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Bernard M Baruch
The
Public Years: My Own Story
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, New York, 1960
Memoirs of an elder statesman.
Carl Bernstein
Loyalties:
A Son’s Memoir
Simon and Schuster, New York, 1989
Bernstein’s story of his family and its influence
on his politics and writing.
Sharon Boswell, Editor
RR “Bob” Grieve: An Oral History
Washington State Oral History Program,
Olympia, 2001
Stimson Bullitt
To
Be A Politician
Willow Press, Seattle, 1994 – updated edition
(First edition published by Doubleday
& Co, 1959)
(Signed by Stimson Bullitt to Allan Munro)
Reflections on what it is to be a politician.
Robert Caro
The Path to
Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1982
First of three volumes of a political
biography of President Johnson.
Robert Caro
Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1990
Second
of three volumes of a political biography of President Johnson.
Robert Caro
Master of the Senate: The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Vintage Books,
New York, 2003
Third of three volumes of a political biography of President Johnson.
William J Chambliss
On the Take: From Petty Crooks
to Presidents
Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1978
With an emphasis on Seattle, Chambliss documents
scandals of all kinds at all levels of government.
Henry Steele Commager
The American Mind: An Interpretation of American Thought and Character
Since the 1880s
Yale University Press, New Haven, 1950
An investigation based on the premise that there
is a “distinctively American way of thought, character, and conduct.”
Henry
Steel Commager, Editor
Documents of American History
Meredith
Publishing Company, New York, 1963
(Signed by Stimson Bullitt – a gift from Payson Hall, 1965)
A compilation of
fundamental sources of American history beginning with “Privileges and Prerogatives Granted to Columbus, April 30, 1492,”and
ending with Kennedy’s “Proclamation on Removal of Soviet Weapons from Cuba, October 24, 1962.”
Jeff Douthwaite
A Lively
Legislative Life
RoseDog Books, Pennsylvania, 2005
Jeff’s chronicle of his nine years as a Washington
state representative.
William L Dwyer
The Goldmark Case: An American Libel Trial
University of Washington Press, Seattle,
1984
The story of the Goldmark trial by counsel for the accused.
Robert H Ferrell,
Editor
Dear Bess: The Letters from Harry to Bess Truman, 1910-1959
W.W. Norton & Company, New York 1983
Letters with introductions to each section.
Al Franken
Lies And the Lying Liars Who
Tell Them; A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right
Dutton, New York, 2003
An exploration of the rhetoric of
the right primarily as it relates to the Bush administration.
Dennis L Heck
Challenges & Opportunities: The Transformation of Washington’s
Schools
Advance Washington, Seattle, 1987
A description of the status of education in our state, what education
should be, and how we can progress to that point.
Chris Hedges
War is a Force That Gives us Meaning
Public Affairs, New
York, 2002
A meditation on the reality of war and our addiction to it.
Blair Kauffman and
Bonnie Collier
Law in America; An Illustrated Celebration
Hugh Lauter Levin Associates Inc, 2001
A large coffee-table overview of the history of law in America with elaborate
photos and descriptions of famous trials, landmark decisions and related subjects.
Matthew
Klingle
Emerald City: An Environmental History of Seattle
Yale University Press, New York, 2007
The story of a major metropolis and its use and misuse of its environment.
Edward I Koch with William Rauch
Mayor
Simon and Schuster, New York, 1984
A memoir.
Mark Lane
Plausible Denial: Was the CIA Involved in the Assassination of JFK?
Thunder’s Mouth Press, New York, 1991
Another exploration of the mystery and controversy surrounding the assassination
of President Kennedy.
David McCullough
John Adams
Simon & Schuster, New York, 2001
A biography of our second president.
William Miller
A New History
of the United States
George Braziller, Inc, New York, 1958
An interpretation of the historic events that
brought us to the present and how they will influence the future.
William (Fishbait)
Miller as told to Frances Spatz Leighton
Fishbait: The Memoirs of
The Congressional Doorkeeper
Prentice-Hall Inc, New Jersey, 1977
Stories and scandals of the highest order.
Norval Morrris and Gordon Hawkins
The Honest Politician’s Guide to Crime Control
University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1969
Addresses
the problem of reducing crime and fear of crime.
Richard Munson
The Power Makers: The Inside Story of America’s Biggest Business…and Its Struggle to
Control Tomorrow’s Electricity
Rodale Press, Emmaus PA, 1985
Title is self-explanatory.
Greg Palast
Armed Madhouse
Dutton, New York, 2006
Stories behind the stories of corporate mismanagement and political fraud that have
turned the land of opportunity into a land of fear and suspicion.
Drew Pearson and
Jack Anderson
The Case Against Congress: A Compelling Indictment
of Corruption on Capitol Hill
Simon and Schuster, New York, 1968
A story of the misconduct of the leaders
who populate our nation’s capitol.
