The Political Junkie Handbook: The Definitive Reference Books on Politics (2004) covers all the major issues explaining the parties' positions. Critchlow, Donald T. The Conservative Ascendancy: How the Republican Right Rose to Power in Modern America (2nd ed. 2011). Ehrman, John, The Eighties: America in the Age of Reagan (2005). Fauntroy, Michael K. Republicans and the Black vote (2007). Frank, Thomas. What's the Matter with Kansas? How Conservatives Won the Heart of America (2005). Frum, David. What's Right: The New Conservative Majority and the Remaking of America (1996). Hemmer, Nicole. Partisans: The Conservative Revolutionaries Who Remade American Politics in the 1990s (2022) Judis, John B. and Ruy Teixeira. The Emerging Democratic Majority (2004), two Democrats project social trends. Kabaservice, Geoffrey. Rule and Ruin: The Downfall of Moderation and the Destruction of the Republican Party, From Eisenhower to the Tea Party (2012) scholarly history . Kleppner, Paul, et al. The Evolution of American Electoral Systems (1983), applies party systems model. Kurian, George Thomas ed. The Encyclopedia of the Republican Party (4 vol., 2002). Lamis, Alexander P. ed. Southern Politics in the 1990s (1999). Levendusky, Matthew. The Partisan Sort: How Liberals Became Democrats and Conservatives Became Republicans (2009). Chicago Studies in American Politics. Mason, Robert. The Republican Party and American Politics from Hoover to Reagan (2011). Mason, Robert and Morgan, Iwan (eds.) Seeking a New Majority: The Republican Party and American Politics, 1960–1980. (2013) Nashville, TN. Vanderbilt University Press. 2013. Mayer, George H. The Republican Party, 1854–1966. 2d ed. (1967). Oakes, James. The Crooked Path to Abolition: Abraham Lincoln and the Antislavery Constitution (W.W. Norton, 2021). Oakes, James. Freedom National: The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861–1865 (W. W. Norton, 2012) Perlstein, Rick. Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (2002), broad account of 1964. Perlstein, Rick. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2009). Reinhard, David W. The Republican Right since 1945 (1983). Rutland, Robert Allen. The Republicans: From Lincoln to Bush (1996). Sabato, Larry J. Divided States of America: The Slash and Burn Politics of the 2004 Presidential Election (2005). Sabato, Larry J. and Bruce Larson. The Party's Just Begun: Shaping Political Parties for America's Future (2001), textbook. Schlesinger, Arthur Meier Jr. ed. History of American Presidential Elections, 1789–2000 (various multivolume editions, latest is 2001). Essays on the most important election are reprinted in Schlesinger, The Coming to Power: