What are some good "palace intrigue" books revolving around US Politics

[Zinneke]

I enjoyed the series of books like Fire and Fury and the Washington Post journalists' account if the Trump presidency and whilst no administration will ever be as entertaining as the Trump one I was wondering if there were accounts like this of the W. Bush years or some accounts of crazy campaigns?

[Mr. Smith]

All the President's Men, The Nixon Tapes...The Watergate Era is a goldmine for that kind of book.

[Benjamin Frank]

There is also the Woodward and Bernstein's semi follow up book 'The Final Days.' (which actually covers roughly the last year.)

Of course most books like these, when written by an insider anyway, are at least somewhat self serving, but I would also suggest President Reagan's (first) OMB Director David Stockman's book 'The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed.'

Stockman's book caused trouble for the Reagan Administration because it, at the very least, suggested that the large Reagan Administration budget deficits were an intentional attempt to force the Democratic Congress to cut social spending, at least partly suggesting that the Defense Department budget was intentionally bloated. Stockman had to walk that back publicly.

Clinton's first term Labor Secretary and FOB (Friend of Bill) also wrote a similar type of book 'Locked in the Cabinet.'

I can't think of any after that. The W Bush Administration was famously demanding against inside leakers, but I'm pretty sure there was at least one 'tell all' book written by a person who would by then have been a former insider. Was it by Andy Card, Bush's former Chief of Staff?

Of course, Bob Woodward himself has written multiple books on Presidential Administrations. He usually averages one book every 1 1/3 years for the first term anyway, so 3 books on a first term Administration. He wrote The Agenda detailing Bill Clinton's first 16 or so months in office, I forget the second book, and then The Choice both detailing roughly all but the last 3 months of Clinton's first term as well as Bob Dole (I.E The Choice between Clinton and Dole in the 1996 election.)

[Earthling]

There is also the Woodward and Bernstein's semi follow up book 'The Final Days.' (which actually covers roughly the last year.)

Of course most books like these, when written by an insider anyway, are at least somewhat self serving, but I would also suggest President Reagan's (first) OMB Director David Stockman's book 'The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed.'

Stockman's book caused trouble for the Reagan Administration because it, at the very least, suggested that the large Reagan Administration budget deficits were an intentional attempt to force the Democratic Congress to cut social spending, at least partly suggesting that the Defense Department budget was intentionally bloated. Stockman had to walk that back publicly.

Clinton's first term Labor Secretary and FOB (Friend of Bill) also wrote a similar type of book 'Locked in the Cabinet.'

I can't think of any after that. The W Bush Administration was famously demanding against inside leakers, but I'm pretty sure there was at least one 'tell all' book written by a person who would by then have been a former insider. Was it by Andy Card, Bush's former Chief of Staff?

Of course, Bob Woodward himself has written multiple books on Presidential Administrations. He usually averages one book every 1 1/3 years for the first term anyway, so 3 books on a first term Administration. He wrote The Agenda detailing Bill Clinton's first 16 or so months in office, I forget the second book, and then The Choice both detailing roughly all but the last 3 months of Clinton's first term as well as Bob Dole (I.E The Choice between Clinton and Dole in the 1996 election.)

Didn't one of Bushes Press Secretaries write a book?)

[Oppo]

Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate by Jefferson Morley

[MarkD]

Congressional Odyssey: The Saga of a Senate Bill, by T.R. Reid, published 1980. It explains how Sen. Pete Domenici collaborated with lobbyists from the railroad industry to persuade Congress to pass a bill to establish fees for barge operators to use inland waterways. The bill was signed into law in 1978.

[NewYorkExpress]

Game Change and Double Down by Mark Halpern and John Hieleman are full of fascinating inside stories about the 2008 and 2012 elections from the Obama, Clinton, McCain and Romney campaigns.

[Benjamin Frank]

For political campaign books, All By Myself: The Unmasking of a Political Campaign by Christine Black and Thomas Oliphant, about the Dukakis campaign in 1988.

For Canadian books, it's a hatchet job, but it's very funny and, if even half true, kind of frightening (that people so incompetent could be so close to power) Reign of Error by Greg Weston about John Turner.