Books about Progressivism and Progressive Leaders

This is a Bibliography of Progressivism, and issues and people associated with it. It is not intended as a complete historical bibliography. Many sections now are more or less complete, but books will be added periodically. A few sections still need to be completed.

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TOPICS IN THE PROGRESSIVE AMERICAN THOUGHT "BOOKS ABOUT PROGRESSIVISM" PAGE

They are in this somewhat random order. The order probably will be changed eventually. 
There now are more than 700 books in this Bibliography

General American History, Politics & Government
General Histories, First Progressive Era, Progressivism Defined
Law & The Constitution
Founding Fathers
Andrew Jackson
The Women's Movement, Feminism, & The Right to Vote
Populism
Socialism
Communism
Conservatism & Conservative Reaction to Progressivism 
Business, Finance, Wall Street, Banking and Economics
Jm Crow, The Great Migration, Civil Rights, Racial Discrimination, Voting Rights
Religion & Philosophy
Society, Sociology and Social Change & Reform
Education
Foreign Policy
Journalism, Muckraking & General Non-Fiction
Novels & Fiction Writing
Labor Unions and Workers
1st World War
2nd World War
The Cold War
The Vietnam War
The War on Terror
The War on Drugs
The Roaring Twenties & Prohibition
The Great Crash, The Great Depression, The New Deal
John F. Kennedy, the "New Frontier" and the 1960s
Theodore Roosevelt
William Howard Taft
Woodrow Wilson
Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover
Franklin Roosevelt
Harry Truman & Post-War America
Dwight Eisenhower & the 1950s
Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush & the Counter-Revolution
Bill Clinton
George W. Bush
Barack Obama
Robert LaFollette & Wisconsin Progressivism
Other Progressive & Feminist Leaders
21st Century America

General American History, Politics & Government
Adams, James Truslow. The Epic of America. Boston: Little Brown, 1931.
Allen, Frederick Lewis. The Big Change: America Transforms Itself 1900-1950. New York: Harper Brothers, 1952.
Ambrose, Stephen E. Nothing Like It in the World. The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.
Andrist, Ralph K. Editor. The American Heritage History of 1920s & 1930s. New York: American Heritage/Bonanza Books, 1987.
Andrist, Ralph K. Editor. The American Heritage History of the Confident Years 1865-1916. New York: American Heritage/Bonanza Books, 1987.
Bernstein, Peter L. Wedding of the Waters: The Erie Canal and the Making of a Great Nation. New York: Norton, 2005.
Carpenter, Daniel. The Forging of Bureaucratic Autonomy: Reputation, Networks, and Policy Innovation in Executive Agencies, 1862-1928 Princeton University Press, 2001.
Charles G. Dawes, The First Year of the Budget (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1923).
Cohen, Nancy. The Reconstruction of American Liberalism, 1865-1914. University of North Carolina Press, 2002.
Coyle, David Cushman & M.B. Schnapper. Ordeal of the Presidency. Public Affairs Press, 1960. 
Cummings, Jr., Milton C. & David Wise. Democracy Under Pressure, An Introduction to the American Political System. Ninth Ed. New York: Harcourt College Publishers, 2001
de Toqueville, Alexis. Democracy in America. Translated, and with an Introduction by Harvey C. Mansfield and Delba Winthrop. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.
DeVoto, Bernard. Mark Twain's America. Boston: Little Brown, 1932.
Evans, Harold. The American Century. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1998
Fischer, David Hackett. Liberty and Freedom: A Visual History of America's Founding Ideas. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Foner, Eric. The Story of American Freedom. New York: W.W. Norton, 1998
Furnas, J.C. The Americans: A Social History of the United States 1587-1914. New York: Putnam's, 1969.
Gabriel, Ralph Henry and Robert H. Walker. The Course of American Democratic Thought, Greenwood Press, 1986.
Hasseltine, William B. The Rise and Fall of Third Parties: From Anti-Masonry to Wallace. Public Affairs Press, 1948. 
Hofstadter, Richard. The American Political Tradition And the Men Who Made It. New York: Vintage Books,  1974. Reprint of the 1948 edition published by Alfred Knopt, but with a new Foreward by Christopher Lasch and a new Preface by the author.
Holt, Michael F. The Rise and Fall of the American Whig Party: Jacksonian Politics and the Onset of the Civil War. New Yorki: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Maddow, Ben. A Sunday Between Wars: the Course of American Life from 1865 to 1917. New York: Norton, 1979.
McDonald, Forrest. States' Rights and the Union: Imperium in Imperio. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2000.
Miller,Perry. The Life of the Mind in America. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1965.
Mink, Gwendolyn. Old Labor and New Immigrants in American Political Development: Union, Party, and State, 1875–1920  Cornell University Press, 1986.
Nash, Jr., Howard P. & M.B. Schnapper. Third Parties in American Politics. Public Affairs Press, 1959.
Samuelson, Robert J. The Good Life and Its Discontents: The American Dream in the Age of Entitlement 1945-1995. New York: Times Books, 1995.
Sinclair, Mark. Our Times The United States 1900-1925 II America Finding Herself. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1927.
Smith, Page. The Rise of Industrial America: A People's history of the Post-Reconstruction Era. Vol. 6. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1984.
Spragens, William C. Popular Images of American Presidents. Greenwood Press, 1988. 
Stein, Charles W. The Third-Term Tradition: Its Rise and Collapse in American Politics. Columbia University Press, 1943. 
Stillman, Edmund. The American Heritage History of the 1920s & 1930s. New York: American Heritage/Bonanza, 1987. Reprint of work first published in 1970.
Sutherland, Daniel E. The Expansion of Everyday Life 1860-1876. New York: Harper & Row, 1989.
Vought, Hans P. The Bully Pulpit and the Melting Pot: American Presidents and the Immigrant, 1897-1933. Mercer University Press, 2004.
Watts, Steven. The Republic Reborn: War and the Making of Liberal America, 1790-1820. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.
Wiebe, Robert. The Search For Order, 1877-1920. Hill & Wang, 1967.
Wilson, Edmund. The American Earthquake: A Documentary of the Jazz Age, the Great Depression and the New Deal. Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor, 1958.
Zinn, Howard, A People's History of the United States 1492-present
Zinn, Howard. The Twentieth Century. (New York: Perennial, 2003.

General Histories, First Progressive Era, Progressivism Defined
Buenker, John D. and Joseph Buenker, Eds. Encyclopedia of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. M.E. Sharpe, 2005. xxxii + 1256 pp. in three volumes. ISBN 0-7656-8051-3. 900 articles by 200 scholars
Buenker, John D. ed. Dictionary of the Progressive Era New York: Greenwood, 1980
Buenker, John D. The History of Wisconsin, Volume IV the Progressive Era, 1893-1914. State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1998.
Buenker, John D. Urban Liberalism and Progressive Reform. Scribner, 1973.
Buenker, John D., John C. Burnham, and Robert M. Crunden. Progressivism. Cambridge, MA: Schenkman Publishing, (1986)
Burt, Elizabeth V., ed. The Progressive Era: Primary Documents on Events from 1890 to 1914  Greenwood, 2004.
Bury, J.B. The Idea of Progress. New York: Dover Publications, 1955.
Chamberlain, John. Farewell to Reform: The Rise, Life, and Decay of the Progressive Mind in America. Quadrangle, 1965.
Chambers II, John Whiteclay. The Tyranny of Change: America in the Progressive Era, 1890-1920  Rutgers University Press, 2000
Croly, Herbert David. Progressive Democracy (1914) full text online
Croly, Herbert David. The Promise of American Life (1909),  full text online
Cronon, William and David Stradling, eds. Conservation in the Progressive Era: Classic Texts. University of Washington Press, 2004.
Crunden, Robert M. Ministers of Reform: The Progressives' Achievement in American Civilization, 1889-1920 University of Illinois Press, 1985.
Danbom, David. The World of Hope: Progressives and the Struggle for an Ethical Public Life. Temple University Press, 1987.
De Witt, Benjamin P. The Progressive Movement. Macmillan, 1915.
Diner, Steven J. A Very Different Age: Americans of the Progressive Era. New York: Hill & Wang,  1998
Feffer, Andrew. The Chicago Pragmatists and American Progressivism. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Forcey, Charles. The Crossroads of Liberalism; Croly, Weyl, Lippmann, and the Progressive Era, 1900-1925. Oxford University Press, 1961.
Gilmore, Glenda Elizabeth. Who Were the Progressives? New York: St. Martin's, 2002.
Gould Lewis L. America in the Progressive Era, 1890-1914. Prentice-Hall, 2001.
Gould Lewis L. ed., The Progressive Era, Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1974.
Graham, Otis L. The Great Campaigns: Reform and War in America, 1900-1928, Prentice Hall, 1971.
Harrison, Robert. Congress, Progressive Reform, and the New American State. Cambridge University Press,  2004.
Hays, Samuel P. The Response to Industrialism, 1885-1914. University of Chicago Press, 1957.
Hofstadter, Richard The Age of Reform. Knopf, 1954.
Kennedy, David M. ed., Progressivism: The Critical Issues. Little Brown,  1971.
Kloppenberg, James T. Uncertain victory: Social Democracy and Progressivism in European and American thought, 1870-1920. Oxford University Press,1986.
Link, Arthur S. & Richard L. McCormick. Progressivism. Harlan Davidson, 1983.
Link, William A. The Paradox of Southern Progressivism, 1880-1930. University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Lippmann, Walter. Liberty and the News. Harcourt Brace, and Howe, 1920.
Lippmann, Walter. Men of Destiny. MacMillan Company, 1927.
Lord, Walter. The Good Years: From 1900 to the First World War. New York: Harper 7 Brothers, 1960.
Mann, Arthur. ed., The Progressive Era: Issues of Interpretation. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1975.
Mattson, Kevin. Creating a Democratic Public: The Struggle for Urban Participatory Democracy during the Progressive Era. Penn State University, 1998. 
McGerr, Michael. A Fierce Discontent: The Rise and Fall of the Progressive Movement in America, 1870-1920. Oxford University Press, 2003.
Milkis, Sidney M & Jerome M. Mileur. Progressivism and the New Democracy, University of Massachusetts Press, 1999
Miller, Char. Gifford Pinchot and the Making of Modern Environmentalism. Island Press, 2001.
Miller, Karen A.J. Populist Nationalism and American Foreign Policy. Greenwood Press, 1999.
Nye, Russel B. Midwestern Progressive Politics: A Historical Study of Its Origins and Development, 1870-1950. Michigan State College Press, 1951.
Perry, Elisabeth Israels and Karen Manners Smith, eds. The Gilded Age & Progressive Era: A Student Companion. Oxford University Press, 2006.
Pestrito, Ronald, J and William J.Atto. American Progressivism, A Reader. Lanham, Md: Lexington Books, 2008,
Rodgers, Daniel T. Atlantic Crossings: Social Politics in a Progressive Age. Harvard University Press, 2000.
Sanders, Elizabeth. Roots of Reform: Farmers, Workers and the American State, 1877-1917. University of Chicago Press, 1999.
Smith, Page. America Enters the World: A People's History of the Progressive Era and World War I. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1985.
Starr, Kevin. Inventing the Dream: California through the Progressive Era. Oxford University Press, 1986.
Stromquist, Shelton. Reinventing 'The People': The Progressive Movement, the Class Problem, and the Origins of Modern Liberalism. University of Illinois Press, 2006.
Timberlake, James H. Prohibition and the Progressive Movement, 1900-1920. Harvard University Press, 1963.
Tobin, Eugene. Organize or Perish: America's Independent Progressives, 1913-1933, Greenwood Press, 1986.
Wolraich, Michael. Unreasonable Men. Theodore Roosevelt and the Republican Rebels Who Created Progressive Politics. New York: Palgrave/Macmillan, 2014.

