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Burke, John P. Institutional Presidency: Organizing & Managing the White House from FDR to Clinton, Interpreting American Politics. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Ellis, Richard J., ed. Founding the American Presidency. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield, 1999.
Foley, Michael and John E. Owens. Congress and the Presidency: Institutional Politics in a Separated System. New York: Manchester University Press, 1997.
Genovese, Michael A. and Thomas E. Cronin. The Paradoxes of the American Presidency. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998.
Greenstein, Fred I. The Presidential Difference: Leadership Style from FDR to Clinton. New York: The Free Press, 2000.
Ketcham, Ralph. Presidents above Party: The First American Presidency, 1789-1829. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1987.
Landy, Marc Karnis and Sidney M. Milkis. Presidential Greatness. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2000.
McDonald, Forrest. The American Presidency: An Intellectual History. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1994.
McPherson, James M. and David Rubel, eds. To the Best of My Ability: The American Presidents. New York: DK Publishing, 2000.
Milkis, Sidney M. and Michael Nelson. The American Presidency: Origins & Development 1776-1998. Washington: Congressional Quarterly, 1999.
Nelson, Michael, ed. The Evolving Presidency: Addresses, Cases, Essays, Letters, Reports, Resolutions, Transcripts, and Other Landmark Documents, 1787-1998. Washington: Congressional Quarterly, 1998.
Nelson, Michael, ed. The Presidency and the Political System. Washington: Congressional Quarterly, 2000.
Riccards, Michael P. The Ferocious Engine of Democracy: A History of the American Presidency: From the Origins Through William McKinley. Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1998.
Riccards, Michael P. The Ferocious Engine of Democracy: A History of the American Presidency: Theodore Roosevelt Through George Bush. Lanham, MD: Madison Books, 1998.
Rose, Gary L. The American Presidency under Siege. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997.
Schlesinger, Arthur M., Jr. Imperial Presidency. Bridgewater, NJ: Replica Books, 1998.
Walch, Timothy, ed. At the President's Side: The Vice Presidency in the Twentieth Century. Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press, 1997.
Warshaw, Shirley Anne. The Domestic Presidency: Policy Making in the White House. Needham Heights, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 1996.
Wetterau, Bruce. Congressional Quarterly's Desk Reference on the Presidency. Washington: Congressional Quarterly, 2000.
Congressional Quarterly. National Party Conventions: 1831-2000. Washington: Congressional Quarterly, 2000.
Cornog, Evan and Richard Whelan. Hats in the Ring: An Illustrated History of American Presidential Campaigns. New York: Random House, 2000.
Ellis, Richard J. Speaking to the People: The Rhetorical Presidency in Historical Perspective. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1998.
Gelderman, Carol. All the Presidents' Words: The Bully Pulpit and the Creation of the Virtual Presidency. New York: Walker & Co., 1997.
Hart, Roderick P. Campaign Talk. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2000.
Jones, Charles O. Passages to the Presidency: From Campaigning to Governing. Washington: Brookings Institution, 1998.
Kendall, Kathleen E. Communication in the Presidential Primaries: Candidates and the Media, 1912-2000. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000.
Koplinski, Brad. Hats In The Ring: Conversations with Presidential Candidates. North Bethesda, MD: Presidential Publishing, 2000.
Morreale, Joanne. The Presidential Campaign Film. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1996.
Popkin, Samuel L. The Reasoning Voter: Communication and Persuasion in Presidential Campaigns. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994.
Schantz, Harvey L., ed. American Presidential Elections: Process, Policy, & Political Change. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1996.
Schroeder, Alan. Presidential Debates. New York: Columbia University Press, 2000.
Schlesinger, Arthur Meier and Fred L. Israel, eds. Running for President: The Candidates and Their Images: 1900-1992. New York: Macmillan Library Reference, 1994.
Troy, Gil. See How They Ran: The Changing Role of the Presidential Candidate. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1996.
Hacker, Kenneth L., ed. Candidate Images in Presidential Elections. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1995.
Jamieson, Kathleen H. Packaging the Presidency: A History & Criticism of Presidential Campaign Advertising. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Liebovich, Louis. The Press and the Modern Presidency. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1998.
Maltese, John A. Spin Control: The White House Office of Communications & the Management of Presidential News. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 1994.
McClendon, Sarah and Jules Minton. Mr. President, Mr. President!: My Fifty Years of Covering the White House. Los Angeles: General Publishing Group, 1996.
Nelson, W. Dale. Who Speaks for the President?: The White House Press Secretary from Cleveland to Clinton. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1998.
Plissner, Martin. The Control Room: How Television Calls the Shots in Presidential Elections. New York: Free Press, 1999.
Ponder, Stephen. Managing the Press: Origins of the Media Presidency, 1897-1933. New York: St. Martins Press, 1999.
Silverman, Robert A. and Edwin Diamond. White House to Your House: Media & Politics in Virtual America. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997.
Thomas, Helen. Front Row at the White House: My Life and Times. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.
Woodward, Bob. Shadow: Five Presidents and the Legacy of Watergate 1974-1999. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000.
Anthony, Carl Sferrazza. America's First Families: An Inside View of 200 Years of Private Life in the White House. New York: Touchstone Books, 2000.
Anthony, Carl Sferrazza. First Ladies: The Saga of the Presidents’ Wives and Their Power, 1789-1961. New York: Quill, 1992.
Anthony, Carl Sferrazza. First Ladies: The Saga of the Presidents' Wives and Their Power 1961-1990. New York: Quill, 1993.
Diller, Daniel C. C. and Stephen L. Robertson. The Presidents, First Ladies, and Vice Presidents: White House Biographies, 1789-2001. Washington: Congressional Quarterly, 2000.
Garrett, Wendell, ed. Our Changing White House. Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1995.
Gilbert, Robert E. The Mortal Presidency: Illness and Anguish in the White House. New York: Fordham University Press, 1998.
Gould, Lewis L., ed. American First Ladies: Their Lives and Their Legacy. New York: Garland Publishing, 1996.
Klapthor, Margaret Brown. Official White House China: 1789 to the Present. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1999.
Lamb, Brian. Who's Buried in Grant's Tomb?: A Tour of Presidential Gravesites. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000.
Monkman, Betty C. The White House: Its Historic Furnishings and First Families. New York: Abbeville Press, 2000.
Seale, William. The President's House: A History. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1992.
Smith, Richard Norton and Timothy Walch, eds. Farewell to the Chief: Former Presidents in American Public Life. Worland, WY: High Plains Publishing Co., 1990.
Whitcomb, John and Claire Whitcomb. Real Life at the White House: 200 Years of Daily Life at America's Most Famous Residence. New York: Routledge, 2000.
Compiled by D. Chris Cottrill
Reference Librarian
Smithsonian Institution Libraries
National Museum of American History Library