Republican Party (United States), history/Bibliography

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Secondary Sources[edit]

Surveys[edit]

American National Biography (20 volumes, 1999) covers all politicians no longer alive; online and paper copies at many academic libraries. Older Dictionary of American Biography.
Batchelor, John Calvin. "Ain't You Glad You Joined the Republicans?" A Short History of the GOP. 1996. 399 pp. well-written popular history, well illustrated
Dinkin, Robert J. Campaigning in America: A History of Election Practices. (Greenwood 1989)
Gould, Lewis. Grand Old Party: A History of the Republicans (2003), the best overview.
Jensen, Richard. Grass Roots Politics: Parties, Issues, and Voters, 1854-1983 (1983) online edition
Keller, Morton. America's Three Regimes: A New Political History (2007) 384pp.
Kleppner, Paul, et al. The Evolution of American Electoral Systems (1983), applies party systems model
Mayer, George H. The Republican Party, 1854-1966. 2nd ed. (1967), narrative.
Remini, Robert V. The House (2006), scholarly history of the U.S. House
Rutland, Robert Allen. The Republicans: From Lincoln to Bush (1996) popular narrative
Sabato, Larry J., and Howard R. Ernst eds. Political Parties and Elections (2007), 540pp; an encyclopedia with 450 entries by scholars; strongest post 1945
Shafer, Byron E. and Anthony J. Badger, eds. Contesting Democracy: Substance and Structure in American Political History, 1775-2000 (2001), long essays by specialists on each time period
Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, Jr. ed. History of American Presidential Elections, 1789-2000 (various multivolume editions, latest is 2001). For each election includes good scholarly history and selection of primary document. Essays on the most important election are reprinted in Schlesinger, The Coming to Power: Critical presidential elections in American history (1972)

1854 to 1900[edit]

Donald, David. Lincoln (1999), standard scholarly biography
Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War (1970), influential history of ideas and ideology online edition
Hesseltine, William B. Ulysses S. Grant: Politician (1935) online edition
Jensen, Richard. The Winning of the Midwest: Social and Political Conflict, 1888-1896 (1971)
Keller, Morton. Affairs of State: Public Life in Late Nineteenth Century America 1977.
Kleppner, Paul. The Third Electoral System 1853-1892: Parties, Voters, and Political Cultures (1979), analysis of voting behavior, with emphasis on region, ethnicity, religion and class. online edition
Marcus, Robert. Grand Old Party: Political Structure in the Gilded Age, 1880-1896 1971.
Morgan, H. Wayne. From Hayes to McKinley; National Party Politics, 1877-1896 (1969) online edition, good survey of era
Morris, Edmund. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, to 1901 (1979) Pulitzer prize biography.
Paludin, Philip. A People's Contest: The Union and the Civil War, 1861-1865 1988.
Potter, David. The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 (1976), Pulitzer prize history of politics
Summers, Mark Wahlgren. Rum, Romanism & Rebellion: The Making of a President, 1884 (2000) online edition
Williams, R. Hal. Years of Decision: American Politics in the 1890s. 1978.

1900-1932[edit]

Blum, John Morton The Republican Roosevelt. (1954). essays that examine how TR did politics
Brands, H.W. Theodore Roosevelt (2001), full biography online edition
Chace, James. 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft, and Debs - The Election That Changed the Country. (2004). 323 pp.
Mowry, George. The Era of Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of Modern America, 1900-1912. (1954) general survey of era; online
McCoy, Donald, Calvin Coolidge: The Quiet President (1967),
Pringle, Henry F. The Life and Times of William Howard Taft: A Biography. 2 vol (1939); Pulitzer prize; the standard biography vol 1 online
Smith, Richard Norton. An Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover, (1987) full-length scholarly biography.
David Thelen, Robert M. La Follette and the Insurgent Spirit 1976. short interpretive biography

1932 to 1980[edit]

