Bibliography on War in Iraq, Bush Administration, and 2004 Election

The Presidency of George W. Bush: An Historical Bibliography

December 7, 2007

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. When Presidents Lie: A History of Official Deception and Its Consequences. New York: Viking, 2004. ISBN # 0-670-03209-3

________ and Mark Green. The Book on Bush: How George W. Bush (Mis)Leads America. New York: Viking Press, 2004. ISBN # 0-670-03273-5 cloth 0143034421 paper

Altman, Daniel. Neoconomy: George Bush’s Revolutionary Gamble with America’s Future. New York: Public Affairs, 2004, 2005. ISBN # 1-58648-229-7 cloth 158648351X paper.

Andrew, Christopher. For the President’s Eyes Only: Secret Intelligence and the American Presidency From Washington to Bush. New York: Harper Collins, 1995. ISBN # 0-06-092178-1

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

________. The New American Militarism: How Americans Are Seduced by War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005, 2006. ISBN # 0-19-517338-4 cloth 0-19-531198-1 paper

Balmer, Randall. Thy Kingdom Come: How the Religious Right Distorts the Faith and Threaten’s America, An Evangelical’s Lament. New York: Basic Books, 2006. ISBN # 0-465-00519-5

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, 2004. ISBN # 0-393-058360 cloth 0-393-32578-4 paper

Benjamin, Daniel and Steven Simon. The Age of Sacred Terror: Radical Islam’s War Against America. New York: Random House, 2004. ISBN # 0-8129-6984-7

Blumenthal, Sidney. How Bush Rules: Chronicles of a Radical Regime. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. ISBN # 0-691-12888-X

Boller, Paul F. Presidential Campaigns: From George Washington to George W. Bush. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984. ISBN # 0-19-516715-5 cloth 0-19-516716-3 paper

Bovard, James. The Bush Betrayal. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004, 2005. ISBN # 140396727X cloth 1403968519 paper

Bremer, L. Paul, III with Malcolm McConnell. My Year in Iraq: The Struggle to Build a Future of Hope. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2005. ISBN # 0743273893

Brill, Steven. After: How America Confronted the September 12 Era. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2003. ISBN # 0743237099

Brinkley, Douglas. The Great Deluge: Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans, and the Mississippi Gulf Coast. New York: William Morrow, 2006. ISBN # 0-06-112423-5

________. 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

Burns, James MacGregor. Running Alone: Presidential Leadership from JFK to Bush II: Why It Has Failed and How We Can Fix It. New York: Basic Books, 2006. ISBN # 0-465-00832-1

Byrd, Senator Robert C. Losing America: Confronting a Reckless and Arrogant Presidency. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004, 2005. ISBN # 0393059421 cloth 0393327019 paper

Campbell, Colin and Bert A. Rockman, editors. The George W. Bush Presidency: Appraisals and Prospects. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2004. ISBN # 1568029098

Cannon, Carl M., Lou Dubose. Boy Genius Karl Rove, the Architect of George W. Bush’s Remarkable Political Triumphs. New York: Public Affairs, 2003, 2005. ISBN # 1-58648-336-6 paper

Carroll, James. Crusade: Chronicles of an Unjust War. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2004, 2005. ISBN # 0805077030 cloth 0805078436 paper Owl Book

Carroll, James. House of War: The Pentagon and the Disastrous Rise of American Power. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. ISBN # 0-618-18780-4

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

Center for Constitutional Rights. Articles of Impeachment Against George W. Bush. Hoboken, NJ: Melville House Publishing, 2006. ISBN # 1933633085.

Chang, Gordon C. Nuclear Showdown: North Korea Takes on the World. New York: Random House, 2006. ISBN # 1400062942

Clancy, Tom with General Tony Zinni (Ret.) and Tom Zoltz. Battle Ready. New York: Putnam Adult, 2004. ISBN # 0-399-15176-1

Clancy, Tom and Frederick M. Franks, Jr. Into the Storm: A Study in Command. New York: Berkley Publishing Group, 2004. ISBN # 0425196771

Clark, General Wesley K. (Ret.) Winning Modern Wars: Iraq, Terrorism, and the American Empire. New York: Public Affairs, 2003. ISBN # 1586482181

Clarke, Richard A. Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror. New York: Free Press, 2004. ISBN # 0743260244

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. ISBN # 0743230493

Cohen, Warren. America’s Failing Empire: U.S. Foreign Relations Since the Cold War. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2004. ISBN # 1-4051-1426-6 cloth 1-4051-1427-4 paper

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.

