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Enrich your Independence Day: Top 5 revolutionary reads of 2021

The United States of America celebrates its 245th birthday on Sunday, and the choices of books on the history of the American Revolution are manifold. So in the Spirit of 1776, and acknowledging both the distance the U.S. has traveled and the distance it still has to go to become “a more perfect union,” we offer the five best books, so far this year, about the nation’s origins.

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