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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Brands, H. W.

Summary: What causes people to forsake their country and take arms against it? George Washington in the 1770s stood at the apex of Virginia society. Benjamin Franklin was more successful still, having risen from humble origins to world fame. John Adams revered the law. Yet all three men became rebels against the British Empire that fostered their success. Others in the same circle of family and friends...

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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2021

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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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