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The Radicalism of the American Revolution 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: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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A Midwife's Tale: The Life of Martha Ballard, Based on Her Diary, 1785-1812 by Laurel Thatcher Ulrich Publisher Comments Drawing on the diaries of a midwife and healer in eighteenth-century Maine, this intimate history illuminates the medical practices, household economies, religious rivalries, and sexual mores of the New England frontier.... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - 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: $6.50 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: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Founding Mothers : the Women Who Raised Our Nation (04 Edition) by Cokie Roberts Publisher Comments From #1 New York Times bestselling author Cokie Roberts comes New York Times bestseller Founding Mothers, an intimate and illuminating look at the fervently patriotic and passionate women whose tireless pursuits on behalf of their families–and... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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1776 by David McCullough Staff Pick Staying in the territory of his acclaimed epic biography John Adams, David McCullough follows George Washington and the Continental Army through the tumultuous first year of war. An exceptional narrative historian, McCullough vividly examines the... (read more) List Price $32.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin by H W Brands Publisher Comments He was the foremost American of his day, yet today he is little more than a mythic caricature in the public imagination. Benjamin Franklin, perhaps the pivotal figure in colonial and revolutionary America, comes vividly to life in this masterly biography.... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Common Sense, Rights of Man, and Other Essential Writings of Thomas Paine (Signet Classics) by Thomas Paine Publisher Comments Paineas daring prose paved the way for the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War. This volume also includes aThe Crisis, a aThe Age of Reason, a and aAgrarian Justice... (read more) List Price $6.95 Your price: $3.50 Used - Mass Market
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Samuel Adams: A Life by Ira Stoll Publisher Comments In this stirring biography, Samuel Adams joins the first tier of founding fathers, a rank he has long deserved. With eloquence equal to that of Thomas Jefferson and Tom Paine, and with a passionate love of God, Adams helped ignite the flame of liberty... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $12.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Rights of Man (Penguin American Library) by Thomas Paine Publisher Comments No individual's writing better exemplifies this transformation of the language of social and political change than that of Thomas Paine (1737-1809). And no individual has a better claim to be the world's first international revolutionary. His writings... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Federalist Papers (Signet Classics) by Alexander Hamilton Publisher Comments 'The documents thatshaped a nation. Three of the founding fathers brilliantly defend their revolutionary charter: the Constitution of the United States, a milestone in political science and a classic of American history.'... (read more) List Price $7.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Mass Market
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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. 1776, David McCullough's bestselling account of a pivotal year in our nation'... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $18.95 Used - Slipcase
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The French and Indian War: Deciding the Fate of North America (P.S.) by Walter R Borneman Publisher Comments In the summer of 1754, deep in the wilderness of western Pennsylvania, a very young George Washington suffered his first military defeat, and a centuries-old feud between Great Britain and France was rekindled. The war that followed would be fought... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton Publisher Comments The definitive exposition of the American Constitution, The Federalist Papers were considered by Thomas Jefferson to be the best commentary on the principle of government ever written. This collection of all eighty-five papers contains the complete... (read more) List Price $15.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Perils of Peace: America's Struggle for Survival After Yorktown by Thomas Fleming Publisher Comments On October 19, 1781, Great Britain's best army surrendered to General George Washington at Yorktown. But the future of the 13 former colonies was far from clear. A 13,000 man British army still occupied New York City, and another 13,000 regulars and... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson Publisher Comments Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings, he seems made of flesh rather than of marble. In bestselling author Walter... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $7.46 Used - Hardcover
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Federalist Papers by Alexander Hamilton Publisher Comments Originally published anonymously, The Federalist Papers first appeared in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers exhorting voters to ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States. Still hotly debated, and open to often controversial... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Mass Market
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The Federalist Papers (Oxford World's Classics) by Lawrence (edt) Goldman Publisher Comments The Federalist Papers--85 essays published in the winter of 1787-8 in the New York press--are some of the most crucial and defining documents in American political history, laying out the principles that still guide our democracy today. The three authors-... (read more) Your price: $15.95 New - Trade Paper
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Samuel Adams: A Life by Ira Stoll Publisher Comments In this stirring biography, Samuel Adams joins the first tier of founding fathers, a rank he has long deserved. With eloquence equal to that of Thomas Jefferson and Tom Paine, and with a passionate love of God, Adams helped ignite the flame of liberty... (read more) List Price $28.00 Your price: $10.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution by Richard Beeman Publisher Comments While some have boasted it as a work from Heaven, others have given it a less righteous origin. I have many reasons to believe that it is the work of plain, honest men. -Robert Morris, delegate from Pennsylvania to the Constitutional Convention From... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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