5 Best nonfiction books like Faces of Revolution: Personalities & Themes in the Struggle for American Independence by Bernard Bailyn

Cover of Faces of Revolution: Personalities & Themes in the Struggle for American Independence by Bernard Bailyn

Faces of Revolution: Personalities & Themes in the Struggle for American Independence

By: Bernard Bailyn

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Bernard Bailyn brings us a book that combines portraits of American r…

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Cover of The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood

1. The Radicalism of the American Revolution

By: Gordon S. Wood

4.08

Format: 447 pages, Paperback

In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analys… read more

Similar categories in Gordon S. Wood's The Radicalism of the American Revolution book and Bernard Bailyn's Faces of Revolution: Personalities & Themes in the Struggle for American Independence

  • american history
  • history
  • american revolution
  • american revolutionary war
  • nonfiction
"the republican revolution was the greatest utopian movement in American history. The revolutionaries aimed at nothing less than a reconstruction of American society....They sought to reconstruct a so…"

-Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution

"The idea of labor, of hard work, leading to increased productivity was so novel, so radical, in the overall span of Western history that most ordinary people, most of those who labored, could scarcel…"

-Gordon S. Wood, The Radicalism of the American Revolution

Cover of A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence by Howard Zinn, Ray Raphael

2. A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence

By: Howard Zinn , Ray Raphael

3.90

Format: 528 pages, Paperback

A sweeping narrative of the wartime experience, A People's History of the American Revolution is th… read more

Similar categories in Howard Zinn's A People's History of the American Revolution: How Common People Shaped the Fight for Independence book and Bernard Bailyn's Faces of Revolution: Personalities & Themes in the Struggle for American Independence

  • american history
  • history
  • american revolution
  • american revolutionary war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Black Boy by Richard Wright, Jerry W. Ward Jr.

3. Black Boy

By: Richard Wright , Jerry W. Ward Jr.

3.91

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Black Boyis a classic of American autobiography, a subtly crafted narrative of Richard Wright's jou… read more

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  • nonfiction

4. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

By: Joseph J. Ellis

2.80

Format: None pages,

Informs our understanding of American politics--then and now--and gives us a new perspective on the… read more

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5. Wait Till Next Year

By: Doris Kearns Goodwin

3.07

Format: None pages,

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6. A Little History of Philosophy

By: Nigel Warburton

3.78

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Philosophy begins with questions about the nature of reality and how we should live. These were the… read more

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7. The Minutemen and Their World

By: Robert A. Gross

3.66

Format: 180 pages,

Winner of the Bancroft Prize The Minutemen and Their World, first published in 1976, is reissued no… read more

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Cover of The Premonition: A Pandemic Story by Michael   Lewis

8. The Premonition: A Pandemic Story

By: Michael Lewis

4.34

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

For those who could read between the lines, the censored news out of China was terrifying. But the … read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
Cover of Faces of Revolution: Personalities & Themes in the Struggle for American Independence by Bernard Bailyn

9. Faces of Revolution: Personalities & Themes in the Struggle for American Independence

By: Bernard Bailyn

3.66

Format: 320 pages, Paperback

Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Bernard Bailyn brings us a book that combines portraits of American r… read more

Similar categories in Bernard Bailyn's Faces of Revolution: Personalities & Themes in the Struggle for American Independence book and Bernard Bailyn's Faces of Revolution: Personalities & Themes in the Struggle for American Independence

  • american history
  • history
  • american revolution
  • american revolutionary war
  • nonfiction

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