American Revolution
mobi, epub |eng | 2011-09-01 | Author:Richard Brookhiser

CHAPTER SEVEN In Power When James Madison first arrived in Washington in the spring of 1801, it was nowhere. The federal government had moved to its latest site in the ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2011-11-21 | Author:Beck, Glenn [Beck, Glenn]

October 20, 1781 Yorktown General Cornwallis knew that this would be one of the most painful days of his esteemed life. Surrendering to the enemy was simply unimaginable. He would ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-01 | Author:Ron Chernow

PART FOUR The Statesman Bust of George Washington by Jean-Antoine Houdon, sculpted in 1785. CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT American Celebrity WITH PERFECT TIMING, George Washington made it home to the loving embrace ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2008-01-29 | Author:David McCullough

• • • UNTIL A SUITABLE HOUSE could be found, the three Adamses were residing in the Bath Hotel in Piccadilly, where, after the quiet of Auteuil, the noise of ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-26 | Author:Joseph J. Ellis

ETIQUETTE AND EMULATION “We are most delightfully situated,” Abigail explained to her sister. “The prospect around us is Beautiful in the highest degree, it is a mixture of sublime & ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-09-18 | Author:Tom Reiss

Napoleon had developed an identification with Egypt from the time he was twelve, reading about Alexander the Great. At the end of his life, having gained and lost control of ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2005-03-24 | Author:Christopher Hitchens

This admonition to Short greatly overstated George Washington’s partisanship for France, but it did not overstate—or not by much—the general American feeling that the Jacobins were making European history, and ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-11-13 | Author:Jon Meacham

THIRTY-SEVEN A DEEP, DARK, AND WIDESPREAD CONSPIRACY The designs of our Cataline are as real as they are romantic. —THOMAS JEFFERSON, on Aaron Burr’s western maneuvers JEFFERSON’S WINTER WAS BRIGHTENED ...
( Category: History & Theory March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-03-24 | Author:John Ferling

Chapter 10 “Devoted to the paper and stockjobbing interest” Unbridled Partisan Warfare It is not likely that Jefferson thought the bank would be the final peg in Hamilton’s program. Washington, ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 25,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-05-19 | Author:Robert H. Patton

Twenty-four-year-old William Bingham excelled at what he called “the art of uniting war and commerce.” The vast network of privateers he managed in the West Indies unsettled Congress with its ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-08-14 | Author:Madame Tussaud: A Life in Wax [Wax, Madame Tussaud: A Life in]

10 Vide et Crede! The Lyceum Theatre, London ONE OF PHILIPSTAL’S programmes of entertainment in London was entitled ‘A Magical Deception’. But unfortunately it was not just on stage that ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )
mobi, azw3 |eng | 2013-03-11 | Author:Jonathan Sperber

PART III Legacy 10 The Theorist IN THE TWO DECADES between 1850 and 1870, Marx developed the mature version of his philosophical, social, and economic theories. When we think of ...
( Category: American Revolution March 25,2014 )