SUGGESTED READING LIST FOR THE AMERICAN PRESIDENCY

Recommended by Akhil Reed Amar

Amar, Akhil Reed.  2006. America's Constitution: A Biography. Random House Trade Paperback.

Recommended by Joanne Freeman

Freeman, Joanne B. 2001.  Affairs of Honor: National Politics in the New Republic. Yale University Press.

Freeman, Joanne B.  (June 1999): 1959-1994. The Election of 1800: A Study in the Process of Political Change. Yale Law Journal 108 

Freeman, Joanne B. ed. Richard A. Ryerson. 2001. The Presidental Election of 1796. John Adams and the Founding of the Republic. Massachusetts Historical Society.

Freeman, Joanne B. 2000. The Art and Address of Ministerial Management: Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton and Congress.  Neither Separate Nor Equal: Congress and the Executive Branch in the 1790s. Ohio University Press.

 Recommended by Stephen Skowronek

 Skowronek, Stephen. 1993. Second Printing 1998. The Politics Presidents Make: Leadership from John Adams to Bill Clinton. Knapp Press.

Skowronek, Stephen.  2008. Presidential Leadership in Political Time: Reprise and Reappraisal. University Press of Kansas.