[15] Following Hurricane Katrina, he appeared on CNN and National Public Radio and was quoted by a number of national publications, including The New York Times, for his writings on American and European urban disasters, including the Great Chicago Fire and the destruction of cities in Japan and Germany during World War II.
Supreme City: How Jazz Age Manhattan Gave Birth to Modern America (The Washington Post, 2014): Supreme City charts Manhattan’s growth and transformation in the 1920s and the brilliant people behind it, from Walter Chrysler to founder of the CBS network William Paley and his rival, founder of NBC, David Sarnoff as well as Elizabeth Arden, her rival, Helena Rubenstein, and more.
As mass communication emerged, the city moved from downtown to midtown through a series of engineering triumphs such as the Grand Central Terminal and the newly chic Park Avenue it created.
He follows Chicago's wild beginnings, its reckless growth, its natural calamities (especially the Great Fire of 1871), its raucous politics, its empire-building businessmen, its world-transforming architecture, its rich mix of cultures, its community of young writers and journalists, and its staggering engineering projects—which included the reversal of the Chicago River and raising the entire city from prairie mud to save it from devastating cholera epidemics.
[21] NME reported in March 2017 that production was progressing under the working title The Mighty Eighth and writers were scouting filming locations in England.
Based on eyewitness accounts by the combatants, it covers the entire Pacific struggle from the attack on Pearl Harbor to the dropping of atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
[25] The Story of World War II with Henry Steele Commager (Simon & Schuster, 2001): Drawing on previously unpublished eyewitness accounts, Miller covers the horror and heroism of World War II in the words of the men who fought it, the journalists who covered it, and the civilians who were caught in its fury.
He was a resident scholar at All Souls College, Oxford, and was also named the Crayenborgh Lecturer at Leiden University, Netherlands.