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  • Cocked and Boozy

    An Intoxicating History of the American Revolution

    "A jaunty survey of 18th-century drinking and its ramifications for resistance, rebellion and economic resilience. . . . Barbier's observations about alcohol's influence provide a shot of national self-awareness, especially as America celebrates its 250th year." — New York TimesAmerica's founding generation drank a staggering amount of alcohol by today's standards.It influenced their politics, ... Leer más

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  • Boston in the American Revolution

    A Town Versus an Empire

    Discover the people and places of colonial Boston during the tumultuous years of rebellion—illustrations included.In 1764, a small town in the British colony of Massachusetts ignited a bold rebellion. When Great Britain levied the Sugar Act on its American colonies, Parliament was not prepared for Boston's backlash.For the next decade, Loyalists and rebels harried one another as both sides ... Leer más

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  • King Hancock

    The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father

    A rollicking portrait of the paradoxical patriot, whose measured pragmatism helped make American independence a reality.Americans are surprisingly more familiar with his famous signature than with the man himself. In this spirited account of John Hancock’s life, Brooke Barbier depicts a patriot of fascinating contradictions—a child of enormous privilege who would nevertheless become a voice of the ... Leer más

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    Cocked & Boozy

    An Intoxicating History of the American Revolution

    Narrado por Elizabeth Wiley ...

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    8 hora 18 minutos

    America’s founding generation drank a staggering amount of alcohol by today’s standards.It influenced their politics, built and sustained their relationships, and drove the economy. Booze was not a small part of colonial society, nor covertly consumed in private spaces—it was integral to American life.Historians have been reluctant to discuss the influence of alcohol on the founding of the United ... Leer más

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    King Hancock

    The Radical Influence of a Moderate Founding Father

    Narrado por Elizabeth Wiley ...

    Completo

    9 hora 34 minutos

    Americans are more familiar with his signature than with the man himself. In this spirited account of John Hancock's life, Brooke Barbier depicts a patriot of fascinating contradictions—a child of enormous privilege who would nevertheless become a voice of the common folk; a pillar of society uncomfortable with radicalism who yet was crucial to independence.Orphaned young, Hancock was raised by ... 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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  • Gateway to Freedom

    The Hidden History of the Underground Railroad

    de Eric Foner ...
    The dramatic story of fugitive slaves and the antislavery activists who defied the law to help them reach freedom.More than any other scholar, Eric Foner has influenced our understanding of America's history. Now, making brilliant use of extraordinary evidence, the Pulitzer Prize–winning historian once again reconfigures the national saga of American slavery and freedom.A deeply entrenched ... Leer más

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  • The Shoemaker and the Tea Party

    Memory and the American Revolution

    George Robert Twelves Hewes, a Boston shoemaker who participated in such key events of the American Revolution as the Boston Massacre and the Tea Party, might have been lost to history if not for his longevity and the historical mood of the 1830's. When the Tea Party became a leading symbol of the Revolutionary ear fifty years after the actual event, this 'common man' in his nineties was ... Leer más

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  • Union

    The Struggle to Forge the Story of United States Nationhood

    de Colin Woodard ...
    By the bestselling author of American Nations and Nations Apart, the story of how the myth of U.S. national unity was created and fought over in the nineteenth century--a myth that continues to affect us todayUnion tells the story of the struggle to create a national myth for the United States, one that could hold its rival regional cultures together and forge an American nationhood. On one hand, ... Leer más

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  • The Virginia Dynasty

    Four Presidents and the Creation of the American Nation

    de Lynne Cheney ...
    A vivid account of leadership focusing on the first four Virginia presidents--George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and James Monroe--from the bestselling historian and author of James Madison.From a small expanse of land on the North American continent came four of the nation's first five presidents--a geographic dynasty whose members led a revolution, created a nation, and ... Leer más

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  • Abraham Lincoln & Frederick Douglass

    The Story Behind an American Friendship

    From the author of Lincoln: A Photobiography, comes a clear-sighted, carefully researched account of two surprisingly parallel lives and how they intersected at a critical moment in U.S. history. Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass were both self-taught, both great readers and believers in the importance of literacy, both men born poor who by their own efforts reached positions of power and ... Leer más

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  • Samuel Adams

    Father of the American Revolution

    de Mark Puls ...
    "A brief, sharply focused biography [that] restores Adams to his rightful place as an indispensable provocateur of American liberty" ( Kirkus Reviews).Samuel Adams is perhaps the most unheralded and overshadowed of the founding fathers, yet without him there would have been no American Revolution. A genius at devising civil protests and political maneuvers that became a trademark of American ... Leer más

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