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Acheson, Dean Gooderham
Agee, James
Albee, Edward
Anderson, Maxwell
Ardrey, Robert
Arendt, Hannah
Armstrong, Lance
Burnham, James
Cain, James
Capote, Truman
Carter, Jimmy
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Elseberg, Daniel
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Gelhorn, Martha
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Heller, Joseph
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Hemingway, Ernest
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Kissinger, Henry Alfred
Lane, Mark
Lasch, Christopher
Lodge, Henry Cabot
Madison, James
Mailer, Norman Kingsley
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Reuben, David
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Schlesinger, Arthur
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Twain, Mark
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Wilson, John Lyde
Wilson, Thomas Woodrow
Woodward, Robert "Bob"
Young, Brigham
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History of USA

              

1732
Franklin, Benjamin
19th Dec Publication of, "Poor Richard's Almanac"
1782
Jefferson, Thomas
Publication of, "Notes on Virginia"
1784
Madison, James
24th Dec Publication of, "Remonstrances Against Religious Assessments"
1830
Mormo, Moroni
Publication of, "Book of Mormon"
1830
Young, Brigham
Publication of, "The Book of Mormon"
1836
Emerson, Ralph Waldo
Publication of, "Nature"
1838
Wilson, John Lyde
Publication of, "The Code Of Honour", a rule book for duelling
1839
Poe, Edgar Allen
Publication of, "The Fall of the House of Usher"
1841
Poe, Edgar Allen
Publication of, "The Murders In the Rue Morgue"
1851
Stowe, Harriet Beecher
Publication of, "Uncle tom's Cabin", 1st serial intsallment
1869
Twain, Mark
Publication of, "Innocents Abroad"
1885
Wilson, Thomas Woodrow
Publication of, "Congressional Government"
1886
Stanton, Elizabeth Cady
Publication of, "History of Women's Suffrage"
1893
Twain, Mark
Publication of, "The American Claimant"
1896
Giddings, Franklin Henry
Publication of, "The Principles of Sociology"
1902
Wilson, Thomas Woodrow
Publication of, "A History of the American People"
1914
Holt, Edwin Bissell
Publication of, "The Concept of Consciousness"
1915
Holt, Edwin Bissell
Publication of, "The Freudian Wish"
1918
Giddings, Franklin Henry
Publication of, "The Responsible State"
1922
Giddings, Franklin Henry
Publication of, "Studies in The Theory of Human Society"
1922
Hoover, Herbert Clerk
Publication of, "American Individualism"
1924
Anderson, Maxwell
Publication of, "What Price Glory?", portrays an American soldier during Word War I
1924
Giddings, Franklin Henry
Publication of, "The Study of Human Society"
1926
Hemingway, Ernest
Publication of, "The Sun Also Rises", 1st novel
1926
Hemingway, Ernest Miller
Publication of, "The Sun Also Rises"
1929
Hemingway, Ernest
Publication of, "A Farewell to Arms"
1931
Holt, Edwin Bissell
Publication of, "Animal Drive & the Learning Process"
1932
Hemingway, Ernest
Publication of, "Death In the Afternoon"
1934
Cain, James
Publication of, "The Postman Always Rings Twice"
1936
Ardrey, Robert
Publication of, "Brotherhood of Fear"
1936
Cain, James
Publication of, "Double Indemnity"
1936
Gelhorn, Martha
Publication of, "The Trouble I've Seen", depicts poverty & child prostitution
1937
Steinbeck, John Ernst
Publication of, "Of Mice & Men"
1938
Hoover, John Edgar
Publication of, "Persons in Hiding"
1939
Pauling, Linus
Publication of, "The Nature of the Chemical Bond"
1939
Steinbeck, John Ernst
Publication of, "The Grapes of Wrath"
1940
Hemingway, Ernest
Publication of, "For Whom the Bell tolls"
