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Founding Fathers Books
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Alexander Hamilton (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.22 — 203,848 ratings — published 2004
John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.08 — 381,354 ratings — published 2001
Washington: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.17 — 84,930 ratings — published 2010
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 3.95 — 47,940 ratings — published 2000
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.05 — 152,461 ratings — published 2003
1776 (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.10 — 252,322 ratings — published 2005
American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 3.94 — 29,159 ratings — published 1997
His Excellency: George Washington (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 3.96 — 43,623 ratings — published 2004
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.05 — 43,812 ratings — published 2012
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 3.85 — 93,152 ratings — published 1791
The Federalist Papers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 25 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.10 — 42,470 ratings — published 1788
The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.11 — 22,960 ratings — published 2000
American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 3.97 — 10,847 ratings — published 2007
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,883 ratings — published 2015
The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 3.94 — 11,018 ratings — published 2009
Common Sense (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.01 — 40,475 ratings — published 1776
American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,306 ratings — published 2006
The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.13 — 8,565 ratings — published 2004
Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series)
by (shelved 12 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.13 — 10,113 ratings — published 2016
First Family: Abigail and John Adams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,605 ratings — published 2010
Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,171 ratings — published 2006
The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 3.74 — 7,743 ratings — published 2022
Friends Divided: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,895 ratings — published 2017
Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.06 — 3,144 ratings — published 1993
James Madison: A Biography (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,485 ratings — published 1971
James Madison: A Life Reconsidered (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.00 — 3,532 ratings — published 2014
James Madison (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 3.75 — 3,618 ratings — published 2011
Washington's Crossing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.16 — 15,381 ratings — published 2003
Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 3.77 — 2,220 ratings — published 2007
My Dear Hamilton (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.30 — 55,231 ratings — published 2018
Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates: The Forgotten War that Changed American History (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 3.80 — 17,320 ratings — published 2015
Jefferson and Hamilton: The Rivalry That Forged a Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,306 ratings — published 2013
The Declaration of Independence / The Constitution of the United States (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.44 — 27,682 ratings — published 1776
First Principles: What America's Founders Learned from the Greeks and Romans and How That Shaped Our Country (ebook)
by (shelved 8 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,036 ratings — published 2020
John Jay: Founding Father (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.01 — 730 ratings — published 2005
America's First Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.23 — 69,552 ratings — published 2016
Thomas Jefferson: Author of America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 3.94 — 3,925 ratings — published 2005
Madison and Jefferson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,107 ratings — published 2010
Burr (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.09 — 10,798 ratings — published 1973
Twilight at Monticello: The Final Years of Thomas Jefferson (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 3.97 — 934 ratings — published 2008
The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,632 ratings — published 2007
The 5000 Year Leap (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.27 — 7,183 ratings — published 1981
Lion of Liberty: Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.06 — 848 ratings — published 2010
John, Paul, George & Ben (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.20 — 3,680 ratings — published 2006
Samuel Adams: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,244 ratings — published 2008
Washington: The Indispensable Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.11 — 6,154 ratings — published 1974
Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.50 — 7,851 ratings — published 2021
James Monroe: A Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,541 ratings — published 2020
American Dialogue: The Founders and Us (Audio CD)
by (shelved 6 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,737 ratings — published 2018
The First Conspiracy: The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as founding-fathers)
avg rating 3.82 — 14,367 ratings — published 2019
“To be an American is to
recognize the sacrifice
of the widow and the orphan;
it is to understand the weft of tent
cities expecting caravans,
and the heft of a child in a camp
not meant for children, or sitting
before a judge awaiting judgement.
What do we say to the native
whose lands we now inhabit?
What do we say to our immigrant
fathers who held certain truths
to be self-evident?
Do we now still pledge to each
other our lives, our fortunes,
our sacred honor.
There are no kings in America.
Only gilded men we can topple
again and again.”
―
recognize the sacrifice
of the widow and the orphan;
it is to understand the weft of tent
cities expecting caravans,
and the heft of a child in a camp
not meant for children, or sitting
before a judge awaiting judgement.
What do we say to the native
whose lands we now inhabit?
What do we say to our immigrant
fathers who held certain truths
to be self-evident?
Do we now still pledge to each
other our lives, our fortunes,
our sacred honor.
There are no kings in America.
Only gilded men we can topple
again and again.”
―
“Franklin and Jefferson understood balance. They were part of an Enlightenment era that embraced the scientific method of testing and revising beliefs based on evidence. Both of them studied Isaac Newton, whose mechanics explained how contending forces could be brought into equilibrium. Their goal on contentious issues was not to triumph but to find the right balance, an art that has been lost today. Compromisers may not make great heroes, Franklin liked to say, but they do make great democracies.”
― The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
― The Greatest Sentence Ever Written
