POLITICALLY OPPOSING BOOKS
ON CONTROVERSIAL TOPICS
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LEFT/LIBERALRIGHT/CONSERVATIVE
REFERENCE BOOKS
The Encyclopedia of the DemocraticThe Encyclopedia of the Republican Party (1997)
Party (1997)
Encyclopedia of the American Left (1998)The Concise Conservative Encyclopedia (1996)
Party of the People: A History of theGrand Old Party: A History of the Republicans
Democrats (2003)(2003)
By Jules WitcoverBy Lewis L. Gould
CONTEMPORARY ISSUES BOOK SERIES
OPPOSING VIEWPOINTS BOOK SERIES
BUSH, GEORGE W.
The President of Good and Evil:A Charge to Keep: My Journey to the White
The Ethics of George W. Bush (2004)House (2001)
By Peter SingerBy George W. Bush
Deserter: Bush’s War on Military Families,Bush Country: How Dubya became a Great
Veterans, and His Past (2004)President while Driving the Liberals Insane
By Ian WilliamsBy John Podhoretz (2004)
Losing America: Confronting a RecklessThe Bush Boom: How a ‘Misunderestimated’
and Arrogant Presidency (2004)President Fixed our Broken Economy (2004)
By Robert C. ByrdBy Jerry Bowyer
The Price of Loyalty: George W. Bush,The Right Man: The Surprise Presidency of
The White House, and the Education ofGeorge W. Bush (2003)
Paul O’Neill (2004)By David Frum
By Ron Suskind
American Dynasty: Aristocracy, Fortune,Ten Minutes from Normal (2004)
and the Politics of Deceit in the House of By Karen Hughes
Bush (2004)
By Kevin P. Phillips
House of Bush, House of Saud: The SecretThe Faith of George W. Bush (2003)
Relationship Between the World’s TwoBy Stephen Mansfield
Most Powerful Dynasties (2004)
By Craig Unger
Worse Than Watergate: The SecretA Matter of Character: Inside the White House
Presidency of George W. Bush (2004)of George W. Bush (2004)
By John W. DeanBy Ronald Kessler
CLINTON, BILL
My Life (2004)Dereliction of Duty: An Eyewitness Account of
By Bill ClintonHow Bill Clinton Compromised America’s National
Security (2003)
By Robert Patterson
Stickin’: The Case for Loyalty (2000)Bitter Legacy: NewsMax.com reveals the Untold
By James CarvilleStory of the Clinton-Gore Years (2001)
By Christopher Ruddy and Carl Limbach,
Jr., eds.
Fools for Scandal: How the Media Absolute Power: The Legacy of Corruption in the
Invented Whitewater (1996)Clinton-Reno Justice Department (2001)
By Gene LyonsBy David Limbaugh
-And the Horse He Rode in On:“Feeling Your Pain”: The Explosion and Abuse of
The People v. Kenneth Starr (1998)Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years
By James Carville(2000)
By James Bovard
No One Left to Lie To: The Triangulations of
William Jefferson Clinton (1999)
By Christopher Hitchens
Year of the Rat: How Bill Clinton and Al Gore
Compromised U.S. Security for Chinese Cash
(1998)
By Edward Timperlake and William C.
Triplett II
Spin Cycle: Inside the Clinton Propaganda
Machine (1998)
By Howard Kurtz
CLINTON, HILLARY
Living History (2003)Rewriting History (2004)
By Hillary ClintonBy Dick Morris
Hillary Rodham Clinton: AHell to Pay: The Unfolding Story of Hillary
First Lady for Our Time (1993)Rodham Clinton (1999)
By Donnie RadcliffeBy Barbara Olson
American Evita: Hillary Clinton’s Path to
Power (2004)
By Christopher Andersen
The Case Against Hillary Clinton (2000)
By Peggy Noonan
THE IRAQ WAR 2003
Behind the Invasion of Iraq (2003)The War over Iraq: Saddam’s Tyranny and
By the Research Unit for America’s Mission (2003)
Political EconomyBy Lawrence Kaplan and William Kristol
Weapons of Mass Deception: The Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs
Uses of Propaganda in Bush’s War By the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
on Iraq (2003)(Primary Source)
By Sheldon Rampton and John Stauber
War Plan Iraq: Ten Reasons Against WarSaddam: King of Terror (2002)
With Iraq (2002)By Con Coughlin
By Rai Milan
War on Iraq: What Team Bush Doesn’tThe Threatening Storm: The Case for Invading
Want You to Know (2002)Iraq (2002)
By William Rivers Pitt and Scott RitterBy Kenneth M. Pollack
Politics of Truth: Inside the Lies that Led to WarIraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction: The
and Betrayed My Wife’s CIA Identity, A Assessment of the British Government (2002)
Diplomat’s Memoir (2004)By The British Government
By Joseph C. Wilson(Primary Source)
Secrets and Lies: Operation Iraqi Freedom andBrighter than the Baghdad Sun: Saddam Hussein’s
After (2004)Nuclear Threat to the United States (2000)
By Dilip HiroBy Shyam Bhatia and Daniel McGrory
A Pretext for War: 9/11, Iraq, and the AbuseWe Will Prevail: President George W. Bush on
of America’s Intelligence Agencies (2004)War, Terrorism, and Freedom (2004)
By James BamfordBy the National Review
(Primary Source)
America’s Oil Wars (2004)Saddam’s Bombmaker: The Terrifying Story of
By Stephen C. Pelletierethe Iraqi Nuclear and Biological Weapons Agenda
By Khidhir Hamza (2000)
THE JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION
For this topic, the generally accepted view that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone will be listed in the right column, while the revisionist works will be listed in the left column.
