The American Diplomatic Game. With Constantine Brown. New York: Doubleday, Doran, 1935.

The Case Against Congress: A Compelling Indictment of Corruption on Capitol Hill. With Jack Anderson. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968.

• A series of excerpts of this book was published in the Atlanta Constitution, starting with chapter 1 in “Both Sides the Supreme Court Argument: ‘The Nine Old Men,’” 25 April 1937, 7, with other chapters published on a daily basis through May 23.

100 Years of Presidential Elections, 1864-1964. [Covered in the Washington Evening Star and Washington Sunday Star]. Washington, D.C.: The Evening Star Newspaper Co., 1968.

• Written in Dublin, Pearson reports on William Cosgrave, Head of the Irish Free State. “The heavy participation of the northern Protestants in the Free State’s first internal loan points to a desire for unity,” Pearson states.

Calkins, Cosmo G. “Drew Pearson’s Reliability.” Chicago Tribune, 22 May 1952, 16.

“Co-authorship of Capital Book Costs His Job,” Chicago Tribune, 3 September 1932, 10.

“Confessions of an S.O.B.” Saturday Evening Post 229: (3 November 1956): 23-25+; (10 November 1956): 38-39+; 17 November 1956): 44-45+; (24 November 1956): 36.
Pearson, Drew, “Confessions of an S.O.B,” Saturday Evening Post 229 (3 November 1956): 38-39; (10 November, 1956): 45-50; (17 November 1956): 44-45, 87-89, 91-92 ; (24 November 1956): 36, 148, 150.

• Pearson discusses Eugene Schneider, “France’s steel king,” and reports that “French and German steel manufacturers could establish a mutually profitable combine, which would bring peace to the Ruhr, were it not for the meddlesome interference of governments.”

• President Herbert Hoover and Prime Minister of Great Britain Ramsay MacDonald met in the Rapidan, Virginia, and what likely happened at that meeting.

• Pearson presents a tribute to his father delivered at a meeting of the Speech Association of the Eastern States in April 1959.

“Pearson Doing Commie Bidding, McCarthy Says,” Chicago Tribune, 16 December 1950, 9.

• Provides background information on Gov. Franklin D. Roosevelt and his rise to the presidency.

• Pearson discusses John Spargo, former socialist leader, who believed that “reading the Constitution may be closely allied to treason.”

• Condensed from Redbook Magazine. Discusses James Roosevelt, son of Franklin D. Roosevelt, who had aspirations to become president of the U.S.

• Discusses the key men around President Roosevelt, including Cordell Hull, Secretary of State, William Phillips, Undersecretary of State, Lewis W. Douglas, Director of the Budget, J.F.T. O’Connor, Comptroller of the Currency, Gen. Douglas MacArthur, Chief of Staff, and several others.

• Discusses James A. Farley, New York Athletic Commission, who became Postmaster General of the United States, and the president’s “trigger man.”

Anderson, Douglas A. "A Washington Merry-Go-Round” of Libel Actions. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1980.

• Under the section on “News and Newscasters,” Pearson is cited as the newscaster who according to his radio announcer, was “eighty-four per cent accurate” in his predictions.

• This a novel in which columnist Drew Pearson and Secretary of Defense James Forrestal are two of the protagonists and the story takes place in 1949. For a review of this book, see Kirkus Reviews: (15 August, 1999).

Einstein, Daniel. Special Edition: A Guide to Network Television Documentary Series and Special News Reports, 1955-1979. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1987.

• Includes an entry for January 27, 1956, for “columnist Drew Pearson in Washington, D.C.”

• Mentions on p. 175 the film Men of Destiny, narrated by Drew Pearson and on p. 87 the TV program Washington Merry-Go-Round produced by MPTV.

• Includes a brief biography of Pearson.

• Includes a chapter titled: “Pearson and Allen Go Round,” 210-48.

Gould, Harold A. Sikhs, Swamis, Students and Spies: The India Lobby in the United States, 1900-1946. London: Sage Publications, 2006.

• A chapter titled “The Drew Pearson Affair” is based on an article Pearson wrote on July 24, 1944, in the “Washington Merry-Go-Round” which “revealed the contents of a private letter which the US Special Envoy to New Delhi, Ambassador William Phillips, had addressed to President Franklin D. Roosevelt on May 14, 1943.” Another chapter is titled “’Deep Throat’ and the ‘Washington Merry-Go-Round.’”

