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George Washington
ABC-CLIO 2003; US$ 55.00The range of subjects discussed in this work is not limited to Washington's roles as military leader and President. It includes much about his personal and family life, his landholdings, his business dealings and his correspondents. 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 Grimke Sisters from South Carolina
Oxford University Press 1998; US$ 22.50The only Southern white women ever to become leading abolitionists, Sarah and Angelina Grimke encountered many obstacles and leapt many hurdles in pursuing their anti-slavery work. Their greatest accomplishment was overcoming the ubiquitous prejudices of society in regard to women. Indeed, they were the first women to take to the public platform and... more...
Slavery and the Making of America
Oxford University Press 2006; US$ 18.99Assesses the economic, cultural, and social implications of the enslavement of Africans in America, and includes profiles of both well-known and lesser-known historical figures. more...
Carry Me Back
Oxford University Press 2005; US$ 18.99A tour-de-force examination of the history of the domestic slave trade in America. This book represents a detailed accounting of the movement of slaves from market within the United States, as well as an examination of the lives of those operating and participating in the business world of those markets. 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...
Thomas Jefferson
Oxford University Press 2003; US$ 19.99Thomas Jefferson designed his own tombstone, describing himself simply as "Author of the Declaration of Independence and of the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, and Father of the University of Virginia." It is in this simple epitaph that R.B. Bernstein finds the key to this enigmatic Founder--not as a great political figure, but as... more...
The Afterlife of John Brown
Palgrave Macmillan 2005; US$ 84.00An examination of the influence - however contested - of John Brown of the Harper's Ferry Rebellion on the national narrative of the United States more...
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Touchstone 2003; US$ 12.00"The first book to belong permanently to literature. It created a man." -- From the Introduction Few men could compare to Benjamin Franklin. Virtually self-taught, he excelled as an athlete, a man of letters, a printer, a scientist, a wit, an inventor, an editor, and a writer, and he was probably the most successful diplomat in American history.... more...









