• American Dreams: The United States Since 1945 (2010) ISBN-10: 1594202621,

• Traitor to His Class: The Privileged Life and Radical Presidency of Franklin Delano Roosevelt (2008), ISBN 9780385519588
• The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War Over the American Dollar (2006), ISBN 0393061841
• Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times (2005)
• Lone Star Nation: The Epic Story of the Battle for Texas Independence (2004), ISBN 0385507372
• Woodrow Wilson (2003), ISBN 0805069550
• 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), ISBN 0385493282
• 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), ISBN 0465069584
• The Reckless Decade: America in the 1890s (1995), ISBN 0312135947
• 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), ISBN 0195071042
• 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.

Edited books

• The Selected Letters of Theodore Roosevelt (2001)
• The Use of Force after the Cold War (2000)
• Critical Reflections on the Cold War: Linking Rhetoric and History (2000), with Martin J. Medhurst
• The Foreign Policies of Lyndon Johnson: Beyond Vietnam (1999)