit: Tower Publications, 1933.
Warren, Donald. Radio Priest: Charles Coughlin the Father of Hate Radio. New York: Free Press, 1996.
Warren, Earl. A Republic, If You Can Keep It. New York: Quadrangle Books, 1972.
Warren, Frank A., III. Liberals and Communism: The “Red Decade” Revisited. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1966.
Watkins, T. H. Righteous Pilgrim: The Life and Times of Harold L. Ickes, 1874–1952. New York: Holt, 1990.
Weber, Nicholas Fox. The Clarks of Cooperstown. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2007.
White, William Allen, and Walter Johnson. Selected Letters of William Allen White 1899–1943. New York: Henry Holt, 1947.
Williams, T. Harry. Huey Long. New York: Vintage, 1990.
Wiltz, John E. In Search of Peace. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1963.
Winslow, Susan. Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? America from the Wall Street Crash to Pearl Harbor: An Illustrated Documentary. New York: Paddington Press, 1976.
Wolfskill, George. The Revolt of the Conservatives. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1962.
Wolfskill, George, and John A. Hudson. All But the People. New York: MacMillan, 1969.
Zangara, Giuseppe. Memoir. Unpublished. Reprinted in Picchi.
Zilg, Gerard Colby. Du Pont: Behind the Nylon Curtain. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1974.
Magazines, Journals, and Newspapers
Allison, Courtney. “Cecil B. De Mille Talking.” Variety, June 23, 1931.
Amenta, Edwin, Kathleen Dunleavy, and Mary Bernstein. “Stolen Thunder? Huey Long’s ‘Share Our Wealth,’ Political Meditation, and the Second New Deal.” American Sociological Review (October 1994): 678–702.
Associated Press. “Boy of 15 Suspected in Roosevelt ‘Bomb.’ ” March 2, 1933.
Athans, Mary Christine. “A New Perspective on Father Charles E. Coughlin.” Church History 56 (June 1987).
Atlanta Constitution. “Butler Quizzed on Fascist Plot.” November 21, 1934.
_____. “ ‘Fascist Plot’ Bubble Pricked by Evidence.” November 26, 1934.
Bancroft, Nancy. “American Fascism: Analysis and Call for Research. Phylon 43, no. 2 (2nd qtr., 1982): 155–66.
Berkson, Seymour. “Di Silvestro Links Zangara in Bomb Death.” The Philadelphia Inquirer. March 18, 1933.
Brinkley, Alan. “Comparative Biography as Political History: Huey Long and Father Coughlin.” History Teacher 18, no. 1 (November 1984).
_____. “Huey Long, the Share Our Wealth Movement, and the Limits of Depression Dissidence.” Louisiana Historical Association,
Spring 1981.
_____. “The New Deal, Then and Now.” Essay for the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, March 2009.
Chicago Daily Tribune. “Find Mystery in $46,000 of ‘Coup Plotter.’ ” November 26, 1934.
_____. “Group in House Ends Inquiry on Fascist ‘Putsch.’ ” November, 25, 1934.
_____. “Italy’s Ambassador Protests Slap at Duce by Maj. Gen. Butler.” January 27, 1931.
_____. “Reds Claim U.S. Hushed Details of Fascist ‘Plot.’ ” February 18, 1935.
_____. September 28, 1935.
_____. “Veterans’ Head May Testify on ‘Fascist Plot.’ ” November 23, 1934.
_____. “Watch 2 in Paris After Expose of Fascist ‘Coup.’ ” November 27, 1934.
_____. “What! Another John Brown.” November 22, 1934.
Christian Science Monitor. “Inquiry Pushed on Butler Report of ‘Fascist March.’ ” November 21, 1934.
_____. “McGuire Called Back as Witness in Fascist Inquiry.” November 22, 1934.
Churchill, Winston S. “While the World Watches.” Collier’s, December 29, 1934.
Ciano, Peter G. “The Moral Imprint of Early Twentieth Century Italian-American Radical Labor.” Proteus, 1990.
Clapper, Raymond. Washington Daily News, March 6, 1933.
Clark, Charles S. “An American Nazi’s Rise and Fall.” American History, February 2006.
Cochran, Robert T. “Smedley Butler: A Pint-Size Marine for All Seasons.” Smithsonian, June 1984, 137–56.
Collier’s. August 9, 1933.
Cramer, Clayton E. “An American Coup d’État?” History Today, November 1995.
