1. Examples include Andrew Rudalevige, The New Imperial Presidency: Renewing Presidential Power after Watergate (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005)
2. Peter Irons, War Powers: How the Imperial Presidency Hijacked the Constitution (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2005)
3. Charlie Savage, Takeover: The Return of the Imperial Presidency and the Subversion of American Democracy (Boston: Little, Brown, 2007).
4. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., The Age of Jackson (Boston: Little, Brown, 1945), The Age of Roosevelt, 3 vols. (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1957–1960), and A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965).
5. For autobiographical detail, see Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., A Life in the Twentieth Century: Innocent Beginnings, 1917–1950 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 2001), and Journals: 1952–2000 (New York: Penguin, 2007).