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  • Penman of the Founding

    A Biography of John Dickinson

    by Jane E. Calvert ...
    Why is it that so many Americans have not heard of John Dickinson? John Dickinson of Pennsylvania and Delaware was an early leader of the resistance to British rule in the American colonies. In fact, to many, he was the most prominent figure in the struggle for independence, though his Quaker-influenced opposition to violence kept him from signing one of its most famous documents in July 1776. ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson

    Volume 1

    by John Dickinson ...
    Series Book 1 - The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson
    The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson, vol. 1 inaugurates a multivolume documentary edition that will, for the first time ever, provide the complete collection of everything Dickinson published on public affairs over the course of his life. The documents include essays, articles, broadsides, resolutions, petitions, declarations, constitutions, regulations, legislation ... Read more

    $37.49 USD

  • The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson

    Volume 4, 1767-1769

    by John Dickinson ...
    Series Book 4 - The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson
    In 1767, John Dickinson began publishing his twelve Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, which earned him international celebrity as the leader of the American resistance to Britain. They educated Americans about their rights and how to defend them without violence. Importantly, they also taught the colonists to unite and understand themselves first and foremost as Americans rather than as ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Selected Writings of Thomas Paine

    by Thomas Paine ...
    Series series Rethinking the Western Tradition
    A central figure in Western history and American political thought, Thomas Paine continues to provoke debate among politicians, activists, and scholars.  People of all ideological stripes are inspired by his trenchant defense of the rights and good sense of ordinary individuals, and his penetrating critiques of arbitrary power.   This volume contains Paine’s explosive Common Sense in its entirety, ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson

    by John Dickinson ...
    Series Book 2 - The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson
    John Dickinson’s entry into public life in Delaware and Pennsylvania is a highlight of the ninety-eight documents written over four years printed in Volume Two of The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson. The volume opens with Dickinson’s legal notes as he established himself as one of the most prominent and learned lawyers in colonial British North America. His cases ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

  • The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson

    Volume 3

    Edited by Jane E. Calvert ...
    Series Book 3 - The Complete Writings and Selected Correspondence of John Dickinson
    During the years 1764 through 1766, John Dickinson became a leading figure in the Pennsylvania Assembly and in the growing American resistance to unjust British taxation. The documents in this volume show that, in both roles, he sought to protect the fundamental rights of ordinary Americans. In the 1764 Assembly, after working to punish those responsible for the slaughter of peaceful Indians, ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • Quaker Constitutionalism and the Political Thought of John Dickinson

    by Jane E. Calvert ...
    In the late-seventeenth century, Quakers originated a unique strain of constitutionalism, based on their theology and ecclesiology, which emphasized constitutional perpetuity and radical change through popular peaceful protest. While Whigs could imagine no other means of drastic constitutional reform except revolution, Quakers denied this as a legitimate option to governmental abuse of authority ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

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    Penman of the Founding

    A Biography of John Dickinson

    by Jane E. Calvert ...
    Narrated by Kitty Hendrix ...

    Unabridged

    24 hours 12 min

    John Dickinson of Pennsylvania and Delaware was an early leader of the resistance to British rule in the American colonies. In fact, to many, he was the most prominent figure in the struggle for independence, though his Quaker-influenced opposition to violence kept him from signing one of its most famous documents in July 1776. Still, Dickinson, one of the wealthiest men in the colonies, did more ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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    Also available as: eBook

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    Chronicles of Rebellion and Founding Documents of a Nation

    by John Fiske, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, William Bradford, Patrick Henry ...
    This edition offers you a complete overview of the American history before the great revolution, the wars after the uprising, and the impact of the revolution itself. This meticulously edited book includes all the documents which are crucial for the history of USA before and after the Revolution and the works that influenced the revolutionary thinking. Contents: The History of the American ... Read more

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  • Thomas Jefferson: Writings (LOA #17)

    Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters

    by Thomas Jefferson ...
    Series Book 1 - Library of America Founders Collection
    The most comprehensive collection of the Founding Father’s famous writings, including drafts of the Declaration of IndependenceAt the moment of our nation's birth, Thomas Jefferson defined the issues that still direct our political life. Displaying his extraordinary variety of interests and powerful and precise style, Jefferson’s writings are an invaluable and incisive record of the landscape, ... Read more

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  • Common Sense

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    by Thomas Paine ...
    Series series Starbooks Classics Collection
    Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. It was first published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution. Common Sense was signed "Written by an Englishman", and it became an immediate success. In relative proportion to the population of the colonies at that time, 2.5 million Americans, it had the largest sale and circulation of any book published in ... Read more

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  • John Adams: Writings from the New Nation 1784-1826 (LOA #276)

    by John Adams ...
    Series Book 3 - Library of America Adams Family Collection
    Gordon S. Wood presents the final chapter in his definitive three-volume edition of the writings of a great American Founder and presidentA powerful polemicist, insightful political theorist, and tireless diplomat, John Adams (1735–1826) was a vital and controversial figure during the early years of the American republic. Once overshadowed by Washington and Jefferson, Adams has become the subject ... Read more

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