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Compelling Reads for Constitution Day

Each year on September 17, we celebrate the anniversary of the ratification of the United States Constitution. Today, we bring you our favorite reads that highlight the period of the founding of America.

American Rebels

Nina Sankovitch’s American Rebels explores, for the first time, the intertwined lives of the Hancock, Quincy, and Adams families, and the role each person played in sparking the American Revolution.

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George Washington's Secret Spy War

Now in paperback, the untold story of how George Washington, a Virginia farmer, became the eighteenth century’s greatest and America’s first spymaster.

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Revolutionary Brothers

In a narrative both panoramic and intimate, Tom Chaffin captures the four-decade friendship of Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette.

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The Ride

Paul Revere’s heroic ride, newly told with fresh research into little-known aspects of the story Americans have heard since childhood but hardly understood.

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Valcour

The wild and suspenseful story of one of the most crucial and least known campaigns of the Revolutionary War.

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