The Best Founding Fathers Books for Kids

The horse-ridin', fiddle-playin', book-readin' gentlemen who started America—introduced one by one.

Five mischievous lads take liberties—and accidentally shape a nation.

The boy who wanted to be brave grew into the one man who could have kept power—and gave it back.

Printer, swimmer, satirist, scientist, diplomat—Franklin in full, in blazing color.

Peter Spier draws the Preamble, phrase by phrase, across two hundred years of Americans.

Two friends build a country, fall out spectacularly, and spend their last years writing to each other.

Jefferson bought books the way other men bought land—and then gave the whole library to his country.

Fifty-five delegates, one sweltering Philadelphia summer, and the windows nailed shut so no one could eavesdrop.

An orphan from the Caribbean talks his way into a revolution and builds the nation's finances from nothing.

Two men named George, one revolution, and a book that lets you judge for yourself.

Jefferson had seventeen days, a rented room, and a portable writing desk. Here is what he produced.

The whole hilarious story of the Revolution, told by a former textbook writer finally allowed to say what really happened.