Reference Book
The Encyclopedia of the JFK Assassination (2002), by Michael Benson
The Great Zapruder Film Hoax:Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald and the
Deceit and Deception in theAssassination of JFK (1993)
Death of JFK (2003)By Gerald L. Posner
By James H. Fetzer
Bloody Treason: On Solving History’sPortrait of the Assassin (1965)
Greatest Murder Mystery, the By Gerald R. Ford and John R. Stiles
Assassination of John F. Kennedy (1997)
By Noel Twyman
High Treason 2: The Great Cover-up:Warren Commission Report on the Assassination
The Assassination of President John F.of President Kennedy (1964)
Kennedy (1992) By the U.S. Warren Commission
By Harrison Edward Livingstone(Primary Source)
JFK: The Case for Conspiracy (1976)
By F. Peter Model
On the Trail of the Assassins (1988)
By Jim Garrison
THE ROBERT F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION
For this topic, the generally accepted view that Sirhan Sirhan acted alone will be listed in the right column, while the revisionist works will be listed in the left column.
The Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy:
A Searching Look at the Conspiracy and
Coverup, 1968-1978 (1978)
By William W. Turner
KERRY, JOHN
A Call to Service (2003)The Many Faces of John Kerry: Why this
By John KerryMassachusetts Liberal is all Wrong for America
By David N. Bossie (2003)
Star-Spangled Mirror: America’s ImageUnfit for Command: Swift Boat Veterans Speak
of Itself and the World (2004)Out Against John Kerry (2004)
By Richard J. KerryBy John E. O’Neill
Tour of Duty: John Kerry and the
Vietnam War (2004)
By Douglas Brinkley
Candidate: Behind John Kerry’s
Remarkable Run for the White House
By Paul Alexander (2004)
John F. Kerry: The Complete Biography
by the Boston Globe Reporters Who
Know Him Best (2004)
By Michael Kranish et al.
KISSINGER, HENRY
The Trial of Henry Kissinger (2001)Years of Renewal (1999)
By Christopher HitchensBy Henry Kissinger
No Peace, No Honor: Nixon, Kissinger,Years of Upheaval (1982)
and Betrayal in Vietnam (2001)By Henry Kissinger
By Larry Berman
PEARL HARBOR ATTACK
For this topic, the generally accepted view that it was a surprise to the U.S. government will be listed in the right column, while the revisionist works will be listed in the left column.
Day of Deceit: The Truth about FDRAt Dawn We Slept: The Untold Story of Pearl
and Pearl Harbor (2000)Harbor (1981)
By Robert B. StinnettBy Gordon Prange
Infamy: Pearl Harbor and itsPearl Harbor: Warning and Decision (1962)
Aftermath (1982)By Roberta Wohlstetter
By John Toland
The Final Secret of Pearl Harbor:The “Magic” Background of Pearl Harbor (1977)
The Washington Contribution to By the U.S. Department of Defense
the Japanese Attack (1954)(Primary Source)
By Robert A. Theobald
Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement (1992)
By Henry C. Clausen and Bruce Lee
POLITICAL COMMENTATORS
Lies (And the Lying Liars Who Tell Them):Slander: Liberal Lies about the American
A Fair and Balanced View of the Right (2003)Right (2002)
By Al FrankenBy Anne Coulter
Rush Limbaugh is a Big Fat Idiot and OtherSee, I Told You So (1993)
Observations (1996)By Rush Limbaugh
By Al Franken
The Way Things Ought to Be (1992)
By Rush Limbaugh
THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION, 2004
Bush’s War for Reelection: Iraq, theWhiteMisunderestimated: The President Battles
House, and the People (2004)Terrorism, John Kerry, and the Bush Haters
By James MooreBy Bill Sammon (2004)
Our Plan for America: Stronger at Home,Reckless Disregard: How Liberal Democrats
Respected in the World (2004)Undercut Our Military, Endanger Our Soldiers,
By John Kerry and John Edwardsand Jeopardize Our Security (2004)
By Robert Patterson
Fraud: The Strategy Behind the Bush Lies
and Why the Media Didn’t Tell You (2004)
By Paul Waldman
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