6 Best historical books like Revolution Song: The Story of America's Founding in Six Remarkable Lives by Russell Shorto

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Revolution Song: The Story of America's Founding in Six Remarkable Lives

By: Russell Shorto

4.35

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

With America’s founding principles being debated today as never before, Russell Shorto looks back t…

If you liked the historical plot in Revolution Song: The Story of America's Founding in Six Remarkable Lives by Russell Shorto , here is a list of 6 books like this:

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1. Wij slaven van Suriname

By: Anton de Kom

4.27

Format: 24 pages, Paperback

Over de rol van Anton de Kom in het bewustzijn van Suriname is het laatste woord nog niet geschreve… read more

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  • historical
  • politics
  • history
  • nonfiction
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2. Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

By: Elmore Leonard

4.00

Format: 240 pages, ebook

Elmore Leonard, best-selling author of 37 novels including Get Shorty and the recent Pagan Babies, … read more

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"I want you to understand,"

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

"I thought I explained it to you. Boyd and I dug coal together."

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

"Boyd looked at him now like he was trying to decide something in his mind. “You’d shoot me, you get the chance?"

-Elmore Leonard, Fire in the Hole (Raylan Givens, #2.5)

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3. The Last Days of Night

By: Graham Moore

5.00

Format: None pages, Hardcover

New York, 1888. Gas lamps still flicker in the city streets, but the miracle of electric light is i… read more

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  • historical

4. Absalom, Absalom!

By: William Faulkner

3.51

Format: None pages, Paperback

Published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is considered by many to be William Faulkner's masterpiece. Al… read more

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5. Métronome : L'histoire de France au rythme du métro parisien

By: Lorànt Deutsch

2.00

Format: 161 pages, Paperback

Saviez-vous que la Lutece des origines ne se situait pas sur l'ile de la Cite, mais a Nanterre ? Qu… read more

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6. Death Comes for the Archbishop

By: Willa Cather

3.67

Format: None pages, Paperback

There is something epic--and almost mythic--about this sparsely beautiful novel by Willa Cather, al… read more

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7. Battle Cry of Freedom

By: James M. McPherson

3.91

Format: None pages, Paperback

Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, B… read more

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8. The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

By: Robert Macfarlane

4.13

Format: 433 pages, Hardcover

Robert Macfarlane travels Britain's ancient paths and discovers the secrets of our beautiful, under… read more

Similar categories in Robert Macfarlane's The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot book and Russell Shorto's Revolution Song: The Story of America's Founding in Six Remarkable Lives

  • nonfiction
  • history
"The next day, my birthday, was one of the most charmed of my life."

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

"For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith."

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

"The compact between writing and walking is almost as old as literature -- a walk is only a step away from a story, and every path tells."

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

"Wherever my grandfather had gone in his remarkable life, he had walked. He had been a diplomat and a mountaineer who spent fifty years traveling the world, and in every posting he had sought out high…"

-Robert Macfarlane, The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot

9. How the Scots Invented the Modern World: The True Story of How Western Europe's Poorest Nation Created Our World and Everything in It

By: Arthur Herman , None

3.74

Format: 646 pages, Paperback

Who formed the first literate society? Who invented our modern ideas of democracy and free market c… read more

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10. Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter

By: Ian Mortimer

4.00

Format: 246 pages, Hardcover

The essential introduction to the Middle Ages by the bestselling author of The Time Traveller's Gui… read more

Similar categories in Ian Mortimer's Medieval Horizons: Why the Middle Ages Matter book and Russell Shorto's Revolution Song: The Story of America's Founding in Six Remarkable Lives

  • historical
  • nonfiction
  • history
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11. Ik kom hier nog op terug

By: Rob van Essen

3.78

Format: 398 pages, Paperback

Wanneer hij de mogelijkheid krijgt een fout uit het verleden te herstellen grijpt Rob Hollander dit… read more

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"Was het grote falen van mijn leven eigenlijk niet dat ik zo weinig had gefaald, omdat ik zo weinig had gedaan, omdat ik me zo weinig had verbonden, aan mensen, aan dingen? Ik had mezelf geen kans geg…"

