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Walter Mondale: United States Vice President: Secondary Sources: Books & Articles

Articles

Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro, 1984.

"Fritz Mondale is a Capital Oddity- A Vice-President Who is Not Unemployed," by Garry Clifford.
In People Weekly, vol. 9, no. 8 (Feb. 27, 1978), pages: 20-25.
MNHS call number: E 840.8.M66 C54

"'Give 'em Hell, Fritz!': The Democrats Came to San Francisco In a State of Gloom, But They Left Feeling That Their Party and the Mondale-Ferraro Ticket Represented the Future's Brightest Hope,"
 by William Grieder.
In Rolling Stone (San Francisco), issue no. 429 (Aug. 30, 1984), pages 10, 15, 46.
MNHS call number: Folio E840.8.M66 G73 1984

"A Historic Choice."
In Time, vol. 124, no. 4 (July 23, 1984), pages 10-16, 18-20, 33-37, 40.
MNHS call number: JK 526 1984 .H47 1984

Fritz Mondale was Jimmy Carter’s MVP on Capitol Hill, by Les Francis. 
In  Carter Mondale Letter, Vol. 10, issue 2 (winter 2015).
MNHS call number: E872 .C38 v.10:2

"The Making of the Modern Vice Presidency: A Personal Reflection," by Richard Moe. 
In Minnesota History, vol. 60, no. 3 (fall 2006), pages 88-99.
MNHS call number: Digital Copy

"The Mondale Myth," by Wallace Roberts.
In New Times, vol. 2, no. 2 (Jan. 25, 1974), pages 26-31.
MNHS call number: E 840.8 .M66 R62 1974

"The Vice Presidency: Walter Mondale in the Lion's Den," by Marie D. Natoli.
In Presidential Studies Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 1 (1978), pages 100-102.
MNHS call number: E 840.8 .M66 N38

"150 Years Norwegian Immigration."
In Norwegian American Commerce, no. 2/75 (summer 1975).
Includes Walter F. Mondale on page 46.
MNHS call number: Folio E 184.S22 A15 1975

Minnesota History index terms that may be useful for this topic:
Mondale, Joan A. 
Mondale, Walter F.

Books

Mondale: Portrait of an American Politician, by Finlay Lewis.
New York: Harper & Row, 1980.
MNHS call number: Reading Room E 840.8.M66 L48

The Democrats' Dilemma: Walter F. Mondale and the Liberal Legacy, by Steven M. Gillon.
New York: Columbia University Press, 1992.
MNHS call number: Reading Room E 840.8.M66 G55 1992

Vice-Presidential Power: Advice and Influence in the White House, by Paul C. Light.
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1984.
MNHS call number: Reading Room JK 609.5 .L53 1984

America's Vice-Presidents: Our First Forty-Three Vice-Presidents and How They Got to Be Number Two, by Diana Dixon Healy.
New York: Atheneum, 1984.
MNHS call number: E 176.49 .H4 1984

Campaign Journal: The Political Events of 1983-1984, by Elizabeth Drew.
New York: Macmillan, 1985.
MNHS call number: E 876 .D74 1985

The Election of 1984: Reports and Interpretations, by Gerald M. Pomper, et al.
Chatham, N.J.: Chatham House Publishers, 1985.
MNHS call number: JK 526 1984d

The Modern American Vice Presidency: The Transformation of a Political Institution, by Joel K. Goldstein.
Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1982.
MNHS call number: JK 609.5 .G64

The New Senate: Liberal Influence on a Conservative Institution, 1959-1972, by Michael Foley.
New Haven, N.J.: Yale University Press, 1980.
MNHS call number: JK 1161 .F64

Portrait of an Election: The 1980 Presidential Campaign, by Elizabeth Drew.
New York: Simon and Schuster, 1981.
MNHS call number: E 875 .D73

The Quest for the Presidency, 1984, by Peter Goldman & Tony Fuller.
Toronto; New York: Bantam Books, 1985.
MNHS call number: E 879 .G64 1985

What a United States Senator Does, by Roy Hoopes.
New York: John Day Co., 1975.
Includes "A Typical Day on Capitol Hill" [with Senator Walter Mondale] on pages 60-81.
MNHS call number: JK 1161 .H6 1975

Film & Video

Fritz: The Walter Mondale Story: A Documentary Film, directed by Melody Gilbert.
1 color DVD, 60 minutes. 
MNHS call number:  DVD 56

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