Dan Rather Books in Order
Dan Rather has written 11 books, published between 1974 and 2021. The first book is The Palace Guard (1974) and the newest is What Unites Us: The Graphic Novel (2021). Publication order is the reading order below.
- Books
- 11
- Published
- 1974–2021
- Pages on record
- 2,400 in 8 of 11 books
- Reading time
- 40–60 hours
Reading time is an estimate, not a recorded figure: 2,400 pages at 300 words a page, read at 200–300 words a minute, covering the 8 of 11 titles with a page count on record.
Dan Rather, born Daniel Irvin Rather Jr. in 1931, is an American journalist and commentator who anchored a national evening news programme. Rather's career started in Texas and turned national in September 1961, when reporting on Hurricane Carla saved thousands of lives. Rather later covered the Kennedy assassination from Dallas in 1963, the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, the fall of the Berlin Wall, the Gulf War, September 11 and the Iraq War. Eleven books are catalogued between 1974 and 2021, from The Palace Guard (1974) to What Unites Us: The Graphic Novel (2021), and the Camera Never Blinks series sits among them.
How many Dan Rather books are there?
Dan Rather has 11 books, released between 1974 and 2021. 2 of them belong to the Camera Never Blinks series.
Dan Rather Books in Publication Order
The table lists all 11 Dan Rather books in the order they were published, with the release year, the page count where one is on record, and how many independent book listings confirm each title. Catalogue data as of September 2026.
- 1The Palace Guard1974 · 326 pages · confirmed 1/419743261/4
- 219773201/4
- 3I Remember1991 · confirmed 1/41991–1/4
- 41994–1/4
- 5Deadlines and Datelines1999 · 220 pages · confirmed 1/419992201/4
- 6The American Dream2001 · 444 pages · confirmed 1/420014441/4
- 7America at War2003 · 162 pages · confirmed 1/420031621/4
- 8Rather Outspoken2012 · 336 pages · confirmed 1/420123361/4
- 9What Unites Us: Reflections on Patriotism2017 · 304 pages · confirmed 1/420173041/4
- 10Dan Rather2020 · confirmed 1/42020–1/4
- 1120212881/4
Dan Rather books grouped by series
Each title below is a row in the publication-order table above. None of these groups has a reading-order page of its own on this site.
Camera Never Blinks in order
2 booksWorld Citizen Comics in order
1 bookStandalone books
8 books8 Dan Rather titles here are not listed as part of any series.
Do you have to read Dan Rather books in order?
You only need to read Dan Rather books in order within the Camera Never Blinks series, which holds 2 of the 11 Dan Rather books listed here. The numbered table above gives every book in publication order.
Where to start with Dan Rather
Start with The Palace Guard (1974), the earliest published title.
What is the newest Dan Rather book?
What Unites Us: The Graphic Novel (2021) is the newest Dan Rather book released so far.
Is there a new Dan Rather book coming?
No next Dan Rather book is announced in the catalogue, which is a gap in the listings it merges rather than a sign that the run has ended.
Dan Rather at a glance
- Paused
- No new Dan Rather title has appeared for 5 years. The last was published in 2021.
- Release pace
- Dan Rather books have appeared about one every 5 years on average.
- Length
- 2,400 pages across the 8 of 11 books with a recorded length, a median of 312 pages each.
- Busiest decade
- Most Dan Rather books, 3 of 11, were published in the 1990s.
What the Dan Rather books are about
9 of the 11 Dan Rather books carry subject tags in Open Library's catalogue. The subjects below are the ones that recur across them, most frequent first: biography is tagged on 5 of 9. The subjects are cataloguers’ headings, not a plot summary.
- Biography 5 of 9 books
- Television broadcasting of news 5 of 9 books
- Television journalists 4 of 9 books
- American National characteristics 3 of 9 books
- Journalists 3 of 9 books
- Journalists, biography 3 of 9 books
- National characteristics, american 3 of 9 books
- United States 3 of 9 books
- Comics & graphic novels, nonfiction 2 of 9 books
- Patriotism 2 of 9 books
- Social values 2 of 9 books