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Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation
by Cokie Roberts  Publisher Comments In Founding Mothers, Cokie Roberts paid homage to the heroic women whose patriotism and sacrifice helped create a new nation. Now the number one New York Times bestselling author and renowned political commentator—praised in USA Today as a...
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1776 (05 Edition)
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...
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Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History)
by David Hacke Fischer Publisher Comments Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer...
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1776
by David McCullough 
Powells.com 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...
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Common Sense, Rights of Man (03 Edition)
by Thomas Paine Synopsis Noted works by one of the most eloquent proponents of democracy are together in this one volume. Paine's 1776 pamphlet "Common Sense" is joined by "The Rights of Man, " his defense of the French Revolution, and selections from "The Crisis."...
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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–...
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Fart Proudly: Writings of Benjamin Franklin You Never Read in School
by Benjamin Franklin Publisher Comments Everyone knows Benjamin Franklin was one of the great philosophers of his time. But there was a side to him you were not exposed to in school -- a bawdy, scurrilous side that was all too eager to ignite the fires of controversy. From time to time, he...
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Washington's General: Nathanael Greene and the Triumph of the American Revolution
by Terry Golway Publisher Comments “Washington said if he went down in battle, Greene was his choice to succeed him. Read this book and you will understand why.” —Joseph J. Ellis, author of His Excellency: George Washington He was an unlikely...
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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...
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Decision in Philadelphia: The Constitutional Convention of 1787
by Christopher Collier Publisher Comments Includes a complete copy of the Constitution. Fifty-five men met in Philadelphia in 1787 to write a document that would create a country and change a world. Here is a remarkable rendering of that fateful time, told with humanity and humor. "The best...
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The War That Made America: A Short History of the French and Indian War
by Fred Anderson Publisher Comments The globes first true world war comes vividly to life in this rich, cautionary tale (The New York Times Book Review) The French and Indian War the North American phase of a far larger conflagration, the Seven Years Warremains one of the most important...
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Alexander Hamilton: A Life
by Willard Sterne Randall Publisher Comments Chapter One The Wish of My Heart Alexander Hamilton realized instantly that he would die. Before he even heard the shot, the oversize lead ball had torn into his right side just above the hip, crashed through a rib, sliced through his liver, shattering a...
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Rough Crossings: Britain, the Slaves and the American Revolution
by Simon Schama Publisher Comments Rough Crossings turns on a single huge question: if you were black in America at the start of the Revolutionary War, whom would you want to win? In response to a declaration by the last governor of Virginia that any rebel-owned slave who escaped and...
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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....
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Great Upheaval (07 Edition)
by 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...
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America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1918
by Richard Brookhiser Publisher Comments They were America's longest lasting dynasty, the closest thing to a royal family our nation has ever known. The Adamses played a leading role in America's affairs for nearly two centuries -- from John, the self-taught lawyer who rose to the highest...
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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....
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The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin
by Gordon S Wood Publisher Comments Central to America's idea of itself is the character of Benjamin Franklin. We all know him, or think we do: In recent works and in our inherited conventional wisdom, he remains fixed in place as a genial polymath and self-improver who was so very...
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A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America
by Stacy Schiff Publisher Comments When Benjamin Franklin embarked for France in 1776, he well understood that he was taking on the greatest gamble of his career. The colonies were without money, munitions, gunpowder, or common cause; dispatched amid great secrecy, across a winter sea...
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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'...
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