American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune and the Politics of Deceit in the House of Bush

The Haldeman diaries

H. R. Haldeman · 698 pages

Crisis of Character: A White House Secret Service Officer Discloses His Firsthand Experience with Hillary, Bill, and How They Operate

Gary J. Byrne · 304 pages

While serving as a Secret Service Officer, Gary Byrne protected President Bill Clinton and the First Family in the White House and outside the Oval Office. There, he saw the political and personal machinations of Bill and Hillary Clinton and those who were fiercely loyal to them. Now Byrne provides a firsthand account of the scandals -- known and unknown -- and daily trials ranging from the minor

Means of Ascent

Robert A. Caro · 522 pages

The second volume of Robert A. Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson, which chronicles his service in World War II and examines the controversy surrounding his win in the 1948 Texas Democratic senatorial primary by eighty-seven votes.

One Man Against the World: The Tragedy of Richard Nixon

Tim Weiner · 376 pages

Draws on recently declassified documents to chronicle one of the most disastrous presidencies in U.S. history, presenting a portrait of a brilliant man overcome by his deep insecurities and his distrust of his cabinet, Congress, and the American people. Here is the first history of President Richard Nixon covering all of his secret tapes and documents, many declassified in the past two years. Awa

Alexander Hamilton

Ron Chernow · 832 pages

From National Book Award winner Ron Chernow, a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation.In the first full-length biography of Alexander Hamilton in decades, National Book Award winner Ron Chernow tells the riveting story of a man who overcame all odds to shape, inspire, and scandalize the newborn America. Acc

Long Walk to Freedom

Nelson Mandela · 638 pages

The riveting memoirs of the outstanding moral and political leader of our time, Long Walk to Freedom brilliantly recreates the drama of the experiences that helped shape Nelson Mandela's destiny. Emotive, compelling and uplifting, Long Walk to Freedom is the exhilarating story of an epic life; a story of hardship, resilience and ultimate triumph told with the clarity and eloquence of a born leader

Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump

Maggie Haberman, Jonathan Swan

“Regime Change is exceptional. It transcends its genre. . . . the book is packed with news that will stay news. . . . This is reporting of consequence.”\ \ —David Remnick, The New Yorker\ \ \ \ “A flabbergasting feat of political reporting.”\ \ —Tina Brown\ \ “Riveting and richly textured. . . . What the authors add is the vivid detail that makes these events feel actual. They wrest real

Profiles in Cowardice: A Study of Collaboration in the Trump Era

Jacob Weisberg · 288 pages

In My Time: A Personal and Political Memoir

Dick Cheney, Liz Cheney · 565 pages

"In his unmistakable voice and with an insider's eye on history, former Vice President Dick Cheney tells the story of his life and the nearly four decades he has spent at the center of American politics and power"-- "A memoir from the former Vice President of the United States"--

Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush's War Cabinet

James Mann · 437 pages

Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency

Barton Gellman · 488 pages

A history of Dick Chaney's vice presidency, with an emphasis on the first term.

The Family: The Real Story of the Bush Dynasty

Kitty Kelley · 736 pages

The Bush family's rise to dominance has been marked by their masterful orchestrations of their own public image, their money and status having always afforded them a curtain of privacy. Until now. An important polemic on wealth, power, and class in America, The Family is rich in texture, probing in its psychological insight, revealing it its political and financial detail, and stunning in the patt

Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump, and the Storming of the Presidency

Joshua Green · 272 pages

The shocking elevation of Steve Bannon to head Trump's flagging presidential campaign on August 17, 2016, hit political Washington like a thunderclap and seemed to signal the meltdown of the Republican Party. Bannon was a bomb-throwing pugilist who'd never run a campaign and was despised by Democrats and Republicans alike. Yet Bannon's hard-edged ethno-nationalism and his elaborate, years-long plo

Tip and the Gipper: When Politics Worked

Chris Matthews · 423 pages

A personal history of a time when two great political opponents served together for the benefit of the country. The author was a top aide to Speaker of the House Tip O'Neill, who waged a principled war of political ideals with President Reagan from 1980 to 1986. Together, the two men forged compromises that shaped America's future and became one of history's most celebrated political pairings: the

The Agenda: Inside the Clinton White House

Bob Woodward · 416 pages

The Promise: President Obama, Year One

Jonathan Alter · 461 pages

Jonathan Alter, one of the country's most respected journalists and historians, uses his unique access to the White House to produce the first inside look at Obama's difficult debut. In Alter's telling, the real Obama is an authentic, demanding, unsentimental, and sometimes overconfident leader.

No One Left to Lie to: The Values of the Worst Family

Christopher Hitchens · 150 pages

Hitchen’s analyzes the character of Bill Clinton in regard to critical actions undertaken during his presidency. In particular Hitches examines “the Monika Lewinsky affair” and Clinton’s response to the impeachment process. Includes an analysis of “triangulation”, ie, Clinton’s political strategy of playing “the left” against “the right” in order to promote his personal ambitions and satisfy his “

The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It

Richard Hofstadter · 560 pages

All the President's Men

Carl Bernstein, Bob Woodward · 356 pages

Investigation and report of the burglary at the Watergate Hotel that culminated with President Richard Nixon's resignation from office.

Stupid White Men

Michael Moore · 320 pages

"Remember when everything was looking up? When the government was running at a surplus, pollution was disappearing, peace was breaking out in the Middle East and Northern Ireland, and the Bridge to the Twenty-First Century was strung with high-speed Internet cable and paved with 401(k) gold?". "Well, so much for the future. Michael Moore, the award-winning provocateur behind Roger & Me and the be

All Too Human

George Stephanopoulos · 480 pages

All Too Human is a new-generation political memoir, written from the refreshing perspective of one who got his hands on the levers of awesome power at an early age. At thirty, the author was at Bill Clinton's side during the presidential campaign of 1992, & for the next five years he was rarely more than a step away from the president & his other advisers at every important moment of the first ter

The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History With the President

Taylor Branch · 707 pages

While still a sitting president, Bill Clinton initiated a project to preserve for historians an unfiltered record of presidential experience. Clinton talks intimately over seven years to his long-time friend, a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, about what it's like to be president, highlighting major events from Clinton's two terms, including war in Bosnia, the anti-deficit crusade, health reform

Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

Rick Perlstein · 881 pages

Richard Nixon's political history, from Congress to the White House, with an emphasis on his political strategies.

The Age of Jackson

Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. · 576 pages