Craig Fehrman Books in Order

Through reporting on Cage the Elephant and the music community of Bowling Green, Kentucky, this account traces the band's rise and return home. It examines how local relationships and investment shape the scene that produced them.

This history examines American presidents through the books they read and wrote, from private letters to public memoirs. It explores how literary ambitions influenced their political careers and how presidential writing shaped their public identities.

Craig Fehrman edits a collection of presidential writing spanning speeches, campaign orations, autobiographies, drafts and diaries. Selections from George Washington through Barack Obama illuminate the different ways presidents have recorded their experiences and addressed the nation.

This history reexamines the Lewis and Clark expedition through its participants and the Native people they encountered. Archival research and oral histories reveal the contributions, conflicts and political decisions behind a journey often reduced to its two leaders.