11 must-read biography books like Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty by Stephen Brumwell

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Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty

By: Stephen Brumwell

4.00

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Why did the once-ardent hero of the American Revolutionary cause become its most dishonored traitor…

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Cover of An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America by Nick Bunker

1. An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America

By: Nick Bunker

4.18

Format: 448 pages, Hardcover

Written from a strikingly fresh perspective, this new account of the Boston Tea Party and the origi… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • politics
  • american revolution
  • american revolutionary war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec, 1775 by Thomas A. Desjardin

2. Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec, 1775

By: Thomas A. Desjardin

3.99

Format: 256 pages, Hardcover

In September 1775, eleven hundred soldiers boarded ships in Newburyport, bound for the Maine wilder… read more

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  • american history
  • history
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  • american revolution
  • american revolutionary war
  • nonfiction
Cover of George Washington's Secret Six: The Spy Ring That Saved the American Revolution by Don Yaeger, Brian Kilmeade

3. 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
  • biography
  • history
  • american revolution
  • american revolutionary war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Valiant Ambition: George Washington, Benedict Arnold, and the Fate of the American Revolution (The American Revolution Series) by Nathaniel Philbrick

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

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

4.12

Format: 427 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of In The Heart of the Sea, comes a surprising account o… read more

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  • american history
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  • american revolution
  • american revolutionary war
  • nonfiction
"Midshipman Edward Pellew was in the British boat right behind Arnold's. The American general had escaped, but in his haste he had left behind his stock and buckle, which Pellew took as a keepsake. Ye…"

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

"In an October 6 letter to Lord Stirling, he set forth the principle that would guide his increasingly sophisticated intelligence-gathering efforts. "As we are often obliged to reason the designs of t…"

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

Cover of Lafayette in the Somewhat United States by Sarah Vowell

5. Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

By: Sarah Vowell

3.84

Format: 274 pages, Hardcover

From the bestselling author of Assassination Vacation and Unfamiliar Fishes, a humorous and insight… read more

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  • american history
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"In the United States, there was no simpler, more agreeable time."

-Sarah Vowell, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

"Lafayette took umbrage - just gobs and gobs of umbrage - at the patriots' vilification of his countrymen for leaving Newport."

-Sarah Vowell, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

"I do not think that there can ever be enough books about anything; and I say that knowing that some of them are going to be about Pilates."

-Sarah Vowell, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

"You know your country has a checkered past when you find yourself sitting around pondering the humanitarian upside of sticking with the British Empire."

-Sarah Vowell, Lafayette in the Somewhat United States

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6. The Maltese Falcon

By: Dashiell Hammett

3.93

Format: None pages, Paperback

Sam Spade is hired by the fragrant Miss Wonderley to track down her sister, who has eloped with a l… read more

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7. Washington's Spies: The Story of America's First Spy Ring

By: Alexander Rose

4.09

Format: None pages, Paperback

Now a TV series on AMC Basing his tale on remarkable original research, historian Alexander Rose re… read more

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8. The Paris Vendetta (Cotton Malone, #5)

By: Scott Brick , Steve Berry

4.00

Format: None pages,

Former Justice Department operative Cotton Malone wakes to find an intruder in his Copenhagen books… read more

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9. The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

By: Stacy Schiff

3.74

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, “Samuel Adams was the man… read more

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  • american history
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  • nonfiction
Cover of The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West by David McCullough

10. The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West

By: David McCullough

3.81

Format: 352 pages, Hardcover

Pulitzer Prize–winning historian David McCullough rediscovers an important and dramatic chapter in … read more

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  • american history
  • nonfiction
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  • history
Cover of Cuba: An American History by Ada Ferrer

11. Cuba: An American History

By: Ada Ferrer

4.45

Format: 560 pages, Hardcover

Winner of The L. A. Times Book Prize (2021) in History ​“Full of…lively insights and lucid prose” (… read more

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  • politics
  • american history
  • history
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Cover of The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 by Rick Atkinson

