Revolutionary category: 2684 books
by Sarah Vowell
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2015
From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and The Partly Cloudy Patriot, an insightful and unconventional account of George Washington’s trusted officer and friend, that swashbuckling teenage French aristocrat the Marquis de Lafayette.
Chronicling General Lafayette’s years in...
George Washington's Secret Spy War
The Making of America's First Spymaster
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
George Washington was America’s first spymaster, and his skill as a spymaster won the war for independence.
George Washington’s Secret Spy War is the untold story of how George Washington took a disorderly, ill-equipped rabble and defeated the best trained and best equipped army of its...
Light-Horse Harry Lee
The Rise and Fall of a Revolutionary Hero - The Tragic Life of Robert E. Lee's Father
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2019
"Light-Horse Harry blazes across the pages of Ryan Cole's narrative like a meteor—and his final crash is as destructive. Cole tells his story with care, sympathy, and where necessary, sternness. This book is a great, and sometimes harrowing read." —Richard Brookhiser, senior editor at National...
The First Conspiracy
The Secret Plot to Kill George Washington
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
Taking place during the most critical period of our nation’s birth, The First Conspiracy tells a remarkable and previously untold piece of American history that not only reveals George Washington’s character, but also illuminates the origins of America’s counterintelligence movement that led...
Revolutionary Characters
What Made the Founders Different
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2006
In this brilliantly illuminating group portrait of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers, the incomparable Gordon Wood has written a book that seriously asks, "What made these men great?" and shows us, among many other things, just how much character did in fact matter. The life of...
John Adams
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2010
John Ferling has nearly forty years of experience as a historian of early America. The author of acclaimed histories such as A Leap into the Dark and Almost a Miracle, he has appeared on many TV and film documentaries on this pivotal period of our history. In John Adams: A Life, Ferling offers a compelling...
The Pioneers
The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in the American story—the settling of the Northwest Territory by dauntless pioneers who overcame incredible hardships to build a community based on ideals that would...
The Peasant Prince
Thaddeus Kosciuszko and the Age of Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2009
Thaddeus Kosciuszko, a Polish-Lithuanian born in 1746, was one of the most important figures of the modern world. Fleeing his homeland after a death sentence was placed on his head (when he dared court a woman above his station), he came to America one month after the signing of the Declaration of...
Treacherous Beauty
Peggy Shippen, the Woman behind Benedict Arnold's Plot to Betray America
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Histories of the Revolutionary War have long honored heroines such as Betsy Ross, Abigail Adams, and Molly Pitcher. Now, more than two centuries later, comes the first biography of one of the war’s most remarkable women, a beautiful Philadelphia society girl named Peggy Shippen. While war was raging...
Revolutionary Russia, 1891-1991
A History
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2014
From the author of A People's Tragedy, an original reading of the Russian Revolution, examining it not as a single event but as a hundred-year cycle of violence in pursuit of utopian dreams
In this elegant and incisive account, Orlando Figes offers an illuminating new perspective on the Russian...
Killing England
The Brutal Struggle for American Independence
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2017
The Revolutionary War as never told before.
The breathtaking latest installment in Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard’s mega-bestselling Killing series transports readers to the most important era in our nation’s history, the Revolutionary War. Told through the eyes of George Washington,...
Revolutionary Mothers
Women in the Struggle for America's Independence
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
The American Revolution was a home-front war that brought scarcity, bloodshed, and danger into the life of every American. In this groundbreaking history, Carol Berkin shows us how women played a vital role throughout the conflict.
The women of the Revolution were most active at home, organizing...
The American Revolution
A History
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2002
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“An elegant synthesis done by the leading scholar in the field, which nicely integrates the work on the American Revolution over the last three decades but never loses contact with the older, classic questions that we have been arguing about for over two hundred...
When the United States Spoke French
Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
In 1789, as the French Revolution shook Europe to the core, the new United States was struggling for survival in the face of financial insolvency and bitter political and regional divisions. When the United States Spoke French explores the republic’s formative years from the viewpoint of a distinguished...