In addition to writing the first political biography of Woody Guthrie - 'Woody Guthrie, American Radical' (Illinois, 2015) - Kaufman has written a number of books on American culture: 'Singing for Peace: Antiwar Songs in American History' (with Ronald D. Cohen, Routledge, 2015), 'American Culture in the 1970s' (Edinburgh, 2009), 'The Civil War in American Culture' (Edinburgh, 2006) and 'The Comedian as Confidence Man' (Wayne State, 1997).