Presenting the best arguments from Bailyn's Ideological Origins of the American Revolution - which won a Pulitzer prize in 1967 - this book argues that The Revolution was not class warfare: liberty and freedom were central to the colonial understanding that the British intended to establish a tyrannical state that would abridge the historical British rights.

Gross told the story of everyday Americans who fought at Concord by exploring their reasons for volunteering. The book most prominently argues that the interpersonal marketplace offered a better option for economic survival over the old system of inheritance, thus loosening family ties and enabling young colonists to embrace the revolution.

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay wrote a series of arguments that argued ratification of the American Constitution, drafted in 1787 in Philadelphia.

Alternatively, read the version that I produced for Project Gutenberg (pg147)

Raphael explores how common people - Indians, slaves, merchants and farmers - were agents to the American Revolution as much as the political leaders in Continental Congress.

Wood's Pulitzer Prize winning book explores the social transformation of Colonial America from Monarchy to Republicanism to Democracy, a change that forced the split from England and a political revolution in America in 1800.

A possible replacement for the Brown book. Highly recommended.