Essays

Lies My Mother Never Told Me (A Memoir)

An Accidental Sportswriter (A Memoir)

The Fine Wisdom and Perfect Teachings of the Kings of Rock and Roll (A Memoir)

The Thoreau You Don't Know (The Father of Nature Writers on the Importance of Cities, Finance, and Fooling Around)

Out of the Woods (A Memoir of Wayfinding)

Straw (Finding My Way)

Atlantic (Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories)

The Best of Friends (Martha and Me)

Flyaway (How a Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings)

Reggie Jackson (The Life and Thunderous Career of Baseball's Mr. October)

Testimony (France, Europe, and the World in the Twenty-First Century)

Here's the Story (Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice)

Yankee for Life (My 40-Year Journey in Pinstripes)

Deal with the Devil (The FBI's Secret Thirty-Year Relationship with a Mafia Killer)

She-Wolves (The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth)

Whispers from God (A Life Beyond Imaginings)

Abigail and John (Portrait of a Marriage)

From Every End of This Earth (13 Families and the New Lives They Made in America)

Bloody Crimes (The Funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the Chase for Jefferson Davis)

Masters and Commanders (How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945)

The Girl I Left Behind (A Personal History of the 1960s)

Romo (My Life on the Edge: Living Dreams and Slaying Dragons)

Heroes (From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle)

Gilded Lily (Lily Safra: The Making of One of the World's Wealthiest Widows)

100 Ways America Is Screwing Up the World

Happy Birthday or Whatever (Track Suits, Kim Chee, and Other Family Disasters)

Symptoms of Withdrawal (A Memoir of Snapshots and Redemption)

Manning (A Father, His Sons and a Football Legacy)

Stupid White Men (...And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!)

Sounds of the River (A Young Man's University Days in Beijing)

The Making of a Philosopher (My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy)

A Different Drummer (My Thirty Years with Ronald Reagan)

Singing My Him Song

Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt (The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age)

My Lives (A Memoir)

The Washington Century (Three Families and the Shaping of the Nation's Capital)

One Matchless Time (A Life of William Faulkner)

In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs (A Memoir of Iran)

Malory (The Knight Who Became King Arthur's Chronicler)

Old Man in a Baseball Cap (A Memoir of World War II)

Contrabando (Confessions of a Drug-Smuggling Texas Cowboy)

Labels for Locals (What to Call People from Abilene to Zimbabwe)

Mad World (Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead)

Conservatize Me (A Lifelong Lefty's Attempt to Love God, Guns, Reagan, and Toby Keith)

Wins, Losses, and Lessons (An Autobiography)

The Awful Truths (Famous Myths, Hilariously Debunked)

I Am Not Myself These Days (A Memoir)

Because He Could

Lies My Mother Never Told Me (A Memoir)

An Accidental Sportswriter (A Memoir)

The Fine Wisdom and Perfect Teachings of the Kings of Rock and Roll (A Memoir)

The Thoreau You Don't Know (The Father of Nature Writers on the Importance of Cities, Finance, and Fooling Around)

Out of the Woods (A Memoir of Wayfinding)

Straw (Finding My Way)

Atlantic (Great Sea Battles, Heroic Discoveries, Titanic Storms, and a Vast Ocean of a Million Stories)

The Best of Friends (Martha and Me)

Flyaway (How a Wild Bird Rehabber Sought Adventure and Found Her Wings)

Reggie Jackson (The Life and Thunderous Career of Baseball's Mr. October)

Testimony (France, Europe, and the World in the Twenty-First Century)

Here's the Story (Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice)

Yankee for Life (My 40-Year Journey in Pinstripes)

Deal with the Devil (The FBI's Secret Thirty-Year Relationship with a Mafia Killer)

She-Wolves (The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth)

Whispers from God (A Life Beyond Imaginings)

Abigail and John (Portrait of a Marriage)

From Every End of This Earth (13 Families and the New Lives They Made in America)

Bloody Crimes (The Funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the Chase for Jefferson Davis)

Masters and Commanders (How Four Titans Won the War in the West, 1941-1945)

The Girl I Left Behind (A Personal History of the 1960s)

Romo (My Life on the Edge: Living Dreams and Slaying Dragons)

Heroes (From Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar to Churchill and de Gaulle)

Gilded Lily (Lily Safra: The Making of One of the World's Wealthiest Widows)

100 Ways America Is Screwing Up the World

Happy Birthday or Whatever (Track Suits, Kim Chee, and Other Family Disasters)

Symptoms of Withdrawal (A Memoir of Snapshots and Redemption)

Manning (A Father, His Sons and a Football Legacy)

Stupid White Men (...And Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!)

Sounds of the River (A Young Man's University Days in Beijing)

The Making of a Philosopher (My Journey Through Twentieth-Century Philosophy)

A Different Drummer (My Thirty Years with Ronald Reagan)

Singing My Him Song

Consuelo and Alva Vanderbilt (The Story of a Daughter and a Mother in the Gilded Age)

My Lives (A Memoir)

The Washington Century (Three Families and the Shaping of the Nation's Capital)

One Matchless Time (A Life of William Faulkner)

In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs (A Memoir of Iran)

Malory (The Knight Who Became King Arthur's Chronicler)

Old Man in a Baseball Cap (A Memoir of World War II)

Contrabando (Confessions of a Drug-Smuggling Texas Cowboy)

Labels for Locals (What to Call People from Abilene to Zimbabwe)

Mad World (Evelyn Waugh and the Secrets of Brideshead)

Conservatize Me (A Lifelong Lefty's Attempt to Love God, Guns, Reagan, and Toby Keith)

Wins, Losses, and Lessons (An Autobiography)

The Awful Truths (Famous Myths, Hilariously Debunked)

I Am Not Myself These Days (A Memoir)

Because He Could