Carl Sferrazza Anthony is the author of a dozen books, focused primarily on the political power exercised by First Ladies through their personal influence, including biographies of several important but overlooked women, as well as collective works on presidential families. His two-volume book First Ladies was the first to intertwine the lives of these women along a two-century chronological timeline, illuminating the "sorority" among them.

He is currently writing the first account of Jacqueline Kennedy's life as a writer and reporter, before and immediately after her marriage, drawing on startling new resources that illuminate her substance. He served as historian of the National First Ladies Library. His website carlanthonyonline.com offers a diverse and vast variety of untold stories of unconventional Americana, from the Hollywood-Washington connection to pies of the states to regional holidays to presidential pop culture.