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Manifest Ambition
Greenwood Publishing Group 2007; US$ 50.00Pinheiro explores the power and perseverance of James K. Polk, who overcame the political intrigues of both members of his own Democratic party and the Whigs in Washington, D.C., as well as the challenges posed by many of his own commanding officers in the field, to lead the nation to victory during the Mexican War while establishing important precedents... more...
John Quincy Adams
Infobase Publishing 2003; US$ 30.00A biography of John Quincy Adams, the only former president to serve in the United States House of Representatives, whose antislavery position led him to argue the Amistad case before the Supreme Court. more...
John Adams
Infobase Publishing 2003; US$ 30.00A biography of the second president of the United States. more...
Jeffersons Great Gamble
Sourcebooks, Inc. 2004; US$ 15.99A momentous moment in American history, one that forever changed the scope of the nation and its people. more...
Abigail Adams
Teacher Created Materials Publishing 2004; US$ 8.99Abigail lived during times, which were much more difficult for women than today; yet, Abigail Adams traveled, believed in women?s rights, and experienced the American Revolution. A devoted wife, mother, and American patriot, Abigail influenced history by helping her husband, John, make important decisions. more...
Mr. Jefferson's Lost Cause
Oxford University Press, USA 2003; US$ 18.99Thomas 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 with the Louisiana Purchase--squeezing the yeomanry to the fringes and to less desirable farmland. Now Roger Kennedy conducts an eye-opening examination of... more...
The Birth of Modern Politics
Oxford University Press, USA 2009; US$ 14.99The 1828 presidential election, which pitted Major General Andrew Jackson against incumbent John Quincy Adams, has long been hailed as a watershed moment in American political history. It was the contest in which an unlettered, hot-tempered southwesetern frontiersman, trumpeted by his supporters as a genuine man of the people, soundly defeated a New... more...
Charles Sumner and the Coming of the Civil War
Sourcebooks, Inc. 2009; US$ 3.99The Puliter-Prize winning classic and national bestseller returns!Emeritus Harvard Professor David Herbert Donald traces Sumner's life in this Pulitzer-Prize winning classic about a nation careening toward Civil War. more...
Edward Stanly
University of Alabama Press 2009; US$ 39.95Raised under the “Ancient Standard of Federalism,” Edward Stanly was a southern nationalist during a time of popular nullification and secession doctrines. Edward Stanly: Whiggery’s Tarheel Conqueror is an unprecedented biography of Stanly’s life, and recounts his fiery and controversial emergence in the Whig Party of... more...
Maclure of New Harmony
Indiana University Press 2009; US$ 23.75Maclure of New Harmony follows the twists and turns of William Maclure's intriguing life. A native Scotsman, Maclure (1763--1840) became a merchant, made a fortune, and retired in his early thirties. Then his life became interesting. Fascinated by the study of geology, Maclure did fieldwork throughout... more...









