Top book recommendations on American history / the founding fathers?

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>>8369868
this desu

>>8369443
If there's a compilation of the letters Jefferson and Adams exchanged in their later years, that would be well worth reading. For more entry level stuff, Joseph Ellis has some great books.

>>8369874

That was a teleological suspension of the categorical imperative

For foreign policy history "crusader state" by Walter McDougall is excellent

>>8369868
Came here to post this. This is honestly all you need as a layman. I've read Glorious Cause, Empire of Liberty, and What Hath God Wrought, and I'm working on Battlecry of Freedom now. They're superb.

If you want more specific works though: Chernow on Hamilton (I've heard his Washington is good too but can't confirm) , McCullough on Adams, Barbarous Years is good for early colonial stuff, Foote is good if you want a more literary and/or military-focused account of the Civil War (his scholarship is outdated, but still perfectly passable for a non-historian or history student).

Thomas Paine

>>8369443
Obviously you should also read Democracy in America, Declaration/Constitution, some of The Federalist, etc. I'd also add Brownson's American Republic to that (but like DiA that's a little more cultural/sociological than historical).

>>8369443
start with The Constitution and Declaration of Independence