• Congressional Quarterly. Congress and the Nation: A Review of Government and Politics. 1993-1996 (1998) 1275pp. online
• Congressional Quarterly. Congress and the Nation: Volume 10: 1997-2001 (CQ Press, 2002) online
• Conley, Richard Steven. Historical dictionary of the Clinton era (2012) online
• Ivory Tower Publishing Company. Achievements of the Clinton Administration: the Complete Legislative and Executive. (1995) ISBN 0-88032-748-0
• Levy, Peter B. Encyclopedia of the Clinton presidency (Greenwood, 2002) comprehensive coverage online

• Peter Baker The Breach: Inside the Impeachment and Trial of William Jefferson Clinton (2000) ISBN 0-684-86813-X
• James Bovard Feeling Your Pain: The Explosion and Abuse of Government Power in the Clinton-Gore Years (2000) ISBN 0-312-23082-6
• Joe Conason and Gene Lyons The Hunting of the President: The Ten-Year Campaign to Destroy Bill and Hillary Clinton (2003) ISBN 0-312-27319-3
• Elizabeth Drew On the Edge: The Clinton Presidency (1994) ISBN 0-671-87147-1
• David Gergen Eyewitness to Power: The Essence of Leadership. (2000) ISBN 0-684-82663-1
• Nigel Hamilton Bill Clinton: An American Journey (2003) ISBN 0-375-50610-1
• Christopher Hitchens No One Left to Lie to: The Triangulations of William Jefferson Clinton (1999) ISBN 1-85984-736-6
• Michael Isikoff Uncovering Clinton: A Reporter's Story (1999) ISBN 0-609-60393-0
• Mark Katz Clinton and Me: A Real-Life Political Comedy (2004) ISBN 978-0-7868-6949-7
• David Maraniss The Clinton Enigma: A Four and a Half Minute Speech Reveals This President's Entire Life (1998) ISBN 0-684-86296-4
• Dick Morris with Eileen McGann Because He Could (2004) ISBN 0-06-078415-6
• Richard A. Posner An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton (1999) ISBN 0-674-00080-3
• Nathan J. Robinson Superpredator: Bill Clinton's Use and Abuse of Black America (2016) ISBN 978-0692736890
• Mark J. Rozell The Clinton Scandal and the Future of American Government (2000) ISBN 0-87840-777-4
• Timperlake, Edward, and William C. Triplett II Year of the Rat: How Bill Clinton Compromised U.S. Security for Chinese Cash. Washington, D.C.: Regnery Publishing, 1998. ISBN 0-89526-333-5

• Berman, William C. From the center to the edge: The politics and policies of the Clinton presidency (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2002) online.
• Conley, Richard S. ed. Historical Dictionary of the Clinton era (Scarecrow Press, 2012).
• Harris, John F. The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House (2006).
• Herrnson, Paul S., and Dilys Hill. The Clinton presidency : the first term, 1992-96 (1999) online
• Maney, Patrick J. Bill Clinton: New Gilded Age President (2016) excerpt
• Warshaw, Shirley Anne. The Clinton Years (Infobase Publishing, 2009); 530 pp; encyclopedic coverage plus primary sources
• White, Mark, ed. The Presidency of Bill Clinton: The Legacy of a New Domestic and Foreign Policy (I.B.Tauris, 2012)

