BIBLIOGRAPHY

The 1920s
Great Depression and the New Deal
World War II
Segregation in the South
American society and the Cold War
Cold War Politics, 1945-1960
1960s: Culture and Society
The Civil Rights Movement
Politics, 1960-1980
Politics since 1980
Society and Culture since 1980
Historiographical Issues
Background Reading
Internet Resources

POLITICS SINCE 1980

Reagan
Donald Mervin, Ronald Reagan and the American Presidency
Michael Schaller, Reckoning With Reagan: America and Its President in the 1980's
Haynes Johnson, Sleepwalking through history: America in the Reagan years
Robert Dalleck, Ronald Reagan: The Politics of Symbolism
William E. Pemberton, Exit With Honor: The Life and PResidency of Ronald Reagan
William Martin, With God on Our Side: The Rise of the Religious Right in America (1996)
William C. Berman, America's Right Turn: From Nixon to Clinton
Lou Cannon, President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime
Michael Schaller, Reckoning with Reagan : America and its president in the 1980s
Alonso Hamby, Liberalism and its Challengers: From FDR to Bush (chapter on Reagan)
Garry Wills, Reagan's America: innocents At Home (1987)
Martin Anderson, Revolution (1988)
David Stockman, The Triumph of Politics: The Inside Story of teh Reagan Revolution (1987)
Sidney Blumenthal, The rise of the counter-establishment : from conservative ideology to political power
Sidney Blumenthal, Pledging Allegiance (1989) [on the 1988 election]
Clinton
Steven Schier, ed., The Postmodern Presidency: Bill Clinton's Legacy in U.S. politics
Colin Campbell and Bert A. Rockman, eds., The Clinton Legacy
Ronald Radosh, Divided they Fell: The Demise of the Democratic Party 1964-1996 (1996)
William C Berman, From the Center to the Edge: the Politics and Policies of the Clinton Presidency (2001)
Joe Klein, The Natural
Benjamin R. Barber Truth of Power: Intellectual Affairs in the Clinton
White House (2001)
Martin Walker Clinton: the President they deserve (1996)
Christopher Hitchens, No one left to lie to: the triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton (2000)
Robert Reich, Locked in the Cabinet (1996)
Dick Morris, Behind the Oval Office
Joe Klein, 'Eight Years: Bill Clinton and the politics of persistence' New Yorker 16 and 23 October, 2000
Lars-Erik Nelson, 'Clinton and his enemies' New York Review of Books, Jan 20, 2000
Alan Dershowitz, Sexual McCarthyism: Clinton, Starr, and the Emerging Constitutional Crisis
Sidney Blumenthal, The Clinton Wars
Richard A. Posner, An Affair of State: The investigation, impeachment and trial of President Clinton
Alan M. Dershowitz, Supreme Injustice: How the High Court Hijacked Election
2000 (2001)
Political Culture/Trends
William C. Berman, America's Right Turn: From Nixon to Clinton (1998)
Kenneth S. Baer, Reinventing Democrats: The Politics of Liberalism from
Reagan to Clinton (2000)
Byron Shafer ed., The End of Realignment (1991)
Kenneth S. Stern A force upon the plain : the American militia movement and the politics of hate (1997)
Thomas B. Edsall and Mary D. Edsall, Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics (1991)
George W. Bush
Kevin Phillips, American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush
Bob Woodward, Bush at War
Eric Alterman and Mark J. Green, The Book on Bush: How George W. (Mis)leads America
John Podhoretz Bush Country : How Dubya Became a Great President While Driving Liberals Insane