Davis, Ronald L., Van Johnson: MGM's Golden Boy, University Press of Mississippi, 2001.

This work covers the rise and fall of Van Johnson, Hollywood's "golden boy" during Hollywood's "golden age." This work offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse of Hollywood during the time Dore Schary headed up MGM pictures.

Fried, Albert, ed., McCarthyism: The Great American Red Scare, Oxford University Press, 1996.

This book covers the period of the late 1940s to the mid-1960s when Americans were routinely persecuted for their lack of patriotism or their sympathy for the Soviet Union. The author demonstrates the absurdity of the times, using speeches, court decisions, letters, memoirs, and so forth as strong supporting evidence.

Schary, Dore, For Special Occasions, Random House, 1962.

This text is an account of Dore Schary's childhood and his parents' catering business.