The following is a bibliography of non-presidential U.S. political memoirs. Many of them were written by the stated author and one or more ghostwriters.
U.S. Supreme Court The Majesty of the Law : Reflections of a Supreme Court Justice (2003; ), by Sandra Day O'Connor, 102nd U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1981–2006 Thurgood Marshall: His Speeches, Writings, Arguments, Opinions and Reminiscences (2001; ), by Thurgood Marshall, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 1967–1991 My Beloved World (2003; ), by Sonia Sotomayor, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 2009–Present Lovely One : A Memoir (2024; ) by Ketanji Brown Jackson, U.S. Supreme Court Justice, 2022-Present
U.S. Cabinet Secretary of State Every Day Is Extra (2018), by John Kerry, Secretary of State under President Obama 2013–2017 Hard Choices (2014), by Hillary Rodham Clinton, Secretary of State under President Obama 2009–2013 No Higher Honor: A Memoir of My Years in Washington (2011; ) by Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State 2005–2009 and Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs 2001–2005 Madam Secretary: A Memoir (2003), by Madeleine Albright, Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton, 1997–2001 Chances of a Lifetime (2001), by Warren Christopher, Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton, 1993–1997 In the Stream of History: Shaping Foreign Policy for a New Era (1998), by Warren Christopher, Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton, 1993–1997 The Politics of Diplomacy: Revolution, War and Peace, 1989–1992 (1995; ), by James A. Baker, Secretary of State under President George H. W. Bush, 1989–1992 Turmoil and Triumph: My Years as Secretary of State (1993; ), by George P. Shultz, Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan, 1982–1989 Inner Circles: How America Changed The World (1992), by Alexander Haig, Secretary of State under President Ronald Reagan, 1981–1982, and White House Chief of Staff under President Richard Nixon, 1973–1974 Hard Choices: Critical Years in America's Foreign Policy (1983), by Cyrus Vance, Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter, 1977–1981 Crisis: The Anatomy of Two Major Foreign Policy Crises (2003), by Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, 1973–1977 Ending the Vietnam War : A History of America's Involvement in and Extrication from the Vietnam War (2002), by Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, 1973–1977 Years of Renewal (2000), by Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, 1973–1977 Years of Upheaval (1982), by Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, 1973–1977 The White House Years (1979) by Henry Kissinger, Secretary of State under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, 1973–1977 As I Saw It (1990), by Dean Rusk, Secretary of State under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, 1961–1969 Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department (1969), by Dean Acheson, Secretary of State under President Harry Truman, 1949–1953 All in One Lifetime (1958), by James F. Byrnes, Secretary of State under President Harry Truman, 1945–1947 Speaking Frankly (1947), by James F. Byrnes, Secretary of State under President Harry Truman, 1945–1947 Roosevelt and the Russians (1949), by Edward Stettinius Jr., Secretary of State under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1944–1945 (partial memoirs about the Yalta conference) The Memoirs of Cordell Hull (1948; ASIN B0006D7AEA), by Cordell Hull, Secretary of State under President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1933–1944 On Active Service in Peace and War (1947), by Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State under President Herbert Hoover, 1929–1933 (also covers positions other than Secretary of State held by the author) The Far Eastern Crisis (1936), by Henry L. Stimson, Secretary of State under President Herbert Hoover, 1929–1933 The Big Four and Others of the Peace Conference (1921), by Robert Lansing, Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson, 1915–1920 The Peace Negotiations: A Personal Narrative (1921), by Robert Lansing, Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson, 1915–1920 War Memoirs (1935), by Robert Lansing, Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson, 1915–1920 Memoirs (1925), by William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson, 1913–1915 (also covers positions other than Secretary of State held by the author)
Secretary of the Treasury Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises (2014), by Timothy F. Geithner, Secretary of the Treasury under President Barack Obama, 2009–2013 Dealing with China: An Insider Unmasks the New Economic Superpower (2015), by Henry Paulson, Secretary of the Treasury under President George W. Bush, 2006–2009 On the Brink: Inside the Race to Stop the Collapse of the Global Financial System (2010), by Henry Paulson, Secretary of the Treasury under President George W. Bush, 2006–2009 In an Uncertain World: Tough Choices from Wall Street to Washington (2003), by Robert E. Rubin, Secretary of the Treasury under President Bill Clinton, 1995–1999 In History's Shadow: An American Odyssey (1993), by John Connally, former Secretary of the Treasury under President Richard Nixon, and Mickey Herskowitz For the Record: From Wall Street to Washington (1988), by Donald Regan, Secretary of the Treasury, 1981–1985, and White House Chief of Staff, 1985–1987, under President Ronald Reagan
Secretary of Defense A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times (2022; ), by Mark Esper, Secretary of Defense 2019–2020. Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War (2014), by Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense 2006–2011. Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace (2014; ) by Leon Panetta, Secretary of Defense 2011–2013, Director of the CIA 2009–2011, White House Chief of Staff 1994–1997, Director of the OMB 1993–1994, Congressman 1977–1993. Star Spangled Security: Applying Lessons Learned over Six Decades Safeguarding America (2012; ) by Harold Brown, Secretary of Defense 1977–1981, and Joyce Winslow. Known and Unknown: A Memoir (2011; ) by Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense 1975–1977 and 2001–2006. Fighting for Peace: Seven Critical Years in the Pentagon (1990), by Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of Defense 1981–1987. The Essence of Security: Reflections in Office (1968), by Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense 1961–1968.
