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The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 4.95The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin , which Franklin himself called his Memoirs, is the unfinished record of his life written between 1771 and 1790. It has become one of the most well-known and influential autobiographies in history, and has been praised both as a historical document and a piece of literature in its own right. William Dean Howells... more...
My Bondage and My Freedom
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 4.99The second in the series of three autobiographies penned by Frederick Douglass, My Bondage and My Freedom picks up where Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass left off. This volume recounts more gripping details of Douglass' transformation from illiterate slave to leading light of the abolitionist movement and offers an extended philosophical... more...
Early National America 1790-1850
Infobase Publishing 2010; US$ 42.00When George Washington took the reins of the presidency in 1789, the United States was little more than a youthful republic largely populated by farmers who could not imagine their country extending from the Atlantic to the Pacific. But within three generations, the nation stretched across the continent, reliant on steam power and machines to connect... more...
The Political Trial of Benjamin Franklin
Algora Publishing 2011; US$ 23.95Benjamin Franklin, it seems, was a reluctant revolutionary. In tracing the course of his political transformation, this book explores the social and political understandings and misunderstandings that both sustained and divided Britain and its colonies in North America. At the center of the story is Benjamin Franklin's decision in late 1772 to... more...
From Sea to Shining Sea for Young Readers (Discovering God's Plan for America Book #2)
Baker Publishing Group 2011; US$ 14.99These young readers' editions of the popular history texts reveal how God was at work in America's history from the very beginning. For ages 9-12. more...
American Founding
Continuum International Publishing 2012; US$ 90.00America’s Founding Fathers shared similar beliefs on the nature of civic life and the character of those supposed to be able to self-govern. Although they studied the failed republics of the ancient world, they believed that classical ideals were still applicable to politics. This unique contribution to the literature on American Founding gathers... more...
Benjamin Franklin
Simon & Schuster 2003; US$ 18.95Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings, he seems made of flesh rather than of marble. In bestselling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin seems to turn to us from... more...
Benjamin Franklin
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 8.99Born into the family of a Boston candlemaker, Benjamin Franklin turned the lessons of his humble beginning into seasoned wisdom that helped found a new nation. This biography takes his point of departure on the question of whether young people should adopt the model of this American character or whether the heroic image needs to be tempered. more...
Franklin and Bache
Oxford University Press 1990; US$ 109.99The intense ideological conflict of the 1790s is illustrated in this study of the education and career of Benjamin Franklin Bache. Trained as a journalist by his grandfather, Benjamin Franklin, Bache became the leading polemical Jeffersonian journalist of the period. more...
The Essential Jefferson
Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. 2006; US$ 7.95Through substantial selections from Jefferson's writings - including his earliest writings, Notes on Virginia , and key public papers and personal correspondence - this volume traces the development of his thinking on such fundamental issues as republicanism, constitutionalism, slavery, and the separation of religion from politics. Footnotes identify... more...









