BOOKS US HISTORY MODERN POLITICS

 

Altemeyer, Robert, The Authoritarians, Bob Altemeyer; null edition, 2007

 

Alter, Jonathan, His Very Best: Jimmy Carter, a Life, Simon & Schuster, 2021

 

Baime, A. J., Dewey Defeats Truman: The 1948 Election and the Battle for America's Soul, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2020

 

Baime, A. J., The Accidental President: Harry S. Truman and the Four Months That Changed the World, Mariner Books; Reprint edition, 2018

 

Baker, Peter, Days of Fire: Bush and Cheney in the White House, Anchor; Illustrated edition, 2014

 

Baker, Peter, Susan Glasser, The Man Who Ran Washington: The Life and Times of James A. Baker III Anchor 2021

 

Baker, Russ, Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government, and the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years, Bloomsbury Publishing; Illustrated edition, 2009

 

Bell-Scott, Patricia, The Firebrand and the First Lady: Portrait of a Friendship: Pauli Murray, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Struggle for Social Justice, Vintage, 2017

 

Berfield, Susan, The Hour of Fate: Theodore Roosevelt, J.P. Morgan, and the Battle to Transform American Capitalism, Bloomsbury Publishing; Illustrated Edition, 2022

 

Bird, Kai, The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter, Crown, 2021

 

Boot, Max, Ronald  Reagan: His Life and Legend, Liveright, 2024

 

Brands, H. W., America First: Roosevelt vs. Lindbergh in the Shadow of War, Doubleday, 2024 

 

Brands, H. W., The General vs. the President: MacArthur and Truman at the Brink of Nuclear War, Anchor; Reprint edition, 2017

 

Breitman, Richard, Allan J. Lichtman, FDR and the Jews, Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press; Illustrated edition, 2014

 

Brown, Sherrod, Desk 88: Eight Progressive Senators Who Changed America, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2019

 

Burmila, Ed, Chaotic neutral : how the Democrats lost their soul in the center, Bold Type Books, 2022

 

Burnham, James, Suicide of the West: An Essay on the Meaning and Destiny of Liberalism, Encounter Books, 2014

 

Cahill, Cathleen D., Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement, The University of North Carolina Press, 2020

 

Carter, Jimmy, A Full Life: Reflections at Ninety, Simon & Schuster; Reprint Edition, 2016

 

Chisholm, Shirley, The Good Fight: The Political Memoir of the First Black Congresswoman's Historic 1972 Presidential Run, Amistad, 2022

 

Chisholm, Shirley, Unbought and Unbossed, Amistad, 2022

 

Clegg, Claude A. III, The Black President: Hope and Fury in the Age of Obama, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021

 

Clinton, Hillary Rodham, Something Lost, Something Gained: Reflections on Life, Love, and Liberty, Simon & Schuster, 2024

 

Colman, Penny, A Woman Unafraid: The Achievements Of Frances Perkins, iUniverse, 2010

 

Cook, Blanche Wiesen, Eleanor Roosevelt, Vol. 1: 1884-1933, Penguin; Illustrated edition, 1993

 

Cook, Blanche Wiesen, Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume 3: The War Years and After, 1939-1962, Penguin Books; Illustrated edition, 2017

 

Cowie, Jefferson, The Great Exception: The New Deal and the Limits of American Politics (Politics and Society in Modern America), Princeton University Press; Reprint edition, 2017

 

Crespino, Joseph, Strom Thurmond's America: A History, Hill and Wang; Reprint edition, 2013

 

Culver, John C., John Hyde, American Dreamer: The Life and Times of Henry A. Wallace, W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition, 2001

 

Curwood, Anastasia C., Shirley Chisholm: Champion of Black Feminist Power Politics, The University of North Carolina Press, 2023

 

Dailey, Jane, Building the American Republic, Volume 2: A Narrative History from 1877, University of Chicago Press, 2018

 

Dallek, Robert, An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917 – 1963, Back Bay Books; Reprint edition, 2004

 

Dallek, Robert, Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., Harry S. Truman: The American Presidents Series: The 33rd President, 1945-1953, Times Books, 2008

 

Dallek, Robert, Flawed Giant: Lyndon B. Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973, Oxford University Press, 1999

 

Davis, Mike, Prisoners of the American Dream: Politics and Economy in the History of the US Working Class, Verso, 2018

 

Dickerson, John, The Hardest Job in the World: The American Presidency, Random House, 2020

 

Dobbs, Michael, King Richard: Nixon and Watergate--An American Tragedy, Knopf, 2021

 

