Works by
Al Gore
(AKA Albert Gore, Jr.)
(Vice President, Writer)
[1948 - ]

Government Papers

• The Intelligence Community: National Performance Review: Accompanying Report of the National Performance Review Office of the Vice President Washington, Dc September 1993 (1994)

• The Intelligence Community: Accompanying Report of the National Performance Review Office of the Vice President Washington, Dc September 1993 (National Performance Review) (1996)

• Federal Welfare-To-Work Commitments: Report to President Bill Clinton by Vice President Al Gore (1997)

• Vice President Al Gore at the Reinvention Revolution III Conference 4/21/98 (transcription) (SuDoc PRVP 42.2:98020776) (1998)

• A Global Forum on Fighting Corruption: Safeguarding Integrity Among Justice and Security Officials; Hosted by Vice President Al Gore, Washington, D.C. (1999), Government Printing Office

Non-fiction

• Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (1992, 2006)
  Re-released on the heels of Al Gores #1 New York Times bestseller, An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It, comes the paperback edition of his classic bestseller, Earth in the Balance. First published in 1992, it helped place the environment on the national agenda; now, as environmental issues move front-and-center in the public consciousness, the time is right to reflect deeply on the fate of our planet and commit ourselves to its future. While An Inconvenient Truth closely examines one menace to our environmentglobal warmingEarth in the Balance takes a broader approach, focusing on the threats that everyday choices pose to our climate, water, soil, and diversity of plant and animal life. A passionate, lifelong defender of the environment, Gore describesin brave and unforgettable termshow human actions and decisions can endanger or safeguard the vulnerable ecosystem that sustains us.

• Gore Report on Reinventing Government: Creating a Government That Works Better and Costs Less (1993)

• Common Sense Government: Works Better and Costs Less (1995)

• Good for Business: Making Full Use of the Nation's Human Capital (1995)

• Preventing Crime and Promoting Responsibility: 50 Programs That Help Communities Help Their Youth (1995)

• The Best Kept Secrets in Government:  How the Clinton Administration Is Reinventing the Way Washington Works (1996)

• Reinvention's Next Steps: Governing in a Balanced Budget World: A Speech by Vice President Al Gore and Supporting Background Papers (1996), National Performance Review

• The Global Information Infrastructure: Agenda for Cooperation (1996) with Peter Max (Illustrator) and Ronald H. Brown

• Access America: Reengineering Through Information Technology (1997)

• Businesslike Government: Lessons Learned from America's Best Companies (1997) with Scott Adams (Illustrator)

• Serving the American Public: Best Practices in Resolving Customer Complaints National Performance Review (1997)

• Divided We Stand: How Al Gore Beat George Bush and Lost the Presidency (2001) with Roger Simon

• From Red Tape to Results: Creating a Government That Works Better & Costs Less (2001)

• Joined at the Heart: The Transformation of the American Family (2002) with Tipper Gore

• The Spirit of Family (2002) with Tipper Gore

• An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It (2006)
  DVD (2006) Davis Guggenheim, director with Al Gore
  Our climate crisis may at times appear to be happening slowly, but in fact it is happening very quickly-and has become a true planetary emergency. The Chinese expression for crisis consists of two characters. The first is a symbol for danger; the second is a symbol for opportunity. In order to face down the danger that is stalking us and move through it, we first have to recognize that we are facing a crisis. So why is it that our leaders seem not to hear such clarion warnings? Are they resisting the truth because they know that the moment they acknowledge it, they will face a moral imperative to act? Is it simply more convenient to ignore the warnings? Perhaps, but inconvenient truths do not go away just because they are not seen. Indeed, when they are responded to, their significance doesnt diminish; it grows. -- Al Gore

• The Assault on Reason (2007)
  A visionary analysis of how the politics of fear, secrecy, cronyism, and blind faith has combined with the degradation of the public sphere to create an environment dangerously hostile to reason
  
  At the time George W. Bush ordered American forces to invade Iraq, 70 percent of Americans believed Saddam Hussein was linked to 9/11. Voters in Ohio, when asked by pollsters to list what stuck in their minds about the campaign, most frequently named two Bush television ads that played to fears of terrorism.
  
  We live in an age when the thirty-second television spot is the most powerful force shaping the electorate's thinking, and America is in the hands of an administration less interested than any previous administration in sharing the truth with the citizenry. Related to this and of even greater concern is this administration's disinterest in the process by which the truth is ascertained, the tenets of fact-based reasoning-first among them an embrace of open inquiry in which unexpected and even inconvenient facts can lead to unexpected conclusions.
  
  How did we get here? How much damage has been done to the functioning of our democracy and its role as steward of our security? Never has there been a worse time for us to lose the capacity to face the reality of our long-term challenges, from national security to the economy, from issues of health and social welfare to the environment. As The Assault on Reason shows us, we have precious little time to waste.
  
  Gore's larger goal in this book is to explain how the public sphere itself has evolved into a place hospitable to reason's enemies, to make us more aware of the forces at work on our own minds, and to lead us to an understanding of what we can do, individually and collectively, to restore the rule of reason and safeguard our future. Drawing on a life's work in politics as well as on the work of experts across a broad range of disciplines, Al Gore has written a farsighted and powerful manifesto for clear thinking.

See also:

• Al Gore Jr.: Born to Lead (1988) by Hank Hillin and Willene Hall, ed.

• Al Gore: Vice President of the United States (All the President's Men and Women) (1993) by Bob Italia and John Halmilton

• The Story of Bill Clinton and Al Gore: Our Nation's Leaders (Famous Lives) (1993) by Kate McMullan

• Al Gore: United States Vice President (People to Know) (1994) by Betty Burford

• Earth and Its People: How Can We Prosper? : a response to Vice President Al Gore (1994) by William G. Salomone

• Letters from Al (1994) from National Review

• 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.

• Al Gore: Vice President (Gateway Biographies) (1998) by Rebecca Stefoff

• Al Gore: Leader for a New Millennium (1999) by Laura S. Jeffrey

• A Taste Of Carthage Food, Memories, And Southern Hospitality From Al Gore's Hometown (2000) by Jennie Stewart and Doreen Stewart

• Al Gore: A User's Manual (2000) by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair

• Dear Albert: Open Letters To Al Gore (2000) by Harry Herder Jr.

• Inventing Al Gore: A Biography (2000) by Bill Turque

• Prince Albert: The Life and Lies of Al Gore (2000) by David N. Bossie, Floyd G. Brown, and Robert D. Novak

• The World According to Al Gore: An A-To-Z Compilation of His Opinions, Positions, and Public Statements (2000) by Joseph Kaufman

• At Any Cost: How Al Gore Tried to Steal the Election (2001) by Bill Sammon

• Smashmouth: Two Years in the Gutter with Al Gore and George W. Bush (2001) by Dana Milbank