Law & The Constitution
Bowen, Catherine Drinker. Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention. Boston: Little Brown, 1966.
Cardozo, Benjamin N. The Nature of the Judicial Process. Yale University Press, 1921.
Hall, Kermit L. The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States. New York: Oxford, 2005.
Monk, Linda R. The Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution. New York: Hyperion, 2003.

Founding Fathers
Carey, George. W., Editor. The Political Writings of John Adams. Washington, DC: Regnery, 2000.
Chernow, Ron. Alexander Hamilton. New York: Penguin Press, 2004.
Christman, Margaret C. The First Federal Congress 1789-1791. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1989.

Andrew Jackson
Meacham, Jon. American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House. New York: Random House, 2008. 
Remini, Robert V. Andrew Jackson. Vol. 3 The Course of American Democracy, 1833-1845. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998. Originally published in 1984 as Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Democracy, 1833–1845, by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc.
Scheslinger, Arthur M. The Age of Jackson. Boston: Little Brown, 1945.

The Women's Movement, Feminism, & The Right to Vote
Edwards, Rebecca. Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era. Oxford University Press, 1997.
Lemons, J. Stanley. The Woman Citizen: Social Feminism in the 1920s. University Press of Virginia, 1973.
Rosen, Ruth. The Lost Sisterhood: Prostitution in America, 1900-1918. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.
Sanger, Margaret. Woman and the New Race. Brentanos, 1920.

Populism
Hicks, John D. The Populist Revolt. A History of the Farmers' Alliance and the People's Party. University of Nebraska Press, 1961.
Weinstein, Allen. Preclude to Populism. Origins of the Silver Issue, 1867-1878.Yale University Press, 1970.
Woodward, C. Vann. Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel. New York: Macmillan,1938.

Socialism
Harrington, Michael. Socialism. New York: Saturday Review Press, 1972.
Weinstein, James. The Decline of Socialism in America 1912-1925. Random Books, 1967.

Communism
Draper, Theodore. The Roots of American Communism. New York: Viking, 1957.
Lewy, Guenter. The Cause That Failed. Communism in American Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990.
Schmidt, Regin. Red Scare: FBI and the Origins of Anti-Communism in the United States, 1919-1943. Museum Tusculanum Press, 2000.

Conservatism & Conservative Reaction to Progressivism 
Abrams, Richard M. Conservatism in a Progressive Era: Massachusetts Politics, 1900-1912. Harvard University Press, 1964. 
Blumenthal, Sidney. The Rise of the Counter-Establishment: From Conservative Ideology to Political Power. New York: Harper & Row, 1986.
Buckley, Jr. William F. God and Man at Yale. Chicago: Regnery, 1951.
Kolko, Gabriel. The Triumph of Conservatism. A Reinterpretation of American History, 1900-1916. Free Press, 1977 (1963)
Lasch,Christopher. The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics. New York: Norton, 1991.
Micklethwait, John & Adrian Wooldridge. The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America. New York: Penquin, 2005.
Nagle, Robert. American Conservatism.  New York: Philosophical Library, 1988.
Sumner, William Graham. What Social Classes Owe to Each Other. Harper & Brothers New York 1883 

Business, Finance, Wall Street, Banking and Economics
Bakan, Joel. The Corporation. The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power. The Free Press, 2004.
Beaud, Michel. A History of Capitalism 1500-1980. New York: Monthly Review Press, 1983.
Chandler, Jr., Alfred D. Scale and Scope: The Dynamics of Industial Capitalism. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Chandler, Jr., Alfred D. The Visible Hand. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1977.
Coll, Steve. Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power. New York: Penquin Press, 2012.
Cox, John C. & Mark Rubinstein. Options Markets. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1985.
Drucker, Peter F. Concept of the Corporation. New York: John Day, 1972.
Eichenwald, Kurt. Conspiracy of Fools.  New York: Broadway Books, 2005.
Ford, Henry.  My Life and Work. Garden City Publishing, 1922.
Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Affluent Society. Hioughton Mifflin, 1958
George, Henry. Progress and Poverty. New York: Modern Library, 1938.
Gilder, George. The Spirit of Enterprise. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1984.
Gordon, John Steele. The Scarlet Woman of Wall Street: Jay gould, Jim Fisk, Cornelius Vanderbilt, the Erie Railway Wars, & the Birth of Wall Street. New York: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1988.
Gunderson, Gerald.The Wealth Creators: An Entrepreneurial History of the United States. New York: Penquin, 1990.
Heaton, Herbert. Economic History of Europe, Revised Edition. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1948
Hetzel, Robert L. (2008). The Monetary Policy of the Federal Reserve. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Irwin, Neil. The Alchemists. Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire. New York: The Penquin Press, 2013
Josephson, Matthew. The Robber Barons: The Great American Capitalists   1861-1901. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1934, 1962)
Krugman, Paul. Pop Internationalism. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1996
Krugman, Paul. End This Depression Now! NewYork: Norton, 2012.
Krugman. Paul. The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century. New York: Norton, 2005
Leach, William. Land of Desire: Merchants, Power, and the Rise of a New American Culture. Vintage Books, 1993.
Lears, Jackson. Fables of Abundance: A Cultural History of Advertising in America. Basic Books, 1994.
Lind, Michael. Land of Promise. An Economic History of the United States. New York: Harper Collins, 2012.
Means, Howard. Money & Power:The History of Business. New York: John Wiley, 2001.
Milward, Alan S. War, Economy and Society 1939-1945. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.
Myers, Gustavus. History of the Great American Fortunes. New York: Random House, 1936. Updated and revised edition of a work first published in three volumes in 1909.
Nelson, Daniel. Managers and Workers: Origins of the New Factory System in the United States, 1880–1920. University of Wisconsin Press,  1975.
Partnoy, Frank. F.I.A.S.C.O. New York: Norton, 1997. Reissued in 2009 with a new Afterword.
Perkins, John. Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. New York: Penquin, 2004.
Piketty, Thomas. Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Cambridge MA and London: Harvard University Press, 2014.
Reich,Robert. Beyond Outrage: What Has Gone Wrong with Our Economy and How to Fix It. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2012.
Rifkin, Jeremy. The End of Work. New York: Putnam, 1995.
Shiller, Robert J. The Subprime Solution. Princeton: The Princeton University Press, 2008.
Stiglitz, Joseph E. The Price of Inequality. New York: Norton, 2012
Veblen, Thorstein. Foreward by Stuart Chase. The Theory of the Leisure Class. The Modern Library, 1934.
Weber, Max. The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1958.
Whyte, Jr., William H. The Organization Man. Simon & Schuster, 1972
Wiebe, Robert H. Businessmen and Reform: A Study of the Progressive Movement. Harvard University Press, 1962.
Yergin, Daniel. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991.

Jm Crow, The Great Migration, Civil Rights, Racial Discrimination, Voting Rights
Branch, Taylor. Parting the Waters: America in the King Years 1954-63. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1988.
Branch, Taylor. Pillar of Fire: America in the King Years 1963-65. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
Casdorph, Paul D. Republicans, Negroes, and Progressives in the South, 1912-1916. University of Alabama Press, 1981. 
Hahn, Steven. A Nation under Our Feet: Black Political Struggles in the Rural South from Slavery to the Great Migration, Harvard University Press,  2003.
Klarman, Michael J. From Jim Crow to Civil Rights: The Supreme Court and the Struggle for Racial Equality. Oxford University Press, 2004. 
Lemann, Nicholas. The Promised Land: The Great Black Migration and How It Changed America. Vintage Books, 1991.
Scott, Emmett Jay.  Negro Migration During the War. Oxford University Press, 1920.

