The Founding Fathers Reconsidered

6 best books like The Founding Fathers Reconsidered (R.B. Bernstein): Silas Marner, North and South, Son of a Witch, The Riverkeepers: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right, Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington, A Lion Among Men

Silas Marner

Author

George Eliot

George Eliot's tale of a solitary miser gradually redeemed by the joy of fatherhood, Silas Marner is edited with an introduction and notes by David Carroll in Penguin Classics.

Wrongly accused of theft and exiled from a religious community many years before, the embittered weaver Silas Marner...

North and South

Author	John Jakes
ISBN	0451200810

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After being trolled three times yesterday for not only reading things wrong, but also for wasting my Goodreads space and apparently everyone’s time creating picturebooks full of “stupid” and “uninformative”...

Son of a Witch

Author	Gregory Maguire
ISBN	0060747226

Liir hid in the shadows of the castle after Dorothy did in the Witch. Left for dead in a gully, the teen is shattered in spirit and body. But silent novice Candle tends him at the Cloister of Saint Glinda, and wills him back to life with her music.

What dark force left Liir in this condition? Is he really...

The Riverkeepers: Two Activists Fight to Reclaim Our Environment as a Basic Human Right

Author

John Cronin

A modern-day David and Goliath tale, The Riverkeepers is an impassioned firsthand account by two advocates who have taken on powerful corporate and government polluters to win back the Hudson River. John Cronin and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., tell us how we too can fight for our fundamental right to enjoy...

Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington

Author	Richard Brookhiser
ISBN	0684822911

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...

A Lion Among Men

Author	Gregory Maguire
ISBN	0060548924

In this much-anticipated third volume of the Wicked Years, we return to Oz, seen now through the eyes of the Cowardly Lion - the once tiny cub defended by Elphaba in Wicked. While civil war looms, a tetchy oracle named Yackle prepares for death. Before her final hour, an enigmatic figure known as Brrr -...