Category: American Revolution

"For those who like their history rich in vivid details, Derek Beck has served up a delicious brew in this book. This may soon become everyone's favorite." -Thomas Fleming, author of Liberty : The American Revolution A provocative new look at the pivotal start of America's fight for freedom...In this gripping history, Derek W. Beck draws on meticulous new research and previously unpublished documents to reveal the full story that ignited the Revolution - told from both the British and the American sides. The Revolutionary War did not begin with the Declaration of Independence, but several year...
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Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution

By: Brands, H. W.

Price: $32.50

Publisher: Doubleday : November 2021

Seller ID: 168710

ISBN-13: 9780385546515

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

From bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes a dramatic narrative of the American Revolution that shows it to be more than a fight against the British: it was also a violent battle among neighbors forced to choose sides, Loyalist or Patriot. What causes people to forsake their country and take arms against it? What prompts their neighbors, hardly distinguishable in station or success, to defend that country against the rebels?  That is the question H. W. Brands answers in his powerful new history of the American Revolution. George Washington and Benjamin Frankli...
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Sister Revolutions: French Lightning, American Light

By: Dunn, Susan

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux : September 2000

Seller ID: 177130

ISBN-13: 9780571199891

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

What the two great modern revolutions can teach us about democracy todayThe American and French revolutions presented the world with two very different visions of democracy. Although both professed similar Enlightenment ideals of freedom, equality, and justice and set similar political agendas, there were also fundamental differences. The French sought a complete break with a thousand years of history; the Americans were content to preserve many aspects of their English heritage. Why did the two revolutions follow such different trajectories? And what lessons do they offer us about democracy t...
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Founding Character: The Words & Documents That Forged a Nation

By: Eaton, Christopher

Price: $7.48

Publisher: Roan Alder Publishers : March 2003

Seller ID: 186040

ISBN-13: 9780972739405

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Contains references and documents that reflect the character of the United States during the Revolutionary War. This compilation includes the Causes and Necessity of Taking Up Arms, the original and final drafts of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, the Treaty of Paris, and George Washington's farewell address.
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Patriots: Brotherhood of the American Revolution

By: Ellis, Joseph J.

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Barns & Noble Audio : January 2004

Seller ID: 190613

ISBN-13: 9780760750117

Binding: Audio CD

Condition: Used - Good

Washington's Crossing (Pivotal Moments in American History)

By: Fischer, David Hackett

Price: $11.97

Publisher: Oxford University Press : February 2006

Seller ID: 194589

ISBN-13: 9780195181593

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Six months after the Declaration of Independence, the American Revolution was all but lost. A powerful British force had routed the Americans at New York, occupied three colonies, and advanced within sight of Philadelphia. Yet, as David Hackett Fischer recounts in this riveting history, George Washington--and many other Americans--refused to let the Revolution die. On Christmas night, as a howling nor'easter struck the Delaware Valley, he led his men across the river and attacked the exhausted Hessian garrison at Trenton, killing or capturing nearly a thousand men. A second battle of Trenton f...
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Federalist Papers

By: Hamilton, Alexander

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Sweetwater Press : January 2007

Seller ID: 184137

ISBN-13: 9781581736366

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Federalist Papers

By: Hamilton, Alexander, Madison, James, Jay, John

Price: $8.99

Publisher: Bantam Classics : June 1989

Seller ID: 164963

ISBN-13: 9780553213409

Binding: Mass

Condition: New

Originally published anonymously, The Federalist Papers first appeared in 1787 as a series of letters to New York newspapers exhorting voters to ratify the proposed Constitution of the United States. Still hotly debated, and open to often controversial interpretations, the arguments first presented here by three of America's greatest patriots and political theorists were created during a critical moment in our nation's history, providing readers with a running ideological commentary on the crucial issues facing democracy. Today The Federalist Papers are as important and vital a rallying cry fo...
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The War of American Independence: Military Attitudes, Policies, and Practice, 1763-1789

By: Higginbotham, Don

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Macmillan Company : August 1971

Seller ID: 183415

ISBN-13: 9780025514607

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Liberty Is Sweet: The Hidden History of the American Revolution

By: Holton, Woody

Price: $37.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : October 2021

Seller ID: 167256

ISBN-13: 9781476750378

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: New

A sweeping reassessment of the American Revolution, showing how the Founders were influenced by overlooked Americans--women, Native Americans, African Americans, and religious dissenters. Using more than a thousand eyewitness accounts, Liberty Is Sweet explores countless connections between the Patriots of 1776 and other Americans whose passion for freedom often brought them into conflict with the Founding Fathers. "It is all one story," prizewinning historian Woody Holton writes. Holton describes the origins and crucial battles of the Revolution from Lexington and Concord to the British surr...
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The Last Best Hope of Earth: Abraham Lincoln and the Promise of America

By: Jr., Mark E. Neely

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Harvard University Press : January 1993

