From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain 1765-76
5 best books like From Resistance to Revolution: Colonial Radicals and the Development of American Opposition to Britain 1765-76 (Pauline Maier): A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House, John Adams: A Life, Jefferson and the Rights of Man, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, John Adams: Party of One
A Thousand Days: John F. Kennedy in the White House
| Author | Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. |
| ISBN | 1579124496 |
Written by one of our foremost historians and published in 1965, A Thousand Days is still considered the most complete and definitive portrait of John F. Kennedy and his administration. Handpicked by Kennedy to serve as special assistant to the president, historian and Harvard professor Arthur M....
| 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,...
| 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...
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 | James Grant |
| ISBN | 0374113149 |
An acute examination of a paradoxical U.S. president.
John Adams was an undiplomatic diplomat and an impolitic politician--a fierce revolutionary yet a detached and reluctant leader of the nation he helped to found. Few American public figures have ever been more devoted to doing the right...
