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“steven glazer”

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  • The Tenth Seat: A Novel

    by Steven Glazer ...
    Much has been said in political news lately about "packing" the U.S. Supreme Court with additional Justices besides the present nine. This is nothing new in the history of the Court. Congress has changed the number to as few as six and as many as ten. This novel is based on the life story of Stephen Johnson Field, the only tenth Justice to have ever served on the Supreme Court, who served from his ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Deeper Lights His Own Eyes Knew

    by Steven Glazer ...
    The story of Warren G. Harding, the 29th President of the United States during the "Roaring Twenties" of the 20th Century; his wife Florence, the First Lady; and his two most important of many mistresses, one who tried to blackmail him with his love letters to her and the other who bore his only child. ... Read more

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  • Greenback

    by Steven Glazer ...
    GREENBACK is about how paper money was born. There was always paper money in the young United States of America, but it was issued by local banks and was based on gold or silver deposits. The paper money circulated in the marketplace, but it was valued because one could always redeem the paper dollar at the named bank for a dollar's worth of gold or silver.But there wasn't enough gold or silver in ... Read more

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  • To The Victor

    by Steven Glazer ...
    The United States Constitution takes great pains to explain how we are supposed to choose a President. It lays out a rather complex system in which each state designs its own voting protocol for electors who, in turn, are tasked with choosing among the candidates for President and Vice-President. When it works, it is a model of democracy in action. When it doesn't, it is a horror show. We have ... Read more

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    How Abraham Lincoln Ended Slavery in America

    by Harold Holzer ...
    A new book—and companion to the Steven Spielberg film—tracing how Abraham Lincoln came to view slavery . . . and came to end it.Steven Spielberg focused his movie Lincoln on the sixteenth president's tumultuous final months in office, when he pursued a course of action to end the Civil War, reunite the country, and abolish slavery. Invited by the filmmakers to write a special Lincoln book as a ... Read more

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  • Arkansas History: a Journey Through Time

    The Growth of the Twenty-Fifth State of the Union from 1833 to 1957

    by Arlen Jones ...
    Arkansas History: A Journey through TimeThe Growth of the Twenty-Fifth State of the Union from 1833 to 1957 places in the hands of students and teachers a curated compilation of excerpts from original sources that tell the story of Arkansas from the founding efforts of the first advocates for the states formation in 1833 through the confrontation at the Little Rock Central High School in 1957 that ... Read more

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  • A Brilliant Solution

    Inventing the American Constitution

    by Carol Berkin ...
    A rich narrative portrait of post-revolutionary America and the men who shaped its political future."Just as the Constitution was a brilliant solution to the problems of the 1780s, Carol Berkin's book is a brilliant account of the making of that constitution. Written with great verve and clarity, it nicely captures all the contingency and unpredictability in the framing of the Constitution." ... Read more

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  • James Buchanan

    The American Presidents Series: The 15th President, 1857-1861

    by Jean H. Baker ...
    Series series The American Presidents
    A provocative reconsideration of a presidency on the brink of Civil War.Almost no president was as well trained and well prepared for the office as James Buchanan. He had served in the Pennsylvania state legislature, the U.S. House, and the U.S. Senate; he was Secretary of State and was even offered a seat on the Supreme Court. And yet, by every measure except his own, James Buchanan was a ... Read more

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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

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  • The Great Decision

    Jefferson, Adams, Marshall, and the Battle for the Supreme Court

    by Cliff Sloan, David McKean ...
    In 1800, the United States teetered on the brink of a second revolution. The presidential election between Adams and Jefferson was a bitterly contested tie, and the government neared collapse. The Supreme Court had no clear purpose or power -- no one had even thought to build it a courtroom in the new capital city. When Adams sought to prolong his policies in defiance of the electorate by packing ... Read more

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  • Centennial Crisis

    The Disputed Election of 1876

    by William H. Rehnquist ...
    In the annals of presidential elections, the hotly contested 1876 race between Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden was in many ways as remarkable in its time as Bush versus Gore was in ours. Chief Justice William Rehnquist offers readers a colorful and peerlessly researched chronicle of the post—Civil War years, when the presidency of Ulysses S. Grant was marked by misjudgment and scandal, ... Read more

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  • The Worst President--The Story of James Buchanan

    by Garry Boulard ...
    Just 24 hours after former President James Buchanan died on June 1, 1868, the Chicago Tribune rejoiced: “This desolate old man has gone to his grave. No son or daughter is doomed to acknowledge an ancestry from him.”Nearly a century and a half later, in 2004, writer Christopher Buckley observed “It is probably just as well that James Buchanan was our only bachelor president. There are no ... Read more

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