14 Top history books like Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation by David A. Price

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Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation

By: David A. Price

4.19

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A New York TimesNotable Book and aSan Jose Mercury NewsTop 20 Nonfiction Book of 2003In 1606, appro…

If you liked the history plot in Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation by David A. Price , here is a list of 14 books like this:

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1. The Education of Little Tree

By: Forrest Carter

4.13

Format: 216 pages, Paperback

The Education of Little Tree tells of a boy orphaned very young, who is adopted by his Cherokee gra… read more

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  • american
"You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been."

-Forrest Carter, The Education of Little Tree

"Granma's name was Bonnie Bee. I knew that when I heard him late at night say, 'I kin ye, Bonnie Bee,' he was saying, 'I love ye,' for the feeling was in the words."

-Forrest Carter, The Education of Little Tree

"Granma said when you come on something good, first thing to do is share it with whoever you can find; that way, the good spreads out where no telling it will go. Which is right."

-Forrest Carter, The Education of Little Tree

"Then sometime there in late March, after the Indian violets had come, we would be gathering on the mountain and the wind, raw and mean, would change for just a second. It would touch your face as sof…"

-Forrest Carter, The Education of Little Tree

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2. 1776

By: David McCullough

4.09

Format: 386 pages, Paperback

In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with … read more

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  • historical
  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
"I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene"

-David McCullough, 1776

"Indeed, bribery, favoritism, and corruption in a great variety of forms were rampant not only in politics, but in all levels of society."

-David McCullough, 1776

"It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books."

-David McCullough, 1776

"as the Sword was the last resort for the preservation of our liberties, so it ought to be the first thing laid aside when those liberties are firmly established"

-David McCullough, 1776

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3. Crucible of War: The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754 - 1766

By: Fred Anderson

4.19

Format: 912 pages, Paperback

In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War–long seen as a mere backdrop to the Am… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • nonfiction
Cover of The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History by Linwood Custalow, None, Angela L. Daniel

4. The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History

By: Linwood Custalow , None , Angela L. Daniel

4.00

Format: 138 pages, Paperback

The True Story of Pocahontas is the first public publication of the Powhatan perspective that has b… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
Cover of Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge by Erica Armstrong Dunbar

5. Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

By: Erica Armstrong Dunbar

3.33

Format: None pages, Hardcover

A startling and eye-opening look into America's First Family, Never Caughtis the powerful narrative… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
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6. His Excellency: George Washington

By: Joseph J. Ellis

3.75

Format: 272 pages, Paperback

National Bestseller To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the e… read more

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  • american history
  • nonfiction
  • biography
  • history
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7. Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation

By: David A. Price

4.19

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

A New York TimesNotable Book and aSan Jose Mercury NewsTop 20 Nonfiction Book of 2003In 1606, appro… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • biography
  • history
  • 17th century
  • historical
  • nonfiction
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8. Endurance

By: Patrick O'Brian , Frank A. Worsley

3.95

Format: None pages, Paperback

You seriously mean to tell me that the ship is doomed?" asked Frank Worsley, commander of the Endur… read more

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  • history
  • biography
  • nonfiction
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9. Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

3.66

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

Nathaniel Philbrick, the bestselling author ofIn the Heart of the Seaand Mayflower, brings his prod… read more

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  • american history
  • history
  • nonfiction
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10. Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

By: Nathaniel Philbrick

3.88

Format: 461 pages, Hardcover

HOW DID AMERICA BEGIN? This simple question launches acclaimed author Nathaniel Philbrick on an … read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • 17th century
  • historical
  • nonfiction
"W"

-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

"The moment any of them gave up on the difficult work of living with their neighbors--and all of the compromise, frustration, and delay that inevitably entailed--they risked losing everything."

