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  • Taming Democracy

    "The People," the Founders, and the Troubled Ending of the American Revolution

    by Terry Bouton ...
    Americans are fond of reflecting upon the Founding Fathers, the noble group of men who came together to force out the tyranny of the British and bring democracy to the land. Unfortunately, as Terry Bouton shows in this highly provocative first book, the Revolutionary elite often seemed as determined to squash democracy after the war as they were to support it before. Centering on Pennsylvania, the ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

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  • The Life of George Washington

    All Five Volumes in a Single File

    by John Marshall ...
    The classic biography by John Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. According to Wikipedia: "George Washington (February 22, 1732 [O.S. February 11, 1731 – December 14, 1799) served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 and as the commander of the Continental Army in the American Revolutionary War from 1775 to 1783. Because of his significant role in the revolution ... Read more

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  • His Excellency

    George Washington

    by Joseph J. Ellis ...
    National BestsellerTo this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as his effigy on Mount Rushmore, Ellis assesses George Washington as a military and political leader and a man ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The History of the American Revolution

    by Charles River Editors ...
    *Covers every major event in the history of the American Revolution, from the Sugar Act of 1764 to the Treaty of Paris in 1783.*Profiles the military and political leaders of the American Revolution and the roles they played, including George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Samuel Adams, Paul Revere, Benedict Arnold, and more. *Examines the major battles of the Revolution, from Lexington to Yorktown ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Inventing a Nation

    Washington, Adams, Jefferson

    by Gore Vidal ...
    Series series Icons of America
    This New York Times bestseller offers "an unblinking view of our national heroes by one who cherishes them, warts and all" ( New York Review of Books).In Inventing a Nation, National Book Award winner Gore Vidal transports the reader into the minds, the living rooms (and bedrooms), the convention halls, and the salons of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and others. We come to know ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Hurricane of Independence

    The Untold Story of the Deadly Storm at the Deciding Moment of the American Revolution

    by Tony Williams ...
    The sleeper history hit of 2008, released in paperback to coincide with the heart of hurricane seasonOn September 2, 1775, the eighth deadliest Atlantic hurricane of all time landed on American shores. Over the next days, it would race up the East Coast, striking all of the important colonial capitols and killing more than four thousand people. In an era when hurricanes were viewed as omens from ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

  • The Story of America

    Essays on Origins

    by Jill Lepore ...
    In The Story of America, Harvard historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore investigates American origin stories--from John Smith's account of the founding of Jamestown in 1607 to Barack Obama's 2009 inaugural address--to show how American democracy is bound up with the history of print. Over the centuries, Americans have read and written their way into a political culture of ink and type ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • 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

  • Voyagers to the West

    A Passage in the Peopling of America on the Eve of the Revolution (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by Bernard Bailyn ...
    Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Saloutos Prize of the Immigration History SocietyBailyn's Pulitzer Prize-winning book uses an emigration roster that lists every person officially known to have left Britain for America from December 1773 to March 1776 to reconstruct the lives and motives of those who emigrated to the New World."Voyagers to the West is a superb book...It should be equally ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Damned Nation

    Hell in America from the Revolution to Reconstruction

    by Kathryn Gin Lum ...
    Among the pressing concerns of Americans in the first century of nationhood were day-to-day survival, political harmony, exploration of the continent, foreign policy, and--fixed deeply in the collective consciousness--hell and eternal damnation. The fear of fire and brimstone and the worm that never dies exerted a profound and lasting influence on Americans' ideas about themselves, their neighbors ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • The Genuine Article

    A Historian Looks at Early America

    by Edmund S. Morgan ...
    "A masterly quarter-century of commentary on the discipline of American history."—Allen D. Boyer, New York Times Book Review"This book amounts to an intellectual autobiography....These pieces are thus a statement of what I have thought about early Americans during nearly seventy years in their company," writes historian Edmund S. Morgan in the introduction to this landmark collection. The Genuine ... Read more

    $11.69 USD

  • The Protestant Temperament

    by Philip J. Greven Jr. ...
    Bringing together an extraordinary richness of evidence—from letters, diaries, and other intimate family writing of the 17th and 18th centuries—Philip Greven, the distinguished scholar of colonial history explores the strikingly distinctive ways in which Protestant children were reared, and the Protestant temperament shaped, in America.Through this cache of remarkable and remarkably immediate and ... Read more

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