Religion & Philosophy
Abell, Aaron I. American Catholicism and Social Action: A Search for Social Justice, 1865-1950 University of Notre Dame Press, 1960,
Babson, Roger.  Religion and Business.  MacMillan Company, 1921.
Barton, Bruce. The Man Everybody Knows. Bobbs-Merill Company, 1925.
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich.  The Philosophy of History.  With Prefaces by Charles Hegel and the Translator, J Sibree. London and New York: The Colonial Press, 1900. 
Hollinger, Robert and David Depew. Pragmatism: From Progressivism to Postmodernism, Praeger, 1995. 

Society, Sociology and Social Change & Reform
Addams. Jane. The Second Twenty Years at Hull House. The MacMillan Company, 1930.
Bernays, Edward. Crystallizing Public Opinion. Boni and Liveright, 1923.
Bernays, Edward. Propaganda. H. Liveright, 1928.
Bremner, Robert H. ed. Children and Youth in America: A Documentary History, Volume II 1866-1932. Oxford University Press, 1971.
Elshtain, Jean Bethke , ed. The Jane Addams Reader. Basic Books, 2002.
Fradin, Judith Bloom & Dennis Fradin. Jane Addams: Champion of Democracy. Clarion Books, 2006.
Frankel, Noralee & Nancy S. Dye. Gender, Class, Race, and Reform in the Progressive Era. University Press of Kentucky, 1991. 
Lubove, Roy. The Progressives and the Slums: Tenement House Reform in New York City, 1890-1917 Greenwood Press: 1974.
Pease, Otis, ed. The Progressive Years: The Spirit and Achievement of American Reform, George Braziller, 1962.
Peiss, Kathy. Cheap Amusements: Working Women and Leisure in Turn-of-the-Century New York. Temple University Press, 1986.

Education
Yack, D, James, T., & Benavot, A. (1987). Law and the shaping of public education, 1785-

Foreign Policy
Dawley, Alan. Changing the World: American Progressives in War and Revolution. Printon, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003.
Gaddis, John Lewis. Strategies of Containment: A Critical Appraisal of Postwar American National Security Policy. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1982,
Kunz, Diane B. The Diplomacy of the Crucial Decade: American Foreign Relations during the 1960s. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.
Merkley, Paul Charles. American Presidents, Religion, and Israel: the Heirs of Cyrus. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2004.
Schulzinger, Robert D. A Companion to American Foreign Relations. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing, 2003.
Tyler, Patrick. A World of Trouble: The White House and the Middle East – from the Cold War to the War on Terror. New York: Macmillan, 2010.

Journalism, Muckraking & General Non-Fiction
Bannister, Jr., Robert C. Ray Stannard Baker.  Yale University Press, 1966.
Fitzpatrick, Ellen, ed. Muckraking: Three Landmark Articles. St. Martin's, 1994.
Nasaw, David. The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst. Houghton Mifflin , 2001.
Steffens, Lincoln. The Shame of the Cities. New York: McClure, Phillips & Co., 1904
Yoder, Edwin M. , Jr. .  JOE ALSOP'S COLD WAR: A STUDY OF JOURNALISTIC INFLUENCE AND INTRIGUE.  Chapel Hill:  University Of North Carolina Press, 1995. 

Novels & Fiction Writing
Batker, Carol J. Reforming Fictions: Native, African, and Jewish American Women's Literature and Journalism in the Progressive Era. Columbia University Press, 2000. 
Sinclair, Upton. The Jungle. New York: Doubleday, 1906.
Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. New York: Viking, 1939.
Wilson, Sloan. The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. New York: Arbor House, 1984.

Labor Unions and Workers
Bernstein, Irving. The Lean Years: A History of the American Worker 1920-1933. New York: DeCapo Press, 1983 (1960)
Dubosky, Melvyn. We Shall Be All: A History of the International Workers of the World. University of Illinois, 2000.
Ehrenreich, Barbara. Nickel and Dimed. On (Not) Getting By in America. New York: Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt, 2001.
Clark, Christopher and Nancy A. Hewitt. Who Built America: Working People and the Nation's Economy, Politics, Culture, and Society, Volume One from Conquest and Colonization through 1877. New York: Worth Publishers, 2000.
Yellen, Samuel. American Labor Struggles 1877-1934. New York: Monad Press, 1974 (1936).

1st World War
Creel, George. How We Advertised America. Harper & Brothers, 1920.
Hagedorn, Ann. Savage Peace: Hope and Fear in America 1919. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.
Kennedy, David M. Over Here: The First World War and American Society. New York: Oxford, 1980.
Kuhlman, Erika. Petticoats and White Feathers: Gender Conformity, Race, the Progressive Peace Movement, and the Debate over War, 1895-1919. Greenwood Press, 1997.
Wynn, Neil. From Progressivism to Prosperity: World War I and American Society. Holmes & Meier, 1986.

2nd World War
Berolzheimer, Ruth (editor). The American Woman’s Cook Book Victory Edition. With New Material on Economical   Food Substitutes and Wartime Recipes. Chicago: Culinary Arts Institute, 1942 
Cooke, Alistair. The American Home Front 1941-1942. New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006.
Milward, Alan S. War, Economy and Society 1939-1945. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979.

