[roofgoat]

Can you or any other here recommend some good, honest written works regarding this time period (just before, during and just after 1776).

[LS]

Both Middlekauf's "Glorious Cause," and the novel by the same name by Shaara, are great.

I also recommend "Washington's Crossing" by David Hackett Fischer.

[nonliberal]

I liked Benson Bobrick's "Angel in the Whirlwind." Thomas Fleming's book on the Hamilton-Burr duel is also amazing.

McCullough's "John Adams" is always good.

Also try Joseph Ellis' "Founding Brothers" and Bernard Weisberger's "America Afire" about the election of 1804.

[Neoliberalnot]

McCullough's book 1776 is good. I think Ellis is a bit too subject to his own interpretation of how historical figures were thinking. Ellis may be a mind-reader, but I question his ability to read the mind of someone that lived 200 years ago. :)

[54-46 Was My Number]

Can you or any other here recommend some good, honest written works regarding this time period (just before, during and just after 1776).

I recommend Paul Revere's Ride by David Hackett Fischer, The Ordeal of Thomas Hutchinson by Bernard Bailyn, The Boston Massacre by Hiller Zobel, Lexington and Concord by Arthur Tourtellot, and The Minutemen and Their World, by Robert Gross, among others.