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American Dialogue: The Founding Fathers and Us
Joseph J Ellis · Knopf
Pages: 304
Format: Hardcover
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The award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams to some of the most divisive issues in America today.The story of history is a ceaseless... |
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The Ghosts of Johns Hopkins: The Life and Legacy that Shaped an American City
Antero Pietila · Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 336
Format: eBook
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Johns Hopkins destroyed his private papers so thoroughly that no credible biography exists of the Baltimore Quaker titan. One of America's richest men and the largest single shareholder of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, Hopkins was also one of the city's defining developers.... |
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The American Revolution: A World War
David Allison · Smithsonian Books
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
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An illustrated collection of essays that explores the international dimensions of the American Revolution and its legacies in both America and around the worldThe American Revolution: A World War argues that contrary to popular opinion, the American Revolution was not just a simple battle... |
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Marooned: Jamestown, Shipwreck, and a New History of America's Origin
Joseph Kelly · Bloomsbury Publishing
Pages: 512
Format: Hardcover
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For readers of Nathaniel Philbrick's Mayflower, a groundbreaking history that makes the case for replacing Plymouth Rock with Jamestown as America's founding myth. We all know the great American origin story. It begins with an exodus. Fleeing religious persecution, the hardworking,... |
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Saving Bravo: The Greatest Rescue Mission in Navy SEAL History
Stephan Talty · Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade
Pages: 320
Format: Hardcover
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The untold story of the most important rescue mission not just of the Vietnam War, but the entire Cold War: one American aviator, who knew our most important secrets, crashed behind enemy lines and was sought by the entire North Vietnamese and Russian military machines. One Navy SEAL and his Vietnamese... |
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