Bibliography on War in Iraq, Bush Administration, and
2004 Election
October 19, 2004
Patrick D. Reagan, Ph.D.
Professor of History
Tennessee Technological University
Alexander,
Paul. The Candidate: Behind John Kerry's Remarkable Run for the White House.
New York: Riverhead Books, 2004. ISBN # 1573222933
Allison,
Graham. Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe. New
York: Times Books/Henry Holt, 2004. ISBN # 0805076514
Alterman,
Eric and Mark Green. The Book on Bush: How George W. Bush (Mis)Leads America.
New York: Viking Press, 2004. ISBN # 0670032735
Bacevich,
Andrew J. American Empire: The Realities and Consequences of U.S. Diplomacy.
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2002. 0-674-00940-1 cloth
0-674-01375-1 paper
Bamford,
James. A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the Abuse of America's
Intelligence Agencies. New York: Doubleday, 2004. ISBN # 0-385-50672-4
Barber,
Benjamin R. Fear’s Empire: War, Terrorism, and Democracy. New York: W.W.
Norton, 2003.
Bovard,
James. The Bush Betrayal. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. ISBN #
140396727X
Brinkley,
Douglas. Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the Vietnam War. New York: William
Morrow, 2003. ISBN # 0-06-60523-3
Bruni,
Frank. Ambling Into History: The Unlikely Odyssey of George W. Bush. New
York: Harper Collins, 2002.
Brzezinski,
Zbigniew. The Choice: Global Domination or Global Leadership. New York:
Basic Books, 2004. ISBN # 0465008003
Buchanan,
Patrick J. Where the Right Went Wrong: How the Neoconservatives Subverted
the Reagan Revolution and Hijacked the Bush Presidency. New York: Thomas
Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2004. ISBN # 0312341156
Byrd,
Senator Robert C. Losing America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant
Presidency. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004. ISBN # 0393059421
Campbell,
Colin and Bert A. Rockman, editors. The George W. Bush Presidency: Appraisals and
Prospects. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2004.
ISBN # 1568029098
Carter,
Graydon. What We’ve Lost: How the Bush Administration Has Curtailed Our
Freedoms, Mortgaged Our Economy, Ravaged Our Environment, and Damaged Our
Standing in the World. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004. ISBN #
0374288925
Clark,
General Wesley K. (Ret.) Winning Modern Wars: Iraq, Terrorism, and the
American Empire. New York: Public Affairs, 2003. ISBN # 1586482181
Clancy, Tom
with General Tony Zinni (Ret.) and Tony Koltz. Battle Ready. New
York: G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2004. ISBN # 0-399-15176-1
Cohen, Eliot
A. Supreme Command: Soldiers, Statesmen and Leadership in Wartime. New
York: Free Press, 2002.
Coll, Steve.
Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from
the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001. New York: Penguin Press, 2004.
Daadler, Ivo
H. and James M. Lindsay. America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign
Policy. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 2003. ISBN # 0815716885
Dubose, Lou.
Boy Genius: Karl Rove, The Brains Behind the Remarkable Political Triumph of
George W. Bush. New York: Public Affairs, 2003.
Fisher,
Louis. Presidential War Power, Second Edition, Revised. Lawrence:
University Press of Kansas, 2004. ISBN # 0-7006-1332-3 cloth 0-7006-1333-1
paper
Franks,
General Tommy with Malcolm McConnell. American Soldier. New York: Regan
Books, 2004. ISBN #0-06-073158-3
Fritz, Ben,
Bryan Keefer, and Brendan Nyhan. All the President's Spin: George W.
Bush, the Media, and the Truth. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004.
ISBN # 0743262514
Gould, Lewis
L. Grand Old Party: A History of the Republicans. New York: Random
House, 2003. ISBN # 0-375-50741-8
Graubard,
Stephen. Command of Office: How War, Secrecy and Deception Transformed the
Presidency, from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush. New York: Basic
Books, 2004. ISBN # 0-465-02757-1
Greenstein,
Fred I., Hugh Heclo. The George W. Bush Presidency: An Early Assessment.
Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2003. ISBN # 0801878454 cloth
0801878462 paper
Gregg, Gary
L., II and Mark J. Rozell, editors. Considering the Bush Presidency. New
York: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN # 0-19-516681-7 cloth 0-19-516680-9
paper
Hersh,
Seymour H. Chain of Command: The Road From 9./11 to Abu Ghraib. New
York: HarperCollins, 2004. ISBN # 0060195916
Hilliard,
Bryan, Tom Lansford, and Robert P. Watson, editors. George W. Bush:
Evaluating the President at Midterm. Albany: State University of New York
Press, 2004. ISBN # 0791461335 cloth and 0791461343 paperback
Hirsh,
Michael. At War with Ourselves: Why America is Squandering Its Chance to
Build a Better World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. ISBN #
0-19-515269-7 cloth 0-19-517602-2 paper
Johnston,
David Cay. Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to
Benefit the Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else. New York: Penguin, 2003.
