- Thurston Clarke – Ask Not: The Inauguration of JFK and the Speech that Changed America
- Thurston Clarke – The Last Campaign: Robert F. Kennedy and 82 Days That Inspired America
- David Maraniss – The Clinton Enigma: The Four-and-a-Half Minute Speech Reveals the President’s Entire Life
- Kevin Mattson – ‘What the Heck Are You Up To, Mr. President?’: Jimmy Carter, America’s ‘Malaise,’ and the Speech that Should Have Changed the Country
- William Safire – Lend Me Your Ears: Great Speeches in History
- Robert Schlesinger – White House Ghosts: Presidents and their Speechwriters
- Ronald C. White – Lincoln’s Greatest Speech: The Second Inaugural
- Garry Wills – Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words that Remade America









