Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary GenerationModern · History, Nonfiction, American History
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
2000 · 288 pages · Nonfiction
43
Modern
★ 3.96 on Goodreads · 49K ratings
≈ 7 hours to read · about 2 weeks at 30 minutes a day
Is it worth reading?
Pulitzer Prize (History) winner (2001). 3.96★ from 49K Goodreads ratings.
By the numbers
43Must-Read Score
- Critics53 out of 100 · counts 35%+21
- Readers39 out of 100 · counts 50%+22
- Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0
Buzz rewards prizes and lists from the last few years, so older books start at zero.
Where it ranks
- #161 of the 220 history books we rank
- #220 of the 318 modern books we rank
- #770 of the 1,344 books we rank
Won
- Pulitzer Prize (History) winner (2001)
Reads as
True story
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