Generals in Bronze: Interviewing the Commanders of the Civil War

Gandhi: A Memoir

Maimonides: Faith in Reason

Walt Whitman’s America: A Cultural Biography

Beneath the American Renaissance: The Subversive Imagination in the Age of Emerson and Melville

Journal of a Trapper: Nine Years in the Rocky Mountains, 1834–1843

Living Dangerously: The Adventures of Merian C. Cooper, Creator of King Kong

The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie and The Gospel of Wealth

Mencken: The American Iconoclast: The Life and Times of the Bad Boy of Baltimore

King of Hearts: The True Story of the Maverick Who Pioneered Open-heart Surgery

Empire of Self: A Life of Gore Vidal

Henry Clay: America’s Greatest Statesman

Hero Tales

The Deep End: The Literary Scene in the Great Depression and Today

My Bright Abyss: Meditation of a Modern Believer

Stan Getz: A Life in Jazz

Hannibal: Rome’s Greatest Enemy

War, Memory, and the 1913 Gettysburg Reunion

Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls: True Stories of Castaways and Other Survivors

Jefferson’s War: America’s First War on Terror 1801–1805