G. Richard Slade, Banking in the Great Northern Territory, Afton Historical Society Press, 2005.

This is a simple history of banking but also the story of two great regional banking systems that dominated the Central and Northwest part of the US from 1929 until 1995 when Northwest Bancorporation became Wells Fargo and the First Bank System became US Bancorp. The publication is very nice, well illustrated, and written from the perspective of someone who worked for both groups and was on the ground for many of the significant decisions affecting the two enterprises. The story is interesting as it describes a time in the banking business that is now vanished and numbers of the people who played leadership roles in the two companies.

Roger P. Smith, The Other Faces of Public Television, Algora Publishing, 2002.

Public Television was brought into being to liberate a developing community medium from the constraints of commercialism. As it turned out, government processes of appointment, authorization, appropriation, and consensus decision making that have become increasingly politicized have determined the nature of public television. This book stands as a warning against encroachment on the processes of creation and intellectual freedom by both commerce and government.

William C. Wright,Harvard's Secret Court, St. Martin's Press, 2007.

In May of 1920, a bizarre series of circumstances at Harvard resulted in a pitiless purge of campus gays. High dramas surrounded the expulsion of eight young men, one of whom-killed himself on learning his fate. The lives of others were destroyed by the inquisition - three other suicides were related - while some victims triumphed over their pillorying to have highly distinguished careers. The sad tale is an extraordinary and Iong-buried instance of mighty institution losing its balance.

John Guice,By His Own Hand? - The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis, Oklahoma Press, 2006.

Before dawn on October 11, 1809, Meriwether Lewis, coleader of the epic Lewis and Clark Expedition, died from two gunshot wounds. No one witnessed the shooting at a crude inn along the Natchez Trace in Tennessee. But people on the scene shortly afterward concluded that the then-governor of Upper Louisiana had taken his own life. William Clark and Thomas Jefferson agreed. For two centuries the question has persisted: Was Lewis's death a suicide, an accident, or a homicide?