What follows is a list of some of the literature used generally as resources for the topics in this section of the Songbook. Other citations sprinkled throughout the text relate more specifically to the topic being discussed there.
- A Brief History of the 1987 Stock Market Crash with a Discussion of the Federal Reserve Response, Mark Carlson, Finance and Economics Discussion Series Divisions of Research & Statistics and Monetary Affairs, Federal Reserve Board, Washington, D.C, November 2006.
- “Big Money Crime: Fraud and Politics in the Savings and Loan Crisis”, Kitty Calavita, Henry N. Pontell, Robert H. Tillman, University of California Press, Berkeley, CA 1997 https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/Digitization/176104NCJRS.pdf
- Book Review: “The Bonfire of the Vanities”, Ron Dwelle, Grand Valley State University, Grand /valley /review, Vol 4, Issue 1;
- “Central Park Revisited,” by Chris Smith, October 21, 2002, New Yorkmagazine)
- “Crack: Rock Cocaine, Street Capitalism, and the Decade of Greed”, David Farber, Distinguished Professor of History at the University of Kansas;
- “Creating a Science of Homelessness During the Reagan Era”, Marian Moser Jones , Milbank Q., Mar. 2015
- “Lincoln Savings and Loan Scandal: A Case Study of State Corporate Crime”, Ronald B. Coleman, Master’s Thesis, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan December 2002\https://scholarworks.wmich.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=6091&context=masters_theses
- “Looting: The Economic Underworld of Bankruptcy for Profit”, George A. Akerlof, University of California, Berkeley, Pauk M. Romer, University of California, Berkeley https://www.brookings.edu/wp-content/uploads/1993/06/1993b_bpea_akerlof_romer_hall_mankiw.pdf
- “Measuring Crack Cocaine and Its Impact”, Roland G. Fryer, Jr., Harvard University Society of Fellows, Paul S. Heaton, University of Chicago, Steven D. Levitt University of Chicago, Kevin M. Murphy University of Chicago, April 2006.
- Pastor to the Nation: Ronald Reagan and the Religious Right” https://uwspace.uwaterloo.ca/bitstream/handle/10012/16879/Freure_Russell.pdf?sequence=3
- “Reagan’s Legacy: Homelessness in America By Peter Dreier” – May 1, 2004 https://shelterforce.org/2004/05/01/reagans-legacy-homelessness-in-america/
- “Rich: The Rise and Fall of the American Wealth Culture”, (Chapter 5- Lives of the Rich and Famous: 1980-1994) Larry Samuel, Amacom, NY, NY 2009);
- “Savings and Loan Crisis, 1980–1989”, by Kenneth J. Robinson, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas (https://www.federalreservehistory.org/essays/savings-and-loan-crisis)
- “Savings and Loan (S&L) Crisis” by Will Kenton 7/30/21 (https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/sl-crisis.asp)
- “Social Welfare Under Reagan”, CQ Researcher, March 9, 1984 https://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher/document.php?id=cqresrre1984030900
- “The Age of Evangelicalism: America’s Born-Again Years” by Steven P. Miller. Copyright © 2014 by Steven P. Miller.
- “The Central Park Five”, History.com Editors May 14, 2019, https://www.history.com/topics/1980s/central-park-five
- “The Central Park Five, Criminal Justice, and Donald Trump,” by Jelani Cobb, April 19, 2019, New Yorker;
- The Depiction of Law in the Bonfire of the Vanities, Richard A. Posner, University of Chicago Law School 1988);
- “The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) 1985-1990”, https://www.dea.gov/sites/default/files/2021-04/1985-1990_p_58-67.pdf ;
- ”The Great Eliminator: How Ronald Reagan Made Homelessness Permanent”, Chris Roberts, SF Weekly, 06/29/2016, https://www.sfweekly.com/news/the-great-eliminator-how-ronald-reagan-made-homelessness-permanent/
- The Impact of the Televangelist Scandals of 1987-88 on American Religious Beliefs and Behaviors, Tom W. Smith NORC, University of Chicago, GSS Social Change Report No. 34 April, 1991 https://gss.norc.org/Documents/reports/social-change-reports/SC34%20The%20Impact%20of%20the%20Televangelist%20Scandals%20of%201987-88%20on%20American%20Religious%20Beliefs%20and%20Behaviors.pdf
- “The rise of conservatism and the Reagan Revolution in the late 20th Century”, https://www.americanyawp.com/text/29-the-triumph-of-the-right/
- “To the Right: The Transformation of American Conservatism”, Jerome L. Himmelstein, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, Berkeley CA © 1989 https://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft5h4nb372;brand=ucpress
- What It Takes: The Way to the White House, Richard Ben Cramer, Vintage Books: NYC, NY (1992
- “When Greed was Good: the 1980s will go down in history as a decade of excess.” Relin, David Oliver. ” Scholastic Update, vol. 123, no. 12, 8 Mar. 1991, pp. 14+. https://www.encyclopedia.com/history/united-states-and-canada/us-history/televangelism