PL Washington Power Politics

1 The Pennington Library Washington Power Politics Acheson, Dean. Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department. New York, NY: W. W. Norton, 1987.

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Caro, Robert. The Path to Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1983.

Caro, Robert. Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1991.

Caro, Robert. Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 2003.

Caro, Robert. The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 2013.

Caro, Robert. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1975.

Chafe, William H. Private Lives/Public Consequences: Personality and Politics in Modern America. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2005.

Cramer, Richard Ben. What It Takes. New York, NY: Vintage Books, 1993.

Drew, Elizabeth. Whatever It Takes: The Real Struggle for Political Power in America. Updated Edition. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 1998.

Gergen, David. Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership, Nixon to Clinton. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2005.

Halberstam, David. The Best and the Brightest: Twentieth-Anniversary Edition. New York, NY: Ballantine Books, 1992.

Halberstam, David. War in a Time of Peace: Bush, Clinton, and the Generals. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2002.

Harrison, Jaime and Amos Snead. Climbing the Hill: How to Build a Career in Politics and Make a Difference. New York, NY: Ten Speed Press, 2018.

Hertzberg, Hendrik. Politics: Observations and Arguments, 1966-2004. New York, NY: Penguin Books, 2004.

Hughes, Judith. Emotion and High Politics: Personal Relations and the Summit in Late Nineteenth-Century Britain and Germany. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1983.

Isikoff, Michael and David Corn. Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraq War. New York, NY: Broadway Books, 2007.

Jacobs, John. A Race for Justice: The Passion and Politics of Phillip Burton. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1997.

Johnston, Rob. Analytic Culture in the U. S. Intelligence Community: An Ethnographic Study.

Washington, DC: Central Intelligence Agency, 2005.

Marshall, Bryan W. and Bruce C. Wolpe. The Committee: A Study of Policy, Power, Politics and Obama’s Historic Legislative Agenda on Capitol Hill. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 2018.

2 Perlstein, Rick. Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus.

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Perlstein, Rick. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America. New York, NY: Scribner, 2009.

Perlstein, Rick. The Invisible Bridge: The Fall of Nixon and the Rise of Reagan. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2015.

Reagan, Ronald. The Reagan Diaries. Ed. Douglas Brinkley. New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2007.

Scheffer, David. The Sit Room: In the Theater of War and Peace. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019.

Sherman, Gabriel. The Loudest Voice in the Room: How the Brilliant, Bombastic Roger Ailes Built Fox News—and Divided a Country. New York, NY: Random House, 2017.

Shultz, George P. Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State. New York, NY: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1993.

Sparrow, Bartholomew. The Strategist: Brent Scowcroft and the Call of National Security. New York, NY: Public Affairs, 2015.

Suskind, Ron. Confidence Men: Wall Street, Washington, and the Education of a President. New York, NY: Harper Perennial, 2012.

Suskind, Ron. The Once Percent Doctrine: Deep Inside America’s Pursuit of Its Enemies since 9/11. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2007.

Suskind, Ron. The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush, The White House, and the Education of Paul O’Neill. New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 2004.

Talbott, Strobe. The Master of the Game: Paul Nitze and the Nuclear Peace. New York, NY: Vintage, 1989.

Varoufakis, Yanis. Adults in the Room: My Battle with the European and American Deep Establishment. New York, NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017.

Wert, Hal Elliot. George McGovern and the Democratic Insurgents: The Best Campaign and Political Posters of the Last Fifty Years. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press, 2015.

Yergin, Daniel. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money and Power. New York, NY: Free Press, 2009.