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Samuel Adams: A Life

10 best books like Samuel Adams: A Life (Ira Stoll): John Adams, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Master of the Senate, The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams, A Mind of Her Own, Notes to Self: Essays, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity, Henry Clay: The Essential American, The Real George Washington

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...
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
AuthorBenjamin Franklin
ISBN0743255062
"The first book to belong permanently to literature. It created a man."
-- From the Introduction Few men could compare to Benjamin Franklin. Virtually self-taught, he excelled as an athlete, a man of letters, a printer, a scientist, a wit, an inventor, an editor, and a writer, and he was probably...
Master of the Senate
AuthorRobert A. Caro
ISBN0394720954
The most riveting political biography of our time, Robert A. Caro’s life of Lyndon B. Johnson, continues. Master of the Senate takes Johnson’s story through one of its most remarkable periods: his twelve years, from 1949 through 1960, in the United States Senate. Once the most august and revered...
The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams
AuthorLester J. Cappon
ISBN0807842303
An intellectual dialogue of the highest plane achieved in America, the correspondence between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson spanned half a century and embraced government, philosophy, religion, quotidiana, and family griefs and joys.

First meeting as delegates to the Continental...
A Mind of Her Own
AuthorPaula McLain
Listening time: 1 hour and 15 minutes

From Paula McLain, the best-selling author of The Paris Wife and Love and Ruin, comes a breathtakingly intimate story of the brilliant, willful Marie Curie - a young woman in Paris on the verge of her greatest discovery yet: herself.

Paris, 1893....
Notes to Self: Essays
AuthorEmilie Pine
ISBN1999700848
`The person who loves the addict exhausts and renews their love on a daily basis' In this vivid and powerful collection of essays, the first non- fiction book published by Tramp Press, Emilie Pine boldly confronts the past to better understand herself, her relationships and her role in society. Tackling...
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...
James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity
AuthorHarry Ammon
ISBN0813912660
http://bestpresidentialbios.com/2013/...

“James Monroe: The Quest for National Identity” by Harry Ammon was originally published in 1971, making it the oldest of the well-read biographies of our fifth president (though this is not a particularly crowded field). Ammon is formerly...
Henry Clay: The Essential American
AuthorDavid S. Heidler
The epic life and times of one of the most important political figures in our history.
 
He was the Great Compromiser, a canny and colorful legislator and leader whose life mirrors the story of America from its founding until the eve of the Civil War. Speaker of the House, senator, secretary...
The Real George Washington
AuthorJay A. Parry
ISBN0880800143
This is the best-selling classic regularly featured by Glenn Beck to Fox TV viewers! The Real George Washington: The True Story of America s Most Indispensable Man. There is properly no history; only biography, wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. If that is true of the general run of mankind, it is particularly...
American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence
AuthorPauline Maier
ISBN0679779086
Pauline Maier shows us the Declaration as both the defining statement of our national identity and the moral standard by which we live as a nation. It is truly "American Scripture," and Maier tells us how it came to be -- from the Declaration's birth in the hard and tortuous struggle by which Americans...
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