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Washington: A Life
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John Adams
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Alexander Hamilton
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The Ride: Paul Revere and the Night That Saved America
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3.94 avg rating — 1,585 ratings
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
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3.95 avg rating — 47,857 ratings
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American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson
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3.94 avg rating — 29,132 ratings
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The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
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4.15 avg rating — 6,863 ratings
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Master of the Mountain: Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves
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3.98 avg rating — 836 ratings
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The Federalist Papers
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4.10 avg rating — 42,347 ratings
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Lafayette in the Somewhat United States
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3.85 avg rating — 17,494 ratings
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His Excellency: George Washington
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3.96 avg rating — 43,554 ratings
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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power
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4.05 avg rating — 43,692 ratings
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Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution
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4.06 avg rating — 508 ratings
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Founding Martyr: The Life and Death of Dr. Joseph Warren, the American Revolution's Lost Hero
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4.16 avg rating — 540 ratings
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
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4.05 avg rating — 151,928 ratings
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Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge
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3.83 avg rating — 10,825 ratings
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George Mason: Forgotten Founder
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3.55 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Duel with the Devil: The True Story of How Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr Teamed Up to Take on America's First Sensational Murder Mystery
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3.68 avg rating — 2,785 ratings
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The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
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4.11 avg rating — 22,936 ratings
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The Indian World of George Washington: The First President, the First Americans, and the Birth of the Nation
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4.05 avg rating — 412 ratings
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James Madison: A Life Reconsidered
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 3,513 ratings
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The Heartbreak of Aaron Burr
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3.56 avg rating — 811 ratings
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Washington's General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution
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4.15 avg rating — 626 ratings
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Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams
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4.06 avg rating — 3,139 ratings
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John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit
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4.39 avg rating — 1,756 ratings
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Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution
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3.88 avg rating — 313 ratings
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Jefferson's America: The President, the Purchase, and the Explorers Who Transformed a Nation
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3.87 avg rating — 325 ratings
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Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson
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4.13 avg rating — 1,888 ratings
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Travels with George: In Search of Washington and His Legacy
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3.83 avg rating — 4,466 ratings
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Young Benjamin Franklin: The Birth of Ingenuity
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3.84 avg rating — 159 ratings
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The Return of George Washington: 1783-1789
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4.10 avg rating — 1,857 ratings
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America's Hidden History: Untold Tales of the First Pilgrims, Fighting Women, and Forgotten Founders Who Shaped a Nation
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3.57 avg rating — 2,640 ratings
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War of Two: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Duel that Stunned the Nation
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3.92 avg rating — 723 ratings
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Most Blessed of the Patriarchs: Thomas Jefferson and the Empire of the Imagination
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3.76 avg rating — 769 ratings
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The Loyal Son: The War in Ben Franklin's House
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4.05 avg rating — 484 ratings
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Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different
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3.96 avg rating — 4,156 ratings
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James Madison The Nationalist 1780-1787
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4.50 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Agony and Eloquence: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and a World of Revolution
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3.82 avg rating — 170 ratings
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Suspected of Independence: The Life of Thomas McKean, America’s First Power Broker
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3.73 avg rating — 26 ratings
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George Washington, Entrepreneur: How Our Founding Father's Private Business Pursuits Changed America and the World
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3.69 avg rating — 147 ratings
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You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George Washington
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3.74 avg rating — 14,830 ratings
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Thomas Paine: Enlightenment, Revolution, and the Birth of Modern Nations
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3.95 avg rating — 1,996 ratings
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Amendment Seventeen: A Blessing? Or a Curse?
