Books
- The Life of Politics, Methuen, 1969.
- The Kennedy Promise, Doubleday, 1973.
- The Spoiled Child of the Western World: The Miscarriage of the American Idea in Our Time, Doubleday, 1976.
- The Parties: Republicans and Democrats in This Century, St. Martin's, 1978.
- The Seven Deadly Sins Today, New Republic Books, 1978.
- Bite the Hand That Feeds You: Essays and Provocations, edited by Jeremy McCarter, Yale University Press, 2009.
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