* "Man of Promise: Jimmy Carter's Hope and America's Future" (2013)
* "Too Good to Be True: The Rise and Fall of Bernie Madoff" (2009)
* "The Last Lincoln Conspirator: John Wilkes Booth, Dr. Samuel Mudd, and the Penitent South" (2010)
* "The Second Life of Samuel Johnson" (2008)
* "The History of America in Ten Strikes: Tragedy and Celebration, 1861-2011" (2012)
* "The Death of Descartes: René Descartes and the Care and Cutting Up of the Modern Mind" (2015)
Fiction:
* "The View from Monegan Farm: A Novel" (2008)