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4.54 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Faith of Our Founding Father: The Spiritual Journey of George Washington
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3.12 avg rating — 17 ratings
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Roger Williams and the Creation of the American Soul: Church, State, and the Birth of Liberty
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4.23 avg rating — 1,124 ratings
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story
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4.61 avg rating — 25,069 ratings
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First Principles: What America’s Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country
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4.06 avg rating — 4,008 ratings
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Reviving Our Republic: 95 Theses for the Future of America
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4.81 avg rating — 173 ratings
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American Emperor: Aaron Burr's Challenge to Jefferson's America
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3.92 avg rating — 634 ratings
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James Madison: The President, 1809-1812
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4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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The Making of George Washington
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3.61 avg rating — 122 ratings
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To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders
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3.69 avg rating — 368 ratings
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Tom Paine's Iron Bridge: Building a United States
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3.65 avg rating — 57 ratings
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Alexander Hamilton: The Formative Years
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4.43 avg rating — 28 ratings
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American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans
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3.60 avg rating — 1,774 ratings
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Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
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4.55 avg rating — 11,213 ratings
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The Escapes of David George: An Odyssey of Slavery, Freedom, and the American Revolution
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4.01 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Thomas Jefferson & Sally Hemings: An American Controversy
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4.02 avg rating — 812 ratings
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The Real Benjamin Franklin
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4.33 avg rating — 807 ratings
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The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President
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4.18 avg rating — 1,158 ratings
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His Excellency: George Washington
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3.96 avg rating — 43,554 ratings
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African Founders: How Enslaved People Expanded American Ideals
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4.11 avg rating — 271 ratings
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Unlikely Allies: How a Merchant, a Playwright, and a Spy Saved the American Revolution
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3.83 avg rating — 426 ratings
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The Real George Washington (American Classic Series)
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4.36 avg rating — 1,990 ratings
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Where the Cherry Tree Grew: The Story of Ferry Farm, George Washington’s Boyhood Home
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3.68 avg rating — 79 ratings
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We the Fallen People: The Founders and the Future of American Democracy
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4.39 avg rating — 228 ratings
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Thomas Jefferson's Qur'an: Islam and the Founders
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3.82 avg rating — 428 ratings
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The Real Thomas Jefferson (American Classic Series)
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4.37 avg rating — 1,212 ratings
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The Essential Hamilton: Letters & Other Writings: A Library of America Special Publication
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4.14 avg rating — 83 ratings
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American Dialogue: The Founders and Us
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4.22 avg rating — 1,730 ratings
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The Making of America: The Substance and Meaning of the Constitution
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4.39 avg rating — 747 ratings
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The Genius of Impeachment: The Founders' Cure for Royalism
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3.58 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution
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4.21 avg rating — 490 ratings
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The Life and Times of General Andrew Pickens: Revolutionary War Hero, American Founder
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The Reynolds Pamphlet
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3.75 avg rating — 356 ratings
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A Nation Rising: Untold Tales of Flawed Founders, Fallen Heroes, and Forgotten Fighters from America's Hidden History
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3.62 avg rating — 682 ratings
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Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution
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3.43 avg rating — 51 ratings
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A Sacred Union of Citizens: George Washington's Farewell Address and the American Character
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3.93 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Oglethorpe in Perspective : Georgia's Founder after Two Hundred Years
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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Ye Will Say I Am No Christian: The Thomas Jefferson/John Adams Correspondence on Religion, Morals, And Values
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Mr. Jefferson's Women
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3.26 avg rating — 156 ratings
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Discovering Hamilton: New Discoveries in the Lives of Alexander Hamilton, His Family, Friends, and Colleagues, From Various Archives Around the World
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4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Father of Liberty: Jonathan Mayhew and the Principles of the American Revolution
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Atlantic Cousins: Benjamin Franklin and His Visionary Friends
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3.09 avg rating — 22 ratings
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The Hamilton Collection: The Wisdom and Writings of the Founding Father
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3.60 avg rating — 55 ratings
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James Edward Oglethorpe: A New Look at Georgia's Founder
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Oglethorpe in Perspective: Georgia's Founder after Two Hundred Years
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David Brearley and the Making of the United States Constitution
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Button Gwinnett: Failed Merchant, Plantation Owner, Mountebank, Opportunist Politician and Founding Father
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Sex and the Founding Fathers: The American Quest for a Relatable Past
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3.46 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Fighting over the Founders: How We Remember the American Revolution
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Franklin & Washington: The Founding Partnership
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American Connections: The Founding Fathers. Networked.
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3.40 avg rating — 117 ratings
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No Property in Man: Slavery and Antislavery at the Nation’s Founding, With a New Preface
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3.92 avg rating — 190 ratings
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers
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3.97 avg rating — 366 ratings
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Rush: Revolution, Madness, and the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
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4.30 avg rating — 1,286 ratings
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Revolutionary Deists
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Thomas Jefferson's Creme Brulee: How a Founding Father and His Slave James Hemings Introduced French Cuisine to America
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Alexander Hamilton: The Graphic History of an American Founding Father
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First Founding Father: Richard Henry Lee and the Call to Independence
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