The Debate on the Constitution By Bernard Bailyn

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Title	:	The Debate on the Constitution
Author	:	Bernard Bailyn
ISBN	:	094045064X
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	1216

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In this Library of America volume and its companion is captured, on a scale unmatched by any previous collection, the extraordinary energy and eloquence of our first national political campaign.Part Two gathers collected press polemics and private commentaries from January to August 1788, including all the amendments proposed by state ratifying conventions as well as doz In this Library of America volume and its companion is captured, on a scale unmatched by any previous collection, the extraord...

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The Last Gunfight By Jeff Guinn

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Title	:	The Last Gunfight
Author	:	Jeff Guinn
ISBN	:	1439154244
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	392

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A New York Times bestseller, Jeff Guinn s definitive, myth busting account of the most famous gunfight in American history reveals who Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday, and the Clantons and McLaurys really were and what the shootout was all about.On the afternoon of October 26, 1881, in a vacant lot in Tombstone, Arizona, a confrontation between eight armed men erupted in a deadly A New York Times bestseller, Jeff Guinn s definitive, myth busting account of the most famous gunfight in Amer...

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The Children's Blizzard By David Laskin

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Title	:	The Children's Blizzard
Author	:	David Laskin
ISBN	:	0060520760
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	307

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Thousands of impoverished Northern European immigrants were promised that the prairie offered land, freedom, and hope The disastrous blizzard of 1888 revealed that their free homestead was not a paradise but a hard, unforgiving place governed by natural forces they neither understood nor controlled, and America s heartland would never be the same.This P.S edition featu Thousands of impoverished Northern European immigrants were promised that the prairie offered land, freedom, and hope The disastrous blizz...

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History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson By Henry Adams

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Title	:	History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson
Author	:	Henry Adams
ISBN	:	0940450348
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	1308

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The library of America is dedicated to publishing America s best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts Hailed as the finest looking, longest lasting editions ever made The New Republic , Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to choose from, there is a perfect The library of America is dedicated to publishing America s best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, fe...

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Liberty's Daughters By Mary Beth Norton

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Title	:	Liberty's Daughters
Author	:	Mary Beth Norton
ISBN	:	0801483476
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	400

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First published in 1980 and recently out of print, Liberty s Daughters is widely considered a landmark book on the history of American women and on the Revolution itself....

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Behind the Dream By Clarence B. Jones

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Title	:	Behind the Dream
Author	:	Clarence B. Jones
ISBN	:	0230103685
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	224

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I have a dream When those words were spoken on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, the crowd stood, electrified, as Martin Luther King, Jr brought the plight of African Americans to the public consciousness and firmly established himself as one of the greatest orators of all time Behind the Dream is a thrilling, behind the scenes account of the weeks I have a dream When those words were spoken on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial on August 28, 1963, the crowd stood, elec...

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The Stamp Act Crisis By Edmund S. Morgan

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Title	:	The Stamp Act Crisis
Author	:	Edmund S. Morgan
ISBN	:	0807845132
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	342

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The Stamp Act, the first direct tax on the American colonies, provoked an immediate and violent response The Stamp Act Crisis, originally published by UNC Press in 1953, identifies the issues that caused the confrontation and explores the ways in which the conflict was a prelude to the American Revolution....

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Franklin on Faith By Bill Fortenberry

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Title	:	Franklin on Faith
Author	:	Bill Fortenberry
ISBN	:	1506127355
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	312

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Known to historians as the First American, Benjamin Franklin is without a doubt the most accessible of America s founding fathers His writings have inspired millions of Americans, and even now, than 200 years after his death, his wit and humor still brighten lives all across the world But what was this great man s view on faith Was he really a Deist as so many hi Known to historians as the First American, Benjamin Franklin is without a doubt the most accessible of America s founding fathers His...

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Coronado's Children By J. Frank Dobie

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Title	:	Coronado's Children
Author	:	J. Frank Dobie
ISBN	:	0292710526
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	351

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Texas has its share of legendary treasure, and Dobie records the lore of the lost mines of the San Saba and Llano rivers, rumors of an untapped vein of wonderfully rich gold west of Paisano Pass in Devil s River country, tales of forgotten posthole stashes where prosperous frontier ranchers once banked their gold and silver coins, and ....

