US Founding Fathers (nonfiction)
100. 
The Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution
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Founding Fathers
4.44 avg rating — 26,984 ratings 102. 
Forgotten Founder, Drunken Prophet: The Life of Luther Martin
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Bill Kauffman
3.76 avg rating — 46 ratings 
102. 
Revolutionary Dissent: How the Founding Generation Created the Freedom of Speech 3.78 avg rating — 27 ratings
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We the People: The Modern-Day Figures Who Have Reshaped and Affirmed the Founding Fathers' Vision of America
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Juan Williams
3.81 avg rating — 161 ratings 
107. 
Washington's Farewell: The Founding Father's Warning to Future Generations
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John P. Avlon
4.20 avg rating — 932 ratings 107. 
The Founding of New Acadia: The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765–1803 3.80 avg rating — 69 ratings
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The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture
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Joshua Kendall
3.50 avg rating — 678 ratings 113. 
American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
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Jon Meacham
3.86 avg rating — 3,137 ratings 114. 
The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness 3.93 avg rating — 10,716 ratings
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Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy
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Ian W. Toll
4.38 avg rating — 7,477 ratings 
117. 
THE JEFFERSON BIBLE What Thomas Jefferson Selected as The Life and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth
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Thomas Jefferson
3.88 avg rating — 2,753 ratings 118. 
The Price of Greatness: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy
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Jay Cost
3.70 avg rating — 234 ratings 
118. 
The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government 4.20 avg rating — 626 ratings
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I Am Murdered: George Wythe, Thomas Jefferson, and the Killing That Shocked a New Nation
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Bruce Chadwick
3.36 avg rating — 395 ratings 121. 
Madison's Gift: Five Partnerships That Built America
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David O. Stewart
4.07 avg rating — 645 ratings 124. 
Sacred Scripture, Sacred War: The Bible and the American Revolution
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James P. Byrd
3.90 avg rating — 100 ratings 124. 
Thomas Jefferson's Ethics and the Politics of Human Progress: The Morality of a Slaveholder
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Ari Helo
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating 
127. 
Dr. Benjamin Rush: The Founding Father Who Healed a Wounded Nation 4.12 avg rating — 186 ratings
127. 
The Great Divide: The Conflict between Washington and Jefferson that Defined a Nation
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Thomas Fleming
3.93 avg rating — 410 ratings 127. 
Apostles of Revolution: Jefferson, Paine, Monroe and the Struggle Against the Old Order in America and Europe
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John Ferling
3.81 avg rating — 63 ratings 130. 
Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy: How Hamilton's Merchant Class Lost Out to the Agrarian South
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Charles A. Beard
3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings 
130. 
Collected Writings: Common Sense / The Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / Pamphlets, Articles, and Letters
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Thomas Paine
4.26 avg rating — 1,722 ratings 133. 
Interview in Weehawken: The Burr-Hamilton Duel as Told in the Original Documents
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Harold C Syrett
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 133. 
The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government 4.20 avg rating — 626 ratings
133. 
Publicola: Observations on Paine's Rights of Man in a series of letters 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings
136. 
Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America
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Jack N. Rakove
3.92 avg rating — 1,429 ratings 136. 
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography (Books That Changed the World) 3.99 avg rating — 2,876 ratings
139. 
Alexander Hamilton: The Graphic History of an American Founding Father 3.47 avg rating — 727 ratings
139. 
Adopted Son: Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship that Saved the Revolution
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David A. Clary
3.96 avg rating — 362 ratings 139. 
The Court-Martial of Paul Revere: A Son of Liberty and America's Forgotten Military Disaster 3.76 avg rating — 123 ratings
142. 
The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 74 ratings
142. 
Blood of Tyrants: George Washington & the Forging of the Presidency
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Logan Beirne
4.11 avg rating — 269 ratings 
145. 
The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy
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Thomas K. McCraw
4.05 avg rating — 203 ratings 145. 
