The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States

5 best books like The Idea of America: Reflections on the Birth of the United States (Gordon S. Wood): Master of the Senate, Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence, Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America, American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence, Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson

Master of the Senate

Author	Robert A. Caro
ISBN	0394720954

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...

Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

Author	Joseph J. Ellis
ISBN	0385349629

A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning American historian, Joseph Ellis.

The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed...

Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America

Author	Jack N. Rakove
ISBN	0618267468

In this remarkable and elegantly written book, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Jack Rakove offers a new and revealing perspective on America’s revolutionaries. In his hands, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Washington, and Hamilton were not pitchfork-wielding radicals or relentless power...

American Scripture: Making the Declaration of Independence

Author	Pauline Maier
ISBN	0679779086

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...

Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson

Author	Gore Vidal
ISBN	0300105924

Gore Vidal’s uniquely irreverent take on America’s founding fathers will enliven all future discussion of the enduring power of their nation-building ideas

Gore Vidal, one of the master stylists of American literature and one of the most acute observers of American life and history,...