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Founding Fathers
Sourcebooks 2013; US$ 12.99"It is infinitely better to have a few good men than many indifferent ones."?George Washington Filled with more than 220 quotes from America's most influential founders, The Founding Fathers: Quotes, Quips, and Speeches captures the essence of the leaders who forged a new country based on their beliefs of freedom and liberty. Discover their... more...
The Domestic Life of Thomas Jefferson
Digital Scanning, Inc. 2001; US$ 4.95The object of this book is to give a faithful picture of him as he was in private life. According to those who knew and loved him best, he was a beautiful domestic character. more...
Douglass' Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Wiley 1999; US$ 5.99The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in the series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format. In CliffsNotes on Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, you’ll... more...
John Adams
Simon & Schuster 2001; US$ 20.00In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot -- "the colossus of independence," as Thomas Jefferson called him -- who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second President... more...
Saving Monticello
Free Press 2002; US$ 25.00When Thomas Jefferson died on the Fourth of July 1826 -- the nation's fiftieth birthday -- he was more than $100,000 in debt. Forced to sell thousands of acres of his lands and nearly all of his furniture and artwork, in 1831 his heirs bid a final goodbye to Monticello itself. The house their illustrious patriarch had lovingly designed in the Blue... more...
Frederick Douglass's Curious Audiences
Taylor and Francis 2004; US$ 133.00Terry Baxter provides a means of understanding the positive responses of Frederick Douglass's white audiences and African American celebrities' roles as both objects of consumption and vehicles for social change. more...
Final Freedom
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 26.00Focusing on the making and meaning of the Thirteenth Amendment, Final Freedom looks at the struggle among legal thinkers, politicians, and ordinary Americans to find a way to abolish slavery that would overcome the inadequacies of the Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. more...
Stealing God's Thunder
Random House Publishing Group 2005; US$ 14.95?We forget, living in this era of heavily patented research and closely guarded results, how wonderfully exciting the scientific world used to be. In Stealing God?s Thunder, the story of Benjamin Franklin?s invention of the lightening rod and the resulting consequences, that sense of wonder and excitement and even fear comes beautifully to life. Philip... more...
Forbidden Fruit
Atria Books 2005; US$ 14.00Forbidden Fruit is a collection of fascinating, largely untold stories of ordinary men and women who took extraor dinary measures, risking life and limb to be together. Itıs the story of couples who faced mobs, bloodhounds, bounty hunters, and bullets to defy the system that allowed slave masters to breed and sell people like cattle. Some broke... more...
The Pirate Coast
Hyperion 2005; US$ 11.95In an attempt to stop the legendary Barbary Pirates of North Africa from hijacking American ships, William Eaton set out on a secret mission to overthrow the government of Tripoli. The operation was sanctioned by President Thomas Jefferson, who at the last moment grew wary of intermeddling? in a foreign government and sent Eaton off without proper... more...









