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William Berman, From the Center to the Edge: The Politics and Policies of the Clinton Presidency (2001). An in-depth exploration of Clinton’s politics and policies.
Richard A. Clarke, Against All Enemies: Inside America’s War on Terror (2004). A critique of the war on terror from President Clinton’s former chief counterterrorism advisor.
Alfred Eckes Jr. and Thomas Zeilin, Globalization and the American Century (2003). Shows that globalization for the United States has a long history, at least to 1898.
Gertrude Himmelfarb, One Nation, Two Cultures (1999). A compelling explanation of the divisive politics of the 1990s.
Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance (1995). The president’s first memoir makes compelling reading.
See the September 11 Digital Archive at 911digitalarchive.org/ for oral histories and both still and moving images from September 11.