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3) Writings
Author
Publisher
Library of America
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Presents 197 essays, addresses, speeches, private memoranda, and letters written by American founding father James Madison between 1772 and 1836, including documents that highlight his role in the creation of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, and writings from his term as president.
Author
Language
English
Description
"I pity Mr. Sam Adams," his cousin John Adams wrote to his wife, "for he was born a Rebel." At virtually every juncture of the American Revolution, from the Boston Massacre and Tea Party to Lexington and Concord and the ratification of the Constitution, Samuel Adams played a forceful role. With his fiery rhetoric and religious fervor, he was in many respects the moral conscience of the new nation. "The love of liberty," he thundered, "is interwoven...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
A premier leadership scholar and an eighteenth-century expert define the special contributions and qualifications of our first presidentRevolutionary hero, founding president, and first citizen of the young republic, George Washington was the most illustrious public man of his time, a man whose image today is the result of the careful grooming of his public persona to include the themes of character, self-sacrifice, and destiny. As Washington sought...
Author
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
c1995
Language
English
Description
Investigates the American Revolution from the British side, drawing on primary sources to show how Britain, at the height of her power but suffering from internal political strife, made one mistake after another, culminating in the loss of her prized colonies.
Author
Language
English
Description
Where The Ideas for which We Stand came from.
In this incisively drawn book, Darren Staloff forcefully reminds us that America owes its guiding political traditions to three Founding Fathers whose lives embodied the collision of Europe's grand Enlightenment project with the birth of the nation.
Alexander Hamilton, the worldly New Yorker; John Adams, the curmudgeonly Yankee; Thomas Jefferson, the visionary Virginia squire-each governed their public...
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
"Iconoclastic historian and bestselling author Kevin Phillips punctures the myth that 1776 was the watershed year of the American Revolution. He suggests that the great events and confrontations of 1775--Congress's belligerent economic ultimatums to Britain, New England's 'rage militaire,' the exodus of British troops and expulsion of royal governors up and down the seaboard, and the new provincial congresses and hundreds of local committees that...
Author
Series
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Pub. Date
2017.
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IL: UG - BL: 8.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
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...
18) Writings
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. and Canada by Viking
Pub. Date
c1987
Language
English
Description
On t.p.: Boston and London, 17221726--Philadelphia, 1726-1757--London, 1757-1775--Paris, 1776-1785-Philadelphia, 1785-1790--Poor Richard's Almanack, 1733-1758--The Autobiography.
20) Writings
Author
Publisher
Distributed to the trade in the U.S. by Penguin Books USA
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
A collection of over 440 letters, orders, addresses, diaries, and other personal and public documents written by George Washington over the course of five decades, including writings from the Revolutionary War years, and his two terms as president.
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