This list is certainly not exhaustive, but it gives a good idea of what the author read while he was writing Parrot and Olivier in America.
Roger Boesche, The Strange Liberalism of Alexis de Tocqueville
Edwin G Burrows and Mike Wallace, Gotham
Hugh Brogan, Alexis de Tocqueville
François de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d’outre-tombe
Louis Chevalier, Laboring Classes and Dangerous Classes in Paris During the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
Michael Chevalier, Society Manners and Politics of the United States, Boston 1839
Leo Damrosch,Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Restless Genius
Robert Darnton, The Literary Underground of the Old Regime
Charles Dickens, American Notes
Max Doerner, The Materials of the Artist and Their Use in Painting
Allan Fea, Secret Chambers and Hiding Places, www.gutenberg.net
TR Fehrenbach, Lone Star: A history of Texas and the Texans
Waldemar H. Fries, The Double Elephant Folio; the story of Audubon’s Birds of America
Doris S. Goldstein, The Religious Beliefs of Alexis de Tocqueville
Doris S. Goldstein, French Historical Studies, Vol. 1, No. 4
John Hailman, Thomas Jefferson on Wine
Jacques Hébert Archive, http://www.marxists.org
Eric Homberger, The Historical Atlas of New York City
Robert Hughes,American Visions, the Epic History of Art in America
Andre Jardin, Tocqueville
Klein, Daniel and John Majewski, Turnpikes and Toll Roads inNineteenth-Century America http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/Klein.Majewski.Turnpikes
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, The Village of Auteuil
Charles Manby Smith, The Working Man’s Way in the World
Jon Meacham, American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the WhiteHouse
Perry Miller, Errand into the Wilderness
Page, J.L.W., An Exploration of Dartmoor and its Antiquities with Some Account of its Borders
George Wilson Pierson, Tocqueville in America
Simon Schama, Citizens
Bill Steiner, Audubon Art Prints: A Collector’s Guide To Every Edition
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Gustave Beaumont and Alexis de Tocqueville, On the Penitentiary System in the United States
La Marquise de La Tour du Pin, Recollections of the Revolution and the Empire
Fanny Trollope, Domestic Manners of the Americans
Unknown, An Account of a Voyage in a Convict Ship, with Notes of the First Itinerating Missionary in Tasmania London
Egbert Viele, Sanitary and Topographical Map of New York 1874
Alexandra K. Wettlaufer: “Dibutades and her Daughters: The Female Artist inPost-Revolutionary France,” Nineteenth-CenturyStudies 18
Alexandra K. Wettlaufer, Portraitsof the Artist as a Young Woman: Painting and Fiction in France and Britain,1800-1860 (Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2010).
Sean Willentz, Andrew Jackson
Joyce Zucker, From the Ground up: The Ground in 19th Century American Pictures, Journal of the American Institure for Conservation 1999