Books
- Beloved Friend: The Story of Tchaikowsky and Nadejda Von Meck (1937)
- Free artist: The story of Anton and Nicholas Rubinstein (1939)
- Yankee from Olympus: Justice Holmes and His Family (1944)
- The Lion and the Throne: The Life and Times of Sir Edward Coke (1957)
- Adventures of a Biographer (1959)
- Francis Bacon: The Temper of a Man (1963)
- Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787 (1966), which is #54 on list of books in the most number of American Libraries.
- John Adams and the American Revolution
- Bernard DeVoto: Historian, critic, and fighter
- The Most Dangerous Man in America: Scenes from the Life of Benjamin Franklin
- Family Portrait
- Story of the oak tree
- Lord of the law
- A History of Lehigh University
- Biography: The Craft and the Calling (1968)
- The writing of biography
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“Books are fatal: they are the curse of the human race. Nine- tenths of existing books are nonsense, and the clever books are the refutation of that nonsense. The greatest misfortune that ever befell man was the invention of printing.”
—Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881)
“Avoid all kinds of pleasantry and facetiousness in thy discourse with her, and ... suffer her not to look into Rabelais, or Scarron, or Don Quixote—
MThey are all books which excite laughter; and ... there is no passion so serious, as lust.”
—Laurence Sterne (1713–1768)
“The books we think we ought to read are poky, dull, and dry;
The books that we would like to read we are ashamed to buy;
The books that people talk about we never can recall;
And the books that people give us, oh, they’re the worst of all.”
—Carolyn Wells (1870–1942)