This is a partial bibliography of useful published works. Some I have used in researching these essays. Others I have not used specifically in these essays, but have found enlightening, useful, or just interesting historical reading. In developing the essays on this site my first task when considering the use of a source is to determine as best I can to what degree, if any, does the author have established and demonstrable partisan or ideological predispositions or connections. I will not use a source for whom such affiliations exist.

I do not footnote the writings on this blog as they are in the nature of essays, not scholarly treatises.

Alter, Jonathan   The Defining Moment - FDR's Hundred Days and the Triumph of Hope. Simon & Schuster. 2006.

Blackmon, Douglas A.   Slavery by Another Name -The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II. Doubleday. 2008.

Caro, Robert A.   The Years of Lyndon Johnson -The Passage of Power. Alfred A. Knopf. 2012.

Egerton, Douglas R.   Year of Meteors - Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election That Brought on The Civil War. Bloomsbury Press. 2010.

Goodwin, Doris Kearns   Team of Rivals -The Political Genuis of Abraham Lincoln. Simon Schuster. 2005. 

Henderson, Bruce   Midnight Flyboys - The American Bomber Crews and Allied Secret Agents Who Aided the French Resistance in World War II. Gallery Books. 2025.

Kakel III, Carroll P.   The American West and The Nazi East - A Comparative and Interpretive Perspective. Palgrave Macmillan. 2011.

Kershaw, Ian    Fateful Choices - Ten Decisions That Changed the World, 1940-1941. The Penguin Press. 2007.

Keyssar, Alexander   Fateful Choices - The Contested History of Democracy in the United States. Revised Edition. Basic Books. 2009.

Olson, Lynne   Those Angry Days - Roosevelt, Lindbergh, and America's Fight Over World War II, 1939-1941. Random House. 2013.

Perl-Rosenthal, Nathan   The Age of Revolutions - And the Generations Who Made It. Basic Books. 2024.

Randall, Willard Sterne   Thomas Jefferson: A Life. Harper Perennial. 1994.

Rees, Laurence   The Nazi Mind - Twelve Warnings from History. Hachette Book Group. 2025.

Rosenfeld, Gavrilo D. and Ward, Janet (Editors)   Fascism in America - Past and Present. Cambridge University Press. 2023.

Shesol, Jeff   Supreme Power - Franklin Roosevelt vs. The Supreme Court. W.W. Norton & Company. 2010.

Thomas, Evan   Road to Surrender - Three Men and the Countdown to the End of World War II. Random House. 2023.

Waldman, Steven   Founding Faith - Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America. Random House. 2008.

Westermann,  Edward B.   Hitler's Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars. OU Press. 2019.

Whitman, James Q.   Hitler's American Model. Princeton University Press. 2018.

Wood, Gordon S.   Empire of Liberty - A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815. Oxford University Press. 2009.