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Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington

8 best books like Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington (Richard Brookhiser): John Adams, Paul Revere and the World He Lived In, Calculating God, The Nicomachean Ethics, The March, The Last Crossing, Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution, River Thieves

John Adams
AuthorDavid McCullough
ISBN0743223136
The enthralling, often surprising story of John Adams, one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.

In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always...
Paul Revere and the World He Lived In
AuthorEsther Forbes
ISBN0618001948
This vivid account of the life and times of Paul Revere was first published in 1942 to great acclaim and a Pulitzer Prize. An elegant storyteller and expert historian, Esther Forbes paints a memorable portrait of American colonial history and of this most legendary of revolutionary heroes -- "not merely...
Calculating God
AuthorRobert J. Sawyer
ISBN0812580354
An alien shuttle craft lands outside the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto. Out pops a six-legged, two-armed alien, who says, in perfect English, "Take me to a paleontologist."

It seems that Earth, and the alien's home planet, and the home planet of another alien species traveling on the alien...
The Nicomachean Ethics
AuthorAristotle
ISBN0140449493
‘One swallow does not make a summer; neither does one day. Similarly neither can one day, or a brief space of time, make a man blessed and happy’

In the Nicomachean Ethics, Aristotle sets out to examine the nature of happiness. He argues that happiness consists in ‘activity of the soul...
The March
AuthorE.L. Doctorow
ISBN0812976150
In 1864, Union general William Tecumseh Sherman marched his sixty thousand troops through Georgia to the sea, and then up into the Carolinas. The army fought off Confederate forces, demolished cities, and accumulated a borne-along population of freed blacks and white refugees until all that remained...
The Last Crossing
AuthorGuy Vanderhaeghe
ISBN0349117268
Charles and Addington Gaunt must find their free- spirited brother, Simon, who has gone missing in the wilds of the American West. They enlist the services of a guide to lead them on their journey across a harsh and unknown landscape. This is the enigmatic Jerry Potts, half Blackfoot, half Scottish,...
Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution
AuthorBenson Bobrick
ISBN0140275002
This is an excellent book about the American Revolution. That said, it took me a long time to read it and at times, it was just a little too much for me. David McCoullough seems to write history better (more readable). That said, I do think this is a must read for those who want to know really what it took to win...
River Thieves
AuthorMichael Crummey
ISBN1841954179
River Thieves is a beautifully written and compelling novel that breathes life into the pivotal events which shaped relations between the Beothuk Indians of Newfoundland and European settlers. Following a series of expeditions made under the order of the British Crown, the reader witnesses the...
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