This bibliography of Bill Clinton is a selected list of generally available published works about Bill Clinton, the 42nd president of the United States. Further reading is available on Bill Clinton, his presidency and his foreign policy, as well as in the footnotes in those articles.
Publications by Clinton
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References Congressional Quarterly. Congress and the Nation: A Review of Government and Politics. 1993-1996 (1998) 1275pp. online Congressional Quarterly. Congress and the Nation: Volume 10: 1997-2001 (CQ Press, 2002) online Conley, Richard Steven. Historical dictionary of the Clinton era (2012) online Ivory Tower Publishing Company. Achievements of the Clinton Administration: the Complete Legislative and Executive. (1995) Levy, Peter B. Encyclopedia of the Clinton presidency (Greenwood, 2002) comprehensive coverage online
Popular books Peter Baker The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton (2000) James Bovard Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years (2000) Joe Conason and Gene Lyons The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (2003)
Elizabeth Drew On the Edge: The Clinton Presidency (1994) David Gergen Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership. (2000)
Nigel Hamilton Bill Clinton: An American Journey (2003) Christopher Hitchens No One Left to Lie to: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton (1999) Michael Isikoff Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story (1999) Mark Katz Clinton and Me: A Real-Life Political Comedy (2004) Joe Klein (as Anonymous) Primary Colors. (1996) David Maraniss The Clinton Enigma: A Four and a Half Minute Speech Reveals This President's Entire Life (1998) Dick Morris with Eileen McGann Because He Could (2004)
Richard A. Posner An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton (1999) Nathan J. Robinson Superpredator: Bill Clinton's Use and Abuse of Black America (2016) Mark J. Rozell The Clinton Scandal and the Future of American Government (2000)
Scholarly studies Berman, William C. From the center to the edge: The politics and policies of the Clinton presidency (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002) online. Conley, Richard S. ed. Historical Dictionary of the Clinton era (Scarecrow Press, 2012). Harris, John F. The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House (2006). Herrnson, Paul S., and Dilys Hill. The Clinton presidency : the first term, 1992-96 (1999) online Maney, Patrick J. Bill Clinton: New Gilded Age President (2016) excerpt Warshaw, Shirley Anne. The Clinton Years (Infobase Publishing, 2009); 530 pp; encyclopedic coverage plus primary sources White, Mark, ed. The Presidency of Bill Clinton: The Legacy of a New Domestic and Foreign Policy (I.B.Tauris, 2012)
Domestic policy and politics Alschuler, Albert W. "Bill Clinton's parting pardon party." Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 100.3 (2010): 1131-1168. Campbell, Colin, and Bert A. Rockman, eds. The Clinton Legacy (Chatham House Pub, 2000) Cohen; Jeffrey E. "The Polls: Change and Stability in Public Assessments of Personal Traits, Bill Clinton, 1993–99" Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 31, 2001 Cronin, Thomas E. and Michael A. Genovese; "President Clinton and Character Questions" Presidential Studies Quarterly Vol. 28, 1998 Edwards; George C. "Bill Clinton and His Crisis of Governance" Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 28, 1998 Eksterowicz, Anthony J., and Robert N. Roberts, "The specter of presidential pardons." White House Studies 6.4 (2006): 377-390. Erler, H. Abbie. "Executive Clemency or Bureaucratic Discretion? Two Models of the Pardons Process." Presidential Studies Quarterly 37.3 (2007): 427-448. Gillon, Steven M. The pact: Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and the rivalry that defined a generation (Oxford UP, 2008). Glad, Betty. "Evaluating Presidential Character" Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 28, 1998 Greenstein, Fred I. "The qualities of effective presidents: An overview from FDR to Bill Clinton." Presidential Studies Quarterly 30.1 (2000): 178-185 online. Greenstein, Fred I. “The Presidential Leadership Style of Bill Clinton: An Early Appraisal.” Political Science Quarterly 108#4 (1993), pp. 589–601. online Greenstein, Fred I. "There he goes again: The alternating political style of Bill Clinton." PS: Political Science and Politics 31.2 (1998): 179-181. Harris, John F. The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House (2006). online Head, Simon. The Clinton System (January 30, 2016), The New York Review of Books
Kim, Claire Jean. "Managing the Racial Breach: Clinton, Black-White Polarization, and the Race Initiative". Political Science Quarterly 117.1 (2002): 55–79. online Lanoue, David J. and Craig F. Emmert; "Voting in the Glare of the Spotlight: Representatives' Votes on the Impeachment of President Clinton" Polity, Vol. 32, 1999 Leshy, John D. "The Babbitt Legacy at the Department of the Interior: A Preliminary View." Environmental Law 31 (2001): 199–227 online Maurer; Paul J. "Media Feeding Frenzies: Press Behavior during Two Clinton Scandals" Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 29, 1999 Nie; Martin A. "'It's the Environment, Stupid!': Clinton and the Environment" Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 27, 1997 in JSTOR Poveda; Tony G. "Clinton, Crime, and the Justice Department" Social Justice, Vol. 21, 1994 Renshon, Stanley A. High hopes: the Clinton presidency and the politics of ambition (1998) online Renshon; Stanley A. The Clinton Presidency: Campaigning, Governing, and the Psychology of Leadership Westview Press, 1995 Renshon; Stanley A. "The Polls: The Public's Response to the Clinton Scandals, Part 1: Inconsistent Theories, Contradictory Evidence" Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 32, 2002 Troy, Gill. The Age of Clinton: America in the 1990s (2015)