Domestic policy and politics

• Alschuler, Albert W. "Bill Clinton's parting pardon party." Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology 100.3 (2010): 1131-1168.
• Campbell, Colin, and Bert A. Rockman, eds. The Clinton Legacy (Chatham House Pub, 2000)
• Cohen; Jeffrey E. "The Polls: Change and Stability in Public Assessments of Personal Traits, Bill Clinton, 1993–99" Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 31, 2001
• Cronin, Thomas E. and Michael A. Genovese; "President Clinton and Character Questions" Presidential Studies Quarterly Vol. 28, 1998
• Edwards; George C. "Bill Clinton and His Crisis of Governance" Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 28, 1998
• Eksterowicz, Anthony J., and Robert N. Roberts, "The specter of presidential pardons." White House Studies 6.4 (2006): 377-390.
• Erler, H. Abbie. "Executive Clemency or Bureaucratic Discretion? Two Models of the Pardons Process." Presidential Studies Quarterly 37.3 (2007): 427-448.
• Gillon, Steven M. The pact: Bill Clinton, Newt Gingrich, and the rivalry that defined a generation (Oxford UP, 2008).
• Glad, Betty. "Evaluating Presidential Character" Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 28, 1998
• Greenstein, Fred I. "The qualities of effective presidents: An overview from FDR to Bill Clinton." Presidential Studies Quarterly 30.1 (2000): 178-185 online.
• Greenstein, Fred I. “The Presidential Leadership Style of Bill Clinton: An Early Appraisal.” Political Science Quarterly 108#4 (1993), pp. 589–601. online
• Greenstein, Fred I. "There he goes again: The alternating political style of Bill Clinton." PS: Political Science and Politics 31.2 (1998): 179-181.
• Harris, John F. The Survivor: Bill Clinton in the White House (2006). online
• Head, Simon. The Clinton System (January 30, 2016), The New York Review of Books
• Jones, Bryan D. (1995), The New American Politics: Reflections on Political Change and the Clinton Administration, Boulder: Westview, ISBN 978-0-8133-1972-8
• Kim, Claire Jean. "Managing the Racial Breach: Clinton, Black‐White Polarization, and the Race Initiative". Political Science Quarterly 117.1 (2002): 55–79. online
• Lanoue, David J. and Craig F. Emmert; "Voting in the Glare of the Spotlight: Representatives' Votes on the Impeachment of President Clinton" Polity, Vol. 32, 1999
• Leshy, John D. "The Babbitt Legacy at the Department of the Interior: A Preliminary View." Environmental Law 31 (2001): 199–227 online
• Maurer; Paul J. "Media Feeding Frenzies: Press Behavior during Two Clinton Scandals" Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 29, 1999
• Nie; Martin A. "'It's the Environment, Stupid!': Clinton and the Environment" Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 27, 1997 in JSTOR
• Poveda; Tony G. "Clinton, Crime, and the Justice Department" Social Justice, Vol. 21, 1994
• Renshon, Stanley A. High hopes: the Clinton presidency and the politics of ambition (1998) online
• Renshon; Stanley A. The Clinton Presidency: Campaigning, Governing, and the Psychology of Leadership Westview Press, 1995
• Renshon; Stanley A. "The Polls: The Public's Response to the Clinton Scandals, Part 1: Inconsistent Theories, Contradictory Evidence" Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 32, 2002
• Troy, Gill. The Age of Clinton: America in the 1990s (2015)

Economic and health policy

• Altig, David, and Jagadeesh Gokhale. "An overview of the Clinton budget plan." Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland, Economic Commentary (1993) online.
• Canova, Timothy A. "Legacy of the Clinton bubble." Dissent 55.3 (2008): 41-50. online
• Fisher; Patrick. "Clinton's Greatest Legislative Achievement? the Success of the 1993 Budget Reconciliation Bill" White House Studies, Vol. 1, 2001
• Graetz, Michael J. "Tax Policy at the Beginning of the Clinton Administration." Yale Journal on Regulation 10 (1993): 561-574. online.
• Heckman, James. "Assessing Clinton's program on job training, workfare, and education in the workplace." (No. w4428. National Bureau of Economic Research, 1993) online.
• Laham, Nicholas, A Lost Cause: Bill Clinton's Campaign for National Health Insurance (1996)
• Lavanty, Donald F. "Medicare Meets the Marketplace: The Bush-Clinton Years." in Political Aspects of Health Care (Palgrave Pivot, 2018) pp. 65–78.
• O'Connor; Brendon. "Policies, Principles, and Polls: Bill Clinton's Third Way Welfare Politics 1992–1996" The Australian Journal of Politics and History, Vol. 48, 2002
• Romano, Flavio. Clinton and Blair: the political economy of the third way (Routledge, 2007)
• Rushefsky, Mark E. and Kant Patel. Politics, Power & Policy Making: The Case of Health Care Reform in the 1990s (1998) ISBN 1-56324-956-1

