Resource Guide

Proofreading

Smith, Peggy. Mark My Words: Instruction and Practice in Proofreading. Alexandria, VA: Editorial Experts, 1989.

The Mafia

Coen, Jeff. Family Secrets: The Case That Crippled the Chicago Mob. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2009.

Cooley, Robert with Hillel Levin. When Corruption was King: How I Helped the Mob Rule Chicago, then Brought the Outfit Down. New York: Carol & Graf, 2004.

“Joey” with David Fisher. Joey the Hitman: The Autobiography of a Mafia Killer. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2002.

LIFE Magazine. Mobsters and Gangsters: Organized Crime in America, from Al Capone to Tony Soprano. New York: LIFE Books, 2002.

Rappleye, Charles and Ed Becker. All American Mafioso: The Johnny Rosselli Story. New York: Barricade Books, 1995.

Russo, Gus. The Outfit: The Role of Chicago’s Underworld in the Shaping of Modern America. New York: Bloomsbury, 2001.

Sifakis, Carl. Mobspeak: The Dictionary of Crime Terms. New York: Checkmark Books, 2003.

Stephano, George De. An Offer We Can’t Refuse: The Mafia in the Mind of America. New York: Faber and Faber, 2006.

Chicago

Body, Terri, ed. City 2000. Chicago: 3 Books Publishing, 2006.

Merriner, James L. Grafters and Goo Goos: Corruption and Reform in Chicago, 1833-2003. Carbondale: Southern Illinois University Press, 2004.

Spinney, Robert G. City of Big Shoulders. DeKalb: Northern Illinois University Press, 2000.

Visalli, Santi and Stanley Tigerman. Chicago. New York: Rizzoli, 2004.

JFK

Callahan, Bob. Who Shot JFK?: A Guide to the Major Conspiracy Theories. New York: Fireside Books, 1993.

Newseum with Cathy Trost and Susan Bennett. President Kennedy Has Been Shot. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2003.

Posner, Gerald. Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK. New York: Anchor Books, 2003.

Film

Chell, David. Moviemakers at Work. Redmond, WA: Microsoft Press, 1987.

Crist, Judith and Shirley Sealy, co-ed. Take 22: Moviemakers on Moviemaking. New York: Viking, 1984.

Dixon, Wheeler Winston and Gwendolyn Audrey Foster. A Short History of Film. New Brunswick: Rutegrs University Press, 2008.

Konigsberg, Ira. The Complete Film Dictionary. New York: Nal Books, 1987.

Fenjves, Pablo F. and Rocky Lang. How I Broke Into Hollywood. New York: ReganBooks, 2006.

Lowenstein, Stephen, ed. My First Movie: Take Two. New York: Pantheon, 2008.

Guam

Hammel, Eric. Pacific Warriors: The U.S. Marines in World War II. St. Paul: Zenith Press, 2005.

Working

Ciulla, Joanne B. The Working Life: The Promise and Betrayal of Modern Work. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2000.

Ehrenreich, Barbara. Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2005.

Schwarz, John E. Illusions of Opportunity: The American Dream in Question. New York: W.W. Norton, 1997.

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