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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
by Joseph J. Ellis
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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)

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1776
1776
by David McCullough
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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)

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Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution
Bunker Hill: A City, a Siege, a Revolution
by Nathaniel Philbrick
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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)

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The Founding Conservatives: How a Group of Unsung Heroes Saved the American Revolution
The Founding Conservatives: How a Group of Unsung Heroes Saved the American Revolution
by David Lefer
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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)

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Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
Freethinkers: A History of American Secularism
by Susan Jacoby
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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)

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American Leviathan: Empire, Nation, and Revolutionary Frontier
American Leviathan: Empire, Nation, and Revolutionary Frontier
by Patrick Griffin
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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)

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Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence
by Joseph J. Ellis
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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)

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The Society for Useful Knowledge Signed Edition
The Society for Useful Knowledge Signed Edition
by Jonathan Lyons
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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)

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1776: The Illustrated Edition
1776: The Illustrated Edition
by David McCullough
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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)

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Paul Revere's Ride (94 Edition)
Paul Revere's Ride (94 Edition)
by David Hackett Fischer
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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)

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The Founding Fathers' Guide to the Constitution
The Founding Fathers' Guide to the Constitution
by Brion Mcclanahan
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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)

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Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor: The Forging of American Independence, 1774-1776
Our Lives, Our Fortunes and Our Sacred Honor: The Forging of American Independence, 1774-1776
by Richard R. Beeman
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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)

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The First Presidential Contest: 1796 and the Founding of American Democracy (American Presidential Elections)
The First Presidential Contest: 1796 and the Founding of American Democracy (American Presidential Elections)
by Jeffrey L. Pasley
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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)

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Founding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe, the Bill of Rights, and the Election That Saved a Nation
Founding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe, the Bill of Rights, and the Election That Saved a Nation
by Chris Derose
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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)

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Ten Tea Parties: Patriotic Protests That History Forgot
Ten Tea Parties: Patriotic Protests That History Forgot
by Joseph Cummins
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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)

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A Short History of the American Revolutionary War (I.B. Tauris Short Histories)
A Short History of the American Revolutionary War (I.B. Tauris Short Histories)
by Stephen Conway
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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)

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Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82
Pox Americana: The Great Smallpox Epidemic of 1775-82
by Elizabeth A Fenn
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-358) and index.... (read more)

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Blood of Tyrants: George Washington & the Forging of the Presidency
Blood of Tyrants: George Washington & the Forging of the Presidency
by Logan Beirne
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Blood of Tyrants reveals the surprising details of our Founding Fathers approach to government and this historys impact on today. Delving into the forgotten—and often lurid—facts of the Revolutionary War, Logan Beirne focuses on the nations... (read more)

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Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation (Vintage)
Founding Gardeners: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation (Vintage)
by Andrea Wulf
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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)

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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation
by Joseph J Ellis
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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)

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