Books.

The Ford Presidency. James M. Cannon, Time and Chance: Gerald Ford's Appointment with History (1994); Gerald Ford, A Time to Heal (1979). John R. Greene, The Limits of Power: The Nixon and Ford Administrations (1992). Robert T. Hartmann, Palace Politics (1980). Gerald Ter Horst, Gerald Ford (1975). Richard Reeves, A Ford Not a Lincoln (1976). A. James Reichley, Conservatives in an Age of Change: The Nixon and Ford Administrations (1981). Edward and Frederick Schapsmeier, Gerald R. Ford's Date with Destiny: A Political Biography (1989). James L. Sundquist, The Decline and Resurgence of Congress (1981).

The Carter Presidency. Jack Bass and Walter Devries, The Transformation of Southern Politics (1976). James Bill, The Eagle and the Lion (1988). Zbigniew Brzezinski, Power and Principle (1983). Anthony S. Campagna, Economic policy in the Carter Administration (1995). Jimmy Carter, Why Not the Best? (1975); Keeping Faith (1982). Rosalynn Carter, First Lady from Plains (1984). Betty Glad, Jimmy Carter (1980). Erwin Hargrove, Jimmy Carter as President (1989). Steven B. Hunt, The Energy Crisis (1978). Haynes Johnson, In the Absence of Power (1980). Charles O. Jones, The Trusteeship Presidency (1988). Hamilton Jordan, Crisis (1982). Walter LaFeber, Panama Canal (1978). Clark Mollenhoff, The President Who Failed (1980). A. Glenn Mower, Jr. , Human Rights and American Foreign Policy (1987). William B. Quandt, Decade of Decisions (1977); Camp David (1986). Barry Rubin, Paved with Good Intentions (1983). Lars Schoultz, Human Rights and U.S. Policy Toward Latin America (1981). Bruce J. Schulman, The Seventies: The Great Shift in American Culture, Society, and Politics (2002). Gaddis Smith, Morality, Reason, and Power (1986). Kenneth W. Stein, Heroic Diplomacy: Sadat, Kissinger, Carter, Begin, and the Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace (1999). Strobe Talbott, Endgame (1979). Jules Witcover, Marathon (1977). James Wooten, Dasher (1978). Cyrus Vance, Hard Choices (1983).

The New Right. Sidney Blumenthal, The Rise of the Counter?Establishment (1986). Matthew Dallek, The Right Moment: Ronald Reagan's First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point in American Politics (2000). John Erman, The Rise of Neoconservatism: Intellectuals and Foreign Affairs, 1945?1994. (1995). Steven Gillon, The Democrats' Dilemma: Walter Mondale and the Liberal Legacy (1992). Jerome L. Himmelstein, To the Right: The Transformation of American Conservatism (1990). Rebecca E. Klatch, A Generation Divided: The New Left, the New Right, and the 1960s (1999). Lisa McGirr, Suburban Warriors: The Origins of the New American Right (2001). George Nash, The Conservative Intellectual Movement in America Since 1945 (1979). Rick Perlstein, Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (2001). Burton Yale Pines, Back to Basics (1982). David W. Reinhard, The Republican Right Since 1945 (1983). Kirkpatrick Sale, Power Shift: The Rise of the Southern Rim and Its Challenge to the Eastern Establishment (1975). Gregory L. Schneider, Cadres for Conservatism: Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of the Contemporary Right (1999). Peter Steinfels, The Neo?Conservatives (1979). John K. White, The New Politics of Old Values (1988). Clyde Wilcox, God's Warriors: The Christian Right in Twentieth Century America (1992). John Woodridge, The Evangelicals (1975).

