Season 3 Works Cited


Works Used Frequently Throughout

Selling the Korean War, Steven Casey, 2008.

Korea’s Place in the Sun, Bruce Cumings, 1997.

General Dean’s Story, William F. Dean, 1954.

American Caesar, William Manchester, 1978.

Korea’s Grievous War, Su-kyoung Hwang, 2016.

Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950, Suzy Kim, 2013.

The Bridge at No Gun Ri, Charles J. Hanley, Choe Sang-un, and Martha Mendoza, 2001.

The Hidden History of the Korean War 1950-1951, I.F. Stone, 1952.

Cry Korea, Reginald Thompson, 1951.


Episode 2



From Wonso Pond, Kang Kyong-ae.

Sweet Potato, Kim Tong-in.

The Underground Village, Kang Kyeong-ae.

Patriots, Traitors, and Empires, Stephen Gowans, 2018.

The History of Korea, Han Woo-keun, 1974.

Agents of Apocalypse: Epidemic Disease in the Colonial Philippines, Ken De Bevoise, 1995.

As I Saw It, Dean Rusk, 1991.

“John W. Foster and the Struggle for the Annexation of Hawaii,” Michael J. Devine, Pacific Historical Review, 1977.

“The Specificity of US Imperialism,” Gareth Stedman-Jones, New Left Review, March–April 1970.

"Interview with President William McKinley," General James Rusling, The Christian Advocate (via CUNY), January 22, 1903.

“War and Revolution,” V.I. Lenin, Marxists Internet Archive, lecture delivered May 14, 1917; published April 1929.

“The Washington Merry-Go-Round,” Robert S. Allen and Drew Pearson, United Feature Syndicate (El Paso Times), July 20, 1937.

“This Changing World,” Constantine Brown, Washington (D.C.) Evening Star, January 12, 1938.


Episode 3



“The Street Leaders of Seoul and the Foundations of the South Korean Political Order,” Erik Mobrand, Modern Asian Studies, 2015.

The Warfare State by Fred J. Cook, 1962.

The Truman Doctrine and the Origins of McCarthyism: Foreign Policy, Domestic Policy, and Internal Security, 1946-48 by Richard Freeland, 1972.

For Might and Right: Cold War Defense Spending and the Remaking of American Democracy by Michael Brenes, 2020.

Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War, Vladislav Zubok and Constantine Pleshakov, 1996.

Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950, Suzy Kim, 2013.

Washington Bullets, Vijay Prashad, 2020.


Episode 4



This Monstrous War, Wilfred G. Burchett, 1953.

Korea’s Grievous War, Su-kyoung Hwang, 2016.

Memoirs of Nikita Krushchev Vol. 3, ed. Sergei Krushchev, 2007.

Memoirs, Andrei Gromyko, 1989.

Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945-1950, Suzy Kim, 2013.

For Might and Right: Cold War Defense Spending and the Remaking of American Democracy by Michael Brenes, 2020.

“Progressives Here Tonight for Rally at Court House,” The Daily Independent, Murphysboro, Illinois, Sept. 3, 1948.

The Truman Era, 1945-1952: A Nonconformist History of Our Times by I.F. Stone, 1988.

The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon, by Anthony Summers with Robbyn Swan, 2000.

The Facts About Nixon, by William Costello 1960.

“Central Intelligence Agency, ORE 15/48, 'The Current Situation in Korea',” March 18, 1948.

“Nixon Enters Senate Race,” Weekly Times-Advocate, Escondido, California, Nov. 4, 1949.


Episode 5



Korea’s Grievous War, Su-kyoung Hwang, 2016.

War in Korea, Marguerite Higgins, 1951.

Cold War Crucible: The Korean Conflict and the Postwar World, Masuda Hajimu, 2015.

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, David Halberstam, 2007.

The Logic of Imperialism, Albert Syzmanski, 1983.

