• Disturber of the Peace: The Life of H.L. Mencken (1951)

• The City of Anger (1953)
  Novel

• Shadow of the Monsoon (1956)

• Beard the Lion (1958)

• Cairo Intrigue (1959)

• A Rockefeller Family Portrait: From John D. to Nelson (1959)

• The Long Gainer (1961)
  Novel

• Portrait of a President: John F. Kennedy in Profile  (1967)

• The Death of a President: November 20-November 25 (1967)

• The Arms of Krupp: The Rise and Fall of the Industrial Dynasty that Armed Germany at War (1968)

• The Glory and the Dream: A Narrative History of America, 1932–1972 (1974)

• Controversy and Other Essays in Journalism, 1950-1975 (1976)

• American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur 1880–1964 (1978)

• On Mencken (1980)
  Essays

• Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War (1980)

• One Brief Shining Moment: Remembering Kennedy (1983)

• The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill: Visions of Glory, 1874–1932 (1983)

• The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill, Alone 1932–1940 (1988)

• In Our Time: The World As Seen by Magnum Photographers (1989)

• A World Lit Only by Fire: The Medieval Mind & the Renaissance – Portrait of an Age (1992)

See also:

• No End Save Victory: Perspectives on World War II (2001) by Robert Cowley
  Essays by Caleb Carr, David Glantz, George Feifer, John Keegan, Stanley Weintraub, Stephen E. Ambrose, W.A.B. Douglas, William Manchester, and William H. Whyte