Patriots (Langguth)
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Patriots (Langguth)
| Full title | Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution |
|---|---|
| Author | A. J. Langguth |
| Published | 1988 |
| Pages | 637 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | A newspaperman’s narrative history of the American Revolution from the Stamp Act through Yorktown, told almost entirely through the people who made it — Samuel Adams, Otis, Hancock, Washington, Franklin, Henry, Arnold — with each chapter built around a figure and a scene rather than a cause. |
Patriots (Langguth)
Where I heard about it
- Dissident Teacher — on A Library to Build Great Americans, a 468-title curriculum published on Substack in December 2025, in the Ages 13–99+ band under History, as the list’s Revolution entry.
About this edition
The pairing with The Founders and the Classics on the same list is the informative part — one book on what the founders did, one on what they had read. Langguth’s approach is reportorial: he reconstructs what individuals said and did at particular moments and lets the political argument emerge from that.
Connections
- A Library to Build Great Americans — the list this came from.
- A. J. Langguth — the author, a former New York Times correspondent.
- Founding Fathers — the subject.
- Benjamin Franklin and George Washington — two of the figures the narrative follows.
- The Founders and the Classics — the companion on this list: the reading behind the generation this book narrates.
- History — narrative political history as a form.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.