Fiction Books published (and in progress) and History Writings
PUBLISHED BOOKS
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FICTION:
AMANDA PENNYWORTH MYSTERY SERIES:
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Murder at Amapas Beach, Atmosphere Press, 2023 https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Amapas-Beach-James-Gilbert/dp/1639886494/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1676562032&sr=8-1
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Murder at the Olympiad, Atmosphere Press, 2021 https://www.amazon.com/Murder-Olympiad-James-Burkhart-Gilbert/dp/1639880232/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=
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Zona Romantica, Anaphora Literary Press, 2020 https://www.amazon.com/Zona-Romantica-James-Gilbert/dp/1681145200/ref=sr_1_1?crid=X4RIY214YO0Q&keywords=zona+romantica&qid=1679691110&s=books&sprefix=zona+romantica%2Cstripbooks%2C118&sr=1-1
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OTHER FICTION:
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Tales of Little Egypt, Atmosphere Press, 2020 https://www.amazon.com/Tales-Little-Egypt-James-Gilbert/dp/1648261981
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The Key Party, Creators Publishing, 2017 https://www.amazon.com/Key-Party-James-Gilbert/dp/1945630507/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1679691296&sr=1-1
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Secrets and Strangers, Amazon. com 2012 https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Strangers-James-Gilbert/dp/0615669328/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2T0ZA33QIZ0FL&keywords=secrets+and+strangers+gilbert&qid=1679691407&s=books&sprefix=secrets+and+strangers+gilbert%2Cstripbooks%2C95&sr=1-1
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WORKS ACCEPTED FOR PUBLICATION:
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"The Legacy," Joshua Tree Publishers
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WORKS IN PROGRESS:
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"Reunion by the Lake"
"City of Ghosts"
"The Good Folks of Jericho Valley"
"Dreaming of Graceland"
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FICTION PRIZES:
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“Christian Singles,” Second place in 2016 F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Story Contest Contest
"Sunrise in the Valley," Honorable mention in 2021, F. Scott Fitzgerald Short Story Contest
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AMERICAN HISTORY BOOKS:
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Whose Fair?: Memory, Experience, and History at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Men in the Middle: Searching for Masculinity in the 1950s, University of Chicago, 2005
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Explorations of American Culture Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, Sweden, 2000
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Redeeming Culture: American Religion in an Age of Science University of Chicago, 1997.
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Perfect Cities: Chicago's Utopias in the 1890's. University of Chicago, 1991. A New York Times Notable Book of 1991
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A Cycle of Outrage: America's Reaction to the Juvenile Delinquent in the 1950s. Oxford, 1986.
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The Pursuit of Liberty. Random House, 1983 (Joint Authorship with R. Jackson Wilson, et al). (revised edition, Wadsworth, 1989). Third edition: Harper\Collins, 1995.
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Another Chance: America After World War II. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1981. 2nd ed. 1985.
Work Without Salvation: America's Intellectuals and Industrial Alienation, 1880‑1910. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, 1978.
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Designing the Industrial State: The Intellectual Pursuit of Collectivism in America. Chicago: Quadrangle, 1972.
Writers and Partisans: A History of Literary Radicalism in America. New York: John Wiley, 1968. (Republished, Columbia University Press, 1992)
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