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  • Joel Barlow

    American Citizen in a Revolutionary World

    by Richard . Buel ...
    An in-depth look at the life and times of the early American poet and polemicist.Poet, republican, diplomat, and entrepreneur, Joel Barlow filled many roles and registered impressive accomplishments. In the first biography of this fascinating figure in decades, Richard Buel Jr. recounts the life of a man more intimately connected to the Age of Revolution than perhaps any other American.Barlow was ... Read more

    $15.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $17.59 CAD

  • Historical Dictionary of the Early American Republic

    by Richard Buel Jr., Jeffers Lennox ...
    Series series Historical Dictionaries of U.S. Politics and Political Eras
    The drafting and ratification of the federal constitution between 1787 and 1788 capped almost 30 years of revolutionary turmoil and warfare. The supporters of the new constitution, known at the time as Federalists, looked to the new national government to secure the achievements of the Revolution. But they shared the same doubts that the Anti-federalists had voiced about whether the republican ... Read more

    $183.99 CAD

  • The Peopling of New Connecticut

    From the Land of Steady Habits to the Western Reserve

    Edited by Richard Buel Jr. ...
    In 1784 Connecticut laid claim to a territory stretching from Pennsylvania's western border 120 miles along Lake Erie. In 1786 Congress took steps to legitimate this claim, and explicitly recognized it in 1800. The Peopling of New Connecticut presents primary documents that define Connecticut's complex relationship with this territory, known then as the Western Reserve. Using excerpts from ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The A to Z of the Early American Republic

    by Richard Buel Jr. ...
    Series series The A to Z Guide Series
    The formative period of the United States, running roughly from 1789 to 1829, has become remote and perhaps overly idealized. While the administrations of George Washington, John Adams, James Madison, James Monroe and John Quincy Adams set the country on the path to modernity by resolving some nagging problems left over from the Revolution, they failed to resolve many crucial issues, such as ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

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  • Liberty and Union

    by David Herbert Donald ...
    The two-time Pulitzer Prize winner's penetrating analysis of the crisis of democracy during the Civil War and Reconstruction eras.In Liberty and Union, David Herbert Donald persuasively examines one of the most tumultuous periods in American history. With the same wit, eloquence, and willingness to question received wisdom that define his acclaimed biographies of Abraham Lincoln and Charles Sumner ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $11.99 CAD

  • Hamilton

    An American Biography

    by Tony Williams ...
    The award-winning, smash Broadway hit, Hamilton: An American Musical,continues to captivate sold-out audiences and has sparked unprecedented interest in its historical protagonist.In Hamilton: An American Biography, Tony Williams provides readers with a concise biography that traces the events and values that enabled Hamilton to rise from his youth as a dispossessed orphan to Revolutionary War ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

    Also available as: Audiobook

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  • Founding Fathers

    The Essential Guide to the Men Who Made America

    Edited by The Encyclopaedia Britannica ...
    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

    $15.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • America Afire

    Jefferson, Adams, and the First Contested Election

    by Bernard A. Weisberger ...
    America Afire is the powerful story of the election of 1800, arguably the most important election in America's history and certainly one of the most hotly disputed. Former allies Adams and Jefferson, president versus vice president, Federalist versus Republican, squared off in a vicious contest that resulted in broken friendships, scandals, riots, slander, and jailings in the fourth presidential ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Reconstruction

    A Concise History

    by Allen C. Guelzo ...
    The era known as Reconstruction is one of the unhappiest times in American history. It succeeded in reuniting the nation politically after the Civil War but in little else. Conflict shifted from the battlefield to the Capitol as Congress warred with President Andrew Johnson over just what to do with the South. Johnson's plan of Presidential Reconstruction, which was sympathetic to the former ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • A Leap in the Dark

    The Struggle to Create the American Republic

    by John Ferling ...
    It was an age of fascinating leaders and difficult choices, of grand ideas eloquently expressed and of epic conflicts bitterly fought. Now comes a brilliant portrait of the American Revolution, one that is compelling in its prose, fascinating in its details, and provocative in its fresh interpretations. In A Leap in the Dark, John Ferling offers a magisterial new history that surges from the first ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD