Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America

5 best books like Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (Rick Perlstein): Master of the Senate, A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin, What It Takes: The Way to the White House, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

Master of the Senate

Author	Robert A. Caro
ISBN	0394720954

The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro’s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. Master of the Senate takes Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the United States Senate. Once the most august and revered...

A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House

Author	Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
ISBN	1579124496

Written by one of our foremost historians and published in 1965, A Thousand Days is still considered the most complete and definitive portrait of John F. Kennedy and his administration. Handpicked by Kennedy to serve as special assistant to the president, historian and Harvard professor Arthur M....

The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Sarah Palin

Author	Corey Robin
ISBN	0199793743

Late in life, William F. Buckley made a confession to Corey Robin. Capitalism is "boring," said the founding father of the American right. "Devoting your life to it," as conservatives do, "is horrifying if only because it's so repetitious. It's like sex." With this unlikely conversation began Robin's...

What It Takes: The Way to the White House

Author	Richard Ben Cramer
ISBN	0679746498

An American Iliad in the guise of contemporary political reportage, What It Takes penetrates the mystery at the heart of all presidential campaigns: How do presumably ordinary people acquire that mixture of ambition, stamina, and pure shamelessness that makes a true candidate? As he recounts the...

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

Author	Gordon S. Wood
ISBN	0143035282

From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to the man he really was and makes sense of aspects of his life and career...