List of political career biographies explained
The following is a list of political career biographies. It is meant to complement the list of political memoirs page, with the key difference being that the books in this list are authored by persons other than the book's subject. This list is sorted by country and by the political position and last name of the book's subject:
Australia
Richard Casey
Minister for Foreign Affairs 1951-1960
- R G Casey, Australian Foreign Minister, Collins 1972
Ben Chifley
Prime Minister 1945-1949
- Ben Chifley, Things Worth Fighting For, Melbourne University Press, 1952
Sir Robert Menzies: Prime Minister 1939-1941; 1949-1966
- R. G. Menzies, Afternoon Light, Cassell & Co., London, 1967
Graham Richardson
Senator 1983-1994
- Graham Richardson, Whatever It Takes (Bantam, 1994)
Gough Whitlam
Prime Minister 1972-1975
- Gough Whitlam, The Whitlam Government, Penguin, 1985
United Kingdom
See main article: List of British political memoirs. Karl Marx
Writer 1818-1883
United States
U.S. Cabinet
Albright, Madeleine
Secretary of State under President Bill Clinton, 1997-2001
- Madeleine Albright : A Twentieth-Century Odyssey (2000) by Michael Dobbs
Brown, Ron
Secretary of Commerce under President Bill Clinton, 1993-1996
- Ron Brown: An Uncommon Life (2001) by Steven A. Holmes
Byrnes, James F.
Secretary of State under President Harry Truman, 1945-1947
- Sly and Able: A Political Biography of James F. Byrnes (1994;) by David Robertson
Connally, John
Secretary of the Treasury under President Richard Nixon, 1971-1972
Dulles, John Foster
Secretary of Defense under President Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953-1959
- Power and Peace: The Diplomacy of John Foster Dulles (1995) by Frederick Marks
- John Foster Dulles: Piety, Pragmatism, and Power in U.S. Foreign Policy (1998) by Richard H. Immerman
Forrestal, James
Secretary of Defense under President Harry Truman, 1947-1949
- Driven Patriot : The Life and Times of James Forrestal (1992) by Townsend Hoopes
Johnson, Louis
Secretary of Defense under President Harry Truman, 1949-1950
- Louis Johnson And the Arming of America: The Roosevelt And Truman Years (2005) by Keith D. McFarland and David L. Roll
Kissinger, Henry
Secretary of State under Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford, 1973-1977
- Kissinger Transcripts: The Top Secret Talks With Beijing and Moscow (1999) by William Burr
- The Flawed Architect : Henry Kissinger and American Foreign Policy (2004) by Jussi M. Hanhimaki
- The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House (1983) by Seymour M. Hersh
- Sideshow, Revised Edition : Kissinger, Nixon, and the Destruction of Cambodia (2002) by William Shawcross
- The Nixon-Kissinger Years: Reshaping of America's Foreign Policy (1989) by Richard C. Thornton
Marshall, George C.
McNamara, Robert
Secretary of Defense under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, 1961-1968
O'Neill, Paul
Secretary of the Treasury under President George W. Bush, 2001-2002
Rumsfeld, Donald
Secretary of Defense under President George W. Bush, 2001–present
- Rumsfeld's War: The Untold Story of America's Anti-Terrorist Commander (2004) by Rowan Scarborough
Vance, Cyrus
Secretary of State under President Jimmy Carter, 1977-1980
- Cyrus Vance (1985) by David S. McLellan
U.S. Supreme Court
Blackmun, Harry
98th Supreme Court Justice, 1970-1994
- Becoming Justice Blackmun: Harry Blackmun's Supreme Court Journey (2005;) by Linda Greenhouse
Marshall, Thurgood
96th Supreme Court Justice, 1967-1991
- Thurgood Marshall: Justice for All (1992;) by Roger Goldman and David Gallen
- Dream Makers, Dream Breakers: The World of Justice Thurgood Marshall (1993;) by Carl T. Rowan
- Thurgood Marshall : American Revolutionary (2000;) by Juan Williams
O'Connor, Sandra Day
102nd Supreme Court Justice, 1981-2006
- Sandra Day O'Connor : How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice (2005;) by Joan Biskupic
Scalia, Antonin
103rd Supreme Court Justice, 1986–present
- Justice Antonin Scalia and the Conservative Revival (1998;) by Richard A. Brisbin Jr.
- Scalia Dissents : Writings of the Supreme Court's Wittiest, Most Outspoken Justice (2004;) by Kevin A. Ring
- American Original: The Life and Constitution of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia (2009;) by Joan Biskupic
Souter, David
105th Supreme Court Justice, 1990–present
- David Hackett Souter: Traditional Republican On The Rehnquist Court (2005;) by Tinsley E. Yarbrough
Thomas, Clarence
106th Supreme Court Justice, 1991–present
- The Prince and the Pauper: The Case Against Clarence Thomas, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court (2001;) by John L. Cooper and Armin Cooper
- Supreme Discomfort : The Divided Soul of Clarence Thomas (2006;) by Kevin Merida and Michael Fletcher
See also
