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Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Describes the life of Gouverneur Morris, who edited the final version of the United States Constitution, served as minister to France, and was instrumental in the establishment of our national coinage system and in the planning of the Erie Canal.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2000
Description
Many consider Franklin the most fascinating American man who ever lived. A scientist, businessman, diplomat, author, inventor, philosopher and politician, he is America's original Renaissance man. His remarkable and varied accomplishments include the discovery of electricity and the modernization of the postal system. Brilliant and bawdy, a master statesman and a cultural icon, Franklin was so important and popular in his day that, according to the...
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Description
In this remarkable book, the historian Jack Rakove shows how the private lives of these men were suddenly transformed into public careers--how Washington became a strategist, Franklin a pioneering cultural diplomat, Madison a sophisticated constitutional thinker, and Hamilton a brilliant policymaker. Rakove shakes off accepted notions of these men as godlike visionaries, focusing instead on the evolution of their ideas and the crystallizing of their...
10) Writings
Author
Series
Library of America volume 91
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Books USA
Pub. Date
c1997
11) Writings
Author
Series
Library of America volume 17
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by the Viking Press
Pub. Date
c1984
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 16
Description
"Told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Great Britain's King George III, Killing England chronicles the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the reader from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe. What started as protest and unrest in the colonies soon escalated to a world war with devastating casualties. O'Reilly and Dugard recreate the war's landmark battles, including Bunker...
13) The U.S. Constitution: a primary source investigation into the fundamental law of the United States
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Publisher
Rosen Primary Source
Pub. Date
2003
Description
A historical review of the people, issues, and events that led to the drafting and ratification of the United States Constitution.
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Publisher
Distributed in the U.S. by Palgrave Macmillan
Pub. Date
2005
Description
"John Jay was a central figure in the early history of the American Republic. A New York lawyer, born in 1745, Jay served his country with the greatest distinction and was one of the most influential of its Founding Fathers. In the first full-length biography for almost seventy years, Walter Stahr brings Jay to life, setting his astonishing career against the background of the American Revolution." "Drawing on substantial new material, Walter Stahr...
15) Glenn Beck's common sense: the case against an out-of-control government, inspired by Thomas Paine
Author
Publisher
Threshold Editions
Pub. Date
2009
16) John Adams
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Profiles John Adams, an influential patriot during the American Revolution who became the nation's first vice president and second president. "In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second president of the United States and...
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2006
Description
A series of studies of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers. Each life is considered in the round, but the thread that binds the work together is the idea of character as a lived reality for these men. For these were men, Wood shows, who took the matter of character very seriously. They were the first generation in history that was self-consciously self-made, men who considered the arc of lives, as of nations, as being one of moral...
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Publisher
Distributed to the trade by Perseus Distribution
Pub. Date
c2009
Description
A Southern historian challenges traditional interpretations of the Founding Fathers. "You think you know about the Founding Fathers, but did you know : The Founders were right-wingers by today's standards --- for gun rights, limited government, and religion in public life ; The Founders waged a War of Independence, not a revolution ; Is America a democracy? The Founders regarded the very idea of democratic government with scorn ; 'A nation of immigrants'?...
19) John Adams
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
While our new nation was suffering attacks from both within and without, John Adams had a vision of a nation of liberty and justice for all. He guided his peers--General George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson--in setting the values and agenda for a glorious, free America. Adams and his wife Abigail refined these ambitious democratic ideals, and their partnership became one of the most moving love stories in American history.
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Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2003
Description
Thomas Jefferson advocated a republic of small farmers--free and independent yeomen. And yet as president he presided over a massive expansion of the slaveholding plantation system--particularly with the Louisiana Purchase--squeezing the yeomanry to the fringes and to less desirable farmland. Now Roger Kennedy conducts an eye-opening examination of that gap between Jefferson's stated aspirations and what actually happened. Kennedy reveals how the...
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