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Books Like 1776

by David McCullough · about this book

Loved 1776 by David McCullough? If its nonfiction, history and american revolution hooked you, these 20 books hit the same notes — starting with The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo, My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams and King Hancock. Every pick is matched by what’s actually inside the book, not just its genre, and we skip other books by the same author so you find someone new.

What’s inside 1776: Nonfiction · History · American Revolution · Military History · Colonial History

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   The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

   Tom Reiss

   Military History · Revolution · History · Colonial History · Nonfiction

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   My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams

   Abigail Adams, John Adams

   Revolution · History · Political Biography · Presidential History · Biography

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   King Hancock

   Brooke Barbier

   Colonial History · History · Revolution · Political Biography · Nonfiction

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   A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness

   S. Nassir Ghaemi

   Political Biography · Leadership · History · Presidential History · Nonfiction

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   Spitfires

   Becky Aikman

   Military History · History · Nonfiction · Biography · Underdog

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   Intent to Destroy: Russia’s Two-Hundred-Year Quest to Dominate Ukraine

   Eugene Finkel

   History · Military History · Colonial History · Nonfiction · Revolution

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   Written in My Own Heart's Blood

   Diana Gabaldon

   American Revolution · Revolution · War Zone · Soldiers and Warfare

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   Neptune's Fortune: The Billion-Dollar Shipwreck and the Ghosts of the Spanish Empire

   Julian Sancton

   Colonial History · History · Military History · Nonfiction · Soldiers and Warfare

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   Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times

   Donald T. Phillips

   Presidential History · Political Biography · Leadership · Nonfiction · History

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    A Promised Land

    Barack Obama

    Nonfiction · Leadership · Political Biography · Presidential History · Military History

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11. 

    The Grace of Kings

    Ken Liu

    Revolution · Underdog · Soldiers and Warfare · Ensemble Cast · Leadership

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    The City-State of Boston: The Rise and Fall of an Atlantic Power, 1630–1865

    Mark Peterson

    Colonial History · History · Revolution · Nonfiction

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    Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win

    Jocko Willink, Leif Babin

    Military History · Nonfiction · Leadership · War Zone · Soldiers and Warfare

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    An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States

    Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

    Colonial History · History · Military History · Nonfiction

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    The Mexican Heartland: How Communities Shaped Capitalism, a Nation, and World History, 1500–2000

    John Tutino

    Colonial History · History · Revolution · Nonfiction

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    The 33 Strategies of War

    Robert Greene, Joost Elffers

    Military History · History · Leadership · Nonfiction

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    The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

    Ned Blackhawk

    Colonial History · History · Nonfiction · Revolution

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18. 

    Propaganda Girls: The Secret War of the Women in the OSS

    Lisa Rogak

    History · Military History · Biography · Nonfiction

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19. 

    An African American and Latinx History of the United States

    Paul Ortiz

    History · Colonial History · Revolution · Nonfiction

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    Forge

    Laurie Halse Anderson

    Revolution · War Zone · Underdog · Soldiers and Warfare · Male Lead

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