Books •
Democrat and Diplomat: The Life of William E. Dodd (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1968) • ''1898: McKinley's Decision – The United States Declares War on Spain'' (New York:
Chelsea House Publishers, 1969) •
The Roosevelt Diplomacy and World War II (New York:
Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1970) •
The Dynamics of World Power: Western Europe (with
Robert N. Burr and
Walter LaFeber) (New York:
Chelsea House Publishers, 1973) •
The Dynamics of World Power: A Documentary History of United States Foreign Policy, 1945-1973 (ed.
Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr., with
Robert N. Burr, and
Walter LaFeber) (New York:
Chelsea House Publishers, 1973) •
Franklin D. Roosevelt and American Foreign Policy, 1932–1945 (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1979) (
Bancroft Prize) •
The American Style of Foreign Policy: Cultural Politics and Foreign Affairs (New York:
Knopf, 1983) •
Ronald Reagan: The Politics of Symbolism (Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1984) •
Lone Star Rising: Lyndon Johnson and his Times, 1908–1960 (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1991) •
Franklin D. Roosevelt as World Leader: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered before the University of Oxford on 16 May 1995 (New York:
Clarendon Press, 1995) •
Hail to the Chief: The Making and Unmaking of American Presidents (New York:
Hyperion, 1996) •
Flawed Giant: Lyndon Johnson and his Times, 1961–1973 (New York:
Oxford University Press, 1998) •
An Unfinished Life: John F. Kennedy, 1917–1963 (Boston:
Little, Brown and Company, 2003) •
Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President (New York:
Oxford University Press, 2004) •
Lessons from the Lives and Times of Presidents (Richmond, Virginia:
University of Richmond, 2004) •
Let Every Nation Know: John F. Kennedy in His Own Words (with Terry Golway) (Naperville, IL:
Sourcebooks, 2006) •
Nixon and Kissinger: Partners in Power (New York:
HarperCollins, 2007) •
Harry S. Truman: The 33rd President, 1945-1953 (
Times Books, 2008) •
The Lost Peace: Leadership in a Time of Horror and Hope, 1945–1953 (
HarperCollins, 2010) Review in
Foreign Affairs • ''Camelot's Court: Inside the Kennedy White House'' (New York:
HarperCollins, 2013) •
Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Political Life (New York:
Viking, 2017)
Journal articles • "Franklin Roosevelt as world leader".
The American Historical Review,
76 (1971): 1503–1513. • "National mood and American foreign policy: a suggestive essay".
American Quarterly,
34 (1982): 229–261. • "Lyndon Johnson and Vietnam: the making of a tragedy".
Diplomatic History,
20 (1996): 147. • "Tales of the tapes".
Reviews in American History,
26 (1998): 333–338. • "John F. Kennedy's Civil Rights Quandary". American History 38.3 (2003): 36.
Essays in edited volumes •
American perceptions of the Soviet Union, in Abbott Gleason (ed.),
Cold War-Cold Peace: Soviet American Relations, 1933–1983 (Boston: Beacon Press, 1975) • 'Triumphant America in a shaken world', in Sanford J. Ungar (ed.),
Estrangement: America and the World(New York: Oxford University Press, 1985) •
When Presidents Become Weak, in Walter Isaacson (ed.),
Profiles in Leadership: Historians on the Elusive Quality of Greatness (New York:
W. W. Norton & Company, 2011) ==TV appearances==