Other Cabinet positions Thirteenth Man: A Reagan Cabinet Memoir (1988), by Terrel H. Bell, Secretary of Education under President Ronald Reagan Advising Ike : The Memoirs of Attorney General Herbert Brownell (1993; ), by Herbert Brownell, Attorney General under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953–1957, and John P. Burke Inside: A Public and Private Life (2004), by Joseph A. Califano, Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Jimmy Carter Arthur Flemming, Crusader at Large: A Memoir (1991; ), by Bernice Flemming; Arthur Flemming: Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare under President Dwight D. Eisenhower Justice: The Memoirs of Attorney General Richard Kleindienst (1985; ), by Richard Kleindienst, Attorney General under President Richard Nixon, 1972–1973 Locked in the Cabinet (1997; ), by Robert Reich, Secretary of Labor under President Bill Clinton Law and Justice in the Reagan Administration: The Memoirs of an Attorney General (1991; ), by William French Smith, U.S. Attorney General under President Ronald Reagan, 1981–1985 The Terrors of Justice: The Untold Side of Watergate (1985), by Maurice Stans, Secretary of Commerce under President Richard Nixon
U.S. Cabinet-level administration offices
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency Politics, Pollution and Pandas: An Environmental Memoir (2003), by Russell E. Train, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, 1973–1978
Director of the Office of Management and Budget The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan revolution failed (1986), by David Alan Stockman, Director of the Office of Management and Budget under President Ronald Reagan
White House Chief of Staff (For the former White House Chiefs of Staff who served in a more senior position, see above) The Haldeman Diaries: Inside the Nixon White House (1994), by H.R. Haldeman, White House Chief of Staff under President Richard Nixon Crisis: The Last Year of the Carter Presidency (1982), by Hamilton Jordan, White House Chief of Staff under President Jimmy Carter No Such Thing as a Bad Day: A Memoir (2001), by Hamilton Jordan, White House Chief of Staff under President Jimmy Carter Chief of Staff: Lyndon Johnson and His Presidency (2004), by W. Marvin Watson, White House Chief of Staff under President Lyndon B. Johnson
U.S. ambassadors The United States in Honduras, 1980–1981: An Ambassador's Memoir (2000; ), by Jack R. Binns, Ambassador to Honduras, 1980–1981 Rogue Ambassador: An African Memoir (1997; ) by Smith Hempstone, Ambassador to Kenya, 1989–1993 Madame Ambassador: The Shoemaker's Daughter (2002; ), by Mari-Luci Jaramillo, Ambassador to Honduras, 1977–1980 American Diplomacy in Turkey: Memoirs of an Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary (1984; ), by James W. Spain, Ambassador to Turkey, 1980–1981 The Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies That Put the White House On Trial and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity: A Diplomat's Memoir (2004; New York: Carroll & Graf, 2005; ), by Joseph C. Wilson, IV, Ambassador to Gabon and São Tomé and Príncipe, 1992–1995
Heads of federal agencies (sub-cabinet level) At the Center of the Storm : My Years at the CIA (2007; ), by George Tenet and Bill Harlow, Director of Central Intelligence 1997–2004 My FBI : Bringing Down the Mafia, Investigating Bill Clinton, and Fighting the War on Terror (2005; ), by Louis J. Freeh, Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation 1993–2001 Full Faith and Credit: The Great S & L Debacle and Other Washington Sagas (2000; ), by L. William Seidman, FDIC/RTC chairman under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush From the Shadows: The Ultimate Insider's Story of Five Presidents and How They Won the Cold War (1996/2007; ) by Robert Gates, Director of Central Intelligence 1991–1993 Command of the Seas (1989/2001; ) by John Lehman, Secretary of the Navy 1981–1987 The Craft of Intelligence (1963; ), by Allen W. Dulles, Director of Central Intelligence 1953–1961
White House staff positions
The Clinton Wars (2003), by Sidney Blumenthal, former advisor to President Bill Clinton Nerve Center: Inside the White House Situation Room (2003), by Michael K. Bohn, former director of the Situation Room Against All Enemies: Inside America's War on Terror (2004; ), by Richard A. Clarke, former National Security Council counterterrorism advisor Truth To Tell: Tell It Early, Tell It All, Tell It Yourself: Notes from My White House Education (2002), by Lanny J. Davis, Special Counsel to the President during Bill Clinton’s second term (1996–1998) and currently a member of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Board under President George W. Bush Taking Heat: The President, the Press, and My Years in the White House (2005), by Ari Fleischer, former White House Press Secretary for President George W. Bush, 2001–2003 Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership Nixon to Clinton (2003), by David Gergen, former advisor to Presidents Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Ronald Reagan, and Bill Clinton White House Daze: The Unmaking of Domestic Policy in the Bush Years (1998), by Charles Kolb, Assistant Deputy for Domestic Policy under President George H. W. Bush A Political Education: A Washington Memoir (1972) by Harry McPherson, Special Counsel to President Lyndon B. Johnson Behind the Oval Office: Getting Reelected Against All Odds (1998), by Dick Morris, former political strategist to President Bill Clinton