Jon Wiener

Biographic Data

ID256376
NAMEJon Wiener
GIVEN NAMESJon
FAMILY NAMEWiener
SIGNATUREWIENER J
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of California, Irvine
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS35
TOTAL CITATIONS17
AUTHOR COUNT35
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX2

  • Volume 44: Full issue

    Marisol Ruiz, Julie Solidarity et al.ARTICLEHumboldt Journal of Social…2022

    How Did We Get Here? Racial Reckoning To Racist RetrenchmentIn the summer of 2020, widespread protests against systemic racism swept the nation and the world in the aftermath of the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.These protests built upon decades and centuries of collective resistance against racial injustice, and they also signaled a shift.People and communities that had never protested before-and had never uttered the words …

  • How We Forgot the Cold War: A Historical Journey across America

    Jon WienerBOOKHow we forgot the Cold War2019

    Hours after the USSR collapsed in 1991, Congress began making plans to establish the official memory of the Cold War. Conservatives dominated the proceedings, spending millions to portray the conflict as a triumph of good over evil and a defeat of totalitarianism equal in significance to World War II. In this provocative book, historian Jon Wiener visits Cold War monuments, museums, and memorials across the United States to find out how the era i…

  • Political Action: A Practical Guide to Movement Politics

    Michael Walzer, Jon WienerBOOKPolitical Action2019

  • The John Lennon letters

    Jon WienerARTICLEThe Sixties2013

  • Kate Brown. Plutopia: Nuclear Families, Atomic Cities, and the Great Soviet and American Plutonium Disasters; Gretchen Heefner. The Missile Next Door: The Minuteman in the American Heartland

    Jon WienerARTICLEThe American Historical Review2013

    Just when you thought the history of the Cold War had pretty much been written, two books appear that illuminate new terrain with impressive skill and beautiful writing. Instead of starting with Cold War politics or policies or leaders or strategies, both books open on a distinctive landscape: the empty spaces of the inner American West. The desert of eastern Washington state, at Hanford, was transformed in the mid-1940s by something stupendous: …

  • How we forgot the Cold War: A historical journey across America

    Jon WienerBOOKHow we forgot the Cold War2012

  • Historians in Trouble: Plagiarism, Fraud, and Politics in the Ivory Tower

    Open AccessJon WienerBOOKHistorians in Trouble2004

  • "Mike Davis Talks about the "Heroes of Hell

    Jon WienerARTICLERadical History Review2003

    Research Article| January 01 2003 Mike Davis Talks about the “Heroes of Hell” Jon Wiener Jon Wiener Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (2003) 2003 (85): 227–238. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-2003-85-227 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jon Wiener; Mike Davis Talks about the “Heroes of Hell”. Radical History Review 1 January 2003; 2003 (85): 227–238. doi: ht…

  • The Nervous Liberals: Propaganda Anxieties from World War I to the Cold War

    Jon Wiener, Brett GaryARTICLEJournal of American History2001Cited by: 11

    Journal Article The Nervous Liberals: Propaganda Anxieties from World War I to the Cold War. By Brett Gary. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1999. xiv, 323 pp. Cloth, $49.50, ISBN 0-231-11364-1. Paper, $19.00, ISBN 0-231-11365-X.) Get access Jon Wiener Jon Wiener University of California, Irvine, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pa…

  • Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files

    Kenneth O’reilly, Kenneth O'Reilly et al.ARTICLEJournal of American History2001

    Journal Article Gimme Some Truth: The John Lennon FBI Files. By Jon Wiener. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999. viii, 344 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-520-21646-6. Paper, $17.95, ISBN 0520-22246-6.) Get access Kenneth O'Reilly Kenneth O'Reilly University of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 87, Issue 4, March 2001, Pages 1579–1580, https…

  • Just My Soul Responding: Rhythm and Blues, Black Consciousness, and Race Relations

    Jon WienerREVIEWThe Journal of Southern History2000

    One of the most innovative and ambitious books to appear on the civil rights and black power movements in America, Just My Soul Responding also offers a major challenge to conventional histories of contemporary black and popular music. Brian Ward explores in detail the previously neglected relationship between Rhythm and Blues, black consciousness, and race relations within the context of the ongoing struggle for black freedom and equality in the…

