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  • Jefferson's Second Revolution

    The Election Crisis of 1800 and the Triumph of Republicanism

    de Susan Dunn ...
    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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  • 1940

    FDR, Willkie, Lindbergh, Hitler—the Election amid the Storm

    de Susan Dunn ...
    A history of the 1940 U.S. presidential election, when bitterly divided Americans debated the fate of the nation and the world.In 1940, against the explosive backdrop of the Nazi onslaught in Europe, two farsighted candidates for the U.S. presidency—Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, running for an unprecedented third term, and talented Republican businessman Wendell Willkie—found themselves on the ... Leer más

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  • The Three Roosevelts

    Patrician Leaders Who Transformed America

    An "immensely interesting" account of how Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor led the United States through some of its most turbulent decades (David McCullough).The Three Roosevelts is the extraordinary political biography of the intertwining lives of Theodore, Franklin, and Eleanor Roosevelt, who emerged from the closed society of New York's Knickerbocker elite to become the most prominent American ... Leer más

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  • A Blueprint for War

    FDR and the Hundred Days that Mobilized America

    de Susan Dunn ...
    Series series The Henry L. Stimson Lectures Series
    " Dunn shows how FDR's Third Hundred Days were critical to overcoming isolationism and rebuilding American leadership in an age of global turmoil." (E.J. Dionne Jr., New York Times bestselling co-author of One Nation After Trump)In the cold winter months that followed Franklin Roosevelt's election in November 1940 to an unprecedented third term in the White House, he confronted a worldwide ... Leer más

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  • George Washington

    The American Presidents Series: The 1st President, 1789-1797

    Series series The American Presidents
    A premier leadership scholar and an eighteenth-century expert define the special contributions and qualifications of our first president.Revolutionary hero, founding president, and first citizen of the young republic, George Washington was the most illustrious public man of his time, a man whose image today is the result of the careful grooming of his public persona to include the themes of ... Leer más

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  • Dominion of Memories

    Jefferson, Madison, and the Decline of Virginia

    de Susan Dunn ...
    For decades, the Commonwealth of Virginia led the nation. The premier state in population, size, and wealth, it produced a galaxy of leaders: Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Mason, Marshall. Four of the first five presidents were Virginians. And yet by the middle of the nineteenth century, Virginia had become a byword for slavery, provincialism, and poverty. What happened? In her ... Leer más

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  • Roosevelt’s Purge

    How FDR Fought to Change the Democratic Party

    de Susan Dunn ...
    In his first term in office, Franklin Roosevelt helped pull the nation out of the Great Depression with his landmark programs. In November 1936, every state except Maine and Vermont voted enthusiastically for his reelection. But then the political winds shifted. Not only did the Supreme Court block some of his transformational experiments, but he also faced serious opposition within his own party. ... Leer más

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  • The Deaths of Louis XVI

    Regicide and the French Political Imagination

    de Susan Dunn ...
    Series series Literature in History
    The public beheading of Louis XVI was a unique and troubling event that scarred French collective memory for two centuries. To Jacobins, the king's decapitation was the people's coronation. To royalists, it was deicide. Nineteenth-century historians considered it an alarming miscalculation, a symbol of the Terror and the moral bankruptcy of the Revolution. By the twentieth century, Camus judged ... Leer más

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  • Sister Revolutions

    French Lightning, American Light

    de Susan Dunn ...
    "A keen and judicious meditation on the two great revolutions that created the modern world—what they had in common and where and why they diverged." —Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., Pulitzer Prize–winning authorIn 1790, the American diplomat and politician Gouverneur Morris compared the French and American Revolutions, saying that the French "have taken Genius instead of Reason for their guide, adopted ... Leer más

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  • Women and Pilgrimage

    Series series CABI Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Series
    Women and Pilgrimage presents scholarly essays that address the lacunae in the literature on this topic. The content includes well-trodden domains of pilgrimage scholarship like sacred sites and holy places. In addition, the book addresses some of the less-well-known dimensions of pilgrimage, such as the performances that take place along pilgrims' paths; the ephemeral nature of identifying as a ... Leer más

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  • Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology

    Practical Neurochemistry Methods

    de Abel Lajtha ...
    Series series Reference Module Biomedical and Life Sciences
    The Handbook is intended to be a service to the neuroscience community, to help in finding available and useful information, to point out gaps in our knowledge, and to encourage continued studies. It represents the valuable contributions of the many authors of the chapters and the guidance of the editors and most important, it represents support for research in this discipline. Based on the rapid ... Leer más

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  • Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria

    Virgins, Witches, and Catholic Queens

    Series series History (R0)
    This book examines how early Stuart queens navigated their roles as political players and artistic patrons in a culture deeply conflicted about the legitimacy of female authority. Anna of Denmark and Henrietta Maria both employed powerful female archetypes such as Amazons and the Virgin Mary in court performances. Susan Dunn-Hensley analyzes how darker images of usurping, contaminating women, ... Leer más

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