Dochuk, Darren, From Bible Belt to Sunbelt: Plain-Folk Religion, Grassroots Politics, and the Rise of Evangelical Conservatism, W. W. Norton & Company; Illustrated edition, 2012

 

Draper, Robert, To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq, Penguin Press, 2020

 

Drew, Elizabeth, Washington Journal: Reporting Watergate and Richard Nixon's Downfall,The Overlook Press, 2015

 

Drummond, Steve, The Watchdog: How the Truman Committee Battled Corruption and Helped Win World War Two, Hanover Square Press, 2023

 

Eisenhower, Dwight D., Waging Peace: the White House Years A Personal account 1956-1961, Doubleday & Company, 1965

 

Eisenhower, Susan, How Ike Led: The Principles Behind Eisenhower's Biggest Decisions, Thomas Dunne Books, 2020

 

Eizenstat, Stuart E., Madeleine Albright (Foreword), President Carter: The White House Years, Thomas Dunne Books, 2018

 

Erbelding, Rebecca, Rescue Board: The Untold Story of America's Efforts to Save the Jews of Europe, Anchor; Reprint edition, 2019

 

Fairclough, Adam, Better Day Coming: Blacks and Equality, 1890-2000, Penguin Books; Reprint edition, 2002

 

Farrell, John A., Richard Nixon, The Life, Doubleday, 2017

 

Fehrman, Craig, Author in Chief: The Untold Story of Our Presidents and the Books They Wrote, Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, 2020

 

Frank, Jeffrey, The Trials of Harry S. Truman: The Extraordinary Presidency of an Ordinary Man, 1945-1953, Simon & Schuster, 2022

 

Freedman, Samuel G., Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and the Fight for Civil Rights, Oxford University Press, 2023

 

Freeman, Joshua, Eric Foner, American Empire: The Rise of a Global Power, the Democratic Revolution at Home, 1945-2000 (The Penguin History of the United States), Penguin Publishing Group, 2013

 

Friedman, George, The Storm Before the Calm: America's Discord, the Crisis of the 2020s, and the Triumph Beyond, Anchor, 2021

 

Gabler, Neal, Against the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Rise of Conservatism, 1976-2009, Crown, 2022

 

Gabler, Neal, Catching the Wind: Edward Kennedy and the Liberal Hour, 1932-1975, Crown, 2020

 

Gage, Beverly, G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century, Viking, 2022

 

Gaillard, Frye, Cradle of Freedom: Alabama and the Movement That Changed America, University Alabama Press, 2006

 

Good, Aaron, American exception : empire and the deep state, Skyhorse, 2022

 

Goodwin, Doris Kearns, Leadership: In Turbulent Times, Simon & Schuster; First Edition/First Printing edition, 2018

 

Goodwin, Doris Kearns, Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II, Simon & Schuster, 1995

 

Goodwin, Doris Kearns, The Bully Pulpit: Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and the Golden Age of Journalism, Simon & Schuster; First Paperback Edition, 2013

 

Graff, Garrett M., Watergate: A New History, Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster, 2022   

 

Grandin, Greg, End of the Myth, Metropolitan; Reprint edition, 2020

 

Greenberg, David, John Lewis: A Life, Simon & Schuster, 2024

 

Griffin, David Ray, Bush and Cheney: How They Ruined America and the World, Olive Branch Pr, 2017

Griffin, David Ray, Bush and Cheney: How They Ruined America and the World, Olive Branch Pr, 2017

Grinspan, Jon, The Age of Acrimony: How Americans Fought to Fix Their Democracy, 1865-1915, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

 

GURVITZ, IAN, DEATH TO AMERICA!: HOW WE THE PEOPLE SCREWED OURSELVES, Independently published, 2020

 

Haas, Michael, George W. Bush, War Criminal?: The Bush Administration's Liability for 269 War Crimes, Praeger, 2008

 

Hacker, Jacob S., Paul Pierson, American Amnesia: How the War on Government Led Us to Forget What Made America Prosper, Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition, 2017

 

Harcourt, Bernard E., The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens, Basic Books; Illustrated Edition, 2018

 

Hartz, Louis, The Liberal Tradition in America, Harvest; Second edition, 1991

 

Healy, Thomas, Great Dissent, Picador, 2014

 

Hedges, Chris, Death of the Liberal Class, Bold Type Books, 2011

 

Hitchcock, William I., The Age of Eisenhower: America and the World in the 1950s, Simon & Schuster, 2018

 

Hochschild, Adam, American Midnight: The Great War, a Violent Peace, and Democracy's Forgotten Crisis, Mariner Books, 2022

 

