18 best-selling history books like The Gods of Prophetstown: The Battle of Tippecanoe and the Holy War for the American Frontier by Adam Jortner

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The Gods of Prophetstown: The Battle of Tippecanoe and the Holy War for the American Frontier

By: Adam Jortner

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It began with an eclipse. In 1806, the Shawnee leader Tenskwatawa (The Open Door) declared himself …

If you liked the history plot in The Gods of Prophetstown: The Battle of Tippecanoe and the Holy War for the American Frontier by Adam Jortner , here is a list of 18 books like this:

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1. George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution

By: Don Yaeger , Brian Kilmeade

3.85

Format: 235 pages, Hardcover

As a Long Islander endlessly fascinated by events that happened in a place I call home, I hope with… read more

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  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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2. A Matter of Justice: Eisenhower and the Beginning of the Civil Rights Revolution

By: David A. Nichols

2.60

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Fifty years after President Dwight D. Eisenhower ordered troops to Little Rock, Arkansas, to enforc… read more

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  • american history
  • history
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3. Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President

By: Robert Dallek

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

Robert Dallek's brilliant two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson has received an avalanche of prais… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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4. A. Lincoln

By: Ronald C. White Jr.

4.30

Format: 816 pages, Hardcover

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYThe Washington Post • The Philadelphia Inquirer • The Chr… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction

5. Colonel House: A Biography of Woodrow Wilson's Silent Partner

By: None

5.00

Format: 229 pages, Hardcover

A man who lived his life mostly in the shadows, Edward M. House is little known or remembered today… read more

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6. Paradise Lost

By: John Milton , John Leonard

3.84

Format: 512 pages, Paperback

John Milton's Paradise Lost is one of the greatest epic poems in the English language. It tells the… read more

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"What hath night to do with sleep?"

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Awake, arise or be for ever fall’n."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Solitude sometimes is best society."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

"Wild above rule or art, enormous bliss."

-John Milton, Paradise Lost

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7. A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland

By: Troy Senik

4.16

Format: 384 pages, ebook

“A thoroughly engaging and enjoyable” (National Review) biography of Grover Cleveland—the honest, p… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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8. We Could Be So Good

By: Cat Sebastian

4.29

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Casey McQuiston meets The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo in this mid-century romdram about a scrappy… read more

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9. Teddy and Booker T.: How Two American Icons Blazed a Path for Racial Equality

By: Brian Kilmeade

4.22

Format: 366 pages, Kindle Edition

The New York Times bestselling author of George Washington's Secret Six and Thomas Jefferson and th… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. Here's to Us (What If It's Us, #2)

By: Becky Albertalli

4.03

Format: 448 pages, ebook

Ben has spent his first year of college working on his fantasy manuscript with his writing partner … read more

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"You could launch us to opposite ends of this solar system, and we'd find our way back to each other."

-Becky Albertalli, Here's to Us (What If It's Us, #2)

"Ben shoots me a quick sideways smile, but it’s cool, because who even needs lungs? Why are we all so obsessed with breathing?"

-Becky Albertalli, Here's to Us (What If It's Us, #2)

"Then we just kind of stare at each other for a minute. Or ten minutes. Or ten hours. I don’t know how to measure time when Ben’s looking at me."

-Becky Albertalli, Here's to Us (What If It's Us, #2)

"People don’t warn you that heartbreak is a chronic condition. Maybe it quiets down a little over time, or you can muffle it with distance, but the ache never quite dials down to zero. It’s there lurk…"

-Becky Albertalli, Here's to Us (What If It's Us, #2)

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11. The Trees

By: Percival Everett

4.06

Format: 309 pages, Paperback

When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive in Money, Mississippi… read more

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"Unknown Male is a name,"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything,"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"You should know I consider police shootings to be lynchings"

-Percival Everett, The Trees

"People should know, understand that not all Thursdays are the same."

