Liberty! – 250 Recommended Books

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PHASE I: Seeds of Rebellion

PHASE II: Philosophical Foundations

PHASE III: The Road to July

PHASE IV: Crafting the Declaration

  • Declaring Independence: The Origin and Influence of America’s Founding Document by Christian Y. Dupont and Peter S. Onuf
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  • The Annotated U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence by Jack N. Rakove
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  • Thomas Jefferson: Author of America by Christopher Hitchens
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  • The Founders’ Constitution edited by Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner
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PHASE V: The Moment

  • Signing Their Lives Away: The Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence by Denise Kiernan and Joseph D’Agnese
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  • The Loyalists in the American Revolution by Claude Halstead Van Tyne
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  • A People’s History of the American Revolution by Ray Raphael
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  • The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution by Sidney Kaplan and Emma Nogrady Kaplan
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PHASE VI: The Legacy

  • The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760–1840 by Akhil Reed Amar
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  • Lincoln at Gettysburg: The Words That Remade America by Garry Wills
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  • The Radicalism of the American Revolution by Gordon S. Wood
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  • We Hold These Truths: Catholic Reflections on the American Proposition by John Courtney Murray
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  • To Begin the World Over Again: How the American Revolution Devastated the Globe by Matthew Lockwood
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  • Freedom Just Around the Corner: A New American History: 1585–1828 by Walter A. McDougall
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