Revolutionary category: 2684 books
by Thomas Jefferson
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
When George Washington became the new United States of Americas first president, he set several precedents, including one on April 30, 1789. That day, Washington was inaugurated as president, and for the occasion he gave the nations first presidential inaugural address, used to inform the people of his...
The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Retirement Series, Volume 7
28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2011
The 526 documents printed in this volume run from 28 November 1813 to 30 September 1814. During this period Jefferson reviews the extant sources on the 1765 Stamp Act crisis to aid William Wirt, a Patrick Henry scholar; records his largely positive impressions of George Washington; and updates a reading...
by Thomas Jefferson, Frank Shuffelton
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 1998
Jefferson’s chronicle of the natural, social, and political history of Virginia is at once a scientific discourse, an attempt to define America, and a brilliant examination of the idea of freedom.
For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in...
The Politics of Truth
Inside the Lies That Put the White House on Trial and Betrayed My Wife's CIA Identity
Language: English
Release Date: August 11, 2007
With a new investigative epilogue by a prominent Washington journalist and a new foreword by the author. Ambassador Joseph Wilson recounts more than two decades of foreign service to our country in this unprecedented look at the life of an American diplomat and an unabashed account of policies that...
SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY
The Boys of Derry
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
A Chronicle of growing up in Derry, from childhood through adolescence, to adulthood and one of the most remembered days in the history of Ireland, January 30, 1972 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday.
It is the 1960's in Derry, Northern Ireland.
Eddie and his friends are enrolled in Catholic...
The American Soul
Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2003
Looking at the lives of America's founders-including Washington, Jefferson, and Franklin-scholar and bestselling author Jacob Needleman explores their core of inner beliefs; their religious and spiritual sensibilities; and their individual conception of the purpose of life.
The founders,...
by Woody Holton
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Winner of the Bancroft Prize
The New York Times Book Review**, Editor’s Choice**
American Heritage, Best of 2009
In this vivid new biography of Abigail Adams, the most illustrious woman of the founding era, Bancroft Award–winning historian Woody Holton offers a sweeping reinterpretation...
Young Patriots
The Remarkable Story of Two Men, Their Impossible Plan and the Revolution That Created the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2006
"Cerami spins a good historical tale." --Kirkus Reviews
Seven years after the revolution, America was in crisis. The government didn't work, but the citizens didn't care--or were in a state of rebellion. Then two unknown men, Hamilton and Madison (unknown especially compared to the...
Founding Rivals
Madison vs. Monroe, The Bill of Rights, and The Election that Saved a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2013
Explores how the 1789 congressional election between two future presidents with differing views on the Constitution and the Bill of Rights influenced the destiny of the United States.
The Muse of the Revolution
The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2008
Praised by her mentor John Adams, Mercy Otis Warren was America's first woman playwright and female historian of the American Revolution. In this unprecedented biography, Nancy Rubin Stuart reveals how Warren's provocative writing made her an exception among the largely voiceless women of the eighteenth century.
Becoming Madison
The Extraordinary Origins of the Least Likely Founding Father
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2015
In 1941 the historian Irving Brant wrote, Among all the men who shaped the present government of the United States of America,” Brant wrote, the one who did the most is known the least.” Brant concluded, When a man rises to greatness in youth, it is with his youth that we should first concern...
by Charles River Editors
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2012
*Includes pictures of Dolley and important people, places, and events in her life.*Discusses the legend that Dolley saved a priceless painting of George Washington from the White House as the British were invading during the War of 1812.*Includes a Bibliography for further reading.*Includes a Table of...
The Founders and Finance
How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2012
In 1776 the U.S. owed huge sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens but, lacking the power to tax, had no means to repay them. This is the first book to tell the story of how foreign-born financial specialists—the immigrant founders Hamilton and Gallatin—solved the fiscal crisis and set the nation on a path to long-term economic prosperity.
The Price of Greatness
Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and the Creation of American Oligarchy
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
An incisive account of the tumultuous relationship between Alexander Hamilton and James Madison and of the origins of our wealthy yet highly unequal nation
In the history of American politics there are few stories as enigmatic as that of Alexander Hamilton and James Madison's bitterly personal...