ISBN # 1591840198
Judis, John
B. The Folly of Empire: What George W. Bush Could Learn from Theodore
Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. ISBN #
0743261275
Keegan,
John. The Iraq War. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2004. ISBN #
1-4000-4199-6
Keillor,
Garrison. Homegrown Democrat: A Few Plain Thoughts from the Heart of America.
New York: Viking, 2004. ISBN # 0-670-03365-0
Kerry,
Senator John. A Call to Service: My Vision for a Better Tomorrow. New
York: Viking, 2004. ISBN # 0-670-03260-3
Kranish,
Michael, Brian C. Mooney, and Nina J. Easton. John F. Kerry: The
Complete Biography by the Boston Globe Reporters Who Know Him Best. New
York: Public Affairs, 2004. ISBN # 1586482734
Krugman,
Paul. The Great Unraveling: Losing Our Way in the New Century. New York:
W.W. Norton, 2003. ISBN # 0393058506
Laqueur,
Walter. No End to War: Terrorism in the 21st Century. New York:
Continuum, 2003. ISBN # 0-8264-1435-4
Lapham,
Lewis. Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and Stifling of Democracy.
New York: Penguin, 2004.
Lind,
Michael. Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American
Politics. New York: Basic Books, 2003. ISBN # 0465041213
Mann, James.
The Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet. New York:
Viking, 2004. ISBN # 0670032999
Micklethwait,
John and Adrian Wooldridge. The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America.
New York: Penguin Press, 2004.
Moore,
James. Bush's War for Reelection: Iraq, the White House, and the People.
Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, 2004. ISBN # 0471483850
Moore,
Michael. The Official Fahrenheit 9/11 Reader. New York: Simon and
Schuster, 2004. ISBN # 0-7432-7292-7
Moore,
Michael. Will They Ever Trust Us Again? Letters from the War Zone.
New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. ISBN # 0-7432-7152-1
Newhouse,
John. Imperial America : The Bush Assault on the World Order. New York:
Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. ISBN # 0375414010
Nye, Joseph
S., Jr. Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics. Washington,
D.C.: Public Affairs, 2004. ISBN # 1-58658-225-4
Phillips,
Kevin. American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune, and the Politics of Deceit in
the House of Bush. New York: Viking, 2004. ISBN # 0-670-03264-6
Record,
Jeffrey. Dark Victory: America’s Second War Against Iraq. Annapolis:
Naval Institute Press, 2004. ISBN # 1591147115
Renshon,
Stanley A. In His Father's Shadow: The Transformations of George W.
Bush. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. ISBN # 1403965463
Scales,
Major General Robert H., Jr. and Williamson Murray. The Iraq War: A
Military History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003. ISBN #
0-674-01280-1
Schaller,
Michael and George Rising. The Republican Ascendancy: American Politics,
1968–2001. Wheeling, IL: Harlan Davidson, 2002. ISBN # 0-88295-970-0
Schier,
Steven C., editor. High Risk and Big Ambition: The Presidency of George W.
Bush. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2004. ISBN # 0822942348
cloth and 0822958503 paperback.
Schlesinger,
Arthur M., Jr. War and the American Presidency. New York: W.W. Norton,
2004. ISBN # 0393060020
Schweizer,
Peter and Rochelle Schweizer. The Bushes: Portrait of a Dynasty. New
York: Doubleday, 2004. ISBN # 0-385-49863-2
Sifrey,
Micah L. and Christopher Cerf, editors. The Iraq War Reader: History,
Documents, Opinions. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. paperback ISBN #
0-7432-5347-7
Tanner,
Stephen. The Wars of the Bushes: A Father and Son as Military Leaders.
Philadelphia: Casemate, 2004. ISBN # 1932033327
Tiefer,
Charles. Veering Right: How the Bush Administration Subverts the Law for
Conservative Causes. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. ISBN #
0520242866
Unger,
Craig. House of Bush, House of Saud: The Secret Relationship Between the
World’s Two Most Powerful Dynasties. New York: Scribner, 2004.
Witcover,
Jules. Party of the People: A History of the Democrats. New York: Random
House, 2003. ISBN # 0-375-50742-6
Woodward,
Bob. Bush at War. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2002. ISBN #
0-7432-0473-5.
Woodward,
Bob. Plan of Attack. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004. Just
out in paperback. Cloth ISBN # 074325547X
Dr. Patrick D. Reagan
preagan@tntech.edu
Tennessee Technological University
Department of History, Box 5064
Cookeville, TN 38505
http://www.tntech.edu/history/cvpdr.html