The Life and Times of Cotton Mather New York : Harper & Row, 1984. (1984 - winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Biography as well as the Bancroft Prize in American History) ISBN 9781566492065, ISBN 1566492068.
A Cultural History of the American Revolution (Random House, 1986) ISBN 9780375401282.
Edgar A. Poe: Mournful and Never-ending Remembrance (New York: Harper Collins, 1991) ISBN 0-06-016715-7.
Houdini!!! The Career of Ehrich Weiss (1997) ISBN 006092862X
Lightning Man: The Accursed Life of Samuel B. Morse (Random House, 2003) ISBN 9780375401282.