Read History Buff's Guide to the Presidents Online
Authors: Thomas R. Flagel
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Randall, Willard Sterne.
Thomas Jefferson
. New York: Henry Holt, 1993.
Rayback, Robert.
Millard Fillmore
. Buffalo, NY: Henry Stewart, 1959.
Reeves, Richard.
President Nixon: Alone in the White House
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001.
Reeves, Thomas.
The Life of Chester A. Arthur
. New York: Knopf, 1975.
Rehnquist, William H.
Centennial Crisis: The Disputed Election of 1876
. New York: Knopf, 2004.
Reichley, A. James.
Faith in Politics
. Washington, DC: Brookings Institute, 2002.
Remini, Robert V.
Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Freedom, 1822–1832
. New York: Harper and Row, 1981.
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The Election of Andrew Jackson
. Philadelphia, PA: Lippincott, 1963.
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Henry Clay
. New York: Norton, 1991.
Rhodehamel, John H., comp.
George Washington: Writings
. New York: Library of America, 1997.
Risjord, Norman.
Thomas Jefferson
. Madison, WI: Madison House, 1994.
Roberts, John B., II.
Rating the First Ladies
. New York: Citadel, 2003.
Rodrigues, Junius, ed.
The Louisiana Purchase: A Historical and Geographic Encyclopedia
. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2002.
Rosenberg, Jonathan, and Zachary Karabell.
Kennedy, Johnson, and the Quest for Justice: The Civil Rights Tapes
. New York: Norton, 2003.
Roundtree, Clarke.
George W. Bush: A Biography
. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2011.
Rosenman, Samuel I., comp.
Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt
. 13 vols. New York: Random House, 1938–50.
Rozell, Mark, and Clyde Wilcox, eds.
The Clinton Scandal and the Future of American Government
. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 2000.
Rubenzer, Steven J., and Thomas R. Faschingbauer.
Personality, Character, and Leadership in the White House: Psychologists Assess the Presidents
. Washington, DC: Brassey’s, 2004.
Russell, Francis.
The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding in His Times
. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1968.
Rutland, Robert.
James Madison
. New York: Macmillan, 1987.
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The Presidency of James Madison
. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1990.
Sandburg, Carl.
Abraham Lincoln
. New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1954
Schaller, Michael.
Reckoning with Reagan: America and Its President in the 1980s
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1992.
Schick, Allen.
The Federal Budget: Politics, Policy, Process
. Washington, DC: Brookings Institute, 2000.
Schier, Steven E.
Panorama of a Presidency: How George W. Bush Acquired and Spent His Political Capital
. Armonk, NY: M. E. Sharpe, 2009.
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr.
The Imperial Presidency
. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
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A Thousand Days
. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
———, and Fred L. Israel, eds.
The History of American Presidential Elections
. Philadelphia: Chelsea House, 2002.
Scholes, Walter V., ed.
United States Diplomatic History
. 2 vols. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1973.
Schroeder, John H.
Mr. Polk’s War: American Opposition and Dissent, 1846–1848
. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1973.
Schwartz, Bernard.
A History of the Supreme Court
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Scigliano, Robert.
The Supreme Court and the Presidency
. New York: Free Press, 1971.
Seale, William.
The Presidents House
. Washington, DC: White House Historical Association, 1986.
Sears, Stephen W., ed.
The Civil War Papers of George B. McClellan
. New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1989.
Sheehan, Neil.
The Pentagon Papers
. New York: Quadrangle Books, 1971.
Sievers, Harry.
Benjamin Harrison: Hoosier Statesman
. 3 vols. Chicago: Regnery, 1952–68.
Silbey, David J.
A War of Frontier and Empire: The Philippine-American War, 1899–1902
. New York: Hill and Wang, 2007.
Simpson, Brooks.
Ulysses S. Grant
. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2000.
Singer, Aaron, ed.
Campaign Speeches of American Presidential Candidates, 1928–1972
. New York: Frederick Unger, 1976.
Singer, Peter.
The President of Good and Evil: The Ethics of George W. Bush
. New York: Dutton, 2004.
Slaughter, Thomas P.
The Whiskey Rebellion
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Smith, Bradley F.
The War’s Long Shadow
. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1986.
Smith, Elbert B.
The Presidencies of Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore
. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1988.
Smith, Gaddis.
The Last Years on the Monroe Doctrine, 1945–1993
. New York: Hill and Wang, 1994.
Smith, James Morton, ed.
The Republic of Letters: The Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and James Madison
. 3 vols. New York: Norton, 1995.
Smith, Jean E.
John Marshall: Definer of a Nation
. New York: Henry Holt, 1996.
Socolofsky Homer E., and Allan B. Spetter.
The Presidency of Benjamin Harrison
. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1987.
Sorensen, Theodore.
Kennedy
. New York: Harper and Row, 1965.
Sorge, Martin K.
The Other Price of Hitler’s War: German Military and Civilian Losses Resulting from World War II
. New York: Greenwood Press, 1986.
South Carolina Convention.
