Revolutionary Period 1775 1800 category: 1601 books
The Whiskey Rebellion
George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, and the Fro
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
A gripping and sensational tale of violence, alcohol, and taxes, The Whiskey Rebellion uncovers the radical eighteenth-century people’s movement, long ignored by historians, that contributed decisively to the establishment of federal authority.
In 1791, on the frontier of western Pennsylvania,...
The Hamilton Collection
The Wisdom and Writings of the Founding Father
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2016
The subject of a New York Times best-selling biography and a Pulitzer-Prize winning musical, interest in Alexander Hamilton is at an all-time high. This carefully curated collection of Hamilton's writings gives the reader an intimate glimpse into the mind of our most misunderstood founding father.
The...
by Alexander Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2018
Discover America's most acerbic founding father in his own words!
This handsome little volume offers a collection of insights, witticisms, declarations, and sentiments penned by Alexander Hamilton throughout his life.
From arguments in favor of the U. S. Constitution, to wartime correspondence...
The Problem of Democracy
The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
**"Told with authority and style. . . Crisply summarizing the Adamses' legacy, the authors stress principle over partisanship."--The Wall Street Journal
How the father and son presidents foresaw the rise of the cult of personality and fought those who sought to abuse the weaknesses...
The Wonderful Story of Washington
And the Meaning of His Life for the Youth and Patriotism of America
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
The classic biography of first American President, George Washington.
by John Adams
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2004
In addition to being an uncompromising defender of liberty, esteemed diplomat, and successor to George Washington, John Adams was a passionate and prolific writer. Adams biographer John Patrick Diggins gathers an impressive variety of his works in this compact, original volume, including parts of...
The Invention of Air
A Story Of Science, Faith, Revolution, And The Birth Of America
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2008
From the bestselling author of How We Got To Now, The Ghost Map and Farsighted, a new national bestseller: the “exhilarating”( Los Angeles Times) story of Joseph Priestley, “a founding father long forgotten”(Newsweek) and a brilliant man who embodied the relationship between science, religion,...
by Joseph J. Ellis
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 1998
Following Thomas Jefferson from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to his retirement in Monticello, Joseph J. Ellis unravels the contradictions of the Jeffersonian character. He gives us the slaveholding libertarian who was capable of decrying mescegenation while maintaing an intimate...
by Francis Russell
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2019
John and Abigail Adams and their descendants have profoundly influenced life in the United States for more than two centuries. From the great political and philosophical contributions of Founding Father and President John Adams, the roster of Adams luminaries is unprecedented: diplomat and sixth president,...
George Whitefield
America's Spiritual Founding Father
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
In the years prior to the American Revolution, George Whitefield was the most famous man in the colonies. Thomas Kidd’s fascinating new biography explores the extraordinary career of the most influential figure in the first generation of Anglo-American evangelical Christianity, examining his sometimes...
George Washington
The Founding Father
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2009
By far the most important figure in the history of the United States, George Washington liberated the thirteen colonies from the superior forces of the British Empire against all military odds, and presided over the production and ratification of a constitution that (suitably amended) has lasted for...
Washington and Hamilton
The Alliance That Forged America
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
The Untold Story of the Extraordinary Alliance That Forged Our Nation and the Unlikely Duo Behind It: George Washington & Alexander Hamilton
In the wake of the American Revolution, the Founding Fathers faced a daunting task: overcome their competing visions to build a new nation, the likes...
The Trouble with Tea
The Politics of Consumption in the Eighteenth-Century Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Americans imagined tea as central to their revolution. After years of colonial boycotts against the commodity, the Sons of Liberty kindled the fire of independence when they dumped tea in the Boston harbor in 1773. To reject tea as a consumer item and symbol of "taxation without representation"...
by Adam Smith
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2000
Adam Smith’s masterpiece, first published in 1776, is the foundation of modern economic thought and remains the single most important account of the rise of, and the principles behind, modern capitalism. Written in clear and incisive prose, The Wealth of Nations articulates the concepts indispensable...