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Witnesses at the Creation: Hamilton, Madison, Jay, and the Constitution
Richard B Morris
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From Jacket: The American Constitution has endured longer than any other written constitution of the modern era. The safeguard of our liberties, it established a government of laws, not of people. This popular work of history focuses on Hamilton, Jay, and Madison-and the creation |
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America's Constitution: A Biography
Akhil Reed Amar - Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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In America’s Constitution, one of this era’s most accomplished constitutional law scholars, Akhil Reed Amar, gives the first comprehensive account of one of the world’s great political texts. Incisive, entertaining, and occasionally controversial, this “biography”... |
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The United States Constitution: What It Says, What It Means: A Hip Pocket Guide
United States. - Oxford University Press
Format: Paperback
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Affordable, readable, and indispensable,The United States Constitution: What it Says, What it Means allows you to put the most important document in American history in your back pocket. In conjunction with Justice Learning and The Annenberg Foundation Trust at Sunnylands and with an introduction... |
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Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution
Richard Beeman - Random House; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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"While some have boasted it as a work from Heaven, others have given it a less righteous origin. I have many reasons to believe that it is the work of plain, honest men."-Robert Morris, delegate from Pennsylvania to the Constitutional ConventionFrom distinguished historian Richard... |
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The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution
David O. Stewart - Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Deckle Edge]
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The successful creation of the Constitution is a suspense story. The Summer of 1787 takes us into the sweltering room in which delegates struggled for four months to produce the flawed but enduring document that would define the nation -- then and now. George Washington presided, James... |
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American Gospel: God, the Founding Fathers, and the Making of a Nation
Jon Meacham - Random House; First edition
Format: Hardcover
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The American Gospel–literally, the good news about America–is that religion shapes our public life without controlling it. In this vivid book, New York Times bestselling author Jon Meacham tells the human story of how the Founding Fathers viewed faith, and how they ultimately... |
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To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders
Bernard Bailyn - Knopf
Format: Print book
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With these character sketches of key figures of the American Revolution and illuminating probes of its circumstances, Bernard Bailyn reveals the ambiguities, complexities, and uncertainties of the founding generation as well as their achievements. Using visual documentation - portraits,... |
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The Three Lives of James Madison: Genius, Partisan, President
Noah Feldman - Random House
Format: Hardcover
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A surprisingly controversial look at how James Madison redefined the United States in each of his three political "lives" James Madison is revered as "the Father of the Constitution" but rarely described as a radical. Yet Madison fundamentally changed the United States... |
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The Hamilton Collection: The Wisdom and Writings of the Founding Father
Dan Tucker - Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers
Format: Print book
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The subject of a New York Times best-selling biography and a Pulitzer-Prize winning musical, interest in Alexander Hamilton is at an all-time high. This carefully curated collection of Hamilton's writings gives the reader an intimate glimpse into the mind of our most misunderstood... |
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Madison's Gift: Five Partnerships That Built America
David O. Stewart - Simon & Schuster; 1St Edition edition
Format: Hardcover
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Historian David O. Stewart restores James Madison, sometimes overshadowed by his fellow Founders, to his proper place as the most significant framer of the new nation.Short, plain, balding, neither soldier nor orator, low on charisma and high on intelligence, Madison cared more about achieving... |
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