Books on the American Founding (nonfiction)

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John Adams
John Adams 4.08 avg rating — 373,238 ratings
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Alexander Hamilton
Alexander Hamilton 4.22 avg rating — 194,773 ratings
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1776
1776 4.10 avg rating — 243,338 ratings
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The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution 4.05 avg rating — 4,353 ratings
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The Federalist Papers
The Federalist Papers 4.10 avg rating — 41,559 ratings
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Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815
Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789-1815 4.15 avg rating — 5,430 ratings
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U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) (Books of American Wisdom)
U.S. Constitution (Saddlewire) (Books of American Wisdom) 4.52 avg rating — 27,061 ratings
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Washington: A Life
Washington: A Life 4.16 avg rating — 79,886 ratings
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Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War
Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War 3.89 avg rating — 45,338 ratings
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life 4.05 avg rating — 147,328 ratings
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Common Sense
Common Sense really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 38,565 ratings
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The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America
The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America 4.01 avg rating — 881 ratings
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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power 4.05 avg rating — 42,295 ratings
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Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution
Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution 3.97 avg rating — 1,276 ratings
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Liberation Day: Our Nation Empowered by the Constitution
Liberation Day: Our Nation Empowered by the Constitution 3.60 avg rating — 15 ratings
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The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 4.44 avg rating — 7,766 ratings
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The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675
The Barbarous Years: The Peopling of British North America: The Conflict of Civilizations, 1600-1675 3.93 avg rating — 1,081 ratings
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Miracle At Philadelphia
Miracle At Philadelphia 4.06 avg rating — 1,983 ratings
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Paul Revere's Ride
Paul Revere's Ride 4.16 avg rating — 5,030 ratings
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The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 3.94 avg rating — 8,939 ratings
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Burr
Burr 4.09 avg rating — 10,488 ratings
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The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution
The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution 4.04 avg rating — 2,566 ratings
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Alexander Hamilton, American
Alexander Hamilton, American 3.66 avg rating — 1,042 ratings
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Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic
Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic 3.89 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Chains Across the River - A Novel of the American Revolution
Chains Across the River - A Novel of the American Revolution 4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story 4.61 avg rating — 23,215 ratings
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Amendment Seventeen: A Blessing? Or a Curse?
Amendment Seventeen: A Blessing? Or a Curse? 4.58 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019 4.56 avg rating — 10,760 ratings
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Moral Minority: Our Skeptical Founding Fathers
Moral Minority: Our Skeptical Founding Fathers 3.99 avg rating — 293 ratings
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The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution
The Stamp Act Crisis: Prologue to Revolution 4.01 avg rating — 148 ratings
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Lafayette
Lafayette 4.40 avg rating — 1,281 ratings
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Washington: The Indispensable Man
Washington: The Indispensable Man 4.11 avg rating — 6,081 ratings
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Crucible of War: The Seven Year's War and the Fate of the Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
Crucible of War: The Seven Year's War and the Fate of the Empire in British North America, 1754-1766 4.19 avg rating — 4,234 ratings
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An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States
An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States 3.68 avg rating — 470 ratings
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Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams
Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams 4.06 avg rating — 3,093 ratings
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A History of the American People
A History of the American People 4.11 avg rating — 2,976 ratings
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Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson
Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson 3.57 avg rating — 1,521 ratings
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James Madison
James Madison 3.75 avg rating — 3,439 ratings
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The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates
The Anti-Federalist Papers and the Constitutional Convention Debates 4.09 avg rating — 3,659 ratings
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Knight of the Purple Ribbon
Knight of the Purple Ribbon 3.56 avg rating — 36 ratings
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This Republic: Illuminating Republican Government
This Republic: Illuminating Republican Government 4.04 avg rating — 23 ratings
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The Documentary History of the Destruction of the Gaspee.
The Documentary History of the Destruction of the Gaspee. 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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Franklin on Faith
Franklin on Faith it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Stealing God's Thunder: Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America
Stealing God's Thunder: Benjamin Franklin's Lightning Rod and the Invention of America 3.66 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Our American Awakening
Our American Awakening 3.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The First American Founder: Roger Williams and Freedom of Conscience
The First American Founder: Roger Williams and Freedom of Conscience 4.44 avg rating — 9 ratings
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American Environmental History: Part One
American Environmental History: Part One really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution
The Framers' Coup: The Making of the United States Constitution 4.40 avg rating — 392 ratings
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Hamilton: An American Biography
Hamilton: An American Biography 3.57 avg rating — 86 ratings
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The Killing of Reverend Kay: A Hidden Murder in Colonial Virginia
The Killing of Reverend Kay: A Hidden Murder in Colonial Virginia 4.14 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Constitution of the United States with Biographies of the Founding Fathers and American Presidency
The Constitution of the United States with Biographies of the Founding Fathers and American Presidency it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents
The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents 4.16 avg rating — 165 ratings
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Works of Thomas Jefferson. Including The Jefferson Bible, Autobiography and The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Illustrated), with Notes on Virginia, Parliamentary ... more.
