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THE ENERGY CAPER
Selected Bibliography
Those interested in exploring the historical themes or the scientific ideas presented in this novel will find these selections a good place to start. Whether or not there was a conspiracy to criminalize the cultivation of the plant considered by America's Founding Fathers to be the nation's most valuable crop is not relevant to the future. What is indisputably true is that it has always been possible for America to farm its way to energy independence, and by growing its own fuel, to create economic prosperity, and guarantee national security.
Archer, J.: The Plot to Seize the White House. Hawthorn Books (1973). ASIN: B0006COVHA. The story of the conspiracy to overthrow President Franklin Roosevelt and kill the New Deal.
Colby, G.: DuPont: Behind the Nylon Curtain. Prentice-Hall (1974). ISBN: 0132210770. Behind the veil of an American dynasty.
Conrad, C.: Hemp: Lifeline to the Future. Creative Xpressions (1994). ISBN: 0963975412. A concise presentation of hemp's many potential uses.
Crosby, A. W.: America, Russia, Hemp, and Napoleon: American Trade with Russia and the Baltic, 1783-1812. Ohio State University Press (1965).ASIN: B0007DF3XY. As oil is for us, hemp was for Napoleon: the key strategic commodity of his time, and worth risking a war over.
Dovring, F: Farming for Fuel: The Political Economy of Energy Sources in the United States. Greenwood Publishing Group (1988). ISBN: 0275930084.
Dolan, G.: "Methanol Transportation Fuels: A Look Back and a Look Forward." The 2005 International Symposia on Alcohol Fuels. A good explanation of how the oil and automobile industries scuttled the California methanol experiment in the 1980's and early 1990's. http://www.methanol.org/pdf/MIPaperforISAF.pdf
Dvorak, J.: Hempology.org. (2006). This website has a large trove of articles, historical documents, links, and photos. Many of the documents mentioned in the novel can be found here in their entirety. http://www.hempology.org
Gray, C.L. Jr., & Alson, J.A.: "The Case for Methanol." Scientific American (Nov., 1989). A technical presentation of the advantages of methanol.
Green, L.: "The Demonized Seed." The Los Angeles Times (Jan. 18, 2004). http://www.latimes.com/news/local/valley/la-tm-hemp03jan18,1,7758705.story
Haldeman, B.: The Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House. Putnam (1994). ISBN: 0399139621. The ultimate insider's book on Nixon.
Herer, J.: The Emperor Wears No Clothes: The Authoritative Historical Record of Cannabis and the Conspiracy Against Marijuana, 11th ed. Ah Ha Publishing (2000). ISBN: 1878125028. This is the book that spawned the modern hemp movement. Chock-full of facts, photos, documents, and tidbits.
Hersh, B.: The Mellon Family: A Fortune in History. Morrow (1978). ISBN: 0688032974. The authoritative history of America's greatest fortune.
Kitman, J. L.: "The Secret History of Lead." The Nation (Mar. 20, 2000). How a highly-profitable poison was kept on the market for sixty years while "studies" were done. http://www.thenation.com/doc/20000320/kitman
Kovarik, B.: "Henry Ford, Charles F. Kettering, and the Fuel of the Future." Automotive History Review (Spring 1998). An overview of the history of industrial alcohol in America and how the oil industry crushed its competition. http://www.radford.edu/~wkovarik/papers/fuel.html
Leary, T.: Flashbacks: An Autobiography. Houghton Mifflin (1983). ISBN: 0874771773. The guru of the counter-culture in his own words.
Lorant, S.: Pittsburgh: The Story of an American City, 5th ed. The Derrydale Press (1999). ISBN: 0967410304. The definitive history of "The Burgh."
McCormick, J. R.D.: Dr. Methanol's Homepage (2006). A Ph.D. in organic chemistry explains methanol. http://dr-methanol.home.att.net/#Politics.
McWilliams, J. C. : The Protectors: Harry J. Anslinger and the Federal Bureau of Narcotics, 1930-1962. University of Delaware Press (1990). ISBN: 0874133521. The biography of the man most responsible for America's drug laws.
McWilliams, P.: Ain't Nobody's Business if You Do: The Absurdity of Consensual Crimes in a Free Society. Mary Books (1996). ISBN: 192976717X. If you care about freedom, this book is guaranteed to make you angry.
National Commission on Marihuana and Drug Abuse (The Shafer Commission): Marihuana: A Signal of Misunderstanding (1972). Its unanimous recommendations are as valid today as they were in 1972. http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/Library/studies/nc/ncmenu.htm.
Olah, G. A., Goeppert, A., & Prakash, G.K.S.: Beyond Oil and Gas: The Methanol Economy. Wiley (2006). ISBN: 3527312757. The answer to the energy problem from a Nobel Prize-winning chemist and his scientific colleagues.
Reed, T. B. and Lerner, R. M.: "Methanol: A Versatile Fuel for Immediate Use," Science 182, 1299 (1973) Amazing how a clear path to energy independence was laid out by this MIT team in 1973 and nobody in our universe paid attention. Fortunately for Earth One, their Nixon did. http://www.woodgas.com/Science1.pdf
Robinson, R.: The Great Book of Hemp. Park Street Press (1996). ISBN: 0892815418. A terrific resource on all aspects of the subject.
Roulac, J.: Industrial Hemp: Practical ProductsÐPaper to Fabric to Cosmetics. Hemptech (1996). ISBN: 188687400X. Industrial nitty-gritty.
West, D. P.: Dr. Dave's Hemp Archives (2006). The biology and history of hemp by a Ph.D. in plant genetics. http://www.gametec.com/hemp/archives.html
Whitebread, C.: "The History of the Non-Medical Use of Drugs in the United States." A Speech to the California Judges Association 1995 Annual Conference (1995). A concise, humorous account of the historical and legal aspects of prohibition and why it has never worked. Includes the story of Anslinger's bat! http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/History/whiteb1.htm.
Wills, G.: Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man. Norman S. Berg Publisher (1978). ISBN: 0910220883. One of the best of the Nixon books.
Wolfe, T.: The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test. Farrar Straus and Giroux (1968). ASIN: B000EW4XRU. Essential for anyone hoping to understand the times.
Woodward, B., & Bernstein, C.: All the President's Men, 25th Anniv. ed. Simon & Schuster (1999). ISBN: 0684863553. The saga of the Nixon White House from the reporters who broke the story of Watergate.
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