The Cold War
Alvarez, David J..  BUREAUCRACY AND COLD WAR DIPLOMACY: THE UNITED STATES AND TURKEY 1943-1946.  Thessaloniki, GR:  Institute For Balkan Studies, 1980. 
Attwood, William.  THE TWILIGHT STRUGGLE: TALES OF THE COLD WAR.  New York:  Harpercollins, 1987.
Beschloss, Michael R. and Strobe Talbott.  AT THE HIGHEST LEVELS: THE INSIDE STORY OF THE END OF THE COLD WAR.  Boston:  Little Brown & Company, 1993.
Betts, Richard K. .  SOLDIERS, STATESMEN, AND COLD WAR CRISES.  New York Columbia University Press 1991.
Bissell, Richard M. , Jr.  REFLECTIONS OF A COLD WARRIOR: FROM YALTA TO THE BAY OF PIGS.  Yale Univ Pr 1996., 
Boll, Michael M. .  COLD WAR IN THE BALKANS: AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY AND THE EMERGENCE OF COMMUNIST BULGARIA, 1943-1947.  Lexington, KY University Press Of Kentucky 1984.,
Booth, Ken (editor) .  STATECRAFT AND SECURITY : THE COLD WAR AND BEYOND.  Cambridge Cambridge University Press 1998.,
Bowie, Robert R. .  WAGING PEACE: HOW EISENHOWER SHAPED AN ENDURING COLD WAR STRATEGY.  New York Oxford University Press 1997.,  
Brands, H. W. , Jr. COLD WARRIORS: EISENHOWER'S GENERATION AND AMERICAN FOREIGN POLICY. Columbia University Press 1988.,
Brands, H. W. .  INSIDE THE COLD WAR: LOY HENDERSON AND THE RISE OF THE AMERICAN EMPIRE, 1918-1961.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1991.
Coles, Harry, Editor.  TOTAL WAR AND COLD WAR.  Ohio State University Press, 1962. 
Davis, Lynn Etheridge.  THE COLD WAR BEGINS: SOVIET-AMERICAN CONFLICT OVER EASTERN EUROPE.  Princeton, N. J. Princeton University Press 1974.,  
Dobrynin, Anatoly.  IN CONFIDENCE: MOSCOW'S AMBASSADOR TO AMERICA'S SIX COLD WAR PRESIDENTS (1962-1986) .  New York:  Times Books, 1995.
Feis, Herbert.  FROM TRUST TO TERROR; THE ONSET OF THE COLD WAR, 1945-1950.  New York Norton 1970. 
Fleming, D. F..  THE COLD WAR AND ITS ORIGINS, (2VOLS.) .  Garden City, N. Y. :  Doubleday, 1961.
Fontaine, Andre.  HISTORY OF THE COLD WAR FROM THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION TO THE KOREAN WAR 1917-1950.  New York:  Pantheon, 1968. 
Friedman, Norman.  THE FIFTY-YEAR WAR: CONFLICT AND STRATEGY IN THE COLD WAR.  Annapolis:  Naval Institute Press, 1999.
Gaddis, John Lewis (editor) .  COLD WAR STATESMEN CONFRONT THE BOMB: NUCLEAR DIPLOMACY SINCE 1945.  Oxford Oxford University Press 1999.
Gaddis, John Lewis.  THE COLD WAR.  New York:  Penguin Press, 2005.
Halle, Louis J..  THE COLD WAR AS HISTORY.  New York:  Harper & Row, 1980.
Horowitz, David (Editor) Preface by Bertrand Russell.  CONTAINMENT AND REVOLUTION *STUDIES IN IMPERIALISM AND THE COLD WAR, WOL. 1*.  Boston:  Beacon Press, 1967. 
Hutchings, Robert L. .  AMERICAN DIPLOMACY AND THE END OF THE COLD WAR : AN INSIDER'S ACCOUNT OF U.S. POLICY IN EUROPE, 1989-92.  Baltimore Woodrow Wilson Center Press/Johns Hopkins University Press 1997.
Immerman, Richard H. (editor) .  JOHN FOSTER DULLES AND THE DIPLOMACY OF THE COLD WAR.  Princeton, N. J. Princeton University Press 1990., 
Jensen, Kenneth M. (editor) .  ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR: THE NOVIKOV, KENNAN, AND ROBERTS LONG TELEGRAMS OF 1946.  Washington, D. C. United States Institute Of Peace 1991., 
Kaplan, Robert D. .  THE COMING ANARCHY : SHATTERING THE DREAMS OF THE POST COLD WAR.  New York:  Vintage, 2001.
Kort, Michael.  THE COLUMBIA GUIDE TO THE COLD WAR.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1998
Kuniholm, Bruce Robellet.  THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR IN THE NEAR EAST.  Princeton, N. J. Princeton University Press 1994.,
LaFeber, Walter.  AMERICA, RUSSIA AND THE COLD WAR, 1945-71.  New York:  John Wiley & Sons Inc, 1972. 
Lebow, Richard Ned.  WE ALL LOST THE COLD WAR.  Princeton:  Princeton, N. J. Princeton University Press 1994., 
Leffler, Melvyn P. .  A PREPONDERANCE OF POWER: NATIONAL SECURITY, THE TRUMAN ADMINISTRATION, AND THE COLD WAR.  Palo Alto, CA:  Stanford University Press, 1992. 
Mastny, Vojtech.  RUSSIA'S ROAD TO THE COLD WAR: DIPLOMACY, WARFARE, AND THE POLITICS OF COMMUNISM, 1941-1945.  New York Columbia University Press 1979., 
Mastny, Vojtech.  THE COLD WAR AND SOVIET INSECURITY: THE STALIN YEARS.  New York:  Oxford University Press, 1996.
McAuliffe, Mary Sperling.  CRISIS ON THE LEFT: COLD WAR POLITICS AND AMERICAN LIBERALS, 1947-1954.  Amherst, MA University Of Massachusetts Press 1978.,
McMahon, Robert J. .  THE COLD WAR ON THE PERIPHERY.  New York Columbia University Press 1996., 
Messer, Robert L. .  THE END OF AN ALLIANCE: JAMES F. BYRNES, ROOSEVELT, TRUMAN, AND THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR.  Chapel Hill University Of North Carolina Press 1982., 
Nagai, Yonosuke.  ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR IN ASIA.  New York:  Columbia University Press, 1977.
Offner, Arnold A. .  ANOTHER SUCH VICTORY: PRESIDENT TRUMAN AND THE COLD WAR, 1945-1953 .  Palo Alto, CA Stanford University Press 2002., 
Parrish, Thomas.  BERLIN IN THE BALANCE, 1945-1949: THE BLOCKADE, THE AIRLIFT, THE FIRST MAJOR BATTLE OF THE COLD WAR.  Reading, MA Addison Wesley 1998.,  
Paterson, Thomas G. .  SOVIET-AMERICAN CONFRONTATION: POSTWAR RECONSTRUCTION AND THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR.  Baltimore:  The Johns Hopkins Press, 1975.
Reynolds, David (editor) .  THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR IN EUROPE.  New Haven Yale University Press 1994.,  
Rose, Lisle A..  AFTER YALTA, AMERICA AND THE ORIGINS OF THE COLD WAR.  New York:  Scribner's, 1973.
Rose, Lisle Abbott.  THE COLD WAR COMES TO MAIN STREET: AMERICA IN 1950.  Lawrence, KS:  Lawrence University Press Of Kansas, 1999.  
Rothwell, Victor.  BRITAIN AND THE COLD WAR 1941-1947.  London Jonathan Cape 1982., 
Smith, Mark.  NATO ENLARGEMENT DURING THE COLD WAR.  New York Palgrave (St. Martin's) 2000.,
Smyser, W. R. .  FROM YALTA TO BERLIN: THE COLD WAR STUGGLE OVER GERMANY.  New York St. Martin's 1999.,
Thomas, Hugh.  ARMED TRUCE: THE BEGINNINGS OF THE COLD WAR, 1945-46.  New York:  Atheneum, 1987.  
Ulam, Adam Bruno.  UNDERSTANDING THE COLD WAR: A HISTORIAN'S PERSONAL REFLECTIONS.  Charlottesville, VA Leopolis Press 2000.,
Walker, Martin.  THE COLD WAR. A HISTORY.  New York:  Henry Holt, 1994. 
Walker, Martin.  THE COLD WAR. A HISTORY.  New York:  Henry Holt, 1994.  
Wallander, Celeste A. .  MORTAL FRIENDS, BEST ENEMIES: GERMAN-RUSSIAN COOPERATION AFTER THE COLD WAR (CORNELL STUDIES IN SECURITY AFFAIRS) .  Ithaca Cornell University Press 1999.
Weir, Gary E. & Walter J. Boyne.  RISING TIDE: THE UNTOLD STORY OF THE RUSSIAN SUBMARINES THAT FOUGHT THE COLD WAR.  New York:  Basic Books, 2003.
Westad, Odd Arne.  REVIEWING THE COLD WAR: APPROACHES, INTERPRETATIONS, THEORY.  London And Portland, OR Frank Cass & Co 2000.,
Winkler, David F. .  COLD WAR AT SEA: HIGH-SEAS CONFRONTATION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE SOVIET UNION.  Annapolis, MD Naval Institute Press 2000.,  
Wohlforth, William Curti.  THE ELUSIVE BALANCE: POWER AND PERCEPTIONS DURING THE COLD WAR.  Ithaca:  Cornell University Press, 1993.  
Yergin, Daniel. Shattered Peace: The Origins of the Cold War and the National Security State. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1978.
Zacharias, Ellis M and Ladislas Farago.  BEHIND CLOSED DOORS THE SECRET HISTORY OF THE COLD WAR.  New York:  G P PUTNAMS SONS, 1950.  
Zubok, Vladislav and Constantine Pleshakov.  INSIDE THE KREMLIN'S COLD WAR FROM STALIN TO KHRUSHCHEV.  Cambridge:  Harvard University Press, 1996.  

The Vietnam War
Baritz, Loren. BACKFIRE: A HISTORY OF HOW AMERICAN CULTURE LED US INTO VIETNAM AND MADE US FIGHT THE WAY WE DID. William Morrow, 1985 
Boettcher, Thomas D.. VIETNAM. Boston: Little, Brown, 1988 
Colby, William & James McCargar. LOST VICTORY: A FIRSTHAND ACCOUNT OF AMERICA'S SIXTEEN-YEAR INVOLVEMENT IN VIETNAM. New York: Contemporary Books, 1989 
Davidson, Phillip B.. VIETNAM AT WAR: THE HISTORY, 1946-1975. San Francisco: Presidio Press, 1988 
Deforest, Orrin. SLOW BURN: THE RISE AND BITTER FALL OF AMERICAN INTELLIGENCE IN VIETNAM. Simon & Schuster, 1990 
Goldman, Peter and Tony Fuller. CHARLIE COMPANY: WHAT VIETNAM DID TO US. New York: William Morrow & Co, 1983 
Guan, Ang Cheng (2003). Ending the Vietnam War: The Vietnamese Communists' Perspective. Florence, Ky.: RoutledgeCurzon. ISBN 978-0-415-40619-2.
Herring, George C. . AMERICA'S LONGEST WAR : THE UNITED STATES AND VIETNAM, 1950-1975. New York: Knopf, 1986 
Hosmer, Stephen (Ed. ) . THE FALL OF SOUTH VIETNAM. New York: Crane Russak, 1980 
Isaacs, Arnold R. . WITHOUT HONOR : DEFEAT IN VIETNAM AND CAMBODIA. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998 
Isaacs, Arnold R.. VIETNAM SHADOWS : THE WAR, ITS GHOSTS, AND ITS LEGACY. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997 
Jamieson, Neil L.. UNDERSTANDING VIETNAM. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1995 
Karnow, Stanley. VIETNAM : A HISTORY. New York: Viking, 1983 
Kimball, William R. THE OTHER SIDE OF GLORY--VIETNAM: THE UNTOLD STORY. Canton, Ohio: Daring Books, 1987 
Langguth, A.J. (2004). Our Vietnam: The War 1954–1975. New York: Simon and Schuster. ISBN 9780743212441.
Lens, Sidney. VIETNAM: A WAR ON TWO FRONTS. New York: Lodestar Books, 1990 
Lewy, Guenter. AMERICA IN VIETNAM. New York: Oxford University Press, 1980 
MacPherson, Myra. LONG TIME PASSING: VIETNAM AND THE HAUNTED GENERATION. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2002 
Mann, Robert. A GRAND DELUSION : AMERICA'S DESCENT INTO VIETNAM. New York: Basic Books, 2001 
Maraniss, David. THEY MARCHED INTO SUNLIGHT : WAR AND PEACE VIETNAM AND AMERICA OCTOBER 1967. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004 
Marshall, S. L. A.. VIETNAM Three Battles. New York: Da Capo Press, 1986 
McMaster, H. R. . DERELICTION OF DUTY : JOHNSON, MCNAMARA, THE JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF, AND THE LIES THAT LED TO VIETNAM. New York: Harpercollins P, 1997 
Mcnamara, Robert S.. IN RETROSPECT:: THE TRAGEDY AND LESSONS OF VIETNAM. New York: Crown, 1995 
Moore, Harold G. and Joseph L. Galloway. WE WERE SOLDIERS ONCE... AND YOUNG: IA DRANG--THE BATTLE THAT CHANGED THE WAR IN VIETNAM. New York: Harper Perennial, 1993 
Nelson, Keith L. . THE MAKING OF DETENTE : SOVIET-AMERICAN RELATIONS IN THE SHADOW OF VIETNAM. Baltimore, Md, U. S. A.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995 
Record, Jeffrey. THE WRONG WAR: WHY WE LOST IN VIETNAM. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1998 
REPORTING VIETNAM: AMERICAN JOURNALISM 1959-1969 (PART ONE) and 1969-75 (Part Two), 2 Vols. (LIBRARY OF AMERICA). New York: Library of America, 1998 
Sheehan, Neil. A BRIGHT SHINING LIE : JOHN PAUL VANN AND AMERICA IN VIETNAM. New York: Random House, 1988 
Spector, Ronald H. . AFTER TET: THE BLOODIEST YEAR IN VIETNAM. New York: Vintage Books, 1994 
Stanton, Shelby L. . RISE & FALL OF AN AMERICAN ARMY: U. S. GROUND FORCES IN VIETNAM, 1965-1973. San Francisco: Presidio Press, 1995 
Tang, Truong Nhu. A VIETCONG MEMOIR: AN INSIDE ACCOUNT OF THE VIETNAM WAR AND ITS AFTERMATH. New York: Vintage, 1986 
Terry, Wallace. BLOODS:  AN ORAL HISTORY OF THE VIETNAM WAR BY BLACK VETERANS. New York: Random House, 1988 
Trullinger, James Walker. VILLAGE AT WAR: AN ACCOUNT OF REVOLUTION IN VIETNAM. New York: Longman, 1980 
Tucker, Spencer C.. VIETNAM. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 1999 
Young, Marilyn. VIETNAM WARS, 1945-90. New York: Harpercollins, 1991 
Zhai, Qiang (2000). China and the Vietnam Wars, 1950–1975. Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press. ISBN 978-0-8078-4842-5.