12. The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

By: Rick Atkinson

4.43

Format: 776 pages, Hardcover

In the initial volume of the Revolution Trilogy Rick Atkinson recounts the first twenty-one months … read more

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  • american history
  • history
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  • american revolutionary war
  • nonfiction
Cover of In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown by Nathaniel Philbrick

13. In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

4.11

Format: 366 pages, Hardcover

The thrilling story of the Revolutionary War finale from the New York Times bestselling author of I… read more

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  • american history
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  • nonfiction
Cover of Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space by Adam Higginbotham

14. Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

By: Adam Higginbotham

4.60

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger disaster based on new archival r… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
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  • nonfiction
"When asked what he was thinking about when preparing for launch abroad his Mercury-Redstone rocket, Alan Shepard, the first American in space, had infamously replied, "The fact that every part of thi…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

"At the foot of the ladder, he [Gene Cernan Apollo 17] delivered the short speech he had memorized for the occasion. "Is like to just say what I believe history will record: That America's challenge o…"

-Adam Higginbotham, Challenger: A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space

Cover of God Save Benedict Arnold: The True Story of America's Most Hated Man by Jack   Kelly

15. God Save Benedict Arnold: The True Story of America's Most Hated Man

By: Jack Kelly

3.95

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Benedict Arnold committed treason— for more than two centuries, that’s all that most Americans have… read more

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  • american history
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  • american revolution
  • american revolutionary war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Spitting Gold by Carmella Lowkis

16. Spitting Gold

By: Carmella Lowkis

3.52

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A deliciously haunting debut for fans of Sarah Waters and Sarah Penner set in 19th-century Paris, b… read more

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Cover of Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America’s Founding Father by Peter Stark

17. Young Washington: How Wilderness and War Forged America’s Founding Father

By: Peter Stark

4.01

Format: 510 pages, Kindle Edition

A new, brash, and unexpected view of the president we thought we knew, from the bestselling author … read more

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  • american history
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  • nonfiction
Cover of Valcour: The 1776 Campaign That Saved the Cause of Liberty by Jack   Kelly

18. Valcour: The 1776 Campaign That Saved the Cause of Liberty

By: Jack Kelly

4.30

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

The wild and suspenseful story of one of the most crucial and least known campaigns of the Revoluti… read more

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  • american history
  • history
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  • american revolution
  • american revolutionary war
  • nonfiction
Cover of Accursed Tower: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades by Roger Crowley

19. Accursed Tower: The Fall of Acre and the End of the Crusades

By: Roger Crowley

3.97

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

From a New York Times-bestselling author, a stirring account of the siege of Acre in 1291, when the… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
  • military history
Cover of Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty by Stephen Brumwell

20. Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty

By: Stephen Brumwell

4.00

Format: 384 pages, Hardcover

Why did the once-ardent hero of the American Revolutionary cause become its most dishonored traitor… read more

Similar categories in Stephen Brumwell's Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty book and Stephen Brumwell's Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • politics
  • military history
  • american revolution
  • american revolutionary war
  • nonfiction
Cover of War at Saber Point: Banastre Tarleton and the British Legion by John   Knight

21. War at Saber Point: Banastre Tarleton and the British Legion

By: John Knight

4.37

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

The American Loyalist Regiment Led by the Most Charismatic British Commander of the War The British… read more

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17 best-selling history books like Turncoat: Benedict Arnold and the Crisis of American Liberty by Stephen Brumwell

Transform Your Habits

An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America

Nick Bunker

4.18

Transform Your Habits

Through a Howling Wilderness: Benedict Arnold's March to Quebec, 1775

Thomas A. Desjardin

3.99

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

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

Nathaniel Philbrick

4.12

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5 best-selling american revolutionary war books like In the Hurricane's Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown by Nathaniel Philbrick

Transform Your Habits

Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

Joseph J. Ellis

3.50

Transform Your Habits

The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

Stacy Schiff

3.74

Transform Your Habits

Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

Eric Jay Dolin

3.89

Transform Your Habits

The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777

Rick Atkinson

4.43

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