Main group 1

• Fairclough, Adam, Better day coming: Blacks and equality, 1890-2000, New York, Viking, 2001
• Lichtenstein, Nelson, State of the union: a century of American labor, Princeton, N.J. ; a Chichester, Princeton University Press, 2001
• Small, Melvin., Antiwarriors: the Vietnam war and the battle for America's hearts and minds, Wilmington, Del., Scholarly Resources, 2002

Main group 2

• Daalder, Ivo H., America unbound: the Bush revolution in foreign policy, Washington, D.C., Brookings Institution Press, cop. 2003
• Greenstein, Fred I., The presidential difference: leadership style from FDR to George W. Bush, 2. ed., Princeton, N.J., Princeton University Press, 2004
• McKay, David; Houghton, David; Wroe, Andy, Controversies in American politics and society., Oxford, Blackwell, 2002

Main group 3

• Alterman, Eric, What Liberal Media? The Truth About BIAS and the News, Basic Books, 2003
• Barkin, Steve, American Television News: The Media Marketplace and the Public Interest, 2003
• Goldberg, Bernard, Bias: a CBS insider exposes how the media distorts the news, New York, Perennial, 2002

Main group 4

• Hemingway, Ernest, In our time: stories., New York, Scribner, 1958
• Kesey, Ken, One flew over the cuckoo's nest, 40th anniversary ed., New York, Viking, 2002
• Larsen, Nella, Passing, New York, Random House ; a London : b Kuperard, 2002
• Mailer, Norman, Why are we in Vietnam: a novel, [New ed.], New York, Berkley, 1977
• O'Neill, Eugene, The Hairy Ape
• Plath, Sylvia, The bell jar, London, Faber and Faber, 2005
• Steinbeck, John, The grapes of wrath, London, Penguin, 2000
• Styron, William, The confessions of Nat Turner, 25th anniversary ed., New York, Vintage international, 1993
• Walker, Alice, The third life of Grange Copeland, London, The Women's press, 1993

Main group 5

• O'Dell, Tom, Culture unbound: Americanization and everyday life in Sweden., Lund, Nordic Academic Press, 1997 ; (Lund