Politics (High School)



  • Non-fiction/Biography

    Alderman, Ellen, and Caroline Kennedy.  The Right to Privacy,
    In Our Defense : The Bill of Rights in Action
    Ambrose, Stephen.       Character Above All: Stephen Ambrose on Dwight D. Eisenhower, Nixon
    The Education of a Politician 1913-1962.  Witness to America:  An Illustrated Documentary
    Bush, George.   All the Best, George Bush-My Life and Other Writings.
    Bush, George W.         A Charge to Keep.
    Bradley, Bill.                  Time Present, Time Past: a Memoir.
    Buchanan, Patrick J.    A Republic, Not an Empire The Great Betrayal:  How American  Sovereignty and Social Justice Are Being Sacrificed to the Gods of the Global Economy.
    Califano, Joseph A.     The triumph and tragedy of Lyndon Johnson: the White House Years
    Carter, Jimmy.          A Government As Good As Its People
    Carville, James.        We're Right, They're Wrong:  A Handbook for Spirited Progressives
    D'Amato, Sen. Al         Power, Pasta & Politics : The World  According to Senator Al D'Amato.
    Davis, Richard  The Web of Politics
    Dole, Robert J. &Elizabeth  Unlimited Partners : Our American Story.
    Donnelly, David Money and Politics : Financing Our Elections
    Democratically (The New Democracy Forum)
    Gilins, Martin  Why Americans Hate Welfare
    Gore, Al.               Common Sense Government : Works Better and Costs Less.
    Hart, Roderick  P.      Campaign Talk
    Ivins, Molly            Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush
    Kauffman, Bill, and Gore Vidal.  America First! : Its History, Culture, and Politics
    Lawson, Don      America held hostage: the Iran hostage crisis and the Iran Contra affair
    Limbaugh, Rush          The Way Things Ought to Be See, I Told you So.
    McCain, John.   Faith of My Fathers.
    Mahoney, Richard D.  Sons and Brothers : The Days of Jack and Bobby Kennedy
    Maraniss, David The Prince of Tennessee: the Rise of Al Gore
    Mitchell, Elizabeth     W: The Revenge of the Bush Dynasty
    Milton, Joyce.          The First Partner Hillary Rodham Clinton.
    Morris, Edmund.         Dutch:  A Memoir of Ronald Reagan.
    Noonan, Peggy   The Case Against Hillary Clinton
    Olson, Barbara.         Hell to Pay : The Unfolding Story of Hillary Rodham
    Quayle, Dan.            Worth Fighting For; Standing Firm
    Rather, Dan.            The Palace Guard
    Salinger, Pierre.       John F. Kennedy, Commander-In-Chief       A Profile in Leadership.
    Scheim, David E.        Contract on America : The Mafia Murder of President John F. Kennedy
    Schlesinger Jr., Arthur M.      A Thousand Days : John F. Kennedy in the White House.  Robert Kennedy and his times
    Sheehy, Gail.           Hillary's Choice.
    Stehpanopoulos, George.  All too Human:  A Political Education.
    Taylor, Nick            John Glenn: a Memior
    Turque, Bill            Inventing Al Gore
    Twyman, Noel.   Bloody Treason : On Solving History's Greatest Murder  Mystery : The Assassination of John F. Kennedy
    .Ventura, Jesse.        I Ain't Got Time to Bleed:  Reworking the Body Politic  from the Bottom Up.
    Vidal, Gore.            The American Presidency.  Lincoln
    Weberman, Alan J.       Coup D'Etat in America : The CIA and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy
    Woodword, Bob  and Bernstein, Carl  All the President's Men
    Wooten, James.  Dasher: the Roots and Rising of Jimmy Carter

    Parody

    Collins, Gail.          Scorpion Tongues: gossip, celebrity and American politics
    Franken, Al.    Why Not Me? : The Inside Story of the Making and Unmaking of the Franken Presidency, Rush Limbaugh Is a Big Fat Idiot : And Other Observations.
    Tally, Steve    Bland Ambition: from Adams to Quayle - the cranks, criminals, tax cheats and golfers who made it.
    Wright, Dick, forward by Dan Quayle.  If He Only Had a Brain.  (editorial cartoons)

    Fiction

    Adams, Sam Hopkins.     Revelry
    Anonymous.                      Primary Color
    Archer, Jeffrey.                Shall We Tell the President?
    Asch, Nathan.           Pay Day
    Baldacci, David.                The Simple Truth
    Clancy, Tom.                    Debt of Honor
                                    Executive Decision
                                    Red Storm Rising
    Clark, Mary Higgins.             Stillwatch
    Coleman, Hila                   Daughter of discontent
    Collins, Max                    Murder by the numbers
                                    True Detective
    Condon, Richard         The Manchurian candidate
    Cussler, Clive.                 Deep six
    Dinneen, Joseph.                Ward Eight
    Doctorow, E.L                   The Book of Daniel
    DosPassos, John.                Grand design
    Drury, Allen .                  Advise and Consent
    Heller, Joseph.                  Good as gold
    Ignatius, David.                The age of innocence
    Jakes, John                     Love and War
    Just, Ward.                     Jack Gance
    Kerr, M.E.                       Linger
    Klein, Joe                      The Running Mate
    Knebel, Fletcher.               Seven days in May
    Koontz, Dean            Dark Rivers of the heart
    Laurents, Arthur.               The way we were
    Lewis, Sinclair         It can't happen here
    Liotta, P.H.                    Diamond's Compass
    Ludlum, Robert.                 The Bourne Identity
    The Bourne Supremacy
                                    The Bourne Ultimatum
                                    The Icarus Agenda
    McKenna,  Richard.              The sand pebbles
    Michener, James.                 Space
    Nason, Tena                     Ethel: the fictional biography
    O'Connor,  Edwin.               All in the family
                                    The last hurrah
    Roosevelt, Elliott              Murder in Georgetown
                                    Murder in the Map Room
                                    Murder in the Chateau
    Serling, Robert J.              The President's plane is missing
    Shaw, Irwin.                    The troubled air
    Tarkinton, Booth.               The gentleman from Indiana
    Toland, John.                   The Gods of war
    Truman, Margaret                Murder at the…(a series of books set in Washington)
    Vidal, Gore.                     Empire
    1876
    Burr:  a Novel.
    Hollywood: a novel of America in the 1920's
    Washington DC:  a Novel.
    Vonnegut, Kurt.                 Jailbird
    Warren, Robert Penn.    All the King's Men
    Woods, Stuart.                  Chiefs
    Wouk, Herman.            Inside, outside
     

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