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Dinner at Mr. Jefferson's: Three Men, Five Great Wines, and the Evening that Changed America

10 best books like Dinner at Mr. Jefferson's: Three Men, Five Great Wines, and the Evening that Changed America (Charles A. Cerami): Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery, Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story, A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller, Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence, The Story of English in 100 Words, Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab, In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown, Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War that Changed American History, Citizen Tom Paine, Protecting the President: An Inside Account of the Troubled Secret Service in an Era of Evolving Threats

Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery
AuthorPaul Collins
ISBN0307956458
Duel with the Devil is acclaimed historian Paul Collins’ remarkable true account of a stunning turn-of-the-19th century murder and the trial that ensued – a showdown in which iconic political rivals Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr joined forces to make sure justice was done. Still our nation’s...
Orphan Train Rider: One Boy's True Story
AuthorAndrea Warren
ISBN0395698227
Between 1854 and 1930, more than 200,000 orphaned or abandoned children were sent west on orphan trains to find new homes. Some were adopted by loving families; others were not as fortunate. In recent years, some of the riders have begun to share their stories. Andrea Warren alternates chapters about...
A Year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller
AuthorFrances Mayes
ISBN0767910060
A CLASSIC FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF UNDER MAGNOLIA

A Year in the World is vintage Frances Mayes—a celebration of the allure of travel, of serendipitous pleasures found in unlikely locales, of memory woven into the present, and of a joyous sense of quest. With her beloved...
Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
AuthorJoseph J. Ellis
ISBN0385349629
A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning American historian, Joseph Ellis.

The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed...
The Story of English in 100 Words
AuthorDavid Crystal
ISBN1250003466
The world's foremost expert on the English language takes us on an entertaining and eye-opening tour of the history of our vernacular through the ages.

In this entertaining history of the world's most ubiquitous language, David Crystal draws on one hundred words that best illustrate the...
Jacksonland: President Andrew Jackson, Cherokee Chief John Ross, and a Great American Land Grab
AuthorSteve Inskeep
ISBN1594205566
Jacksonland is the thrilling narrative history of two men—President Andrew Jackson and Cherokee chief John Ross—who led their respective nations at a crossroads of American history. Five decades after the Revolutionary War, the United States approached a constitutional crisis. At its...
In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown
AuthorNathaniel Philbrick
ISBN0525426760
The thrilling story of the Revolutionary War finale from the New York Times bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Valiant Ambition.

Here is the story of the remarkable year leading up to the siege of Yorktown. It sets Washington against his traitorous nemesis Benedict Arnold and...
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War that Changed American History
AuthorBrian Kilmeade
ISBN1591848067
From the authors of the  New York Times  bestseller  George Washington’s Secret Six , the little-known story of Thomas Jefferson’s battle to defend America against Islamic pirates.

Brian Kilmeade – cohost of “Fox & Friends” on Fox News and the national radio...
Citizen Tom Paine
AuthorHoward Fast
Among Howard Fast's historical fiction, Citizen Tom Paine-one of America's all-time best-sellers-occupies a special place, for it restored to a generation of readers the vision of Paine's revolutionary passion as the authentic roots of our national beginnings. Fast gives us "a vivid picture of...
Protecting the President: An Inside Account of the Troubled Secret Service in an Era of Evolving Threats
AuthorDaniel Bongino
ISBN1944229868
Being a Secret Service agent is one of the most treacherous jobs in the world and never more so than in today’s highly polarized America. Facing threats from fence jumpers and manifesto writers, and from fanatical terrorists and sophisticated spies, protecting the president is harder than ever....
The Hamilton Cookbook: Cooking, Eating, and Entertaining in Hamilton's World
AuthorLaura Kumin
ISBN1682614298
Featured in Entertainment Weekly's Best Gift Guide and on Parade.com!

The Hamilton Cookbook takes you into Hamilton’s home and to his table, with historical information, recipes, and tips on how you can prepare food and serve the food that our founding fathers enjoyed in their day.

What...
Andrew Jackson and the Miracle of New Orleans: The Battle That Shaped America's Destiny
AuthorBrian Kilmeade
ISBN0735213232
Another pop history pageturner from the New York Times bestselling authors of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates.

When the British fought the young United States during the War of 1812, they knew that taking the mouth of the Mississippi River was the...
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
AuthorCandice Millard
ISBN0804194890
From New York Times bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic and The River of Doubt, a thrilling narrative of Winston Churchill's extraordinary and little-known exploits during the Boer War

At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime...
Out of Order: Stories from the History of the Supreme Court
AuthorSandra Day O'Connor
ISBN0812993934
“I called this book Out of Order because it reflects my goal, which is to share a different side of the Supreme Court. Most people know the Court only as it exists between bangs of the gavel, when the Court comes to order to hear arguments or give opinions. But the stories of the Court and the Justices that...
The Mystery of Hunter's Lodge
AuthorAgatha Christie
ISBN0062298119
Rating: 3.25* of five

The Publisher Says: Previously published in the print anthology Poirot Investigates.

Poirot tasks his friends with solving a murder that is more like a riddle.

My Review: A third season Agatha Christie's Poirot episode, and a 99¢ Kindle Single.

The...
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
AuthorPaul Watson
ISBN0393355861
Ice Ghosts weaves together the epic story of the lost Franklin Expedition of 1845—whose two ships, HMS Erebus and HMS Terror, and their crew of 129 were lost to the Arctic ice—with the modern tale of the scientists, divers, and local Inuit behind the recent incredible discoveries of the wrecks....
How Right You Are, Jeeves
AuthorP.G. Wodehouse
ISBN0743203593
A Bertie and Jeeves classic, featuring a cow-creamer, the redheaded Miss Wickham, and the formidable schoolmaster Aubrey Upjohn.
Jeeves is infallible. Jeeves is indispensable. Unfortunately, in How Right You Are, Jeeves, he is also in absentia. In this wonderful slice of Woosterian mayhem,...
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