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  • America's Founding Son

    John Quincy Adams, from President to Political Maverick

    de Bob Crawford ...
    **A NATIONAL BESTSELLER“A riveting account of the extraordinary life of John Quincy Adams, America’s sixth president.” —Ken Burns, award-winning filmmaker“Brilliantly rendered...every page crackles with fresh insights and telling anecdotes.” —Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author, and professor of history at Rice UniversityAn accessible and entertaining biography of our nation’s ... Leer más

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  • Theology and the Avett Brothers

    Series series Theology, Religion, and Pop Culture
    The Avett Brothers sing of a spiritual yearning present in modern culture. Without being overtly religious, theological underpinnings are prevalent in their music. The contributors in this book delve into the Avett Brother's explicit and implicit theology with an eye on how they help make sense of our secular age. Theology and the Avett Brothers offers a rich contemplation on how these brothers ... Leer más

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    America's Founding Son

    John Quincy Adams, from President to Political Maverick

    de Bob Crawford ...
    Narrado por Bob Crawford ...

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    9 hora 45 minutos

    An accessible and entertaining biography of our nation’s greatest public servant and original political maverick John Quincy Adams, from the bassist of the Grammy-nominated band the Avett Brothers.During the tumultuous period between the era of the Founding Fathers and the disunion of the Civil War, John Quincy Adams was the man standing in the breach. After an unsuccessful presidential reelection ... Leer más

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  • Signing Their Lives Away

    The Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence

    Signing Their Lives Away introduces readers to the eclectic group of statesmen, soldiers, slaveholders, and scoundrels who signed this historic document—and the many strange fates that awaited them. Some prospered and rose to the highest levels of United States government, while others had their homes and farms seized by British soldiers. Signer George Wythe was poisoned by his nephew; Button ... Leer más

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  • Apostles of Disunion

    Southern Secession Commissioners and the Causes of the Civil War

    Series series A Nation Divided
    Charles Dew’s Apostles of Disunion has established itself as a modern classic and an indispensable account of the Southern states’ secession from the Union. Addressing topics still hotly debated among historians and the public at large more than a century and a half after the Civil War, the book offers a compelling and clearly substantiated argument that slavery and race were at the heart of our ... Leer más

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  • From Midnight to Dawn

    The Last Tracks of the Underground Railroad

    From Midnight to Dawn presents compelling portraits of the men and women who established the Underground Railroad and traveled it to find new lives in Canada. Evoking the turmoil and controversies of the time, Tobin illuminates the historic events that forever connected American and Canadian history by giving us the true stories behind well-known figures such as Harriet Tubman and John Brown. She ... Leer más

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  • Charles Sumner

    Conscience of a Nation

    de Zaakir Tameez ...
    "A thorough recounting of the great legislator’s life and deed... unlikely to be bettered anytime soon... Tameez is expert at explaining Sumner’s legal thought... One cannot help wishing we had a Charles Sumner in Washington today."—The New York Times"An excellent book about the courageous Massachusetts senator... Drawing from hundreds of letters, articles and speeches, Mr. Tameez has created a ... Leer más

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  • Gateway to Freedom

    The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad

    de Eric Foner ...
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  • Samuel Adams

    Father of the American Revolution

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  • A Self-Made Man

    The Political Life of Abraham Lincoln Vol. I, 1809–1849

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    The first in a sweeping, multi-volume history of Abraham Lincoln—from his obscure beginnings to his presidency, death, and the overthrow of his post-Civil War plan of reconciliation—“engaging and informative and…thought-provoking” (The Christian Science Monitor).From his youth as a voracious newspaper reader, Abraham Lincoln became a free thinker, reading Tom Paine, as well as Shakespeare and the ... Leer más

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  • Jefferson's Second Revolution

    The Election Crisis of 1800 and the Triumph of Republicanism

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    An "excellent" history of the tumultuous early years of American government, and a constitutional crisis sparked by the Electoral College ( Booklist).In the election of 1800, Federalist incumbent John Adams, and the elitism he represented, faced Republican Thomas Jefferson. Jefferson defeated Adams but, through a quirk in Electoral College balloting, tied with his own running mate, Aaron Burr. A ... Leer más

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  • American Inheritance

    Liberty and Slavery in the Birth of a Nation, 1765-1795

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