Selected Works
- Why Things Are (1991), ISBN 978-0-345-36224-7
- It Looks Like a President Only Smaller: Trailing Campaign 2000 (2001), ISBN 978-0-7432-2348-5
- Captured by Aliens: The Search for Life and Truth in a Very Large Universe (2003), ISBN 978-0-8065-2496-2
- The Grand Idea: George Washington's Potomac and the Race to the West (2005), ISBN 978-0-7432-6300-9
- A Hole at the Bottom of the Sea: The Race to Kill the BP Oil Gusher (2011), ISBN 978-1-4516-2534-9
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