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Author : Betsy McCaughey Ross
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780231045063
Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)
Download or read book From Loyalist to Founding Father written by Betsy McCaughey Ross and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1980 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rachael Morlock
Publisher : The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1538343886
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (383 download)
Download or read book The Real Story Behind the Founding Fathers written by Rachael Morlock and published by The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Founding Fathers are essential to the American narrative. Unfortunately, popular histories have a tendency to gloss over unpleasant truths and harmonize the discordant voices of the past. This book looks beyond powdered wigs and polished portraits to find the human founders of the United States. Multiple and minority perspectives are taken into account, and well-worn stories of the founding era are revisited, from the complex issues of slavery and religion to the myth of George Washington's wooden teeth. Thoughtful text and fun sidebars illuminate primary sources and invite readers to think critically about these familiar figures in American history.
Author : The Encyclopaedia Britannica
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1620458756
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)
Download or read book Founding Fathers written by The Encyclopaedia Britannica and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007-08-01 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative, accessible guide to the figures who shaped a nation How did upstart colonists solidify the ideas celebrated in the Declaration of Independence and defeat the powerful British army? How did thinkers from disparate backgrounds shape a government that transformed modern politics? The Founding Fathers explains how, putting valuable information on this historic period at your fingertips--straight from one of the most trusted sources of information around the globe. This comprehensive guide takes a compelling look at prominent statesmen such as Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and George Washington and lesser-known but influential leaders such as Samuel Chase, Charles Pinckney, and others. Alphabetized for easy reference, it also offers discussions of key issues, including slavery, the separation of powers, the presidency, and Deism and Christianity; events, such as the American Revolution, the Whiskey Rebellion, and the Louisiana Purchase; and documents, including the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Every special essay and concise entry--from "Abigail Adams" to "George Wythe"--promotes the deeper understanding of the personalities, issues, and events that only Encyclop?dia Britannica can provide. The book's balanced, fact-based coverage of the Founding Fathers is especially relevant today, when differing interpretations of their intent are used in debates over current policies. The Founding Fathers is the ideal resource for anyone looking to hone his or her knowledge of the fascinating figures who wrote the first chapter of U.S. history.
Author : H. W. Brands
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385546521
Total Pages : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)
Download or read book Our First Civil War written by H. W. Brands and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2021-11-09 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fast-paced, often riveting account of the military and political events leading up to the Declaration of Independence and those that followed during the war ... Brands does his readers a service by reminding them that division, as much as unity, is central to the founding of our nation."—The Washington Post From best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands comes a gripping, page-turning 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 Franklin were the unlikeliest of rebels. Washington in the 1770s stood at the apex of Virginia society. Franklin was more successful still, having risen from humble origins to world fame. John Adams might have seemed a more obvious candidate for rebellion, being of cantankerous temperament. Even so, he revered the law. Yet all three men became rebels against the British Empire that fostered their success. Others in the same circle of family and friends chose differently. William Franklin might have been expected to join his father, Benjamin, in rebellion but remained loyal to the British. So did Thomas Hutchinson, a royal governor and friend of the Franklins, and Joseph Galloway, an early challenger to the Crown. They soon heard themselves denounced as traitors--for not having betrayed the country where they grew up. Native Americans and the enslaved were also forced to choose sides as civil war broke out around them. After the Revolution, the Patriots were cast as heroes and founding fathers while the Loyalists were relegated to bit parts best forgotten. Our First Civil War reminds us that before America could win its revolution against Britain, the Patriots had to win a bitter civil war against family, neighbors, and friends.
