Books by Zeese Papanikolas

Undertakes a dramatic retelling of Shoshoni creation stories and examines, along with other topics, the mythologies embedded in the "Dream Mine" of Mormon folklore, the heroic images of cowboys and Wobblies, the MX missile, the dark side of Oz, and the Las Vegas of tourists, dam builders, and gamblers.

An American Cakewalk is a lively and entertaining look at a group of Americans in the arts and sciences who, in the years between the Civil War and the 1970s, challenged this country's artistic and social norms through subtle and not-so-subtle syncopations of its cultural givens.

Stands for a whole generation of immigrant workers who, in the years before World War I, found themselves caught between the realities of industrial America and their aspirations for a better life.