Cremoni, Lucilla. “Antisemitism and Populism in the United States in the 1930s: The Case of Father Coughlin.” Patterns of Prejudice 32, no. 1 (1998): 25–37.
Davis, Kenneth. “Incident in Miami.” American Heritage 32, no. 1 (1980): 86–95.
Dickson, Paul, and Thomas B. Allen. “Marching on History.” Smithsonian, February 2003.
Dickstein, Morris. “Steinbeck and the Great Depression.” South Atlantic Quarterly, Winter 2004.
Diggins, John P. “The Italo-American Anti-Fascist Opposition.” Journal of American History, December 1967.
Donovan, Robert J. “Assassins: Brothers Under the Psyche.” Los Angeles Times, September 1, 1972.
Dos Passos, John. “The Radio Voice.” Common Sense, February 1934.
_____. “The Veterans Come Home to Roost.” New Republic, June 29, 1932, 177.
Duffus, R. L. “Rulers of the Vast Empire of Du Pont.” New York Times, September 30, 1934.
Egan, Timothy. “When FDR Found ‘the Forgotten Man.’ ” New York Times, August 28, 2008.
Feuchtwanger, Lion. “Hitler’s War on Culture.” New York Herald Tribune Magazine, March 19, 1933.
Flynn, John T. “Other People’s Money.” New Republic, November 27, 1935.
Folliard, Edward. “When Reds Invaded Washington.” Washington Post, December 2, 1956.
French, Paul Comly. “$3,000,000 Bid for Fascist Army Bared.” New York Post, November 1934.
Fusco, Gian Carlo. The Anarchist and the Mob. Translated by Gregory Conti. Raritan 25, no. 4 (Spring 2006): 4–19.
Godine, Amy. “Notes Toward a Reappraisal of Depression Literature.” Prospects 5 (1980): 197–239.
Gorn, Elliott J. “The Meanings of Depression-Era Culture.” Chronicle of Higher Education, June 26, 2009.
Gowren, Clay. “Shot Aimed at FDR Took Cermak’s Life.” Chicago Tribune, November 23, 1963.
Gribble, Richard. “The Other Radio Priest: James Gillis’s Opposition to Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Foreign Policy.” Journal of Church and State 44, no. 3 (June 2002).
Haas, Edward F. “Huey Long and the Dictators.” Louisiana History: The Journal of the Louisiana Historical Association 47, no. 2 (Spring 2006): 133–51.
Henry, Thomas R. “Health Threat to Army Grows.” Evening Star, June 12, 1932.
Hickok, Lorena. “New ‘First Lady,’ Made Solemn by Inaugural, Lays Plans to Simplify Whole House Life; To Cut Expense.” Associated Press, March 5, 1933.
Jeansonne, Glen. “Gerald L. K. Smith: From Wisconsin Roots to National Notoriety.” Wisconsin Magazine of History, Winter 2002–3.
_____. “Huey Long and the Historians.” History Teacher, February 1994.
Jelliffe, Smith Ely. “What! No Pictures?” Journals of Criminal Law and Criminology 24, no. 6 (March–April 1934).
Kendrick, J. M. “Roosevelt Administration Holds 1933 News Spotlight.” Atlanta Constitution, December 31, 1933.
Kennedy, David M. “The Depression: An Overview.” Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2009.
Key, David. “I Want to Keel All Presidents.” South Florida History Magazine 25, no. 1–2 (Spring–Summer 1997): 10–17.
Lerner, Max. “A Hatemonger Who Failed.” Los Angeles Times, April 21, 1976.
Los Angeles Times. “Inquiry Held on Fascism.” November 22, 1934.
_____. “Paris Cable Raps Butler.” November 24, 1934.
Lyle, John H. “A Little Man with Burning Eyes Killed Chicago’s Mayor. Was It a Mafia Plot?” Chicago Daily Tribune, April 14, 1957.
McFall, J. Arthur. “Personality.” Military History 16 (February 2003): 24.
McIver, Stuart. “1926 Miami: The Blow That Broke the Boom.” Florida Sun Sentinel, September 19, 1993.
Miami Herald. February 16, 1933.
Miller, Hope Ridings. “New Dealers and ‘Economic Royalists’ Will Meet This Week to Watch a DuPont Marry a Roosevelt.” Washington Post, June 27, 1937.
Moley, Raymond. “Bank Crisis, Bullet Crisis—Same Smile. Five Years of Roosevelt and After.” Saturday Evening Post, July 29, 1939.
