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  • Renegade Revolutionary

    The Life of General Charles Lee

    by Phillip Papas ...
    Honorable Mention for the 2015 Book Award from the American Revolution Round Table of RichmondHonorable Mention for the 2015 Fraunces Tavern Museum Book AwardInNovember 1774, a pamphlet to the "People of America" was published inPhiladelphia and London. It forcefully articulated American rights andliberties and argued that the Americans needed to declare their independencefrom Britain. The author ... Read more

    $15.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Port Richmond

    Series series Images of America
    Cornelius Vanderbilt, Aaron Burr, Faber Pencils, the atomic bomb, Paul Zindel, and David Johansen all have one thing in common: Port Richmond. Many Staten Islanders flocked to Richmond Avenue, known as the Fifth Avenue of Staten Island, to shop at Garber Brothers or at Tirone's Shoes or enjoy an ice-cream soda at Stechman's. The Ritz, Palace, and Empire Theaters hosted vaudeville shows, films, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • That Ever Loyal Island

    Staten Island and the American Revolution

    by Phillip Papas ...
    Of crucial strategic importance to both the British and the Continental Army, Staten Island was, for a good part of the American Revolution, a bastion of Loyalist support. With its military and political significance, Staten Island provides rich terrain for Phillip Papas's illuminating case study of the local dimensions of the Revolutionary War.Papas traces Staten Island's political sympathies not ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

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    The Championship Track

    Go the distance into the history of New York's Triple Crown racetrack and the legendary horses who made their marks there.Belmont Park is best known for the annual Belmont Stakes, the challenging final leg of racing's Triple Crown. But Belmont is also renowned because nearly every American champion Thoroughbred has competed on its grounds. Named for the illustrious Belmont family, the track has ... Read more

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Washington

    A Life (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

    by Ron Chernow ...
    **From the author of Alexander Hamilton, the New York Times bestselling biography that inspired the musical, comes a gripping portrait of the first president of the United States.Winner of the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Biography“Truly magnificent . . . [a] well-researched, well-written and absolutely definitive biography” —Andrew Roberts, The Wall Street Journal“Until recently, I’d never believed ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The American Revolution

    A History

    Series Book 9 - Modern Library Chronicles
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Radicalism of the Revolution comes “an elegant, concise, and lucid summary of the Revolution’s origins, the war itself, and the social and political changes wrought by the struggle for American independence” (The Wall Street Journal).“This slim book tells a big story: one that invites the reader to contemplate the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Trying Leviathan

    The Nineteenth-Century New York Court Case That Put the Whale on Trial and Challenged the Order of Nature

    In Moby-Dick, Ishmael declares, "Be it known that, waiving all argument, I take the good old fashioned ground that a whale is a fish, and call upon holy Jonah to back me." Few readers today know just how much argument Ishmael is waiving aside. In fact, Melville's antihero here takes sides in one of the great controversies of the early nineteenth century--one that ultimately had to be resolved in ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • The Quartet

    Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Founding Brothers tells the unexpected story of America’s second great founding and of the men most responsible—Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, John Jay, and James Madison.Ellis explains of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate ... Read more

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  • The Day Wall Street Exploded

    A Story of America in Its First Age of Terror

    by Beverly Gage ...
    Just after noon on September 16, 1920, as hundreds of workers poured onto Wall Street for their lunchtime break, a horse-drawn cart packed with dynamite exploded in a spray of metal and fire, turning the busiest corner of the financial center into a war zone. Thirty-nine people died and hundreds more lay wounded, making the Wall Street explosion the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history until the ... Read more

    $18.09 USD

  • 1775

    A Good Year for Revolution

    The contrarian historian and analyst upends the conventional reading of the American RevolutionIn 1775, iconoclastic historian and bestselling author Kevin Phillips punctures the myth that 1776 was the watershed year of the American Revolution. He suggests that the great events and confrontations of 1775—Congress’s belligerent economic ultimatums to Britain, New England’s rage militaire, the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Battle of Lake George

    England's First Triumph in the French and Indian War

    In the early morning of September 8, 1755, a force of French Regulars, Canadians and Indians crouched unseen in a ravine south of Lake George.Under the command of French general Jean-Armand, Baron de Dieskau, the men ambushed the approaching British forces, sparking a bloody conflict for control of the lake and its access to New York's interior. Against all odds, British commander William Johnson ... Read more

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  • The Radicalism of the American Revolution

    Pulitzer Prize Winner

    PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • In a grand and immemsely readable synthesis of historical, political, cultural, and economic analysis, a prize-winning historian describes the events that made the American Revolution. Gordon S. Wood depicts a revolution that was about much more than a break from England, rather it transformed an almost feudal society into a democratic one, whose emerging realities ... Read more

    $14.99 USD