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  • The War for America, 1775-1783

    by Piers Mackesy ...
    The events of the American Revolution signified by Lexington, Bunker Hill, Valley Forge, Saratoga, and Yorktown are familiar to American readers. Far less familiar is the fact that, for the British, the American colonies were only one front in a world war. England was also pitted against France and Spain. Not always in command of the seas and threatened with invasion, England tried grimly for ... Read more

    $41.99 CAD

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  • Benjamin Franklin

    An American Life

    by Walter Isaacson ...
    In this authoritative and engrossing full-scale biography, Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of Einstein and Steve Jobs, shows how the most fascinating of America's founders helped define our national character.Benjamin Franklin is the founding father who winks at us, the one who seems made of flesh rather than marble. In a sweeping narrative that follows Franklin’s life from Boston to ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • His Excellency

    George Washington

    by Joseph J. Ellis ...
    National BestsellerTo this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as his effigy on Mount Rushmore, Ellis assesses George Washington as a military and political leader and a man ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Letter from America

    1946-2004

    by Alistair Cooke ...
    Series series Penguin Modern Classics
    A defining collection from Alistair Cooke's legendary BBC Radio broadcasts, guiding us through nearly sixty years of changing life in the United States'No one else succeeded in explaining to the English-speaking world ... the idiosyncrasies of a country at once so familiar, and yet so utterly foreign' IndependentWhen Alistair Cooke retired in February 2004 he was acclaimed as one of the greatest ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Revolutionary Summer

    The Birth of American Independence

    by Joseph J. Ellis ...
    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian“Accessible and electric.... [Ellis] crisply covers the decisive and improbable events of 1776.... [A] dramatic slice of history.” —USA TodayThe summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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  • Life of George Washington by Marshall, Lodge, and Thayer, all 8 volumes

    by John Marshall, Henry Cabot Lodge, William Roscoe Thayer ...
    The classic five-volume biography by John Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, plus the two-volume biography by Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, plus the one-volume biography by Thayer. According to Wikipedia: "George Washington (February 22, 1732 [O.S. February 11, 1731 December 14, 1799) served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 and as the commander of the ... Read more

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  • The Founders and Finance

    How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy

    by Thomas K. McCraw ...
    In 1776 the U.S. owed huge sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens but, lacking the power to tax, had no means to repay them. This is the first book to tell the story of how foreign-born financial specialists—the immigrant founders Hamilton and Gallatin—solved the fiscal crisis and set the nation on a path to long-term economic prosperity. ... Read more

    $25.99 CAD

  • The Student's Life of Washington; Condensed from the Larger Work of Washington Irving

    by Washington Irving ...
    "The Student's Life of Washington" is a captivating biography that distills the essence of George Washington's character and achievements through the lens of Washington Irving's larger work. Irving, a masterful storyteller, presents Washington not just as a historical figure but as a man of integrity, courage, and vision. The narrative explores Washington's formative years, his leadership during ... Read more

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  • Common Sense

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    by Thomas Paine ...
    Series series Starbooks Classics Collection
    Common Sense is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine. It was first published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution. Common Sense was signed "Written by an Englishman", and it became an immediate success. In relative proportion to the population of the colonies at that time, 2.5 million Americans, it had the largest sale and circulation of any book published in ... Read more

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  • The Whiskey Rebellion

    Frontier Epilogue to the American Revolution

    by Thomas P. Slaughter ...
    When President George Washington ordered an army of 13,000 men to march west in 1794 to crush a tax rebellion among frontier farmers, he established a range of precedents that continues to define federal authority over localities today. The "Whiskey Rebellion" marked the first large-scale resistance to a law of the U.S. government under the Constitution. This classic confrontation between ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Thomas Paine: Collected Writings (LOA #76)

    Common Sense / The American Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / pamphlets, articles, and letters

    by Thomas Paine ...
    Thomas Paine was the impassioned democratic voice of the Age of Revolution, and this volume brings together his best-known works: Common Sense, The American Crisis, Rights of Man, The Age of Reason, along with a selection of letters, articles and pamphlets that emphasizes Paine's American years.“I know not whether any Man in the World,” wrote John Adams in 1805, “has had more influence on its ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD

  • The Framers' Coup

    The Making of the United States Constitution

    by Michael J. Klarman ...
    Americans revere their Constitution. However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting and ratification processes were. As Benjamin Franklin keenly observed, any assembly of men bring with them "all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views." One need not deny that the Framers had good intentions in order to ... Read more

    $24.99 CAD

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