@committed soul
Done it for you! Keep reading and praying for me as well.
Award winning book and my favourite stock out of some blooms, brief history of UsA by Howard zinn, just check out the crash course history of USA from YouTube, that will definitely work for you.I grabbed , if I'm not wrong the untold history of USA by Oliver stone and peter Kaznek, it was a fantastic one, besides having notes by my own effort related to contemporary politics, like all presidents and their undersecretary in full detail, for this you can consult encyclopedia of either oxford or Cambridge, besides PDF as well as Wikipedia.
Study all the operations of CIA and other American institutions like how congress works and what is the difference b/w congress and house of representatives. Don't forget to study about the American bureaucracy and its entangled influence at UN forum as well.
Mere khyal se itna kafi he.