-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

"Faint not, poor soul, in God still trust; Fear not the things thou suffer must; For, whom he loves he doth chastise, And then all tears wipes from their eyes. William Bradford Plymouth Colony Governor"

-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

"For all they had suffered during those first terrible winters in America, their best years were behind them, in Leiden. Never again would they know the same rapturous sense of divine fellowship that …"

-Nathaniel Philbrick, Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community, and War

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11. Theodore Rex

By: Edmund Morris

4.18

Format: 772 pages, Paperback

Theodore Roosevelt and his two-term presidency (1901-9) deserve a king-size, seize-the-man biograph… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
"Implicit in the stare of those eyes, the power of those knobbly hands, was labor's historic threat of violence against capital."

-Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex

"Yet there was no doubt that Theodore Roosevelt was peculiarly qualified to be President of all the people. Few, if any Americans could match the breadth of his intellect and the strength of his chara…"

-Edmund Morris, Theodore Rex

12. A Land So Strange: The Epic Journey of Cabeza de Vaca

By: Andrés Reséndez

3.68

Format: None pages,

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13. Savage Kingdom: The True Story of Jamestown, 1607, and the Settlement of America

By: Benjamin Woolley

5.00

Format: 299 pages, Hardcover

Four centuries ago, and fourteen years before the Mayflower, a group of men--led by a one-armed ex-… read more

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14. Great Expectations

By: Vinson Cunningham

3.35

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

A historic presidential campaign changes the trajectory of a young Black man’s life in the highly a… read more

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"For him, identity had been a kind of curation or collation—he picked up aspects as he went, freestyle."

-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations

"It had always struck me as a place to be lost, experienced passage by passage in a series of unfolding images—not something you could take in in one possessive glance."

-Vinson Cunningham, Great Expectations

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15. Every Star That Falls

By: Michael Thomas Ford

3.86

Format: 416 pages, Hardcover

This much-anticipated sequel to the acclaimed fan-favorite novel Suicide Notes is a funny, touching… read more

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16. The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

By: Monica Potts

3.88

Format: 258 pages, Hardcover

An acclaimed journalist tries to understand how she escaped her small-town in Arkansas while her br… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • biography
"When I was little, I thought that when people were drunk they were drunk forever. Later, I learned that this is not true. Even later, I learned that sometimes it is."

-Monica Potts, The Forgotten Girls: A Memoir of Friendship and Lost Promise in Rural America

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17. 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
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
Cover of Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America’s Origin by Joseph   Kelly

18. Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America’s Origin

By: Joseph Kelly

4.10

Format: 500 pages, Hardcover

For readers of Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower, a groundbreaking history that makes the case for re… read more

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  • american history
  • american
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction
Cover of Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art by Rebecca Wragg Sykes

19. Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death and Art

By: Rebecca Wragg Sykes

4.02

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Since their discovery more than 160 years ago, Neanderthals have metamorphosed from the losers of t… read more

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  • nonfiction
  • history
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20. The American Daughters

By: Maurice Carlos Ruffin

3.61

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

A gripping historical novel about a spirited young girl who joins a sisterhood of Black women worki… read more

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  • historical
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21. The Scandalous Hamiltons: A Gilded Age Grifter, a Founding Father's Disgraced Descendant, and a Trial at the Dawn of Tabloid Journalism

By: Bill Shaffer

3.63

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

An Alexander Hamilton heir, a beautiful female con artist, an abandoned baby, and the shocking cour… read more

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  • american history
  • biography
  • history
  • historical
  • nonfiction

10 Top historical books like Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation by David A. Price

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1776

David McCullough

4.09

Transform Your Habits

The True Story of Pocahontas: The Other Side of History

Linwood Custalow , None , Angela L. Daniel

4.00

Transform Your Habits

Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave, Ona Judge

Erica Armstrong Dunbar

3.33

Transform Your Habits

Love and Hate in Jamestown: John Smith, Pocahontas, and the Start of a New Nation

David A. Price

4.19

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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

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Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

Joseph J. Ellis

3.50

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The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams

Stacy Schiff

3.74

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Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution

Eric Jay Dolin

3.89

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

Rick Atkinson

4.43

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