Periodicals /
- Foreign Affairs
- Foreign Policy
- The Nation
- The New Yorker
- New York Review of Books
- Atlantic Monthly
- Harpers
- The New Republic
- Orion
- Smithsonian
Books /
- Legacy of Ashes : The History of the CIA, Tim Weiner
- The Looming Tower : Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, Lawrence Wright
- A Problem from Hell : America and the Age of Genocide, Samantha Power
- God and Gold : Britain, America, and the Making of the Modern World, Walter Russell Mead
- Plan of Attack, Robert Woodward
- Against All Enemies, Richard Clarke
- Ghost Wars, Steve Coll
- The New American Militarism, Andrew Bacevich
- Fire in the Lake, Frances Fitzgerald
- A Bright Shining Lie, Neil Sheehan
- The American Encounter : The United States and the Making of the Modern World : Essays from 75 Years of Foreign Affairs, James F. Hoge and Fareed Zakaria, editors
- America at the Crossroads : Democracy, Power, and the Neoconservative Legacy, Francis Fukuyama
- Cousins and Strangers : America, Britain, and Europe in a New Century, Chris Patten
- President Reagan : The Triumph of Imagination, Richard Reeves
- Why Americans Hate Politics, E.J. Dionne, Jr.
- Escaping Plato’s Cave: How America’s Blindness to the Rest of the World Threatens our Survival, Mort Rosenblum
- Barbarian Sentiments, William Pfaff
- Taming American Power : The Global Response to U.S. Primacy, Stephen M. Walt
- Divided by God : America’s Church-State Problem – and What We Should Do About it, Noah Feldman
- Beyond Humanitarianism, Princeton N. Lyman and Patricia Lee Dorff, editors
- Rise to Globalism : American Foreign Policy Since 1938, Stephen Ambrose
- Race, Studs Terkel
- The Dynamics of Coercion : American Foreign Policy and the Limits of Military Might, Daniel Byman
- Police Surveillance in America, Gary T. Marx
- The Americans (3 volumes), Daniel J. Boorstin
- The Shaping of America, D.W. Meinig
- The Disuniting of America, Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
- The Other America : Poverty in the United States, Michael Harrington
- A Peoples’ History of the United States, Howard Zinn
- Explaining America, Garry Wills
- The Argument, Billionaires, Bloggers, and the Battle to Remake Democratic Politics, Matt Bai
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Walker Evans and James Agee
- Walden; Or, Life in the Woods, Henry David Thoreau
- Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
- On the Road, Jack Kerouac
- Bonfire of the Vanities, Tom Wolfe
- Collected Poems 1947-1997, Allen Ginsberg
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