(book) "Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism". New York: PublicAffairs Books, 2006. ISBN 158648334X
(book) "The Spirits of America: A Social History of Alcohol". Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2003. ISBN 1592132146
(book) "The Joy of Books: Confessions of a Lifelong Reader". Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 1995. ISBN 1573920045
(book) "Broadcast Blues: Dispatches from the Twenty-Year War Between a Television Reporter and His Medium". New York: HarperCollins, 1993. ISBN 0060190329
(book) "The Smoke of the Gods: A Social History of Tobacco". Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 2006. ISBN 1592134807