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Burr By Gore Vidal

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Title	:	Burr
Author	:	Gore Vidal
ISBN	:	0375708731
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	430

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Gore Vidal s Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post World War II years With their broad canvas and large cast of fictional and historical characters, the novels in this series present a panorama of the American political and imperial experience as interpreted by one of its most worldly, knowing, and ironic observ Gore Vidal s Narratives of Empire series spans the history of the United States from the Revolution to the post World War II years With...

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Lone Star Nation By H.W. Brands

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Title	:	Lone Star Nation
Author	:	H.W. Brands
ISBN	:	0385507372
Format	:	Hardcover
Number of Pages	:	582

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From bestselling historian and long time Texan H W Brands, a richly textured history of one of the most fascinating and colorful eras in U.S history the Texas Revolution and the forging of a new America For better or for worse, Texas was very much like America The people ruled, and little could stop them If they ignored national boundaries, if they trampled the r From bestselling historian and long time Texan H W Brands, a richly textured history of one of the most fascinating and colorful eras in U.S his...

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The Protestant Establishment By E. Digby Baltzell

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Title	:	The Protestant Establishment
Author	:	E. Digby Baltzell
ISBN	:	0300038186
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	448

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This classic account of the traditional upper class in America traces its origins, lifestyles, and political and social attitudes from the time of Theodore Roosevelt to that of John F Kennedy Sociologist E Digby Baltzell describes the problems of exclusion and prejudice within the community of white Anglo Saxon Protestants or WASPs, an acronym he coined and predicts w This classic account of the traditional upper class in America traces its origins, lifestyles, and political and social attitudes from the ...

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Empire of Liberty By Gordon S. Wood

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Title	:	Empire of Liberty
Author	:	Gordon S. Wood
ISBN	:	0199832463
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	778

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The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi volume history of our nation The series includes three Pulitzer Prize winners, two New York Times bestsellers, and winners of the Bancroft and Parkman Prizes Now, in the newest volume in the series, one of America s most esteemed historians, Gordon S Wood, offers a brilliant account of the early The Oxford History of the United States is by far the most respected multi volume history of our nation The series includes three Pulitzer...

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The Name of War By Jill Lepore

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Title	:	The Name of War
Author	:	Jill Lepore
ISBN	:	0375702628
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	368

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Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society King Philip s War, the excruciating racial war colonists against Indians that erupted in New England in 1675, was, in proportion to population, the bloodiest in American history Some even argued that the massacres and outrages on both sides were too horrific to deserve the name of a war It Winner of the the 1998 Ralph Waldo Emerson Award of the Phi Beta Kappa Society King Philip s War, the excruciating racial war colonists agai...

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Don't Know Much about History By Kenneth C. Davis

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Title	:	Don't Know Much about History
Author	:	Kenneth C. Davis
ISBN	:	0060083824
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	678

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Who really discovered America What was the shot heard round the world Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings Did he or didn t he From the arrival of Columbus through the bizarre election of 2000 and beyond, Davis carries readers on a rollicking ride through than 500 years of American history In this updated edition of the classic anti textbook, he debunks, recounts Who really discovered America What was the shot heard round the world Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings Did he or didn t he From the arrival of ...

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Playing Indian By Philip J. Deloria

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Title	:	Playing Indian
Author	:	Philip J. Deloria
ISBN	:	0300080670
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	262

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Moving from the Boston Tea Party to the present, this is an exploration of the ways in which non Indian Americans have played out their fantasies about Indians in order to experience national, modern and personal identities....

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Novus Ordo Seclorum By Forrest McDonald

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Title	:	Novus Ordo Seclorum
Author	:	Forrest McDonald
ISBN	:	0700603115
Format	:	Paperback
Number of Pages	:	376

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This is the first major interpretation of the framing of the Constitution to appear in than two decades Forrest McDonald, widely considered one of the foremost historians of the Constitution and of the early national period, reconstructs the intellectual world of the Founding Fathers including their understanding of law, history political philosophy, and political ec This is the first major interpretation of the framing of the Constitution to appear in than two decades Forrest McDonald, widely considere...

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