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Jefferson

Author : John B. Boles
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465094694
Total Pages : 529 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Jefferson written by John B. Boles and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2017-04-25 with total page 529 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an eminent scholar of the American South, the first full-scale biography of Thomas Jefferson since 1970 Not since Merrill Peterson's Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation has a scholar attempted to write a comprehensive biography of the most complex Founding Father. In Jefferson, John B. Boles plumbs every facet of Thomas Jefferson's life, all while situating him amid the sweeping upheaval of his times. We meet Jefferson the politician and political thinker -- as well as Jefferson the architect, scientist, bibliophile, paleontologist, musician, and gourmet. We witness him drafting of the Declaration of Independence, negotiating the Louisiana Purchase, and inventing a politics that emphasized the states over the federal government -- a political philosophy that shapes our national life to this day. Boles offers new insight into Jefferson's actions and thinking on race. His Jefferson is not a hypocrite, but a tragic figure -- a man who could not hold simultaneously to his views on abolition, democracy, and patriarchal responsibility. Yet despite his flaws, Jefferson's ideas would outlive him and make him into nothing less than the architect of American liberty.

Turncoat

Author : Stephen Brumwell
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300235186
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Turncoat written by Stephen Brumwell and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-29 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A historian examines how a once-ardent hero of the American Revolutionary cause became its most dishonored traitor. General Benedict Arnold’s failed attempt to betray the fortress of West Point to the British in 1780 stands as one of the most infamous episodes in American history. In the light of a shining record of bravery and unquestioned commitment to the Revolution, Arnold’s defection came as an appalling shock. Contemporaries believed he had been corrupted by greed; historians have theorized that he had come to resent the lack of recognition for his merits and sacrifices. In this provocative book Stephen Brumwell challenges such interpretations and draws on unexplored archives to reveal other crucial factors that illuminate Arnold’s abandonment of the revolutionary cause he once championed. This work traces Arnold’s journey from enthusiastic support of American independence to his spectacularly traitorous acts and narrow escape. Brumwell’s research leads to an unexpected conclusion: Arnold’s mystifying betrayal was driven by a staunch conviction that America’s best interests would be served by halting the bloodshed and reuniting the fractured British Empire. “Gripping… In a time when charges of treason and disloyalty intrude into our daily politics, Turncoat is essential reading.”—R. R. B. Bernstein, City College of New York “The most balanced and insightful assessment of Benedict Arnold to date. Utilizing fresh manuscript sources, Brumwell reasserts the crucial importance of human agency in history.”—Edward G. Lengel, author of General George Washington “An incisive study of the war and the very meaning of the American Revolution itself…. The defining portrait of Arnold for the twenty-first century.”—Francis D. Cogliano, author of Revolutionary America

Give Me Liberty! An American History

Author : Eric Foner
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039328316X
Total Pages : 23 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)

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Download or read book Give Me Liberty! An American History written by Eric Foner and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-09-15 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Give Me Liberty! is the #1 book in the U.S. history survey course because it works in the classroom. A single-author text by a leader in the field, Give Me Liberty! delivers an authoritative, accessible, concise, and integrated American history. Updated with powerful new scholarship on borderlands and the West, the Fifth Edition brings new interactive History Skills Tutorials and Norton InQuizitive for History, the award-winning adaptive quizzing tool.

Last Call for Liberty

Author : Os Guinness
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830873376
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Last Call for Liberty written by Os Guinness and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The American republic is suffering its gravest crisis since the Civil War. Will conflicts, hostility, and incivility tear the country apart? Os Guinness provides a careful observation of the American experiment, offering a stirring vision for faithful citizenship and renewed responsibility for not only the nation but also the watching world.

America, Empire of Liberty

Author : David Reynolds
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465020054
Total Pages : 584 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book America, Empire of Liberty written by David Reynolds and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-10-06 with total page 584 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The best one-volume history of the United States ever written" (Joseph J. Ellis) It was Thomas Jefferson who envisioned the United States as a great "empire of liberty." This paradoxical phrase may be the key to the American saga: How could the anti-empire of 1776 became the world's greatest superpower? And how did the country that offered unmatched liberty nevertheless found its prosperity on slavery and the dispossession of Native Americans? In this new single-volume history spanning the entire course of US history—from 1776 through the election of Barack Obama—prize-winning historian David Reynolds explains how tensions between empire and liberty have often been resolved by faith—both the evangelical Protestantism that has energized American politics for centuries and the larger faith in American righteousness that has driven the country's expansion. Written with verve and insight, Empire of Liberty brilliantly depicts America in all of its many contradictions.

Common-law Liberty

Author : James Reist Stoner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Common-law Liberty written by James Reist Stoner and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an ere as morally confused as ours, Stoner argues, we at least ought to know what we've abandoned or suppressed in the name of judicial activism and the modern rights-oriented Constitution. Having lost our way, perhaps the common law, in its original sense, provides a way back, a viable alternative to the debilitating relativism of our current age.

Liberty Or Death

Author : Betsy Maestro
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780688088033
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Liberty Or Death written by Betsy Maestro and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 2005-09-01 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From small acts of rebellion through major battles of the Revolutionary War, this informative guide provides readers with an in-depth review of the events that led to the colonies gaining their freedom from the British in order to become the free nation that it is today.

American Liberty and Government Questioned

Author : Thomas Ryle
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book American Liberty and Government Questioned written by Thomas Ryle and published by . This book was released on 1855 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Genius of American Liberty

Author : Frances Harriet Green
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Genius of American Liberty written by Frances Harriet Green and published by . This book was released on 1867 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Thomas Jefferson and American Nationhood

Author : Brian Steele
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107020700
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Thomas Jefferson and American Nationhood written by Brian Steele and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-07-30 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book identifies Jefferson as an American nationalist and describes his assessment of American character and democratic promise.