1940
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald
Publication of, "Why England Slept", problems with dictators before World War II
1941
Agee, James
Publication of, "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men"
1945
Kantor, MacKinlay
Publication of, "Glory For Me"
1947
Burnham, James
Publication of, "The Struggle for the World"
1948
Capote, Truman
Publication of, "Other Voices, Other Rooms"
1948
Eisenhower, Dwight David
Publication of, "Crusade In Europe"
1948
Mailer, Norman Kingsley
"The Naked and the Dead", based on his personal experiences during World War II, hailed by many as one of the best American novels to come out of the war years and named one of the "100 best novels in English language" by the Modern Library
1949
Miller, Arthur
Publication of, "Death of a Sales man"
1950
Burnham, James
Publication of, "The Coming Defeat of Communism"
1951
Arendt, Hannah
Publication of, "Origins of totalitarianism"
1951
Mailer, Norman Kingsley
"Barbary Shore", a surreal parable of Cold War left politics, set in a Brooklyn rooming-house
1952
Dewey, Thomas Edmund
Publication of, "Journey to the Far Pacific"
1952
Hemingway, Ernest
Publication of, "The Old Man & the Sea"
1952
Steinbeck, John Ernst
Publication of, "East of Eden"
1953
Monroe, Marilyn
1st Dec The first Playboy magazine is published, Marilyn Monroe is on the cover
1955
Mailer, Norman Kingsley
"The Deer Park", draws on his experiences working as a screenwriter in Hollywood in the early 1950s
1956
Kantor, MacKinlay
Publication of, "Andersonville"
1957
Agee, James
Publication of, "A Death In the Family", wins the Pulitzer Prize
1957
Kerouac, Jack
Publication of, "On the Road"
1957
Kissinger, Henry Alfred
Publishes, "A World Restored: Castlereagh, Metternich and the Restoration of Peace, 1812-1822"
Publishes, "Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy"
1958
Acheson, Dean Gooderham
Publication of, "Power & Diplomacy"
1958
Capote, Truman
Publication of, "Breakfast At Tiffany's"
1958
Hoover, John Edgar
Publication of, "Masters of Deceit"
1958
Pauling, Linus
Publication of, "No More War!", part of a peace campaign against war
1959
King, Martin Luther
Writes "The Measure of A Man", from which the piece "What is Man?", an attempt to sketch the optimal political, social, and economic structure of society, is derived
1961
Heller, Joseph
Publication of, "Catch 22"
1961
Kissinger, Henry Alfred
Publishes, "The Necessity for Choice: Prospects of American Foreign Policy"
1962
Albee, Edward
Publication of, "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?"
1963
Arendt, Hannah
Publication of, "Eichman In Jerusalem"
Publication of, "On Revolution"
1963
Eisenhower, Dwight David
Publication of, "Mandate for Change"
1963
King, Martin Luther
Birmingham King is arrested and jailed during anti-segregation protests in Birmingham; writes Letter From Birmingham City Jail, arguing that individuals have the moral duty to disobey unjust. laws
1963
Mailer, Norman Kingsley
Contributor of book reviews and long essays to The New York Review of Books since its founding issue in 1963
"The Presidential Papers"
1964
King, Martin Luther
Publishes "Why We Can't Wait"
1965
Acheson, Dean Gooderham
Publication of, "Morning & Noon"
1965
Kissinger, Henry Alfred
Publishes, "The Troubled Partnership: A Reappraisal of the Atlantic Alliance"
1965
Mailer, Norman Kingsley
"An American Dream"
1965
Schlesinger, Arthur
Publication of, "A Thousand Days" a narrative of Kennedy's presidency
1966
Capote, Truman
Publication of, "A Chris tmas Memory"
Publication of, "In Cold Blood"
1967
Mailer, Norman Kingsley
"Why Are We in Vietnam?"