Elections

• Abramowitz, Alan I. (1995), "It's Abortion, Stupid: Policy Voting in the 1992 Presidential Election", Journal of Politics, 57 (1): 176–186, doi:10.2307/2960276, ISSN 0022-3816, JSTOR 2960276, S2CID 155087138
• Alexander, Herbert E.; Corrado, Anthony (1995), Financing the 1992 Election, Armonk: Sharpe, ISBN 978-1-56324-437-7
• DeFrank, Thomas M.; et al. (1994), Quest for the Presidency, 1992, College Station: Texas A&M University Press, ISBN 978-0-89096-644-0
• De la Garza, Rodolfo O.; Desipio, Louis (1996), Ethnic Ironies: Latino Politics in the 1992 Elections, Boulder: Westview, ISBN 978-0-8133-8910-3
• Germond, Jack, and Jules Witcover. Mad As Hell: Revolt at the Ballot Box, 1992 (1993).
• Goldman, Peter. et al. Quest for the Presidency 1992 (1994)
• Immelman, Aubrey. "The political personalities of 1996 US presidential candidates Bill Clinton and Bob Dole." Leadership Quarterly 9.3 (1998): 335-366. online
• Klein, Jill Gabrielle. "Negativity in impressions of presidential candidates revisited: The 1992 election." Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin 22.3 (1996): 288-295.
• Lipset, Seymour Martin. "The significance of the 1992 election." PS: Political Science and Politics 26.1 (1993): 7-16. online
• Nelson, Michael. "The Historical Presidency: Clinton's Elections: Redividing Government in the 1990s." Presidential Studies Quarterly 46.2 (2016): 457-472.
• Nelson, Michael. Clinton's Elections: 1992, 1996, and the Birth of a New Era of Governance (2020) excerpt
• O'Mara, Margaret. Pivotal Tuesdays: Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century (2015), compares 1912, 1932, 1968, 1992 in terms of social, economic, and political history
• Ornstein, Norman J. "Foreign policy and the 1992 election." Foreign Affairs 71.3 (1992): 1-16. online
• Rosenstiel, Tom. (1993), Strange Bedfellows: How Television and the Presidential Candidates Changed American Politics, 1992, New York: Hyperion, ISBN 978-1-56282-859-2
• Schantz, Harvey L. Politics in an Era of Divided Government: Elections and Governance in the Second Clinton Administration (2001) ISBN 0-8153-3583-0
• Steed, Robert P. (1994), The 1992 Presidential Election in the South: Current Patterns of Southern Party and Electoral Politics, Westport: Praeger, ISBN 978-0-275-94534-3
• Wattenberg; Martin P. "The Democrats' Decline in the House during the Clinton Presidency: An Analysis of Partisan Swings" Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 29, 1999
• Wattier; Mark J. "The Clinton Factor: The Effects of Clinton's Personal Image in 2000 Presidential Primaries and in the General Election" White House Studies, Vol. 4, 2004

Political commentary and campaign statements

• Barlett, Donald L. and James B. Steele. America: What Went Wrong? (1992).
• Clinton, Bill, and Al Gore. Putting People First: How We Can All Change America (1992)
• Cramer, Richard Ben. What It Takes: The Way to the White House (1992).
• Dionne, E. J. Why Americans Hate Politics (1992).
• Duffy, Michael, and Dan Goodgame. Marching in Place: The Status Quo Presidency of George Bush (1992)
• Edsall Thomas Byrne, and Mary D. Edsall. Chain Reaction: The Impact of Race, Rights, and Taxes on American Politics (1992).
• Ehrenhalt, Alan. The United States of Ambition: Politicians, Power, and the Pursuit of Office (1992).
• Gore, Al. Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit (1992).
• Greider, William. Who Will Tell the People: The Betrayal of American Democracy (1992).
• Jamieson, Kathleen Hall. Dirty Politics: Deception, Distraction, and Democracy (1992).
• Perot, Ross. United We Stand: How We Can Take Back Our Country (1992)
• Phillips, Kevin. The Politics of Rich and Poor: Wealth and the American Electorate in the Reagan Aftermath (1992).
• Sabato, Larry J. Feeding Frenzy: How Attack Journalism Has Transformed American Politics (1991).
• Will, George F. Restoration: Congress, Term Limits and the Recovery of Deliberative Democracy (1992).

