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———. When Character Was King. New York: Penguin, 2002.
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———. Dixon and the Rock River. Dixon, IL: privately published, 2012.
———. A People’s Legacy: History of the Dixon Public Library 1895–2004. Dixon, IL: privately published, 2004.
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———. The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2014.
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———. Jane Wyman: The Actress and the Woman. New York: Dembner Books, 1986.
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———. An American Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990.
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“Dixon Illinois” (pamphlet). Dixon Area Chamber of Commerce and Industry, undated.
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“Eureka College Songs” (trifold pamphlet), c. 1928. Courtesy of Eureka College, Melic Library, Anthony Glass, archivist.
Gardiner, Gordon, ed. Bread of Life, vol. 30, no. 3. Brooklyn, NY: Ridgewood Pentecostal Church, May 1981.
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Marlow, Ron. “The First Christian Church and the Reagan Family, Vol. 1 (1920–1928).” Unpublished typescript.
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