Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award Winners

The prestigious Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award is given each year to the best book on the Revolutionary War era.

In the 30 years since the award was ...more

Winners

	American Rebels: How the Hancock, Adams, and Quincy Families Fanned the Flames of Revolution by Nina Sankovitch (Goodreads Author) 4.28 avg rating — 367 ratings Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award (2021)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The British Are Coming: The War for America, Lexington to Princeton, 1775-1777 (The Revolution Trilogy, 1) by Rick Atkinson 4.44 avg rating — 5,435 ratings Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award (2020)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Tragedy of Benedict Arnold: An American Life by Joyce Lee Malcolm 3.86 avg rating — 135 ratings Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award (2019)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Revolution Song: The Story of America's Founding in Six Remarkable Lives by Russell Shorto (Goodreads Author) 4.36 avg rating — 772 ratings Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award (2018)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Revolutions: A Continental History, 1750-1804 by Alan Taylor 4.27 avg rating — 1,129 ratings Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award (2017)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War That Won It by John Ferling 4.21 avg rating — 434 ratings Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award (2016)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	An Empire on the Edge: How Britain Came to Fight America by Nick Bunker 4.17 avg rating — 618 ratings Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award (2015)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Men Who Lost America: British Leadership, the American Revolution, and the Fate of the Empire (The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History) by Andrew O'Shaughnessy 4.17 avg rating — 885 ratings Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award (2014)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham 4.02 avg rating — 38,595 ratings Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Reporting the Revolutionary War: Before It Was History, It Was News by Todd Andrlik (Goodreads Author) 4.27 avg rating — 130 ratings Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award for Special Recognition (2013)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic by Joseph J. Ellis 3.96 avg rating — 10,394 ratings Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award (2008)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lafayette by Harlow Giles Unger 4.40 avg rating — 1,108 ratings Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award (2003)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	John Adams by David McCullough 4.07 avg rating — 353,345 ratings Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award (2002)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis 3.94 avg rating — 44,767 ratings Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award (2001)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The World Turned Upside Down: George Washington and the Battle of Yorktown by Richard Ferrie 4.20 avg rating — 5 ratings Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award for Juvenile Literature (2000)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Great Warpath: British Military Sites from Albany to Crown Point by David R. Starbuck 4.30 avg rating — 10 ratings Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award for Archaeology (2000)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Forced Founders: Indians, Debtors, Slaves, and the Making of the American Revolution in Virginia (Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early ... and the University of North Carolina Press) by Woody Holton 3.85 avg rating — 482 ratings Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award (2000)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	In Irons: Britain`s Naval Supremacy and the American Revolutionary Economy by Richard Buel Jr. 2.50 avg rating — 4 ratings Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award (1999)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Betsy Ross: Patriot of Philadelphia by Judith St. George 3.22 avg rating — 18 ratings Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award for Juvenile Literature (1998)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Writings by George Washington 4.23 avg rating — 256 ratings Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award for a Compilation (1998)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Liberty! The American Revolution by Thomas Fleming 4.35 avg rating — 407 ratings Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award for a Companion Volume (1998)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saratoga: Turning Point of America's Revolutionary War by Richard M. Ketchum 4.14 avg rating — 1,174 ratings Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award (1998)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Young Patriot: The American Revolution As Experienced by One Boy by Jim Murphy 3.85 avg rating — 81 ratings Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award for Juvenile Literature (1997)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Original Meanings: Politics and Ideas in the Making of the Constitution by Jack N. Rakove 3.97 avg rating — 1,206 ratings Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award (1997)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Tom Paine: A Political Life by John Keane 4.28 avg rating — 97 ratings Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award (1996)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Founders and the Classics: Greece, Rome, and the American Enlightenment by Carl J. Richard 3.99 avg rating — 75 ratings Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award (1995)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Money of the American Colonies and Confederation by Philip L. Mossman 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award for Special Recognition of its unique contribution to the study of American history (1994)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	To Make a Nation: The Rediscovery of American Federalism by Samuel H. Beer 3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award (1994)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Constitution and the States: The Role of the Original Thirteen in Framing and Adoption of the Federal Constitution by Patrick T. Conley (Editor) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award (1993)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Bill of Rights and the States: The Colonial and Revolutionary Origins of American Liberties by Patrick T. Conley really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award (1993)	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars