The Revolutionary Paul Revere
7 best books like The Revolutionary Paul Revere (Joel Miller): Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt, The Whistling Season, Lion of Liberty: The Life and Times of Patrick Henry, Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution, Robert Morris: Financier of the American Revolution, Franklin Pierce: New Hampshire's Favorite Son, John Marshall: Definer of a Nation
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt
| Author | David McCullough |
| ISBN | 0671447548 |
Mornings on Horseback: The Story of an Extraordinary Family, a Vanished Way of Life, and the Unique Child Who Became Theodore Roosevelt is the brilliant biography of the young Theodore Roosevelt. Hailed as a masterpiece by Newsday, it also won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography. Now with...
| Author | Ivan Doig |
| ISBN | 0151012377 |
"Can't cook but doesn't bite." So begins the newspaper ad offering the services of an "A-1 housekeeper, sound morals, exceptional disposition" that draws the hungry attention of widower Oliver Milliron in the fall of 1909. And so begins the unforgettable season that deposits the noncooking, nonbiting,...
| Author | Harlow Giles Unger |
| ISBN | 0306818868 |
In this action-packed history, award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger unfolds the epic story of Patrick Henry, who roused Americans to fight government tyrannyboth British and American. Remembered largely for his cry for liberty or death,” Henry was actually the first (and most colorful)...
| Author | Mark Puls |
| ISBN | 1403984271 |
Here is a compelling portrait of the Revolutionary War general whose skills as an engineer and artilleryman played a key role in all of George Washington's battles including the Siege of Boston (where his use of cannons at Dorchester Heights won back the city) and the Battle of Trenton (where he was...
| Author | Charles Rappleye |
| ISBN | 1416570918 |
In this biography, the acclaimed author of Sons of Providence, winner of the 2007 George Wash- ington Book Prize, recovers an immensely important part of the founding drama of the country in the story of Robert Morris, the man who financed Washington’s armies and the American Revolution. Morris...
| Author | Peter A. Wallner |
| ISBN | 0975521616 |
Well-researched if perhaps overly complimentary, this book does a good job of answering one of the questions that most interests me about presidents: why were they elected in the first place?
Pierce is presented as a moderate in this book, who was looking constantly for a way to secure first...
A New York Times Notable Book of 1996
It was in tolling the death of Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835 that the Liberty Bell cracked, never to ring again. An apt symbol of the man who shaped both court and country.
Working from primary sources, Jean Edward Smith has drawn an elegant portrait...
