Klinghard, Daniel P. "Grover Cleveland, William McKinley, and the emergence of the president as party leader."Presidential Studies Quarterly 35.4 (2005): 736–760.
Lambert, John R. Arthur Pue Gorman (1953)
Lynch, G. Patrick "U.S. Presidential Elections in the Nineteenth Century: Why Culture and the Economy Both Mattered."Polity 35#1 (2002) pp. 29–50. in JSTOR, focus on election of 1884
McElroy, Robert. Grover Cleveland, the Man and the Statesman: An Authorized Biography (1923) Vol. I, Vol. II, old fashioned narrative
McFarland, Gerald W. Mugwumps, morals, & politics, 1884–1920 (1975) ISBN 978-0-87023-175-9
McWilliams, Tennant S., "James H. Blount, the South, and Hawaiian Annexation."Pacific Historical Review 1988 57(1): 25–46. in JSTOR.
Merrill, Horace Samuel. Bourbon Leader: Grover Cleveland and the Democratic Party (1957) 228 pp
Morgan, H. Wayne. From Hayes to McKinley: National Party Politics, 1877–1896 (1969).
Nevins, Allan. Grover Cleveland: A Study in Courage (1932) Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, the major resource on Cleveland.
Oberholtzer, Ellis Paxson. A History of the United States since the Civil War. Volume V, 1888–1901 (Macmillan, 1937).  791 pp; comprehensive old-fashioned political history
Pafford, John M. The Forgotten Conservative: Rediscovering Grover Cleveland (Simon and Schuster, 2013). 