Books
- Discovering Modernism: T. S. Eliot and his Context, 1987, New York: Oxford University Press
- The Future of Academic Freedom, (editor), 1996, Chicago: U of Chicago Press
- Pragmatism: A Reader, (editor), 1997, New York: Vintage
- The Metaphysical Club: A Story of Ideas in America, 2001, New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, ISBN 0-374-19963-9 (hardcover), ISBN 0-374-52849-7 (paperback)
- American Studies, 2002, New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, ISBN 0-374-10434-4 (hardcover)
- The Marketplace of Ideas, 2010, New York: W. W. Norton, ISBN 978-0-393-06275-5
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