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Inventing America-Conversations with the Founders (HC)

Author : Milton J. Nieuwsma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781899694914
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (949 download)

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Download or read book Inventing America-Conversations with the Founders (HC) written by Milton J. Nieuwsma and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-15 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Insightful...Entertaining... A reminder of how much we owe our forefathers."--Richard Beeman, author of Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution. "Inventing America is a terrific way to introduce our nation's founders to a new generation of Americans."--Gleaves Whitney, presidential historian At the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 in Philadelphia an elderly woman approached Benjamin Franklin as he was leaving the Pennsylvania State House. "Tell me, Dr. Franklin, she said, "do we have a republic or a monarchy?" Dr. Franklin replied: "A republic, madam, if you can keep it." What would our Founding fathers think if they could see our country today? Would they turn over in their graves? Or would they be astonished that our republic is still alive? George Washington, who presided at the 1787 convention, predicted it wouldn't last twenty years, so take a guess. Inventing America: Conversations with the Founders takes you behind the scenes of the creation of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. See how these are not just dusty old parchments stored away in a museum but how they define us as Americans and serve--through good times and bad--as a beacon of freedom to the world.

Inventing America-Conversations with the Founders

Author : Milton J. Nieuwsma
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781899694907
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (949 download)

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Download or read book Inventing America-Conversations with the Founders written by Milton J. Nieuwsma and published by . This book was released on 2020-04 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Insightful... Entertaining... A reminder of how much we owe our forefathers."--Richard Beeman, author of Plain, Honest Men: The Making of the American Constitution "Inventing America is a terrific way to introduce our nation's founders to a new generation of Americans."--Gleaves Whitney, presidential historian At the close of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 in Philadelphia an elderly woman approached Benjamin Franklin as he was leaving the Pennsylvania State House. "Tell me, Dr. Franklin, she said, "do we have a republic or a monarchy?" Dr. Franklin replied: "A republic, madam, if you can keep it." What would our Founding fathers think if they could see our country today? Would they turn over in their graves? Or would they be astonished that our republic is still alive? George Washington, who presided at the 1787 convention, predicted it wouldn't last twenty years, so take a guess. Inventing America: Conversations with the Founders takes you behind the scenes of the creation of the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. See how these are not just dusty old parchments stored away in a museum but how they define us as Americans and serve as a beacon of democracy to the world.

Inventing a Nation

Author : Gore Vidal
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300127928
Total Pages : 166 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Inventing a Nation written by Gore Vidal and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-10-01 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This New York Times bestseller offers “an unblinking view of our national heroes by one who cherishes them, warts and all” (New York Review of Books). In Inventing a Nation, National Book Award winner Gore Vidal transports the reader into the minds, the living rooms (and bedrooms), the convention halls, and the salons of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and others. We come to know these men, through Vidal’s splendid prose, in ways we have not up to now—their opinions of each other, their worries about money, their concerns about creating a viable democracy. Vidal brings them to life at the key moments of decision in the birthing of our nation. He also illuminates the force and weight of the documents they wrote, the speeches they delivered, and the institutions of government by which we still live. More than two centuries later, America is still largely governed by the ideas championed by this triumvirate. The author of Burr and Lincoln, one of the master stylists of American literature and most acute observers of American life, turns his immense literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of these formidable men

Founding Fathers

Author : The Encyclopaedia Britannica
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1620458756
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (24 download)

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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.

What Would the Founders Do?

Author : Richard Brookhiser
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465008747
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book What Would the Founders Do? written by Richard Brookhiser and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2007-08-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What would George Washington do about weapons of mass destruction? How would Benjamin Franklin feel about unwed mothers? What would Alexander Hamilton think about minorities in the military? Examining a host of issues from terrorism to women's rights, acclaimed historian Richard Brookhiser reveals why we still turn to the Founders in moments of struggle, farce, or disaster. Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Hamilton, Madison, Adams and all the rest have an unshakable hold on our collective imagination. We trust them more than today's politicians because they built our country, they wrote our user's manuals-the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution-and they ran the nation while it was still under warranty and could be returned to the manufacturer. If anyone knows how the U.S.A. should work, it must be the Founders. Brookhiser uses his vast knowledge to apply their views to today's issues. He also explores why what the Founders would think still matters. Written with Brookhiser's trademark eloquence and wit, while drawing on his deep understanding of American history, What Would the Founders Do? sheds new light on the disagreements and debates that have shaped our country from the beginning. Now, more than ever, we need the Founders-inspiring, argumentative, amusing know-it-alls-to help us work through the issues that divide us.

