1932 To 1980
- Bowen, Michael. The Roots of Modern Conservatism: Dewey, Taft, and the Battle for the Soul of the Republican Party (2011)
- Brennan, Mary C. Turning Right in the Sixties: The Conservative Capture of the GOP (1995), 1960s
- Cunningham, Sean P. Cowboy Conservatism: Texas and the Rise of the Modern Right (2010)
- Dueck, Colin. Hard Line: The Republican Party and U.S. Foreign Policy since World War II (2010)
- Dallek, Matthew. The Right Moment: Ronald Reagan's First Victory and the Decisive Turning Point in American Politics. (2004). Study of 1966 election as governor.
- Firestone, Bernard J. and Alexej Ugrinsky (eds) (1992). Gerald R. Ford and the Politics of Post-Watergate America. ISBN 0-313-28009-6.
- Greenberg, David. Nixon's Shadow: The History of an Image (2003). Important study of how Nixon was perceived by media and scholars.
- Greene, John Robert (1992). The Limits of Power: The Nixon and Ford Administrations. ISBN 0-253-32637-0.
- Greene, John Robert (1995). The Presidency of Gerald R. Ford. ISBN 0-7006-0639-4., the major scholarly study
- Jensen, Richard. "The Last Party System, 1932-1980," in Paul Kleppner, ed. Evolution of American Electoral Systems (1981)
- Ladd Jr., Everett Carll with Charles D. Hadley. Transformations of the American Party System: Political Coalitions from the New Deal to the 1970s 2d ed. (1978).
- Mason, Robert. Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority (2004). 289 pp.
- Morris, Roger. Richard Milhous Nixon: The Rise of an American Politician (1990).
- Pach, Chester J. and Elmo Richardson. Presidency of Dwight D. Eisenhower (1991). Standard scholarly survey.
- Parmet, Herbert S. Eisenhower and the American Crusades (1972)
- Parmet, Herbert S. Richard Nixon and His America (1990).
- Patterson, James T. Mr. Republican: A Biography of Robert A. Taft (1972)
- Patterson, James. Congressional Conservatism and the New Deal: The Growth of the Conservative Coalition in Congress, 1933-39 (1967)
- Perlstein, Rick. Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (2002) well written, broad account of 1964
- Perlstein, Rick. Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2008) covers late 1960s
- Persico, Joseph E. The Imperial Rockefeller: A Biography of Nelson A. Rockefeller, 1982 (The author was a senior aide).
- Reich, Cary. The Life of Nelson A. Rockefeller: Worlds to Conquer, 1908–1958, 1996.
- Reichley, James; Conservatives in an Age of Change: The Nixon and Ford Administrations, Brookings Institution, 1981.
- Reinhard, David W. The Republican Right since 1945 (1983)
- Shelley II, Mack C. The Permanent Majority: The Conservative Coalition in the United States Congress (1983)
- Smith, Richard Norton. Thomas E. Dewey and His Times. (1982)
- Sundquist, James L. Dynamics of the Party System: Alignment and Realignment of Political Parties in the United States (1983)
- White, Theodore. The Making of the President: 1960 (1961); The Making of the President: 1964 (1965); The Making of the President 1968 (1969) classic narratives
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