“Money is the mother’s milk of politics.” — Jesse Marvin Unruh [1922-1987]
“An honest politician is one who when he’s brought stays bought.” — Simon Cameron [1799-1889]
“Politicians are a set of men who have interests aside from the interests of the people, and who, to say the most of them, are, taken as a mass, at least one long step removed from honest men. I say this with the greater freedom because, being a politician, myself, none can read it as personal.” — Abraham Lincoln [1809-1865]
Advise and Consent [1959] by Allen Drury
All the King’s Men [1949] by Robert Penn Warren
American Hero [1993] by Larry Beinhart
Democracy [1879] by Henry Adams
The Gilded Age [1873] by Mark Twain (a.k.a. Samuel Clemens)
Mackerel by Moonlight [1998] by William Weld
Seven Days in May [1962] by Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Bailey II
The Big Ugly [1999] by William Weld
The Running Mate [2000] by Joe Klein
A Thing of State [1998] by Allen Drury
A Time to Run [2005] by Barbara Boxer