Author : Captivating History
Publisher : Ch Publications
ISBN 13 : 9781647480134
Total Pages : 730 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (81 download)
Download or read book Founding Fathers written by Captivating History and published by Ch Publications. This book was released on 2019-11-03 with total page 730 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explore the Captivating Lives of the Founding Fathers Eight captivating manuscripts in one book: - Benjamin Franklin: A Captivating Guide to an American Polymath and a Founding Father of the United States of America - George Washington: A Captivating Guide to an American Founding Father Who Served as the First President of the United States of America - John Adams: A Captivating Guide to an American Founding Father Who Served as the Second President of the United States of America - Thomas Jefferson: A Captivating Guide to an American Founding Father Who Was the Principal Author of the Declaration of Independence and the Third President of the United States - John Jay: A Captivating Guide to an American Statesman, Patriot, Diplomat, Governor of New York, the First Chief Justice, and One of the Founding Fathers of the United States of America - James Madison: A Captivating Guide to an American Founding Father Who Served as the Fourth President of the United States of America - Alexander Hamilton: A Captivating Guide to an American Founding Father Who Wrote the Majority of The Federalist Papers - James Monroe: A Captivating Guide to the Founding Father Who Served as the Fifth President of the United States Some of the topics covered in part 1 of this book include: - Young, Earnest, and Foolhardy - Naivet Collides with Reality - And much, much more Some of the topics covered in part 2 of this book include: - She Was Horrified - From Tranquility to Turmoil - >And much more In part 3 of this book, you will: - John Adams: Political Activist - From Counsel to Patriot - And much, much more Some of the topics covered in part 4 of this book include: - Young Jefferson Leaps into Adulthood - And much more Some of the topics covered in part 5 of this book include: - From Tyranny to Freedom - Yearning to Be Free - And much, much more Some of the topics covered in part 6 of this book include: - Early Life and Education - James Madison: Prankster and Protester - And much more Some of the topics covered in part 7 of this book include: - From Nevis to Boston - From Pen to Sword - And much more Some of the topics covered in part 8 of this book include: - His Early Years - The Revolutionary War - Early Political Career and Family Life - And much more So if you want to learn more about the life of Founding Fathers, scroll up and click the "add to cart" button
Author : Sari Earl
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 9781604539677
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (396 download)
Download or read book George Washington written by Sari Earl and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2010 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a biography of George Washington covering his childhood, family life, military service during the Revolutionary War, and years as President of the United States.
Author : Robert McCluer Calhoon
Publisher : New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Loyalists in Revolutionary America, 1760-1781 written by Robert McCluer Calhoon and published by New York : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. This book was released on 1973 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comments on the personalities who criticized or opposed colonial resistance during the pre-Revolutionary period and describes loyalist activity between 1776 and 1781.
Author : Donald T. Phillips
Publisher : Grand Central Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0759524203
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (595 download)
Download or read book The Founding Fathers on Leadership written by Donald T. Phillips and published by Grand Central Publishing. This book was released on 2001-05-15 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Extracts valuable lessons on business leadership from the story of the Founding Fathers' struggle to create a new nation. Shows how figures such as Thomas Paine, James Madison, and Benjamin Franklin faced challenges and dissension in their own ranks with a vision from which they would not stray. Includes checklists of organizational, management, strategic, and leadership lessons learned from the leaders of the American Revolution. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.
Author : Maya Jasanoff
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1400075475
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 ( download)
Download or read book Liberty's Exiles written by Maya Jasanoff and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER This groundbreaking book offers the first global history of the loyalist exodus to Canada, the Caribbean, Sierra Leone, India, and beyond. At the end of the American Revolution, sixty thousand Americans loyal to the British cause fled the United States and became refugees throughout the British Empire. Liberty’s Exiles tells their story. This surprising new account of the founding of the United States and the shaping of the post-revolutionary world traces extraordinary journeys like the one of Elizabeth Johnston, a young mother from Georgia, who led her growing family to Britain, Jamaica, and Canada, questing for a home; black loyalists such as David George, who escaped from slavery in Virginia and went on to found Baptist congregations in Nova Scotia and Sierra Leone; and Mohawk Indian leader Joseph Brant, who tried to find autonomy for his people in Ontario. Ambitious, original, and personality-filled, this book is at once an intimate narrative history and a provocative analysis that changes how we see the revolution’s “losers” and their legacies.
Author : Peter Oliver
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804706018
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book Peter Oliver’s “Origin and Progress of the American Rebellion” written by Peter Oliver and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One difficulty in writing a balanced history of the American Revolution arises in part from its success as a creator of our nation and our nationalistic sentiment. Unlike the Civil War, unlike the French Revolution, the American Revolution produced no lingering social trauma in the United Statesit is a historic event widely applauded by Americans today as both necessary and desirable. But one consequence of this happy unanimity is that the chief losers of the War of Independencethe American Loyalistshave fared badly at the hands of historians. This explains, in part, why the account of the Revolution recorded by self-professed Loyalist and Chief Justice of the Superior Court of Massachusetts, Peter Oliver, has heretofore been so routinely overlooked. Oliver's manuscript, entitled "The Origins & Progress of the American Rebellion," written in 1781, challenges the motives of the founding fathers, and depicts the revolution as passion, plotting, and violence. His descriptions of the leaders of the patriot party, of their program and motives, are unforgiving, bitter, and inevitably partisan. But it records the impressions of one who had experienced these events, knew most of the combatants intimately, and saw the collapse of the society he had lived in. His history is a very important contemporary account of the origins of the revolution in Massachusetts, and is now presented here in it entirety for the first time.
