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The Hamiltonian Vision, 17891800
Potomac Books Inc. 2012; US$ 30.00The creation of American diplomacy and power as an art more...
Jefferson in His Own Time
University of Iowa Press 2012; US$ 32.50In this volume, Kevin J. Hayes collects thirty accounts of Thomas Jefferson written by his granddaughters, visiting dignitaries, fellow politicians, and others who knew him as a family man, public servant, intellectual, and institution builder. The letters and reminiscences of those who knew Jefferson personally reveal him to be a warm, funny man,... more...
The Jeffersonian vision, 18011815
Potomac Books Inc. 2013; US$ 30.00The creation of American diplomacy and power as a distinct art more...
The Unvarnished Truth
University of California Press 1999; US$ 29.95The practice of selling one's tale of woe to make a buck has long been a part of American culture. The Unvarnished Truth: Personal Narratives in Nineteenth-Century America is a powerful cultural history of how ordinary Americans crafted and sold their stories of hardship and calamity during the nineteenth century. Ann Fabian examines the tales of... more...
George Washington
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 11.99By 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 more than two hundred years. Yet today Washington... more...
Thomas Jefferson
Edinburgh University Press 2006; US$ 97.51This first major study of Thomas Jeffersons reputation in nearly fifty years is concerned with Jefferson and historyboth as something Jefferson made and something that he sought to shape. Jefferson was acutely aware that he would be judged by posterity and he deliberately sought to influence historys judgment of him. He did so, it... more...
George Washington On Leadership
Basic Books 2009; US$ 16.00In 1799, at the end of George Washington?s long life and illustrious career, the politician Henry Lee eulogized him as: ?First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen.? Esteemed historian Richard Brookhiser now adds to this list, ?First in leadership,? examining the lessons to be learned from our first president, first commander-in-chief,... more...






