US Founding Fathers (nonfiction)
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The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America
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Kostya Kennedy
4.01 avg rating — 881 ratings 5. 
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
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Joseph J. Ellis
3.95 avg rating — 46,970 ratings 6. 
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
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Joseph J. Ellis
3.94 avg rating — 28,832 ratings 7. 
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
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Joseph J. Ellis
4.15 avg rating — 6,622 ratings 8. 
Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves
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Henry Wiencek
3.98 avg rating — 815 ratings 
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Founding Martyr: The Life and Death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's Lost Hero 4.16 avg rating — 490 ratings
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Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge 3.83 avg rating — 10,181 ratings
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The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
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H.W. Brands
4.11 avg rating — 22,671 ratings 20. 
The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation 4.06 avg rating — 384 ratings
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Washington's General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution
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Terry Golway
4.12 avg rating — 548 ratings 24. 
Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams
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Joseph J. Ellis
4.06 avg rating — 3,093 ratings 
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Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution 3.88 avg rating — 305 ratings
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Jefferson's America: The President, the Purchase, and the Explorers Who Transformed a Nation
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Julie M. Fenster
3.87 avg rating — 315 ratings 28. 
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America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation
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Kenneth C. Davis
3.56 avg rating — 2,597 ratings 33. 
War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel that Stunned the Nation
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John Sedgwick
3.91 avg rating — 713 ratings 34. 
Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination 3.75 avg rating — 751 ratings
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Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different
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Gordon S. Wood
3.97 avg rating — 4,063 ratings 
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Agony and Eloquence: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and a World of Revolution 3.80 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Suspected of Independence: The Life of Thomas McKean, America’s First Power Broker
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David McKean
3.76 avg rating — 25 ratings 36. 
George Washington, Entrepreneur: How Our Founding Father's Private Business Pursuits Changed America and the World
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John Berlau
3.71 avg rating — 136 ratings 36. 
You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
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Alexis Coe
3.74 avg rating — 14,284 ratings 36. 
Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations
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Craig Nelson
3.95 avg rating — 1,977 ratings 
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Faith of Our Founding Father: The Spiritual Journey of George Washington 3.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty
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John M. Barry
4.24 avg rating — 1,089 ratings 
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American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America
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David O. Stewart
3.92 avg rating — 624 ratings 
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To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders
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Bernard Bailyn
3.69 avg rating — 358 ratings 47. 
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American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans
by:
Eve LaPlante
3.59 avg rating — 1,741 ratings 47. 
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
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Ibram X. Kendi
4.56 avg rating — 10,760 ratings 47. 
The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemings: An American Controversy really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 768 ratings
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The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President
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Noah Feldman
4.18 avg rating — 1,073 ratings 
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Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution 3.82 avg rating — 418 ratings
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The Real George Washington (American Classic Series)
by:
Jay A. Parry
4.36 avg rating — 1,971 ratings 61. 
Where the Cherry Tree Grew: The Story of Ferry Farm, George Washington’s Boyhood Home
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Philip Levy
3.71 avg rating — 79 ratings 61. 
We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy 4.40 avg rating — 207 ratings
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The Essential Hamilton: Letters & Other Writings: A Library of America Special Publication 4.12 avg rating — 78 ratings
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The Making of America: The Substance and Meaning of the Constitution
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W. Cleon Skousen
4.39 avg rating — 741 ratings 69. 
The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders' Cure for Royalism
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John Nichols
3.58 avg rating — 43 ratings 71. 
Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution
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Mark Puls
4.16 avg rating — 435 ratings 71. 
The Life and Times of General Andrew Pickens: Revolutionary War Hero, American Founder
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Rod Andrew Jr.
4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings 
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A Nation Rising: Untold Tales of Flawed Founders, Fallen Heroes, and Forgotten Fighters from America's Hidden History
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Kenneth C. Davis
3.63 avg rating — 672 ratings 75. 
Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution 3.40 avg rating — 50 ratings
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A Sacred Union of Citizens: George Washington's Farewell Address and the American Character
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Matthew Spalding
3.96 avg rating — 26 ratings 75. 
Oglethorpe in Perspective : Georgia's Founder after Two Hundred Years
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Phinizy Spalding
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 78. 
"Ye Will Say I Am No Christian": The Thomas Jefferson/John Adams Correspondence on Religion, Morals, and Values
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Bruce Braden
4.18 avg rating — 38 ratings 
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Discovering Hamilton: New Discoveries in the Lives of Alexander Hamilton, His Family, Friends, and Colleagues, From Various Archives Around the World really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Father of Liberty: Jonathan Mayhew and the Principles of the American Revolution 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Hamilton Collection: The Wisdom and Writings of the Founding Father
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Dan Tucker
3.59 avg rating — 54 ratings 81. 
James Edward Oglethorpe: A New Look at Georgia's Founder
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Phinizy Spalding
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 85. 
Oglethorpe in Perspective: Georgia's Founder after Two Hundred Years
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Phinizy Spalding
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings 86. 
David Brearley and the Making of the United States Constitution
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Donald Scarinci
3.50 avg rating — 2 ratings 86. 
Button Gwinnett: Failed Merchant, Plantation Owner, Mountebank, Opportunist Politician and Founding Father 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Sex and the Founding Fathers: The American Quest for a Relatable Past
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Thomas A. Foster
3.48 avg rating — 82 ratings 88. 
Fighting over the Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution 3.71 avg rating — 52 ratings
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American Connections: The Founding Fathers. Networked.
by:
James Burke
3.41 avg rating — 118 ratings 91. 
No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding, With a New Preface
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Sean Wilentz
3.92 avg rating — 180 ratings 
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Rush: Revolution, Madness, and the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
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Stephen Fried
4.29 avg rating — 1,213 ratings 95. 
Revolutionary Deists: Early America's Rational Infidels
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Kerry Walters
3.94 avg rating — 35 ratings 95. 
Thomas Jefferson's Creme Brulee: How a Founding Father and His Slave James Hemings Introduced French Cuisine to America 3.50 avg rating — 929 ratings
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Alexander Hamilton: The Graphic History of an American Founding Father 3.47 avg rating — 727 ratings
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First Founding Father: Richard Henry Lee and the Call to Independence 3.93 avg rating — 108 ratings
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The Trials of Phillis Wheatley: America's First Black Poet and Her Encounters with the Founding Fathers 3.95 avg rating — 459 ratings
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Revolutionary Medicine: The Founding Fathers and Mothers in Sickness and in Health
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Jeanne E. Abrams
3.72 avg rating — 149 ratings