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Paul Revere and the World He Lived In

8 best books like Paul Revere and the World He Lived In (Esther Forbes): Three Day Road, Calculating God, The March, The Last Crossing, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington, Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution, River Thieves

Three Day Road
AuthorJoseph Boyden
ISBN0143017861
It is 1919, and Niska, the last Oji-Cree woman to live off the land, has received word that one of the two boys she saw off to the Great War has returned. Xavier Bird, her sole living relation, is gravely wounded and addicted to morphine. As Niska slowly paddles her canoe on the three-day journey to bring...
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 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,...
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
AuthorGordon S. Wood
ISBN0143035282
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...
Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington
AuthorRichard Brookhiser
ISBN0684822911
In this thought-provoking look at George Washington as soldier and statesman, Richard Brookhiser traces the astonishing achievements of Washington's career and illuminates how his character and his values shaped the beginnings of American politics.

Brookhiser recaptures the real...
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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