Selected Bibliography
This book draws upon more than half a century of archival research. Among the collections that proved valuable were those of William R. Castle Jr., Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.; Herbert Hoover, Herbert Hoover Presidential Library, West Branch, Iowa; Hiram Johnson, University of California, Berkeley; Alfred Landon, Kansas State Historical Society, Topeka, Kans.; George H. Moses, New Hampshire Historical Society, Concord, N.H.; William Starr Myers, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.; Peter Norbeck, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, S.D.; John Callan O’Laughlin, Library of Congress; Franklin D. Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library, Hyde Park, N.Y.; Jouett Shouse, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Ky.; Henry Stimson, Yale University, New Haven, Conn.; Mark Sullivan, Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace, Stanford, Calif.; Arthur Vandenberg, Michigan Historical Collections of the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.; and Robert Wagner, Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
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