American Civil Religion

Author : Peter Gardella
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199355010
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book American Civil Religion written by Peter Gardella and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-18 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The United States has never had an officially established national church. Since the time of the first British colonists, it has instead developed a strong civil religion that melds God and nation. In a deft exploration of American civil religious symbols-from the Liberty Bell to the Vietnam Memorial, from Mount Rushmore to Disney World-Peter Gardella explains how the places, objects, and words that Americans hold sacred came into being and how Americans' feelings about them have changed over time. In addition to examining revered historical sites and structures, he analyzes such sacred texts as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Gettysburg Address, the Kennedy Inaugural, and the speeches of Martin Luther King, and shows how five patriotic songs-"The Star-Spangled Banner," "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," "America the Beautiful," "God Bless America," and "This Land Is Your Land"-have been elevated into hymns. Arguing that certain values-personal freedom, political democracy, world peace, and cultural tolerance-have held American civil religion together, Gardella chronicles the numerous forms those values have taken, from Jamestown and Plymouth to the September 11, 2001 Memorial in New York.

American Tax Resisters

Author : Romain D. Huret
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674369408
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (743 download)

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Download or read book American Tax Resisters written by Romain D. Huret and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-04-15 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The American taxpayer”—angered by government waste and satisfied only with spending cuts—has preoccupied elected officials and political commentators since the Reagan Revolution. But resistance to progressive taxation has older, deeper roots. American Tax Resisters presents the full history of the American anti-tax movement that has defended the pursuit of limited taxes on wealth and battled efforts to secure social justice through income redistribution for the past 150 years. From the Tea Party to the Koch brothers, the major players in today’s anti-tax crusade emerge in Romain Huret’s account as the heirs of a formidable—and far from ephemeral—political movement. Diverse coalitions of Americans have rallied around the flag of tax opposition since the Civil War, their grievances fueled by a determination to defend private life against government intrusion and a steadfast belief in the economic benefits and just rewards of untaxed income. Local tax resisters were actively mobilized by business and corporate interests throughout the early twentieth century, undeterred by such setbacks as the Sixteenth Amendment establishing a federal income tax. Zealously petitioning Congress and chipping at the edges of progressive tax policies, they bequeathed hard-won experience to younger generations of conservatives in their pursuit of laissez-faire capitalism. Capturing the decisive moments in U.S. history when tax resisters convinced a majority of Americans to join their crusade, Romain Huret explains how a once marginal ideology became mainstream, elevating economic success and individual entrepreneurialism over social sacrifice and solidarity.

Liberty’s Chain

Author : David N. Gellman
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501715852
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Liberty’s Chain written by David N. Gellman and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-15 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Liberty's Chain, David N. Gellman shows how the Jay family, abolitionists and slaveholders alike, embodied the contradictions of the revolutionary age. The Jays of New York were a preeminent founding family. John Jay, diplomat, Supreme Court justice, and coauthor of the Federalist Papers, and his children and grandchildren helped chart the course of the Early American Republic. Liberty's Chain forges a new path for thinking about slavery and the nation's founding. John Jay served as the inaugural president of a pioneering antislavery society. His descendants, especially his son William Jay and his grandson John Jay II, embraced radical abolitionism in the nineteenth century, the cause most likely to rend the nation. The scorn of their elite peers—and racist mobs—did not deter their commitment to end southern slavery and to combat northern injustice. John Jay's personal dealings with African Americans ranged from callousness to caring. Across the generations, even as prominent Jays decried human servitude, enslaved people and formerly enslaved people served in Jay households. Abbe, Clarinda, Caesar Valentine, Zilpah Montgomery, and others lived difficult, often isolated, lives that tested their courage and the Jay family's principles. The personal and the political intersect in this saga, as Gellman charts American values transmitted and transformed from the colonial and revolutionary eras to the Civil War, Reconstruction, and beyond. The Jays, as well as those who served them, demonstrated the elusiveness and the vitality of liberty's legacy. This remarkable family story forces us to grapple with what we mean by patriotism, conservatism, and radicalism. Their story speaks directly to our own divided times.

Reports of the Tax Court of the United States

Author : United States. Tax Court
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1752 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Reports of the Tax Court of the United States written by United States. Tax Court and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 1752 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

American Oratory

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book American Oratory written by and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Hearings

Author : United States. Congress Senate
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 2132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress Senate and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 2132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Federalist

Author : Gottfried Dietze
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421434717
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)

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Download or read book The Federalist written by Gottfried Dietze and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2019-12-01 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1960. The Federalist—a treatise on free government in peace and security—is one of the most important contributions to the literature on constitutional democracy and federalism in the United States. Scholars, lawyers, judges, and statesmen in the United States and abroad have lauded the impact of The Federalist. John Quincy Adams referred to the papers as a "classical work in the English language, and a commentary on the Constitution of the United States, of scarcely less authority than the Constitution itself." Since the publication of the papers, historians have analyzed the collected work from a variety of approaches, but at the time that Gottfried Dietze wrote in 1960, scholars mainly concentrated on specific components of The Federalist. Dietze intervened in this scholarship by offering a comprehensive study of the work, which promoted federalism as both a means for establishing free government and securing peace within a federal state and for maintaining security under the threat of foreign powers. In addition to a theoretical examination of the text, Dietze brings in a historical component by fleshing out how its authors were shaped by the political atmosphere in which they lived and how their writings transformed political literature for generations to come