Moore, Clinton E. “Washington, D.C. on the Merry-Go-Round: Drew Pearson and the Expansion of Journalism in the Mid-Twentieth Century.” M.A. thesis, Texas State University-San Marcos, 2007.

• Discusses on pp. 37-38 the lawsuit brought against Pearson during the 1940s by Ernest F. Elmhurst who alleged that a radio broadcast by Pearson on July 30, 1944, in which Elmhurst was discussed, “constituted an invasion of his right of privacy” and that Elmhurst was fired from his job at the Shoreham Hotel in Washington, D.C.

• Includes a section on how “columnist Drew Pearson turns the tables on a McCarthyite Congressman,” J. Parnell Thomas of New Jersey. The Washington-Merry-Go-Round column printed in syndicated newspapers on August 4, 1948 is here reprinted.

• Text selected from the personal papers of Drew Pearson, Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum Collection. An important source.

• Long-time Pearson colleague, Allen discusses “those fabulous scoops and exposés” that were published in the their column “Washington Merry-Go-Round.” Includes photographs of Pearson, Jack Anderson, Fred Bumenthal, and Attorney General Tom Clark.

• Discusses a few of Pearson’s 123 libel cases and explains his “extraordinary success.”

• Published as a “Washington Merry-Go-Round” column and is a candid reminiscence and tribute to Drew Pearson revealing personal anecdotes about his life and personality.

• A tribute to Pearson following his death and includes a photo of Anderson and Pearson together.

• An important article with photos not found in other sources. Includes biographical information, the people Pearson met, and the stories behind the events.

“As Drew Pearson Revealed. . . .” Time (27 January 1947).

• Discusses the history of the farm which Pearson owned and which dated back to the 1930s.

• Drew Pearson is conferred the order “Al Merito,” a decoration that originated in June 1817, by Chile, “for the principles of hemispheric unity and an integral continental defense.”

“Cissie and Drew.” Time 39 (18 May 1942): 67-68.

• “Jack Anderson announces that he prefers not turning over the Washington Merry-Go-Round column to his partner Douglas Cohn, who "blames the dispute in part on 'political differences' between himself and Anderson's more conservative family." Cohn "likens his situation to Anderson's fight to keep the column after the death of its founder, Drew Pearson."

“Clashes with Sec. Hull on U.S. Arms Exports to Germany.” New York Times, 7 May 1938, 1.

Clement, Hunt, Jr. “Pearson Reviews New Deal Issues.” Atlanta Constitution, 24 February 1934, 1.

"Close Up: An Old Hand at tilting with Politicians, Columnist Drew Pearson Turns Novelist." Life 65/6 (9 August 1968).

Coe, Richard L. “Drew Pearson Lands Tough Movie Role—He’ll Play Himself.” Washington Post, 17 September 1946, 12.

• Pearson is to appear as a “Washington columnist” in a Hollywood movie.

• Includes only a photograph.

• “Columnist Jack Anderson testified yesterday in federal court here that his late colleague, Drew Pearson, and the late Sen. John McClellan (D-Ark.) had a ‘bitter, ugly, protracted feud’ two decades ago.”

• “Drew Pearson, the columnist, believed he would be blackmailed by one of his bitterest enemies, Senator John L. McClellan, when he learned that the Senator had obtained some intimate letters from Mr. Pearson to a civil rights worker, a jury was told today.” The reporter provides the details in this article.

• An article about Mrs. Drew Pearson who died on March 21, 1992. Luvie, as she was affectionately referred to, had a gift “as a rousing speechmaker,” said her brother Dan Tyler Moore, “when she and her second husband, ‘Washington Merry-Go-Round’ columnist Drew Pearson, worked together on ‘their masterpiece,’ the Friendship Train, which collected food for war-torn Europe.”

• A photograph by Disraeli of Pearson watering his lawn in his Georgetown residence garden, with mention of Pearson’s book, Nine Old Men, “soon to appear.”

• “A gift of several dozen letters, newspaper columns, and other documents representing the work of noted Washington journalist Drew Pearson has been donated to AU’s Bender Library.” Brief article in this American University publication includes a photograph of Barbara Lange Godfrey, sister of Drew Pearson, and Patricia A. Wand, American University Librarian.

• Discusses Drew Pearson and how he “used his popular column and radio program to criticize many leading political figures, notably Sen. Joseph McCarthy.”