Bell, Jonathan. The Liberal State on Trial: The Cold War and American Politics in the Truman Years, (2004), 404pp; detailed analysis of impact of foreign policy on key elections 1946-48-50 excerpt and text search
Bibby, John F. "Party Organizations, 1946-1996," in Byron E. Shafer, ed. Partisan Approaches to Postwar American Politics, (1998)
Brennan, Mary C. Turning Right in the Sixties: The Conservative Capture of the GOP (1995) online edition
Greene, John Robert. The Limits of Power: The Nixon and Ford Administrations
Morris, Roger. Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician (1990).
Parmet, Herbert S. Eisenhower and the American Crusades (1972) online edition
Patterson, James T. Mr. Republican: A Biography of Robert A. Taft (1972)
Perlstein, Rick. Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (2002) very well written narrative of politics 1960-64 excerpt and text search
Perlstein, Rick. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2008) very well written narrative of politics 1964-68
Reichley, James; Conservatives in an Age of Change: The Nixon and Ford Administrations, Brookings Institution, 1981. online edition
Reinhard, David W. The Republican Right since 1945 (1983) online edition
Smith, Richard Norton. Thomas E. Dewey and His Times. (1982)
Sundquist, James L. Dynamics of the Party System: Alignment and Realignment of Political Parties in the United States (1983) online edition
Wagner, Steven. Eisenhower Republicanism: Pursuing the Middle Way. (2006). 179 pp. isbn 978-0-87580-362-3.)
White, Theodore. The Making of the President: 1960 (1961); The Making of the President: 1964 (1965); The Making of the President 1968 (1969) classic narratives
White, William S. The Taft Story (1954); Pulitzer Prize. online edition

1980 - Present[edit]

Barone, Michael, and Grant Ujifusa, The Almanac of American Politics 2006: The Senators, the Representatives and the Governors: Their Records and Election Results, Their States and Districts (2007) covers all the live politicians with amazing detail. New edition every two years since 1975.
Black, Earl and Merle Black. Divided America: The Ferocious Power Struggle in American Politics (2007)
Cannon, Lou. President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime (2000), online edition
Ehrman, John, The Eighties: America in the Age of Reagan (2005)
Frank, Thomas. What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America (2005), liberal criticism of GOP
Levy, Peter B. Encyclopedia of the Reagan-Bush Years Greenwood Press, 1996 online edition
Pemberton, William E. Exit with Honor: The Life and Presidency of Ronald Reagan (1998) biography by historian; online edition
Reeves, Richard. President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination (2005) detailed analysis by historian
Sabato, Larry J. Divided States of America: The Slash and Burn Politics of the 2004 Presidential Election (2005).
Sabato, Larry J. ed. The Sixth Year Itch: The Rise and Fall of the George W. Bush Presidency (1907), in-depth essays by scholars
Wilentz, Sean. The Age of Reagan: A History, 1974-2008 (2008), major narrative history
Wooldridge, Adrian and John Micklethwait. The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America sophisticated study by two British journalists (2004). excerpt and text search

The resources below are from a page U.S._Republican_Party,_Bibliography that actually seems to be about HISTORY of the party, and was misnamed and misplaced. I will try to merge the page history of that into here, but doubt it will work. It was mostly from User:Richard Jensen. Pat Palmer (talk) 15:56, 22 March 2023 (CDT)

The literature on the History of the Republican Party is very large. This is a guide to the best resources. For the party as of 2007 see Republican Party (United States). See also related articles on the Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Political Party Systems in the U.S. In the years after 2016 and earlier, numerous commentators have been predicting or anticipating the end of the Republican Party as it has existed in the Fifth Party System, suggesting the possible emergence of a new, Sixth Party System. As of the Presidential election of 2020, no such development has occurred. Various commentators have offered explanations for why ([1]).

