Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Founding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe, The Bill of Rights, and The Election that Saved a Nation | 2011 | Chris DeRose | Buy |
| 2 | Congressman Lincoln | 2013 | Chris DeRose | Buy |
| 3 | The Presidents’ War: Six American Presidents and the Civil War That Divided Them | 2014 | Chris DeRose | Buy |
| 4 | Star Spangled Scandal: Sex, Murder, and the Trial that Changed America | 2019 | Chris DeRose | Buy |
| 5 | The Fighting Bunch: The Battle of Athens and How World War II Veterans Won the Only Successful Armed Rebellion Since the Revolution | 2020 | Chris DeRose | Buy |
Chris DeRose’s five non-fiction books cover American political history from the founding era to the mid-twentieth century. Founding Rivals (2011) examines the election between Madison and Monroe, while Congressman Lincoln (2013) focuses on Lincoln’s pre-presidential political career.
The Presidents’ War (2014) explores how six American presidents navigated the Civil War, Star Spangled Scandal (2019) recounts a murder trial that riveted antebellum Washington, and The Fighting Bunch (2020) tells the story of armed WWII veterans who overthrew a corrupt county government in 1946 Tennessee.