Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow: “To honor the thirteen states, he published thirteen essays in a collection entitled The Crisis.”
Hitch-22 by Christopher Hitchens: “He took a bag of books with him to Iraq, which included Thomas Paine's The Crisis, War and Peace, Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged (so, nobody's perfect), Stephen Hawking's A Brief History of Time, John McCain's Why Courage Matters, and George Orwell's Animal Farm and Nineteen Eighty-four.”