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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J. Ellis Publisher Comments In this landmark work of history, the National Book Award-winning author of American Sphinx explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed individuals — Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison-confronted the... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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1776 by David McCullough Publisher Comments In this masterful book, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence -- when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution by Nathaniel Philbrick Publisher Comments Nathaniel Philbrick, the bestselling author of In the Heart of the Sea and Mayflower, brings his prodigious talents to the story of the Boston battle that ignited the American Revolution. Boston in 1775 is an island city occupied by British troops after... (read more) Your price: $32.95 New - Hardcover
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The Founding Conservatives: How a Group of Unsung Heroes Saved the American Revolution by David Lefer Publisher Comments and#147;It is not only the cause, but our manner of conducting it, that will establish character.and#8221; and#151;John Dickinson, 1773 and#160; A nation at war and widespread mistrust of the miland#173;itary. A financial crash and an endless economic... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism by Susan Jacoby Publisher Comments Jacoby accomplishes her task with clarity, thoroughness, and an engaging passion. -Los Angeles Times Book Review At a time when the separation of church and state is under attack as never before, Freethinkers offers a powerful defense of the secularist... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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American Leviathan: Empire, Nation, and Revolutionary Frontier by Patrick Griffin Publisher Comments The dark and bloody ground of the frontier during the years of the American Revolution created much that we associate with the idea of America. Between 1763 and 1795, westerners not only participated in a war of independence but also engaged in a... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence by Joseph J. Ellis Publisher Comments A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning American historian, Joseph Ellis. The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the... (read more) List Price $26.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Society for Useful Knowledge Signed Edition by Jonathan Lyons Publisher Comments Benjamin Franklin and his contemporaries brought the Enlightenment to America — an intellectual revolution that laid the foundation for the political one that followed. With the "first Drudgery" of settling the American colonies now well... (read more) Available July 1, 2013 Your price: $27.00 New - Hardcover
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1776: The Illustrated Edition by David McCullough Publisher Comments With a new introduction by David McCullough, 1776: The Illustrated Edition brings 140 powerful images and 37 removable replicas of source documents to this remarkable drama. In 1776, David McCullough's bestselling account of a pivotal year in our nation... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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Paul Revere's Ride (94 Edition) by David Hackett Fischer Publisher Comments Paul Revere's midnight ride looms as an almost mythical event in American history--yet it has been largely ignored by scholars and left to patriotic writers and debunkers. Now one of the foremost American historians offers the first serious look at the... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Founding Fathers' Guide to the Constitution by Brion Mcclanahan Synopsis What Does the Constitution Really Mean? Are liberals right when they cite the elastic” clauses of the Constitution to justify big government? Or are conservatives right when they cite the Constitutions explicit limits on federal power? The... (read more) Your price: $14.95 New - Trade Paper
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Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor: The Forging of American Independence, 1774-1776 by Richard R. Beeman Publisher Comments In 1768, Philadelphia physician Benjamin Rush stood before the empty throne of King George III, overcome with emotion as he gazed at the symbol of Americas connection with England. Eight years later, he became one of the fifty-six men to sign the... (read more) Your price: $29.99 New - Hardcover
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The First Presidential Contest: 1796 and the Founding of American Democracy (American Presidential Elections) by Jeffrey L. Pasley Publisher Comments This is the first study in half a century to focus on the election of 1796. At first glance, the first presidential contest looks unfamiliar--parties were frowned upon, there was no national vote, and the candidates did not even participate (the... (read more) Your price: $43.95 New - Hardcover
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Founding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe, the Bill of Rights, and the Election That Saved a Nation by Chris Derose Synopsis Founding Rivals explores the rivalry between two of our founding fathers—James Madison and James Monroe—and explains how the largely ignored 1789 congressional election between these two future presidents forever altered their friendship and... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - Trade Paper
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Ten Tea Parties: Patriotic Protests That History Forgot by Joseph Cummins Publisher Comments Everyone knows the story of the Boston Tea Party—in which colonists stormed three British ships and dumped 92,000 pounds of tea into Boston Harbor. But do you know the history of the Philadelphia Tea Party (December 1773)? How about the York, Maine,... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Hardcover
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A Short History of the American Revolutionary War (I.B. Tauris Short Histories) by Stephen Conway Publisher Comments The American war against British imperial rule (1775-1783) was the world's first great popular revolution. Ideologically defined by the colonists' formal Declaration of Independence in 1776, the struggle has taken on something a mythic character... (read more) Your price: $26.25 New - Trade Paper
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Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82 by Elizabeth A Fenn Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-358) and index.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Blood of Tyrants: George Washington & the Forging of the Presidency by Logan Beirne Synopsis Blood of Tyrants reveals the surprising details of our Founding Fathers approach to government and this historys impact on today. Delving into the forgottenand often luridfacts of the Revolutionary War, Logan Beirne focuses on the nations... (read more) Your price: $27.99 New - Hardcover
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Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation (Vintage) by Andrea Wulf Publisher Comments For the Founding Fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions: a conjoined interest as deeply ingrained in their characters as the battle for liberty and a belief in the greatness of their new nation. Founding Gardeners is... (read more) Your price: $18.95 New - Trade Paper
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J Ellis From Powells.com In 1997, Joseph Ellis received a National Book Award for his elegant meditation on the life of Thomas Jefferson, American Sphinx. Four years later he capped that success with a Pulitzer Prize for a second book about the Revolutionary period. In... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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