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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