Uptown: Poor Whites in Chicago [with Nanci Hollander] (essay) 1970

Campfires of the Resistance: Poetry from the Movement [editor] (poetry) 1971

Busy Being Born (poetry) 1974

The Whole World Is Watching: Mass Media in the Making and Unmaking of the New Left (history) 1980

Inside Prime Time (criticism) 1983

Watching Television [editor and contributor] (essays) 1986

The Sixties: Years of Hope, Days of Rage (history) 1987

The Murder of Albert Einstein (novel) 1992

The War Within: America's Battle over Vietnam [with Tom Wells] (history) 1994

The Twilight of Common Dreams: Why America Is Wracked by Culture Wars (criticism) 1995

Sacrifice (novel) 1999

Media Unlimited: How the Torrent of Images and Sounds Overwhelms Our Lives (criticism) 2002

Letters to a Young Activist (essays) 2003