Suggested Revolutionary War Reading List

Book Title

Author
Founding Mothers Cokie Roberts
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Walter Isaacson
Rise to Rebellion (and)
The Glorious Cause
Jeff Shaara
Founding Brothers, The Revolutionary Generation Joseph J. Ellis
Founding Father, Rediscovering George Washington Richard Brookhiser
The Crossing (George Washington and Battle of Trenton) Howard Fast
Mount Vernon Love Story Mary Higgins Clark

John Adams (and)
1776

David McCullough
Dark Eagle (Benedict Arnold) John Enson Harr
The Execution of Major Andre (Benedict Arnold and John Andre) John Evangelist Walsh
The Great American Rascal (Aaron Burr) Philip Vail
Washington, The Indispensable Man (and)
The Traitor and The Spy (Benedict Arnold and John Andre) (and)
George Washington in the American Revolution 1775-1783
James Thomas Flexner
Valley Forge MacKinlay Kantor
Valley Forge Newt Gingrich and William R. Forstchen
Long Knife (George Rogers Clark) James Alexander Thom
Benjamin Franklin Edmund S. Morgan
Alexander Hamilton, American Richard Brookhiser
James Madison, Secretary of State Irving Brant
American Sphinx (Thomas Jefferson) Joseph J. Ellis
Paul Revere and the World He Lived In Esther Forbes
Inheriting the Revolution Joyce Oldham Appleby
A Brilliant Solution, Inventing the American Constitution Carol Berkin
Setting the World Ablaze John Ferling
Affair of Honor June Freeman
Dolley (Historical novel of Dolley Madison in Love and War) Rita Mae Brown
John Paul Jones (A biography of the father of the American Navy) Evan Thomas