The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America
10 best books like The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America (Gary B. Nash): Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators, Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766, Master of the Senate, The Radicalism of the American Revolution, The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin, Will You Die for Me?, The Scratch of a Pen: 1763 and the Transformation of North America, The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650 - 1815, A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic, Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World
Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators
| Author | Ronan Farrow |
| ISBN | 0316486639 |
In a dramatic account of violence and espionage, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hellbent on covering up the truth, at any cost.
In 2017, a routine network television investigation led Ronan Farrow to...
| Author | Fred Anderson |
| ISBN | 0375706364 |
In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War–long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution–takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed, Anderson shows how the complex array of forces brought into conflict helped both to create Britain’s...
| 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...
| Author | Gordon S. Wood |
| ISBN | 0679736883 |
In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a break from England, rather it transformed...
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...
| Author | Charles "Tex" Watson |
| ISBN | 0800783611 |
"Will you die for me?" asked Charlie Manson. Once all-American hometown boy, Charles "Tex" Watson answered "Yes" and thus became hopelessly caught in the dizzying downward spiral into the Manson family and into the brutal role of Helter-Skelter executioner. Finally, on the verge of insanity, Tex...
| Author | Colin G. Calloway |
| ISBN | 0195300718 |
In February 1763, Britain, Spain, and France signed the Treaty of Paris, ending the French and Indian War. In this one document, more American territory changed hands than in any treaty before or since. As the great historian Francis Parkman wrote, half a continent changed hands at the scratch of a pen....
| Author | Richard White |
| ISBN | 0521424607 |
An acclaimed book and widely acknowledged classic, The Middle Ground steps outside the simple stories of Indian-white relations – stories of conquest and assimilation and stories of cultural persistence. It is, instead, about a search for accommodation and common meaning. It tells how Europeans...
| Author | John Ferling |
| ISBN | 0195176006 |
It was an age of fascinating leaders and difficult choices, of grand ideas eloquently expressed and of epic conflicts bitterly fought. Now comes a brilliant portrait of the American Revolution, one that is compelling in its prose, fascinating in its details, and provocative in its fresh interpretations.
In...
| Author | Maya Jasanoff |
| ISBN | 1400041686 |
On November 25, 1783, the last British troops pulled out of New York City, bringing the American Revolution to an end. Patriots celebrated their departure and the confirmation of U.S. independence. But for tens of thousands of American loyalists, the British evacuation spelled worry, not jubilation....
A Narrative of a Revolutionary Soldier: Some Adventures, Dangers, and Sufferings of Joseph Plumb Martin
| Author | Joseph Plumb Martin |
| ISBN | 0451528115 |
A Great Veteran's Day Read
I started a much longer review, but there is not enough that can be said about this, and, saying too much tends to water down the overall impact. So, I'll keep it short and to the point, as much as i am able to anyway.
The autobiographical story of Joseph Plumb Martin...
The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution
| Author | Alfred F. Young |
| ISBN | 0807054054 |
George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker who participated in such key events of the American Revolution as the Boston Massacre and the Tea Party, might have been lost to history if not for his longevity and the historical mood of the 1830's. When the Tea Party became a leading symbol of the Revolutionary...
Angel in the Whirlwind: The Triumph of the American Revolution
| Author | Benson Bobrick |
| ISBN | 0140275002 |
This is an excellent book about the American Revolution. That said, it took me a long time to read it and at times, it was just a little too much for me. David McCoullough seems to write history better (more readable). That said, I do think this is a must read for those who want to know really what it took to win...
