Works by
Bob Dole
(U. S. Senator, Writer)
[July 22, 1923 - ]

Biography/Memoirs

• One Soldier's Story: A Memoir (2005)
  Before he became one of America's most respected statesmen, Bob Dole was an average citizen serving heroically for his country. The bravery he showed after suffering near-fatal injuries in the final days of World War II is the stuff of legend. Now, for the first time in his own words, Dole tells the moving story of his harrowing experience on and off the battlefield, and how it changed his life.
  
  Speaking here not as a politician but as a wounded G.I., Dole recounts his own odyssey of courage and sacrifice, and also honors the fighting spirit of the countless heroes with whom he served. Heartfelt and inspiring, One Soldier's Story is the World War II chronicle that America has been waiting for.

• Unlimited Partners: Our American Story (1996) by
  Bob Dole and Elizabeth Dole with Richard Norton Smith
  Our American Autobiography is the joint autobiography of Bob and Elizabeth Dole, Washington's most active and powerful couple, whose next challenge may be the White House. Their story provides an extraordinary look at Washington life at the highest levels as well as an account of a marriage that has thrived in the pressure cooker of Capital Hill and on the campaign trail. Together, the Doles reveal the beliefs that fuel their remarkable accomplishments and their visit for tomorrow's' America. Here is the story of two people who became successful through their own hard work and perseverance.
  
  In his own voice, Bob Dole recounts his boyhood in Kansas, his service in World War II, his courageous recovery from wounds that almost cost him his life, his extensive political career, and his successful fight for the 1996 Republican presidential nomination.
  
  Equally stirring is Elizabeth Dole's account of a career that has taken her from the halls of male-dominated Harvard Law School to the Cabinet table of two Presidents and to the presidency of America's largest humanitarian organization, the Red Cross, which she has made a groundbreaking decision to continue to serve as president should she become First Lady.
  
  Together, the Doles provide behind-the-scenes observations of those who have shaped the history of our times and show how they themselves have made government-and their marriage-work. A personal view of two remarkable people, Unlimited Partners is not just a timely story of politics, but a tale of courage and triumph.

Non-fiction

• Ending Hunger Now (2005) by Bob Dole, Donald, E Messer, and George McGovern
  Veteran statesmen George McGovern and Robert Dole here find common cause with theologian and activist Donald Messer in this powerful testimony and appeal to people of faith. They are each convinced we can overcome global hunger now, and their informed, strategic, impassioned thoughts encourage and equip. This book brings together their disparate yet powerful voices behind a shared conviction: that helping the millions who lack basic provision for food has become a religious imperative and human priority. Writing for congregations and individuals of faith, McGovern, Dole, and Messer appeal to the biblical, theological, and ethical foundations of action against hunger.

• Great Presidential Wit ... I Wish I Was in the Book: A Collection of Humorous Anecdotes and Quotations (2001)
  Famous for his deadpan humor, New York Times bestselling author Senator Bob Dole here brings us his favorite witticisms and hilarious remarks of this country's commanders in chief.
  
  Referring to his own run for the presidency, Senator Dole writes: "President Nixon and I have much in common. We both grew up amidst rural privation. We both served in World War II. We both served in the House and Senate. Of course, there are some differences as well. That's why we call him President Nixon."
  
  Just in time for the inauguration and President's Day comes this delightful book chock-full of presidential quips and humor collected by Senator Dole -- one of the country's most recognizable political figures and commentator for Comedy Central's Indecision 2000.
  
  Great Presidential Wit collects the former senator's favorite funny stories and remarks by and about American presidents -- from George Washington to the first president elected in the twenty-first century. Senator Dole tackles the assignment of ranking the presidents from the funniest (Abraham Lincoln) to the least funny (Millard Fillmore), and everyone in between. With chapters cleverly organized according to the senator's own opinions -- from "A Class by Themselves" (Lincoln, Reagan, the Roosevelts) and "Yankee Wits" (Coolidge, Kennedy) to "The Joke's on Them" (Taylor, Harding, Van Buren, Buchanan, the Harrisons, Pierce, Fillmore) -- Great Presidential Wit is the perfect antidote to the long political season.

See also:

• John Brown to Bob Dole: Movers And Shakers in Kansas History (2006), Virgil W. Dean, ed.
  From radical abolitionist John Brown to presidential candidate Bob Dole to visionary environmentalist Wes Jackson, Kansas history is bursting with fascinating stories of individuals who made a difference to the nation and whose lives reveal much about our collective past.
  