Conyers, John, Jr. George W. Bush Versus the U.S. Constitution: The Downing Street Memos and Deception, Manipulation, Torture, Retribution, Coverups in the Iraq War and Illegal Domestic Spying. Chicago: Academy Chicago Publishers, 2006. ISBN # 0897335503

Cordesman, Anthony H. The Iraq War: Strategy, Tactics, and Military Lessons. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2003. OSBN # 0-275-98227-0 cloth 0892064323 paper Center for Strategic and International Studies

Corn, David. The Lies of George W. Bush: Mastering the Politics of Deception. New York: Crown Publishing, 2003, 2004. ISBN # 1-4000-5066-9 cloth 1400050677 paper Three Rivers Press

Daadler, Ivo H. and James M. Lindsay. America Unbound: The Bush Revolution in Foreign Policy. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution, 2003. ISBN # 0815716885

Danner, Mark. Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror. New York: New York Review Books, 2004. ISBN # 1590171527

Dean, John W. Worse Than Watergate: The Secret Presidency of George W. Bush. New York: Little, Brown, 2004. ISBN # 031600023X cloth 0446694835 paper Warner Books

De la Vega, Elizabeth. United States v. George W. Bush et Al. New York: Seven Stories Press, 2006.

De Young, Karen. Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2006. ISBN # 1400041708

Diamond, Larry. Squandered Victory: The American Occupation and the Bungled Effort to Bring Democracy to Iraq. New York: Times Books, 2005. ISBN # 0805078681 cloth 0805080082 2006 paper Owl Books

Dionne, E. J., and William Kristol, eds. Bush v. Gore: The Court Cases and the Commentary. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution Press, 2001. ISBN # 0815701071

Dubose, Lou. Boy Genius: Karl Rove, The Brains Behind the Remarkable Political Triumph of George W. Bush. New York: Public Affairs, 2003.

Dyson, Michael Eric. Come Hell or High Water: Hurricane Katrina and the Color of Disaster. New York: Perseus Books, 2006. ISBN # 0465017614

Edsall, Thomas Byrne. Building Red America: The New Conservative Coalition and the Drive For Permanent Power. New York: Basic Books, 2006. ISBN # 0465018157

Edwards, George C., III and Desmond King, editors. The Polarized Presidency of George W. Bush. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN # 0-19-921797-1

Feaver, Peter D. Armed Servants: Agency, Oversight, and Civil-Military Relations. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2003, 2005. ISBN # 0-674-01051-5 cloth 0-674-01761-7 paper

________ and Christopher Gelpi. Choosing Your Battles: American Civil-Military Relations and the Use of Force. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2003, 2005. ISBN # 0-691-11584-2 cloth 0-691-12427-2 paper

________ and Richard H. Kohn, eds. Soldiers and Civilians: The Civil-Military Gap and American National Security. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001. ISBN # 0-262-06223-2 cloth 0-262-56142-5 paper

Ferguson, Niall. Colossus: The Price of America’s Empire,. New York: Penguin Press, 2004. ISBN # 1-594200-13-0

Fisher, Louis. Constitutional Conflicts Between Congress and the President, Fourth Revised Edition. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1997. ISBN # 0700608168

________. Military Tribunals and Presidential Power: American Revolution to the War on Terrorism. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005. ISBN # 0-7006-1375-7 cloth 0-7006-1376-5 paper

________. Presidential War Power, Second Edition, Revised. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2004. ISBN # 0-7006-1332-3 cloth 0-7006-1333-1 paper

Fontenot, Gregory, E.J. Degen. On Point: The United States Army in Operation Iraqi Freedom. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Army Chief of Staff, 2005. ISBN # 1591142792

Franks, General Tommy with Malcolm McConnell. American Soldier. New York: Regan Books, 2004. ISBN #0-06-073158-3

Friedman, Murray. The Neoconservative Revolution: Jewish Intellectuals and the Shaping of Public Policy. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005, 2006. ISBN # 0521836565 cloth 0521545013 paper

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

Gaddis, John Lewis. Surprise, Security, and the American Experience. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2004, 2005. ISBN # 0-674-01174-0 cloth 0674018362 paper

Gardner, Lloyd C. and Marylin B. Young, eds.. The New American Empire: A 21st Century Teach-In On U.S. Foreign Policy. New York: The New Press, 2005. ISBN # 1-56584-933-7 cloth 1-56584-905-1 paper

Gould, Lewis L. Grand Old Party: A History of the Republicans. New York: Random House, 2003. ISBN # 0-375-50741-8

Gordon, Michael R. and Bernard E. Trainor. Cobra II: The Inside Story of the Invasion and Occupation of Iraq. New York: Pantheon, 2006. ISBN # 0-375-42262-5

Gore, Al. The Assault on Reason. New York: Penguin Press, 2007. ISBN # 1594201226.