Secondary Sources[edit]

Surveys[edit]

American National Biography (20 volumes, 1999) covers all politicians no longer alive; online at many academic libraries.
Burnham, Walter Dean, ed. Critical Elections and the Mainsprings of American Politics. 1970. statistical analysis by leading political scientist
Batchelor, John Calvin. "Ain't You Glad You Joined the Republicans?" A Short History of the GOP. 1996. 399 pp. well-written popular history, well illustrated
Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. Elections (4th ed 2003) 1600pp, vast compilation of data, esp., since 1945
Gould, Lewis. Grand Old Party: A History of the Republicans (2003), the best scholarly overview.
Jensen, Richard. Grass Roots Politics: Parties, Issues, and Voters, 1854-1983 (1983) online edition
Kleppner, Paul, et al. The Evolution of American Electoral Systems (1983), applies party systems model
MacNeil, Neil. Forge of Democracy: The House of Representatives (1963) popular history
Mayer, George H. The Republican Party, 1854-1966. 2nd ed. (1967), narrative.
Rutland, Robert Allen. The Republicans: From Lincoln to Bush (1996) popular narrative
Shafer, Byron E. and Anthony J. Badger, eds. Contesting Democracy: Substance and Structure in American Political History, 1775-2000 (2001), long essays by specialists on each time period:
- includes: "'To One or Another of These Parties Every Man Belongs;": 1820–1865 by Joel H. Silbey; "Change and Continuity in the Party Period: 1835–1885" by Michael F. Holt; "The Transformation of American Politics: 1865–1910" by Peter H. Argersinger; "Democracy, Republicanism, and Efficiency: 1885–1930" by Richard Jensen; "The Limits of Federal Power and Social Policy: 1910–1955" by Anthony J. Badger; "The Rise of Rights and Rights Consciousness: 1930–1980" by James T. Patterson; and "Economic Growth, Issue Evolution, and Divided Government: 1955–2000" by Byron E. Shafer
Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, Jr. ed. History of American Presidential Elections, 1789-2000 (various multivolume editions, latest is 2001). For each election includes good scholarly history and selection of primary document. Essays on the most important election are reprinted in Schlesinger, The Coming to Power: Critical presidential elections in American history (1972)

Third Party System: 1854 to 1900[edit]

Abbott, Richard H. For Free Press and Equal Rights: Republican Newspapers in the Reconstruction South. U. of Georgia Press, 2004. 296 pp.
Baggett, James Alex. The Scalawags: Southern Dissenters in the Civil War and Reconstruction. Louisiana State U. Press, 2003. 323 pp.
Calhoun, Charles W. Conceiving a New Republic: The Republican Party and the Southern Question, 1869-1900. U. Press of Kansas, 2006. 347 pp
Dearing, Mary. Veterans in Politics: The Story of the GAR 1952.

In 1860 men voted by taking a paper ballot from a party worker and depositing it in a glass jar; GOP ballot, Massachusetts

