The Real George Washington

8 best books like The Real George Washington (Jay A. Parry): The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror, A. Lincoln, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams: A Life, My Lost Family, Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations

The Name of War: King Philip's War and the Origins of American Identity

Author	Jill Lepore
ISBN	0375702628

Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society

King Philip's War, the excruciating racial war--colonists against Indians--that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history. Some even argued that the massacres...

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Author	Benjamin Franklin
ISBN	0743255062

"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...

A Patriot's History of the United States: From Columbus's Great Discovery to the War on Terror

Author	Larry Schweikart
ISBN	1595230327

For the past three decades, many history professors have allowed their biases to distort the way America’s past is taught. These intellectuals have searched for instances of racism, sexism, and bigotry in our history while downplaying the greatness of America’s patriots and the achievements...

A. Lincoln

Author	Ronald C. White Jr.
ISBN	1400064996

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY
The Washington Post • The Philadelphia Inquirer • The Christian Science Monitor • St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
 
NEW YORK TIMES  BESTSELLER

WINNER OF THE CHRISTOPHER AWARD

Everyone wants to define the man who...

The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin

Author	Gordon S. Wood
ISBN	0143035282

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...

Samuel Adams: A Life

Author	Ira Stoll
ISBN	0743299116

The gripping story of the man who was the American Revolution’s moral compass—Ira Stoll tells readers who Samuel Adams was, why he has been forgotten, and why he must be remembered. Thomas Jefferson called Samuel Adams “truly the man of the Revolution.” Adams, filled with religious...

My Lost Family

Author

Danny Ben-Moshe

A family must come to terms with the past when two missing children reappear after 40 years. As the secrets unravel in this real-life tale, can the family lay to rest the ghosts of the past? Growing up in a poor Yiddish-speaking home in 1950s London, teenager Lillian marries a charming older man, Raymond....

Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations

Author	William H. McRaven
ISBN	1538715538

In this instant New York Times bestseller, the celebrated author of Make Your Bed shares amazing adventure stories from his career as a Navy SEAL and commander of America's Special Operations Forces.
Admiral William H. McRaven is a part of American military history, having been involved in some...