• Brief notice with photograph. Pearson died at Georgetown University Hospital on 1 September 1969. Includes photograph.

• “For 36 years, until his death at 71, his column adapted the untiring and often merciless skill of investigative political reporting, known popularly as muckraking, to the modern idiom of the insider’s gossip.”

• Georgetown University Hospital, Washington, D.C.

“Drew Pearson Named to Legion of Honor.” Washington Post, 20 December 1947, 9.

• Pearson awarded the French Legion of Honor on December 19, 1947.

“Drew Pearson to Speak at Gary Dinner.” Chicago Daily Tribune, 14 June 1959, 58.

Feldstein, Mark. “Fighting Quakers: The 1950s Battle between Richard Nixon and Drew Pearson.” Journalism History 30/2 (2004): 76+

• Examines the use of history by syndicated columnists in writing about de Gaulle in 1965, the "yellow peril" of October 1967, and the presidential election of 1968. Among the prominent columnists analyzed are Drew Pearson, Walter Winchell, Holmes Alexander, James Reston, and Westbrook Pegler, and it is found that they both used and misused historical information.

• “Jack Anderson talks about 50 years of presidents, reporters, and looking under rocks,” and explains that Drew Pearson was his mentor.

“Guffey Demands Senatorial Inquiry of Book’s Charges.” Washington Post, 27 January 1937, 26.

• Senator Joseph F. Guffey (Dem.-PA) calls for a Senate investigation of charges against members of the Supreme Court by Pearson in the latter’s book “The Nine Old Men.”

• With assistance from Jack Anderson, the author discusses the impact Drew Pearson had as a journalist, including information on Senator Owen Brewster (Rep-Maine), Lewis Strauss, Wall Street banker, Lyndon Johnson, and Senator Joe McCarthy. Includes photograph of Pearson.

• Obituary. Discusses, in part, Pearson’s materials left to the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library.

• Discusses Pearson’s reputation of scoring 85% in his “predictions of things to come,” but cites examples where he was incorrect.

• Examines the problems and the controversy that developed from Charleston, South Carolina, congressman Mendel Rivers's problems with alcoholism while he served in the US Congress. Elected to Congress in 1940, Rivers was already having trouble controlling his drinking but it was not until the late 1950's that it became generally known. Newspaperman Drew Pearson broke the story and continued to write about it, greatly exaggerating the truth, until his own death in 1969. Rivers actually stopped drinking altogether in 1967, three years before his death, stating it was "the greatest victory he ever had."

• A brief piece that provides a story about what the two said that day when Drew Pearson met former U.S. President Harry Truman.

• Discusses Pearson’s allegation in a column that President Eisenhower suffered a physical relapse which prompted a press conference by Presidential Press Secretary James C. Hagerty who flatly denied it.

• Written as a tribute to Pearson upon his death. Discusses Pearson’s newspaper columns.

“Legion Asks McCarthy to Give Basis for ‘Red’ Tag on Pearson.” Washington Post, 9 January 1951, 2.

• About an “s.o.b. slur at Drew Pearson” by President Truman and the president’s reaction to Pearson’s nomination for the Nobel Peace Prize.

• Provides some history about the farm which Drew Pearson owned, but mainly that the farmland is broken up into exclusive home site lots.

• The reported comments on Pearson’s address given at Montgomery College and prints answers given by Pearson to questions posed by the audience. A wide array of issues were mentioned, including Congress, the president, and the Vietnam War.

• A community tour on January 22 of the new houses that have been built on the Pearson farmland in rural Maryland.

Moore, William. “Scorn Heaped on Pearson by Irate Senate.” Chicago Daily Tribune, 26 April 1944, 1, 12.

• Two brief paragraphs on the death of Pearson and mentions how the journalist “raised the ire of officials.”

• Discusses a freedom of the press case that was defended by Mrs. Betty Southard Murphy and attorney Warren Woods from the D.C. law firm of McInnis, Wilson, Musnon and Woods on behalf of columnists Drew Pearson and Jack Anderson “against the libel suit of Senator Thomas J. Dodd (D-Conn.). Senator Dodd claims the columnists published confidential information illegally obtained from his office files through some office staff members which illegally pertained to Dodd’s misuses of campaign funds.”

“Noted Correspondent to Lecture at Emory.” Atlanta Constitution, 24 February 1935, 7A.

• Pearson’s address at Emory University on March 11, 1935, was titled: “Washington Merry-Go-Round, or Behind the Scenes with the New Deal.”