DeSantis, Vincent P. Republicans Face the Southern Question: The New Departure Years, 1877-1897 1959.
Donald, David. Lincoln (1999), standard scholarly biography
Edwards, Rebecca. Angels in the Machinery: Gender in American Party Politics from the Civil War to the Progressive Era (1997)
Engs, Robert F., and Randall M. Miller, eds. The Birth of the Grand Old Party: The Republicans' First Generation (2002), summary essays by experts; well illustrated
Foner, Eric. Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men: The Ideology of the Republican Party Before the Civil War (1970), influential history of ideas and ideology; online edition
Gienapp, William E. The Origins of the Republican Party, 1852-1856 (1987), quantitative voting studies, by state
Gienapp, William E. "Nativism and the Creation of a Republican Majority in the North Before the Civil War", Journal of American History 72 (Dec. 1985): 529-59 in JSTOR
Green, Michael S. Freedom, Union, and Power: Lincoln and His Party during the Civil War. Fordham U. Press, 2004. 400 pp.
Gustafson, Melanie Susan. Women and the Republican Party, 1854-1924. U. of Illinois Press, 2001. 195 pp.
Hand, Samuel B. The Star That Set: The Vermont Republican Party, 1854-1974. Lexington Books, 2002. 353 pp.
Hershock, Martin J. The Paradox of Progress: Economic Change, Individual Enterprise, and Political Culture in Michigan, 1837-1878. Ohio U. Press, 2003. 324 pp.
Hesseltine, William B. Ulysses S. Grant: Politician (1935) online edition
Hoogenboom, Ari. Outlawing the Spoils: A History of the Civil Service Reform Movement, 1865-1883. 1968.
Hoogenboom, Ari. Rutherford B. Hayes: Warrior and President 1995.
Jensen, Richard. The Winning of the Midwest: Social and Political Conflict, 1888-1896 (1971)
Jordan, David. Roscoe Conkling of New York: Voice in the Senate 1971.
Kehl, James A. Boss Rule in the Gilded Age: Matt Quay of Pennsylvania (1981) online edition
Keller, Morton. Affairs of State: Public Life in Late Nineteenth Century America 1977.
Kleppner, Paul. The Third Electoral System 1853-1892: Parties, Voters, and Political Cultures (1979), analysis of voting behavior, with emphasis on region, ethnicity, religion and class. online edition
McKinney, Gordon B. Southern Mountain Republicans, 1865-1900: Politics and the Appalachian Community 1978.
Marcus, Robert. Grand Old Party: Political Structure in the Gilded Age, 1880-1896 1971.
Morgan, H. Wayne. From Hayes to McKinley; National Party Politics, 1877-1896 (1969) online edition, good survey of era
Morgan, H. Wayne. William McKinley and His America 1963.
Muzzey, David Saville. James G. Blaine: A Political Idol of Other Days 1934.
Nevins, Allan. Ordeal of the Union 8 vol (1947-77); highly detailed narrative of national politics and Civil War, 1848-65, by leading scholar
Paludin, Philip. A People's Contest: The Union and the Civil War, 1861-1865 1988.
Polakoff, Keith Ian. The Politics of Inertia: The Election of 1876 and the End of Reconstruction 1973.
Rhodes, James Ford. The History of the United States from the Compromise of 1850 8 vol (1932), narrative, 1850-1909
Richardson, Heather Cox. The Greatest Nation of the Earth: Republican Economic Policies during the Civil War (1997) online edition
Robinson, William A. Thomas B. Reed, Parliamentarian 1930.
Silbey, Joel H. The American Political Nation, 1838-1893 (1991)
Summers, Mark Wahlgren. Rum, Romanism & Rebellion: The Making of a President, 1884 (2000) online edition
Trefousse, Hans L. Thaddeus Stevens: Nineteenth-Century Egalitarian. U. of North Carolina Press, 1997. 312 pp. online edition
Van Deusen, Glyndon G. Horace Greeley, Nineteenth-Century Crusader (1953) online edition
Wang, Xi. The Trial of Democracy: Black Suffrage and Northern Republicans, 1860-1910. U. of Georgia Press, 1997. 411 pp.
Welch, Richard E. George Frisbie Hoar and the Half Breed Republicans 1971.
Williams, R. Hal. Years of Decision: American Politics in the 1890s. 1978.

Forth Party System: 1900-1932[edit]

