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  • Era of Experimentation

    American Political Practices in the Early Republic

    de Daniel Peart ...
    Series series Jeffersonian America
    In Era of Experimentation, Daniel Peart challenges the pervasive assumption that the present-day political system, organized around two competing parties, represents the logical fulfillment of participatory democracy. Recent accounts of "the rise of American democracy" between the Revolution and the Civil War applaud political parties for opening up public life to mass participation and making ... Leer más

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  • Lobbyists and the Making of US Tariff Policy, 1816−1861

    de Daniel Peart ...
    Series series Studies in Early American Economy and Society from the Library Company of Philadelphia
    The first book-length study of lobbying prior to the Civil War.Since the 2008 global economic crisis, historians have embraced the challenge of making visible the invisible hand of the market. This renewed interest in the politics of political economy makes it all the more timely to remind ourselves that debates over free trade and protection were just as controversial in the early United States ... Leer más

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  • The Soul of the House

    Speakers of the US House of Representatives, 1789–1861

    de Daniel Peart ...
    How the role of the Speaker of the House evolved amid power struggles and conflict in the early American Congress.The Speaker of the House occupies a central place in American political life, yet the office's authority has never been fixed or inevitable. The Soul of the House offers a history of the Speakership during the nation's formative decades, when its power depended as much on circumstance ... Leer más

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  • Practicing Democracy

    Popular Politics in the United States from the Constitution to the Civil War

    In Practicing Democracy, eleven historians challenge conventional narratives of democratization in the early United States, offering new perspectives on the period between the ratification of the Constitution and the outbreak of the Civil War. The essays in this collection address critical themes such as the origins, evolution, and disintegration of party competition, the relationship between ... Leer más

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    Series Libro 3 - Library of America: The American Revolution Collection
    This comprehensive collection of writings from the War of Independence poses a “subtle but profound challenge to much that we think we know about the founders and their era” (Los Angeles Times)Drawn from letters, diaries, newspaper articles, public declarations, contemporary narratives, and private memoranda, this Library of America volume brings together over 120 pieces by more than seventy ... Leer más

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  • John Adams

    In 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 of the United States and saved the country ... Leer más

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  • Alexander Hamilton

    A Life

    "Hamilton's turbulent life, the dramatic birth of a nation . . . propelled with the page-turning intensity of an epic novel." —Ronald Blumer, Peabody Award–winning writerA new reissue of this important biography of Alexander Hamilton—arguably one of the most brilliant and complex of our nation's founders.From his less than auspicious start in 1755 on the Caribbean island of Nevis, to his unhappy ... Leer más

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  • Common Sense

    de Thomas Paine ...
    In 1776, America was a hotbed of enlightenment and revolution. Thomas Paine not only spurred his fellow Americans to action but soon came to symbolize the spirit of the Revolution. His elegantly persuasive pieces spoke to the hearts and minds of those fighting for freedom. He was later outlawed in Britain, jailed in France, and finally labeled an atheist upon his return to America."No writer has ... Leer más

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  • Washington's Circle

    The Creation of the President

    History enthusiasts and admirers of Team of Rivals will rejoice in this magisterial account of the extraordinary Americans who served the nation’s first chief executive: Together, they created the presidency for a country disgusted by crowns and the people who would wear them.In 1789, as George Washington became the first president of the United States, the world was all but certain that the ... Leer más

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  • Almost A Miracle

    The American Victory in the War of Independence

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    In this gripping chronicle of America's struggle for independence, award-winning historian John Ferling transports readers to the grim realities of that war, capturing an eight-year conflict filled with heroism, suffering, cowardice, betrayal, and fierce dedication. As Ferling demonstrates, it was a war that America came much closer to losing than is now usually remembered. General George ... Leer más

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    The Forging of a Revolutionary Leader and the American Presidency

    How a young general shaped a nation — a fascinating account of George Washington as he faced a war and came out as America's first presidentThe American Revolution was won not on the battlefields, but through the mind of George Washington. One of America's founding fathers, Washington's story is one that influenced how our entire nation was built. A compulsively readable narrative and extensive ... Leer más

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  • Spies of the American Revolution: The History of George Washington's Secret Spying Ring (The Culper Ring)

    Spies! Treason! Conspiracy! The American Revolution? The Culper Spying Ring had all the ingredients of a modern spy movie--just replaces gadgets with muskets.This book looks at the incredible history of Washington's famous spying ring. With a gripping narrative this book will read more like a John le Carré spy novel than a history book.HistoryCaps is an imprint of BookCaps Study Guides. With each ... Leer más

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