A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic
8 best books like A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic (John Ferling): Ratification: The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 - 1815, Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America, American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence, Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War, The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution, The First Salute
| Author | Pauline Maier |
| ISBN | 0684868547 |
When the delegates left the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in September 1787, the new Constitution they had written was no more than a proposal. Elected conventions in at least nine of the thirteen states would have to ratify it before it could take effect. There was reason to doubt whether...
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
| Author | Gordon S. Wood |
| ISBN | 0143035282 |
From the most respected chronicler of the early days of the Republic and winner of both the Pulitzer and Bancroft prizes comes a landmark work that rescues Benjamin Franklin from a mythology that has blinded generations of Americans to the man he really was and makes sense of aspects of his life and career...
| Author | Richard White |
| ISBN | 0521424607 |
An acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, The Middle Ground steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations – stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans...
Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America
| Author | Jack N. Rakove |
| ISBN | 0618267468 |
In this remarkable and elegantly written book, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Jack Rakove offers a new and revealing perspective on America’s revolutionaries. In his hands, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Washington, and Hamilton were not pitchfork-wielding radicals or relentless power...
American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence
| Author | Pauline Maier |
| ISBN | 0679779086 |
Pauline Maier shows us the Declaration as both the defining statement of our national identity and the moral standard by which we live as a nation. It is truly "American Scripture," and Maier tells us how it came to be -- from the Declaration's birth in the hard and tortuous struggle by which Americans...
Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War
| Author | Richard M. Ketchum |
| ISBN | 0805061231 |
In the summer of 1777 (twelve months after the Declaration of Independence) the British launched an invasion from Canada under General John Burgoyne. It was the campaign that was supposed to the rebellion, but it resulted in a series of battles that changed America's history and that of the world. Stirring...
The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution
| Author | Alfred F. Young |
| ISBN | 0807054054 |
George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker who participated in such key events of the American Revolution as the Boston Massacre and the Tea Party, might have been lost to history if not for his longevity and the historical mood of the 1830's. When the Tea Party became a leading symbol of the Revolutionary...
| Author | Barbara W. Tuchman |
| ISBN | 1842121774 |
"First Salute" is the best book I've read on the American Revolution. It starts with a mistaken cannon salute by an obscure cannoneer in a Dutch port in the Carribean which inadvertently recognizes the government of the rebelling colonies which is an insult to England which leads to war between England,...
