Revolutionary Period 1775 1800 category: 1601 books
Era of Experimentation
American Political Practices in the Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2014
In Era of Experimentation, Daniel Peart challenges the pervasive assumption that the present-day political system, organized around two competing parties, represents the logical fulfillment of participatory democracy. Recent accounts of "the rise of American democracy" between the Revolution and the...
The Shoemaker and the Tea Party
Memory and the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2001
George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker who participated in such key events of the American Revolution as the Boston Massacre and the Tea Party, might have been lost to history if not for his longevity and the historical mood of the 1830's. When the Tea Party became a leading symbol of the...
Rush
Revolution, Madness, and Benjamin Rush, the Visionary Doctor Who Became a Founding Father
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
The monumental life of Benjamin Rush, medical pioneer and one of our most provocative and unsung Founding Fathers
FINALIST FOR THE GEORGE WASHINGTON BOOK PRIZE • AMERICAN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR
By the time he was thirty, Dr. Benjamin Rush had signed the Declaration...
by Col. Benjamin Tallmadge
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
The Revolutionary War colonel—and leader of the famed Culper Spy Ring—tells his story in this fascinating historical autobiography.
When British troops defeated the Continental Army on Long Island, General George Washington was forced to abandon New York in order to save the revolution....
by David Fisher
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2016
The must-have companion to Bill O'Reilly's historical docudrama Legends and Lies: The Patriots, an exciting and eye-opening look at the Revolutionary War through the lives of its leaders
The American Revolution was neither inevitable nor a unanimous cause. It pitted neighbors against each other,...
Founding Brothers
The Revolutionary Generation
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2003
In this landmark work of history and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Joseph J. Ellisexplores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed individuals—Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison—confronted the overwhelming challenges before them to set the course for our...
George Washington's War
The Forging of a Revolutionary Leader and the American Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2005
The American Revolution was won not on the battlefields, but in the mind of George Washington. A compulsively readable narrative and extensive history, George Washington's War illuminates how during the war's winter months the young general created a new model of leadership that became the model for the American presidency.
Fallen Founder
The Life of Aaron Burr
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2007
From the author of White Trash and The Problem of Democracy, a controversial challenge to the views of the Founding Fathers offered by Ron Chernow and David McCullough
Lin-Manuel Miranda's play "Hamilton" has reignited interest in the founding fathers; and it features Aaron Burr among...
by Jeff Wilser
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
The life and lessons of the Founding Father who mastered the arts of wit, war, and wealth, longbefore becoming the subject of Broadway’s Hamilton: An American Musical
Two centuries after his death, Alexander Hamilton is shining once more under the world’s spotlight—and we need him now...
The Summer of 1787
The Men Who Invented the Constitution
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2007
The Summer of 1787 takes us into the sweltering room in which the founding fathers struggled for four months to produce the Constitution: the flawed but enduring document that would define the nation—then and now.
George Washington presided, James Madison kept the notes, Benjamin Franklin...
by H. W. Brands
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Though he was a hero of the Revolutionary War, a prominent New York politician, and vice president of the United States, Aaron Burr is today best remembered as the villain who killed Alexander Hamilton in a duel.
But as H. W. Brands demonstrates in this fascinating portrait of one of the most...
Master of the Mountain
Thomas Jefferson and His Slaves
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2012
Is there anything new to say about Thomas Jefferson and slavery? The answer is a resounding yes. Master of the Mountain, Henry Wiencek's eloquent, persuasive book—based on new information coming from archaeological work at Monticello and on hitherto overlooked or disregarded evidence in Jefferson's...
Summary and Analysis of Alexander Hamilton
Based on the Book by Ron Chernow
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of Alexander Hamilton tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Ron Chernow’s book.
Crafted and edited with care, Worth Books set the standard for quality and give you the tools you need to be a well-informed reader.
This...
An Imperfect God
George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013
An Imperfect God is a major new biography of Washington, and the first to explore his engagement with American slavery
When George Washington wrote his will, he made the startling decision to set his slaves free; earlier he had said that holding slaves was his "only unavoidable subject...