-Rob van Essen, Ik kom hier nog op terug

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12. Zachtop lachen

By: Malou Holshuijsen

4.30

Format: 280 pages, Paperback

Zachtop lachen van Malou Holshuijsen gaat over een jonge vrouw met galgenhumor, een dode Indische o… read more

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13. The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History

By: Ned Blackhawk

4.18

Format: 596 pages, Hardcover

A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essentia… read more

Similar categories in Ned Blackhawk's The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History book and Russell Shorto's Revolution Song: The Story of America's Founding in Six Remarkable Lives

  • politics
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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14. 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

Similar categories in Rick Atkinson's The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 book and Russell Shorto's Revolution Song: The Story of America's Founding in Six Remarkable Lives

  • american history
  • history
  • war
  • american revolution
  • american revolutionary war
  • nonfiction
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15. Misschien moet je iets lager mikken: een verhaal over armoede en kansenongelijkheid

By: Milio van de Kamp

4.26

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

Een persoonlijk en rauw verhaal over de impact van kansenongelijkheid. In het huis waarin Milio … read more

Similar categories in Milio van de Kamp's Misschien moet je iets lager mikken: een verhaal over armoede en kansenongelijkheid book and Russell Shorto's Revolution Song: The Story of America's Founding in Six Remarkable Lives

  • nonfiction
  • biography
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16. Churchill: Walking with Destiny

By: Andrew Roberts

4.36

Format: 1105 pages, Hardcover

A landmark reconsideration of the iconoclastic war leader, based on extensive new material, from pr… read more

Similar categories in Andrew Roberts's Churchill: Walking with Destiny book and Russell Shorto's Revolution Song: The Story of America's Founding in Six Remarkable Lives

  • history
  • biography
  • historical
  • politics
  • war
  • nonfiction
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17. Rotterdam. Een ode aan inefficiëntie

By: Arjen van Veelen

4.23

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Arjen van Veelen keert na twintig jaar terug naar zijn geboortestad Rotterdam. Hij is op slag verli… read more

Similar categories in Arjen van Veelen's Rotterdam. Een ode aan inefficiëntie book and Russell Shorto's Revolution Song: The Story of America's Founding in Six Remarkable Lives

  • politics
  • nonfiction
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18. Etty Hillesum: het verhaal van haar leven

By: Judith Koelemeijer

4.51

Format: 576 pages, Paperback

Etty Hillesum: het verhaal van haar leven is de meeslepende geschiedenis van een jonge, gepassionee… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
Cover of De Franse Revolutie I: Van revolutie tot republiek by Johan Op de Beeck

19. De Franse Revolutie I: Van revolutie tot republiek

By: Johan Op de Beeck

4.10

Format: 544 pages, Paperback

In een wervelende vertelling brengt Johan Op de Beeck het stormachtige verhaal van de Franse Revolu… read more

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  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of De Franse Revolutie II: Van Robespierre tot Napoleon by Johan Op de Beeck

20. De Franse Revolutie II: Van Robespierre tot Napoleon

By: Johan Op de Beeck

4.07

Format: 496 pages, ebook

In een wervelende vertelling brengt Johan Op de Beeck zijn vervolg op het stormachtige verhaal van … read more

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  • historical
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of Revolution Song: The Story of America's Founding in Six Remarkable Lives by Russell Shorto

21. Revolution Song: The Story of America's Founding in Six Remarkable Lives

By: Russell Shorto

4.35

Format: 640 pages, Paperback

With America’s founding principles being debated today as never before, Russell Shorto looks back t… read more

Similar categories in Russell Shorto's Revolution Song: The Story of America's Founding in Six Remarkable Lives book and Russell Shorto's Revolution Song: The Story of America's Founding in Six Remarkable Lives

  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • the united states of america
  • historical
  • politics
  • war
  • american revolution
  • american revolutionary war
  • nonfiction

10 best-selling history books like Revolution Song: The Story of America's Founding in Six Remarkable Lives by Russell Shorto

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Anton de Kom

4.27

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4.13

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Ian Mortimer

4.00

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Ned Blackhawk

4.18

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