Revolutionary Period (1775 1800) category: 1601 books
Summary of The Quartet
by Joseph J. Ellis | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016
The Quartet by Joseph J. Ellis | Summary & Analysis Preview: The Quartet is an historical account of the debates and events leading up to, during, and immediately following the creation of the Constitution of the United States of America. The quartet is four politicians that played...
Louisa
The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
**From the author of Mind and Matter, an intimate portrait of Louisa Catherine Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams, who witnessed firsthand the greatest transformations of her time **
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Born in London to an American father and a British mother on the eve of the Revolutionary War, Louisa Catherine...
The Quartet
Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2015
From Pulitzer Prize–winning American historian Joseph J. Ellis, the unexpected story of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew.
We all know the famous opening phrase of Lincoln’s...
by Thomas Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2016
Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette - American Revolutionary War hero, toast of liberal Europe, and a founder of modern France - started his illustrious life as a shy, clumsy, if aristocratic, country bumpkin. Here, in this essay from New York Times bestselling historian and novelist Thomas Fleming, is Lafayette's surprising - and inspiring - story.
Duel
Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, And The Future Of America
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2018
A vivid narrative history of Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and their infamous duel
Duel is a remarkable retelling of the fatal 1804 duel between former Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton and Vice President Aaron Burr. Thomas Fleming takes the reader into the post-revolutionary world...
by Thomas Fleming
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2016
For many Americans, George Washington is just the face on a dollar bill. This book changes that perception. George Washington, Revolutionary War general, Founding Father, and first president of the United States was a warm and fascinating man. He suffered the agony of adolescent passion, fell in love...
by Gordon S. Wood
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2011
In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a break from England, rather it transformed an...
The Quiet Light
In Search of Carolina’S Lost Treasure - a Carli Owens Adventure
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2012
While on a summer, history research trip in 1976, Canadian William Dick finds himself dumped by his girlfriend in downtown Charleston, South Carolina. He soon meets up with Jacques Pierre Falstaff an Australian with a French-Canadian background. Falstaff is known by his friends as BS Jack and gets...
William Tryon and the Course of Empire
A Life in British Imperial Service
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
William Tryon's role in the affairs of British America during the last years of the empire, and his inability to stem the collapse of that empire, makes for a fascinating story. Royal governor of North Carolina from 1765 to 1771 and then of New York from 1771 to 1780, Tryon became a general in the...
by Caroline Cox
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Between 1819 and 1845, as veterans of the Revolutionary War were filing applications to receive pensions for their service, the government was surprised to learn that many of the soldiers were not men, but boys, many of whom were under the age of sixteen, and some even as young as nine. In Boy Soldiers...
Sentiments of a British-American Woman
Esther DeBerdt Reed and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2018
At the time of her death in 1780, British-born Esther DeBerdt Reed—a name few know today—was one of the most politically important women in Revolutionary America. Her treatise “The Sentiments of an American Woman” articulated the aspirations of female patriots, and the Ladies Association of...
Blood of Revolution
From the Reign of Terror to the Arab Spring
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
In this fascinating book, the author of The Hinge Factor and The Weather Factor surveys revolutions across the centuries, vividly portraying the people and events that brought wrenching, often enduring—and always bloody—change to countries and societies almost overnight. Durschmied begins with...
by Mike Wright
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2009
“Zeroes in on the interesting, irreverent, long-ignored tidbits that shape behavior in all conflicts and important periods of history.”—The Denver Post
What made the founding fathers so great (or were they?). And don’t forget the founding mothers. We have intrigue and skullduggery...
Henry Knox
Visionary General of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2008
Here is a compelling portrait of the Revolutionary War general whose skills as an engineer and artilleryman played a key role in all of George Washington's battles including the Siege of Boston (where his use of cannons at Dorchester Heights won back the city) and the Battle of Trenton (where he was...