Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (2008)

The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War Over the American Dollar (2006)

Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (2005)

Lone Star Nation: The Epic Story of the Battle for Texas Independence (2004)

Woodrow Wilson (2003)

The Age of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the New American Dream (2002)

The Strange Death of American Liberalism (2001)

The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (2000)

Masters of Enterprise: Giants of American Business from John Jacob Astor and J. P. Morgan to Bill Gates and Oprah Winfrey (1999)

What America Owes the World: The Struggle for the Soul of Foreign Policy (1998)

TR: The Last Romantic (1997)

The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s (1995)

Since Vietnam: The United States in World Affairs, 1973-1995 (1995)

The Wages of Globalism: Lyndon Johnson and the Limits of American Power (1995)

The United States in the World: A History of American Foreign Relations (1994)

Into the Labyrinth: The United States and the Middle East, 1945-1993 (1994)

The Devil We Knew: Americans and the Cold War (1993)

Bound to Empire: The United States and the Philippines (1992)

Inside the Cold War: Loy Henderson and the Rise of the American Empire, 1918-1961 (1991)

India and the United States: The Cold Peace (1990)

The Specter of Neutralism: The United States and the Emergence of the Third World, 1947-1960 (1989)

Cold Warriors: Eisenhower's Generation and American Foreign Policy (1988)


(Co-authored books)

America Past and Present (2007 edition), with Robert A. Divine et al.

The American Story (2007 edition), with Robert A. Divine et al.

American Stories (2009), with T. H. Breen et al.


(Edited books)

The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt (2001)

The Use of Force after the Cold War (2000)

Critical Reflections on the Cold War (2000), with Martin J. Medhurst

The Foreign Policies of Lyndon Johnson: Beyond Vietnam (1999)