Revolutionary category: 2684 books
by Henry Moscow
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2018
President Thomas Jefferson wrote America's Declaration of Independence, but he also was an anthropologist, architect, astronomer, botanist, diplomat, farmer, inventor, lawyer, mathematician, and musician. He spoke French, Greek, Italian, Latin, and Spanish. He founded the University of Virginia and...
Exploring Lewis and Clark
Reflections on Men and Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
This provocative work challenges traditional accounts of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark’s expedition across the continent and back again. Uncovering deeper meanings in the explorers’ journals and lives, Exploring Lewis and Clark exposes their self-perceptions and deceptions, and how they interacted...
Marie-Therese, Child of Terror
The Fate of Marie Antoinette's Daughter
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2010
The first major biography of one of France's most mysterious women--Marie Antoinette's only child to survive the French revolution.
Susan Nagel, author of the critically acclaimed biography Mistress of the Elgin Marbles, turns her attention to the life of a remarkable woman who both defined...
The Man Who Would Not Be Washington
Robert E. Lee's Civil War and His Decision That Changed American History
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
The “compelling…modern and readable perpective” (USA TODAY) of Robert E. Lee, the brilliant soldier bound by marriage to George Washington’s family but turned by war against Washington’s crowning achievement, the Union.
On the eve of the Civil War, one soldier embodied the legacy...
Facundo
Or, Civilization and Barbarism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 1998
Ostensibly a biography of the gaucho barbarian Juan Facundo Quiroga, Facundo is also a complex, passionate work of history, sociology, and political commentary, and Latin America's most important essay of the nineteenth century. It is a study of the Argentine character, a prescription for the modernization...
Summary of Alexander Hamilton
by Ron Chernow | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2016
Summary of Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow | Includes Analysis Preview: Alexander Hamilton (2004) is a sprawling biography of one of the most important figures in American history. It is based on copious original research, especially into Hamilton’s early years....
Without Precedent
Chief Justice John Marshall and His Times
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2018
The remarkable story of John Marshall who, as chief justice, statesman, and diplomat, played a pivotal role in the founding of the United States.
No member of America's Founding Generation had a greater impact on the Constitution and the Supreme Court than John Marshall, and no one did more...
The Benjamin Franklin Anthology
The Autobiography, The Memoirs, The Silence Dogood Letters and Over 80 Other Works.
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
Of all the 'Founding Fathers' of the United States of America, Benjamin Franklin left the greatest literary legacy behind him. A noted polymath, as well as a prolific author and printer, Franklin's works span an astonishing array of genres - from his groundbreaking scientific work on electricity,...
by Davidson Butler
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 11, 2016
Inventor, entrepreneur, scientist, diplomat, author, and Founding Father - Benjamin Franklin was one of the most exceptional people the world has ever known. Here, from New York Times bestselling author Davidson Butler, is his story.
Adopted Son
Washington, Lafayette, and the Friendship that Saved the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
They were unlikely comrades-in-arms. One was a self-taught, middle-aged Virginia planter in charge of a ragtag army of revolutionaries, the other a rich, glory-seeking teenage French aristocrat. But the childless Washington and the orphaned Lafayette forged a bond between them as strong as any between...
by Olivier Bernier
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
"Olivier Bernier's richly detailed, engaging, and elegant books offers a splendid refresher course on a pivotal moment in world history - the dawn of the modern era." - Francine du Plessix Gray. In the year 1800, almost everyone lived very much as their ancestors had, going back countless...
Martha Washington
An American Life
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2006
With this revelatory and painstakingly researched book, Martha Washington, the invisible woman of American history, at last gets the biography she deserves. In place of the domestic frump of popular imagination, Patricia Brady resurrects the wealthy, attractive, and vivacious young widow who captivated...
by Benson John Lossing
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2012
The fifty-six signers of America's Declaration of Independence risked their “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor” to found a new country. In this clazzic work, Benson J. Lossing describes the lives of each of the founding fathers, their greatest achievements, and what impelled them...
The Great Debate
Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the Birth of Right and Left
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2013
An acclaimed portrait of Edmund Burke, Thomas Paine, and the origins of modern conservatism and liberalism
In The Great Debate, Yuval Levin explores the roots of the left/right political divide in America by examining the views of the men who best represented each side at its origin: Edmund...