Holder, Eric H. Our unfinished march : the violent past and imperiled future of the vote-- a history, a crisis, a plan, One World, 2022

 

Holzer, Harold, The Presidents vs. the Press: The Endless Battle between the White House and the Media--from the Founding Fathers to Fake News, Dutton; Illustrated edition, 2020

 

Honig, Elie, When You Come at the King: Inside DOJ's Pursuit of the President, from Nixon to Trump, Harper, 2025

 

Hood, Stephen M., Patriots Twice: Former Confederates and the Building of America after the Civil War, Savas Beatie, 2020

 

Howell, William G., Power without Persuasion: The Politics of Direct Presidential Action, Princeton University Press, 2003

 

Howell, William G., Terry M. Moe, Presidents, Populism, and the Crisis of Democracy, University of Chicago Press, 2020

 

Hughes, Ken, Chasing Shadows: The Nixon Tapes, the Chennault Affair, and the Origins of Watergate (Miller Center Studies on the Presidency), University of Virginia Press; Reprint edition, 2015

 

Hughes, Ken, Fatal Politics: The Nixon Tapes, the Vietnam War, and the Casualties of Reelection (Miller Center Studies on the Presidency), University of Virginia Press; Reprint edition, 2016

 

Ivins, Molly, Allison Engel, Molly Ivins: She DID Say That, Great Texas Line Press, 2020

 

Ivins, Molly, Lou Dubose, Bushwhacked: Life in George W. Bush's America, Vintage; Reprint edition, 2004

 

Ivins, Molly, Lou Dubose, Shrub : The Short but Happy Political Life of George W. Bush, Vintage, 2000

 

Ivins, Molly, Molly Ivins Can't Say That, Can She?, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 1992

 

Ivins, Molly, Molly Ivins: Letters to The Nation, The Nation, 2015

 

Ivins, Molly, Nothin' But Good Times Ahead, Vintage, 1994

 

Ivins, Molly, Who Let the Dogs In?: Incredible Political Animals I Have Known, Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2005

 

Ivins, Molly, You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You, Vintage; First Vintage Books Edition, 1999

 

Jacoby, Susan, The Age of American Unreason in a Culture of Lies, Vintage; Updated edition, 2018

 

Jeffries, Donald, Dr. Ron Paul (Foreword), Crimes and Cover-ups in American Politics: 1776-1963, Skyhorse, 2019

 

Jentleson, Adam, Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy, Liveright, 2021

 

Jillson, Cal, The American Dream: In History, Politics, and Fiction (American Political Thought), University Press of Kansas, 2016

 

Kaye, Harvey J., The Fight for the Four Freedoms: What Made FDR and the Greatest Generation Truly Great, Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition, 2015

 

Keyssar, Alexander, The Right to Vote: The Contested History of Democracy in the United States, Basic Books; Revised edition, 2009

 

Kuhn, David Paul, The Hardhat Riot: Nixon, New York City, and the Dawn of the White Working-Class Revolution, Oxford University Press, 2020

 

Leebaert, Derek, Unlikely Heroes: Franklin Roosevelt, His Four Lieutenants, and the World They Made, St. Martin's Press, 2023

 

Lepore, Jill, The Deadline: Essays, Liveright, 2024

 

Leuchtenburg, William E., The American President: From Teddy Roosevelt to Bill Clinton, Oxford University Press; Reprint edition, 2018

 

Levy, Paul, The Madness of George W. Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis, AuthorHouse, 2006

 

Lichtenstein, Nelson, Judith Stein, A Fabulous Failure: The Clinton Presidency and the Transformation of American Capitalism (Politics and Society in Modern America), Princeton University Press, 2023

 

Lichtman, Allan J., Predicting the Next President: The Keys to the White House, 2024, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2024

 

Logevall, Fredrik, JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century, 1917-1956, Random House; Illustrated edition, 2020

 

Losurdo, Domenico, Gregory Elliott, Liberalism: A Counter-History, Verso, 2014

 

Manela, Erez, The Wilsonian Moment: Self-Determination and the International Origins of Anticolonial Nationalism (Oxford Studies in International History), Oxford University Press, 2009

 

Maxwell, Angie, Todd Shields, The Long Southern Strategy: How Chasing White Voters in the South Changed American Politics, Oxford University Press; Reprint edition, 2021

 

McKean, David, Watching Darkness Fall: FDR, His Ambassadors, and the Rise of Adolf Hitler, St. Martin's Press, 2021

 

McKenzie, Robert Tracy, We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy, IVP Academic, 2021

 

Meacham, Jon, Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship, Random House, 2003

 

