Clay Risen

He worked at The New Republic and elsewhere before moving to the New York Times.^[2]

• ——— (2009). A nation on fire: America in the wake of the King assassination. Hoboken, N.J: John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 978-0470177105.^[4]
• ——— (2015). The Bill of the Century: The Epic Battle for the Civil Rights Act. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing USA. ISBN 978-1608198269.
• ——— (2015). American whiskey, bourbon & rye: a guide to the nation's favorite spirit (Revised & expanded ed.). New York, NY: Sterling Epicure. ISBN 978-1454916888.
• ——— (2018). Single malt: a guide to the whiskies of Scotland. New York, NY: Quercus. ISBN 978-1681441078.
• ——— (2019). The crowded hour: Theodore Roosevelt, the Rough Riders, and the dawn of the American century. New York: Scribner. ISBN 978-1501144004.
• ———; Sharrett, Luke (2021). Bourbon: the story of Kentucky whiskey (First ed.). New York: Ten Speed Press. ISBN 978-1984858276.
• ——— (2022). American rye: a guide to the nation's original spirit. New York: Scott & Nix, Inc. ISBN 978-1935622758.
• Walker, Mason; ——— (2024). Bourbon Lore: Legends of American Whiskey. Scott & Nix, Inc. ISBN 978-1935622796.
• ——— (2025). Red Scare: blacklists, McCarthyism and the making of modern America. New York: Scribner. ISBN 978-1982141806.^[5][6][7]