• Discusses the custom homes that were built on some of the farmland that was once part of the Merry-Go-Round estate owned by Drew Pearson.

• Pearson gives his apology to President Eisenhower “for having said the President had intervened in the Al Sarena timberland case.”

“Pearson Lauds Roosevelt’s Calm in Face of Cabinet Controversies.” Atlanta Constitution, 12 March 1935, 5.

• A report on Pearson’s address at Glenn Memorial Church, with excerpts of his speech.

• Discusses Pearson’s statement that was published in his column: “whether the magic charm of Gov. Ronald Reagan can survive the discovery that a homosexual ring has been operating in his office.” Includes Pearson’s comments on how he discovered the story and the fallout from newspapers that are included in the syndication of Pearson’s column.

“Pearsons Give Theater Party.” Washington Post, 2 February 1939, 14.

• A party given by Mr. and Mrs. Drew Pearson, followed by the attendance with guests at Leon Pearson’s new play “Washington Merry-Go-Round” at the Wardman Park Theater.

• Includes a brief biography on Pearson stating that this “Washington correspondent who exerts through his writings the greatest influence on the nation.”

• Discusses the stories and state of affairs for Pearson’s column, Washington Merry-Go-Round, and includes photographs of Pearson’s staff who helped work on the column. An excellent article for its details and for information on Pearson’s daily life.

• A biography with photograph written on the death of Pearson. Discusses the success of the “Washington Merry-Go-Round” newspaper column and why it was printed next to the comics in the Washington Post.

• Discusses a story Pearson wrote in a column that Vice President Nixon attempted “to take over the reins of government” on September 24, 1955, when Eisenhower was stricken in Denver. Deputy Attorney General Rogers quickly responded saying the story was not true.

“Sen. McCarthy Either Kicked, Slapped or Mauled Pearson.” Washington Post, 14 December 1950, 1.

• The incident took place at the Sulgrave Club.

• The wills “leave the majority of his estate to his wife of 33 years, Luvie Moore Pearson.” The wills date from 1919-1962.

• Discusses Pearson’s charges against Sen. Thomas J. Dodd (CN) who supposedly used his position unethically and failed to report campaign funds. Includes photograph.

• Discusses the forthcoming exclusion of Drew Pearson from the airwaves by American Broadcasting Company.

• Franklin D. Roosevelt's skillful management of World War II and of the press ensured the overwhelmingly positive image of that war. The Office of Censorship withheld demoralizing bad news. Newsreels were shot largely by military photographers. As the war dragged on, the news became more graphic so that Americans would not become complacent. Columnist Drew Pearson, along with some liberal and rightist journalists, opposed Roosevelt's policies and remained outside of his control.

• Includes information on letters written by Gen. Douglas MacArthur to Isabel Rosario Cooper, “a Eurasion beauty the general met in the Philippines.” She eventually sold the letters to Drew Pearson, “who was at the time facing a law suit brought by MacArthur. “When MacArthur learned that Pearson had the letters, he dropped his suit and forwarded $15,000 to Cooper.”

• Wallace interviews Drew Pearson, “the Washington reporter who first claimed President J. F. Kennedy did not write Profiles in Courage.”

• Warren reminisces about Pearson whom he first met after WWII, and then after 1953 when Warren became Chief Justice. He spoke about the impact of Pearson as a journalist. “He not only fought corruption but also secrecy in Government which makes corruption easier.”

• Morse (D-Ore) said Pearson’s “acts of courage were countless.”

• On pp. 41-42, the author discusses Pearson as compared to gossip columnist Walter Winchell and mention’s Pearson’s broadcast of 12 March 1944 “in which he read a cable in strict confidence by the Chicago Tribune, ordering from its London correspondent a story on the Army’s Stars and Stripes,” a Communist paper. Other stories are related as well.

• Luvie Moore Pearson, who died March 21, 1992, in Easton, Maryland. She was married for 33 years to Drew Pearson.

• Discusses some of the exploits and disclosures by Pearson that made him “one of the country’s most influential political columnists for more than 35 years.” Mentions his Georgetown office and Maryland farm where he lived.

“Women Democrats Hear Capital Newswriter.” Washington Post, 17 November 1931, 10.

• Mentions Pearson’s address on “Manchuria, the Test of World Peace” at the Women’s National Democratic Club meeting in Washington, D.C.