Walter Reuther/Bibliography

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• Barnard, John. American Vanguard: The United Auto Workers during the Reuther Years, 1935-1970. Wayne State U. Press, 2004. 607 pp.
• Boyle, Kevin. The UAW and the Heyday of American Liberalism, 1945-1968 (1995) online edition
• Boyle, Kevin. "Building the Vanguard: Walter Reuther and Radical Politics in 1936," Labor History 30 (Summer 1989), 435+
• Cormier, Frank, and William J. Eaton. Reuther (1970), short* Cutler, Jonathan. Labor's Time: Shorter Hours, the UAW, and the Struggle for American Unionism. 2004. 236 pp.
• Dayton, Eldorous L. Walter Reuther: The Autocrat of the Bargaining Table (1958) hostile biography for popular audience
• Esposito, Mark A. T. "The UAW, American Trade Policy, and the Transformation of the Global Automobile Industry, 1945-1973." PhD dissertation West Virginia U. 2004. 324 pp. DAI 2005 65(12): 4688-A. DA3159333
• Glaberman, Martin. "Walter Reuther and the Decline of the American Labor Movement," International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 11 (1997), 73+* Goode, Bill. Infighting in the UAW: The 1946 Election and the Ascendancy of Walter Reuther (1994)online edition
• Gould, Jean, and Lorena Hickock. Walter Reuther: Labor’s Rugged Individualist (1972)
• Howe, Irving and B. J. Widick. The UAW and Walter Reuther (1949) online edition
• Kornhauser, Arthur et al. When Labor Votes: A Study of Auto Workers (1956) online edition
• Lichtenstein, Nelson. The Most Dangerous Man in Detroit: Walter Reuther and the Fate of American Labor (1995) online edition the most important and most scholarly biography
• Parenti, Michael and Peggy Norton. The Wonderful Life and Strange Death of Walter Reuther.(1996)
• Williams, Charles; with Reply by Gerstle, Gary and Smith, Rogers M. "The Racial Politics of Progressive Americanism: New Deal Liberalism and the Subordination of Black Workers in the UAW." Studies in American Political Development 2005 19(1): 75-97. Issn: 0898-588x Fulltext: Cambridge Journals
• Zieger, Robert H. The CIO, 1935-1955 (1995) online edition

Primary sources

• Christman, Henry M. ed. Walter P. Reuther: Selected Papers (1961)