Foreign and military policy

• Campbell, Colin, and Bert A. Rockman, eds. The Clinton Legacy (Chatham House Pub, 2000)
• Cézar, Rodrigo Fagundes. "When and How do Bureaucratic Conflicts Matter in Trade Policy? Evidence from the US Trade Policymaking Process during the Clinton Administration (1993–2001)." Contexto Internacional 39.1 (2017): 201-222. online
• Coady, James. Change and continuity in American Grand Strategy: a comparative analysis of the Clinton and Bush foreign policy doctrines Diss. Institute for the Study of the Americas, 2010.
• Davis; John. "The Evolution of American Grand Strategy and the War on Terrorism: Clinton and Bush Perspectives" White House Studies, Vol. 3, 2003
• Deibel, Terry L. Clinton and Congress: The politics of foreign policy (2000).,
• Downie, Christian. "Three ways to understand state actors in international negotiations: Climate change in the Clinton years (1993–2000)." Global Environmental Politics 13.4 (2013): 22-40. online
• Dumbrell, John. "Was there a Clinton doctrine? President Clinton's foreign policy reconsidered". Diplomacy and Statecraft 13.2 (2002): 43–56. online
• Dumbrell, John. "President Bill Clinton and US transatlantic foreign policy." Journal of Transatlantic Studies 8.3 (2010): 268-278.
• Dumbrell, John. Clinton's Foreign Policy: Between the Bushes, 1992-2000 (Routledge, 2009) 228pp excerpt
• Dumbrell, John. American Foreign Policy: Carter to Clinton (1997), pp 178–196.
• Edwards, Jason Allen. "Foreign Policy Rhetoric for the Post-Cold War World: Bill Clinton and America's Foreign Policy Vocabulary." (2006). online
• Girard, Philippe. Clinton in Haiti: the 1994 US invasion of Haiti (Springer, 2004).
• Green, Michael J. “Engage and Balance”: Bill Clinton and the Unexpected Return of Great-Power Politics." in By More Than Providence (Columbia UP, 2017) pp. 453-481.
• Halberstam, David. War in a time of peace: Bush, Clinton, and the generals (Simon and Schuster, 2001).
• Hamilton, Nigel. Bill Clinton: Mastering the Presidency (Public Affairs, 2007), with numerous chapters on foreign-policy; excerpt
• Hyland, William G. . Clinton's World: Remaking American Foreign Policy (1999) excerpt
• Jewett, Aubrey W. and Marc D. Turetzky; "Stability and Change in President Clinton's Foreign Policy Beliefs, 1993–96" Presidential Studies Quarterly, Vol. 28, 1998
• Leffler, Melvyn P., and Jeffrey W. Legro, eds. In uncertain times: American foreign policy after the Berlin Wall and 9/11 (Cornell UP, 2011)
• Marsden, Lee. Lessons from Russia: Clinton and US democracy promotion (Routledge, 2018).
• Murray, Leonie. Clinton, peacekeeping and humanitarian interventionism: rise and fall of a policy (Routledge, 2007).
• Power, Samantha. "A Problem from Hell": America and the Age of Genocide (2002) covers Bosnia, Kosovo, Srebenica, and Rwanda; Pulitzer Prize.online free to borrow
• Radchenko, Sergey. "‘Nothing but humiliation for Russia’: Moscow and NATO’s eastern enlargement, 1993-1995." Journal of Strategic Studies 43.6-7 (2020): 769-815.
• Rivera, David W., and Sharon Werning Rivera. "Yeltsin, Putin, and Clinton: presidential leadership and Russian democratization in comparative perspective." Perspectives on Politics (2009): 591-610 online.
• Sale, Richard. Clinton's secret wars: The evolution of a commander in chief (Macmillan, 2009).
• Sarotte, Mary Elise. "How to Enlarge NATO: The Debate inside the Clinton Administration, 1993–95." International Security 44.1 (2019): 7-41. online
• Shields, Todd G. et al. eds. The Clinton Riddle: Perspectives on the Forty-second President (University of Arkansas Press, 2004), includes three essays by experts on the Cold War, China, and Russia.
• Shifrinson, Joshua R. "NATO enlargement and US foreign policy: the origins, durability, and impact of an idea." International Politics (2020): 1-29.
• Siemers, David J. "Bill Clinton's Contractarian World view: The Intellectual Origins and Public Face of the Clinton Philosophy." Congress & the Presidency 35#2 (2008).
• Smith, Martin A. The Foreign Policies of Bill Clinton and George W. Bush: A Comparative Perspective (Taylor and Francis, 2017)
• Talbott, Strobe. "Clinton and Yeltsin." Diplomatic History 42.4 (2018): 568-571.
• Trenta, Luca. "Clinton and Bosnia: a candidate's freebie, a president's nightmare." Journal of Transatlantic Studies 12.1 (2014): 62-89.
• Tsui, Chin-Kuei. Clinton, New Terrorism and the Origins of the War on Terror (Routledge, 2016). dissertation version
• Walt, Stephen M. "Two Cheers for Clinton's Foreign Policy" Foreign Affairs 79#2 (2000), pp. 63–79 online.
• Yarhi-Milo, Keren. "Bill Clinton and America’s Credibility after the Cold War." in Who Fights for Reputation (Princeton UP, 2018) pp. 223–264.

