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  • We the People

    The Economic Origins of the Constitution

    Charles A. Bear's An Economic Interpretation of the United States Constitution was a work of such powerful persuasiveness as to alter the course of American historiography. No historian who followed in studying the making of the Constitution was entirely free from Beard's radical interpretation of the document as serving the economic interests of the Framers as members of the propertied class. ... Read more

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  • The Presidency of George Washington

    Series series American Presidency Series
    In this volume, Forrest McDonald admits that George Washington was no executive genius, and notes that a number of his advisers and cabinet members were considerably more important in formulating programs and policies than he was. Nevertheless, he maintains that, but for Washington, the office of president might not exist today. McDonald asserts that Washington’s reputation as a man of integrity, ... Read more

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  • Cracker Culture

    Celtic Ways in the Old South

    Cracker Culture is a provocative study of social life in the Old South that probes the origin of cultural differences between the South and the North throughout American history.Among Scotch-Irish settlers the term “Cracker” initially designated a person who boasted, but in American usage the word has come to designate poor whites. McWhiney uses the term to define culture rather than to signify an ... Read more

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  • Requiem

    Variations on Eighteenth-Century Themes

    In eleven provocative essays Forrest McDonald and his wife, Ellen Shapiro McDonald, cover a wide range of the intellectual, political, military, and social history of the eighteenth century to present both a picture of the age in which our Constitution was crafted and commentary on developments that have caused American government to stray from the Founders’ principles.Appearing here in print for ... Read more

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    A revised version of an American history classic, exploring the people and culture of the Revolutionary era that birthed the nation.When The American Revolution was first published in 1985, it was praised as the first synthesis of the Revolutionary War to use the new social history. Bancroft Prize-winning professor of history Edward Countryman offered a balanced view of how the Revolution was made ... Read more

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  • Decision in Philadelphia

    The Constitutional Convention of 1787

    Fifty-five men met in Philadelphia in 1787 to write a document that would create a country and change a world: the Constitution. Here is a remarkable rendering of that fateful time, told with humanity and humor. Decision in Philadelphia is the best popular history of the Constitutional Convention; in it, the life and times of eighteenth century America not only come alive, but the very human ... Read more

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  • Building the American Republic, Volume 1

    A Narrative History to 1877

    Building the American Republic combines centuries of perspectives and voices into a fluid narrative of the United States. Throughout their respective volumes, Harry L. Watson and Jane Dailey take care to integrate varied scholarly perspectives and work to engage a diverse readership by addressing what we all share: membership in a democratic republic, with joint claims on its self-governing ... Read more

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  • Founding Fathers

    The Essential Guide to the Men Who Made America

    An authoritative, accessible guide to the figures who shaped a nationHow did upstart colonists solidify the ideas celebrated in the Declaration of Independence and defeat the powerful British army? How did thinkers from disparate backgrounds shape a government that transformed modern politics? The Founding Fathers explains how, putting valuable information on this historic period at your ... Read more

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  • The Complete Idiot's Guide to the Founding Fathers

    Eavesdrop on the Great Mind and Debates That Shaped Our Democracy

    by Ray Raphael ...
    Essential reading for anyone interested in the leaders who shaped our nationPopular interest in the Founding Fathers has surged over the past decade and is beginning to rival interest in the Civil War. People are increasingly looking back to the generation that invented this country's political ideas and institutions for help in today's complex political world. The Complete Idiot's Guide® to the ... Read more

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  • George Washington

    The American Presidents Series: The 1st President, 1789-1797

    Series series The American Presidents
    A premier leadership scholar and an eighteenth-century expert define the special contributions and qualifications of our first president.Revolutionary 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 ... Read more

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  • United States History to 1877

    Series series Collins College Outlines
    The Collins College Outline for United States History to 1877 starts with the founding of the country and continues through the Civil War and Reconstruion. The colonial era, the constitutional convention and founding of the American system of government, the beginning and rise of the Supreme Court, and many more monumental events in the early era of the United States are also covered. Completely ... Read more

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  • America on the Brink

    How the Political Struggle Over the War of 1812 Almost Destroyed the Young Republic

    by Richard Buel ...
    The fascinating story of how New England Federalists threatened to dissolve the Union by making a separate peace with England during the War of 1812.Many people would be surprised to learn that the struggle between Thomas Jefferson's Republican Party and Alexander Hamilton's Federalist Party defined--and jeopardized--the political life of the early American republic. Richard Buel Jr.'s America on ... Read more

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