  Prominent Kansas historian Virgil Dean has gathered a distinguished team of writers-Thomas Isern, Craig Miner, and others-who have crafted incisive portraits of 27 notable men and women, covering 150 years of Kansas and American history. Here are agitators who moved their fellow citizens to action over political, social, and economic problems: not only John Brown, but also proslavery agitator William H. Russell; Mary Elizabeth Lease, lecturer for the Farmers' Alliance and Populist Party; Gerald B. Winrod, a.k.a. the "Jayhawk Hitler"; and Esther Brown, who challenged segregation in public schools.
  
  Here, too, are motivators, like women's rights activist Clarina I. H. Nichols; William Allen White, the "Sage of Emporia"; and favorite sons Dwight D. Eisenhower and Bob Dole. Then there are the innovators, from trailblazers like Joseph G. McCoy, who changed the face of the cattle industry, and wheat king Theodore C. Henry to Wes Jackson, a pioneer in the sustainable agriculture movement, and the multitalented Gordon Parks, photographer, filmmaker, and author of The Learning Tree.
  
  Reformers and preachers, publishers and artists, these fascinating personalities are brought vividly back to life by Dean and his fellow authors. They offer a fresh and engaging look at many of the important themes of Kansas history-especially the state's identification with some of the great radical movements, including abolitionism, populism, and civil rights-and ultimately recapture the true spirit of Kansas and its meaning for the rest of the nation.

• My Life: The Early Years  (2005) by Bill Clinton (see The Early Years, The Presidential Years)

• Losing to Win: The 1996 Elections and American Politics (1997) by Andrew E. Busch and James W. Ceaser

• The Choice: How Clinton Won (1997) by Bob Woodward
  Based on a massive body of original reporting and documentation and on hundreds of interviews with firsthand sources, The Choice is the behind-the-scenes story of President Bill Clinton and Senate Majority Leader Bob Dole over the last two years. It is the personal and political story of how the nation's two top leaders prepared themselves to square off for the 1996 presidential election.
  
  Never before has political reporting provided voters with so much authoritative, in-depth information on the candidates before a presidential election. The Choice sets the stage for the November 5, 1996, election with a study of the contenders in action-- their decisions, their conversations, their private assessments, their disappointments, their anger and triumphs, their definitions of themselves and their evolving understanding of national purpose.
  
  Included in this wide-ranging political history is exclusive new material on the Republican primary contest; the White House and congressional budget battles; the top secret Bosnia strategy sessions in the White House; the influence of Vice President Albert Gore, Jr., and House Speaker Newt Gingrich; the role of political money; the uses of public opinion polling and advertising; former General Colin Powell's decision not to run; and the strategies of both campaigns, including Dole's decision to leave the Senate and his consideration of possible running mates.
  
  Woodward has dug deeply into the personal and political relationship between Clinton and Dole, revealing their private conversations as these most tested products of the American system attempt to balance political gain against the welfare of the country. The Choice is also a character study of the two men and their wives, Hillary Rodham Clinton and Elizabeth Dole.

• The Quotable Bob Dole (1996) by Jon Margolis

• Tough Daisies: Kansas Humor from "The Lane County Bachelor" to Bob Dole (1995), C. Robert Haywood, ed.
  By reputation, Kansas isn't the funniest place on earth. But it has it's share of humor. It can boast of politicians who taunted puritan farmers with "raise less corn and more hell," a gubernatorial candidate whose claim to fame was perfecting and marketing a goat-gland transplant for men desperate to restore their sexual vigor, and a legendary attorney general who covertly flew the friendly skies of Kansas in hot pursuit of illegal liquor consumption on passenger planes.
  
  In Tough Daisies, Robert Haywood reveals the lighter side of a state that's too often pegged a collection of sober-minded moralists struggling to find Utopia among the stars. He explores what has passed for humor in good times and bad and divulges what makes Kansans laugh. Both the subject of laughter (the inspiration) and the humorist (the inspired) are featured in this serious study (most of the time) of a funny subject.
  
  An annotated sampler of jokes, stories, cartoons, and poems, this book illustrates what Kansans have chuckled and chortled at from settlement days to the present. Especially rich veins of humor are found in the frontier experience, the Great Depression, Populism, and politics. Investigating an array of rib-tickling facets of Kansas life, Haywood also illuminates the wit, sarcasm, and satire generated by grasshoppers, flat land, farmers and their daughters, war, bootleggers, school teachers, preachers, droughts, tornadoes--and Toto too.

• Bob Dole: The Republicans' Man for all Seasons (1994) by Jake H. Thompson