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English
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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
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Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
422 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
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6) The unknown American Revolution: the unruly birth of democracy and the struggle to create America
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
xxix, 512 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
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Series
Publisher
Millbrook Press
Pub. Date
c1992
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.7 - AR Pts: 1
Physical Desc
48 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
A history of the Declaration of Independence, describing the events leading up to it, the key players in its drafting, and the actual writing and its adoption.
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English
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In this action-packed history, award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger unfolds the epic story of Patrick Henry, who roused Americans to fight government tyranny, both British and American. Remembered largely for his cry for "liberty or death," Henry was actually the first (and most colorful) of America's Founding Fathers, first to call Americans to arms against Britain, first to demand a bill of rights, and first to fight the growth of big government...
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Series
Publisher
National Geographic Society
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
40 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 263 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the events leading to the composition and signing of the Declaration of Independence, and discusses the document's importance in American history.
14) A republic of scoundrels: the Schemers, intriguers & adventurers who created a new American nation
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xx, 348 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
This new look at Founding Fathers such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton goes beyond their common depictions as American saints to expose the sometimes selfish motives behind their actions.
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Publisher
A. A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
xi, 283 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
An examination of the early years of the American Republic analyzes the eventful last quarter of the eighteenth century, the accomplishments of the American founders, and the triumphs and failures that shaped the early nation and the American character.
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English
Description
"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 Virginians or Pennsylvanians, not Americans, while John Adams...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 20 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A fascinating, in-depth study of the founding fathers of the United States. Learn about the cultures and societies upon which they based the U.S. government and discover the influence of Egyptian, Greek and Native American cultures on our own. This program discusses the former system of government our founders took notice of most and explore the origin and creation of the Declaration of Independence.
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English
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Though remembered chiefly as author of the Declaration of Independence and the president under whom the Louisiana Purchase was effected, Thomas Jefferson was a true revolutionary in the way he thought about the size and reach of government, which Americans who were full citizens and the role of education in the new country. In his new book, Kevin Gutzman gives readers a new view of Jefferson--a revolutionary who effected radical change in a growing...
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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.2 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Step back in time to the birth of America and meet the real-life rebels who made this country free! On a hot summer day near Philadelphia in 1776, Thomas Jefferson sat at his desk and wrote furiously until early the next morning. He was drafting the Declaration of Independence, a document that would sever this country's ties with Britain and announce a new nation--The United States of America. Colonists were willing to risk their lives for freedom,...
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Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
502 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
From the great historian of the American Revolution, NYT-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose subsequent falling out did much to fix its course. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams could scarcely have come from more different worlds, or been more different in temperament. Jefferson, the optimist with enough...
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