| Dirksen, Everett McKinley. The Education of a Senator (Urbana and Chicago, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1998) |
| Mackaman, Frank H. An Idea Whose Time Has Come: The Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pekin, IL: The Dirksen Congressional Center, 2014) |
| Mackaman, Frank H. Everett M. Dirksen as Candidate, 1926-1968 (Pekin, IL: The Dirksen Congressional Center, 2018) |
| Mackaman, Frank H. Campaign 1944: Everett M. Dirksen’s Bid for the White House (Pekin, IL: The Dirksen Congressional Center, 2019) |
| Mackaman, Frank H. Everett M. Dirksen’s Career: A Series of Essays (Pekin, IL: The Dirksen Congressional Center, 2019) |
| Mackaman, Frank H. Facing the Post-War World: Everett M. Dirksen Abroad, 1944 (Pekin, IL: The Dirksen Congressional Center, 2019) |
| Mackaman, Frank H. The Long, Hard Furrow: Everett Dirksen’s Part in the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Pekin, IL: The Dirksen Congressional Center, 2014) |
| Mackaman, Frank H. Of Fakers, Flip-Floppers, Bunglers, and Cowards: Everett Dirksen’s Campaign for the U.S. Senate, 1950 (Pekin, IL: The Dirksen Congressional Center, 2019) |
| Mackaman, Frank H., ed. Time Magazine’s Neil MacNeil: Reporting on Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen, 1957-1969 (Pekin, IL: The Dirksen Congressional Center, 2018) |
| MacNeil, Neil. Dirksen: Portrait of a Public Man (New York: The World Publishing Company, 1970) |