1968
Heller, Joseph
Publication of, " We Bombed in New Haven"
1968
Mailer, Norman Kingsley
"Armies of the Night"
"Miami and the Siege of Chicago"
1968
Vidal, Gore
Publication of, "Myra Breckinridge"
1969
Acheson, Dean Gooderham
Publication of, "Present at the Creation"
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
1969
Ellesberg, Daniel
13th June The New York Times publishes security documents leaked to the press by Daniel Ellsberg
1969
Lasch, Christopher
Publication of, "The Agony of The American Left"
1969
Nixon, Richard Mulhouse
13th June The New York Times publishes security documents leaked to the press by Daniel Ellsberg
1969
Puzo, Mario
Publication of, "The Godfather"
1970
Arendt, Hannah
Publication of, "On Violence"
1970
Hemingway, Ernest Miller
Publication of, "Islands in the Sun"
1970
Mailer, Norman Kingsley
"Of a Fire on the Moon"
1970
Millet, Kate
Publication of, "Sexual Politics"
1970
Reuben, David
Publication of, "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex"
1971
Elseberg, Daniel
28th June Admits to delivering the Pentagon Papers to New York Times
1971
Mailer, Norman Kingsley
"The Prisoner of Sex"
1972
Nixon, Richard Mulhouse
30th June The New York Times & Washington Post can resume publication of the Pentagon Papers
1973
Lodge, Henry Cabot
Publication, "The Stream Has Many Eyes"
1973
Mailer, Norman Kingsley
"Marilyn"
1974
Heller, Joseph
Publication of, " Something Happened"
1975
Carter, Jimmy
Publication of, "Why Not the Best?"
1975
Mailer, Norman Kingsley
"The Fight"
1977
Cain, James
Publication of, "Rainbows End"
1977
Sagan, Carl Edward
Publicatio of, "The Dragons of Eden"
1978
Nixon, Richard Mulhouse
Publication of, "The Memoirs of Richard Nixon"
1979
Heller, Joseph
Publication of, "Good As Gold"
1979
Kissinger, Henry Alfred
Publishes, "White House Years"
1979
Lasch, Christopher
Publication of, "The Culture of Naricissism"
1979
Mailer, Norman Kingsley
"The Executioner's Song"
1980
Nixon, Richard Mulhouse
Publication of, "The Real War"
1983
Mailer, Norman Kingsley
"Ancient Evenings"
1984
Heller, Joseph
Publication of, "God Knows"
1984
Lasch, Christopher
Publication of, "The Minimal Self"
1985
Carter, Jimmy
Publication of, "The Blood of Abraham"
1985
Nixon, Richard Mulhouse
Publication of, "No More Vietnams"
1985
Sagan, Carl Edward
Publicatio of, "Contact"
1986
Heller, Joseph
Publication of, "No Laughing Matter"
1987
Dunn, Douglas
Publication of, "Elegies"
1988
Heller, Joseph
Publication of, "Picture This"
1990
Nixon, Richard Mulhouse
Publication of, "Defeat & Renewal"
1990
Sagan, Carl Edward
Publicatio of, "A Path Where No Man Thought"
1991
Hunt, Everette Howard
Mark Lane outlines his theory about Hunt's and the CIA's role in Kennedy's murder in a 1991 book, "Plausible Denial."
1991
Lane, Mark
Mark Lane outlines his theory about Hunt's and the CIA's role in Kennedy's murder in a 1991 book, "Plausible Denial."
1992
Sagan, Carl Edward
Publicatio of, "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors"
1994
Heller, Joseph
Publication of, "Closing Time", a sequel to Catch-22
1994
Kissinger, Henry Alfred
Publishes, "Diplomacy"
1994
Nixon, Richard Mulhouse
Publication of, "Beyond Peace"
1994
Sagan, Carl Edward
Publicatio of, "Pale Blue Dot"
1995
Sagan, Carl Edward
Publicatio of, "The Demon-Haunted World"
1998
Heller, Joseph
Publication of, "Now And Then"
1998
Manzarek, Ray
Publication of, "Light My Fire: My Life with The Doors ", memoirs
2000
Armstrong, Lance
Publishes his memoirs, "It's Not About the Bike"
2000
Heller, Joseph
Publication of, "Portrait Of The Artist As An Old Man"
2002
Mallon, Thomas
Publication of, ."Mrs. Paine's Garage and the Murder of John F. Kennedy", Ruth Paine is absolved of any guilt
2002
Paine, Ruth
Publication of, ."Mrs. Paine's Garage and the Murder of John F. Kennedy", Ruth Paine is absolved of any guilt
2002
Woodward, Robert "Bob"
Publication of, "Bush at War"
2003
Armstrong, Lance
Publishes his memoirs, "Every Second Counts"
2004
Woodward, Robert "Bob"
Publication of, "Plan of Attack"