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Biography (Late eighteenth century)

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  • Securing American Independenceby FRANK BRECHER

    ABC-CLIO 2003; US$ 129.00

    Brecher explores the controversial diplomacy by which the United States separately brought to a de facto close its War of Independence against the British, leaving its one ally, France, in the lurch. He focuses on the two dominant, ostensibly allied peace negotiators, John Jay and Vergennes.||Veteran diplomat and diplomatic history author Frank Brecher... more...

  • Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin.by Benjamin Franklin

    MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 3.99

    WITH ILLUSTRATIONS by E. BOYD SMITH, EDITED by FRANK WOODWORTH PINE.This is an electronic edition of the complete book. This book features the table of contents linked to every chapter, illustration, and footnote. The book was designed for optimal navigation on the Kindle, PDA, Smartphone, and other electronic readers. It is formatted to display on... more...

  • Alexander Hamilton: The Outsiderby Jean Fritz

    Penguin Group US 2011; US$ 16.99

    Award-winning biographer Jean Fritz brings one of America's favorite Founding Fathers to life! Most people know that Alexander Hamilton was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr, and that his face is on the ten-dollar bill. But he was much more than that, and here acclaimed biographer Jean Fritz explores all facets of his life. Born in the West Indies,... more...

  • We Have All Gone Awayby Curtis Harnack

    University of Iowa Press 2011; US$ 19.95

    In We Have All Gone Away , his emotionally moving memoir, Curtis Harnack tells of growing up during the Great Depression on an Iowa farm among six siblings and an extended family of relatives. With a directness and a beauty that recall Thoreau, Harnack balances a child’s impressions with the knowledge of an adult looking back to produce... more...

  • Gallatinby Nicholas Dungan

    NYU Press 2010; US$ 28.00

    You won’t find his portrait on our currency anymore and his signature isn’t penned on the Constitution, but former statesman Albert Gallatin (1761-1849) contributed immeasurably to the formation of America. Gallatin was the first president of the council of New York University and his name lives on at NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized... more...

  • The Quotable Founding Fathersby Buckner F. Melton

    Potomac Books Inc. 2005; US$ 21.95

    The most extensive and useful collection available more...

  • The Politically Incorrect Guide to Real American Heroesby Brion McClanahan

    Regnery Publishing 2012; US$ 19.95

    As presidential candidates sling dirt at each other, America desperately needs a few real heroes. Tragically, liberal historians and educators have virtually erased traditional American heroes from history. According to the Left, the Founding Fathers were not noble architects of America, but selfish demagogues. And self?made entrepreneurs like Rockefeller... more...

  • American Machiavelliby John Lamberton Harper

    Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 24.00

    Alexander Hamilton rose from his humble beginnings as an illegitimate West Indian orphan and emigrant to become the premier statebuilder and strategic thinker of the American Founding generation. more...

  • Quaker Constitutionalism and the Political Thought of John Dickinsonby Jane E. Calvert

    Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 29.00

    This book argues that Quakers originated a unique strain of constitutionalism based on their theology and ecclesiology. more...

  • Shapers of the Great Debate at the Constitutional Convention of 1787by JOSEPH MORTON

    ABC-CLIO 2005; US$ 111.00

    As the oldest still operational written constitution in the world, the U.S. Constitution?and the concepts it proclaims? have been under almost constant attack since its inception. At a convention in 1787, fifty-five delegates assembled in Philadelphia to revise and amend the Articles of Confederation, only to emerge sixteen weeks later with a new document:... more...