I read/worked through Freedman's Statistics a couple of years ago and I walked away from it a different person. I always recommend it when someone asks for a good book to learn statistics from. However, it did leave me craving some of the maths that the authors intentionally left out to make the material more accessible. Freedman's more advanced book, Statistical Models, has you derive many of the results from the first book right at the start, then focuses mainly on linear models. It was a great follow-up which provided the mathematical substance that I felt was missing from the first book.