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Founding Faith: Providence, Politics, and the Birth of Religious Freedom in America
by Steven Waldman  Publisher Comments The culture wars have distorted the dramatic story of how Americans came to worship freely. Many activists on the right maintain that the United States was founded as a “Christian nation.” Many on the left contend that the Founders were...
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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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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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Patriot Battles: How the War of Independence Was Fought
by Michael Stephenson Publisher Comments Michael Stephenson's Patriot Battles is a comprehensive and richly detailed study of the military aspects of the War of Independence, and a fascinating look at the nuts and bolts of eighteenth-century combat. Covering everything from what motivated those...
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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...
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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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Inhuman Bondage : the Rise and Fall of Slavery in the New World (06 Edition)
by David Brion Davis Publisher Comments David Brion Davis has long been recognized as the leading authority on slavery in the Western World. His books have won every major history award--including the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award--and he has been universally praised for his...
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The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution of the United States
by Pauline Maier Publisher Comments The Declaration of Independence was the promise of a representative government; the Constitution was the fulfillment of that promise. On July 4, 1776, the Second Continental Congress issued a unanimous declaration: the thirteen North American colonies...
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Washington's War: The American War of Independence to the Iraqi Insurgency
by Michael Rose Publisher Comments Michael Rose exposes a grim reality: Iraqi insurgents have adopted the same guerrilla warfare tactics used during the American Revolution. In June 1775, George Washington commanded a band of rebels who were, in the eyes of the British, nothing more than...
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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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Thomas Jefferson: Draftsman of a Nation
by Natalie Bober Publisher Comments Praise for Natalie Bober's previous work: Natalie Bober's Thomas Jefferson is a gift to us all. She makes him present, alive, and accessible: a man of intellect, feeling, grief, purpose, and great imagination. -- Ken Burns, documentary producer Natalie...
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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...
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Washington's Secret War: The Hidden History of Valley Forge
by Thomas Fleming Publisher Comments The defining moments of the Revolutionary War did not occur on the battlefield or at the diplomatic table, claims Thomas Fleming, but at Valley Forge, where the Continental Army wintered in 1777–78. WASHINGTON'S SECRET WAR tells the dramatic story...
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American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic
by Joseph J. Ellis
Powells.com Staff Pick A riveting account of how the founding fathers created a new nation, examining their successes and failures for a fuller understanding of how our country became what it is today. Recommended by Robin, Powells.com...
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Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different
by Gordon S. Wood Publisher Comments The latest from award-winning scholar and historian Gordon S. Wood, author of The Americanization of Benjamin Franklin. Even when the greatness of the founding fathers isn't being debunked, it is a quality that feels very far away from us indeed...
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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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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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