Author : Woody Holton
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807899860
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book Forced Founders written by Woody Holton and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative reinterpretation of one of the best-known events in American history, Woody Holton shows that when Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, and other elite Virginians joined their peers from other colonies in declaring independence from Britain, they acted partly in response to grassroots rebellions against their own rule. The Virginia gentry's efforts to shape London's imperial policy were thwarted by British merchants and by a coalition of Indian nations. In 1774, elite Virginians suspended trade with Britain in order to pressure Parliament and, at the same time, to save restive Virginia debtors from a terrible recession. The boycott and the growing imperial conflict led to rebellions by enslaved Virginians, Indians, and tobacco farmers. By the spring of 1776 the gentry believed the only way to regain control of the common people was to take Virginia out of the British Empire. Forced Founders uses the new social history to shed light on a classic political question: why did the owners of vast plantations, viewed by many of their contemporaries as aristocrats, start a revolution? As Holton's fast-paced narrative unfolds, the old story of patriot versus loyalist becomes decidedly more complex.
Author : H. W. Brands
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0593082567
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Our First Civil War written by H. W. Brands and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2022-09-13 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A fast-paced, often riveting account of the military and political events leading up to the Declaration of Independence and those that followed during the war ... Brands does his readers a service by reminding them that division, as much as unity, is central to the founding of our nation."—The Washington Post From best-selling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands comes a gripping, page-turning 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 Franklin were the unlikeliest of rebels. Washington in the 1770s stood at the apex of Virginia society. Franklin was more successful still, having risen from humble origins to world fame. John Adams might have seemed a more obvious candidate for rebellion, being of cantankerous temperament. Even so, he revered the law. Yet all three men became rebels against the British Empire that fostered their success. Others in the same circle of family and friends chose differently. William Franklin might have been expected to join his father, Benjamin, in rebellion but remained loyal to the British. So did Thomas Hutchinson, a royal governor and friend of the Franklins, and Joseph Galloway, an early challenger to the Crown. They soon heard themselves denounced as traitors--for not having betrayed the country where they grew up. Native Americans and the enslaved were also forced to choose sides as civil war broke out around them. After the Revolution, the Patriots were cast as heroes and founding fathers while the Loyalists were relegated to bit parts best forgotten. Our First Civil War reminds us that before America could win its revolution against Britain, the Patriots had to win a bitter civil war against family, neighbors, and friends.
Author : David O. Stewart
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0451488997
Total Pages : 576 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (514 download)
Download or read book George Washington written by David O. Stewart and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating and illuminating account of how George Washington became the dominant force in the creation of the United States of America, from award-winning author David O. Stewart “An outstanding biography . . . [George Washington] has a narrative drive such a life deserves.”—The Wall Street Journal Washington's rise constitutes one of the greatest self-reinventions in history. In his mid-twenties, this third son of a modest Virginia planter had ruined his own military career thanks to an outrageous ego. But by his mid-forties, that headstrong, unwise young man had evolved into an unassailable leader chosen as the commander in chief of the fledgling Continental Army. By his mid-fifties, he was unanimously elected the nation's first president. How did Washington emerge from the wilderness to become the central founder of the United States of America? In this remarkable new portrait, award-winning historian David O. Stewart unveils the political education that made Washington a master politician—and America's most essential leader. From Virginia's House of Burgesses, where Washington mastered the craft and timing of a practicing politician, to his management of local government as a justice of the Fairfax County Court to his eventual role in the Second Continental Congress and his grueling generalship in the American Revolution, Washington perfected the art of governing and service, earned trust, and built bridges. The lessons in leadership he absorbed along the way would be invaluable during the early years of the republic as he fought to unify the new nation.
Author : Brion McClanahan
Publisher : Regnery Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1596980923
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (969 download)
Download or read book The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers written by Brion McClanahan and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 2009-06-30 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that such figures as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Ben Franklin laid the foundations of American civil liberty and had a better understanding of problems facing Americans today than the current U.S. Congress.
Author : Carol Kelly-Gangi
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781435168534
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (685 download)
Download or read book The Essential Wisdom of the Founding Fathers written by Carol Kelly-Gangi and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard Brookhiser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Founding Father written by Richard Brookhiser and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the first President of the United States.
Author : Walter Stahr
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9781852854447
Total Pages : 520 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (544 download)
Download or read book John Jay written by Walter Stahr and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2005-03-15 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A portrait of the first Chief Justice of the Supreme Court and president of the Continental Congress discusses his contributions to the early Republic during the Revolutionary War and the writing of the Constitution, tracing his lesser-known roles as the Secretary of Foreign Affairs and governor of New York. 15,000 first printing.