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, 2006. ISBN # 0-465-02757-1 cloth 0-465-02758-X paper

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

Hacker, Jacob S. and Paul Pierson. Off Center: The Republican Revolution and the Erosion of American Democracy. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005, 2006. ISBN # 0300108702 cloth 0300119755 paper

Halper, Stefan and Jonathan Clarke. America Alone: The Neo-Conservatives and the Global Order. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ISBN # 0521838347 cloth 0521674603 paper

Hashim, Ahmed S. Insurgency and Counterinsurgency in Iraq. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005. ISBN # 0801444527

Henderson, Kristin. While They’re at War: The True Story of American Families on the Homefront. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2006. ISBN # 0618558756 cloth 0618773452 paper

Hersh, Seymour H. Chain of Command: The Road From 9./11 to Abu Ghraib. New York: HarperCollins, 2004. ISBN # 0060195916

Hersping, Dale R. The Pentagon and the Presidency: Civil-Military Relations from FDR to George W. Bush. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2005, 2006. ISBN # 0700613552 cloth 0700614915 paper

Hess, Gary R. Presidential Decisions For War: Korea, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. ISBN # 0-8018-6515-8 cloth 0-8018-6516-6 paper

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

Hodgson, Godfrey. More Equal Than Others: America from Nixon to the New Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2004, 2006. ISBN # 0-691-11788-8 cloth 0-691-12767-0 paper

Holtzman, Elizabeth and Cynthia L. Cooper. The Impeachment of George W. Bush: A Practical Guide for Concerned Citizens. New York: Nation Books, 2006. ISBN # 156025940X

Horne, Jed. Breach of Faith: Hurricane Katrina and the Near Death of a Great American City, 412. New York: Random House, 2006.

Irons, Peter. War Powers: How the Imperial Presidency Hijacked the Constitution. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2005, 2006. ISBN # 0-8050-7593-3 cloth 0805080171 paper Owl Books

Johnson, Chalmers. The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic. New York: Metropolitan, 2004, 2005. ISBN # 0805070044 cloth 0805077979 paper Owl Books

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, 2005. ISBN # 1591840198 cloth 1591840694 paper Portfolio Trade

Judis, John B. The Folly of Empire: What George W. Bush Could Learn from Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2004, 2006. ISBN # 0743261275 cloth 0195309022 paper Oxford University Press

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

Kepel, Gilles. The War for Muslim Minds: Islam and the West. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005, 2006. ISBN # 0674015754 cloth 067401992X paper

Kerry, Senator John. A Call to Service: My Vision for a Better Tomorrow. New York: Viking, 2004. ISBN # 0-670-03260-3

Kinzer, Stephen. Overthrow: America’s Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq. New York: Henry Holt, 2006. ISBN # 0-8050-7861-4

Kohn, Richard H., ed. The United States Military Under the Constitution of the United States, 1789–1989. New York: New York University Press, 1991. ISBN # 0-8147-4615-2 cloth 0-8147-4638-1paper

Kohut, Andrew and Bruce Stokes. America Against the World: How We Are Different and Why We Are Disliked. New York: Times Books, 2006. ISBN # 0805077219

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, 2005. ISBN # 1594200173 cloth 0143035029 paper

Leffler, Melvyn P., Robert Kagan, Walter l. Hixson, Carolyn Eisenberg, Daniel W. Drezner, Arnold A. Offner, and Anna Kasten Nelson. “Diplomatic History Roundtable: The Bush Administration’s Foreign Policy in Historical Perspective.” Diplomatic History 29, no. 3 (June 2005): 395–444.

Life Magazine. Last Letters Home: Voices of Americans from the Battlefields of Iraq, foreword by Senator John McCain. New York: Life Books, 2004. ISBN # 1-593151-63-2

Lind, Michael. Made in Texas: George W. Bush and the Southern Takeover of American Politics. New York: Basic Books, 2003. ISBN # 0465041213

Lindorff, Dave and Barbara Olshansky. The Case for Impeachment: The Legal Argument for Removing President George W. Bush from Office. New York: Thomas Dunne Books, 2006. ISBN # 0312360169

Mandelbaum, Michael. The Case for Goliath: How America Acts as the World’s Government in the Twenty-First Century. New York: Public Affairs, 2006, 2007. ISBN # 1586483609 cloth 1586484583 paper

Mann, James. The Rise of the Vulcans: The History of Bush’s War Cabinet. New York: Viking, 2004. ISBN # 0670032999

May, Ernest R., ed. The 9/11 Commission Report. New York: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2007. ISBN # 0–312–45099–0

Micklethwait, John and Adrian Wooldridge. The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America. New York: Penguin Press, 2004.

Moens, Alexander. The Foreign Policy Of George W. Bush: Values, Strategy And Loyalty. London: Ashgate Publishing, 2004. ISBN # 0754642747

Moore, James. Bush's War for Reelection: Iraq, the White House, and the People. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, 2004. ISBN # 0471483850

________. and Wayne Slater. The Architect: Karl Rove and the End of the Democratic Party. New York: Crown, 2006. ISBN # 0-307-23792-7

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

Naftali, Tim. Blind Spot: The Secret History of American Counterterrorism. New York: Basic Books, 2005, 2006. ISBN # 0-465-09281-0 cloth 0-465-09282-9 paper

National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. The 9/11 Report: Final Report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States. New York: W.W. Norton, 2004. ISBN # 0-393-06041-1

Nelson, Michael. The Elections of 2004. Washington, D.C.: Congressional Quarterly Press, 2005.

Newhouse, John. Imperial America : The Bush Assault on the World Order. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. ISBN # 0375414010

Nichols, John. Dick: The Man Who is President. New York: New Press, 2004. ISBN # 1565848403

Nye, Joseph S., Jr. Soft Power: The Means to Success in World Politics. Washington, D.C.: Public Affairs, 2004. ISBN # 1-58658-225-4

O’Hanlon, Michael and Mike Mochizuki. Crisis on the Korean Peninsula: How to Deal with a Nuclear North Korea. Washington, D.C.: Brookings Institution/McGraw-Hill, 2004. ISBN # 0071431551

Packer, George. The Assassins’ Gate: America in Iraq. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2005, 2006. ISBN # 0-374-29963-3 cloth 0374530556 paper

Phillips, David L. Losing Iraq: Inside the Postwar Reconstruction Fiasco. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2005. ISBN # 0-8133-4304-6

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

________. American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil, and Borrowed Money in the 21stCentury. New York: Viking Adult, 2006. ISBN # 067003486X

Piven, Frances Fox. The War at Home: The Domestic Costs of Bush’s Militarism. New York: The New Press, 2005, 2006. ISBN # 1565849353 cloth 1595580921 paper

Pollack, Kenneth. The Persian Puzzle: The Conflict Between Iran and America. New York: Random House, 2004, 2005. ISBN # 1400063159 cloth 0812973364 paper

________. The Threatening Storm: The United States and Iraq: The Crisis, the Strategy, and the Prospects After Saddam. New York: Random House, 2004. ISBN # 0-375-50928-3

Prados, John. Hoodwinked: The Documents That Reveal How Bush Sold Us a War, 320, 375. New York: The New Press, 2004. ISBN # 1565849310 cloth 0756787653 paper Diane Publishing Company

Rakove, Jack N., ed. The Unfinished Election of 2000: Leading Scholars Examine America’s Strangest Election. New York: Basic Books, 2001, 2002. ISBN # 0-465-06837-5 cloth 0-465-06838-3 paper

Record, Jeffrey. Dark Victory: America’s Second War Against Iraq. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2004, 2005. ISBN # 1591147115 cloth 1741144477 paper Allen & Unwin

Renshon, Stanley A. In His Father's Shadow: The Transformations of George W. Bush. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2004. ISBN # 1403965463

Ricks, Thomas E. Fiasco: The American Military Adventure in Iraq. New York: Penguin Press, 2006. ISBN # 1-59420-103-X

Risen, James. State of War: The Secret History of the CIA and the Bush Administration. New York: Free Press, 2006. ISBN # 0743270665 cloth 0743270673 paper

Robin, Corey. Fear: The History of a Political Idea. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, 2006. ISBN # 0-19-515702-8 cloth 0-19-518912-4 paper

Rosen, Gary, ed. The Right War? The Conservative Debate on Iraq. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005. ISBN # 0521856817 cloth 0521673186 paper

Rothkopf, David J. Running The World: The Inside Story of the National Security Council and the Architects of American Power. New York: Public Affairs, 2005, 2006. ISBN # 1586482483 cloth 1586484230 paper