-Percival Everett, The Trees

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12. The Last Outlaws: The Desperate Final Days of the Dalton Gang

By: Tom Clavin

3.67

Format: 269 pages, Hardcover

The definitive account of the Dalton Gang and the most brazen bank heist in history, by the multipl… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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13. Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune

By: Anderson Cooper

3.77

Format: 322 pages, Hardcover

The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting histor… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783 by Joseph J. Ellis

14. The Cause: The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783

By: Joseph J. Ellis

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

In one of the most “exciting and engaging” (Gordon S. Wood) histories of the American founding in d… read more

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  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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15. Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution

By: H.W. Brands

3.92

Format: 496 pages, Hardcover

New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands offers a fresh and dramatic narrative of the Amer… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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16. Three Days at the Brink

By: Bret Baier

4.21

Format: 434 pages, Hardcover

“I not put this extraordinary book down. Three Days at the Brink is a masterpiece: elegantly writt… read more

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  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • history
  • war
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17. Empire of Ice and Stone: The Disastrous and Heroic Voyage of the Karluk

By: Buddy Levy

4.42

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The true, harrowing story of the ill-fated 1913 Canadian Arctic Expedition and the two men who came… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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18. The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington

By: Martha Saxton

3.66

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

An insightful biography of Mary Ball Washington, the mother of our nation's father The Widow Washi… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Countdown bin Laden: The Untold Story of the 247-Day Hunt to Bring the Mastermind of 9/11 to Justice by Chris Wallace

19. Countdown bin Laden: The Untold Story of the 247-Day Hunt to Bring the Mastermind of 9/11 to Justice

By: Chris Wallace

4.34

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

Following Chris Wallace’s “riveting” (The New York Times) and “propulsive” (Time) #1 national bests… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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20. The American War in Afghanistan: A History

By: Carter Malkasian

4.26

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The first authoritative history of American's longest war by one of the world's leading scholar-pra… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson by Robert S. Levine

21. The Failed Promise: Reconstruction, Frederick Douglass, and the Impeachment of Andrew Johnson

By: Robert S. Levine

3.99

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Robert S. Levine foregrounds the viewpoints of Black Americans on Reconstruction in his absorbing a… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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22. The Gods of Prophetstown: The Battle of Tippecanoe and the Holy War for the American Frontier

By: Adam Jortner

3.70

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

It began with an eclipse. In 1806, the Shawnee leader Tenskwatawa (The Open Door) declared himself … read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • native american
  • nonfiction
Cover of The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917 by Philip D. Zelikow

23. The Road Less Traveled: The Secret Battle to End the Great War, 1916-1917

By: Philip D. Zelikow

4.08

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

A revelatory new history that explores the tantalizing and almost-realized possibility that the Fir… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • war
  • military history
  • nonfiction
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24. 100 Days in the Life of Rutherford Hayes

By: Eric Ebinger

4.11

Format: 215 pages, Paperback

The greatest tragedy in all of American historical biography is that President Rutherford Hayes has… read more

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17 Best nonfiction books like The Gods of Prophetstown: The Battle of Tippecanoe and the Holy War for the American Frontier by Adam Jortner

Transform Your Habits

George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution

Don Yaeger , Brian Kilmeade

3.85

Transform Your Habits

Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President

Robert Dallek

4.00

Transform Your Habits

A. Lincoln

Ronald C. White Jr.

4.30

Transform Your Habits

A Man of Iron: The Turbulent Life and Improbable Presidency of Grover Cleveland

Troy Senik

4.16

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14 best-selling audiobook books like Three Days at the Brink by Bret Baier

Transform Your Habits

Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series)

Nathaniel Philbrick

4.12

Transform Your Habits

Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan

Bill O'Reilly , Martin Dugard

4.35

Transform Your Habits

Killing the Killers: The Secret War Against Terrorists

Bill O'Reilly

4.19

Transform Your Habits

The President and the Freedom Fighter: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglass, and Their Battle to Save America's Soul

Brian Kilmeade

4.23

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