The War on Terror
Allison, Graham. Nuclear Terrorism. New York: Times Books, 2004.
Benjamin, Daniel & Steven Simon. The Age of Sacred Terror. New York: Random House, 2002.
Bobbitt, Philip. Terror and Consent. New York: Knopf,  2008.
Clarke, Richard A. Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror. New York:  Free Press, 2004
Coll, Steve. Ghost Wars. New York: Penquin, 2004.
Combs,  Cindy C. Terrorism in the Twenty First Century. Pearsons (2003),
Corera, Gordon. Shopping for Bombs. New York: Oxford, 2007.
Jackson, Richard. Writing the War on Terrorism: Language, Politics and Counter-Terrorism. Manchester & New York: Manchester University Press, 2005.
Kessler, Ronald. The Terrorist Watch. New York: Crown, 2007.
Langewiesche, William. The Atomic Bazaar. New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 2007. 
Lustick, Ian S. Trapped in the War on Terror. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2006.
Sageman, Marc. Leaderless Jihad.  New York: Knopf, 2008.
Wright, Lawrence. The Looming Tower. New York: Knopf,  2006.

The War on Drugs

The Roaring Twenties & Prohibition
Leuchtenburg, William. E. The Perils of Prosperity 1914-32. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958
Miller, Nathan. New World Coming: The 1920s and the Making of Modern America. Scribner, 2003.

The Great Crash, The Great Depression, The New Deal
Badger, Anthony. The New Deal: The Depression Years, 1933-1940. New York: Hill and Wang, 1989.
Barber, William J. Designs within Disorder: Franklin D. Roosevelt, the Economists, and the Shaping of American Economic Policy, 1933-1945. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
Bauman, John F. and Thomas H. Goode. In the Eye of the Great Depression: New Deal Reporters and the Agony of the American People. Northern Illinois University Press, 1988.
Best, Gary D. Pride, Prejudice and Politics: Roosevelt versus Recovery, 1933-1938. NY: Praeger, 1991.
Biles, Roger. A New Deal for the American People. Northern Illinois Press, 1991.
Bindas, Kenneth J. Remembering the Great Depression in the Rural South. University Press of Florida, 2007.
Bold, Christine.Writers, Plumbers, and Anarchists: The WPA Writers' Project in Massachusetts. University of Massachusetts Press, 2006.
Bolden, Tonya. FDR’s Alphabet Soup: New Deal America, 1932-1939. NY: Knopf, 2010.
Borgwardt, Elizabeth. A New Deal for the World: America's Vision for Human Rights. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005
Braeman, John, ed. The New Deal. 2 Vols. Ohio State University Press, 1975
Brinkley, Alan. The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War. NY: Knopf, 1995.
Chafe, William H. The Achievement of American Liberalism: The New Deal and Its Legacies. (2002) online edition
Choate, Jean. Disputed Ground: Farm Groups that opposed the New Deal Agricultural Program. McFarland, 2002.
Clarke, Jeanne N. Roosevelt's Warrior: Harold L. Ickes and the New Deal. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkinms University Press, 1996.
Clemens, Elizabeth. The Works Progress Administration in Detroit. Arcadia Publishing, 2008.
Cohen, Adam. Nothing to Fear: FDR's Inner Circle and the Hundred Days That Created Modern America. New York: Penguin Group, 2009.
Cohen, Wilbur J. The Roosevelt New Deal: A Program Assessment Fifty Years After. Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs, 1986.
Conkin, Paul F. The New Deal. 3rd Ed. Harlan Davidson, 1992.
Dewing, Rolland. Regions in Transition: The Northern Great Plains and the Pacific Northwest in the Great Depression. University Press of America, 2006.
Dubofsky, Melvyn, ed. The New Deal: Conflicting Interpretations and Shifting Perspectives. Garland Publishers, 1992.
Eden, Robert. The New Deal and Its Legacy: Critique and Reappraisal. Greenwood Press, 1989.
Edsforth, Ronald. The New Deal: America's Response to the Great Depression. Blackwell Publishers, 2000.
Eliot, Thomas H. Recollections of the New Deal: When the People Mattered. Northeastern University Press, 1992.
Fearon, Peter. Kansas in the Great Depression: Work Relief, the Dole, and Rehabilitation. University of Missouri Press, 2007.
Felfand, Lawrence. The New Deal, Viewed from Fifty Years. Center for the Study of Recent History of the United States, 1984.
Folsom, Jr., Burton. New Deal or Raw Deal? How FDR's Economic Legacy Has Damaged America. Threshold Editions, 2008.
Fraser, Steve & Gary Gerstle. The Rise and Fall of the New Deal Order, 1930-1980. Princeton University Press, 1989.
Friedman, Milton and Anna Jacobson Schwartz. The Great Contraction 1929-1933. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963.
Galbraith, John Kenneth. The Great Crash. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1954.
Graham, Otis L. The New Deal: The Critical Issues. Little Brown, 1971.
Graham, Otis. An Encore for Reform: The Old Progressives and the New Deal. Oxford University Press: 1967.
Great Depression and the New Deal: A Thematic Encyclopedia, 2 vols. ABC-CLIO, 2010.
Grieve, Victoria. The Federal Art Project and the Creation of Middlebrow Culture. University of Illinois Press, 2009.
Hamby, Alonzo L. For the Survival of Democracy: Franklin Roosevelt and the World Crisis of the 1930s (2004) major interpetation by leading conservative historian excerpt and text search
Hamilton, David E. The New Deal. Houghton Mifflin, 1999.
Hawley, Ellis. The New Deal and the Problem of Monopoly; a Study in Economic Ambivalence. Princeton University Press, 1966.
Hillstrom, Kevin. The Great Depression and the New Deal. Omnigraphics, 2009.
Himmelberg, Robert F. The Great Depression and the New Deal (2001) 185 pp. online edition, readings
Hosen, Frederick E. The Great Depression and the New Deal: Legislative Acts in Their Entirety (1932-1933) and Statistical Economic Data (1926-1946). McFarland, 1992.
Irons, Peter. The New Deal Lawyers. Princeton University Press, 1982.
Kennedy, David. Freedom from Fear. New York: Oxford University Press, 1999.
Kennedy, Susan Estabrook. The Banking Crisis of 1933. Lexington: University of Kentucky, 1933.
Kolvet, Renee Corona & Victoria Ford. The Civilian Conservation Corps in Nevada: From Boys to Men. University of Nevada Press, 2006.
Lash, Joseph P. Dealers and Dreamers: A New Look at the New Deal. Doubleday, 1988.
Leighninger Jr., Robert D. Building Louisiana: The Legacy of the Public Works Administration. University Press of Mississippi, 2007.
Levine, Rhonda. Class Struggle and the New Deal: Industrial Labor, Industrial Capital, and the State. University Press of Kansas, 1988.
Louchheim, Katie. The Making of the New Deal: The Insiders Speak. Harvard University Press, 1983.                                    
MacElvaine, Robert. The Great Depression. New York: Times Books, 1884.
Maher, Neil M. Nature's New Deal: The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Roots of the American Environmental Movement. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Mettler, Suzanne. Dividing Citizens: Gender and Federalism in New Deal Public Policy. Cornell University Press, 1998.
Milkis, Sidney M. and Jerome M. Mileur, eds. The New Deal and the Triumph of Liberalism (2002)
Mitchell, Broadus. Depression Decade: From New Era through New Deal, 1929-1941 (1964), overview of economic history online edition
Moley, Raymond. The First New Deal. Harcourt, Brace & World, 1966.
Moore, Robert J. The Civilian Conservation Corps in Arizona's Rim Country: Working in the Woods. University of Nevada Press, 2006.
Olson, James S. Historical Dictionary of the New Deal From Inauguration to Preparation for War. Greenwood Press, 1985.
Phillips, Sarah T. This Land, This Nation:  Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal. Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Poole, Mary. The Segregated Origins of Social Security: African Americans and the Welfare State. University of North Carolina Press, 2006.
Quinn, Susan. Furious Improvisation: How the WPA and a Cast of Thousands Made High Art out of Desperate Times. Walker & Co., 2008.
Rauch, Basil. The History of the New Deal, 1933-1938. Creative Age Press, 1944.
Rauchway, Eric. The Great Depression and the New Deal: A Very Short Introduction. New York: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Reagan, Patrick D. Designing a New America: The Origins of New Deal Planning, 1890-1943.University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.
Robinson, Edgar. The Roosevelt Leadership, 1933-1945.  Lippincott, 1955. 
Romasco, Albert U. The Politics of Recovery: Roosevelt's New Deal. Oxford University Press, 1983.
Rosenof, Theodore. Economics in the Long Run: New Deal Theorists and Their Legacies, 1933-1993. University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. Three New Deals: Reflections on Roosevelt's America, Mussolini's Italy, and Hitler's Germany, 1933-1939. Metropolitan Books, 2006.
Schlesinger, Arthur. Crisis of the Old Order. Houghton Mifflin, 1957.
Scroop, Daniel. Mr. Democrat: Jim Farley, the New Deal and the Making of Modern American Politics. University of Michigan Press, 2006.
Shlaes, Amity. The Forgotten Man: A New History of the Great Depression. Harper Collins, 2007.
Shogan, Robert. Backlash: The Killing of the New Deal. Ivan R. Dee, 2006.
Sitkoff, Harvard. ed. Fifty Years Later: The New Deal Evaluated. (1984). A friendly liberal evaluation.
Smith, Jason Scott. Building New Deal Liberalism: The Political Economy of Public Works, 1933-1956. Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Spirn, Anne Whiston. Daring to Look:  Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field. University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Sternsher, Vernard. Hope Restored: How the New Deal Worked in Town and Country. Ivan R. Dee, 1999.
Taylor, David. Soul of a People: The WPA Writer's Project Uncovers Depression America. Wiley, 2009.
Taylor, Nick. American-Made: The Enduring Legacy of the WPA: When FDR Put the Nation to Work. Bantam Books, 2008.
The New Deal: A Documentary History. Harper & Row, 1968.
Thomas, Bernice. The Stamp of FDR: New Deal Post Offices in the Mid-HudsonValley. Purple Mountain Press, 2002.       
Tucker, Ray et al. Sons of the Wild Jackass. University of Washington Press, 1970.
Venn, Fiona. The New Deal. Fitzroy Dearborn, 1998.
Vittoz, Stanley. New Deal Labor Policy and the American Industrial Economy. University of North Carolkina Press, 1987.
Wall, Wendy. Inventing the “American Way”: The Politics of Consensus from the New Deal to the Civil Rights Movement. Oxford University Press, 2008.
Ware, Susan. Beyond Suffrage, Women in the New Deal. Harvard University Press, 1981.
Watkins, T.H. The Great Depression: America in the 1930s. Boston: Back Bay Books, 1993.
Watkins, T.H. The Hungry Years: A Narrative History of the Great Depression in America. New York: Henry Holt, 1999.
White, G. Edward. The Constitution and the New Deal. Harvard University Press, 2000.
Willard, Pat. America Eats!: On the Road with the WPA. Bloomsbury, 2008.