Blum, John Morton The Republican Roosevelt. (1954). essays that examine how TR did politics
Brands, H.W. Theodore Roosevelt (2001), full biography online edtiion
Burner, David. Herbert Hoover: A Public Life. (1979).
Chace, James. 1912: Wilson, Roosevelt, Taft, and Debs - The Election That Changed the Country. (2004). 323 pp.
Coletta, Paolo Enrico. The Presidency of William Howard Taft (1973), standard survey
Garraty, John. Henry Cabot Lodge: A Biography 1953
Gosnell, Harold F. Boss Platt and His New York Machine: A Study of the Political Leadership of Thomas C. Platt, Theodore Roosevelt, and Others (1924)
Gould, Lewis L. The Presidency of Theodore Roosevelt. (1991), standard survey
Gustafson, Melanie Susan. Women and the Republican Party, 1854-1924. U. of Illinois Press, 2001. 195 pp. * Harbaugh, William Henry. The Life and Times of Theodore Roosevelt. (1963), full scholarly biography
Hechler, Kenneth S. Insurgency: Personalities and Politics of the Taft Era (1940)
Lichtman, Allan J. Prejudice and the Old Politics: The Presidential Election of 1928 (1979). quantitative study of voters
Morris, Edmund. The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt, to 1901 (1979); vol 2: Theodore Rex 1901-1909. (2001); Pulitzer prize; biography.
Mowry, George. The Era of Theodore Roosevelt and the Birth of Modern America, 1900-1912. (1954) general survey of era; online
Karen A. J. Miller; Populist Nationalism: Republican Insurgency and American Foreign Policy Making, 1918-1925. Greenwood Press, 1999
McCoy, Donald, Calvin Coolidge: The Quiet President (1967),
Mowry, George E. Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement. (2001) focus on 1912
Pringle, Henry F. The Life and Times of William Howard Taft: A Biography. 2 vol (1939); Pulitzer prize; the standard biography vol 1 online
Pringle, Henry F. Theodore Roosevelt: A Biography (1931) online edition
Sherman, Richard B. The Republican Party and Black America from McKinley to Hoover 1973.
Smith, Richard Norton. An Uncommon Man: The Triumph of Herbert Hoover, (1987) full-length scholarly biography.
David Thelen, Robert M. La Follette and the Insurgent Spirit 1976. short interpretive biography
Unger, Nancy C. Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer (2000), full scale biography

Fifth Party System: 1932 to 1980[edit]

Andrew III, John A. The Other Side of the Sixties: Young Americans for Freedom and the Rise of Conservative Politics, 1997 online edition
Brennan, Mary C. Turning Right in the Sixties: The Conservative Capture of the GOP (1995) online edition
Dallek, Matthew. The Right Moment: Ronald Reagan's First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point in American Politics. (2004). Study of 1966 election as governor.
Firestone, Bernard J. and Alexej Ugrinsky (eds) Gerald R. Ford and the Politics of Post-Watergate America (1992)
Robert Alan Goldberg's Barry Goldwater (1995),
Greenberg, David. Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image (2003). Important study of how Nixon was perceived by media and scholars.
Greene, John Robert. The Limits of Power: The Nixon and Ford Administrations
Greene, John Robert. The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford (1995)the major scholarly study
Hand, Samuel B. The Star That Set: The Vermont Republican Party, 1854-1974. Lexington Books, 2002. 353 pp.
Hodgson, Godfrey. The World Turned Right Side Up: A History of the Conservative Ascendancy in America (1996). by British journalist
Hoff, Joan. Nixon Reconsidered (1994); online edition
Jensen, Richard. "The Last Party System, 1932-1980," in Paul Kleppner, ed. Evolution of American Electoral Systems (1981)
Ladd Jr., Everett Carll with Charles D. Hadley. Transformations of the American Party System: Political Coalitions from the New Deal to the 1970s 2nd ed. (1978).
Mason, Robert. Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority (2004). 289 pp
Matthews, Jeffrey J. "To Defeat a Maverick: The Goldwater Candidacy Revisited, 1963-1964," Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 27, 1997 online edition
Morris, Roger. Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician (1990).
Pach, Chester J. and Elmo Richardson. Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower (1991). Standard scholarly survey.
Parmet, Herbert S. Eisenhower and the American Crusades (1972) online edition
Parmet, Herbert S. Richard Nixon and His America (1990).
Patterson, James T. Mr. Republican: A Biography of Robert A. Taft (1972)
Patterson, James. Congressional Conservatism and the New Deal: The Growth of the Conservative Coalition in Congress, 1933-39 (1967)
Perlstein, Rick. Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (2002) well written, broad account of 1964
Persico, Joseph E. The Imperial Rockefeller: A Biography of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1982 (The author was a senior aide).
Reich, Cary. The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer, 1908-1958, 1996.
Reichley, James; Conservatives in an Age of Change: The Nixon and Ford Administrations, Brookings Institution, 1981. online edition
Reinhard, David W. The Republican Right since 1945 (1983) online edition
Schuparra, Kurt. Triumph of the Right: The Rise of the California Conservative Movement, 1945-1996. M. E. Sharpe, 1998. 221 pp.
Shelley II, Mack C. The Permanent Majority: The Conservative Coalition in the United States Congress (1983)
Smith, J. Brian. John J. Rhodes: Man of the House. Primer, 2005. 380 pp GOP House leader in 1970s
Smith, Oran P. The Rise of Baptist Republicanism. New York U. Press, 1997. 320 pp.
Smith, Richard Norton. Thomas E. Dewey and His Times. (1982)
Sundquist, James L. Dynamics of the Party System: Alignment and Realignment of Political Parties in the United States (1983) online edition
Weed, Clyde P. "What Happened to the Republicans in the 1930s: Minority Party Dynamics During Political Realignment." Polity 1989 22(1): 5-23. Issn: 0032-3497 Fulltext: in Jstor
White, Theodore. The Making of the President: 1960 (1961); The Making of the President: 1964 (1965); The Making of the President 1968 (1969) classic narratives
White, William S. The Taft Story (1954); Pulitzer Prize. online edition
Wunderlin, Clarence E., Jr. Robert A. Taft: Ideas, Tradition, and Party in US Foreign Policy. Rowman and Littlefield, 2005. 272 pp.

