Amerikan Tabloid reading list (Patreon)

Thought it would be cool to tie off the Tabloid series with a list of (almost) all the stuff I read for research, or just to get a flavour of the atmosphere of the times. I feel like AT is rough in places where it could have been smoother and there's a ton of stuff I just never got the chance to incorporate. I think a ways down the road I will go back and add a fresh coat of paint to the whole project, but for now, you might be interested in the following:

Nixonland – Rick Perlstein

Killing Hope – William Blum

The Years of Lyndon B. Johnson vol. 4: The Passage of Power – Robert Caro

The Last Testament of Lucky Luciano – Martin A. Gosh & Richard Hammer

The Yankee and the Cowboy War – Carl Oglesby

The Enemy Within – Robert F. Kennedy

Thirteen Days – Robert F. Kennedy

Boardwalk Empire: The Birth, High Times, and Corruption of Atlantic City - Nelson Johnson

Stalin: History and Critique of a Black Legend – Domenico Losurdo

Sinister Forces 1-3 - Peter Levenda

The Politics of Heroin – Alfred W. McCoy

The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton – Jefferson Morley

The CIA as Organized Crime – Douglas Valentine

American Underworld Trilogy – James Ellroy [novels]

Inside the League: How Terrorists, Nazis, and Latin American Death Squads Infiltrated the World Anti-Communist League - Scott and Jon Lee Anderson

The Brothers – Stephen Kinzer

My First Days in the White House – Huey Long

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness – Richard Yates [short fiction collection]

Gentleman Spy: Life of Allen Dulles – Peter Grose

Strike One to Educate One Hundred: The Rise of the Red Brigades – Chris Aronson Beck, Reggie Emiliana & Lee Morris

Libra – Don Delillo [novel]

Strange Tales of the Parapolitical - Postwar Nazis, Mercenaries, and Other Secret History – Frank Zero & S. William Snider

JFK vs Allen Dulles – Greg Poulgrain

Dallas ‘63: The First Deep State Revolt Against the White House – Peter Dale Scott

The Devil’s Chessboard – David Talbot

Nazi Nexus: America's Corporate Connections to Hitler's Holocaust - Edwin Black

The Wise Men – Evan Thomas & Walter Isaacson

Profiles in Courage – John F. Kennedy

Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United States, and the Rise of the New Imperialism - Greg Grandin

Nut Country – Edward H. Miller

Conspiracy Theory in America - Lance de Haven-Smith

Lyndon – David Foster Wallace [short story]

Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and Turbulent Times of Joseph P. Kennedy – David Nasaw

Mary's Mosaic: The CIA Conspiracy to Murder John F. Kennedy, Mary Pinchot Meyer, and Their Vision for World Peace - Peter Janney

NATO’s Secret Armies – Daniele Ganser

Family of Secrets – Russ Baker

Joseph P. Kennedy’s Hollywood Years – Cari Beauchamp

The Cultural Cold War - Frances Saunders

Cronies : Oil, the Bushes, and the rise of Texas, America's superstate - Robert Bryce

Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia – John Dickie

On top of that were a bunch of incredible articles, contemporary news clippings, declassified CIA memos and more, but I just don’t have the energy to dig them all up and link ‘em right now. I think that list should be enough to get you started, though.