SELECTED FURTHER READING

The Trump presidency has prompted a flood of writing about impeachment. As is evident from our endnotes, we’ve benefited in many ways from topical insights offered since the 2016 election. But we’ve also learned a great deal from scholarly works on the history and theory of impeachment. Here we identify some of the books and articles that most heavily influenced our approach. We recommend them to those brave readers who are eager to fall deeper down this rabbit hole.

BOOKS

Amar, Akhil Reed. America’s Constitution: A Biography. New York: Random House, 2006.

Baumgartner, Jody C., and Naoko Kada, eds. Checking Executive Power: Presidential Impeachment in Comparative Perspective. Westport: Praeger, 2003.

Berger, Raoul. Impeachment: The Constitutional Problems. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1973.

Black, Charles L. Impeachment: A Handbook. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998.

Chafetz, Josh. Congress’s Constitution: Legislative Authority and the Separation of Powers. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017.

Gerhardt, Michael J. The Federal Impeachment Process: A Constitutional and Historical Analysis, 2nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Hoffer, Peter Charles, and N. E. H. Hull. Impeachment in America, 1635–1805. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1984.

Klarman, Michael. The Framers’ Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016.

Kyvig, David E. The Age of Impeachment: American Constitutional Culture since 1960. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2008.

Labovitz, John. Presidential Impeachment. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1978.

Posner, Richard A. An Affair of State: The Investigation, Impeachment, and Trial of President Clinton. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1999.

Sunstein, Cass R. Impeachment: A Citizens’ Guide. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017.

Whittington, Keith E. Constitutional Construction: Divided Powers and Constitutional Meaning. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1995.

SCHOLARLY ARTICLES

Amar, Akhil Reed. “On Impeaching Presidents.” Hofstra Law Review 28, no. 2 (1999): 291–341.

Chafetz, Josh. “Impeachment and Assassination.” Minnesota Law Review 95 (2010): 347–423.

Gerhardt, Michael J. “The Lessons of Impeachment History.” George Washington Law Review 67 (1999): 603–625.

. “The Special Constitutional Structure of the Federal Impeachment Process.” Law and Contemporary Problems 63 (Winter/Spring 2000): 245–256.

Katyal, Neal Kumar. “Impeachment as Congressional Constitutional Interpretation.” Law and Contemporary Problems 63 (Winter/Spring 2000): 169–192.

Klarman, Michael J. “Constitutional Fetishism and the Clinton Impeachment Debate.” Virginia Law Review 85, no. 4 (May 1999): 631–659.

O’Sullivan, Julie R. “The Interaction between Impeachment and the Independent Counsel Statute.” Georgetown Law Journal 86, no. 6 (1998): 2193–2266.

Rakove, Jack N. “Statement on the Background and History of Impeachment.” George Washington Law Review 67 (1999): 682–692.

In addition, Larry’s treatise—American Constitutional Law, 3rd ed., University Treatise Series (Foundation Press), 2000—contains a substantial discussion of impeachment at pages 152 to 202.