Best Books about the American Founding Fathers (fiction and nonfiction)
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Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West 4.23 avg rating — 66,334 ratings
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The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America
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Kostya Kennedy
4.01 avg rating — 882 ratings 
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Madison's Gift: Five Partnerships That Built America
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David O. Stewart
4.07 avg rating — 645 ratings 
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The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln
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Sean Wilentz
3.97 avg rating — 1,900 ratings 14. 
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
by:
Joseph J. Ellis
3.95 avg rating — 46,971 ratings 15. 
The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783
by:
Joseph J. Ellis
4.35 avg rating — 2,160 ratings 16. 
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Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
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Joseph J. Ellis
3.94 avg rating — 4,307 ratings 18. 
In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown 4.12 avg rating — 5,302 ratings
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The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents 4.16 avg rating — 165 ratings
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355: The Women of Washington's Spy Ring (Women Spies #1)
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Kit Sergeant
3.92 avg rating — 1,118 ratings 19. 
George Washington, Entrepreneur: How Our Founding Father's Private Business Pursuits Changed America and the World
by:
John Berlau
3.71 avg rating — 136 ratings 
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Chains Across the River - A Novel of the American Revolution
by:
Bevis Longstreth
4.28 avg rating — 18 ratings 
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You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
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Alexis Coe
3.74 avg rating — 14,286 ratings 19. 
Freedom: The Enduring Importance of the American Revolution
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Jack Warren
4.68 avg rating — 19 ratings 19. 
George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution
by:
Brian Kilmeade
3.85 avg rating — 20,617 ratings 19. 
A Realistic Path to Peace: From Genocide to Global War... And How We Can Change It
by:
Dee Knight
it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings 
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Button Gwinnett: Failed Merchant, Plantation Owner, Mountebank, Opportunist Politician and Founding Father 3.33 avg rating — 3 ratings
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The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism
by:
Bill Shaffer
3.60 avg rating — 1,717 ratings 
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No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding, With a New Preface
by:
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 42. 
Washington's General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution
by:
Terry Golway
4.12 avg rating — 548 ratings 42. 
Alexander Hamilton: The Graphic History of an American Founding Father 3.47 avg rating — 727 ratings
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Washington's Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge
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Thomas Fleming
4.06 avg rating — 1,795 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 — 460 ratings
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Paradise in Chains: The Bounty Mutiny and the Founding of Australia
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Diana Preston
4.01 avg rating — 162 ratings 49. 
The Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution
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Founding Fathers
4.44 avg rating — 26,981 ratings 50. 
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 52. 
The Founding of New Acadia: The Beginnings of Acadian Life in Louisiana, 1765–1803 3.80 avg rating — 69 ratings
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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 54. 
Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy
by:
Ian W. Toll
4.38 avg rating — 7,477 ratings 
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Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty
by:
John M. Barry
4.24 avg rating — 1,089 ratings 
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Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
by:
Eric Jay Dolin
3.87 avg rating — 999 ratings 59. 
Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution
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H.W. Brands
3.91 avg rating — 1,166 ratings 60. 
Henry Knox's Noble Train: The Story of a Boston Bookseller's Heroic Expedition That Saved the American Revolution really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 156 ratings
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A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence
by:
Ray Raphael
3.90 avg rating — 510 ratings 62. 
The Life and Times of General Andrew Pickens: Revolutionary War Hero, American Founder
by:
Rod Andrew Jr.
4.47 avg rating — 19 ratings 63. 
The Divided Ground: Indians, Settlers, and the Northern Borderland of the American Revolution
by:
Alan Taylor
3.91 avg rating — 231 ratings 64. 
Of Arms and Artists: The American Revolution through Painters' Eyes
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Paul Staiti
3.94 avg rating — 114 ratings 65. 
American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804
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Alan Taylor
4.26 avg rating — 1,446 ratings 66. 
The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution
by:
Bernard Bailyn
4.05 avg rating — 4,353 ratings 67. 
Taxes, the Tea Party, and Those Revolting Rebels: A History in Comics of the American Revolution
by:
Stan Mack
3.75 avg rating — 89 ratings 
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Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin
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Jill Lepore
3.67 avg rating — 4,735 ratings 74. 
The Patriots: Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the Making of America
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Winston Groom
4.10 avg rating — 500 ratings 75. 
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Publicola: Observations on Paine's Rights of Man in a series of letters 4.29 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Collected Writings: Common Sense / The Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / Pamphlets, Articles, and Letters
by:
Thomas Paine
4.26 avg rating — 1,722 ratings 79. 
Apostles of Revolution: Jefferson, Paine, Monroe and the Struggle Against the Old Order in America and Europe
by:
John Ferling
3.81 avg rating — 63 ratings 80. 
Thomas Paine's Rights of Man: A Biography (Books That Changed the World) 3.99 avg rating — 2,876 ratings
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The Jeffersonians: The Visionary Presidencies of Jefferson, Madison, and Monroe 3.73 avg rating — 176 ratings
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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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The Whiskey Rebellion: George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Frontier Rebels Who Challenged America's Newfound Sovereignty
by:
William Hogeland
3.68 avg rating — 1,035 ratings 
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War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel that Stunned the Nation
by:
John Sedgwick
3.91 avg rating — 713 ratings 90. 
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Year of the Hangman: George Washington's Campaign Against the Iroquois 3.78 avg rating — 63 ratings
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The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
by:
Brad Meltzer
3.82 avg rating — 13,575 ratings 96. 
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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Stars and Shadows: The Politics of Interracial Friendship from Jefferson to Obama
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Saladin Ambar
4.27 avg rating — 11 ratings 99. 
Reclamation: Sally Hemings, Thomas Jefferson, and a Descendant's Search for Her Family's Lasting Legacy 4.03 avg rating — 358 ratings