The Patriots: Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the Making of America
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Winston Groom
4.10 avg rating — 501 ratings 
150. 
The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics 4.03 avg rating — 337 ratings
153. 
Washington's God: Religion, Liberty, and the Father of Our Country
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Michael Novak
3.85 avg rating — 94 ratings 153. 
Mr. Adams's Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress
by:
Joseph Wheelan
4.21 avg rating — 2,286 ratings 156. 
Revolutionary Spirits: The Enlightened Faith of America's Founding Fathers
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Gary Kowalski
3.78 avg rating — 46 ratings 156. 
American Phoenix: John Quincy and Louisa Adams, the War of 1812, and the Exile that Saved American Independence 3.81 avg rating — 194 ratings
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Robert Morris: Financier of the American Revolution
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Charles Rappleye
4.03 avg rating — 197 ratings 161. 
Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant's Search for Her Family's Lasting Legacy 4.03 avg rating — 358 ratings
163. 
An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America
by:
Henry Wiencek
4.03 avg rating — 1,015 ratings 
165. 
Robert Morris's Folly: The Architectural and Financial Failures of an American Founder (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History)
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Ryan K. Smith
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings 165. 
Jefferson's Daughters: Three Sisters, White and Black, in a Young America 3.59 avg rating — 3,023 ratings
167. 
Slavery and the Democratic Conscience: Political Life in Jeffersonian America
by:
Padraig Riley
3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings 168. 
Economic Origins of Jeffersonian Democracy: How Hamilton's Merchant Class Lost Out to the Agrarian South
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Charles A. Beard
3.67 avg rating — 15 ratings 169. 
Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation
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Andrea Wulf
4.01 avg rating — 1,821 ratings 169. 
Jefferson's Poplar Forest: Unearthing a Virginia Plantation
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Barbara J. Heath
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings 171. 
Written Out of History: The Forgotten Founders Who Fought Big Government
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Mike Lee
4.06 avg rating — 679 ratings 171. 
Hidden Lives: The Archaeology of Slave Life at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest
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Barbara J. Heath
3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings 
174. 
The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson & Abigail & John Adams 4.28 avg rating — 1,222 ratings
174. 
Kindred Spirits: Thomas Jefferson and Aeschylus
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C. Barry Buckley
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating 176. 
The Pirate Coast: Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines & the Secret Mission of 1805
by:
Richard Zacks
3.86 avg rating — 2,350 ratings 177. 
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Rot, Riot, and Rebellion: Mr. Jefferson's Struggle to Save the University That Changed America
by:
Rex Bowman
3.87 avg rating — 90 ratings 182. 
Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolution
by:
John Ferling
4.11 avg rating — 191 ratings 182. 
Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry That Forged a Nation
by:
John Ferling
3.94 avg rating — 1,279 ratings 
184. 
Thomas Jefferson: Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Everything
by:
Maira Kalman
4.05 avg rating — 801 ratings 186. 
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War that Changed American History
by:
Brian Kilmeade
3.80 avg rating — 16,605 ratings 187. 
188. 
The Founding Fathers and the Debate over Religion in Revolutionary America: A History in Documents
by:
Matthew Harris
4.10 avg rating — 42 ratings 
190. 
Patriots: The Men Who Started The American Revolution
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A.J. Langguth
4.23 avg rating — 1,630 ratings 
192. 
The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America's Newfound Sovereignty
by:
William Hogeland
3.67 avg rating — 1,036 ratings 193. 
Desperate Sons: Samuel Adams, Patrick Henry, John Hancock, and the Secret Bands of Radicals Who Led the Colonies to War
by:
Les Standiford
3.78 avg rating — 225 ratings 
196. 
The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution
by:
David O. Stewart
4.04 avg rating — 2,566 ratings 
199. 
The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
by:
Brad Meltzer
3.82 avg rating — 13,575 ratings