Roland Perry
Hidden Power: the Programming of the President
Beaufort Books Inc, New York, 1984
“This book traces the contest between the two most successful strategists of the modern political era: Richard Wirthlin
and Patrick Caddell.”
Clyde Prestowitz
Rogue Nation: American Unilateralism and the Failure of Good Intentions
Basic Books,
New York, 2003
An explanation of the roots of unilateralism and its influence on every aspect of American government.
Leo Rangell, MD
The
Mind of Watergate: An Exploration of the Compromise of Integrity
W.W. Norton & Company, New York, 1980
Psychoanalysis of the Watergate phenomenon.
William H Rehnquist
All the Laws But One: Civil Liberties in Wartime
Vintage Books,
New York, 1998
A history of civil liberties and national security during wartime.
Robert A Rutland
James Madison and the Search for
Nationhood
The Library of Congress, Washington, 1981
A history of our fourth president written as part of
the celebration of the construction of the Library of Congress’s James Madison Memorial Building.
Shelby Scates
Warren G
Magnuson: and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century America
University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1997
(Autographed
copy)
A political history of the scope and influence of the accomplishments of one of Washington’s best-known politicians.
James F Simon
What
Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States
Simon &
Shuster, New York, 2002
The confrontation between the second president and the first Supreme Court justice over the role
of the federal government regarding states’ rights and the authority of the Supreme Court to interpret laws.
Arthur M Schlesinger Jr
The
Crisis of Confidence: Ideas, Power and Violence in America
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1967
(Signed
by Stimson Bullitt, 1/70)
An exploration of the apparent loss of American’s confidence in governance because of violence
and war.
Arthur M Schlesinger Jr
A Life in the 20th Century; Innocent Beginnings, 1917-1950
Houghton Mifflin Company, New York, 2000
(Signed by Stimson Bullitt, November 2000)
First volume in Schlesinger’s autobiography.
Arthur M Schlesinger Jr
The Imperial Presidency
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1973
A discussion of the expansion and abuse of presidential power in
a government based on the separation of powers.
Arthur M Schlesinger Jr
The Politics of Hope: Some searching explorations into American politics and
culture.
Houghton Mifflin Company, Boston, 1963
The subtitle says it all.
Arthur M Schlesinger Jr
The Disuniting of
America: Reflections on a Multicultural Society
WW Norton & Company, New York, 1991
(Signed by Stimson
Bullitt 5/92)
An essay on ethnicity and the liberal agenda
Arthur M Schlesinger
Jr
Robert Kennedy and His Times
Houghton Mifflin Company,
Boston, 1978
(Signed by Stimson Bullitt, 8/78)
A biography of Robert Kennedy.
Payton Smith
Rosellini: Immigrant’s Son and
Progressive Governor
University of Washington Press, Seattle, 1997
A political history of Washington’s
Governor Albert Rosellini.
Adlai Stevenson
Speeches of Adlai Stevenson
With a Foreword by John Steinbeck and a Brief Biography
of Adlai Stevenson by Debs Myers and Ralph Martin
Random House, New York, 1952
A selection of speeches on a variety
of issues; includes his speech of acceptance at the Democratic National Convention, 1952.
Jane C Thompson, Editor
Wit & Wisdom of Hubert
H. Humphrey
Partners Press, Ltd, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 1984
Primarily quotes from Humphrey’s speeches.
Jeffrey Toobin
The Nine:
Inside The Secret World of the Supreme Court
Doubleday, New York, 2007
An explanation of how the modern
Supreme Court works.
Paul Tsongas
The
Road From Here: Liberalism and Realities in the 1980s
Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1981
Tsongas’s new
approach to liberalism.
Melvin I Urofsky, Editor
The Douglas Letters: Selections from the Private Papers of Justice William O. Douglas
Adler & Adler, Bethesda, Maryland, 1987
A selection of letters and memoranda.
Roger A Van Winkle and Vernon F Anderson
In
the Arena: The Care and Feeding of American Politics
Harper & Row, New York, 1976
A text about running
for office.
Richard Wexler
Wounded
Innocents: The Real Victims of the War Against Child Abuse
Prometheus Books, Buffalo, New York, 1990
A description
of how protecting children by placing them in foster care often hurts them and their families more than it helps.
Joseph Wheelan
Mr. Adams’s
Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams’s Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress.
Public Affairs, New
York, 2008
A study in how President John Quincy Adams “redeemed his failed presidency.”
James Q Wilson
Thinking About Crime
Basic Books, New York, 1975
How beliefs about the causes of criminal behavior affect political decisions.
Jules Witcover and Richard M Cohen
A Heartbeat Away: The Investigation & Resignation of Vice President Spiro T. Agnew
The Viking Press,
New York, 1974
A story of the scandal that brought down the infamous vice president.
