Lincoln and Chief Justice Taney: Slavery, Secession, and the President’s War Powers, (Simon & Schuster, 2006).

 

What Kind of Nation: Thomas Jefferson, John Marshall, and the Epic Struggle to Create a United States, (Simon & Schuster, 2002); paperback edition (2003).

 

The Center Holds: The Power Struggle Inside the Rehnquist Court, (Simon & Schuster, 1995); paperback edition (Touchstone, Simon & Schuster, 1996).

 

The Antagonists: Hugo Black, Felix Frankfurter and Civil Liberties in Modern America (Simon & Schuster, 1989) first; (Touchstone, Simon & Schuster, 1990).

 

Independent Journey: The Life of William O. Douglas, (Harper & Row, 1980; paperback edition, Penguin, 1981).

 

The Judge, (D. McKay, 1976).

 

In His Own Image: The Supreme Court in Richard Nixon’s America, (D. McKay, 1973; paperback edition, D. McKay, 1974).

 

“The Center Holds,” Chapter 46 in The Lanahan Readings in the American Polity, 2nd ed., at 311–319 (A.G. Serow & E.C. Ladd, eds., Lanahan Publishers, 2000).

 

“William O. Douglas,” Chapter 13 in The Warren Court: A Retrospective at 211–223 (B. Schwartz, ed., Oxford University Press, 1996).

 

“Judging the Justices” (Book reviews of Roger K. Newman’s Hugo Black: A Biography and John C. Jeffries’s Jr. Justice Lewis F. Powell Jr.), 49 Stanford Law Review 173–180 (1996).

 

“Solomon Lecture: Politics and the Rehnquist Court,” 40 New York Law School Law Review 863–875 (1996).

 

Afterward: “Dialogue on the Solomon Lecture: Politics and the Rehnquist Court,” 40 New York Law School Law Review 1013–1022 (1996).

 

Foreword (New York Law School Centennial Conference in Honor of Justice John Marshall Harlan), 36 New York Law School Law Review 1–4 (1991).

 

“Making a Federal Case,” Book Review of Garry Will’s James Madison, The New York Times (Book Review Desk) April 21, 2002, at 22, reprinted as "The Disappointing Presidency of James Madison," 148 Chicago Daily Law Bulletin 2, 24 (May 2, 2002).

 

“William O. Douglas.” Entry in The Oxford Companion to United States History, at 192–193 (P.S. Boyer, ed.) Oxford University Press, 2001.

 

“Once a Crusader: Whether Mediating Strikes for Woodrow Wilson or Championing the Least Popular of Defendants, Felix Frankfurter was Bound by Neither Court nor Classroom” The American Lawyer, December 2000, at 21.

 

Transcript: “Commentary on Panel Discussions” (Symposium: National Conference on Judicial Biography), 70 New York University Law Review 556, at 565, 743, 804 (1996).

 

“Biographer’s Notes on Justice Douglas,” 201 New York Law Journal 2 (May 5, 1989).

 

“Conflict and Leadership, The U.S. Supreme Court from Marshall to Rehnquist,” 53 Vital Speeches of the Day 44–48 (1986) (Delivered at the John Marshall Lecture, Franklin and Marshall College).

 

“Justice Potter Stewart: The Early Years (excerpt from In His Own Image—The Supreme Court in Richard Nixon’s America),” 94 Los Angeles Daily Journal 4 (June 24, 1981).