Read History Buff's Guide to the Presidents Online
Authors: Thomas R. Flagel
Tags: #Biographies & Memoirs, #Historical, #United States, #Leaders & Notable People, #Presidents & Heads of State, #U.S. Presidents, #History, #Americas, #Historical Study & Educational Resources, #Reference, #Politics & Social Sciences, #Politics & Government, #Political Science, #History & Theory, #Executive Branch, #Encyclopedias & Subject Guides, #Historical Study, #Federal Government
Jeffries, Ona Griffin.
In and Out of the White House
. New York: Wilfred Funk, 1960.
Johnson, Charles Beneulyn.
Muskets and Medicine
. Philadelphia: F.A. Davis Co., 1917.
Kane, Joseph N., Janet Podell, and Steven Anzovin, eds.
Facts About the Presidents
. 7th ed. New York: H. W. Wilson, 2001.
Karabell, Zachary.
Chester Alan Arthur
. New York: Henry Holt, 2004.
Kastor, Peter, ed.
The Louisiana Purchase: Emergence of an American Nation
. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 2002.
Kaufman, Burton.
The Presidency of James Earl Carter, Jr.
Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1993.
Kaufman, Robert G.
Arms Control During the Pre-Nuclear Era
. New York: Columbia University Press, 1990.
Keegan, John.
A History of Warfare
. New York: Knopf, 1993.
Kegley, Charles, Jr., and Eugene Wittkopf.
American Foreign Policy
. 4th ed. New York: St. Martin’s, 1991.
Kelly, Kate.
Election Day
. New York: Facts on File, 1991.
Kelly, Robert E.
The National Debt: From FDR (1941) to Clinton (1996)
. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2000.
Kennedy, David M., and Thomas A. Bailey.
The American Pageant: A History of the Republic
. Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath, 1986.
Kennedy, Paul.
The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers
. New York: Random House, 1987.
Kennedy, Robert.
Thirteen Days
. New York: Norton, 1971.
Kessler, Ronald.
Inside the White House
. New York: Pocket Books, 1995.
Kimball, Warren F.
The Most Unsordid Act: Lend-Lease, 1939–1941
. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1969.
King, Gary, and Lyn Ragsdale.
The Elusive Executive: Discovering Statistical Patterns in the Presidency
. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1988.
Kitchen, Martin.
Europe Between the Wars: A Political History
. London: Longman, 1988.
Kleber, Brooks E., and Dale Birdsell,
The Chemical Warfare Service: Chemicals in Combat
. United States Army in World War II: The Technical Services, vol. 6, pt. 7, vol. 3. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1966.
Koch, Adrienne.
Jefferson and Madison: The Great Collaboration
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1964.
Kohn, George C., ed.
The New Encyclopedia of American Scandal
. New York: Facts on File, 2001.
Kolb, Charles.
White House Daze: The Unmaking of Domestic Policy in the Bush Years
. New York: Free Press, 1994.
Kolb, Robert W.
The Financial Crisis of Our Time
. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Kornbluh, Peter, and Malcolm Byrne, eds.
The Iran-Contra Scandal: The Declassified History
. New York: New York Press, 1993.
Krivosheev, G. F., ed.
Soviet Casualties and Combat Losses in the Twentieth Century
. London: Greenhill, 1997.
Kukla, Jon.
A Wilderness So Immense: The Louisiana Purchase and the Destiny of America
. New York: Knopf, 2003.
Kumar, Martha J., and Terry Sullivan, eds.
The White House World: Transitions, Organization, and Office Operations
. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2003.
Lambert, Frank.
The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America
. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2003.
Lasky, Victor.
JFK: The Man and the Myth
. New York: Macmillan, 1963.
Lawson, Melinda. “Let the Nation Be Your Bank: The Civil War Bond Drives and the Construction of National Patriotism.” In
An Uncommon Time: The Civil War and the Northern Home Front,
edited by Paul A. Cimbala and Randall M. Miller. New York: Fordham University Press, 2002.
LeLoup, Lance T.
Parties, Rules, and the Evolution of Congressional Budgeting
. Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2005.
Light, Paul C.
The President’s Agenda
. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982.
Linderman, Gerald F.
The World Within War: America’s Combat Experience in World War II
. New York: Free Press, 1997.
Link, Arthur.
Wilson
. 40 vols. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1947–65.
Lyons, Eugene.
Herbert Hoover: A Biography
. New York: Doubleday, 1964.
Macmillan, Margaret.
Nixon and Mao
. New York: Random House, 2007.
Maddox, Robert James.
Weapons for Victory: The Hiroshima Decision Fifty Years Later
. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1995.
Maier, Thomas.
The Kennedys: America’s Emerald Kings
. New York: Perseus, 2003.
Malkin, Lawrence.
The National Debt
. New York: Henry Holt, 1987.
Malone, Dumas.
Jefferson and His Time
. 6 vols. Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1948–81.
Malthese, John A.
Spin Control: The White House Office of Communications and the Management of Presidential News
. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
Maney, Patrick.
The Roosevelt Presence
. New York: Twayne, 1992.
Mann, James.
