An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America

9 best books like An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America (Henry Wiencek): All Things Wise and Wonderful, John Adams: A Life, Jefferson and the Rights of Man, Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution, Marlborough: His Life and Times, Book One, Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution, The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler

All Things Wise and Wonderful

Author	James Herriot
ISBN	0312335288

The third volume in the multimillion copy bestselling series

Readers adored James Herriot's tales of his life as a Yorkshire animal doctor in All Creatures Great and Small and All Things Bright and Beautiful. Now here's a third delightful volume of memoirs rich with Herriot's own brand of...

John Adams: A Life

Author	John Ferling
ISBN	0805045767

John Ferling's masterful John Adams: A Life is the most comprehensive single-volume biography of the man who succeeded George Washington in the presidency and shepherded the fragile new nation through the most dangerous of times. Drawing on extensive research, Ferling depicts a reluctant revolutionary,...

Jefferson and the Rights of Man

Author	Dumas Malone
ISBN	0316544736

The second volume in this Pulitzer Prize-winning biography tells the story of the eventful middle years in the life of Thomas Jefferson: his ministry to France in the years just before the French Revolution and during the early stages of that conflict; his service as secretary of state in President...

Dead Feminists: Historic Heroines in Living Color

Author	Chandler O'Leary
ISBN	1632170574

This gorgeously illustrated letterpress-inspired book combines feminist history with a vision for a better future. Based on the beloved Dead Feminists letterpress poster series, this illuminating look at 27 women who ve changed the world features a foreword by Jill Lepore, author of The Secret...

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...

The Accidental Species: Misunderstandings of Human Evolution

Author	Henry Gee
ISBN	0226284883

The idea of a missing link between humanity and our animal ancestors predates evolution and popular science and actually has religious roots in the deist concept of the Great Chain of Being. Yet, the metaphor has lodged itself in the contemporary imagination, and new fossil discoveries are often hailed...

Marlborough: His Life and Times, Book One

Author	Winston S. Churchill
ISBN	0226106330

"It is my hope to recall this great shade from the past, and not only invest him with his panoply, but make him living and intimate to modern eyes."—from the preface to Volume One

John Churchill, the Duke of Marlborough (1644-1722), was one of the greatest military commanders and statesmen...

Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution

Author	Richard Beeman
ISBN	1400065704

The popular view of the Constitution is pretty well expressed by John Milton, and I'll quote it here:God, from the Mount of Sinai, whose gray top shall tremble, He descending, will Himself, in thunder, lightning, and loud trumpets' sound, ordain them laws.
-Paradise LostWell, G-d did it through...

The Hopkins Touch: Harry Hopkins and the Forging of the Alliance to Defeat Hitler

Author	David L. Roll
ISBN	0199891958

The Hopkins Touch offers the first portrait in over two decades of the most powerful man in Roosevelt's administration.

In this impressive biography, David Roll shows how Harry Hopkins, an Iowa-born social worker who had been an integral part of the New Deal's implementation, became the...