Ben Franklin

Author : Thomas Fleming
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 9781402745232
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (452 download)

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Download or read book Ben Franklin written by Thomas Fleming and published by Sterling Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The life of the printer, inventor, and statesman who played an influential role in the early history of the United States.

Interviews with the Founders

Author : Justin American
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781496918536
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (185 download)

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Download or read book Interviews with the Founders written by Justin American and published by . This book was released on 2014-07-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today is the day that you finally answer that nagging question: things don't seem to be going so well in America - what was the original intent for American politics, economics, religion, and patriotism? Via the format of a modern, journalistic interview, the Founding Fathers' exact words on these subjects spring back to life to remind Americans, to warn Americans, and to admonish Americans, about the dangers of straying too far away from the Founders' original game plan on the quest for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. "A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government." Thomas Jefferson "If Congress can apply money indefinitely to the general welfare, and are the sole and supreme judges of the general welfare... everything, from the highest object of State legislation, down to the most minute object of police, would be thrown under the power of Congress." James Madison "The Constitution is not a living organism for Pete's sake. It's a law. It means what it meant when it was adopted." Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia "The great privilege of the Americans does not simply consist in their being more enlightened than other nations, but in their being able to repair the faults they may commit." Alexis de Tocqueville Ten percent of any pro ts from this book will be given to charitable organizations, with a focus on local and veteran oriented charities.

American Dialogue

Author : Joseph J. Ellis
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0804172471
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book American Dialogue written by Joseph J. Ellis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-11-26 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 conversation between past and present, and in American Dialogue Joseph J. Ellis focuses the conversation on the often-asked question "What would the Founding Fathers think?" He examines four of our most seminal historical figures through the prism of particular topics, using the perspective of the present to shed light on their views and, in turn, to make clear how their now centuries-old ideas illuminate the disturbing impasse of today's political conflicts. He discusses Jefferson and the issue of racism, Adams and the specter of economic inequality, Washington and American imperialism, Madison and the doctrine of original intent. Through these juxtapositions—and in his hallmark dramatic and compelling narrative voice—Ellis illuminates the obstacles and pitfalls paralyzing contemporary discussions of these fundamentally important issues.

... The Founders of America in the Days of the Revolution

Author : Edwin Wildman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 410 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book ... The Founders of America in the Days of the Revolution written by Edwin Wildman and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Vindicating the Founders

Author : Thomas G. West
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442210273
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Vindicating the Founders written by Thomas G. West and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2000-11-28 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This controversial, convincing, and highly original book is important reading for everyone concerned about the origins, present, and future of the American experiment in self-government.

The Founders Unmasked

Author : Jennifer Sabin
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0593386116
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book The Founders Unmasked written by Jennifer Sabin and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Its power to spark important conversations should not be underestimated." —Booklist "A powerful series that fills in the cracks and illuminates the shadows of the past." —Sherri L. Smith, award-winning author of Flygirl "[Jennifer Sabin] does a concise, coherent job of breaking down complicated material … an important title for students and an immensely useful resource for educators." —School Library Connection "With material presented chronologically and in straightforward language (with text-embedded glossaries), brief profiles of key players, numerous quotes and sidebars, and fresh details that help readers grasp nuances and understand consequences...the conversation tone is inviting and...encourages thoughtful reflection." —Booklist Introducing a new nonfiction series for the next generation of activists, uncovering the hidden history of The United States through an anti-racist lens. The true story of the men—and women—surrounding the founding of America. In the summer of 1776, when Thomas Jefferson arrived in Philadelphia to sign the Declaration of Independence, declaring that “all men are created equal,” he wasn’t alone. With him was Robert Hemings, just one of the many Black people Jefferson enslaved. But who was Robert Hemings? Discover his story and the true history of those who really helped build America. Featuring riveting interviews with historians, including Margaret Kimberley, author of Prejudential: Black America and the Presidents, The Founders Unmasked is a quest for the whole truth: the good and the bad.

