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The Notorious Benedict Arnold: A True Story of Adventure, Heroism & Treachery
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Include books by the same authorWashington: A Life
Ron Chernow · 928 pages
In this work, the author, a biographer provides a portrait of the father of our nation, dashing forever the stereotype of a stolid, unemotional man, and revealing an astute and surprising portrait of a canny political genius who knew how to inspire people.
Treacherous Beauty: Peggy Shippen, the Woman behind Benedict Arnold's Plot to Betray America
Stephen H. Case, Mark Jacob · 288 pages
Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
Cokie Roberts · 359 pages
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Cokie Roberts comes New York Times bestseller Founding Mothers, an intimate and illuminating look at the fervently patriotic and passionate women whose tireless pursuits on behalf of their families–and their country–proved just as crucial to the forging of a new nation as the rebellion that established it. While much has been written about the men who sign
First Family: Abigail and John Adams
Joseph J. Ellis · 299 pages
John and Abigail Adams left a remarkable portrait of their lives together in their personal correspondence: both were prolific letter writers (although John conceded that Abigail was the more gifted), and over the years they exchanged more than twelve hundred letters. Joseph J. Ellis distills them to give us an account both intimate and panoramic; part biography, part political history, and part l
John Adams
David McCullough · 751 pages
In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second President of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all but
Washington: The Indispensable Man
James Thomas Flexner · 425 pages
A "distillation" of the author's fourvolume work on the life of the first president of the United States.
And Then What Happened, Paul Revere?
Jean Fritz · 45 pages
Describes some of the well-known as well as the lesser-known details of Paul Revere's life and exciting ride.
Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
Sarah Vowell · 288 pages
On August 16, 1824, an elderly French gentlemen sailed into New York Harbor and giddy Americans were there to welcome him. Or, rather, to welcome him back. It had been 30 years since the Revolutionary War hero the Marquis de Lafayette had last set foot in the United States, and he was so beloved that 80,000 people showed up to cheer for him. The entire population of New York at the time was 120,00
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
Gordon S. Wood · 299 pages
"Central to America's idea of itself is the character of Benjamin Franklin. We all know him, or think we do: in recent works and in our inherited conventional wisdom, he remains fixed in place as a genial polymath and self-improver who was so very American that he is known by us all as "the first American."" "The problem with this beloved notion of Franklin's quintessential Americanness, Gordon Wo
Those Rebels, John and Tom
Barbara Kerley
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were very different. John was short and stout. Tom was tall and lean. John was argumentative and blunt. Tom was soft-spoken and polite. John sometimes got along with almost no one. Tom got along with just about everyone. But these two very different gentlemen did have two things in common: they both cared deeply about the American colonies, and neither cared much fo
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
H.W. Brands · 784 pages
The Real George Washington
Jay A. Parry, Andrew M. Allison, W. Cleon Skousen
George Washington: The Founding Father
Paul Johnson
Signing Their Lives Away
Denise Kiernan, Joseph D'Agnese · 271 pages
Introduces readers to the lives of the fifty-six men who signed the Declaration of Independence, describing who they were, their professions, and how their lives changed in the years that followed.
Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution
Nathaniel Philbrick · 636 pages
From the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea, winner of the National Book Award, comes a surprising account of the middle years of the American Revolution and the tragic relationship between George Washington and Benedict Arnold.
Uniting The States
Brian Kilmeade
A co-host of “Fox & Friends” portrays contributions made by six key people around the time of the formation of our country.
Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations
Craig Nelson · 424 pages
A fresh new look at the Enlightenment intellectual who became the most controversial of America's founding fathersDespite his being a founder of both the United States and the French Republic, the creator of the phrase "United States of America," and the author of Common Sense, Thomas Paine is the least well known of America's founding fathers. This edifying biography by Craig Nelson traces Paine'
Patriots: The Men Who Started The American Revolution
A.J. Langguth · 640 pages
A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America
Stacy Schiff · 508 pages
Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr
Nancy Isenberg · 540 pages
This definitive biography of the revolutionary era villain overturns every myth and image we have of him. The narrative of America's founding is filled with godlike geniuses—Franklin, Washington, Adams, Jefferson—versus the villainous Aaron Burr. Generations have been told Burr was a betrayer—of Hamilton, of his country, of those who had nobler ideas. All untrue. He did not turn on Hamilton; rathe
Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America
Jack N. Rakove · 487 pages
"Jack Rakove offers a new and revealing perspective on the men who invented America. Much has been written about the military struggle that led to independence, but Rakove is far more concerned with the intellectual one: the competing views of politics, war, diplomacy and society that shaped the very idea of an American nation. Spanning the most crucial decades of the country's birth, from 1772 to
Paul Revere's Ride
David Hackett Fischer · 445 pages
Paul Revere's midnight ride looms as an almost mythical event in American history—yet it has been largely ignored by scholars and left to patriotic writers and debunkers. Now one of the foremost American historians offers the first full-scalehistory of this monumental event. In Paul Revere's Ride, David Hackett Fischer fashions an exciting narrative that offers deep insight into the outbreak
Hamilton: The Revolution
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jeremy McCarter · 287 pages
Offers a behind-the-scenes view of Hamilton the musical, detailing the many dramatic episodes in Alexander Hamilton's life.