Andrew Carnegie (Penguin
Press, 2006).
Andrew Carnegie: The ‘Gospel of Wealth’ Essays and Other Writings, editor (Penguin Classics, 2006).
The Chief: Life and Times of William Randolph
Hearst (Houghton Mifflin, 2000).
Going Out: The Rise and Fall of Public Amusements
(Basic Books, 1993).
The Course of United States History, vols. I-II, editor (Wadsworth, 1987).
Children of the City: At Work and at Play (Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1985; Oxford University
Press, 1986).
Schooled to Order: A Social History of Public
Schooling in United States (Oxford University
Press, 1979, 1980).
Starting Your Own High School, editor (Random House, 1972).
Articles, Reviews,
Essays:
“Introduction” to AHR Roundtable: Historians and Biography, American Historical Review, June, 2009.
“A Violent Regeneration,” American Prospect, June, 2009.
“Here comes the Bogeyman: a chaotic portrait of Rupert Murdoch and his discontents,” Columbia Journalism Review, January 1, 2009.
“Scandal in Pittsburgh,” London Review of Books, July 19, 2007.
“Looking the Carnegie Gift Horse in the Mouth: The 19th Century Critique of Big Philanthropy,” Slate, November 10, 2006
“American Moguls: Biographies of Business Titans,” Wall Street Review (July 15, 2006)
“Everyone, Then No One,” London Review of Books (February 23, 2006)
“Popular Culture,” in “America Unabridged,” American Heritage (December, 2004)
“How do you like the Journal’s War?” Biblion VII, no. 2 (Spring, 1999).
“Earthly Delights,” New Yorker, March 23, 1998.
“Youse an yer Noble Scrap: On Strike With the Newsboy Legion, 1899,” in “Big Town, Big Time: a New York Epic, 1898-1998,” New York Daily News, March 3, 1998.
"Teaching Cultural History to Graduate Students," Radical History Review (Fall, 1996)
“The Champagne Safari: The Life and Times of Charles Bedaux,” New York Times: Arts and Leisure Section (November 3, 1996).
“One Big Spender: William Randolph Hearst and San Simeon,” Condé Nast Traveler 31 (September, 1996).
"The Birth of the Movies," American Heritage (November, 1993).
"Culture and Class," Dissent (Winter, 1987).
"Dirty-Faced Davids and the Twin Goliaths," American Heritage (April/May, 1985).
"Promise and Performance of Vocational Schooling: An Essay Review," Harvard Educational Review 54, no. 2 (May, 1984).
with Barbara Ehrenreich, "Kids as Consumers and Commodities," Nation (May 14, 1983), reprinted in Generations: A Universal Family Album, Smithsonian Institution, 1987.
"From Inquiétude to Revolution," Journal of Contemporary History 11, nos. 2,3 (July, 1976).
Articles and/or chapters in multi-authored collections
“Gilded Age Gospels,” in Ruling America: A History of Wealth and Power in a Democracy, edited by Steve Fraser & Gary Gerstle, Harvard University Press, 2005.
“It Begins With the Lights: Electrification and the Rise of Public Entertainment," in On the Edge of Your Seat: Popular Theater and Film in Early Twentieth-Century American Art, ed. by Patricia McDonnell, Yale University Press, 2002.
"The Marx Brothers," "The Roxy Theater," "Loew's Paradise," in Encyclopedia of New York City, edited by Kenneth T. Jackson, Yale University Press, 1994.
"Cities of Light, Landscapes of Pleasure," in Landscapes of Modernity, edited by Olivier Zunz and David Ward, Russell Sage Foundation, 1992.
"Children and Commercial Culture: Moving Pictures in the Early Twentieth Century," in Small Worlds: Childhood and Adolescence in America, edited by Paula Petrik and Elliott West, University of Kansas Press, 1992.
"The Newsies," in The Private Side of American History: Readings in Everyday Life. Vol. II, edited by Thomas R. Frazier, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987.
Book Reviews published in American Historical Review, American Studies, Boston Globe, Business History Review, Journal of American History, Journal of Social History, London Review of Books, Los Angeles Times Sunday Book Review, Nation, New York Times Book Review, Science and Society, Social Policy, Variety, Wall Street Journal and other journals and newspapers.
Op-ed articles and other opinion pieces in New York Times, The Guardian (London), Los Angeles Times, Newsday, Slate, Washington Post, Daily Beast, and other publications