The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America

Author : Frank Lambert
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400825539
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book The Founding Fathers and the Place of Religion in America written by Frank Lambert and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-28 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did the United States, founded as colonies with explicitly religious aspirations, come to be the first modern state whose commitment to the separation of church and state was reflected in its constitution? Frank Lambert explains why this happened, offering in the process a synthesis of American history from the first British arrivals through Thomas Jefferson's controversial presidency. Lambert recognizes that two sets of spiritual fathers defined the place of religion in early America: what Lambert calls the Planting Fathers, who brought Old World ideas and dreams of building a "City upon a Hill," and the Founding Fathers, who determined the constitutional arrangement of religion in the new republic. While the former proselytized the "one true faith," the latter emphasized religious freedom over religious purity. Lambert locates this shift in the mid-eighteenth century. In the wake of evangelical revival, immigration by new dissenters, and population expansion, there emerged a marketplace of religion characterized by sectarian competition, pluralism, and widened choice. During the American Revolution, dissenters found sympathetic lawmakers who favored separating church and state, and the free marketplace of religion gained legal status as the Founders began the daunting task of uniting thirteen disparate colonies. To avoid discord in an increasingly pluralistic and contentious society, the Founders left the religious arena free of government intervention save for the guarantee of free exercise for all. Religious people and groups were also free to seek political influence, ensuring that religion's place in America would always be a contested one, but never a state-regulated one. An engaging and highly readable account of early American history, this book shows how religious freedom came to be recognized not merely as toleration of dissent but as a natural right to be enjoyed by all Americans.

America's Forgotten Founders, second edition

Author : Gary L Gregg
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1480492957
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book America's Forgotten Founders, second edition written by Gary L Gregg and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2014-03-11 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even as Americans devour books about our Founding Fathers, the focus seldom extends past a half dozen or so icons—Franklin, Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton. Many of the men (and women) who made prodigious contributions to the American founding have been all but forgotten. America’s Forgotten Founders corrects this injustice. Editors Gary L. Gregg II and Mark David Hall surveyed forty-five top scholars in history, political science, and law to produce the first-ever ranking of the most neglected contributors to the American Revolution and our constitutional order. This unique book features engaging short biographies of the top ten most important Founders whose contributions are overlooked today: James Wilson, George Mason, Gouverneur Morris, John Jay, Roger Sherman, John Marshall, John Dickinson, Thomas Paine, Patrick Henry, and John Witherspoon. The latest entry in ISI Books’ Lives of the Founders series, America’s Forgotten Founders reshapes our understanding of America’s founding generation.

The Faiths of Our Fathers

Author : Alf J. Mapp
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780742531154
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book The Faiths of Our Fathers written by Alf J. Mapp and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, the author cuts through historical uncertainty to accurately portray the religious beliefs of 11 of America's founding fathers. (Motivation)

Revolutionaries

Author : Jack Rakove
Publisher : HMH
ISBN 13 : 054748674X
Total Pages : 501 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Revolutionaries written by Jack Rakove and published by HMH. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[A] wide-ranging and nuanced group portrait of the Founding Fathers” by a Pulitzer Prize winner (The New Yorker). In the early 1770s, the men who invented America were living quiet, provincial lives in the rustic backwaters of the New World, devoted to family and the private pursuit of wealth and happiness. None set out to become “revolutionary.” But when events in Boston escalated, they found themselves thrust into a crisis that moved quickly from protest to war. In Revolutionaries, a Pulitzer Prize–winning historian shows how the private lives of these men were suddenly transformed into public careers—how Washington became a strategist, Franklin a pioneering cultural diplomat, Madison a sophisticated constitutional thinker, and Hamilton a brilliant policymaker. From the Boston Tea Party to the First Continental Congress, from Trenton to Valley Forge, from the ratification of the Constitution to the disputes that led to our two-party system, Rakove explores the competing views of politics, war, diplomacy, and society that shaped our nation. We see the founders before they were fully formed leaders, as ordinary men who became extraordinary, altered by history. “[An] eminently readable account of the men who led the Revolution, wrote the Constitution and persuaded the citizens of the thirteen original states to adopt it.” —San Francisco Chronicle “Superb . . . a distinctive, fresh retelling of this epochal tale . . . Men like John Dickinson, George Mason, and Henry and John Laurens, rarely leading characters in similar works, put in strong appearances here. But the focus is on the big five: Washington, Franklin, John Adams, Jefferson, and Hamilton. Everyone interested in the founding of the U.S. will want to read this book.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review

A Brilliant Solution

Author : Carol Berkin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 9780156028721
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (287 download)

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Download or read book A Brilliant Solution written by Carol Berkin and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2002 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisiting all the original documents and using her deep knowledge of eighteenth-century history and politics, Carol Berkin takes a fresh look at the men who framed the Constitution, the issues they faced, and the times they lived in. Berkin transports the reader into the hearts and minds of the founders, exposing their fears and their limited expectations of success.

The Founders

Author : Dennis Brindell Fradin
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802789722
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

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Download or read book The Founders written by Dennis Brindell Fradin and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion volume to The Signers looks at how the delegates from twelve of the thirteen colonies met in Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 to create, debate, and eventually sign the United States Constitution.