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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Famous quotes containing the word books:
“They lard their lean books with the fat of others’ works.”
—Robert Burton (1577–1640)
“Indeed, the best books have a use, like sticks and stones, which is above or beside their design, not anticipated in the preface, not concluded in the appendix. Even Virgil’s poetry serves a very different use to me today from what it did to his contemporaries. It has often an acquired and accidental value merely, proving that man is still man in the world.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“For books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay, they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them. I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon’s teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men.”
—John Milton (1608–1674)