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24 alternatives to The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789

Concise history of how the US Constitution came into being.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789 launched in 2015; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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We the People▲63
The second generation of Founding Fathers
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
2
A People's History of the United States▲66
The American history textbook that will blow your mind
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
3
Hamilton: The Revolution▲66
Book version of the groundbreaking musical
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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First Entrepreneur: How George Washington Built His and the Nation's Prosperity▲55
How the United States was founded on business
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Moore's Law: The Life of Gordon Moore▲74
Detailed biography of a quiet revolutionary
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
6
John Adams▲68
Epic bioof a revolutionary turned 2nd President of the USA
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
7
All the Single Ladies: Unmarried Women and the Rise of an Independent Nation▲64
The history of unmarried and late-married women in America
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Sapiens▲185
A brief history of humankind
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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First Women▲68
The grace and power of America's first ladies
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Brothers▲71
The hidden history of the Kennedy years
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914▲66
Why a group of well-meaning leaders stumbled into war
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
12
Give Us the Ballot▲62
The modern struggle for voting rights in America
2015 · its alternatives →
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The Shape of Time▲62
Remarks on the history of things
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
14
Strategy▲63
A history of strategy over the course of human history.
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
15
How We Listen Now▲63
Essays and conversations about music and technology
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Magma Carta: Russ Roberts interviews Nicholas Vincent▲53
The Constitution v. 1.0: How Church & Lords restrained King
2015 · econtalk.org · its alternatives →
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind▲38
A look into the 3 revolutions that shaped our species
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Great War and Modern Memory ▲77
Profound study on how WW1 created our ironic, modern world
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Atlas Shrugged▲73
Story about capitalism, free markets, ethics and morality
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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A Sand County Almanac▲61
The book that started an American nature writing revolution
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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The Muqaddimah▲56
An introduction to history
2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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For God, Country, and Coca-Cola▲67
America's socio-economic history through the "glass"
2016 · amazon.com · its alternatives →
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life▲78
Entrepreneurship and electric kites in colonial times
2015 · amazon.co.uk · its alternatives →
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1776: The World Turned Upside Down▲83
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2018 · realm.fm · its alternatives →

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