Medoff, Rafael, The Jews Should Keep Quiet: Franklin D. Roosevelt, Rabbi Stephen S. Wise, and the Holocaust, The Jewish Publication Society, 2019

 

Medsger, Betty, The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover's Secret FBI, Vintage, 2014

 

Mencken, H. L., Notes on Democracy (Large Print Edition), CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform; Large Print Edition, 2013

 

Michaelis, David, Eleanor, Simon & Schuster; Illustrated edition, 2020

 

Miller, Edward H., Nut Country: Right-Wing Dallas and the Birth of the Southern Strategy, University of Chicago Press; Illustrated edition, 2016

 

Monbiot, George, Peter Hutchison, Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism, Crown, 2024

 

Montgomery, Scott L., Daniel Chirot, The Shape of the New: Four Big Ideas and How They Made the Modern World, Princeton University Press; Reprint edition, 2016

 

Morris, Edmund, Theodore Rex, Random House Trade Paperbacks; Revised ed. Edition, 2002

 

Murphy, Cullen, Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America, Mariner Books; Reprint edition, 2008

 

Neustadt, Richard E., Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan, Free Press; Revised edition, 1991

 

Newton, Jim, Eisenhower: The White House Years, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group; Reprint edition, 2012

 

Nichter, Luke A., The Year That Broke Politics: Collusion and Chaos in the Presidential Election of 1968, Yale University Press, 2024

 

Obama, Michelle, Overcoming: A Workbook, Clarkson Potter, 2024

 

O'Donnell, Lawrence, Playing with Fire: The 1968 Election and the Transformation of American Politics, Penguin Press, Reprint edition, 2018

 

Olson, Lynne, Those Angry Days: Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941, Random House Trade Paperbacks; Illustrated edition, 2014

 

Osnos, Evan, Wildland: The Making of America's Fury, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021

 

Perlstein, Rick, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, Nation Books; Reprint edition, 2009

 

Perlstein, Rick, Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America, Scribner; Reprint edition, 2009

 

Perlstein, Rick, Reaganland: America's Right Turn 1976-1980, Simon & Schuster; Illustrated Edition, 2020

 

Pietrusza, David, 1948: Harry Truman’s Improbable Victory and the Year That Transformed America, Diversion Books; Illustrated edition, 2018

 

Rauch, Jonathan, George F. Will, Kindly Inquisitors: The New Attacks on Free Thought, Expanded Edition, University of Chicago Press; Enlarged edition, 2014

 

Reallygraceful, Grace, The Deep State Encyclopedia: Exposing the Cabal's Playbook, reallygraceful, 2023

 

Rhodes, Ben, After the Fall: Being American in the World We've Made, Random House Large Print; Large type / Large print edition, 2021

 

Richardson, Heather Cox, How the South Won the Civil War: Oligarchy, Democracy, and the Continuing Fight for the Soul of America, Oxford University Press; Illustrated edition, 2020

 

Risen, Clay, Red Scare: Blacklists, McCarthyism, and the Making of Modern America, Scribner, 2025  

 

Rodgers, Daniel T., Age of Fracture, Belknap Press, 2012

 

Rohde, David, In Deep: The FBI, the CIA, and the Truth about America's "Deep State", W. W. Norton & Company; Reprint edition, 2021

 

Roll, David L., Ascent to Power: How Truman Emerged from Roosevelt's Shadow and Remade the World, Dutton, 2024

 

Roll, David L., George Marshall: Defender of the Republic, Dutton Caliber, 2019

 

Roosevelt, Kermit III, The Nation That Never Was: Reconstructing America's Story, University of Chicago Press, 2022

 

Rothkopf, David, American Resistance: The Inside Story of How the Deep State Saved the Nation, PublicAffairs, 2022

 

Rumford, Jim, Tobacco, Trusts, and Trump: How America's Forgotten War Created Big Government, Brooksville Press, 2018

 

Salter, Mark, The Luckiest Man: Life with John McCain, Simon & Schuster; Illustrated Edition, 2020

 

Schein, David D., The Decline of America: 100 Years of Leadership Failures, Post Hill Press, 2018

 

Schrager, Adam, Rob Witwer, The Blueprint: How the Democrats Won Colorado (and Why Republicans Everywhere Should Care), Fulcrum Publishing, 2010

 

Self, Robert O., All in the Family: The Realignment of American Democracy Since the 1960s, Hill and Wang, 2013

 

Sexton, Jared Yates, The Midnight Kingdom: A History of Power, Paranoia, and the Coming Crisis, Dutton, 2023

 

Shapiro, Ira, Betrayal, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers; Updated edition, 2024

 