The Reagan Presidency. Frank Ackerman, Reaganomics (1982). Laurence I. Barrett, Gambling with History (1984). Bill Boyarsky, The Rise of Ronald Reagan (1968). Paul Boyer, ed. , Reagan as President: Contemporary Views of the Man, His Politics, and His Policies (1990). William J. Broad, Teller's War: The Top?Secret Story Behind the Star Wars Deception (1992). Lou Cannon, Reagan (1982); President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime (1990). Joan Claybrook, Retreat from Safety: Reagan's Attack on American Health (1984). Robert Dallek, Ronald Reagan: The Politics of Symbolism (1984). Ronnie Dugger, On Reagan (1983). Thomas Byrne Edsall, The New Politics of Inequality (1984). Anne Edwards, Early Reagan (1987). Rowland Evans and Robert Novak, The Reagan Revolution (1981). Frances Fitzgerald, Way Out There in the Blue: Reagan, Star Wars and the End of the Cold War (2000). Benjamin Friedman, Day of Reckoning: The Consequences of American Economic Policy Under Reagan and After (1988). Jack Germond and Jules Witcover, Blue Smoke and Mirrors: How Reagan Won and Why Carter Lost the Election of 1980 (1981); Wake Us When It's Over: Presidential Politics of 1984 (1985). George Gildner, Wealth and Poverty (1981). Fred I. Greenstein, ed., The Reagan Presidency (1983). William Greider, The Education of David Stockman and Other Americans (1982). Haynes Johnson, Sleepwalking Through History: America in the Reagan Years (1991). Jonathan Lash, A Season of Spoils: The Story of the Reagan Administration's Attack on the Environment (1984). Robert Lekachman, Greed Is Not Enough: Reaganomics (1982). Jane Mayer and Doyle McManus, Landslide: The Unmaking of the President, 1984??1988 (1988). Charles Noble, Liberalism at Work: The Rise and Fall of OSHA (1986). Peggy Noonan, What I Saw at the Revolution: A Political Life in the Reagan Era (1990). John L. Palmer and Isabel V. Sawhill, eds., The Reagan Experiment (1982). Michael J. Piore and Charles F. Sabel, The Second Industrial Divide (1984). Frances Fox Piven and Richard A. Cloward, The New Class War: Reagan's Attack on the Welfare State and Its Consequences (1982). Ronald E. Powaski, Return to Armageddon: The United States and the Nuclear Arms Race, 1981-1999 (2000). Nancy Reagan, My Turn (1989). Richard Reeves, The Reagan Detour (1985). Donald T. Regan, For the Record (1988). Michael Rogin, Ronald Reagan: The Movie (1987). Michael Schaller, Reckoning with Reagan: America and Its President in the 1980s (1992). C. Brant Short, Ronald Reagan and the Public Lands: America's Conservation Debate, 1979??1984 (1989). Hedrick Smith, The Power Game (1988). Hedrick Smith et al., Reagan: The Man, the President (1980). David A. Stockman, The Triumph of Politics (1986). Sidney Weintraub and Marvin Goodstein, eds., Reaganomics in the Stagflation Economy (1983). F. Clifton White and William Gil, Why Reagan Won (1982). Theodore H. White, America in Search of Itself (1982). Garry Wills, Reagan's America (1987).

Reagan and the World. Seweryn Bialer and Michael Mandelbaum, eds., Gorbachev's Russia and American Foreign Policy (1988). Raymond Bonner, Weakness and Deceit: U.S. Policy and El Salvador (1984). Tom Buckley, Violent Neighbors (1984). Steven Emerson, Secret Warriors: Inside the Covert Military Operations of the Reagan Era (1988). Thomas L. Friedman, From Beirut to Jerusalem (1989). Alexander Haig, Caveat: Realism, Reagan and Foreign Policy (1984). Jane Hunter et al., The Iran?Contra Connection (1987). David E. Kyvig, ed., Reagan and the World (1990). Walter LaFeber, Inevitable Revolutions, rev. ed. (1984). Richard A. Melanson, Reconstructing Consensus: American Foreign Policy Since the Vietnam War (1991). John Newhouse, War and Peace in the Nuclear Age (1989). Robert O. Pastor, Condemned to Repetition: The United States and Nicaragua (1987). Charles D. Smith, Palestine and the Arab?Israeli Conflict, 2nd ed. (1992). Strobe Talbott, Deadly Gambits (1984); The Master of the Game: Paul Nitze and the Nuclear Peace (1988). Daniel Wirls, Buildup: The Politics of Defense in the Reagan Era (1992). Bob Woodward, Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA (1987).

Films.

The Conservative Resurgence (RMI Media Productions, 1991). Rachel Carson's Silent Spring (PBS Video, American Experience,1993).

Internet Resources.

Jimmy Carter Presidential Library - http://www.jimmycarterlibrary.org/
Gerald Ford Presidential Library - http://www.ford.utexas.edu/
The Heritage Foundation - http://www.heritage.org/
Portrait of Black Chicago - http://www.archives.gov/exhibit_hall/portrait_of_black_chicago/introduction.html
Ronald Reagan Presidential Library - http://www.reagan.utexas.edu/