Garrett M. Graff Books in Order

Reporting on the approaching 2008 presidential election, Garrett Graff explores how globalization and the internet are reshaping American politics. He examines changing campaign tactics, public concerns, and whether the major parties can adapt to a newly connected electorate.

Tracing the FBI's shift toward global intelligence and counterterrorism, Garrett Graff follows agents confronting threats at home and abroad. Interviews and documents illuminate operational struggles, institutional rivalries, and tensions between national security and civil liberties across several administrations.

Reconstructing Air Force One's flight from Dallas after Kennedy's assassination, Garrett Graff follows Lyndon Johnson's sudden assumption of power. Passenger accounts, archival documents, and radio recordings reveal the practical decisions and personal emotions behind the transition during those hours.

Garrett Graff investigates the United States government's secret preparations to survive a catastrophic attack. Bunkers, evacuation plans, and emergency powers reveal how officials planned to preserve leadership and rebuild authority through the nuclear age and its aftermath.

Drawing on John Carlin's national security work, this account follows American efforts to confront state-backed hackers, cybercrime, and online terrorism. It examines investigations by the Justice Department and FBI as expanding digital systems create new targets and vulnerabilities.

Garrett Graff traces the American government's search for explanations of UFOs and possible extraterrestrial life. Scientists, intelligence officials, military investigators, and civilian witnesses shape a history spanning secret programs, public fascination, and persistent uncertainty about unexplained phenomena.

Hundreds of eyewitness accounts reconstruct the planning, landings, and fighting of D-Day. Soldiers, civilians, nurses, and commanders describe the Allied invasion of Normandy, creating a ground-level history of an operation whose outcome helped determine the course of World War II.

Dmitri Alperovitch and Garrett Graff examine the danger of conflict over Taiwan within the growing rivalry between China and the United States. The book proposes a strategic response intended to deter invasion and prevent a wider, potentially catastrophic war.

Voices of scientists, military personnel, workers, and civilians trace the atomic bomb from its secret development to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This oral history joins technical ambition and wartime urgency with the experiences of those who built, used, and endured it.

Garrett Graff follows twenty-five episodes in Americans' efforts to extend the promises of equality beyond the nation's founding exclusions. Famous and overlooked participants reveal how rights expanded through conflict, setbacks, organizing, and unexpected alliances across two and a half centuries.

Garrett Graff reconstructs September 11, 2001, through the words of witnesses, survivors, first responders, and government officials. Drawing on interviews, transcripts, and oral histories, the book follows personal experiences across the day's unfolding attacks.

Garrett Graff traces Watergate through the politicians, investigators, journalists, and informants involved in the scandal. His narrative examines the events and competing perspectives behind a political crisis that transformed Americans' trust in their government.