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Books
The Sparrow and the Hawk: Costa Rica and the United States During the Rise of José Figueres (1997)
In the Eagle's Shadow: The United States and Latin America (2003, 2009 2nd edition)
Senator Albert Gore Sr.: Tennessee Maverick (2004). Forward by Al Gore, Jr.
Deconstructing Reagan: Conservative Mythology and America's Fortieth President (editor and contributor, 2006)
Grunts: The American Combat Soldier in Vietnam (2008, 2nd edition, 2020)
The Morenci Marines: A Tale of Small Town America and the Vietnam War (2013)
Reagan and the World: Leadership and National Security, 1981-1989 (Co-editor with Bradley Coleman and contributor, 2017)
LBJ's 1968: Power, Politics, and the Presidency in America's Year of Upheaval (2018)
In Harm's Way: A History of the American Military Experience, (Co-author with Gene Smith and David Coffey, 2019)
"Longley has produced something all too rare in the field of military history, not only a work that focuses on the soul of warfare—the reality of young men and their lives in a brutal environment—but also a work that eloquently addresses many of the main historiographical themes of the conflict, from race, to class, to societal motivation.” Author Andrew Wiest, on The Morenci Marines
"Longley's Texas-size epic reveals the tragedy, comedy, pathos and heroism in the extraordinary events that followed that fateful year, 1968." Historian Elizabeth Cobbs, on LBJ's 1968