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• Revolutionary Founders

  Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation

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  Explores the founding fathers' more radical contemporaries, who advocated for true liberty for all at the United States' inception, including the abolition of slavery and equality despite race, class, or gender.

• The Americans, the National Experience

  Boorstin, Daniel J. (Daniel Joseph), 1914-2004

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  In this book Boorstin, who served as Librarian of the US Congress from 1975-1987, explores problems of community and the search for a national identity.

• America at 1750

  a Social Portrait

  Hofstadter, Richard, 1916-1970

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  Hofstader was a professor of American History at Columbia University. This book discusses the nature of political culture in mid-eighteenth-century America, calling attention to immigration, slavery, the middle class, and religion.

• The Will of the People

  the Revolutionary Birth of America

  Breen, T. H.,

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  A review of the role of common American people in making the American Revolution successful, and an analysis of why more of them backed the American Revolution than continued rule by Great Britain.

• Founding Gardeners

  the Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation

  Wulf, Andrea

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  A look at the founding fathers from the unique and intimate perspective of their lives as gardeners, plantsmen, and farmers.

• Independence Lost

  Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution

  DuVal, Kathleen

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  DuVal explores how American independence affected the lives of those living on the edges of British colonial America, such as slaves, Indians, women, and the colonists of other European nations and finds that the war left some much more free than…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The First Salute

  a View of the American Revolution

  Tuchman, Barbara W. (Barbara Wertheim), 1912-1989

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  Tuchman places the Revolution in the context of the centuries-long conflicts between England and both France and Holland, demonstrating how the aid to the American colonies of both these nations made the triumph of independence possible.

• George Washington's Secret Six

  the Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution

  Kilmeade, Brian

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  Fox News host Kilmeade delves into the little known, top secret Culper Spy Ring who helped turn the tide of the Revolutionary War.

• John Adams

  McCullough, David

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  The famous historians well-known work about the life of America's second president who helped shape the philosophical basis for the Revolution.

• The American Political Tradition and the Men Who Made It

  Hofstadter, Richard, 1916-1970

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  A classic study of American politics from the Founding Fathers to FDR.

• The British Are Coming

  the War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

  Atkinson, Rick,

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  The Pulitzer prize winning author's initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy that tells the story of the first twenty months of the bloody struggle to shake free of King George's shackles.

• Valiant Ambition

  George Washington, Benedict Arnold, And The Fate Of The American Revolution

  Philbrick, Nathaniel

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  A look at the American Revolution through the lens of loyalty and personal intergrity.