AP Book List
Books with (SH)=SAMOHI Library, books with (SPL)= Santa Monica Public Library, all other books can be found at Barnes and Noble, Borders, amazon.com or any online book retailer.
Revolution Era
Founding Brothers. Joseph J. Ellis973.4 ELLIS (SPL)
Washington’s Crossing. David Hackett Fischer. 973.33 FISCHER (SPL)
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789. Robert Middlekauf. 973.3 MIDDLEKAUFF (SPL)
1930s
No Ordinary Time, Goodwin. 920 GOO (SH)
Decade of Destiny, Graubart. 920 GRA (SH)
Prohibition: Thirteen Years that Changed America. Edward Behr (SH)
Hard Times. Studs Terkel 309.173 TER (SH)
World War II
Citizen Soldiers. Stephen E. Ambrose 940.54 AMB (SH)
D-Day. Stephen E. Ambrose 940.54 AMB (SH)
The Navajo Weapon. Sally McClain 940.5409 LOR (SH)
The Greatest Generation (2) Tom Brokaw 940.548 BRO (SH)
Cold War/Terrorism
Russia and the West. Kennan 327 KEN (SH)
The Bombs in the Backyard. Costandina Titus 363.179 TIT (SH)
The Terrorist Trap. Jeffrey D. Simon 363.3 SIM (SH)
Countdown: A History of Space Flight. (2) T.A. Heppenheimer 387.809 (SH)
Dark Sun: The Making of the Hydrogen Bomb. Richard Rhodes 623.4 RHO (SH)
Profiles in Courage. John Fitzgerald Kennedy. 920 KEN (SH)
Class 11. T.J.Waters 327.1273 WAT (SH)
Saddam’s Secrets. Georges Sada
Vietnam
Bloods. Terry (2) 950.7 TER (SH)
Vietnam. Stanley Karnow. (2) 959.704 GEN (SH)
Our Vietnam. Langguth. 959.704 LAN (SH)
Without Honor. Isaacs. 959.704 ISA (SH)
The Girl in the Picture. Chang. 959.704 CHO (SH)
Chickenhawk. Robert Mason. 959.704 MAS (SH)
Burkett, B.G., and Whitley, Glenna. Stolen Valor: How the Vietnam Generation was Robbed of its Heroes and its History.
Native American
As Long as the Rivers Flows. Allen Smit. (SH)
The Trail of Tears. Jahodia. (SH)
Apaches. Haley (SH)
Children of the Dream. Holliday (SH)
Sitting Bull. Stanley Vestal 970.3 VES (SH)
Civil Rights/Women’s Rights
The People V. Clarence Darrow. Geoffrey Cowan. 345.794 COW (SH)
The First Freedom. Nat Hentoff (SH)
America’s WorkingWomen. Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon, eds. (SH)
We Were There. Barbara Mayer Wertheimer 331.4 WER (SH)
The Tuskegee Airmen. Charles Francis (SH)
The Teamsters. Steven Brill 331.881 INT (SH)
The Right to Vote. Alexander Keyssar 324.6 KEY (SH)
The People’s President. Neal R. Peirce 324.73 PEI (SH)
Freedom’s Daughters. Lynne Olson 323.092 OLS (SH)
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice. Arsenault, Raymond.
Eyes on the Prize : America's Civil Rights Years, 1954-1965. Juan Williams.
323.4 WIL (SH)
Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy. James T. Pattereson. 344.0798 PATTERSON (SPL)
Other
Lies My Teacher Told Me. (2) James W. Loewen 973.20 LOE (SH)
The Pulse of Politics. James David Barber 324.973 Barber c.1 (SH)
The Ten Things You Can’t Say in America. (2) Larry Elder. 309.73 ELD (SH)
Let Freedom Ring. Sean Hannity 306.2 HAN (SH)
Biographies
John Adams. David McCullough, 92 Adams (SH)
Benedict Arnold. James Kirby Martin, 92 Arnold (SH)
W.E.B. DuBoisi. David Levering Lewis, 92 Dubois (SH)
Samuel Gompers. Bernard Mandell, 92 Gompers (SH)
Franklin. David Freeman Hawke, 92 Franklin (SH)
Ford: The Men and the Machines. Robert Lacey, 92 Ford (SH)
Edwin Hubble. Gale Christensen, 92 Hubble (SH)
Dorothea Lange. Milton Meltzer, 92 Lange (SH)
Hellen Keller: A Life. Dorothea Hermann (SH)
Lincoln. David Herbert Donald, 92 Lincoln (SH)
John McCain. Mark Salter, 92 McCain (SH)
Richard Nixon: In the Arena. 92 Nixon (SH)
Franklin Pierce. Franklin Nichols, 92 Pierce (SH)
Last Train to Memphis: The Rise of Elvis Presley. Peter Guralnick, 92 Presley (SH)
Colin Powell: My American Journey. 92 Powell (SH)
Joseph Pulitzer. Don Seitz, 92 Pulitzer (SH)
Reagan. Lou Cannon, 92 Reagan (SH)s
Condi: The Condoleeza Rice Story. Antonia Felix, 92 Rice (SH)
The Rockefellers: An American Dynasty. Peter Collier and David Horowitz, 92 Rockefeller
The Autobiography of Eleanor Roosevelt. 92 Roosevelt (SH)
Pioneer of the Future: Margaret Sanger. Emily Douglas, 92 Sanger (SH)
Sojourner Truth: A Life, A Symbol. Nell Painter, 92 Truth (SH)
Truman. David McCullough, 92 Truman (SH)
George Washington. James Smith, 92 Washington (SH)
The Autobiography of Malcolm X. Alex Haley, 92 X (SH)