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Author
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
422 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
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3) 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
Author
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.
7) 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.
Author
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.
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.
Author
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...
12) Founding partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the brawling birth of American politics
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
451 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
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Description
"From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States Founding Partisans is a lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be. To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were an existential threat to republican virtues....
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