Fearing the Worst: How Korea Transformed the Cold War, Samuel F. Wells Jr., 2020.

Baptism by Fire: CIA Analysis of the Korean War, 2014.

Reminiscences by Douglas MacArthur, 1964.

The Hidden History of the Korean War 1950-1951, I.F. Stone, 1952.


Episode 6



Cry Korea, Reginald Thompson, 1951.

The Hidden History of the Korean War 1950-1951, I.F. Stone, 1952.

Inside the Kremlin’s Cold War, Vladislav Zubok and Constantine Pleshakov, 1996.

Selling the Korean War: Propaganda, Politics, and Public Opinion in the United States, 1950-1953 by Steven Casey, 2010.

The Coldest Winter: America and the Korean War, David Halberstam, 2007.

The Truman Era, 1945-1952: A Nonconformist History of Our Times by I.F. Stone, 1988.

Historical Parallels to Today’s Inflationary Episode, White House Blog, July 2021.


Episode 7



Mao: A Reinterpretation, Lee Feigon, 2002.

Mao Zedong and China in the Twentieth-Century World, Rebecca E. Karl, 2010.

Uncertain Partners: Stalin, Mao and the Korean War, Sergei N. Goncharov, John W. Lewis, Xue Litai, 1993.

Mao, Stalin and the Korean War, Shen Zhihua, 2003.

Mao’s Generals Remember Korea, ed. Xiaobing Li, Allan R. Millett, and Bin Yu, 2001.


Episode 8



War Trash, Ha Jin, 2004.

The Korean War at Fifty, ed. Mark F. Wilkinson, 2004.

Rebel Journalism: The Writings of Wilfred Burchett, ed. George Burchett, Nick Shimmin, 2007.

Mao’s Generals Remember Korea, ed. Xiaobing Li, Allan R. Millett, and Bin Yu, 2001.

The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History, Monica Kim, 2019.

Douglas MacArthur: The Far Eastern General, Michael Schaller, 1989.

The Search for the "Manchurian Candidate": The CIA and Mind Control: The Secret History of the Behavioral Sciences by John Marks, 1979.

“Biological Warfare in the Korean War: Allegations and Cover-up,” Thomas Powell, Socialism and Democracy, 2017.

“Road to Empire: POWs and Total War in Korea,” Thomas Powell, Socialism and Democracy, 2021.

A Plague Upon Humanity: The Hidden History of Japan's Biological Warfare Program by Daniel Barenblatt, 2005.

Baseless: My Search for Secrets in the Ruins of the Freedom of Information Act by Nicholson Baker, 2021.

“Secret History: U.S. Air Force, Marine Corps Flyers’ Confessions on Use of Biological Weapons in the Korean War,” Jeffrey Kaye, 2021.


Episode 9



The Korean War, Bruce Cumings, 2010.

The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History, Monica Kim, 2019.

Truman and the Steel Seizure Case: The Limits of Presidential Power, Maeva Marcus, 1994.

The Haunted Fifties by I.F. Stone, 1989.

“Within Limits: The U.S. Air Force and the Korean War,”; U.S. Air Force, 1996.



Episode 10



North Korea: Another Country, Bruce Cumings, 2004.

The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War: The Untold History, Monica Kim, 2019.

After the Korean War, Heonik Kwon, 2020.

South Koreans in the Debt Crisis: The Creation of a Neoliberal Welfare Society, Jesook Song, 2009.

“The Korean Armistice and the End of Peace: The US-UN Coalition and the Dynamics of War-Making in Korea, 1953-76,” Steven Lee, Journal of Korean Studies, 2013.

"The Failure of the Bush Administration's North Korea Policy: A Critical Analysis," James I. Matray, International Journal of Korean Studies, 2013.

“Complacency or Complicity?: Reconsidering the UN Command’s Role in Syngman Rhee’s Release of North Korean POWs,” Grace Chae, Journal of American-East Asian Relations, 2017.