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• Crime and the Civic Cancer: Graft (1923), by Michael L. McKinley (PDF files with commentary at Northwestern)

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• Off Limits: Censorship and Corruption (New York: Human Rights Watch, 1991), by Paul Glickman (PDF with commentary at hrw.org)
• America Strikes Back: A Record of Contrasts (New York: I. Washburn, c1935), by Gustavus Myers (multiple formats at archive.org)
• What's the Matter with New York: A National Problem (New York: Macmillan, 1932), by Norman Thomas and Paul Blanshard
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Corruption as a Last Resort: Adapting to the Market in Central Asia (Ithaca, NY and London: Cornell University Press, c2014), by Kelly M. McMann (PDF and Epub with commentary at Cornell Open)

• Corruption and Anti-Corruption (originally published 2001; this edition c2013), ed. by Peter Larmour and Nick Wolanin (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)

• A Collection of the Debates and Proceedings in Parliament in 1694 and 1695, Upon the Inquiry into the Late Briberies and Corrupt Practices (London, 1695), by England and Wales Parliament
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust

• The Gilded Age, by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• The Gilded Age (from the Complete Works of Mark Twain, 2 volumes in 1; New York: Harper and Bros., c1915), by Mark Twain and Charles Dudley Warner (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Corruption and Anti-Corruption (originally published 2001; this edition c2013), ed. by Peter Larmour and Nick Wolanin (PDF with commentary at ANU E Press)

• A Quest for Political Integrity (2005), by Coalitia pentru un Parlament Curat (Romania) (PDF in Romania)

• Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress, and a Plan to Stop It (New York and Boston: Twelve, c2011), by Lawrence Lessig (PDF at lessig.org)
• Failure of the Public Trust, by John H. Clarke, Patrick J. Knowlton, and Hugh Turley (PDF and partial HTML with commentary at fbicover-up.com)
• The Shame of The Cities (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1904), by Lincoln Steffens (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Struggle for Self-Government: Being an Attempt to Trace American Political Corruption to its Sources in Six States of the United States (New York: McClure, Phillips and Co., 1906), by Lincoln Steffens
  • multiple formats at Google
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Government Waste Watch (partial serial archives)

• The Truth About Voter Fraud (New York: Brennan Center for Justice, c2007), by Justin Levitt (PDF with commentary at brennancenter.org)

• Report of the President's Special Review Board (Tower Commission Iran-Contra report; Washington: GPO, 1987), by United States President's Special Review Board, contrib. by John G. Tower
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Final Report of the Independent Counsel for Iran/Contra Matters, volume 1: Investigations and Prosecutions, by Lawrence E. Walsh (HTML at fas.org)

• The Final Report of the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities, United States Senate: Pursuant to S. Res. 60, February 7, 1973, a Resolution to Establish a Select Committee of the Senate to Investigate and Study Illegal or Improper Campaign Activities in the Presidential Election of 1972 (Washington: GPO, 1974), by United States Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Presidential Campaign Activities of 1972, Senate Resolution 60: Watergate and Related Activities (26 volumes, plus index and appendix volumes; Washington: GPO, 1973-1974), by United States Senate Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Inquiry into the Alleged Involvement of the Central Intelligence Agency in the Watergate and Ellsberg Matters: Hearings Before the Special Subcommittee on Intelligence of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, Ninety-Fourth Congress, First Session (Washington: GPO, 1975), by United States House Committee on Armed Services (page images at HathiTrust)

• Debates and Proceedings of the Constitutional Convention of the State of Illinois (1869), by Illinois (page images at MOA)

• John Francis Snyder: Selected Writings (Springfield, IL: Illinois State Historical Society, 1962), by John Francis Snyder, ed. by Clyde C. Walton, contrib. by Phyllis Connolly and Melvin L. Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)

• Life and Services of Colonel James J. Healy (1913), by C. C. Bowsfield (multiple formats at archive.org)
• A True Picture of Emigration, or, Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America (London: G. Berger, ca. 1848), by Rebecca Burlend and Edward Burlend (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Illinois As It Is, by Frederick Gerhard (page images at MOA)
• Summer Rambles in the West (New York: J. C. Riker, 1853), by E. F. Ellet (page images at MOA)
• A True Picture of Emigration, or, Fourteen Years in the Interior of North America (London: G. Berger, ca. 1848), by Rebecca Burlend and Edward Burlend (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Wau-Bun, The Early Day in the Northwest, by Mrs. John H. Kinzie (multiple formats with commentary at loc.gov)

• When Wilderness Was King: A Tale of the Illinois Country, by Randall Parrish (Gutenberg text)
• Spanish Peggy: A Story of Young Illinois (New York: Herbert S. Stone and Co, 1899), by Mary Hartwell Catherwood (multiple formats at Indiana)

• John Francis Snyder: Selected Writings (Springfield, IL: Illinois State Historical Society, 1962), by John Francis Snyder, ed. by Clyde C. Walton, contrib. by Phyllis Connolly and Melvin L. Fowler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Illinois As It Is, by Frederick Gerhard (page images at MOA)

• Record of the Services of Illinois Soldiers in the Black Hawk War, 1831-32, and in the Mexican war, 1846-8 (Springfield, IL: H. W. Rokker, state printer, 1882), by Illinois Military and Naval Department, contrib. by Isaac H. Elliott
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Illinois Party Platforms, 1914, With Select Bibliographies of Available Material on File in the Legislative Reference Bureau, Relating to the Subjects Enumerated Therein (1914), by Illinois General Assembly Legislative Reference Bureau (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Gender, Race, and Politics in the Midwest: Black Club Women in Illinois (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, c1998), by Wanda A. Hendricks (multiple formats with commentary at fulcrum.org)

• Illinois Blue Book (partial serial archives)

• Register of Confederate Soldiers Who Died in Camp Douglas, 1862-65 and Lie Buried in Oakwoods Cemetery, Chicago, Ills., 1892 (Cincinnati: Cohen and Co., 1892), by Ex-Confederate Association of Chicago
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• A Sketch of the Battle of Franklin, Tenn., With Reminiscences of Camp Douglas, by John M. Copley (illustrated HTML and TEI at UNC)

• Camp Grant, Rockford, Illinois: Being a Pictorial History of the Miracle of the Illinois Cantonment (Rockford, IL: Oscar F. Wilson Print. Co., 1917) (page images here at Penn)

• The Great Conflagration, Chicago: Its Past, Present and Future (Chicago and Philadelphia: Union Pub. Co., 1871), by James W. Sheahan and George P. Upton (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Historic Waterways: Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1888), by Reuben Gold Thwaites (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• The Kankakee: River of History (ca. 1960), by Marion C. Isaacs
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Indian Trails Centering at Black Hawk's Village (reprinted from the Transactions of the Illinois State Historical Society, 2921), by John H. Hauberg
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Historic Waterways: Six Hundred Miles of Canoeing Down the Rock, Fox, and Wisconsin Rivers (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1888), by Reuben Gold Thwaites (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)

• History of Negro Servitude in Illinois, and of the Slavery Agitation in That State, 1719-1864 (Chicago: A.C. McClurg and Co., 1904), by Norman Dwight Harris (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Vidette (partial serial archives)

• Constitutional Convention, by Illinois General Assembly Legislative Reference Bureau (page images at MOA)
• Journal of the Convention, Assembled at Springfield, June 7, 1847, by Illinois (page images at Google)

• Journal of the Convention, Assembled at Springfield, June 7, 1847, by Illinois (page images at Google)

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