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Books like Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson

12 books with a reading profile close to Rebel Yell: The Violence, Passion, and Redemption of Stonewall Jackson by S.C. Gwynne. Outward-looking; a moderate read.

  1. 1 Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

    Benjamin Franklin: An American Life

    by Walter Isaacson

    Also outward-looking · history, biography

    Walter Isaacson chronicles the life of the most versatile Founding Father, tracing his evolution from a runaway apprentice in Boston to a world-renowned scientist and diplomat.

  2. 2 Truman

    Truman

    by David McCullough

    Also outward-looking · history, biography

    David McCullough chronicles the life of Harry S.

  3. 3 The princes in the tower

    The princes in the tower

    by Alison Weir

    history, biography

    Alison Weir investigates the 1483 disappearance of Edward V and Richard, Duke of York, from the Tower of London.

  4. 4 American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

    American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House

    by Jon Meacham

    Also outward-looking · history, biography

    Jon Meacham focuses on the two terms of Andrew Jackson’s presidency, centering the narrative on the White House as a site of both political and domestic struggle.

  5. 5 The Six Wives of Henry VIII

    The Six Wives of Henry VIII

    by Alison Weir

    Also outward-looking · history, biography

    Alison Weir’s historical account reconstructs the lives of Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anne of Cleves, Katherine Howard, and Catherine Parr.

  6. 6 Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty

    Nicholas and Alexandra: The Classic Account of the Fall of the Romanov Dynasty

    by Robert K. Massie

    Also outward-looking · history, biography

    Robert K.

  7. 7 Marie Antoinette: The Journey

    Marie Antoinette: The Journey

    by Antonia Fraser

    history, biography

    Antonia Fraser reconstructs the life of the last Queen of France, moving from her childhood as an Austrian archduchess to her execution during the French Revolution.

  8. 8 Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier

    Undaunted Courage: The Pioneering First Mission to Explore America's Wild Frontier

    by Stephen E. Ambrose

    Also outward-looking · history, biography

    Stephen E.

  9. 9 The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World

    The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt's New World

    by Andrea Wulf

    history, biography

    Andrea Wulf chronicles the life of Alexander von Humboldt, the nineteenth-century Prussian naturalist who envisioned the earth as a single living organism where all biological and physical forces are interconnected.

  10. 10 Careless Love

    Careless Love

    by Peter Guralnick

    history, biography

    This volume documents the final two decades of Elvis Presley’s life, beginning with his 1958 military service in Germany and concluding with his death in 1977.

  11. 11 Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

    Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"

    by Zora Neale Hurston

    history, biography

    In 1927, Zora Neale Hurston traveled to Plateau, Alabama, to interview Oluale Kossola, known as Cudjo Lewis.

  12. 12 Roots

    Roots

    by Alex Haley

    history, biography

    Alex Haley reconstructs his family lineage starting with Kunta Kinte, a Mandinka youth abducted from West Africa in 1767 and sold into chattel slavery in Maryland.

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