Research and Selected Publications-

Governors and State Government

• Michael E. Solimine and James L. Walker, Respecting State Courts: The Inevitability of Judicial Federalism (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999)

• Charles S. Lopeman, The Activist Advocate: Policy Making in State Supreme Courts (Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1999)

• Kenneth P. Miller, The Davis Recall and the Courts,
  American Politics Research, March 2005; vol. 33: pp. 135- 162

• Marie Marmo Mullaney, American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1979-1987 (Westport CT: Greenwood Press, 1988)

• Roy R. Glashan, American Governors and Gubernatorial Elections, 1775-1978 (Westport CT: Meckler Books 1978)

• David L. Leal, Electing America's Governors: The Politics of Executive Elections (Basingstoke, United Kingdom: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006

• Joel Thompson and Gary Moncrief, eds., Campaign Finance in State Legislative Elections, (Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly Books, 1998)

• Thomas Casey, Campaign Dynamics: The Race for Governor (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press 2001)

• Margaret Conway, Political Participation in the United States (3rd ed.)   (Washington, DC: CQ Press 2000)

• G.C. Lubenow, California Votes—The 1994 Governor's Race: An Inside Look at the Candidates and their Campaigns by the People who Managed Them (Berkeley, CA: Institute of Governmental Studies Press 1995)

• Michael Aron, Governor's Race: A TV Reporter's Chronicle of the 1993 Florio-Whitman Campaign (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press 1994)

• Randall Partin, "Campaign Intensity and Voter Information: A Look at Gubernatorial Contests", American Politics Research, March 2001; vol. 29: pp. 115-140

• Mark Baldassare, "The Role of Public Opinion on the California Governor’s Recall in 2003: Populism, Partisanship, and Direct Democracy", American Politics Research, March 2005; vol. 33: pp. 163 - 186.

• Marie Marmo Mullaney, Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States 1988-1994 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing Group 1994) Google online preview

• Marie Marmo Mullaney, Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1983-1988 (Westport, CT: Meckler Books, 1989)

• Robert Sobel and John Raimo, eds., Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States, 1789-1978 (Westport, CT: Meckler Books 1978)

• Earl Black, Southern Governors and Civil Rights: Racial Segregation As a Campaign Issue (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1976) Google online book

• William B. Hesseltine, Lincoln and the War Governors (New York, NY: Knopf, 1948)

• W. Raymond Jones, Alabama Governors Then and Now (Montgomery, AL: W.R. Jones, 2000)

• George C. Wallace, Stand up for America (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1976)

• Michael Dorman, The George Wallace Myth (New York, NY:: Bantam Books, 1976)

• Gene Howard, Patterson for Alabama: the Life and Career of John Patterson (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2008)

• Warren Trest, Nobody but the People: the Life and Times of Alabama’s Youngest Governor (Montgomery, AL: NewSouth Books, 2008)

• Marshall Frady, Wallace: The Classic Portrait of Alabama Governor George Wallace (New York, NY: Random House, 1996)

• Dan T. Carter, The Politics of Rage: George Wallace, the Origins of the New Conservatism, and the Transformation of American Politics (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 2000)

• Lloyd Rohler, George Wallace: Conservative Populist Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 2004)

• Jeff Frederick, Stand up for Alabama: Governor George Wallace (Tuscaloosa, AL: University of Alabama Press, 2007)

• Jay Hammond, Tales of Alaska's Bush Rat Governor: The Extraordinary Autobiography of Jay. S. Hammond (Kenmore, WA: Epicenter Press 1996)

• Timothy Paul Donovan and Willard B. Gatewood, The Governors of Arkansas: Essays in Political Biography (Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 1981)

• Bill Clinton, My Life (New York, NY: Knopf, 2004)

• Nigel Hamilton, Bill Clinton: An American Journey (New York, NY: Random House, 2003)

• Mike Huckabee, Character is the Issue: How People With Integrity Can Revolutionize America (Nashville, TN: B&H Publishing Group 1997)

• John L. Ward, The Arkansas Rockefeller (Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press, 1978)

• Cathy Kunzinger Urwin, Agenda for Reform: Winthrop Rockefeller as Governor of Arkansas, 1967-71 (Fayetteville, AR: University of Arkansas Press, 1991)

• John L. Myers, The Arizona Governors 1912-1990 (Phoenix: Heritage Publications 1989)

• James Elton McMillan, Ernest W. McFarland: Majority Leader of the United States Senate, Governor and Chief Justice of the State of Arizona (Prescott AZ: Hall, Sharlot Museum Press, 2004)

• Molly Shoemaker Schaechtele, The Governors of California and their Portraits, (Sacramento: California State Capitol Museum Volunteer Association 1995) Governors' Gallery Web adapted edition published by California State Library

• Mildred Quinn, California Governors: Past and Present (Chicago: Franklin Publications, 1970)

• H. Brett Melendy and Benjamin F. Gilbert, The Governors of California: Peter H. Burnett to Edmund G. Brown (Georgetown, CA: Talisman Press, 1965)

