Camardella, Michele L., America in the 1980s, Facts on File, 2005.

Camardella explores the cultural history of America in the 1980s.

Frosch, Mary, ed., Coming of Age in America: A Multicultural Anthology, New Press, 1995.

The essays in this collection offer different multicultural views of the maturation process.

Kushner, Rachel, “Kenneth Lonergan,” BOMB, Vol. 76, Summer 2001, pp. 40-45.

Kushner discusses Lonergan's writing process and the main themes in his plays and screenplays.

Schaller, Michael, Right Turn: America in the 1980s, Oxford University Press, 2005.

Schaller focuses on politics in the 1980s and America's reversion to the conservatism of the 1950s.