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PHOENIX AND ARIZONA

Burton Barr: Political Leadership and the Transformation of Arizona. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2014.

I Desert Visions and the Making of Phoenix, 1860 to 2009. Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2010. Paperback edition 2012.

Phoenix Rising: The Making of a Desert Metropolis.  Carlsbad, CA: Heritage Media Co., 2002.

American Political and Legal History

“Phoenix in the Cold War Era.” “Phoenix in the NeoLiberal Era.” In Richardson Dilworth, ed., Cities in American History. Washington D.C.: Sage Press, 2011.

Belief and Behavior: Essays in the New Religious History New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1991. Philip R. VanderMeer and Robert P. Swierenga, eds.

“The Valley of Fear: Political Change, Housing Reform, and Anticommunism in Phoenix, 1950 to 1970,” Journal of Urban History, 39 (Nov. 2013): 1027-44.

"Postwar Phoenix: Intentional Change and Essential Continuities." In Pete R. Dimas, ed., Provincias Internas: Continuing Frontiers. Tucson: Arizona Historical Society, 2007): 67-96.

"Historical Patterns of Arizona Leadership," In Building Leadership in Arizona, Arizona Town Hall, vol. 80  (Spring, 2002): 5-28.

US AND WESTERN POLITICS

“The Election of 1952: Mid-Century Turning Point.”  In Ballard Campbell and William Shade, eds. American Presidential Campaigns and Elections (NY: M.E. Sharpe, 2003).

"Hiram Johnson and the Dilemmas of California Progressivism," in Ballard C. Campbell, ed., The Human Tradition in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era  (Scholarly Resources, 2000).

"Congress and Other Legislatures," in Encyclopedia of the American Legislative System. Joel Silbey, et al. eds. 3 Vols. New York: Charles Scribners', 1994. 3: 1546-67. 

MIDWESTERN POLITICS

The Hoosier Politician: Officeholding and Political Culture in Indiana, 1896-1920 (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1985). 

"Political Crisis and Third Parties: The Gold Democrats of Michigan," Michigan Historical Review, 15 (Fall, 1989): 61-84.