Works of Thomas Jefferson. Including The Jefferson Bible, Autobiography and The Writings of Thomas Jefferson (Illustrated), with Notes on Virginia, Parliamentary ... more. 4.40 avg rating — 83 ratings
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Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College
Let the People Pick the President: The Case for Abolishing the Electoral College 4.26 avg rating — 1,254 ratings
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Defender in Chief: Donald Trump's Fight for the Constitution
Defender in Chief: Donald Trump's Fight for the Constitution
by: John Yoo
3.87 avg rating — 46 ratings
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George Washington, Entrepreneur: How Our Founding Father's Private Business Pursuits Changed America and the World
George Washington, Entrepreneur: How Our Founding Father's Private Business Pursuits Changed America and the World 3.71 avg rating — 136 ratings
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1774: The Long Year of Revolution
1774: The Long Year of Revolution 3.75 avg rating — 433 ratings
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A People's History of the United States
A People's History of the United States
by: Lin Xun
4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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American Gaslighting: How America is Being Systematically Taught to Hate Itself
American Gaslighting: How America is Being Systematically Taught to Hate Itself it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840
The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840 4.39 avg rating — 355 ratings
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John Marshall: Definer of a Nation
John Marshall: Definer of a Nation 4.13 avg rating — 1,288 ratings
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On the Precipice: Hosea Speaks to America
On the Precipice: Hosea Speaks to America 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Oglethorpe in America
Oglethorpe in America 3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The New Roberts Court, Donald Trump, and Our Failing Constitution
The New Roberts Court, Donald Trump, and Our Failing Constitution 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Madison's Gift: Five Partnerships That Built America
Madison's Gift: Five Partnerships That Built America 4.07 avg rating — 645 ratings
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The Planters of Colonial Virginia
The Planters of Colonial Virginia 3.57 avg rating — 46 ratings
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On Fascism
On Fascism 3.95 avg rating — 641 ratings
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Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution
Allow Me to Retort: A Black Guy’s Guide to the Constitution 4.57 avg rating — 4,577 ratings
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Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts
Killing the Witches: The Horror of Salem, Massachusetts 3.63 avg rating — 14,858 ratings
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Freedom: The Enduring Importance of the American Revolution
Freedom: The Enduring Importance of the American Revolution 4.68 avg rating — 19 ratings
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John Hancock: Merchant King and American Patriot
John Hancock: Merchant King and American Patriot 4.14 avg rating — 184 ratings
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Fort Mose: Colonial America's Black Fortress of Freedom
Fort Mose: Colonial America's Black Fortress of Freedom 3.86 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Grand incendiary: A Biography of Samuel Adams
The Grand incendiary: A Biography of Samuel Adams really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Common Sense, Rights of Man, and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine
Common Sense, Rights of Man, and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine 4.14 avg rating — 15,755 ratings
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God Save Benedict Arnold: The True Story of America's Most Hated Man
God Save Benedict Arnold: The True Story of America's Most Hated Man 3.93 avg rating — 523 ratings
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John Adams: Party of One
John Adams: Party of One 4.07 avg rating — 408 ratings
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Fort Mose: And the Story of the Man Who Built the First Free Black Settlement in Colonial America
Fort Mose: And the Story of the Man Who Built the First Free Black Settlement in Colonial America 3.78 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation 3.64 avg rating — 8,822 ratings
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American Dialogue: The Founders and Us
American Dialogue: The Founders and Us 4.22 avg rating — 1,678 ratings
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The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution
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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Thoughts on government applicable to the present state of the American colonies.: Philadelphia, Printed by John Dunlap, M,DCC,LXXXVI.
Thoughts on government applicable to the present state of the American colonies.: Philadelphia, Printed by John Dunlap, M,DCC,LXXXVI. 4.10 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War
Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War 4.16 avg rating — 1,238 ratings
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The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity
The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity 3.94 avg rating — 2,177 ratings
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The Portable John Adams
The Portable John Adams 4.10 avg rating — 68 ratings
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Washington's General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution
Washington's General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution 4.12 avg rating — 548 ratings
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The New History of Florida
The New History of Florida 3.96 avg rating — 77 ratings
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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin 3.85 avg rating — 89,879 ratings
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Paul Revere and the World He Lived In
Paul Revere and the World He Lived In 4.15 avg rating — 376 ratings
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Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun
Knights of Spain, Warriors of the Sun 4.31 avg rating — 164 ratings
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The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin 4.13 avg rating — 8,483 ratings
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The Political Writings of John Adams
The Political Writings of John Adams 4.13 avg rating — 31 ratings
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Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History
Thomas Jefferson: An Intimate History 3.94 avg rating — 1,428 ratings
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The Forgotten Centuries: Indians and Europeans in the American South, 1521-1704
The Forgotten Centuries: Indians and Europeans in the American South, 1521-1704 4.46 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Overmountain Men (Tennessee Frontier Trilogy, #1)
The Overmountain Men (Tennessee Frontier Trilogy, #1) 4.26 avg rating — 588 ratings
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John Adams & the Spirit of Liberty
John Adams & the Spirit of Liberty 4.48 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Kings Mountain: The Defeat of the Loyalists October 7, 1780
Kings Mountain: The Defeat of the Loyalists October 7, 1780 4.17 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence 3.94 avg rating — 4,307 ratings
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Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution
Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution 3.88 avg rating — 305 ratings
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Rochambeau
Rochambeau 3.88 avg rating — 17 ratings
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The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790
The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 3.61 avg rating — 33 ratings
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