Shesol, Jeff, Mutual Contempt: Lyndon Johnson, Robert Kennedy, and the Feud that Defined a Decade, W. W. Norton & Company; First Paperback Edition, 1998

 

Siegel, Fred, The Revolt Against the Masses: How Liberalism Has Undermined the Middle Class, Encounter Books; Updated edition, 2015

 

Smith, Jean Edward, Eisenhower in War and Peace, Random House Trade Paperbacks; Reprint edition, 2013

 

Smith, Jean Edward, FDR, Random House, 2008

 

Smith, Jean Edward, John Marshall: Definer of a Nation, Holt Paperbacks; Reprint edition, 1998

 

Sparrow, Paul M., Awakening the Spirit of America: FDR's War of Words With Charles Lindbergh―and the Battle to Save Democracy, Pegasus Books, 2024

 

Starr, Paul, American Contradiction: Revolution and Revenge from the 1950s to Now, Yale University Press, 2025

 

Starr, Paul, Entrenchment: Wealth, Power, and the Constitution of Democratic Societies, Yale University Press, 2019

 

Starr, Paul, Freedom's Power: The History and Promise of Liberalism, Basic Books, 2008

 

Stephanopoulos, George, Lisa Dickey, The Situation Room: The Inside Story of Presidents in Crisis, Grand Central Pub, 2024

 

Stewart, David O., Impeached: The Trial of President Andrew Johnson and the Fight for Lincoln's Legacy, Simon & Schuster; Reprint edition, 2010

 

Stockwell, Mary, Interrupted Odyssey: Ulysses S. Grant and the American Indians (World of Ulysses S. Grant), Southern Illinois University Press, 2018

 

Tapper, Jake, Alex Thompson, Original Sin: President Biden's Decline, Its Cover-Up, and His Disastrous Choice to Run Again, Random House Large Print, 2025

 

Thomas, Evan, Ike's Bluff: President Eisenhower's Secret Battle to Save the World, Back Bay Books; Reprint edition, 2013

 

Tolliver, Juanita, A More Perfect Party: The Night Shirley Chisholm and Diahann Carroll Reshaped Politics, Legacy Lit, 2025

 

Tomasky, Michael, If We Can Keep It: How the Republic Collapsed and How it Might Be Saved, Liveright; Illustrated edition, 2020

 

Trattner, Walter I., From Poor Law to Welfare State, 6th Edition: A History of Social Welfare in America, Free Press; 6 Sub edition, 1998

 

Turner, James Morton, Andrew C. Isenberg, The Republican Reversal: Conservatives and the Environment from Nixon to Trump, Harvard University Press, 2018

 

Tye, Larry, Demagogue: The Life and Long Shadow of Senator Joe McCarthy, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; Illustrated Edition, 2020

 

Unger, Nancy C., Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer, Wisconsin Historical Society Press; 2nd edition, 2008

 

Vidal, Gore, Dreaming War: Blood for Oil and the Cheney-Bush Junta (Nation Books), Bold Type Books, 2007

 

Wall, Wendy L., Inventing the "American Way": The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement, Oxford University Press, 2008

 

Ward, Jon, Camelot's End: Kennedy vs. Carter and the Fight that Broke the Democratic Party, Twelve; Reprint edition, 2020

 

Watts, Jill, The Black Cabinet: The Untold Story of African Americans and Politics During the Age of Roosevelt, Grove Press, 2020

 

Wear, Michael R., Reclaiming Hope: Lessons Learned in the Obama White House About the Future of Faith in America, Thomas Nelson; Reprint edition, 2018

 

Weiner, Tim, Enemies: A History of the FBI, Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2013

 

Weiner, Tim, One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon, St. Martin's Griffin; Reprint edition (June 7, 2016

 

Whyte, Kenneth, Hoover: An Extraordinary Life in Extraordinary Times, Vintage; Reprint edition, 2018

 

Wineapple, Brenda, The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation, Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2020

 

Wine-Banks, Jill, The Watergate Girl: My Fight for Truth and Justice Against a Criminal President, Henry Holt and Co., 2020

 

Woods, Randall B., Prisoners of Hope: Lyndon B. Johnson, the Great Society, and the Limits of Liberalism, Basic Books, 2016

 

Zelizer, Julian E., The Fierce Urgency of Now: Lyndon Johnson, Congress, and the Battle for the Great Society, Penguin Books, 2015

 

Zinn, Howard, A People's History of the United States: 1492 to Present, Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2005

 

Zipp, Samuel, The Idealist: Wendell Willkie’s Wartime Quest to Build One World, Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press; Illustrated edition, 2020

 


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