Party Politics - Bibliography

Blumenthal, Sidney. Pledging Allegiance: The Last Campaign of the Cold War. New York, 1990.

Chafe, William H. The Unfinished Journey: America Since World War II. 4th ed. New York, 1999. A first-rate textbook on the United States after 1945.

DeConde, Alexander. "Washington's Farewell, the French Alliance, and the Election of 1796." Mississippi Valley Historical Review 43, no. 4 (March 1957): 641–658. A provocative article on the shaping of the Farewell Address.

——. Ethnicity, Race, and American Foreign Policy: A History. Boston, 1992.

Divine, Robert A. Foreign Policy and U.S. Presidential Elections, 1940–1948, 1952–1960. 2 vols. New York, 1974.

Drew, Elizabeth. On the Edge: The Clinton Presidency. New York, 1994.

Foot, Rosemary. A Substitute for Victory: The Politics of Peacemaking at the Korean Armistice Talks. Ithaca, N.Y., 1990. The second of two important studies by the author on the Korean War.

Freeland, Richard M. The Truman Doctrine and the Origins of McCarthyism: Foreign Policy, Domestic Politics, and Internal Security, 1946–1948. New York, 1972.

Gaddis, John Lewis. The United States and the Origins of the Cold War, 1941–1947. New York, 1972. An essential study of U.S. decision making in World War II and the early Cold War.

Haldeman, H. R. The Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House. New York, 1994. An indispensable source on the Nixon presidency.

Hughes, Barry B. The Domestic Context of American Foreign Policy. New York, 1978.

Johnson, Robert David. "Congress and the Cold War." Journal of Cold War Studies 3 (2001): 76–100.

Kegley, Charles W., and Eugene R. Wittkopf, eds. The Domestic Sources of American Foreign Policy: Insights and Evidence. New York, 1988.

Lebow, Richard Ned. "Domestic Politics and the Cuban Missile Crisis: The Traditional and the Revisionist Interpretations Reevaluated." Diplomatic History 14 (1990).

Levering, Ralph B. "Is Domestic Politics Being Slighted as an Interpretive Framework?" Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Newsletter 25 (1994): 17–35. An accomplished historian calls for greater attention by foreign relations historians to domestic politics.

——. The Cold War: A Post–Cold War History. Arlington Heights, Ill., 1994.

Logevall, Fredrik. Choosing War: The Lost Chance for Peace and the Escalation of War in Vietnam. Berkeley, Calif., 1999.

May, Ernest R. The Making of the Monroe Doctrine. Cambridge, Mass., 1975.

Perkins, Bradford. Castlereagh and Adams: England and the United States, 1812–1823. New York, 1964.

Quandt, William. "The Electoral Cycle and the Conduct of Foreign Policy." Political Science Quarterly 101 (1986). A specialist on the Middle East expresses concern about the influence of elections on the conduct of foreign policy.

Rosati, Joel A. The Politics of United States Foreign Policy. New York, 1993.

Rosenau, James N., ed. Domestic Sources of Foreign Policy. New York, 1967.

Small, Melvin. Democracy and Diplomacy: The Impact of Domestic Politics on U.S. Foreign Policy, 1789–1994. Baltimore, 1996. A concise and penetrating history that defines "domestic politics" broadly.

Smith, Gaddis. Morality, Reason, and Power: American Diplomacy in the Carter Years. New York, 1986.

Smith, Tony. Foreign Attachments: The Power of Ethnic Groups in the Making of American Foreign Policy. Cambridge, Mass., 2000.

Snyder, Jack. Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition. Ithaca, N.Y., 1991. A leading political scientist tackles the subject with verve and insight.

Stagg, J. C. A. "James Madison and the Malcontents: The Politics Origins of the War of 1812." William and Mary Quarterly 33 (1976): 557–585.

——. Mr. Madison's War: Politics, Diplomacy, and Warfare in the Early American Republic, 1783–1830. Princeton, N.J., 1983.

Westerfield, H. Bradford. Foreign Policy and Party Politics: Pearl Harbor to Korea. New Haven, Conn., 1955.

Woods, Randall B., and Howard Jones. Dawning of the Cold War: The United States' Quest for World Order. Athens, Ga., 1991.