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  • The Age of Federalism

    by Stanley Elkins, Eric McKitrick ...
    When Thomas Jefferson took the oath of office for the presidency in 1801, America had just passed through twelve critical years, years dominated by some of the towering figures of our history and by the challenge of having to do everything for the first time. Washington, Hamilton, Madison, Adams, and Jefferson himself each had a share in shaping that remarkable era--an era that is brilliantly ... Read more

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  • George Washington: History in an Hour

    by David B. McCoy ...
    Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour.George Washington – a figure synonymous with American history. His image is known worldwide, marked on American currency, postage stamps – even a state is named after him. George Washington in an Hour explores the man beneath the symbol. This is the essential chronicle of Washington’s life – his rise from middle class Virginian upbringing to ... Read more

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  • The Minutemen and Their World

    by Robert A. Gross ...
    Series series American Century
    The Bancroft Prize–winning classic of American history now in a revised and expanded edition with a new preface and afterword by the author.On April 19, 1775, the American Revolution began at the Old North Bridge in Concord, Massachusetts. The "shot heard round the world" catapulted this sleepy New England town into the height of revolutionary fervor, and Concord went on to become the intellectual ... Read more

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  • The First of Men

    A Life of George Washington

    by John E. Ferling ...
    Written by John Ferling, one of America's leading historians of the Revolutionary era, The First of Men offers an illuminating portrait of George Washington's life, with emphasis on his military and political career. Here is a riveting account that captures Washington in all his complexity, recounting not only Washington's familiar sterling qualities--courage, industry, ability to make difficult ... Read more

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  • The Three Lives of James Madison

    Genius, Partisan, President

    by Noah Feldman ...
    A sweeping reexamination of the Founding Father who transformed the United States in each of his political “lives”—as a revolutionary thinker, partisan political strategist, and president“In order to understand America and its Constitution, it is necessary to understand James Madison.”—Walter Isaacson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo da VinciOver the course of his life,James ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Lion of Liberty

    Patrick Henry and the Call to a New Nation

    by Harlow Giles Unger ...
    This award-winning author's portrait of America's first Founding Father is "[a] vivid biography of the Virginia firebrand" ( Wall Street Journal ).Remembered largely for his cry for "liberty or death," Patrick Henry was actually the first (and most colorful) of America's Founding Fathers, who roused his countrymen to fight government tyranny—both British and American. He was the first to call ... Read more

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  • The Original American Spies

    Seven Covert Agents of the Revolutionary War

    by Paul R. Misencik ...
    This book consists of seven stand-alone accounts of individuals who operated as spies during the American Revolutionary War. They were not trained as covert agents, which meant they had to develop their skills and techniques on their own, often while in the midst of the enemy where discovery meant almost certain death for them, and suffering and hardship for their family and friends. Five of them ... Read more

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  • From Resistance to Revolution

    by Pauline Maier ...
    Maintaining that the outbreak of revolution in 1775 was not the result of secret planning by radicals but rather the end product of years of painful evolution, Pauline Maier brilliantly traces the American colonists’ road to independence from 1765 to 1776 and examines the role of popular violence as political allegiances corroded and once-loyal subjects were gradually transformed into ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Faces of Revolution

    Personalities & Themes in the Struggle for American Independence

    by Bernard Bailyn ...
    Pulitzer-Prize-winning author Bernard Bailyn brings us a book that combines portraits of American revolutionaries with a deft exploration of the ideas that moved them and still shape our society today. ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • The A to Z of World War II

    The War Against Japan

    by Anne Sharp Wells ...
    Series series The A to Z Guide Series
    World War II dominates world history today as it dominated world attention over 60 years ago. In spite of the alliances that bound many of the same participants, the war was essentially two separate but simultaneous conflicts: one involved Japan as the major antagonist and took place mostly in Asia and Pacific; and the other, initiated by Germany and Italy, was contested mainly in Europe, North ... Read more

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  • An Interesting Journal of Abner Stocking of Chatham, Connecticut

    As Kept by Himself, during His Long and Tedious March through the Wilderness to Quebec, until His Return to His Native Pace. Detailing the Distressing Events of the Expedition against Quebec, under the Command of Col. Arnold in the Year 1775

    by Abner Stocking ...
    An Interesting Journal of Abner Stocking of Chatham, ConnecticutAs Kept by Himself, during His Long and Tedious March through the Wilderness to Quebec, until His Return to His Native Pace. Detailing the Distressing Events of the Expedition against Quebec, under the Command of Col. Arnold in the Year 1775This edition features linked Footnotes.INTRODUCTIONThe reader cannot enter on the succeeding ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Federalist Papers

    by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay ...
    Series series Penguin Civic Classics
    A selection of nineteen essential essays from The Federalist Papers in their original lengths by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay, with notes by Richard BeemanPenguin presents a series of six portable, accessible, and—above all—essential reads from American political history, selected by leading scholars. Series editor Richard Beeman, author of The Penguin Guide to the U.S. ... Read more

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