Voters and Campaign Tactics, Macroeconomics and Electoral Politics, The Rise of Southern Republicans
Suggested reading for Obama and McCain: Hemingway, Shakespeare, Robert Kagan, Adam Smith, Cass Sunstein
Economic Crises, Homeland Security, Health Care, Education, Immigration, Climate Change
The Iraq War, Terrorism, Empire, Iran, China, Latin America, Africa, International Conflict
As race and religion play a more important role than ever this election, these books explore their relationship to democracy
Presidential and Military Leadership, Federal Service, The Constitution, Foreign Policy, Special Interest Groups
The Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers, Lincoln, LBJ, JKF, Nixon/Kissinger, Reagan, Clinton
- Interview with Margaret Hogan, author of My Dearest Friend
- “A treat—the most comprehensive edition of letters between two extremely lively writers, America's second president and his wife...This book is a treasure.”
—Publishers Weekly
- more biographies of and commentaries on past presidents...
- Commentary by Paul Light (NPR), author of A Government Ill Executed
- “The presidential candidates...should read this book...[or] ‘they are likely to preside over a string of meltdowns that will make the federal response to Hurricane Katrina look like a minor mistake.’”
—Bill Moyers, PBS
- more books on good governing and leadership...
- Interview with Philip T. Hoffman, one of the authors of Surviving Large Losses
- Why financial crises occur, why their effects last so long, and what political and economic conditions can help countries survive, and even prosper, in the aftermath.
- more books on the issues, domestic and foreign policy...
- Interview with Cass Sunstein, author of Worst-Case Scenarios
- Nuclear bombs in suitcases, anthrax, avian flu, scorching temperatures... Sunstein explores worst-case scenarios and how we might best prevent them in this vivid and highly original analysis.
- more recommended reading for the candidates, Obama and McCain...
- Interview with Donald Critchlow, author of The Conservative Ascendancy
- “The indispensable scholarly account of how...grass-roots activists launched a counteroffensive against the prevailing...order... [and] became the dominant force in U.S. politics.” —Chattanooga Times Free Press
- more books about voting and the process of elections...
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