Isaacson, Walter.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003

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Ellis, Joseph J.

Summary: "What would the founders think? We live in a divided America that is currently incapable of sustained argument and is feeling unsure of its destiny. Joseph J. Ellis, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers and the recent best-selling The Quartet, explores anew four of our most prominent founders, in each instance searching for patterns and principles that bring the lamp of...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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Isaacson, Walter.

Summary: Traces the life of Benjamin Franklin, from his days as a runaway printer to his triumphs as a statesman, inventor, and founding father. Chronicles his tumultuous relationship with his illegitimate son and grandson, his practical marriage, and his flirtations with the ladies of Paris.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2003

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Ellis, Joseph J.

Summary: "A culminating work on the American Founding by one of its leading historians, The Cause rethinks the American Revolution as we have known it. George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction. At the time, no one called it the "American Revolution": former colonists still regarded themselves as...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Liveright Publishing Corporation 2021

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Jefferson, Thomas

Contents: Autobiography -- A summary view of the rights of British America -- Notes on the State of Virginia -- Public papers -- Addresses, messages, and replies -- Miscellany -- Letters.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the U.S. 1984

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Washington, George

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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1997

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O'Reilly, Bill

Summary: Told through the eyes of George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Great Britain's King George III, Killing England chronicles the path to independence in gripping detail, taking the reader from the battlefields of America to the royal courts of Europe. What started as protest and unrest in the colonies soon escalated to a world war with devastating casualties. O'Reilly and...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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Franklin, Benjamin

Contents: Boston and London, 1722-1726.--Philadelphia, 1726-1757.--London, 1757-1775.--Paris, 1776-1785.--Philadelphia, 1785-1790.--Poor Richard's almanack, 1733-1765.--The autobiography.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1987

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Cheney, Lynne V.

Summary: A group portrait of America's first four presidents from Virginia focuses on a series of key historical episodes that illustrate how the myriad leadership roles of Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe promoted transcendental, if contradictory, national views about freedom and equality.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2020

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Philbrick, Nathaniel

Summary: "Does George Washington still matter? The bestselling author argues for his unique contribution to the forging of America by retracing his journey as a new President through the former colonies, now an unsure nation. A new first-person voice for Philbrick, weaving history and personal reflection into one narrative. When George Washington became president in 1798, the United States of America...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021

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Leckie, Robert.

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Publisher / Publication Date: Castle Books 2006

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Ellis, Joseph J.

Summary: "The prizewinning author of Founding Brothers and American Sphinx now gives us the unexpected story--brilliantly told--of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew. The triumph of the American Revolution was neither an ideological nor political guarantee that the colonies would...

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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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