John F. Kennedy, the "New Frontier" and the 1960s
Bernstein, Irving. Promises Kept: John F. Kennedy’s New Frontier. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Beschloss, Michael R. THE CRISIS YEARS KENNEDY AND KHRUSHCHEV 1960-1963. New York: Harper Collins, 1991. 
Brauer, Carl. John F. Kennedy and the Second Reconstruction. New York: Columbia University Press, 1977.
Brinkley, Alan. John F. Kennedy. New York: Times Books, 2012.
Brogan, Hugh. Kennedy. New York: Longman, 1996.
Burner, David. John F. Kennedy and a New Generation. 3rd ed. New York: Pearson Longman, 2009.
Casey, Shaun. The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy vs. Nixon 1960. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009.
Collier, Peter, Horowitz, David. THE KENNEDYS: AN AMERICAN DRAMA. New York: Summit Books, 1984. 
Dallek, Robert. An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 2003.
Freedman, Lawrence. Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos and Vietnam. New York: Oxford University Press,  2000.
Fursenko, Alexsandr. "ONE HELL OF A GAMBLE": KHRUSHCHEV, CASTRO, AND KENNEDY, 1958-1964. New York: Norton, 1997. 
Giglio, James N. The Presidency of John F. Kennedy. Rev. ed. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2006.
Gitlin, Todd. The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage, Revised Edition. New York: Bantam Books, 1993
Harris, Seymour E. The Economics of the Political Parties, with Special Attention to Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy. New York: Macmillan, 1962.
Heath, Jim F. Decade of Disillusionment: The Kennedy–Johnson Years. Indiana University Press, 1976.
Hersh, Seymour. The Dark Side of Camelot. Boston: Little Brown, 1997.
Holland, Max. THE KENNEDY ASSASSINATION TAPES. New York: Knopf, 2004. 
Kaiser, David E. The Road to Dallas: The Assassination of John F. Kennedy. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2008.
Kennedy, John Fitzgerald (Sidey, Hugh, Introduction) . PRELUDE TO LEADERSHIP: THE EUROPEAN DIARY OF JOHN F. KENNEDY : SUMMER 1945. Washington, D. C. : Regnery Publishing, 1995. 
Leaming, Barbara. Jack Kennedy: The Education of a Statesman. New York:  Norton, 2006.
Lynch, Grayston L. Decision for Disaster Betrayal at the Bay of Pigs. Potomac Books, 2000.
Manchester, William. The Death of a President: November 20 – 25, 1963. New York: Harper & Row, 1967.
Manchester, William. Portrait of a President: John F. Kennedy in Profile Rev. Ed.. Boston: Little Borwn, 1967.
Matthews, Christopher J. KENNEDY & NIXON: THE RIVALRY THAT SHAPED POSTWAR AMERICA. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. 
Matthews, Chris. Jack Kennedy. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011.
May, Ernest R. (editor) . THE KENNEDY TAPES: INSIDE THE WHITE HOUSE DURING THE CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997. 
Newman, John M. JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power. New York: Warner Books, 1992.
O’Brien, Michael. John F. Kennedy: A Biography. New York: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin’s Press, 2005.
O'Donnell, Kenneth, Powers, David, McCarthy, Joe. JOHNNY, WE HARDLY KNEW YE; : MEMORIES OF JOHN FITZGERALD KENNEDY. Boston: Little, Brown, 1972. 
Parmet, Herbert S. Jack: The Struggles of John F. Kennedy. New York: Dial Press, 1980.
-----. JFK: The Presidency of John F. Kennedy. New York: Dial Press, 1983.
Reeves, Richard. PRESIDENT KENNEDY : PROFILE OF POWER. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1993. 
Rorabaugh, W.J. Kennedy and the Promise of the Sixties. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
Schlesinger, Jr. , Arthur M.. A THOUSAND DAYS, John F. Kennedy in the White House. Boston: Houghton and Mifflin, 1965. 
Schlesinger, Jr. , Arthur M.. ROBERT KENNEDY AND HIS TIMES. Boston: Houghton and Mifflin, 1978. 
Sorensen, Theodore C. KENNEDY. New York: Harper & Row, 1965. 
-----. The Kennedy Legacy. 1969; rpt. New York: Maxwell Macmillan International, 1993.
Stern, Sheldon. AVERTING 'THE FINAL FAILURE': JOHN F. KENNEDY AND THE SECRET CUBAN MISSILE CRISIS MEETINGS (STANFORD NUCLEAR AGE SERIES). New York: Stanford University Press, 2003. 
White, Theodore H. The Making of the President, 1960. New York: Atheneum, 1961.

Theodore Roosevelt
Beale Howard K. Theodore Roosevelt and the Rise of America to World Power. Collier, 1956.
Berman, Jay Stuart. Police Administration and Progressive Reform: Theodore Roosevelt as Police Commissioner of New York, Greenwood Press, 1987. 
Bishop, Joseph Bucklin. Theodore Roosevelt and His Time: Shown in His Own Letters. 2 Volumes. New York: Scribner's, 1920.
Blum, John Morton The Republican Roosevelt. Harvard University Press, 1954.
Brands, H.W. T.R. The Last Romantic. New York: Basic Books, 1997.
Brands, H.W. The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt, Cooper Square Press, 2001.
Burton, David H. Theodore Roosevelt, American Politician: An Assessment. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1997. 
Chessman, G. Wallace. Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Power. Boston: Little Brown, 1969.
Collins, Michael L. That Damned Cowboy: Theodore Roosevelt and the American West, 1883-1898. Peter Lang, 1991.
Cooper, John Milton The Warrior and the Priest: Woodrow Wilson and Theodore Roosevelt. Cambreidge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1983.
Cooper, Michael L. Theodore Roosevelt: A Twentieth Century Life. New York: Viking, 2009.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. The Bully Pulpit. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2013.
Gould, Lewis L. The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2011
Gould, Lewis L. Theodore Roosevelt, New York: Oxford University Press, 2012.
Harbaugh, William Henry. Power and Responsibility: The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt. Nabu Press, 2011.
Hart, Art Bushnell & Herbert Ronald Ferleger. Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia. Roosevelt Memorial Association, 1941.
Howland, Harold. Theodore Roosevelt and His Times: A Chronicle of the Progressive Movement, Yale University Press, 1921.
Morris, Edmund. Colonel Roosevelt. Random House, 2010.
Morris, Edmund. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt. New York: Coward McCann & Geoghegan, 1979.
Morris, Edmund. Theodore Rex. New York: Random House, 2001.
Mowry, George E. Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement. Hill & Wang, 1960.
Mowry, George. The Era of Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of Modern America, 1900-1912. Harper & Row, 1954.online
O'Toole, Patricia.  WHEN TRUMPETS CALL: THEODORE ROOSEVELT AFTER THE WHITE HOUSE.  New York:  Simon & Schuster, 2005. 
Pringle, Henry F. Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography. Harcourt Brace, 1931. (Pulitzer Prize)
Rauchway, Eric. Murdering McKinley. The Making of Theodore Roosevelt's America. New York: Hill & Wang, 2003.
Renehan Jr., Edward J. The Lion's Pride: Theodore Roosevelt and His Family in Peace and War. Oxford University Press, 1998.
Riis, Jacob A. Theodore Roosevelt, the Citizen. NY: Macmillan 1904.
Roosevelt, Theodore. The Foes of Our Own Household. George H. Doran Co., 1917.
Roosevelt, Theodore. The Rough Riders. University of Nebraska Press, 1998. 
Roosevelt, Theodore. Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography. Macmillan, 1913. 
Rozwenc, Edwin C. Roosevelt, Wilson and the Trusts. Heath, 1950. 