Journal of the Convention of the People of South Carolina, Held in 1860, 1861, and 1862, Together with the Ordinances, Reports, Resolutions, etc
. Columbia, SC: R. W. Gibbes, 1862.
Speer, Lonnie R.
Portals to Hell: Military Prisons of the Civil War.
Mechanicsburg, PA: Stackpole Books, 1997.
Spitzer, Robert.
The Presidential Veto: Touchstone of the American Presidency
. New York: State University of New York Press, 1988.
Stagg, J. C. A.
Mr. Madison’s War: Politics, Diplomacy, and Warfare in the Early American Republic, 1783–1830
. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1983.
Steers, Edward, Jr.
Blood on the Moon: The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2001.
Stockholm International Peace Research Institute.
SIPRI Yearbook 2011
. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
Strober, Deborah H., and Gerald S. Strober.
The Nixon Presidency: An Oral History of the Era
. Washington, DC: Brassey’s, 2003.
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Reagan: The Man and His Presidency
. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1998.
Stuckey, Mary E.
Defining Americans: The Presidency and National Identity
. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2004.
Summers, Anthony.
The Arrogance of Power: The Secret World of Richard Nixon
. New York: Viking, 2000.
Summers, Harry, Jr.
Vietnam War Almanac
. New York: Facts on File, 1985.
Tebbel, John, and Sarah M. Watts.
The Press and the Presidency
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Thomas, Benjamin P.
Abraham Lincoln: A Biography
. New York: Modern Library, 1968.
Toland, John.
The Rising Sun
. New York: Random House, 1970.
Treasury Report on Finance.
Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury
. Washington, DC: U.S. Treasury Department, 1919.
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Annual Report of the Secretary of the Treasury
. Washington, DC: U.S. Treasury Department, 1928.
Tucker, Spencer C., ed.
Encyclopedia of American Military History
. New York: Facts on File, 2003.
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Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War
. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Truman, Margaret.
Harry S. Truman
. New York: William Morrow, 1973.
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Where the Buck Stops: The Personal and Private Writings of Harry S. Truman
. New York: Warner Books, 1989.
Tuchman, Barbara.
The Proud Tower
. New York: Macmillan, 1966.
U.S. Commerce Department.
Statistical Abstract of the United States
. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2005.
U.S. Department of Defense.
Conduct of the Persian Gulf War: The Final Report to the U.S. Congress
. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1992.
U.S. Office of Management and Budget.
Budget of the United States Government: Historical Tables, Fiscal Year 2007
. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2006.
U.S. Senate Library.
Presidential Vetoes, 1789–1988
. Washington, DC: Government Printing Office, 1992.
U.S. Warren Commission.
Report of the Warren Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy
. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1964.
Vandiver, Frank E.
How America Goes to War
. London: Praeger, 2005.
Van Sant, John, Peter Mauch, and Yoneyuki Sugita.
Historical Dictionary of United States–Japan Relations.
Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2007.
Varhola, Michael J.
Everyday Life During the Civil War
. Cincinnati: Writer’s Digest Books, 1999.
Venzon, Anne Cipriano, ed.
The United States in the First World War
. New York: Garland, 1995.
Wagenheim, Kal.
Puerto Rico: A Profile
. New York: Praeger, 1975.
Wagner, Heather L.
Barack Obama
. New York: Chelsea House, 2008.
Walch, Timothy, ed.
At the President’s Side: The Vice Presidency in the Twentieth Century
. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1997.
Walker, J. Samuel.
Prompt and Utter Destruction: Truman and the Use of Atomic Bombs Against Japan
. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1997.
Ward, Geoffrey C.
The Civil War
. New York: Knopf, 1990.
Watson, Richard A.
Presidential Vetoes and Public Policy
. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 1993.
Watterson, John S.
The Games Presidents Play: Sports and the Presidency
. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006.
Watts, Sarah.
Rough Rider in the White House: Theodore Roosevelt and the Politics of Desire
. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003.
Waugh, John C.
Reelecting Lincoln: The Battle for the 1864 Presidency
. New York: Crown, 1997.
Wead, Doug.
All the Presidents’ Children
. New York: Atria, 2003.
Weichmann, Louis.
A True History of the Assassination of Abraham Lincoln and the Conspiracy of 1865
. New York: Knopf, 1975.
Weinstein, Edwin A.
Woodrow Wilson: A Medical and Psychological Biography
. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1981.
Weisberg, Herbert, and Clyde Wilcox, eds.
Models of Voting in Presidential Elections: The 2000 U.S. Election
. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2004.
Whitcomb, John, and Claire Whitcomb.
Real Life at the White House
. New York: Routledge, 2000.
White, Theodore H.
The Making of the President, 1972
. New York: Atheneum, 1973.
Williams, T. Harry.
The History of American Wars: From 1745 to 1918
. New York: Knopf, 1981.
Wilson, John F., ed.
Church and State in America: A Bibliographical Guide
. New York: Greenwood, 1987.
Wilson, John K.
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Rush Limbaugh’s Assault on Reason
. New York: St. Martin’s, 2011.
Wiltse, Jeff.
Contested Waters: A Social History of Swimming Pools in America
. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2007.