Books
- 1962: The American Liberals and the Russian Revolution
- 1965: The New Radicalism in America 1889-1963: The Intellectual As a Social Type
- 1969: The Agony of the American Left
- 1973: The World of Nations
- 1977: Haven in a Heartless World: The Family Besieged
- 1979: The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
- 1984: The Minimal Self: Psychic Survival in Troubled Times
- 1991: The True and Only Heaven: Progress and Its Critics
- 1994: The Revolt of the Elites: And the Betrayal of Democracy
- 1997: Women and the Common Life: Love, Marriage, and Feminism
- 2002: Plain Style: A Guide to Written English
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