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Creating the administrative constitution
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Jerry L. Mashaw |
"This groundbreaking book is the first to look at administration and administrative law in the earliest days of the American republic. Jerry Mashaw demonstrates that from the very beginning Congress … |
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These Happy Golden Years
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Garth Williams,Laura Ingalls Wilder |
The Ingalls family homesteads on their claim in DeSmet, South Dakota. Fifteen-year-old Laura begins to take schoolteaching jobs to raise money for Mary's college. Laura is surprised when Almanzo Wild… |
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John Quincy Adams
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James Traub |
From the Introduction...
Adams was also a hard man. He did not aim to please, and he largely succeeded. He drove away many of his old friends and offended most of his onetime allies. He frightened… |
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The midnight assassin
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Skip Hollandsworth |
Contains primary source material.
"In the late 1800s, the city of Austin, Texas was on the cusp of emerging from an isolated Western outpost into a truly cosmopolitan metropolis. But beginning in De… |
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James Madison
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Cheney, Lynne V. |
"This majestic new biography of James Madison explores the astonishing story of a man of vaunted modesty who audaciously changed the world. Among the Founding Fathers, Madison was a true genius of th… |
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Devil's Gate
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David Roberts |
"The Mormon handcart tragedy of 1856 is the worst disaster in the history of the Western migrations, and yet it remains virtually unknown today outside Mormon circles. Following the death of Joseph S… |
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Madame Tussaud
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Kate Berridge |
Millions have visited the museums that bear her name, yet few know much about Madame Tussaud. A celebrated artist, she had both a ringside seat at and a cameo role in the French Revolution. A victim … |
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Wild Whispers
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Cassie Edwards |
SHE TAMED THE PANTHER
Beautiful Kaylene Shelton's home had always been her father's carnival, traveling across the frontier. Filled with loneliness and unspoken longings, she had no one to talk to e… |
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A handful of flowers and weeds, in prose and verse, from a very old portfolio, by the author of ..
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Jones Very |
Jones Very (1813-1880) was an American Transcendentalist poet whom Ralph Waldo Emerson admired. Unlike many of the Transcendentalists, however, Very was considered a "mystic" and many of his poems e… |
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