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Washington vs. Main Street
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Jules Archer |
Chronicles the struggles between Federal and local power from before the Declaration of Independence through the present. |
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Gallatin
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Nicholas Dungan |
Examines the life of statesman Albert Gallatin and discusses his role in the formation of the United States. |
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Signing their rights away
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Denise Kiernan |
Presents the lives, deaths, and scandals involving the thirty-nine signers of the United States Constitution, including Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, and James McHenry. |
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The failure of popular sovereignty
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Christopher Childers |
xii, 334 p. : 24 cm |
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Fallen Founder
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Nancy Isenberg |
This definitive biography of the revolutionary era villain overturns every myth and image we have of him. The narrative of America's founding is filled with godlike geniuses—Franklin, Washington, Ada… |
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The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics
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William J. Cooper |
526 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 25 cm |
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Madison and Jefferson
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Andrew Burstein |
The third and fourth presidents have long been considered proper and noble gentlemen, with Thomas Jefferson's genius overshadowing James Madison's judgment and common sense. But in this revelatory bo… |
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Apostle of Union
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Matthew Mason |
Known today as "the other speaker at Gettysburg," Edward Everett had a distinguished and illustrative career at every level of American politics from the 1820s through the Civil War. In this new biog… |
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Defending a new nation, 1783-1811
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John R. Maass |
"Tells the story of several military campaigns against Indians in the Northwest Territory, the Army's role in suppressing the Whiskey Rebellion (1794), the quasi-war with France and confrontations wi… |
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Disunion!
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Elizabeth R. Varon |
In the decades before the Civil War, Americans debating the fate of slavery often invoked the specter of disunion to frighten or discredit their opponents. According to Elizabeth Varon, "disunion" wa… |
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Gouverneur Morris
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Samuel Willard Crompton,Samuel Etinde Crompton |
Describes the life of Gouverneur Morris, who edited the final version of the United States Constitution, served as minister to France, and was instrumental in the establishment of our national coinag… |
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A Perfect Union
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Catherine Allgor |
No union is ever perfect. Yet it’s not a stretch to consider Dolley Madison the perfect First Lady, “a bridge between presidential dignity and democratic accessibility.”
As Allgor (History/Univ. o… |
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The papers of John Marshall
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John Marshall |
"Sponsored by the College of William and Mary and the Institute of Early American History and Culture under the auspices of the National Historical Publications Commission." |
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Mr. Jefferson's lost cause
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Roger G. Kennedy |
Thomas Jefferson advocated a republic of small farmers -- free and independent yeomen. And yet as president he presided over a massive expansion of the slaveholding plantation system -- particularly … |
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