Jon Wiener
American writer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Jon Wiener is an American historian and journalist based in Los Angeles, California. His most recent book is Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties, a Los Angeles Times bestseller co-authored by Mike Davis. He waged a 25-year legal battle to win the release of the FBI's files on John Lennon. Wiener played a key role in efforts to expose the surveillance, as well as the behind-the-scenes battling between the government and the former Beatle, and is an expert on the FBI-versus-Lennon controversy. A professor emeritus of United States history at the University of California, Irvine and host of The Nations weekly podcast, Start Making Sense, he is also a contributing editor to the progressive political weekly magazine The Nation. He also hosts a weekly radio program in Los Angeles.
Jon Wiener's Published Works
Published Works
- The Politics of Unreason: Right-Wing Extremism in America, 1790-1970 (1973) (298)
- The "Black Beast Rapist": White Racial Attitudes in the Postwar South@@@The Crucible of Race: Black-White Relations in the American South since Emancipation. (1985) (229)
- Social Origins of the New South: Alabama, 1860-1885 (1978) (88)
- Imagine Nation: The American Counterculture of the 1960s and '70s (2003) (55)
- [Class Stucture and Economic Development in the American South, 1865-1955]: Reply (1979) (42)
- Radical Historians and the Crisis in American History, 1959–1980 (1989) (35)
- All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw. By Theodore Rosengarten (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. xxv + 561 pp. $12.50) (1976) (31)
- Pop and Avant‐Garde: The case of John and Yoko (1998) (20)
- PLANTER-MERCHANT CONFLICT IN RECONSTRUCTION ALABAMA (1975) (20)
- Historians in Trouble: Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower (2004) (18)
- Planter Persistence and Social Change: Alabama, 1850-1870 In terms of social mobility, the (1976) (18)
- How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America (2012) (12)
- Professors, Politics and Pop (1991) (11)
- The Barrington Moore thesis and its critics (1975) (10)
- I. Quentin Skinner's Hobbes (1974) (9)
- America's Working Women: A Documentary History, 1600 to the Present (1977) (6)
- Theoretical Logic in Sociology. Volume 1: Positivism, Presuppositions, and Current Controversies (1985) (6)
- Marxism and the Lower Middle Class: A Response to Arno Mayer (1976) (6)
- Working-Class Republicans and 'False Consciousness' (2011) (4)
- Breaking the Land: The Transformation of Cotton, Tobacco, and Rice Cultures since 1880. By Pete Daniel. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985. xvi + 352 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, and index. $22.50.) (1986) (4)
- The Footnote Fetish (1977) (4)
- The Responsibilities of Friendship: Jacques Derrida on Paul de Man's Collaboration (1989) (3)
- Female Planters and Planters’ Wives in Civil War and Reconstruction: Alabama, 1850–1870 (1993) (3)
- Max Weber's Marxism (1982) (3)
- The Weatherman Temptation (2011) (3)
- The Omniscient Narrator and the Unreliable Narrator: The Case of Atomic Café (2007) (3)
- Mike Davis Talks about the "Heroes of Hell" (2003) (3)
- TEACHER CHARACTERISTICS IN SELECTED MIDDLE AND LOW INCOME AREA SCHOOLS OF THE MINNEAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO TEACHER RETENTION. RESEARCH REPORT. (1967) (2)
- Free speech in wartime (2009) (2)
- The Graceland of Cold War Tourism: The Greenbrier Bunker (2012) (1)
- The Scholar Squirrels and the National Security State: An Interview with Gore Vidal (1989) (1)
- From the Abolitionists to Gay History: An Interview with Martin Bauml Duberman (1988) (1)
- Popular Culture and the Popular Front (1997) (1)
- Race, Class, and Poverty in the Post-Civil War South@@@The Roots of Black Poverty: The Southern Plantation Economy after the Civil War.@@@One Kind of Freedom: The Economic Consequences of Emancipation.@@@Social Origins of the New South: Alabama, 1860-1885. (1979) (1)
- The State of Afro-American History: Past, Present, and Future. Edited by Darlene Clark Hine. Introduction by Thomas C. Holt. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1986. Pp. xiv, 301. $27.50 (1987) (1)
- Book Review:Class and Politics in the United States. Richard F. Hamilton (1973) (0)
- Black over White: Negro Political Leadership in South Carolina during Reconstruction. By Thomas Holt. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1977. 269 pp. Charts, tables, appendixes, notes, bibliographical essay, and index. $12.50.) (1978) (0)
- Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore. By James T. Patterson. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005. xvi, 448 pp. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 978-0-19-512216-9.) (2007) (0)
- BOOK REVIEW CRITIQUE. REPLIES (1993) (0)
- Impostors in the Temple. By Martin Anderson. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. 255 pp. $22.00, ISBN 0-671-70915-1.) (1993) (0)
- Culture Workers of Cold War Hollywood (2011) (0)
- Reconstruction Politics and Southern Class Structure@@@Emancipation and Equal Rights: Politics and Constitutionalism in the Civil War Era.@@@Abraham Lincoln and Reconstruction: The Louisiana Experiment. (1980) (0)
- Losing Our Souls: The American Experience in the Cold War. By Edward Pessen. (Chicago: Dee, 1993. 255 pp. $24.95, ISBN 1-56663037-1.) (1994) (0)
- Treason Must Be Made Odious: Military Occupation and Wartime Reconstruction in Nashville, Tennessee, 1862-65@@@Social Origins of the New South: Alabama, 1860-1885 (1979) (0)
- The John Lennon letters (2013) (0)
- White-Collar Blues (2011) (0)
- Childhood Depression (1983) (0)
- I Told You So: Gore Vidal Talks Politics: Interviews with Jon Wiener (2013) (0)
- Schizophrenia in a fourteen-year-old boy. (1990) (0)
- Epilogue: From the Cold War to the War in Iraq (2019) (0)
- The Last Page (2011) (0)
- Self-Interest and Vocation@@@Secular Vocations: Intellectuals, Professionalism, Culture@@@Professors, Politics, and Pop@@@Canons and Contexts (1994) (0)
- Kate Brown. Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters; Gretchen Heefner. The Missile Next Door: The Minuteman in the American Heartland. (2013) (0)
- Introduction: Forgetting the Cold War (2019) (0)
- The Reconstruction of Edward A. Pollard: A Rebel's Conversion to Post-bellum Unionism. (1977) (0)
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