Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution

8 best books like Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution (Richard Brookhiser): Leadership: In Turbulent Times, Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World, American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America, A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Some Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin, Reporting the Revolutionary War: Before It Was History, It Was News, The Big Kahuna, Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History, Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II

Leadership: In Turbulent Times

Author	Doris Kearns Goodwin
ISBN	1476795924

Are leaders born or made? Where does ambition come from? How does adversity affect the growth of leadership? Does the leader make the times or do the times make the leader?

In Leadership, Goodwin draws upon the four presidents she has studied most closely—Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt,...

Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World

Author	Maya Jasanoff
ISBN	1400041686

On November 25, 1783, the last British troops pulled out of New York City, bringing the American Revolution to an end. Patriots celebrated their departure and the confirmation of U.S. independence. But for tens of thousands of American loyalists, the British evacuation spelled worry, not jubilation....

American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America

Author	David O. Stewart
ISBN	1439157189

In this vivid and brilliant biography, David Stewart describes Aaron Burr, the third vice president, as a daring and perhaps deluded figure who shook the nation’s foundations in its earliest, most vulnerable decades.

In 1805, the United States was not twenty years old, an unformed infant....

A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Some Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin

Author	Joseph Plumb Martin
ISBN	0451528115

A Great Veteran's Day Read

I started a much longer review, but there is not enough that can be said about this, and, saying too much tends to water down the overall impact. So, I'll keep it short and to the point, as much as i am able to anyway.

The autobiographical story of Joseph Plumb Martin...

Reporting the Revolutionary War: Before It Was History, It Was News

Author	Todd Andrlik
ISBN	1402269676

Colonial papers published between 1763 and 1783 fanned the flames of revolution in America, provided critical correspondence during the war, sustained loyalty to the cause, and ultimately aided in the outcome. Reporting the Revolution brings an unprecedented look at colonial newspapers detailing...

The Big Kahuna

Author

Janet Evanovich

A stoner, an Instagram model, a Czech oligarch, and a missing unicorn. Nick Fox and Kate O'Hare have their work cut out for them in their weirdest, wildest adventure yet in this latest entry in the New York Times bestselling series by Janet and Peter Evanovich.

Straight arrow FBI Agent Kate O'Hare...

Killing the SS: The Hunt for the Worst War Criminals in History

Author	Bill O'Reilly
ISBN	1250165547

Confronting Nazi evil is the subject of the latest installment in the mega-bestselling Killing series

As the true horrors of the Third Reich began to be exposed immediately after World War II, the Nazi war criminals who committed genocide went on the run. A few were swiftly caught, including...

Victory City: A History of New York and New Yorkers during World War II

Author	John Strausbaugh
ISBN	1455567485

From John Strausbaugh, author of City of Sedition and The Village, comes the definitive history of Gotham during the World War II era.

New York City during World War II wasn't just a place of servicemen, politicians, heroes, G.I. Joes and Rosie the Riveters, but also of quislings and saboteurs;...