1980 - 2000[edit]

Barone, Michael, and Grant Ujifusa, The Almanac of American Politics 2006: The Senators, the Representatives and the Governors: Their Records and Election Results, Their States and Districts (2005) covers all incumbent Congressmen and governors with amazing detail. New edition published every two years since 1975.
Aistrup, Joseph A. The Southern Strategy Revisited: Republican Top-Down Advancement in the South (1996)
Barnett, Timothy J. Legislative Learning: The 104th Republican Freshmen in the House. 1998. 333 pp.

Black, Earl and Black, Merle. The Rise of Southern Republicans. Harvard U. Press, 2002. 442 pp.
Cannon, Lou. President Reagan: The Role of a Lifetime (2000), online edition
Critchlow, Donald T. Phyllis Schlafly and Grassroots Conservatism: A Woman's Crusade. Princeton U. Press, 2005. 422 pp.
Edwards, Lee. The Conservative Revolution: The Movement That Remade America. Free Press, 1999. 391 pp.
Ehrman, John, The Eighties: America in the Age of Reagan (2005)
Frum, David. What's Right: The New Conservative Majority and the Remaking of America (1996)
Germond, Jack W. and Jules Witcover. Blue Smoke & Mirrors: How Reagan Won & Why Carter Lost the Election of 1980. 1981. Detailed journalism.
Green, John Robert. The Presidency of George Bush. (2000). 1989-1993
Lamis, Alexander P. ed. Southern Politics in the 1990s (1999)
Layman, Geoffrey. The Great Divide: Religious and Cultural Conflict in American Party Politics. Columbia University Press. 2001. 435pp.
Levy, Peter B. Encyclopedia of the Reagan-Bush Years Greenwood Press, 1996 online edition
Patterson, James T. Restless Giant: The United States from Watergate to Bush vs. Gore. (2005), standard scholarly synthesis.
Pemberton, William E. Exit with Honor: The Life and Presidency of Ronald Reagan (1998) biography by historian; online edition
Rae, Nicol C. Conservative Reformers: The Republican Freshmen and the Lessons of the 104th Congress. Sharpe, 1998. 255 pp.
Reeves, Richard. President Reagan: The Triumph of Imagination (2005) detailed analysis by historian
Rymph, Catherine. Republican Women: Feminism and Conservatism from Suffrage through the Rise of the New Right. U. of North Carolina Press, 2006. 338 pp.
Sabato, Larry J. and Bruce Larson. The Party's Just Begun: Shaping Political Parties for America's Future (2001).
Schaller, Michael and Rising, George. The Republican Ascendancy: American Politics, 1968-2001. Harlan Davidson, 2002. 210 pp.
Steely, Mel. The Gentleman from Georgia: The Biography of Newt Gingrich. Mercer U. Press, 2000. 431 pp.

