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  • Refusing the Crown: Washington's Role in Defining American Identity

    by Samuel Theodore Bennett ...
    Discover the untold story of George Washington's greatest victory—not on the battlefield, but over the temptation of absolute power.At the close of the American Revolutionary War, the United States was bankrupt, fractured, and on the brink of collapse. Desperate for stability, military officers and elite citizens whispered a radical solution: crown George Washington as King of America.He had the ... Read more

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  • The Greatest Sentence Ever Written

    by Walter Isaacson ...
    America’s bestselling biographer reveals the origins of the most revolutionary sentence in the Declaration of Independence, the one that defines who we are as Americans—and explains how it should shape our politics today.“Isaacson uses a jeweler’s loupe to scan what gives his snappy little book its engaging title….Isaacson skillfully teases fresh pith and resonance out of those familiar words.” ... Read more

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  • The American Revolution

    A History

    by Gordon S. Wood ...
    Series Book 9 - Modern Library Chronicles
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Radicalism of the Revolution comes “an elegant, concise, and lucid summary of the Revolution’s origins, the war itself, and the social and political changes wrought by the struggle for American independence” (The Wall Street Journal).“This slim book tells a big story: one that invites the reader to contemplate the ... Read more

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  • The Moral Basis of Democracy

    by Eleanor Roosevelt ...
    A wartime manifesto on the moral obligations of democratic citizens from the most influential first lady in American history.With the threat of the Third Reich looming, Eleanor Roosevelt employs the history of human rights to establish the idea that at the core of democracy is a spiritual responsibility to other citizens. Roosevelt then calls on all Americans, especially the youth, to prioritize ... Read more

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  • John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy

    by Luke Mayville ...
    Why the American Founding Father feared the political power of the rich―and how his ideas illuminate today's debates about inequality and its consequences."A most timely, valuable, and enlightening book. It shows conclusively that Adams was one of the sharpest critics of oligarchy among the American founders and, indeed, in the history of political thought. The book will generate much-needed ... Read more

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  • Washington's Farewell

    The Founding Father's Warning to Future Generations

    by John Avlon ...
    Series series Must-Read American History
    “A vivid portrait…and thoughtful consideration of George Washington’s wisdom that couldn’t be timelier” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). A revealing look at the first President’s Farewell Address, a still-relevant warning against partisan politics and foreign entanglements.George Washington’s Farewell Address was a prophetic letter he wrote to his fellow citizens and signed from a “parting friend ... Read more

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  • Hidden History of American Democracy

    Rediscovering Humanity's Ancient Way of Living

    by Thom Hartmann ...
    America's most popular progressive radio host and New York Times bestselling author Thom Hartmann paves the way to saving our democracy. In this powerful, sweeping history and analysis of American democracy, Thom Hartmann shows how democracy is the one form of governance most likely to produce peace and happiness among people. With the violent exception of the Civil War, American democracy ... Read more

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  • First Generations

    Women in Colonial America

    by Carol Berkin ...
    "A marvelously readable yet scholarly history" of American women—of European, Indigenous, and African backgrounds—in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ( Kirkus Reviews).The European, Native American, and African women of seventeenth and eighteenth century America were wives, mothers, household managers, laborers, and rebels—and just as important as men in shaping the culture and history of ... Read more

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  • A Free People's Suicide

    Sustainable Freedom and the American Future

    by Os Guinness ...
    A Logos Book of the Year"If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."Abraham LincolnNothing is more daring in the American experiment than the founders' belief that the American republic could remain free forever. But how was this to be done, and are Americans doing it today?It is not enough for ... Read more

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  • The Next American Civil War

    The Populist Revolt Against the Liberal Elite

    by Lee Harris ...
    The tea parties, the guns at town hall meetings, the protests against health care reform, and the general unrest in America today have taken many people by surprise. Some interpret it in terms of economic hard times, but Lee Harris offers a different explanation. Today's populist revolt is only the latest installment of an ongoing cultural war that began long before the current economic crisis. It ... Read more

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  • Colonial America

    A History to 1763

    by Richard Middleton, Anne Lombard ...
    Colonial America: A History to 1763, 4th Edition provides updated and revised coverage of the background, founding, and development of the thirteen English North American colonies.Fully revised and expanded fourth edition, with updated bibliographyIncludes new coverage of the simultaneous development of French, Spanish, and Dutch colonies in North America, and extensively re-written and updated ... Read more

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  • Cincinnatus and the Citizen-Servant Ideal

    The Roman Legend's Life, Times, and Legacy

    by Michael J. Hillyard ...
    A compilation of the recorded life, times, and influence of a Roman legend, Cincinnatus and the Citizen-Servant Ideal captures the essence of human virtue as it was embodied in the Roman Republics earliest days. Describing Cincinnatuss recorded life and times, Hillyard traces the legends major interpretations from its origin amidst early Roman culture through contemporary times. In its impact on ... Read more

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