Works
- 1982, Voices of Protest: Huey Long, Father Coughlin, and the Great Depression —winner of the National Book Award
- 1992, The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People
- 1995, The End of Reform: New Deal Liberalism in Recession and War
- 1998, Liberalism and Its Discontents
- 2009, Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- 2010, The Publisher: Henry Luce and His American Century
- 2012, John F. Kennedy: The American Presidents Series: The 35th President, 1961-1963
- Textbooks
Brinkley has written several textbooks that are used by college and high school U.S. History classes.
- America in the Twentieth Century (1960), co-authored with Frank Freidel, with the fifth edition published in 1982 - used in college 20th Century U.S. History classes.
- American History: A Survey, originally by Current, Williams & Freidel (1961), by Brinkley in recent editions — used especially for AP U.S. History and International Baccalaureate History courses
- The Unfinished Nation: A Concise History of the American People — another AP US History text
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