  • Democratic Artworks: Politics and the Arts from Trilling to Dylan

    Jon Wiener, Charles HerschARTICLEJournal of American History1999Cited by: 1

    Journal Article Democratic Artworks: Politics and the Arts from Trilling to Dylan. By Charles Hersch. (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998. xii, 232 pp. Cloth, $59.50, ISBN 0-7914-3801-5. Paper, $19.95, ISBN 0-7914-3802-3.) Get access Jon Wiener Jon Wiener University of California Irvine, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 2, September 1999…

  • Histories, Memories, and Identities: Editors' Introduction

    Mansour Bonakdarian, Jon WienerARTICLERadical History Review1999

  • Pop and Avant‐Garde: The case of John and Yoko

    Jon WienerARTICLEPopular Music & Society1998Cited by: 1References: 5

  • Born at the Right Time: A History of the Baby-Boom Generation

    Jon Wiener, Doug OwramARTICLEJournal of American History1998

    Journal Article Born at the Right Time: A History of the BabyBoom Generation. By Doug Owram. (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1996. xxiv, 392 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-8020-5957-0.) Get access Jon Wiener Jon Wiener University of California Irvine, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 84, Issue 4, March 1998, Pages 1583–1584, https://doi.org/10.2307/2568226 Published…

  • Chinese Americans Remember World War II

    Jon WienerARTICLERadical History Review1997

    Research Article| January 01 1997 Chinese Americans Remember World War II Jon Wiener Jon Wiener Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1997) 1997 (67): 123–128. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1997-67-123 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jon Wiener; Chinese Americans Remember World War II. Radical History Review 1 January 1997; 1997 (67): 123–128. doi: https://do…

  • History from South Africa: Alternative Visions and Practices

    Colin Murray, Joshua Brown et al.ARTICLEThe International Journal of…1997

  • McNamara, Vietnam, and Student Protest

    Jon WienerARTICLERadical History Review1996

    Research Article| January 01 1996 McNamara, Vietnam, and Student Protest Jon Wiener Jon Wiener Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Radical History Review (1996) 1996 (64): 129–131. https://doi.org/10.1215/01636545-1996-64-129 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Jon Wiener; McNamara, Vietnam, and Student Protest. Radical History Review 1 January 1996; 1996 (64): 129–131. doi: https://doi.…

  • Haldeman’s Sixties

    Jon WienerARTICLENew left review1995

    H.R. Haldeman, Richard Nixon’s crew-cut Chief of Staff, was the man Nixon trusted most. That made him the most powerful person in the Nixon White House after the President himself. ‘If a historian had had a fantasy of knowing all that one man nearest to Nixon had known,’

  • Losing Our Souls: The American Experience in the Cold War

    Jon Wiener, Edward PessenARTICLEJournal of American History1994

    Journal Article Losing Our Souls: The American Experience in the Cold War. By Edward Pessen. (Chicago: Dee, 1993. 255 pp. $24.95, ISBN 1-56663037-1.) Get access Jon Wiener Jon Wiener University of California, Irvine, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 81, Issue 3, December 1994, Pages 1371–1372, https://doi.org/10.2307/2081593 Published: 01 December 1994

  • Self-Interest and Vocation

    Open AccessVirginia Carmichael, Bruce Robbins et al.ARTICLEAmerican Quarterly1994

  • I. History, Memory, and Justice

    Barbara Smith, Jon Wiener et al.ARTICLERadical History Review1994

  • Alien Ink: The FBI's War on Freedom of Expression

    Jon Wiener, Natalie RobinsARTICLEJournal of American History1993

    Journal Article Alien Ink: The FBI's War on Freedom of Expression. By Natalie Robins. (New York: Morrow, 1992. 495 pp. $27.50, ISBN 0-688-06885-5.) Get access Jon Wiener Jon Wiener University of California, Irvine, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 316–317, https://doi.org/10.2307/2079813 Published: 01 June 1993

  • Impostors in the Temple

    Jon Wiener, Martin AndersonARTICLEJournal of American History1993

    Journal Article Impostors in the Temple. By Martin Anderson. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992. 255 pp. $22.00, ISBN 0-671-70915-1.) Get access Jon Wiener Jon Wiener University of California, Irvine, California Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 2, September 1993, Page 757, https://doi.org/10.2307/2080024 Published: 01 September 1993

  • Professors, Politics, and Pop

    Richard J Altenbaugh, Jon WienerARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1993