LibGuides: Primary Sources: Post War America 1945-1974: Literature

Online Sources: Literature - Post War America 1945-1974

Roy Rogers - Comic Books (Internet Archive)

Literary Sources from Gale
Includes: Gale Virtual Reference Library (literature related titles); Literature Resource Center - LRC; Scribner Writer Series; Twayne's Authors Series

Book Sources: Literature - Post War America 1945-1974

A selection of books/e-books available in Trible Library.
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All The King's Men: A Play by Robert Penn Warren
American Protest Literature by Zoe Trodd
Call Number: HN90.R3 A6754 2006
ISBN: 0674023528
"... presents sources from eleven protest movements—political, social, and cultural—from the Revolution to abolition to gay rights to antiwar protest."
An Archive of Hope : Harvey Milk's Speeches and Writings by Harvey Milk
Call Number: Online - Ebook Central
ISBN: 9780520955028
Publication Date: 2013-02-15
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
ISBN: 0451191145
Publication Date: 1996-09-01
The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
ISBN: 0316769487
The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty by Eudora Welty
ISBN: 0151189943
Conversations with Isaac Asimov by Isaac Asimov; Carl Freedman (Editor)
ISBN: 1578067383
Literary conversations series.
The Cross of Redemption: Uncollected Writings by James Baldwin
Call Number: PS3552.A45 C76 2010
ISBN: 0307378829
"... a gathering of essays, articles, polemics, reviews, and interviews that have never before appeared in book form." publisher's description
Don't Stop the Carnival by Herman Wouk
The Eye of the Story: Selected Essays and Reviews by Eudora Welty
ISBN: 0394425065
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
The Fall of America: Poems of these States, 1965-1971 by Allen Ginsberg
From Here to Eternity by James Jones
Call Number: PS3560.O49 F9
The Gary Snyder Reader: Prose, Poetry, and Translations, 1952-1998 by Gary Snyder; Jim Dodge (Foreword by)
Call Number: PS3569.N88 A6 1999
ISBN: 1887178902
Howl, and Other Poems by Allen S. Ginsberg
ISBN: 0872860175
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Call Number: PS3509.L45 I6
Letters to My Father by Styron William; Rose Styron (Foreword by)
Call Number: PS3569.T9 Z48 2009
ISBN: 9780807134009
Publication Date: 2009-09-01
The Man Who Cried I Am: a Novel by John A. Williams; Ishmael Reed (Foreword by); Merve Emre (Introduction by)
Call Number: PS3573.I44946 M3 2023
ISBN: 9781598537611
Publication Date: 2023-11-07
Ray Bradbury: the Illustrated Man, the October Country and Other Stories (LOA #360) by Ray Bradbury; Jonathan R. Eller (Editor)
ISBN: 9781598537284
Publication Date: 2022-10-04
Modernism: A Sourcebook by Steven Matthews (Editor)
ISBN: 1403998299
The Portable Jack Kerouac by Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 9780140178197
The Power of Positive Thinking by Norman Vincent Peale
The Price of the Ticket: Collected Nonfiction, 1948-1985 by James Baldwin
Call Number: PS3552.A45 P7 1985
ISBN: 0312643063
Publication Date: 1985-09-15
A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry
Call Number: PS3515.A515 R3 1995
ISBN: 0679601724
Remember Me to Harlem: The Letters of Langston Hughes and Carl Van Vechten, 1925-1964 by Emily Bernard (Editor); Langston Hughes; Carl Van Vechten
Call Number: PS3515.U274 Z598 2001
ISBN: 0679451137
Robert Penn Warren Talking: Interviews, 1950-1978 by Floyd C. Watkins (Editor); John T. Hiers (Editor)
ISBN: 0394510100
Selected Essays by Robert Penn Warren
Selected Letters, 1957-1969 (Jack Kerouac) by Jack Kerouac
ISBN: 0670861901
Selected Letters of Mark Van Doren by Mark Van Doren
ISBN: 0807113174
Studio A: The Bob Dylan Reader by Benjamin Hedin
ISBN: 0393058441
Trading Twelves: The Selected Letters of Ralph Ellison and Albert Murray by Ralph Ellison; Albert. Murray
ISBN: 0375503676
What There Is to Say We Have Said by Eudora Welty; William Maxwell
Call Number: PS3545.E6 Z48 2011
ISBN: 9780547376493

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