Economic and health policy Altig, David, and Jagadeesh Gokhale. "An overview of the Clinton budget plan." Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Economic Commentary (1993) online . Canova, Timothy A. "Legacy of the Clinton bubble." Dissent 55.3 (2008): 41-50. online Fisher; Patrick. "Clinton's Greatest Legislative Achievement? the Success of the 1993 Budget Reconciliation Bill" White House Studies, Vol. 1, 2001 Graetz, Michael J. "Tax Policy at the Beginning of the Clinton Administration." Yale Journal on Regulation 10 (1993): 561-574. online. Heckman, James. "Assessing Clinton's program on job training, workfare, and education in the workplace." (No. w4428. National Bureau of Economic Research, 1993) online. Laham, Nicholas, A Lost Cause: Bill Clinton's Campaign for National Health Insurance (1996) Lavanty, Donald F. "Medicare Meets the Marketplace: The Bush-Clinton Years." in Political Aspects of Health Care (Palgrave Pivot, 2018) pp. 65–78. O'Connor; Brendon. "Policies, Principles, and Polls: Bill Clinton's Third Way Welfare Politics 1992–1996" The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 48, 2002 Romano, Flavio. Clinton and Blair: the political economy of the third way (Routledge, 2007) Rushefsky, Mark E. and Kant Patel. Politics, Power & Policy Making: The Case of Health Care Reform in the 1990s (1998)
Elections
Germond, Jack, and Jules Witcover. Mad As Hell: Revolt at the Ballot Box, 1992 (1993). Goldman, Peter. et al. Quest for the Presidency 1992 (1994) Immelman, Aubrey. "The political personalities of 1996 US presidential candidates Bill Clinton and Bob Dole." Leadership Quarterly 9.3 (1998): 335-366. online Klein, Jill Gabrielle. "Negativity in impressions of presidential candidates revisited: The 1992 election." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 22.3 (1996): 288-295. Lipset, Seymour Martin. "The significance of the 1992 election." PS: Political Science and Politics 26.1 (1993): 7-16. online Nelson, Michael. "The Historical Presidency: Clinton's Elections: Redividing Government in the 1990s." Presidential Studies Quarterly 46.2 (2016): 457-472. Nelson, Michael. Clinton's Elections: 1992, 1996, and the Birth of a New Era of Governance (2020) excerpt O'Mara, Margaret. Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century (2015), compares 1912, 1932, 1968, 1992 in terms of social, economic, and political history Ornstein, Norman J. "Foreign policy and the 1992 election." Foreign Affairs 71.3 (1992): 1-16. online
Schantz, Harvey L. Politics in an Era of Divided Government: Elections and Governance in the Second Clinton Administration (2001)
Wattenberg; Martin P. "The Democrats' Decline in the House during the Clinton Presidency: An Analysis of Partisan Swings" Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 29, 1999 Wattier; Mark J. "The Clinton Factor: The Effects of Clinton's Personal Image in 2000 Presidential Primaries and in the General Election" White House Studies, Vol. 4, 2004
Political commentary and campaign statements Barlett, Donald L. and James B. Steele. America: What Went Wrong? (1992). Clinton, Bill, and Al Gore. Putting People First: How We Can All Change America (1992) Cramer, Richard Ben. What It Takes: The Way to the White House (1992). Dionne, E. J. Why Americans Hate Politics (1992). Duffy, Michael, and Dan Goodgame. Marching in Place: The Status Quo Presidency of George Bush (1992) Edsall Thomas Byrne, and Mary D. Edsall. Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics (1992). Ehrenhalt, Alan. The United States of Ambition: Politicians, Power, and the Pursuit of Office (1992). Gore, Al. Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (1992). Greider, William. Who Will Tell the People: The Betrayal of American Democracy (1992). Jamieson, Kathleen Hall. Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy (1992). Perot, Ross. United We Stand: How We Can Take Back Our Country (1992) Phillips, Kevin. The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath (1992). Sabato, Larry J. Feeding Frenzy: How Attack Journalism Has Transformed American Politics (1991). Will, George F. Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy (1992).
Foreign and military policy Campbell, Colin, and Bert A. Rockman, eds. The Clinton Legacy (Chatham House Pub, 2000) Cézar, Rodrigo Fagundes. "When and How do Bureaucratic Conflicts Matter in Trade Policy? Evidence from the US Trade Policymaking Process during the Clinton Administration (1993–2001)." Contexto Internacional 39.1 (2017): 201-222. online Coady, James. Change and continuity in American Grand Strategy: a comparative analysis of the Clinton and Bush foreign policy doctrines Diss. Institute for the Study of the Americas, 2010. Davis; John. "The Evolution of American Grand Strategy and the War on Terrorism: Clinton and Bush Perspectives" White House Studies, Vol. 3, 2003 Deibel, Terry L. Clinton and Congress: The politics of foreign policy (2000)., Downie, Christian. "Three ways to understand state actors in international negotiations: Climate change in the Clinton years (1993–2000)." Global Environmental Politics 13.4 (2013): 22-40. online Dumbrell, John. "Was there a Clinton doctrine? President Clinton's foreign policy reconsidered". Diplomacy and Statecraft 13.2 (2002): 43–56. online Dumbrell, John. "President Bill Clinton and US transatlantic foreign policy." Journal of Transatlantic Studies 8.3 (2010): 268-278. Dumbrell, John. Clinton's Foreign Policy: Between the Bushes, 1992-2000 (Routledge, 2009) 228pp excerpt Dumbrell, John. American Foreign Policy: Carter to Clinton (1997), pp 178–196. Edwards, Jason Allen. "Foreign Policy Rhetoric for the Post-Cold War World: Bill Clinton and America's Foreign Policy Vocabulary." (2006). online Girard, Philippe. Clinton in Haiti: the 1994 US invasion of Haiti (Springer, 2004).