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  • Benjamin Banneker

    Surveyor, Astronomer, Publisher, Patriot

    The first biography of a major figure in early US and African American historyA household name and unparalleled hero revered in every African American household, Benjamin Banneker was a completely self-taught mathematical genius who achieved professional status in astronomy, navigation, and engineering. His acknowledged expertise and superior surveying skills led to his role as coworker with the ... Leer más

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  • Dinner at Mr. Jefferson's

    Three Men, Five Great Wines, and the Evening That Changed America

    The Constitution was two years old and the United States was in serious danger. Bitter political rivalry between former allies and two surging issues that inflamed the nation led to grim talk of breaking up the union. Then a single great evening achieved compromises that led to America's great expansion. This book celebrates Thomas Jefferson and his two guests, Alexander Hamilton and James Madison ... Leer más

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  • Jefferson's Great Gamble

    The Remarkable Story of Jefferson, Napoleon and the Men behind the Louisiana Purchase

    A New York Times Bestseller! The fascinating story of how four great men fought for the Louisiana Purchase, changing the future of our nation.Jefferson's Great Gamble tells the incredible story of how four leaders of an upstart nation—Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and Livingston—risked the future of their country and their own careers; outwitted Napoleon Bonaparte, the world's most powerful ruler; ... Leer más

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  • Young Patriots

    The Remarkable Story of Two Men, Their Impossible Plan and the Revolution That Created the Constitution

    The captivating story of Hamilton and Madison fighting the odds to forge a nation's legacySeven years after the revolution, America was in crisis. The government didn't work, but the citizens didn't care—or were in a state of rebellion. Then two unknown men, Hamilton and Madison (unknown especially compared to the revered Founding Fathers), envisioned a plan that no one else thought could happen: ... Leer más

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    Dinner at Mr. Jefferson’s

    Three Men, Five Great Wines, and the Evening That Changed America

    Narrado por William Dufris ...

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    Soon after the new Constitution took effect and George Washington became president, the United States was in serious danger of disaster. A bitter political rivalry between two men who had once been allies and two surging issues that inflamed the nation led to grim talk of breaking up the fledgling republic. Then, a single great evening—arguably the most important dinner party in American history ... Leer más

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  • Madison and Jefferson

    “[A] monumental dual biography . . . a distinguished work, combining deep research, a pleasing narrative style and an abundance of fresh insights, a rare combination.”—The Dallas Morning NewsThe third and fourth presidents have long been considered proper gentlemen, with Thomas Jefferson’s genius overshadowing James Madison’s judgment and common sense. But in this revelatory book about their ... Leer más

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  • John Quincy Adams

    American Visionary

    de Fred Kaplan ...
    "One of the finest biographies of a sadly underrated man . . . [Kaplan is] a master historian and biographer" (Carol Berkin, Washington Post).In this fresh and illuminating biography, Fred Kaplan brings into focus the dramatic life of John Quincy Adams—the little-known and much-misunderstood sixth president of the United States and the first son of John and Abigail Adams. In doing so, he reveals ... Leer más

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  • Inventing a Nation

    Washington, Adams, Jefferson

    de Gore Vidal ...
    Series series Icons of America
    This New York Times bestseller offers "an unblinking view of our national heroes by one who cherishes them, warts and all" ( New York Review of Books).In Inventing a Nation, National Book Award winner Gore Vidal transports the reader into the minds, the living rooms (and bedrooms), the convention halls, and the salons of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and others. We come to know ... Leer más

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  • Revolutionaries

    A New History of the Invention of America

    de Jack Rakove ...
    "[A] wide-ranging and nuanced group portrait of the Founding Fathers" by a Pulitzer Prize winner ( The New Yorker).In the early 1770s, the men who invented America were living quiet, provincial lives in the rustic backwaters of the New World, devoted to family and the private pursuit of wealth and happiness. None set out to become "revolutionary." But when events in Boston escalated, they found ... Leer más

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  • John Quincy Adams

    Militant Spirit

    de James Traub ...
    **A penetrating, lyrical biography of John Quincy Adams, the president and politician whose experiences spanned—and shaped—the most critical period in our nation's history."A splendid new biography .... Reliably thorough, blissfully bereft of jargon, and nicely paced."―New York Times Book Review**Few figures in American history have held as many roles in public life as John Quincy Adams. The son ... Leer más

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  • James Madison

    James Madison led one of the most influential and prolific lives in American history, and his story -- although all too often overshadowed by his more celebrated contemporaries -- is integral to that of the nation. Madison helped to shape our country as perhaps no other Founder: collaborating on the Federalist Papers and the Bill of Rights, resisting government overreach by assembling one of the ... Leer más

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  • ALEXANDER HAMILTON, American

    Alexander Hamilton is one of the least understood, most important, and most impassioned and inspiring of the founding fathers. At last Hamilton has found a modern biographer who can bring him to full-blooded life; Richard Brookhiser. In these pages, Alexander Hamilton sheds his skewed image as the "bastard brat of a Scotch peddler," sex scandal survivor, and notoriously doomed dueling partner of ... Leer más

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