Further Reading on Postwar America

James T. Patterson. Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974. Oxford Universty Press, 1997

James T. Patterson. Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush v. Gore. Oxford Universty Press, 2007

Monica Crowley. Nixon in Winter: His Final Revelations about Diplomacy, Watergate, and Life out of the Arena. Random House, 1998. Monica Crowley served as Nixon's foreign-policy assistant and political confidante for the last four years of his life. They spoke daily for hours at a time.

H. W. Brands. Reagan: The Life. Doubleday, 2015

Jean Edward Smith. Eisenhower in War and Peace. Doubleday, 2012

David McCullough. Truman. Simon & Schuster, 1992

Doris Kearns Goodwin. Lyndon Johnson and the American Dream. Harper & Row, 1976