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Jeffrey Hadden and Anson Shupe, Televangelism: Power and Politics on God’s Frontier (1988). A thought-provoking analysis of Christian broadcasting.
Daniel Horowitz, Jimmy Carter and the Energy Crisis of the 1970s (2005). Analysis and documents.
N. E. H. Hull and Peter Charles Hoffer, Roe v. Wade: The Abortion Rights Controversy in American History (2001). A sweeping treatment of the controversial decision.
Rick Perlstein, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2008). An excellent overview of the era.
Kirkpatrick Sale, The Green Revolution: The American Environmental Movement, 1962–1992 (1993). A balanced account of environmentalism.
The Oyez Project at Northwestern University, at oyez.org/oyez/frontpage, is an invaluable resource for more than one thousand Supreme Court cases, with audio transcripts, voting records, and summaries.