• Moody Research Grant, Lyndon B. Johnson Foundation, Austin, TX, 2004
• Studies in Intelligence Award, Center for the Study of Intelligence, CIA, 2001
• J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award, Columbia University School of Journalism/ Harvard University Nieman Foundation, 2001
• Fellowship, John Nicolas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization, Brown University, Providence, PI, 1998
• Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, DC, 1991
• Fellowship, National Endowment for the Humanities, Washington, DC, 1990

Books

• The Kennedy Assassination Tapes: The White House Conversations of Lyndon B. Johnson Regarding the Assassination, the Warren Commission, and the Aftermath (New York: Alfred Knopf, September 2004)
• From Industry to Alchemy: Burgmaster, A Machine Tool Company (Washington, DC: Beard Books, 2002)
• The CEO Goes to Washington: Negotiating the Halls of Power (Knoxville, TN: Whittle Direct Books, 1994)
• When the Machine Stopped: A Cautionary Tale from Industrial America (Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1989)

Journal Articles

• I. F. Stone: Encounters with Soviet IntelligenceJournal of Cold War Studies, Volume 11, Number 3, Summer 2009
• " Politics and Intelligence: The 'Photo Gap' that Delayed Discovery of Missiles in Cuba," Studies in Intelligence, Volume 49, Number 4, Winter 2005
• " A Cold War Odyssey: The Oswald File," Cold War International History Project Bulletin, Issue 14/15, Winter 2003-Spring 2004
• " The Power of Disinformation: The Lie that Linked CIA to the Kennedy Assassination," Studies in Intelligence, Number 11, Fall-Winter 2001
• " After Thirty Years: Making Sense of the Assassination," Reviews in American History, Volume 22, Number 2, June 1994

Periodicals

• " Unmasking the Other Deep Throat," Washingtonian, November 2009
• " Five Best Books on the Conspiracy Mindset," The Wall Street Journal, 2—3 February 2008
• " JFK's Death, Re-Framed," The New York Times, 22 November 2007 (with Johann Rush)
• " Assassination Chronicle," The Wall Street Journal, 19—20 May 2007
• " The JFK Lawyers' Conspiracy," The Nation, 20 February 2006
• " The Making of a Washington Expert," The Washington Spectator, 1 November 2005
• " The Politics (and Profits) of Information: The 9/11 Commission One Year Later," The Washington Spectator, 1 November 2005
• " The Assassination Tapes," The Atlantic Monthly, June 2004
• " How Moscow Undermined the Warren Commission," The Washington Post, 22 November 2003
• " Was Jim Garrison Duped by the KGB?" New Orleans, February 2002
• " The Demon in Jim Garrison," Wilson Quarterly, Spring 2001
• " Tapes: Hearing a Wrong Leaning, er, Meaning," Los Angeles Times, 1 August 1999
• " The Docudrama That Is JFK," The Nation, 7 December 1998
• "Getting Closer to the Truth About the Death of JFK: Why RFK Shunned the Inquiry Into His Brother's Assassination," The Boston Globe, 18 September 1998
• " The Key to the Warren Report," American Heritage, November 1995
• " Cuba, Kennedy, and the Cold War," The Nation, 29 November 1993
• " Greed is All Right," The Nation, 16 December 1991
• " How to Kill a Company: Anatomy of a Leveraged Buyout," The Washington Post, 23 April 1989

• " Richard Nixon's Own Deep Throat," Washington Decoded, 3 November 2009
• " The Vanity of Vanity Fair," Washington Decoded, 11 October 2009
• " Why Did I.F. Stone Sidestep the Hiss Case?," Washington Decoded, 11 July 2009
• " The Politics of Postmortems," Washington Decoded, 11 February 2009
• " The Underwood Hoax," Washington Decoded, 11 December 2008
• " 11 Seconds in Dallas Redux: Film Evidence," Washington Decoded, 11 November 2008 (with Kenneth Scearce)
• " The Politics of Association: Ayers vs. Kravis," Washington Decoded, 11 October 2008
• " The Secret That Wasn't: Deep Throat Exposed in 1973," Washington Decoded, 11 September 2008
• " The Ford Files," Washington Decoded, 11 August 2008
• " Harvard Does Dallas," Washington Decoded, 11 April 2008
• " Civics Lesson," Washington Decoded, 11 February 2008
• " Commission Confidential," Washington Decoded,30 January 2008
• " Doubt and Disbelief in the Warren Report," Washington Decoded, 11 January 2008
• " Credit Where Credit is Due," Washington Decoded, 11 December 2007
• " What Oswald Wrought: Lament of a Generation," Washington Decoded, 11 November 2007
• " What Did Lyndon Johnson Know About the Cuban Missile Crisis? And When Did He Know It?" Washington Decoded, 19 October 2007 (with Tara Marie Egan)
• " Deep Throat 3.0," Washington Decoded, 11 May 2007 (with William Gaines)
• " 11 Seconds in Dallas, Not Six," Washington Decoded, 11 March 2007 (with Johann W. Rush)
• "1963: 11 Seconds in Dallas," History News Network, 19 February 2007 (with Johann W. Rush)
• " Presidential Tapes and Transcripts: Crafting a New Historical Genre," History News Network, 21 February 2005 (with Sheldon Stern)

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