• Lou Cannon, Governor Reagan: His Rise to Power (New York, NY: PublicAffairs 2003) Google online preview

• Edmund Morris, Dutch: A Memoir of Ronald Reagan (New York, NY: Random House, 1999)

• Joe Mathews, The People's Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger And the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy (New York, NY: PublicAffairs 2006)

• James Worthen, Governor James Rolph and the Great Depression in California (San Francisco: McFarland & Co. 2006) Google online preview

• William Chandler and Thad Kousser, “Governors, Geography, and Direct Democracy: The Case of Arnold Schwarzenegger,” in Frederick Douzet, Thad Kousser, and Ken Miller, editors, The New Political Geography of California (Berkeley CA: Institute of Governmental Studies Press 2008)

• Richard Lamm, Pioneers & Politicians: 10 Colorado Governors in Profile (Boulder, CO: Pruett Publishing Co. 1984)

• R.L. Preston, Stetson, Pipe, and Boots–Colorado’s Cattleman Governor: A Biography About Dan Thornton (Victoria, B.C., Canada: Trafford Publishing 2006)

• Frederick Calvin Norton, The Governors of Connecticut (Hartford, CT: Connecticut Magazine Co., 1905) Google online book

• Division of Historical Resources, Department of State, State of Florida, Florida Governors' Portraits (online portraits and brief profiles of governors from 1821 through present)

• Martin Dyckman, Floridian of His Century: The Courage of Governor Leroy Collins (Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, 2006)

• Fred Barnes, "Governor in Chief: Jeb Bush's Remarkable Eight Years of Achievement in Florida", The Weekly Standard, 6/12/2006, Volume 11, Issue 37

• James F. Cook, Governors of Georgia, 1754-1995 (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2005)

• Richard Hyatt, Zell: The Governor who Gave Georgia Hope (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 1997)

• Harold Paulk Henderson, Ernest Vandiver: Governor of Georgia (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2000)

• Harold Paulk Henderson, The Politics of Change in Georgia: A Political Biography of Ellis Arnall (Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 1991) Google online preview

• David Ress, Governor Edward Coles and the Vote to Forbid Slavery in Illinois, 1823-1824 (Jefferson, NC: McFarland and Co., 2006)

• Linda C. Gugin and James E. St. Clair, The Governors of Indiana (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Society Press in cooperation with the Indiana Historical Bureau, 2006)

• Randy Keith Mills, Ray E. Boomhower, Kathleen M. Breen, and Paula J. Corpuz, Jonathan Jennings: Indiana’s First Governor (Indiana Biography Series 2005)

• Department for Libraries and Archives, Commonwealth of Kentucky, Kentucky's Governors (brief online biographical outline of governors)

• Lowell Hayes Harrison, Kentucky's Governors (Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky 2004)

• Robert A. Powell, Kentucky Governors (Danville, KY: Bluegrass Printing Company 1976)

• Miriam G. Reeves, The Governors of Louisiana (Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Co., 5th ed. 1998)

• Joseph G. Dawson, The Louisiana Governors: From Iberville to Edwards (Baton Rouge: LSU Press, 1990)

• Harry T. Williams, Huey Long (New York, NY: Knopf, 1969)

• Huey P. Long, Every Man a King: the Autobiography of Huey P. Long (New Orleans: National Book Co., 1933)

• Richard D.White, Jr., Kingfish: the Reign of Huey P. Long. (New York, NY: Random House, 2006)

• Tyler Bridges, Bad Bet on the Bayou: The Rise of Gambling in Louisiana and the Fall of Governor Edwin Edwards (New York, NY: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2001)

• Frank F. White, Jr., The Governors of Maryland, 1777-1970 (Annapolis, MD: Hall of Records Commission, 1970)

• C. Fraser Smith, William Donald Schaefer: A Political Biography (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press,1999)

• George R.R. Rivers, The Governor’s Garden: A Relation of Some Passages in the Life of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, Sometime Captain-General and Governor-in-chief of His Majesty’s Province of Massachusetts Bay (Boston: Joseph Knight Co., 1896)

• David Nyhan, Duke: The Inside Story of a Political Phenomenon (Clayton, Victoria, Canada: Warner Books 1988)

• Jack Beatty, The Rascal King: the Life and Times of James Michael Curley, 1874-1958 (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1992)

• Clark R. Mollenhoff, George Romney: Mormon in Politics (Des Moines, IA: Meredith Press, 1968)

• Betty Wilson, Rudy! the People's Governor: The Life And Times Of Rudy Perpich (Minneapolis, MN: Nodin Press 2005)

• Jesse Ventura, I Ain't Got Time to Bleed: Reworking the Body Politic from the Bottom Up (New York, NY: Signet, 2000)

• Keith Elliot Greenberg and Keith Greenburg, Jesse Ventura, (Minneapolis: Lerner Publishing Group 1999)

• Cecil Lamar Sumners, The Governors of Mississippi (Gretna, LA: Pelican Publishing Co., 1980)

