Top 10 Best "Founding Fathers" Books

Founding Faith

Steven Waldman

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Founding Fathers

Steven W. Allen
Rosemary Green

Founding Fathers

Founding Fathers

In Founding Fathers Uncommon Heroes you will learn:

-- who kept his wife in a strait-dress in the basement. (p. 131)

-- who introduced waffles, macaroni, and ice cream to the United States. (p. 168)

-- who spontaneously added so help me God to the Presidential oath of office. (p.76)

-- who took daily air-baths in the all-together and who refused to travel with him as a result. (p. 25-27)

-- who emerged from a French and Indian War battle with four bullet holes in his coat and two horses shot out from under him yet remained unharmed? (p. 51)

-- and much, much more

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Founding Brothers

Joseph J. Ellis

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Founding Fathers

Encyclopaedia Britannica

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American Gospel

Jon Meacham

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Founding Fathers, Secret Societies

Robert Hieronimus Ph.D.
Laura Cortner

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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers (The Politically Incorrect Guides)

Brion McClanahan

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Something That Will Surprise the World

Susan Dunn

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Founding Brothers

Joseph J. Ellis

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The Faiths of the Founding Fathers

David L. Holmes

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The Founding Fathers Reconsidered

Here is a concise, scholarly, yet accessible overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as "the Founding Fathers"--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic "philosopher-kings" as American or world history has ever seen. In The Founding Fathers Reconsidered , R. B. Bernstein reveals Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, and the other founders not as shining demigods but as imperfect human beings--people much like us--who nevertheless achieved political greatness. They emerge here as men who sought to transcend their intellectual world even as they were bound by its limits, men who strove to lead the new nation even as they had to defer to the great body of the people and learn with them the possibilities and limitations of politics. Bernstein deftly traces the dynamic forces that molded these men and their contemporaries as British colonists in North America and as intellectual citizens of the Atlantic civilization's Age of Enlightenment. He analyzes the American Revolution, the framing a...

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The Founding Fathers Reconsidered

R.B. Bernstein

Founding Fathers

The Intimate Lives of the Founding Fathers

Thomas Fleming

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