American politics and presidents

How an unelected official amassed power and used it to rebuild New York.

How Lyndon Johnson mastered the Senate's rules and became its majority leader.

The 1787 Federal Convention in Philadelphia that wrote the US Constitution.

Theodore Roosevelt's life from his birth in 1858 to the presidency in 1901.

Harry Truman's life and presidency, from the atomic bomb to the Korean War.

How Lincoln brought his three rivals for the 1860 nomination into his cabinet.

Joseph P. Kennedy's life in banking, film, the stock market and politics.

New York's 1975 fiscal crisis and the austerity politics it taught the nation.

How federal housing policy engineered segregation.

Contemporary anatomy of the same fiscal crisis, written from the numbers.

Documentary history of the strike, assembled from contemporary sources.

Detroit's Chapter 9 bankruptcy, the largest by a US city, from inside the case.

The secretly funded litigation that destroyed Gawker.

NASA insider on the policy fight that funded commercial crew.

A lawyer's memoir of fighting wrongful convictions, such as Walter McMillian's.

An interpretation of the New Deal and of the historians who have written on it.

Clarence Darrow's 1912 bribery trial in Los Angeles, and the lawyer's life around it.

Subtitled 'Multiculturalism and Political Intolerance on Campus'

Reissued as Losers

Essays on how a handful of insiders shapes the story of American political life.

Hundreds of polls show how rarely presidents' public appeals change public opinion.

Over 1,000 letters from 1922 to 1994, grouped by themes such as friends and beliefs.

A president's years before public life, his years in politics and in the White House.

The Dukes v. Wal-Mart sex discrimination litigation.

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The Great Depression told through the stories of the common people who endured it.

What US parties, politics and citizen activism must change to secure the future.

Why some words persuade and others fail, from a political pollster.

Nixon's political career from Congress to the White House and the strategies he used.

A novel: 17 super-rich Americans, Warren Buffett among them, unite to fix government.

Barack Obama's life, experiences and the ambition behind his rise.

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How America is failing four challenges, from globalization to its chronic deficits.

Why Obama's frustrations came from misreading the nature of presidential power.

How drug-war policing made a poor Philadelphia neighbourhood a surveillance state.

The four Koch brothers' lives and their business, social and political ambitions.

Eight Milwaukee families and two landlords through repeated evictions, 2008-09.

A realistic view of how far a president can use persuasion to win support.

How presidents from Madison to Lyndon Johnson took America to war and gained power.

Where politics meets startups taking on incumbents in regulated industries.

Reporting from five swing states on whether Trump's election was a fluke or a shift.

The little-known offences of the British crown against its own American subjects.

Obama's memoir from his early politics through his first presidential term.

US politics analysed as an industry with five forces, and reforms to fix it.

Joseph Kennedy's contested years as US ambassador to Britain on the eve of war.

Subtitled Dialogues on a Dream.

on the American presidency.

Anthology edited by Lewis

Why fewer American children now have a chance to move up as inequality widens.

Behind the scenes of the Murdoch family and its crumbling Fox News empire.