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“charles rappleye”

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  • Sons of Providence

    The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade, and the American Revolution

    by Charles Rappleye ...
    In 1774, as the new world simmered with tensions that would lead to the violent birth of a new nation, two Rhode Island brothers were heading toward their own war over the issue that haunts America to this day: slavery.Set against a colonial backdrop teeming with radicals and reactionaries, visionaries, spies, and salty sea captains, Sons of Providence is the biography of John and Moses Brown, two ... Read more

    $15.99 USD

  • Herbert Hoover in the White House

    The Ordeal of the Presidency

    by Charles Rappleye ...
    “A deft, filled-out portrait of the thirty-first president…by far the best, most readable study of Herbert Hoover’s presidency to date” (Publishers Weekly) that draws on rare and intimate sources to show he was temperamentally unsuited for the job.Herbert Clark Hoover was the thirty-first President of the United States. He served one term, from 1929 to 1933. Often considered placid, passive, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Robert Morris

    Financier of the American Revolution

    by Charles Rappleye ...
    In this biography, the acclaimed author of Sons of Providence, winner of the 2007 George Wash- ington Book Prize, recovers an immensely important part of the founding drama of the country in the story of Robert Morris, the man who financed Washington’s armies and the American Revolution.Morris started life in the colonies as an apprentice in a counting house. By the time of the Revolution he was a ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    John Marshall (September 24, 1755 July 6, 1835) is perhaps Americas greatest jurist. As the Chief Justice of the United States from 180135, Marshalls opinions helped lay the basis for American constitutional law and made the Supreme Court of the United States a coequal branch of government along with the legislative and executive branches. Previously, Marshall had been a leader of the Federalist ... Read more

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  • The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family

    An American Family

    by Annette Gordon-Reed ...
    Winner of the National Book Award and the Pulitzer Prize: “[A] commanding and important book.”—Jill Lepore, The New YorkerThis epic work—named a best book of the year by the Washington Post, Time, the Los Angeles Times, Amazon, the San Francisco Chronicle, and a notable book by the New York Times—tells the story of the Hemingses, whose close blood ties to our third president had been ... Read more

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  • The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt

    by Edmund Morris ...
    Series series Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books
    WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE AND THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD • The acclaimed author of Theodore Rex presents “a towering biography [and] brilliant chronicle” (Time) of Theodore Roosevelt, the twenty-sixth president of the United States.One of Modern Library’s 100 best nonfiction books of all time • One of Esquire’s 50 best biographies of all time“Magnificent . . . one of those rare works that is both ... Read more

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  • Churchill

    A Life

    by Martin Gilbert ...
    "A richly textured and deeply moving portrait of greatness" ( Los Angeles Times).In this masterful book, prize-winning historian and authorized Churchill biographer Martin Gilbert weaves together the research from his eight-volume biography of the elder statesman into one single volume, and includes new information unavailable at the time of the original work's publication.Spanning Churchill's ... Read more

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  • The First Salute

    A View of the American Revolution

    by Barbara W. Tuchman ...
    Barbara W. Tuchman, the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the classic The Guns of August, turns her sights homeward with this brilliant, insightful narrative of the Revolutionary War.In The First Salute, one of America’s consummate historians crafts a rigorously original view of the American Revolution. Barbara W. Tuchman places the Revolution in the context of the centuries-long conflicts between ... Read more

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  • Alexander Hamilton's Revolution

    His Vital Role as Washington's Chief of Staff

    by Phillip Thomas Tucker ...
    Despite his less-than-promising beginnings as the only key Founding Father not born and raised on American soil, Hamilton was one of the best and brightest of his generation. His notoriety has rested almost entirely on his role as Secretary of the Treasury in Washington's administration, yet few realize that Washington and Hamilton's bond was forged during the Revolutionary War. Alexander Hamilton ... Read more

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  • Creating the Democratic-Republican Party: The Lives and Legacies of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Comprehensively covers the lives and careers of Jefferson and Madison from before the Revolution to their presidencies. *Includes pictures of important people, places, and events.*Looks at the influences on the political philosophies of the two architects of the Democratic-Republican Party*Discusses their arguments with the Federalists. *Includes a Bibliography and Table of Contents. An opinion ... Read more

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  • Darkest Hour

    How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink

    by Anthony McCarten ...
    A biographical portrait of Great Britain's renowned Prime Minister during World War II—the basis for the film starring Oscar-winner Gary Oldman."McCarten's pulse-pounding narrative transports the reader to those springtime weeks in 1940 when the fate of the world rested on the shoulders of Winston Churchill. A true story thrillingly told. Thoroughly researched and compulsively readable." —Michael ... Read more

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  • A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland

    The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from Their American Homeland

    by John Mack Faragher ...
    "Altogether superb; a worthy memorial to the victims of two and a half centuries past."--Kirkus Reviews, starred reviewIn 1755, New England troops embarked on a "great and noble scheme" to expel 18,000 French-speaking Acadians ("the neutral French") from Nova Scotia, killing thousands, separating innumerable families, and driving many into forests where they waged a desperate guerrilla resistance. ... Read more

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