• Bill Waller, Straight Ahead: The Memoirs of a Mississippi Governor (Brandon, MS: Quail Ridge Press 2007)

• Virginia Opocensky, Nebraska Governors (Lincoln, NE: Lincoln City Libraries 1985)

• Paul A. Stellhorn and Michael J. Birkner, (eds.), The Governors of New Jersey 1664-1974: Biographical Essays (Trenton, NJ, New Jersey Historical Commission 1982) Online edition of New Jersey State Library

• Duane Lockard, The New Jersey Governor: A Study in Political Power (Princeton: D. Van Nostrand: 1964)

• Alvin S. Felzenberg, Governor Tom Kean: From the New Jersey Statehouse to the 9-11 Commission (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press 2006)

• Richard A. Hogarty, Leon Abbett's New Jersey:The Emergence of the Modern Governor (Darby, PA: Diane Publishing Co. 2001)

• Sandy McClure, Christie Whitman for the People: A Political Biography (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books 1996)

• Art Weissman, Christine Todd Whitman: The Making of a National Political Player (Secaucus, NJ: Carol Publishing Corp. 1996)

• Michael Aron, Governor's Race: A TV Reporter's Chronicle of the 1993 Florio/Whitman Campaign (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press 1994)

• John S. Jenkins, Lives of the Governors of the State of New York (Auburn, NY: Derby and Miller 1851) Google online book

• Mario Cuomo, Diaries of M. Cuomo: The Campaign for Governor (New York, NY: Random House 1984)

• Grace Tully, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, My Boss (Chicago, Il: Peoples Book Club 1949)

• James E. Underwood, William J. Daniels, Governor Rockefeller in New York: The Apex of Pragmatic Liberalism in the United States (1982)

• Joseph E. Persico, The Imperial Rockefeller: A Biography of Nelson A. Rockefeller, (New York, NY: Pocket Books, 1982)

• Cary Reich, The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer, 1908-1958, (New York., NY: Doubleday, 1996)

• Brooke A. Masters, Spoiling for a Fight: The Rise of Eliot Spitzer (New York, NY: Owl Books 2006)

• Edmund Morris, The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt (New York, NY: Modern Library, 2001)

• Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex (New York, NY: Random House, 2001)

• Ohio Historical Society, Ohio History Central (brief biographies of Ohio governors)

• LeRoy Henry Fischer, Oklahoma's Governors 1890-1907: Territorial Years, Norman, OK: Oklahoma Historical Society 1975)

• William C. Armor, Lives of the Governors of Pennsylvania, with the Incidental History of the State from 1609 to 1872, (Philadelphia: James K. Dixon 1872) Google online book

• George Swetnam, The Governors of Pennsylvania 1790-1990, (Greensburg, PA: McDonald & Sward Publishing Co. 1990) Google online book

• Robert P. Casey, Fighting for Life (Nashville, TN: Thomas Nelson Inc. 1996)

• George D. Wolf, William Warren Scranton: Pennsylvania Statesman, (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press 1981)

• Ralph S. Mohr, Governors for Three Hundred Years: Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, 1638-1954 (Providence, RI: State of Rhode Island Graves Registration Committee, 1954)

• Charles Wann Crawford, Governors of Tennessee, 1790-1835, (Memphis, TN: Memphis State University Press, 1979)

• Texas State Historical Association, Handbook of Texas Online (online biographies of Texas governors)

• Fred Gantt, Jr., The Chief Executive in Texas (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1964)

• Ross Phares, The Governors of Texas (Gretna, LA: Pelican, 1976)

• Hugh Nugent Fitzgerald, Governors I Have Known (Austin:: The Austin American-Statesman, 1927)

• Ken Anderson, Dan Moody: Crusader for Justice (Washington, DC: Georgetown Press 2008)

• John Hoyt Williams, Sam Houston: A Biography of the Father of Texas (New York, NY: Simon and Schuster, 1993).

• Amelia W. Williams and Eugene C. Barker, eds., The Writings of Sam Houston, 1813-1863 (8 vols., Austin: University of Texas Press, 1938-43; rpt., Austin and New York: Pemberton Press 1970)

• Marshall De Bruhl, Sword of San Jacinto: A Life of Sam Houston (New York, NY: Random House, 1993)

• Dennis L. Lythgoe, Let 'Em Holler: A Political Biography of J. Bracken Lee (Salt Lake City: Utah State Historical Society, 1982)

• R.A. Brock, ed., H.H.Hardesty, Virginia and Virginians: Executives of the Colony of Virginia from Sir Thomas Smyth to Lord Dunmore (Charlottesville, VA: Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library, H.H.Hardesty, 1888)

• Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia (Charlottesville, VA: Electronic Text Center, University of Virginia Library)

• Judson L. Jeffries, Virginia’s Native Son: The Election and Administration of Governor L. Douglas Wilder (Purdue University Press 2000)

• Teva J. Scheer, Governor Lady: The Life and Times of Nellie Tayloe Ross (Columbia, MO: University of Missouri Press 2005)