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The following is a bibliography of non-presidential U.S. political memoirs.[1][2][3][4] Many of them were written by the stated author and one or more ghostwriters.[5]

U.S. Supreme Court

U.S. Cabinet

Secretary of State

Secretary of the Treasury

Secretary of Defense

  • A Sacred Oath: Memoirs of a Secretary of Defense During Extraordinary Times (2022; ISBN 978-0063144316), by Mark Esper, Secretary of Defense 2019-2020.
  • Duty: Memoirs of a Secretary at War (2014), by Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense 2006–2011.
  • Worthy Fights: A Memoir of Leadership in War and Peace (2014; ISBN 978-1594205965) by Leon Panetta, Secretary of Defense 2011-2013, Director of the CIA 2009-2011, White House Chief of Staff 1994-1997, Director of the OMB 1993–1994, Congressman 1977–1993.
  • Star Spangled Security: Applying Lessons Learned over Six Decades Safeguarding America (2012; ISBN 978-0815723820) by Harold Brown, Secretary of Defense 1977–1981, and Joyce Winslow.
  • Known and Unknown: A Memoir (2011; ISBN 978-1-59523-067-6) by Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of Defense 1975–1977 and 2001–2006.
  • Fighting for Peace: Seven Critical Years in the Pentagon (1990), by Caspar W. Weinberger, Secretary of Defense 1981–1987.
  • The Essence of Security: Reflections in Office (1968), by Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense 1961–1968.

Other Cabinet positions

U.S. Cabinet-level administration offices

Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency

Director of the Office of Management and Budget

White House Chief of Staff

(For the former White House Chiefs of Staff who served in a more senior position, see above)

U.S. ambassadors

Heads of federal agencies (sub-cabinet level)

White House staff positions

(for White House Chief of Staff see "U.S. Cabinet-level administration offices" above)

Miscellaneous

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Egerton, Charles W. (1994). Political Memoir-essays on the politics of memory. Psychology Press.
  2. ^ Dorothy Hazelrigg (ed.). "Bibliography of Congressional Memoirs-U.S. Senators" (PDF). University of South Carolina. Retrieved November 28, 2011.
  3. ^ Dorothy Hazelrigg (ed.). "Bibliography of Congressional Memoirs-U.S. Congressmen" (PDF). University of South Carolina. Retrieved November 28, 2011.
  4. ^ "Top Ten Political Memoirs". Time Magazine. November 16, 2009. Retrieved November 29, 2011.
  5. ^ Farhi, Paul (June 9, 2014). "Who wrote that political memoir? No, who actually wrote it?". The Washington Post. Retrieved May 19, 2019.