 | George Washington: The Founding Father (Eminent Lives) by Paul Johnson
Buy new: $17.12 / Used from: $2.68 This is a rather brief biography, but if you're going to read just one book on Washington, this should be it.
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 | Benjamin Franklin by Carl Van Doren
Buy used from: $1.23 Van Doren was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for this masterpiece in 1938, and it is yet to be outdone.
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 | Give Me Liberty: The Uncompromising Statesmanship of Patrick Henry (Leaders in Action Series) by David J. Vaughan
Buy used from: $5.31 Simply the best on Henry. Short and concise.
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 | John Hancock: Merchant King and American Patriot by Harlow Giles Unger
Buy new: $30.40 / Used from: $4.00 Not great, but the best source I've found on Hancock.
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 | John Jay: Founding Father by Walter Stahr
Buy new: $44.95 / Used from: $2.65 A new release (2005) destined to be a classic.
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![Samuel Adams (American statesman, ed. by J. T. Morse, Jr. [v.2])](http://g-ecx.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/nav2/dp/no-image-no-ciu._SL75_V46836203_.gif) | Samuel Adams (American statesman, ed. by J. T. Morse, Jr. [v.2]) by James Kendall Hosmer
Long out of print and hard to find, but worth the hunt.
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 | John Adams by David McCullough
Buy new: $13.60 / Used from: $0.47 The definitive work on Adams.
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 | Jefferson the President: First Term 1801 - 1805 - Volume IV by Dumas Malone
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $0.88 This is only one of a six volume set by Malone. All six volumes together tell you the full story. Exhaustive, but worth every minute.
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 | Alexander Hamilton, American by Richard Brookhiser
Buy new: $12.47 / Used from: $1.12 Anything by Brookhiser is great.
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 | Benjamin Rush: Signer of the Declaration of Independence by David Barton
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $4.50 Barton's work is always top notch. Add Original Intent to your list.
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 | Daniel Morgan: Revolutionary Rifleman (Institute of Early American History) by Don Higginbotham
Buy new: $18.76 / Used from: $7.95 Not really considered a "founder" but was the hero of the southern campaign.
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 | Richard Henry Lee of Virginia: A Portrait of an American Revolutionary by J. Kent McGaughy
Buy new: $29.71 / Used from: $20.36 Essential corrective of a misunderstood patriot.
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 | Patriot Above Profit: A Portrait of Thomas Nelson, Jr. Who Supported the American Revolution with His Purse and Sword by Nell Moore Lee
Buy used from: $9.50 Learn the epitome of patriotism.
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 | Robert Morris: The Financier and the Finances of the American Revolution, Vol. 1 by William Graham Sumner
Buy new: $34.95 / Used from: $33.65 Haven't read this one yet.
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 | James Otis The Pre Revolutionist by John Clark Ridpath
Buy new: $15.56 / Used from: $9.99 And you thought Samuel Adams was the father of the Revolution.
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 | George Mason : Reluctant Statesman by Robert A. Rutland
Buy new: $18.95 / Used from: $0.86 The other George from Virginia.
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| John Witherspoon, clergyman, educator, statesman, patriot by John M Ward
Very hard to find, but well worth it.
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 | Charles Carroll of Carrollton Faithful Revolutionary by Scott McDermott
Buy new: $21.33 / Used from: $11.65 The last living signor of the DOI.
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| Roger Sherman : Signer and Statesman by Roger Sherman Boardman
One of the most underrated founders. If anyone has a copy of this out of print book, I'LL BUY IT!!!
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 | Forgotten Patriot: The Life & Times of Major-General Nathanael Greene by Lee Patrick Anderson
Buy new: $29.95 / Used from: $29.94 See also "Washington's General".
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 | Gentleman Revolutionary : Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution by Richard Brookhiser
Buy new: $20.80 / Used from: $0.04 Another Brookhiser masterpiece.
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 | John and Edward Rutledge of South Carolina by James Haw
Buy new: $35.96 / Used from: $34.95 Two of South Carolina's finest.
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