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24 books recommended for fans of Founding Father by Richard Brookhiser, tied together by themes of Constitutions, Presidents & Heads of State, Political Science, and United States.

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A Sacred Oath Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times — Mark T. Esper

A Sacred Oath Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times

Themes: Constitutions • Presidents & Heads of State • Political Science

The Price of Politics — Bob Woodward

The Price of Politics

Themes: Constitutions • Presidents & Heads of State • Political Science

The Corruption Chronicles Obama’s Big Secrecy, Big Corruption, and Big Government — Thomas Fitton

The Corruption Chronicles Obama’s Big Secrecy, Big Corruption, and Big Government

Themes: Constitutions • Presidents & Heads of State • Political Science

The Failure of the Founding Fathers Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy — Bruce Ackerman

The Failure of the Founding Fathers Jefferson, Marshall, and the Rise of Presidential Democracy

Themes: Constitutions • Presidents & Heads of State • Political Science

The Return of George Washington 1783-1789 — Edward J. Larson

The Return of George Washington 1783-1789

Edward J. Larson

Themes: Constitutions • Presidents & Heads of State • Political Science

The Business of May Next James Madison and the Founding — William Lee Miller

The Business of May Next James Madison and the Founding

William Lee Miller

Themes: Constitutions • Presidents & Heads of State • Political Science

James Madison’s Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 and Their Relation to a More Perfect Society of Nations — James Brown Scott

James Madison’s Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 and Their Relation to a More Perfect Society of Nations

James Brown Scott

Themes: Constitutions • Presidents & Heads of State • Political Science

The Summer of 1787 The Men Who Invented the Constitution — David O. Stewart

The Summer of 1787 The Men Who Invented the Constitution

David O. Stewart

Themes: Constitutions • Presidents & Heads of State • Political Science

Emergent Strategy and Grand Strategy How American Presidents Succeed in Foreign Policy — Ionut C. Popescu

Emergent Strategy and Grand Strategy How American Presidents Succeed in Foreign Policy

Ionut C. Popescu

Themes: Constitutions • Presidents & Heads of State • Political Science

Many Heads and Many Hands James Madison’s Search for a More Perfect Union — Mau VanDuren

Many Heads and Many Hands James Madison’s Search for a More Perfect Union

Themes: Constitutions • Presidents & Heads of State • Political Science

The Obamians The Struggle Inside the White House to Redefine American Power — James Mann

The Obamians The Struggle Inside the White House to Redefine American Power

Themes: Constitutions • Presidents & Heads of State • Political Science

The Broken Constitution Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America — Noah Feldman

The Broken Constitution Lincoln, Slavery, and the Refounding of America

Themes: Constitutions • Presidents & Heads of State • Political Science

Race of a Lifetime How Obama Won the White House — John Heilemann

Race of a Lifetime How Obama Won the White House

Themes: Constitutions • Presidents & Heads of State • Political Science

The MAGA Doctrine The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future — Charlie Kirk

The MAGA Doctrine The Only Ideas That Will Win the Future

Themes: Constitutions • Presidents & Heads of State • Political Science

Bush V. Gore The Court Cases and the Commentary — E. J. Dionne (Jr.)

Bush V. Gore The Court Cases and the Commentary

E. J. Dionne (Jr.)

Themes: Constitutions • Presidents & Heads of State • Political Science

Crimes Against Liberty An Indictment of President Barack Obama — David Limbaugh

Crimes Against Liberty An Indictment of President Barack Obama

Themes: Constitutions • Presidents & Heads of State • Political Science

Killing the Deep State The Fight to Save President Trump — Jerome R. Corsi

Killing the Deep State The Fight to Save President Trump

Jerome R. Corsi

Themes: Constitutions • Presidents & Heads of State • Political Science

The Constitution and the American Presidency — Martin L. Fausold

The Constitution and the American Presidency

Martin L. Fausold

Themes: Constitutions • Presidents & Heads of State • Political Science

Mohammed’s Us Presidents Ahl Al-Bayt Holy Seed Holy Presidents Holy Nation — L. E. Cooper

Mohammed’s Us Presidents Ahl Al-Bayt Holy Seed Holy Presidents Holy Nation

Themes: Constitutions • Presidents & Heads of State • Political Science

The Obama Confession Secret Fear–secret Fury — Andrew G. Hodges

The Obama Confession Secret Fear–secret Fury

Andrew G. Hodges

Themes: Constitutions • Presidents & Heads of State • Political Science

American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump — Hal Brands

American Grand Strategy in the Age of Trump

Themes: Constitutions • Presidents & Heads of State • Political Science

The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations Establishing the Obama Presidency — Justin S. Vaughn

The Rhetoric of Heroic Expectations Establishing the Obama Presidency

Justin S. Vaughn

Themes: Constitutions • Presidents & Heads of State • Political Science

The Final Days The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House — Barbara Olson

The Final Days The Last, Desperate Abuses of Power by the Clinton White House

Themes: Constitutions • Presidents & Heads of State • Political Science

More Than a Plea for a Declaration of Rights The Constitutional and Political Thought of George Mason of Virginia — John R. Vile

More Than a Plea for a Declaration of Rights The Constitutional and Political Thought of George Mason of Virginia

Themes: Constitutions • Political Science • United States

This list brings together 24 books that share meaningful common ground with Founding Father by Richard Brookhiser. Connected by Constitutions, Presidents & Heads of State, Political Science. Authors featured include Mark T. Esper, Bob Woodward, Thomas Fitton, Bruce Ackerman, and others. Each pick was selected for thematic and literary overlap — not just genre similarity.

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