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"Seldom in the nation's history has there been a period so extraordinary in accomplishment as the first decade under the Constitution ... In a style as swift-paced as this exciting era deserves, Professor John C. Miller of Stanford University has added to the The New American National Series an absorbing and scholarly account of the political history of these years ... Abundant quotations from the sources enhance the vitality of the study revealing...
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It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russian towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into monumenal revolution. But none of these remarkable events occurred in siolation. In 'The Great Upheaval', acclaimed historian Jay Winik masterfully illuminates how their fates combined in one extraordinary moment to change the course of civilization.
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For this history, Dos Passos returns to the American colonial period and early nationhood, exploring the personalities who won the nation's independence from England: Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Adams, and George Washington. Originally called "The World Turned Upside Down," The Men Who Made the Nation covers the period from 1781 to Hamilton's death in 1804. The work crystallizes the author's fascination with the psychology of the colonial...
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This book is the engrossing and little-known story of a powerful circle of men- the wing of the Federalist party led by Alexander Hamilton- who won a bitter fight for a national army, but divided the country and destroyed their own party in the process. Here is history that raises questions about the power and influence of militarism in American politics: Did Alexander Hamilton intentionally provoke the Whiskey Rebellion to prove the need for a federal...
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Did you know that when the US Constitution was first drafted in 1787, lots of Americans thought it was a bad idea? That's why Founding Fathers Alexander Hamilton, James Madison and John Jay wrote the Federalist Papers - to convince the American people that the Constitution was the best way forward.
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Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826), the third president of the United States, left a vast literary legacy in the form of journal entries, notes, addresses, and seventy thousand letters. Jefferson remains one of the country's most extraordinary figures; as well as president he was a brilliant statesman, architect, scientist, naturalist, educator, and public servant. At a dinner for Nobel Prize recipients, John F. Kennedy said that his guests were "the most...
18) Lydia Bailey
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In searching for the girl in a portrait, an American becomes involved in Napoleon's war to retake Haiti.
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