Hey /lit/ I need help with some school stuff. My History Professor wants us to write a book review on a history book of our choice.
The book has to
>be about some event in American history from 1877-2000
>single author
>has sources
>written recently
>150-350 pages
>written by a trained historian
The last part is what is really catching me in that a lot of the books I find are from journalists, economists, sociologists, etc. If you guys could point me in the right direction, it would help me out a lot.
>>10022613
use oxford bibliographies
>>10022740
http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/view/document/obo-9780199756223/obo-9780199756223-0080.xml?rskey=K7fctz&result=1&q=reagan+presidency#firstMatch
Example
Better Day Coming by Adam Fairclough
>>10022750
He wants it to be more of one event in the period rather than a long period of time. Thanks though
>>10022875
I can find a monograph of any event of importance in that period, but thats a massive period. What do you want to write on?
>>10022901
I would really like to write about the rise of gangs in the roaring twenties
>>10022613
Prohibition Gangsters: The Rise and Fall of a Bad Generation
Marc Mappen
Copyright Date: 2013
Published by: Rutgers University Press
Pages: 256
https://www.linkedin.com/in/marc-mappen-5036267a/
http://uploadrocket.net/e81n3o6tnemc/Prohibition_Gangsters.pdf.html
https://userscloud.com/jkii20s8j1ot
Overview: Based on FBI and other government files, trial transcripts, and the latest scholarship, this book provides a lively narrative of shootouts, car chases, courtroom clashes, wire tapping and rub-outs in the 1920s, the 1930s, and beyond, acknowledging how the Prohibition generation--Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, and Dutch Schultz, among others--forever transformed organized crime from loosely associated gangs of the pre-Prohibition era into sophisticated, complex syndicates. It applies a generational perspective to the gangsters who came to power with the Eighteenth Amendment.
>>10022987
i just downloaded the pdf (userscloud) and it has a 30 page section of bibliography and notes
>>10022997
These are both great, thank you very much!