The Boys on the Bus
10 best books like The Boys on the Bus (Timothy Crouse): The Selling of the President, What It Takes: The Way to the White House, Nixon Agonistes: The Crisis of the Self-Made Man, Doonesbury Dossier: The Reagan Years, The Powers That Be, Outlaw Journalist, Freak Kingdom: Hunter S. Thompson's Manic Ten-Year Crusade Against American Fascism, Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan, The Status Seekers, Eugene V. Debs: Citizen and Socialist
| Author | Joe McGinniss |
| ISBN | 0140112405 |
What makes you cast your ballot?
A Presidential candidate or a good campaign?
How he stands on the issues or how he stands up to the camera?The Selling of the President is the enduring story of the 1968 campaign that wrote the script for modern Presidential politicking—and how that script...
| 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...
| Author | Garry Wills |
| ISBN | 0618134328 |
From one of America's most distinguished historians comes this classic analysis of Richard Nixon. By considering some of the president's opinions, Wills comes to the controversial conclusion that Nixon was actually a liberal. Both entertaining and essential, Nixon Agonistes captures a troubled...
| Author | G.B. Trudeau |
| ISBN | 0030000726 |
Garretson Beekman "Garry" Trudeau is an American cartoonist, best known for the Doonesbury comic strip. In 1970, Trudeau's creation of Doonesbury was syndicated by the newly formed Universal Press Syndicate. Today Doonesbury is syndicated to almost 1,400 newspapers worldwide and is accessible...
| Author | David Halberstam |
| ISBN | 0252069412 |
This week, I finished two books that both merit extremely high praise. One is Andrew Bacevich's most recent study of America's ineptitude at trying to subdue the Greater Middle East, and the second is this book by David Halberstam.
Halberstam's premature death from a car accident in 2007 marked...
| Author | William McKeen |
| ISBN | 0393061922 |
Hunter S. Thompson detonated a two-ton bomb under the staid field of journalism with his early magazine pieces and revelatory "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and "Fear and Loathing" campaign coverage in Rolling Stone. When Thompson was on, there was no one better at capturing who Americans were and...
| Author | Timothy Denevi |
| ISBN | 1541767942 |
The story of Hunter S. Thompson's crusade against Richard Nixon and the threat of fascism in America--and the devastating price he paid for it
Hunter S. Thompson is often misremembered as a wise-cracking, drug-addled cartoon character. This book reclaims him for what he truly was: a fearless...
Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan
| Author | Richard E. Neustadt |
| ISBN | 0029227968 |
Thirty years ago Richard Neustadt published Presidential Power, which became a widely studied book on the theory and practice of presidential leadership. Presidents themselves read it and assign it to their staff for study, as did the intructors of hundreds of thousands of students of government....
| Author | Vance Packard |
| ISBN | 0671771159 |
An exploration of class behavior in America and the hidden barriers that affect you, your community, your future.
"IS AMERICA A CLASSLESS SOCIETY? NO! says best-selling author Vance Packard in this scorching investigation of the status and class structure of our society. The car you drive,...
| Author | Nick Salvatore |
| ISBN | 0252074521 |
I was a long-time member of the Socialist Party. One of the reasons was familial. Father and his father had both belonged. Another was because two of my heroes, Norman M. Thomas and Eugene V. Debs, had belonged. When I was young, Thomas was still around. I recall reading about his death one day while in our...
| Author | Joseph Mitchell |
| ISBN | 0375421033 |
As a young newspaper reporter in 1930s New York, Joseph Mitchell interviewed fan dancers, street evangelists, voodoo conjurers, not to mention a lady boxer who also happened to be a countess. Mitchell haunted parts of the city now vanished: the fish market, burlesque houses, tenement neighborhoods,...
| Author | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. |
| ISBN | 1594201420 |
A landmark publication in the history of American letters, and a unique opportunity to celebrate the legacy of the one of the great public intellectuals of our time. For more than a half century, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. was at the vital center of American political and cultural life. From his entrance...
The Making of the President 1964
| Author | Theodore H. White |
| ISBN | 1597401536 |
Theodore H. Whites landmark Making of the President series revolutionized American political journalism, investing his subject with both epic scope and a fresh frankness about backroom political strategy that was unlike anything that had come before. In this second volume of his groundbreaking...
| Author | Phillip Knightley |
| ISBN | 0801880300 |
"The first casualty when war comes, is truth," said American Senator Hiram Johnson in 1917. In his gripping, now-classic history of war journalism, Phillip Knightley shows just how right Johnson was. From William Howard Russell, who described the appalling conditions of the Crimean War in the Times...
| Author | Edna Buchanan |
| ISBN | 0743493648 |
I read another review on this site that said this book was far better than Connelly's book on his career as a journalist covering the crime beat. Buchanan's book is far more interesting in many aspects - first, she was a woman entering a man's career world in the late 60's/early 70's; second, she illustrated...
| Author | Gay Talese |
| ISBN | 0812977688 |
Once upon a time, in the land of New York, there was a powerful and prestigious newspaper called the Times. It printed "all the news that's fit to print." Everyone thought it was the greatest and most perfect newspaper in the history of the world.
It wasn't.
Gay Talese's book, The Kingdom...
A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago
| Author | Ben Hecht |
| ISBN | 1426426984 |
This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not...
The civil war in Uganda has bled on for over two decades, spilling over into Sudan and the Congo and drawing only occasional interest from the West. The rebel insurgency in the north is led by "the wizard of the Nile," Joseph Kony, whose Lord's Resistance Army is infamous both for its wish to rule Uganda...
| Author | John W. Dean |
| ISBN | 0670018201 |
Dean writes here about “the often ignored processes of the federal government.” (p xv) This is a book that is rich in analysis, information that was new to me, references to other writers in the covered fields.
It was interesting to learn of Nixon’s involvement with Supreme Court politics....
| Author | Hedrick Smith |
| ISBN | 0345410483 |
5 Stars + Excellent !!! I Loved it !!! The author came to Washington in 1962 and ends in 1988 (no mention is made of #41). This is an excellent book to help the reader understand the foundation to the current, pre-24/7 news cycle, zero sum game of politics. Well written and lays out many areas of natural conflict,...
American Political Parties and Elections: A Very Short Introduction
Few Americans and even fewer citizens of other nations understand the electoral process in the United States. Still fewer understand the role played by political parties in the electoral process or the ironies within the system. Participation in elections in the United States is much lower than in...
The Unfinished Presidency: Jimmy Carter's Journey to the Nobel Peace Prize
| Author | Douglas Brinkley |
| ISBN | 0140276165 |
Jimmy Carter left the White House in January 1981, defeated in his bid for reelection and rejected by the American public -- but hardly broken. Outside the Oval Office, with a commitment rarely seen in an ex-president, he was more determined than ever to complete his life's mission: the achievement...
| Author | David Brinkley |
| ISBN | 0517382113 |
This book of the just-retired newsman's reminiscences of Washington at the dawn of America's involvement in World War II is no mere historical curiosity shop. It's very instructive about the way Washington still works. For instance, Brinkley tells us that in September 1941, while FDR was still wavering...
| Author | Mary Matalin |
| ISBN | 0684801337 |
Never before has a more revealing X ray been taken of the modern American presidential campaign than this compelling memoir of the nation's foremost political operatives, Democrat James Carville and Republican Mary Matalin.
Not since Theodore White's legendary Making of the President series...