William Howard Taft
Coletta, Paolo. The Presidency of William Howard Taft. University Press of Kansas, 1973. 

Woodrow Wilson
Baker, Ray S. &  William E. Dodd, eds. The Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson. Vol. 1, New York, 1924.
Blum, John Morton. Woodrow Wilson and the Politics of Morality. Little, Brown, & Company, 1956.
Brown, R.G.  et al, To The American People, Report Upon the Illegal Practices of the Department of Justice. National Popular Government League, 1920.
Clements, Kendrick A. The Presidency of Woodrow Wilson. University Press of Kansas, 1992.
Davidson, John Wells. A Crossroads of Freedom, the 1912 Campaign Speeches of Woodrow Wilson. Yale University Press, 1956.
Knock, Thomas. To End All Wars: Woodrow Wilson and the Quest for a New World Order. Princeton University Press, 1992.
Link, Arthur S.  Wilson: Campaigns for Progressivism and Peace: 1916-1917, Princeton University Press, 1965.
Link, Arthur S. ed. The Papers of Woodrow Wilson, Vol. 67, Princeton University Press, 1993.
Link, Arthur S. Wilson, The New Freedom. Princeton University Press, 1956.
Link, Arthur S. Wilson: Confusions and Crises: 1915-1916. Princeton University Press, 1964
Link, Arthur S. Wilson: The Struggle for Neutrality: 1914-1915. Princeton University Press, 1960.
Link, Arthur S. Woodrow Wilson and the Progressive Era: 1913-1917. Harper,  1954.
Murray, Robert K. Red Scare: A Study in National Hysteria. McGraw-Hill, 1964.
Smith, Gene. When The Cheering Stopped: The Last Years of Woodrow Wilson. TIME, 1964.
Steigerwald, David. Wilsonian Idealism in America. Cornell University Press, 1994.

Warren Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover
Hoover, Herbert. American Individualism. Doubleday and Page, 1922.
Leuchtenburg, William. Herbert Hoover. Times Books, 2009.
Russell, Francis. The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding in His Times. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968.
Wilson, Joan Hoff. Herbert Hoover, Forgotten Progressive. Little Brown, 1975.

Franklin Roosevelt
Alter, Jonathan. The Defining Moment: FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope (2006), popular excerpt and text search
Badger, Anthony J. FDR: The First Hundred Days, NY: Hill & Wang, 2008.
Bellush, Bernard. Franklin D. Roosevelt as Governor of New York (1955) online edition
Black, Conrad. Franklin Delano Roosevelt: Champion of Freedom. New York: Public Affairs, 2003.
Brands, H.W. Traitor to His Class: The Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. New York: Anchor Books, 2008.
Burns, James MacGregor. Roosevelt: The Lion and the Fox. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1956.
-----. Roosevelt: The Soldier of Freedom. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1970.
Dallek, Robert. Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932-1945. New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Davis, Kenneth S. FDR: The Beckoning of Destiny, 1882-1928. New York: Putnam, 1973.
-----. FDR: The New Deal Years, 1933-1937. New York: Random House, 1986.
-----. FDR: The New York Years, 1928-1933. New York: Random House, 1985.
-----. FDR: Into the Storm, 1937-1940. New York: Random House, 1993.
-----. FDR: The War President, 1940-1943. New York: Random House, 2000.
Freidel, Frank. Franklin D. Roosevelt. Vol. 1: The Apprenticeship. Vol. 2: The Ordeal. Vol. 3: The Triumph. Vol. 4: Launching the New Deal. Boston: Little, Brown, 1952-73.
-----. Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Rendezvous with Destiny. Boston: Little, Brown, 1990.
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt: The Home Front in World War II. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994.
Jenkins, Roy. Franklin Delano Roosevelt. New York: Times Books, 2003.
Lash, Joseph P. Eleanor and Franklin: The Story of Their Relationship, Based on Eleanor Roosevelt’s Private Papers. New York: Norton 1971.
Leuchtenburg, William E. The FDR Years: On Roosevelt and His Legacy. New York: Columbia University Press, 1995.
Leuchtenburg, William E. Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal, 1932-1940. New York: Harper and Row, 1933.
McJimsey, George T. The Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000.
Meacham, Jon. Franklin and Winston: An Intimate Portrait of an Epic Friendship. New York: Random House, 2003.
Miller, Nathan. FDR: An Intimate History. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1983.
Morgan, Ted. FDR: A Biography. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1985.
Perkins, Frances. The Roosevelt I Knew. New York: Penguin Classics, 2011.
Ritchie, Donald A. Electing FDR: The New Deal Campaign of 1932. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007.
Roosevelt, Elliott and James Brough. A Rendezvous With Destiny: The Roosevelts of the White House. New York: Putnam's, 1975
Rozell, Marak J. & Wm. D. Peterson. FDR and the Modern Presidency:  Leadership and Legacy. Praeger, 1997.
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. The Age of Roosevelt. Vol. 1: The Crisis of the Old Order, 1919-1933. Vol. 2: The Coming of the New Deal. Vol. 3: The Politics of Upheaval. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957-60.
Smith, Jean Edward. FDR. New York: Random House, 2007.
Ward, Geoffrey C. Before The Trumpet: Young Franklin Roosevelt, 1882-1905 (1985); A First Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, (1992), popular bio covers 1905-1932.

Harry Truman & Post-War America
Goulden, Joseph C. The Best Years 1945-1950. New York: Atheneum, 1978.
McCullough, David. Truman.New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.

Dwight Eisenhower & the 1950s
Ambrose, Stephen E. Eisenhower: Soldier and President. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1990.
Carter, Paul A. Another Part of the Fifties. New Yorki: Columbia University Press, 1983.
Halberstam, David. The Fifties. New York: Villard Books, 1993.
Philbrick, Herbert. I Led Three Lives.New York: Grosset & Dunlop, 1952.

Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society
Andrew, John R.  Lyndon Johnson and the Great Society: I.R. Dee, 1998
Beckwith, Francis J., and Todd E. Jones, eds. 1997. Affirmative Action: Social Justice or Reverse Discrimination? Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books.
Bergmann, Barbara R. 1996. In Defense of Affirmative Action. New York: Basic Books.
Beschloss, Michael R., ed. Taking Charge: The Johnson White House Tapes, 1963-1964. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1997.
Bornet, Vaughn Davis. The Presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1983. 
Califano, Joseph A. The Triumph & Tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: The White House Years. College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2000.
Caro, Robert A. The Years of Lyndon Johnson.  Vol. 1, The Path to Power. New York: Knopf, 1982.
-----. The Years of Lyndon Johnson.  Vol. 2, Means of Ascent. New York: Knopf, 1990.
-----. The Years of Lyndon Johnson.  Vol. 3, Master of the Senate. New York: Knopf, 2002.
-----. The Years of Lyndon Johnson.  Vol. 4, The Passage of Power. New York: Knopf, 2012.
Cohen, Carl, and James P. Sterba. 2003. Affirmative Action and Racial Preference. New York: Oxford University Press.
Conkin, Paul Keith. Big Daddy from the Pedernales: Lyndon Baines Johnson. Boston: Twayne Publishers, 1986.
Dallek, Robert. Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1961-1973. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
-----. Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and His Times, 1908-1960. New York: Oxford University Press, 1991.
Ginzberg, Eli and Robert M. Solow (eds.) The Great Society: Lessons for the Future(1974), 11 chapters on each program, by experts
Goodwin, Doris Kearns. Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. 1976; rpt. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1991. 
Gordon, Kermit (ed.) Agenda for the Nation, The Brookings Institution. (1968)
Helsing, Jeffrey W. Johnson's War/Johnson's Great Society: the guns and butter trap Praeger Greenwood 2000 
Henggeler, Paul R. In His Steps: Lyndon Johnson and the Kennedy Mystique. Chicago: I.R. Dee, 1991.
Herring, George C. LBJ and Vietnam: A Different Kind of War. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.
Irwin Unger The Best of Intentions: the triumphs and failures of the Great Society under Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon: Doubleday, 1996.
Johnson, Lyndon B.  My Hope for America: Random House, 1964 
Jordan, Barbara C. and Elspeth D. Rostow (editors) The Great Society: a twenty year critique: Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs 1986
Kaplan, Marshall and Peggy L. Cuciti. The Great Society and Its Legacy: Twenty Years of U.S. Social Policy. Duke University Press, 1986 
Milkis, Sidney M. and Jerome M. Mileur, eds. The Great Society And The High Tide Of Liberalism (2005)
Murray, Charles. Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950–1980: Basic Books; 10th Anniv edition (February 1995) 
Peters, Charles. Lyndon B. Johnson. New York: Times Books, 2010.
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1963–64. 1965. Vol. 1, entry 357, 704–707. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office.
Rulon, Philip Reed. The Compassionate Samaritan: The Life of Lyndon Baines Johnson. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1981.
Unger, Irwin, and Debi Unger. LBJ: A Life. New York: Wiley, 1999.

Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford
Aitken, Jonathan. Nixon: A Life. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing. 1996.
Ambrose, Stephen E. Nixon: The Education of a Politician 1913–1962. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1987.
Ambrose, Stephen E. Nixon: The Triumph of a Politician 1962–1972. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1989.
Ambrose, Stephen E. Nixon: Ruin and Recovery 1973–1990. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1991. 
Black, Conrad. Richard M. Nixon: A Life in Full. New York: PublicAffairs Books, 2007.
Blythe, Will. To Hate Like This is to be Happy Forever. New York: Harper Collins. 2006.
Dallek, Robert. Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.
Drew, Elizabeth. Richard M. Nixon. The American Presidents Series. New York: Times Books, 2007.
Evans, Rowland; Novak, Robert. Nixon in the White House: The Frustration of Power. New York: Random House, 1971.
Frick, Daniel. Reinventing Richard Nixon. Lawrence, Kans.: University of Kansas Press., 2008.
Frum, David. How We Got Here: The '70s. New York: Basic Books, 2000.
Gellman, Irwin. The Contender. New York: The Free Press, 1999.
Kornitzer, Bela. The Real Nixon: An Intimate Biography. New York: Rand McNally & Company, 1960.
Matthews, Chris. Kennedy and Nixon. The Free Press, 2011.
Mattson, Kevin. Just Plain Dick. Bloomsbury, 2013.
Morris, Roger. Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician. New York: Henry Holt & Co. 1999.
Nixon, Richard. RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon. New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1978
Nixon, Richard. No More Vietnams. Westminster, Md.: Arbor House Publishing Company, 1985.
Parmet, Herbert S. Richard Nixon and His America. Boston: Little, Brown & Co, 1990.
Perlstein, Richard. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America. New York: Scribner, 2008.
Reeves, Richard. President Nixon: Alone in the White House. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
Reston, Jr. James. The Conviction of Richard Nixon. Random House, 2008.
Safire, William. Before The Fall: An Insider View of the Pre-Watergate White House, with a 2005 Preface by the Author. Transaction Publishers. 2005.
Small, Melvin, ed. A Companion to Richard M. Nixon. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
Thompson, John B. Political Scandal: Power and Visibility in the Media Age. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2000.
White, Theodore H. The Making of the President 1972. New York: Antheneum, 1973.
Wills, Garry. Nixon Agonistes. Houghton-Mifflin, 2002.

Jimmy Carter
Carter, Jimmy. Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President. New York:Bantam, 1982.

Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush & the Counter-Revolution
Cannon, Lou. President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime. Public Affairs, 2000.
Cannon, Lou. Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power. Public Affairs. 2003.
D’Souza, Dinesh. Ronald Reagan: How An Ordinary Man Became an Extraordinary Leader. The Free Press,  1997.
Evans, Thomas W. The Education of Ronald Reagan: The General Electric Years. Columbia University Press, 2006.
Hayward, Steven F. The Age of Reagan: The Conservative Counterrevolution, 1980-1989 Prima Publishing,2009.
Hayward, Steven F. The Age of Reagan: The Fall of the Old Liberal Order, 1964-1980. Crown, 2001.
Kleinknecht, William. The Man Who Sold the World: Ronald Reagan and the Betrayal of Main Street America. Nation Books, 2009.
Morris, Edmund. Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan. Random House, 1999.
Pemberton, William E. Exit with Honor: The Life and Presidency of Ronald Reagan. M.E. Sharpe, 1998. 
Reeves, Richard. President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination. Simon & Schuster, 2005.

Bill Clinton
Bennett, William J. DEATH OF OUTRAGE: BILL CLINTON AND THE ASSAULT ON AMERICAN IDEALS. New York: Free Press, 1998. 
Bugliosi, Vincent. NO ISLAND OF SANITY: PAULA JONES V. BILL CLINTON : THE SUPREME COURT ON TRIAL. New York: Ballantine Books, 1998. 
Clinton, Bill.  MY LIFE.  New York:  Knopf, 2004.
Clinton, Bill. Back to Work: Why We Need Smart Government for a Strong Economy. New York: Knopf, 2011.
Conason, Joe & Gene Lyons. THE HUNTING OF THE PRESIDENT: THE TEN-YEAR CAMPAIGN TO DESTROY BILL AND HILLARY CLINTON. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000. 
Evans-Pritchard, Ambrose. THE SECRET LIFE OF BILL CLINTON: THE UNREPORTED STORIES. Washington, D. C.: Regnery Publishing, 1997. 
Gergen, David . Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.
Halberstam, David. WAR IN A TIME OF PEACE: BUSH, CLINTON, AND THE GENERALS. New York: Scribner, 2002. 
Hamilton, Nigel. Bill Clinton: An American Journey. New York: Random House, 2003.
Hitchens, Christopher. No One Left to Lie to: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton. New York: Verso, 1999.
Isikoff, Michael. Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story. New York: Crown, 1999.
Katz, Mark. Clinton and Me: A Real-Life Political Comedy. New York: Miramax, 2003.
Maraniss, David. FIRST IN HIS CLASS: A BIOGRAPHY OF BILL CLINTON. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996. 
Maraniss, David. The Clinton Enigma: A Four and a Half Minute Speech Reveals This President's Entire Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1998.
Posner, Richard A. An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000.
Rozell, Mark J. The Clinton Scandal and the Future of American Government. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2000.
Schmidt, Susan and Michael Weisskopf. TRUTH AT ANY COST: KEN STARR AND THE UNMAKING OF BILL CLINTON. New York: Harpercollins, 2000. 
Timperlake, Edward, and William C. Triplett II Year of the Rat: How Bill Clinton Compromised U.S. Security for Chinese Cash. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1998
Waldman, Michael. POTUS SPEAKS: FINDING THE WORDS THAT DEFINED THE CLINTON PRESIDENCY. New York: Simon & Schu, 2000. 
Woodward, Bob. THE AGENDA, Inside the Clinton White House. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1994. 

George W. Bush

Barack Obama

Robert LaFollette & Wisconsin Progressivism
Burgchardt, Carl R. Robert M. La Follette, Sr.: The Voice of Conscience. Greenwood Press, 1992.
Honeywell, Alice. La Follette and His Legacy. Robert La Follette School of Public Affairs, 1984/1995).
MacKay, Kenneth. The Progressive Movement of 1924. Columbia University Press, 1947.
Hochstein, Irma. A Progressive Primer.  Madison: Wisconsin Women's Progressive Association, 1922. http://content.wisconsinhistory.org/cdm/ref/collection/tp/id/56073   
Richardson, Darcy, et al. Robert La Follette and the Progressive Movement: Third-Party Politics in the 1920s. iUniverse, 2008.
Thelen, David P. Robert M. La Follette and the Insurgent Spirit. Little, Brown, and Company, 1976.
Thelen, David. The New Citizenship, Origins of Progressivism in Wisconsin, 1885-1900. University of Missouri Press, 1972.
Unger, Nancy. Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer. University of North Carolina Press, 2000.

Other Progressive & Feminist Leaders
Bowers, Claude G. Beveridge and the Progressive Era.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1932.
Bryan, William Jennings. In His Image. Fleming H. Revell, 1922.
Burke, Robert E., Ed. The Diary Letters of Hiram Johnson, 1917-1945. Garland Publishing, 1983.
Cleghorn, Sarah N. Threescore: the Autobiography of Sarah N. Cleghorn. NY: Harrison Smith and Robert Haas, 1936
Freeberg, Ernest. Democracy's Prisoner: Eugene V. Debs, the Great War, and the Right to Dissent. Harvard Univdrsity Press, 2008.
Greenbaum, Fred. Men Against Myths: The Progressive Response. Praeger, 2000.
Harlan, Louis R. Booker T. Washington, 2 Vols. Oxfprd University Press, 1975.
Hattaway, Herman General Stephen D. Lee. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi 1976
Huthmacher, J. Joseph. Senator Robert Wagner and the Rise of Urban Liberalism. Atheneum, 1968.
Kosner, Alice. The Voice of the People: William Jennings Bryan. New York: Julian Messner, 1970.
Lane, Jack C. Armed Progressive: General Leonard Wood. San Rafael, CA: Presidio Press 1978.
Lewis, David L. W.E.B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race: 1868-1919, 2 Vols. Henry Holt 1993.
Lower, Richard Coke. A Bloc of One: The Political Career of Hiram W. Johnson. Stanford University Press, 1993.
Lowitt, Richard George W. Norris: The Making of a Progressive, 1861-1912. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press 1980 
Lowitt, Richard. George W. Norris: The Persistence of a Progressive, 1913-1933.  University of Illinois Press, 1971.
McKenna, Marian C. Borah.  University of Michigan Press, 1961.
Miller, Kenneth.  From Progressive to New Dealer: Frederic Howe and American Liberalism. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2010.
Norris, George. Fighting Liberal: The Autobiography of George W. Norris. Collier, 1961).
Olin, Spencer C. California's Prodigal Sons: Hiram Johnson and the Progressives, 1911-1917. University of California Press, 1968. 
Salvatore, Nick. Eugene Debs: Citizen and Socialist.  University of Illinois Press, 1982.
Schmitz, David F. Henry L. Stimson: The First Wise Man. Scholarly Resources, 2001.
Sorensen, John & Judith Sealander, ed. The Grace Abbott Reader. University of Nebraska Press, 2008.
Vinson, John Chalmers. William Borah and the Outlawry of War. University of Georgia Press, 1957.
Weatherson, Michael A.  and Hal Bochin, Hiram Johnson: Political Revivalist. University Press of America, 1995.
Wesser, Robert F. Charles Evans Hughes: politics and reform in New York, 1905-1910. Cornell University Press, 1967.
Woodward, C. Vann. Tom Watson Agrarian Rebel. New York: MacMillan, 1938.

21st Century America
Friedman, Thomas L. and Michael Mandelbaum. That Used to be Us. New York: Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2011.
Hartmann, Thomas. Rebooting the American Dream. San Francisco: Barrett-Koehler, 2010
Lind, Michael. The Next American Nation. The New Nationalism and the Fourth American Revolution. New York: The Free Press, 1995.
Moore, Michael. Here Comes Trouble: Stories from My Life. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2011.
Packer, George. The Unwinding. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2003.