Broadcast Blues: Dispatches from the Twenty-Year War Between a Television Reporter and His Medium
1993
The Joy of Books: Confessions of a Lifelong Reader
1995
The Autograph: A Modern Fable of a Father and a Daughter
1997
The Spirits of America: A Social History of Alcohol
2003
Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism
2006
The Smoke of the Gods: A Social History of Tobacco
2007
Virtue, Valor and Vanity: The Founding Fathers and the Pursuit of Fame
2007
All the News Unfit to Print: How Things Were … and How They Were Reported
2009
Invasion of the Mind Snatchers: Television’s Conquest of America in the Fifties
2010