Seller ID: 193748

ISBN-13: 9780674511255

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Mark E. Neely, Jr., gives us the first compact biography of Abraham Lincoln based on new scholarship. Neely, a Pulitzer prize-winning historian, vividly recaptures the central place of politics in Lincoln's life. Richly illustrated, nuanced and accessible, written with attention to the age in which Lincoln lived, yet ever alert to universal moral questions, this book provides a portrait of Lincoln as an extraordinary man in his own time and ours.
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The Forgotten Founding Father: Noah Webster's Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture

By: Kendall, Joshua

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Berkley : March 2012

Seller ID: 170673

ISBN-13: 9780425245453

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Noah Webster's name is now synonymous with the dictionary he created, but his story is not nearly so ubiquitous. Now acclaimed author of The Man Who Made Lists, Joshua Kendall sheds new light on Webster's life, and his far-reaching influence in establishing the American nation.Webster hobnobbed with various Founding Fathers and was a young confidant of George Washington and Ben Franklin. He started New York's first daily newspaper, predating Alexander Hamilton's New York Post. His "blue-backed speller" for schoolchildren sold millions of copies and influenced early copyright law. But perhaps m...
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George Washington's Expense Account

By: Kitman, Marvin

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : July 1970

Seller ID: 175250

ISBN-13: 9780671205898

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Patriots : The Men Who Started the American Revolution

By: LANGGUTH, A.J.

Price: $9.50

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : March 1989

Seller ID: 182227

ISBN-13: 9780671675622

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

With meticulous research and page-turning suspense, Patriots brings to life the American Revolution--the battles, the treacheries, and the dynamic personalities of the men who forged our freedom.

George Washington, John Adams, Samuel Adams, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Patrick Henry--these heroes were men of intellect, passion, and ambition. From the secret meetings of the Sons of Liberty to the final victory at Yorktown and the new Congress, Patriots vividly re-creates one of history's great eras.
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Franklin & Washington: The Founding Partnership

By: Larson, Edward J.

Price: $15.00

Publisher: William Morrow : February 2020

Seller ID: 148336

ISBN-13: 9780062880154

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Larson's elegantly written dual biography reveals that the partnership of Franklin and Washington was indispensable to the success of the Revolution. --Gordon S. Wood From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a masterful, first-of-its-kind dual biography of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, illuminating their partnership's enduring importance. NATIONAL BESTSELLER - One of Washington Post's 10 Books to Read in February - One of USA Today's "Must-Read Books of Winter 2020 - One of Publishers Weekly's Top Ten Spring 2020 Memoirs/BiographiesTheirs was a three-decade-long bond that, mo...
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The Words We Live By: Your Annotated Guide to the Constitution (Stonesong Press Books)

By: Monk, Linda R.

Price: $11.39

Publisher: Hachette Books : February 2004

Seller ID: 178573

ISBN-13: 9780786886203

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

The Words We Live By takes an entertaining and informative look at America's most important historical document, now with discussions on new rulings on hot button issues such as immigration, gay marriage, gun control, and affirmative action. In The Words We Live By, Linda Monk probes the idea that the Constitution may seem to offer cut-and-dried answers to questions regarding personal rights, but the interpretations of this hallowed document are nearly infinite. For example, in the debate over gun control, does the right of the people to bear arms as stated in the Second Amendment pertain to ...
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American Slavery, American Freedom

By: Morgan, Edmund S.

Price: $18.95

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company : October 2003

Seller ID: 94926

ISBN-13: 9780393324945

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

In the American Revolution, Virginians were the most eloquent spokesmen for freedom and quality. George Washington led the Americans in battle against British oppression. Thomas Jefferson led them in declaring independence. Virginians drafted not only the Declaration but also the Constitution and the Bill of Rights; they were elected to the presidency of the United States under that Constitution for thirty-two of the first thirty-six years of its existence. They were all slaveholders. In the new preface Edmund S. Morgan writes: "Human relations among us still suffer from the former enslavement...
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The Unknown American Revolution: The Unruly Birth of Democracy and the Struggle to Create America

By: Nash, Gary B.

Price: $19.00

Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics) : May 2006

Seller ID: 162947

ISBN-13: 9780143037200

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New

In this audacious recasting of the American Revolution, distinguished historian Gary Nash offers a profound new way of thinking about the struggle to create this country, introducing readers to a coalition of patriots from all classes and races of American society. From millennialist preachers to enslaved Africans, disgruntled women to aggrieved Indians, the people so vividly portrayed in this book did not all agree or succeed, but during the exhilarating and messy years of this country's birth, they laid down ideas that have become part of our inheritance and ideals toward which we still stri...
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The book of the Continental soldier: Being a compleat account of the uniforms, weapons, and equipment with which he lived and fought

By: Peterson, Harold Leslie

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Promontory Press : January 1975

Seller ID: 105170

ISBN-13: 9780883940334

Binding: Mass

Condition: Used - Good

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Category: American Revolution