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Washington's Crossing

Modern · History, Nonfiction, American History

Washington's Crossing

by David Hackett Fischer

2003 · 564 pages · Nonfiction

57 Modern ★ 4.16 on Goodreads · 15K ratings

≈ 14 hours to read · about 4 weeks at 30 minutes a day

Is it worth reading?

Pulitzer Prize (History) winner (2005). 4.16★ from 15K Goodreads ratings.

By the numbers

57Must-Read Score

Critics63 out of 100 · counts 35%+25
Readers56 out of 100 · counts 50%+32
Buzz0 out of 100 · counts 15%+0

Where it ranks

#79 of the 220 history books we rank
#115 of the 318 modern books we rank
#329 of the 1,344 books we rank

Won

Pulitzer Prize (History) winner (2005)

Shortlisted

National Book Award (Nonfiction) finalist (2004)

Reads as

True story

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