About Face: A History of America’s Curious Relationship with China
. New York: Knopf, 1999.
Martin, Fenton S., and Robert U. Goehlert.
How to Research the Presidency
. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1996.
Marton, Kati.
Hidden Power: Presidential Marriages That Shaped Our Recent History
. New York: Pantheon, 2001.
McAdams, Dan P.
George W. Bush and the Redemptive Dream: A Psychological Study
. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
McCullough, David.
John Adams
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
———.
Truman
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1992.
McPherson, James.
Battle Cry of Freedom
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1988.
———.
Ordeal by Fire.
New York: Knopf, 1982.
———, ed.
“To the Best of My Ability.”
London: Dorling Kindersley, 2000.
Melder, Keith.
Hail to the Candidate: Presidential Campaigns from Banners to Broadcasts
. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1992.
Melton, Buckner, Jr.
Aaron Burr: Conspiracy to Treason
. New York: Wiley and Sons, 2002.
Meltzer, Allan H.
History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 1: 1913-1951
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
———.
History of the Federal Reserve, Volume 2, Book 2, 1970-1986
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2009.
Menendez, Albert.
Religion at the Polls
. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1977.
Miller, Nathan.
Theodore Roosevelt: A Life
. New York: William Morrow, 1992.
Moore, Virginia.
The Madisons
. New York: McGraw Hill, 1979.
Morison, Elting E., ed.
The Letters of Theodore Roosevelt
. 8 vols. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1951–54.
Morris, Edmund.
Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan
. New York: Random House, 1999.
———.
The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt
. New York: Ballantine Books, 1979.
———.
Theodore Rex
. New York: Random House, 2001.
Morris, James, ed.
Readings in American Military History
. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson, 2004.
Morris, Kenneth E.
Jimmy Carter: American Moralist
. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1996.
Moyar, Mark.
Triumph Forsaken: America’s Descent into Vietnam
. New York: Perseus, 2006.
Nance, Malcolm W.
An End to Al-Qaeda: Destroying Bin Laden’s Jihad and Restoring America’s Honor
. New York: St. Martin’s, 2010.
Nash, Philip.
The Other Missiles of October: Eisenhower, Kennedy, and the Jupiters, 1957–1963
. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
National Archives and Records Administration.
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Gerald R. Ford
. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1956–.
———.
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Harry S. Truman
. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1956–.
———.
Public Papers of the Presidents: James Carter, Book 1
. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1956–.
Nelson, Michael, ed.
Guide to the Presidency
. 3rd ed. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 2002.
Nelson, W. Dale.
Who Speaks for the President? The White House Press Secretary from Cleveland to Clinton
. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1998.
Newman, Robert P.
Truman and the Hiroshima Cult
. East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 1995.
Newmyer, R. Kent.
John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court
. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2001.
Nixon, Richard.
The Memoirs of Richard Nixon
. New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1978.
Oates, Stephen B.
Abraham Lincoln: The Man Behind the Myths
. New York: Signet, 1984.
Oliver, Robert T., and Eugene E. White, eds.
Selected Speeches from American History
. Boston, MA: Allyn and Bacon, 1966.
Olson, James S.
Herbert Hoover and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation
. Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1977.
van Overtveldt, Johan.
Bernanke’s Test: Ben Bernanke, Alan Greenspan, and the Drama of the Central Banker
. Evanston, IL: Agate, 2009.
Pach, Chester J., and Elmo Richardson.
The Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower
. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1991.
Palmer, Michael A.
Stoddert’s War: Naval Operations During the Quasi-War with France, 1798–1801
. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1987.
Papp, Daniel S., Loch Johnson, and John Endicott.
American Foreign Policy: History, Politics, and Policy
. New York: Pearson Longman, 2005.
Parmet, Herbert S.
George Bush: Life of a Lone Star Yankee
. New York: Scribner, 1997.
Patterson, Bradley, Jr.
The White House Staff: Inside the West Wing and Beyond
. Washington, DC: Brookings Institute, 2000.
Perret, Geoffrey.
Eisenhower
. New York: Random House, 1999.
———.
Ulysses S. Grant: Soldier and President
. New York: Random House, 1997.
Peskin, Allan.
Garfield
. Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1999.
Peterson, Mark A.
Legislating Together: The White House and Capitol Hill from Eisenhower to Reagan
. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990.
Phelps, Glenn.
George Washington and American Constitutionalism
. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1993.
Pierce, Bob, and Larry Ashley.
Pierce Piano Atlas
. 11th ed. Albuquerque, NM: Larry Ashley, 2003.
Pippert, Wesley.
The Spiritual Journal of Jimmy Carter
. New York: Macmillan, 1978.
Pomper, Marlene M., ed.
The Election of 1976
. New York: David McKay, 1977.
Posner, Gerald R.
Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the Assassination of JFK
. New York: Random House, 1993.
Posner, Richard A.
The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy
. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2011.
Quandt, William.
Camp David: Peace Making and Politics
. Washington, DC: Brookings Institute, 1986.
Rakove, Jack, ed.
The Unfinished Election of 2000
. New York: Basic Books, 2001.
Randall, James G.
Constitutional Problems Under Lincoln
. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1952.