Read It: Saving History

If Hamilton whet your thirst for the American Revolution, Chris Formant’s Saving Washington: The Forgotten Story of the Maryland 400 and the Battle of Brooklyn (Permuted Press, $27) may be your cup of untaxed tea. Formant, who lives in Baltimore and Sedona, brings to life this real but obscure chapter of the Revolutionary War with two fictionalized Maryland militia heroes who kept British forces at bay so George Washington could evacuate troops to Manhattan in 1776.