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Liberty's Exiles: American Loyalists in the Revolutionary World (Vintage) by Maya Jasanoff Publisher Comments National Book Critics Circle Award Winner This groundbreaking book offers the first global history of the loyalist exodus to Canada, the Caribbean, Sierra Leone, India, and beyond. At the end of the American Revolution, sixty thousand Americans loyal to... (read more) Your price: $17.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Independence: The Struggle to Set America Free by John Ferling Publisher Comments With magisterial command and an unmatched sense of drama, John Ferling traces the political journey from protest to Revolution. Independence takes readers from the battlefields of Bunker Hill to the cobblestones of Philadelphia and into the halls of... (read more) Your price: $20.00 New - Trade Paper
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation by Joseph J Ellis Publisher Comments In a landmark work of history, the National Book Award-winning author of "American Sphinx" explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed men--Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison--set the course for our nation. A... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic by John Ferling Publisher Comments 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... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Northwest Historical #19: Voyage to the Northwest Coast of America, 1792: Juan Francisco de La Bodega y Quadra and the Nootka Sound Controversy by Juan Francisco De La Bodega Y Quadra Publisher Comments In 1792, Spanish naval officer and explorer Juan Francisco de la Bodega y Quadra sailed from San Blas, Mexico, to Nootka Sound, on the west coast of present-day Vancouver Island. For nearly three years, he had been immersed in the aftermath of the Nootka... (read more) Your price: $42.25 New - Hardcover
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Ideological Origins of the American Revolution (Rev 92 Edition) by Bernard Bailyn Publisher Comments To the original text of what has become a classic of American historical literature, Bernard Bailyn adds a substantial essay, "Fulfillment," as a Postscript. Here he discusses the intense, nation-wide debate on the ratification of the Constitution... (read more) List Price $36.25 Your price: $21.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Signing Their Lives Away: The Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence by Denise Kiernan Publisher Comments In the summer of 1776, fifty-six men risked their lives and livelihood to defy King George III and sign the Declaration of Independence—yet how many of them do we actually remember? Signing Their Lives Away introduces readers to the eclectic group... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover
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Inventing a Nation: Washington, Adams, Jefferson (American Icons) by Gore Vidal Publisher Comments Gore Vidal?s uniquely irreverent take on America?s founding fathers will enliven all future discussion of the enduring power of their nation-building ideas. Gore Vidal, one of the master stylists of American literature and one of the most acute... (read more) List Price $22.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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1776 by David Mccullough Publisher Comments test... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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46 Pages: Thomas Paine, Common Sense, and the Turning Point to American Independence by Scott Liell Publisher Comments Thomas Paine, a native of Thetford, England, arrived in America's colonies with little in the way of money, reputation, or prospects, though he did have a letter of recommendation in his pocket from Benjamin Franklin. Paine also had a passion for... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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With Musket and Tomahawk: The Saratoga Campaign and the Wilderness War of 1777 by Michael O. Logusz Publisher Comments A comprehensive look at the brutal wilderness war that secured America's independence . . . With Musket and Tomahawk is a vivid account of the American and British struggles in the sprawling wilderness region of the northeast during the Revolutionary War.... (read more) Your price: $32.95 New - Hardcover
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The Great Upheaval: America and the Birth of the Modern World, 1788-1800 by Jay Winik Publisher Comments It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution. But in contrast to the way conventional histories tell it, none of... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States by Pauline Maier Publisher Comments Just in time for Independence Day, here is a pocket-sized edition of the United States' most important documents. Featuring a lively Introduction by Pauline Maier, the author of "American Scripture", a "New York Times" Top Ten Book of 1997, this pairing... (read more) List Price $3.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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Radicalism of the American Revolution (91 Edition) by Gordon S. Wood Publisher Comments Grand in scope, rigorous in its arguments, and elegantly synthesizing thirty years of scholarship, this splendid book is likely to become the definitive work on the social, political, and economic consequences of 1776. In The Radicalism of the... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $10.00 Used - Trade Paper
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First Salute: A View of the American Revolution by Barbara Wertheim Tuchman Publisher Comments Tuchman turns to America with a fresh new view of the events that led from the first foreign salute to the American Nationhood in 1776 to the last campaign of the Revolution five years later--the moment that inaugurated the existence of a new nation, and... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson by Kevin Hayes Publisher Comments Thomas Jefferson was an avid book-collector, a voracious reader, and a gifted writer--a man who prided himself on his knowledge of classical and modern languages and whose marginal annotations include quotations from Euripides, Herodotus, and Milton. And... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $14.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Adams Vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800 (Pivotal Moments in American History) by John E Ferling Publisher Comments It was a contest of titans: John Adams and Thomas Jefferson, two heroes of the Revolutionary era, once intimate friends, now icy antagonists locked in a fierce battle for the future of the United States. The election of 1800 was a thunderous clash of a... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Joel Barlow, American Diplomat and Nation Builder by Peter P. Hill Publisher Comments Joel Barlow was the early republic's most tenacious diplomat, a cheerful volunteer for difficult missions. His hard-won treaties with Algiers, Tunis, and Tripoli ended, at least briefly, the attacks of Barbary pirates on American shipping in the... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Hardcover
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The Spirit of 'Seventy-Six: The Story of the American Revolution as Told by Participants by Henry Stee Commager Publisher Comments Who shall write the history of the American Revolution? Who can write it? asked John Adams in 1815. Renowned scholars Henry Steele Commager and Richard B. Morris have provided a prudent, perceptive answer—the participants themselves—and in... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $4.25 Sale - Trade Paper
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Campaign #240: Wabash 1791: St Clair's Defeat by John F. Winkler Publisher Comments Osprey's Campaign title for the battle that marked Major General Arthur St. Clair's downfall in the Northwest Indian War (1785-1795). In 1791, the US Army conducted its first important operation. St. Clair led an American army of about 2,000 into... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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