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post #16 of 23
5/15/09 at 12:53am
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how do you like your books? a dramatized account? straight textbook style history? biography?
I like more scholarly accounts. Biographies are fine too.
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post #17 of 23
5/15/09 at 10:10am
The Many Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic by Marcus Rediker and Peter Linebaugh. The title sounds a bit trade-y but both authors are academics and the book itself is very 'scholarly.' Really an excellent work.
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post #18 of 23
5/16/09 at 9:00am
The Birth of the Republic by Edmund S. Morgan explains the origins of the American Revolution better than any other book that comes to mind, and at approx. 200 pages it's a quick but rewarding read. This book was originally published in the 1950s, and I think its reputation as a "classic" is well-deserved.

American Colonies by Alan Taylor (already mentioned by another poster) is good. It's a beast of a book (more than 500 pages) but it focuses on many topics that are neglected in most other studies of colonial history.
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post #19 of 23
5/29/09 at 6:17pm
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A Leap in the Dark arrived today. I am looking forward to reading it!
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post #20 of 23
6/23/09 at 1:00pm
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Leap is very good. Hard to put down. Has anyone read any of Gordon Wood's books? His The Radicalism of the American Revolution won the Pulitzer for history, and The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin has stellar reviews.
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post #21 of 23
6/23/09 at 1:08pm
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The Birth of the Republic by Edmund S. Morgan explains the origins of the American Revolution better than any other book that comes to mind, and at approx. 200 pages it's a quick but rewarding read. This book was originally published in the 1950s, and I think its reputation as a "classic" is well-deserved.
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Somebody else recommended this to me recently. I just ordered it from Amazon.
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post #22 of 23
6/23/09 at 2:43pm
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Somebody else recommended this to me recently. I just ordered it from Amazon.
Let me know how it is. I understand it is geared towards the layman (not saying that is a bad thing, just wondering if it's accurate).
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post #23 of 23
6/23/09 at 8:23pm
Drinnon's 'Facing West'

Anything by Peter Hulme.

Essays by Steve Nash and Mike Zuckermann.

A bunch of others that don't come to mind.
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