Nasser, Alan. “FDR’s Response to the Plot to Overthrow Him.” Counterpunch, October 5–8, 2008.
Newsmax. October 2009.
Newsweek. April 15, 1933.
New York Daily News. March 5, 1933.
New York Post. November 20, 1934.
_____. “Butler Plot Inquiry Not to Be Dropped. November 26, 1933.
_____. “General Butler Bares ‘Fascist Plot’ to Seize Government by Force.” November 21, 1934.
_____. “Inquiry Pressed in Fascist Plot.” November 22, 1934.
_____. May 17, 1933.
New York Times. “Official Report of the Proceedings of the Democratic National Convention.” June 20–July 4, 1932.
_____. Roosevelt’s account of assassination attempt. February 17, 1933.
_____. “Roosevelt Praised in German Press.” July 4, 1933.
_____. “Will Rogers Claps Hands for the President’s Speech.” March 14, 1933.
_____. “Zangara Planned Attack All Alone.” February 17, 1933.
Ortiz, Stephen R. “Rethinking the Bonus March: Federal Bonus Policy, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Origins of a Protest Movement.” Journal of Policy History 18, no. 3 (2006).
Parker, Richard. “The Crisis Last Time. New York Times. November 9, 2008.
Politics Daily. October 2009.
Reilly, Michael F. “I Guarded FDR.” As told to William J. Slocum. Saturday Evening Post, September 7, 14, 21, 28, and October 5, 1946.
Rogers, Will. New York Times, March 6, 1933.
Russell, Francis. “How I Changed My Mind About the Sacco-Vanzetti Case.” Antioch Review 25, no. 4 (Winter 1965–66).
Shappee, Nathan D. “Zangara’s Attempted Assassination of Franklin D. Roosevelt.” Florida Historical Quarterly 37, no. 2. (October 1958): 101–10.
Sherrill, Robert. “Du Pont.” New York Times, December 15, 1974.
_____. “No More Eating Rats.” New York Times, December 15, 1974.
Smith, Jean Edward. “How F.D.R. Made the Presidency Matter.” New York Times, January 16, 2009.
Spivak, John. “Wall Street’s Fascist Conspiracy.” New Masses, http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/spivak-NewMasses.pdf.
Stowell, Ellery C. “The General Butler Incident.” American Jou
rnal of International Law, April 1931.
Sullivan, Mark. “Roosevelt Declared Headed Farther Left.” Los Angeles Times, April 28, 1935.
Theoharis, Athan G. “The FBI’s Stretching of Presidential Directives, 1936–1953.” Political Science Quarterly 91, no. 4. (Winter 1976–77).
Nation. March 8, 1933.
Time. April 3, 1933.
_____. “DEMOCRATS: Incredible Kingfish.” October 3, 1932.
_____. March 13, 1933.
_____. “Plot Without Plotters.” December 3, 1934.
_____. “The Presidency: Wanted: A Poem.” October 3, 1932.
Wall Street Journal. March 13, 1933.
Washington Post. February 18, 1935. “Probers Veiling Fascist Plot in U.S. Russian Press Charges.”
Washington Times. November 21, 1934.
Winn, Marcia. “Du Ponts Give In; Decide to See Wedding.” Chicago Daily Tribune, June 30, 1937.
Government Documents
F.B.I. files were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act on the following individuals: Smedley Darlington Butler; Charles E. Coughlin; Huey Long; and Giuseppe Zangara. The file on the assassination attempt on Franklin D. Roosevelt was also obtained.
U.S. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities, Investigation of Nazi Propaganda Activities and Investigation of Certain Other Propaganda Activities. 74th Cong. 1st sess., Report no. 153. February 1935.
U.S. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities, Investigation of Nazi Propaganda Activities and Investigation of Certain Other Propaganda Activities. Public Hearings Report of HUAC. 73rd Cong., 2nd sess., December 29, 1934.
U.S. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities, Investigation of Nazi Propaganda Activities and Investigation of Certain Other Propaganda Activities. Public Statement on Preliminary Findings of HUAC. 73rd Cong., 2nd sess., November 24, 1934.
U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Payment of Adjusted-Compensation Certificates. 72nd Congress, 2nd sess., 382–83. 73rd Cong., 2nd sess. November 1934.
Manuscript Collections and Individual Papers
America First Committee. Hoover Institution. Stanford University, California.
American Liberty League. Hoover Institution. Stanford University, California.
American Legion. Hoover Institution. Stanford University, California.