Primary sources on foreign policy

• Carter, Ashton B. and William J. Perry. Preventive Defense: A New Security Strategy for America (Brookings Institution Press, 1999).
• Christopher, Warren. In the stream of history: shaping foreign policy for a new era (Stanford UP, 1998).
• Christopher, Warren. Chances of a Lifetime: A Memoir (2001)
• Clinton, Bill. My Life: The Presidential Years Vol. II (Vintage, 2005) excerpt
• Goldgeier, James M., and Michael McFaul. Power and Purpose: U.S. Policy toward Russia after the Cold War (Brookings Institution Press, 2003).
• Nelson, Michael, et al. eds. 42: Inside the Presidency of Bill Clinton (Miller Center of Public Affairs Books, 2016) excerpt pp 193–233, interviews with insiders on Bosnia, Kosovo, Northern Ireland, and the Middle East.
• Perry, William J. My Journey at the Nuclear Brink (Stanford University Press, 2015)
• Talbott, Strobe. The Russia Hand: A Memoir of Presidential Diplomacy (Random House, 2002).
• Rubinstein, Alvin Z. et al. eds. Clinton Foreign Policy Reader: Presidential Speeches with Commentary (2000) [https://www.amazon.com/Clinton-Foreign-Policy-Reader-Presidential/dp/076560583X/
• Talbott, Strobe. Engaging India: Diplomacy, Democracy, and the Bomb (Brookings, 2004)

• Clinton, Bill, Clinton and William Jefferson Clinton. The Speeches of President Bill Clinton (2015) 344pp excerpt
• Clinton, Bill. (with Al Gore). Science in the National Interest. Washington, D.C.: The White House, August 1994.
• --- (with Al Gore). The Climate Change Action Plan. Washington, D.C.: The White House, October 1993.
• Taylor Branch The Clinton Tapes: Wrestling History with the President. (2009) Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1-4165-4333-6
• Official Congressional Record Impeachment Set: ... Containing the Procedures for Implementing the Articles of Impeachment and the Proceedings of the Impeachment Trial of President William Jefferson Clinton. Washington, D.C.: U.S. G.P.O., 1999.
• Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States, William J. Clinton. Washington, D.C.: Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration: For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1994–2002.
• S. Daniel Abraham Peace Is Possible, foreword by Bill Clinton
• Michael Waldman POTUS Speaks: Finding the Words That Defined the Clinton Presidency (2000) ISBN 0-7432-0020-9