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A Rumor Of War by Philip Caputo Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald Seabiscuit by Laura Hillenbrand The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris Endurance by Frank A. Worsley The Secret History by Donna Tartt The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald American Caesar by William Manchester The Great Santini by Pat Conroy The Day of Battle by Rick Atkinson A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
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Book cover for The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy Book 1)
The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy Book 1) by Rick Atkinson
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two-thirds of white colonial men owned land, compared to one-fifth in England; that two-thirds were literate, more than in England; that in most colonies two-thirds could vote, compared to one Englishman in six; that provincial America ...more
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