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Washington & Napoleon
Potomac Books Inc. 2011; US$ 29.95Two political and military giants compared more...
His Excellency
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2004; US$ 15.00National Bestseller To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as his effigy on Mount Rushmore, Ellis assesses George... more...
General George Washington
Random House Publishing Group 2005; US$ 16.95Much has been written in the past two centuries about George Washington the statesman and ?father of his country.? Less often discussed is Washington?s military career, including his exploits as a young officer and his performance as the Revolutionary War commander in chief. Now, in a revealing work of historical biography, Edward Lengel has written... more...
The Great Upheaval
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 14.99It is an era that redefined history. As the 1790s began, a fragile America teetered on the brink of oblivion, Russia towered as a vast imperial power, and France plunged into revolution. But in contrast to the way conventional histories tell it, none of these remarkable events occurred in isolation. Now, for the first time, acclaimed historian Jay... more...
Twilight at Monticello
Random House Publishing Group 2008; US$ 15.00Twilight at Monticello is something entirely new: an unprecedented and engrossing personal look at the intimate Jefferson in his final years that will change the way readers think about this true American icon. It was during these years?from his return to Monticello in 1809 after two terms as president until his death in 1826?that Jefferson?s idealism... more...
The Louisiana Purchase
CQ Press, a Division of SAGE 2002; US$ 126.50The new reference series, Landmark Events in U.S. History, uses both contributed essays from eminent scholars and excerpts of primary source documents with explanatory headnotes to focus on critical events in American political history and explain how it came about and why it continues to play such a vital role in the history and political evolution... more...
George Washington's War
Sourcebooks, Inc. 2005; US$ 19.99The definitive story of how Washington lead the United States during the revolution and created a vision for the new nation. more...
Mr. Jefferson's Women
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2009; US$ 17.00From the acclaimed author of A Wilderness So Immense comes a pioneering study of Thomas Jefferson's relationships with women, both personal and political. The author of the Declaration of Independence, who wrote the words ?all men are created equal,? was surprisingly uncomfortable with woman. In eight chapters, Kukla examines the evidence for the... more...
Washington
Palgrave Macmillan 2009; US$ 9.99George Washington influenced every phase of the Revolutionary war. His offenses were as brilliant as they were unpredictable, and it is this fearless but not reckless, spontaneous but calculated, offensive approach that Carbonne argues Washington should be remembered for - as a leader not of infallibility but of greatness. more...
Term Paper Resource Guide to Nineteenth-Century U.S. History
ABC-CLIO 2008; US$ 65.00Major help for those inevitable American History term paper projects has arrived to enrich and stimulate students in challenging and enjoyable ways. Students from high school age to undergraduate will be able to get a jumpstart on assignments with the hundreds of term paper projects and research information offered here in an easy-to-use format. Users... more...