2000 to present[edit]

Barone, Michael, and Grant Ujifusa, The Almanac of American Politics 2008: The Senators, the Representatives and the Governors: Their Records and Election Results, Their States and Districts (2007) covers all incumbent Congressmen and governors with amazing detail. New edition published every two years since 1975.
Black, Earl and Merle Black. Divided America: The Ferocious Power Struggle in American Politics (2007)
Critchlow, Donald T. The Conservative Ascendancy: How the GOP Right Made Political History (2007)
Frank, Thomas. What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America (2005), a liberal viewpoint excerpt and text search
Lublin, David. The Republican South: Democratization and Partisan Change. Princeton U. Press, 2004. 272 pp. excerpt and text search
Mooney, Chris. The Republican War on Science. 2005. 342 pp. excerpt and text search
Sabato, Larry J. ed. The Sixth Year Itch: The Rise and Fall of the George W. Bush Presidency (2007), in-depth essays by scholars
Sabato, Larry J. Divided States of America: The Slash and Burn Politics of the 2004 Presidential Election (2005).
Shafer, Byron and Richard Johnston. The End of Southern Exceptionalism (2006), uses statistical election data & polls to argue GOP growth was primarily a response to economic change excerpt and text search
Taylor, Andrew J. Elephant's Edge: The Republicans as a Ruling Party. 2005. 336 pp. academic study of how GOP turned small advantages into power excerpt and text search
Wooldridge, Adrian and John Micklethwait. The Right Nation: Conservative Power in America sophisticated study by two British journalists (2004). excerpt and text search

Latino vote[edit]

Barreto, Matt A.; Leal, David L. "Latinos, Military Service, and Support for Bush and Kerry in 2004," American Politics Research (2007) Vol 35 #2, Pages: 224-251 online at SAGE
Desipio, Louis; Uhlaner, Carole Jean. "Immigrant and Native: Mexican American Presidential Vote Choice Across Immigrant Generations," American Politics Research (2007) Vol 35 #2, Pages: 176-201 online at SAGE
De La Garza, Rodolfo O.; Cortina, Jeronimo, "Are Latinos Republicans But Just Don’t Know It?: The Latino Vote in the 2000 and 2004 Presidential Elections," American Politics Research (2007) Vol 35 #2, Pages: 202-223 online at SAGE
Lee, Jongho; Pachon, Harry P. "Leading the Way: An Analysis of the Effect of Religion on the Latino Vote," American Politics Research (2007) Vol 35 #2, Pages: 252-272 online at SAGE
Nuño, Stephen A. "Latino Mobilization and Vote Choice in the 2000 Presidential Election," American Politics Research (2007) Vol 35 #2, Pages: 273-293 online at SAGE
Ramírez, Ricardo, "Segmented Mobilization: Latino Nonpartisan Get-Out-the-Vote Efforts in the 2000 General Election." American Politics Research (2007) Vol 35 #2, Pages: 155-175 online at SAGE
Vigil, Maurilio E. "Hispanics and the 1996 Presidential Election." Latino Studies Journal 1998 9(1): 43-61. Issn: 1066-1344

Primary sources[edit]

Cantril, Hadley and Mildred Strunk, eds. Public Opinion, 1935-1946 (1951), huge compilation of public opinion polls from the United States and elsewhere. online version
Gallup, George H. ed., The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion, 1935-1971, 3 vol. (1972),
Schlesinger, Arthur Meier, Jr. ed. History of American Presidential Elections, 1789-2000 (various multivolume editions, latest is 2001). For each election includes brief history and selection of primary documents.
Taft, Robert A. The Papers of Robert A. Taft. ed. by Clarence E. Wunderlin, Jr.; 3 vol to 1948; Kent State U. Press, (1997-2003) 630pp each.
The national committees of major parties published a "campaign textbook" every presidential election from about 1856 to about 1932. They were designed for speakers and are jammed with statistics, speeches, summaries of legislation, and documents, with plenty of argumentation. Only large academic libraries have them, but some are online.