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America's Jubilee by Andrew Burstein
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Andrew Burstein

Fig. 14b. Henry Clay of Kentucky, portrait accompanying the 1852 obituary address. The statesmanlike pose belies his reputation as a gambler. Fig. 14a. John Randolph of Roanoke, from Henry Adams’s ...
( Category: American Revolution March 18,2020 )
The Passions of Andrew Jackson by Andrew Burstein
epub |eng | 2007-12-17 | Author:Andrew Burstein

13. Excerpt from Jackson’s 1816 letter to John Coffee, wherein Jackson charges his erstwhile friend, Gen. William Carroll, with “wanton wickedness and depravity of heart.” Courtesy the Tennessee Historical Society ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 16,2020 )
The Strategy of Victory by Thomas Fleming
epub |eng | 2017-10-09 | Author:Thomas Fleming

THE BATTLES of Springfield and Connecticut Farms reminded many in the American army of the fighting that had convulsed Massachusetts in April 1775. The rush of militia to the battle ...
( Category: American Revolution March 16,2020 )
American Connections by James Burke
epub |eng | 2007-07-15 | Author:James Burke

CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO Samuel Chase SAMUEL CHASE (MD) was thirty-five. And either a “universally despised…foul-mouthed rabble-rouser” or a man of “energetic eloquence.” On the day of the Declaration vote this lawyer ...
( Category: American Revolution March 16,2020 )
The Ascent of George Washington by John Ferling
epub |eng | | Author:John Ferling

See notes on Chapter 6 PART THREE FIRST IN THE HEARTS OF HIS COUNTRYMEN 7 WASHINGTON AND THE POLITICS OF INTRIGUE: TO THE END OF THE WAR Yorktown was the ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 14,2020 )
Founding Leadership by Brent Taylor
epub |eng | 2019-03-13 | Author:Brent Taylor [Dr. Brent Taylor]

Chapter 5 ALEXANDER HAMILTON Executing The Vision THE FORMER VICE PRESIDENT of the United States shoots and kills the former Secretary of the Treasury. While this may sound like the ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 14,2020 )
America's First Dynasty by Richard Brookhiser
epub |eng | 2002-07-15 | Author:Richard Brookhiser

____________________ ADAMS WAS AHEAD of his time. The country reacted to the prospective collapse of its political arrangements by making one more effort to prop them up. It was the ...
( Category: American Revolution March 13,2020 )
The Autobiography and Other Writings by Benjamin Franklin
epub |eng | 2018-10-28 | Author:Benjamin Franklin

* * * AN EDICT BY THE KING OF PRUSSIA (1773) A prolific political journalist, Franklin generally considered his political writings ephemeral. When asked for a gathering of such pieces ...
( Category: American Revolution March 9,2020 )
The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson by Jefferson Thomas;
epub |eng | 2016-03-04 | Author:Jefferson, Thomas;

Mr. Adams accordingly executed 1000 bonds, for 1000 florins each, and deposited them in the hands of our bankers, with instructions, however, not to issue them until Congress should ratify ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 5,2020 )
Stalin's Scribe by Brian Boeck
epub |eng | | Author:Brian Boeck

TWENTY Upon the conclusion of the war, Sholokhov came under intense pressure to deliver the novel he had promised to Stalin. He boasted to journalists in Moscow in September 1945 ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 4,2020 )
The Life and Times of Pancho Villa by Friedrich Katz
epub |eng | 2013-05-20 | Author:Friedrich Katz

Carrancista and Villista Agrarian Policies Villa’s abstention from matters of ideology and social legislation on a national scale ended in May 1915, when he decreed an agrarian law. It is ...
( Category: American Revolution March 4,2020 )
Eleanor Marx by Yvonne Kapp
epub |eng | | Author:Yvonne Kapp

On the 28th the stampede back to the factory ceases: many of those who went in two days before are now resolved to stay out. Eleanor tells the meeting that ...
( Category: American Revolution March 3,2020 )
Gentleman Revolutionary by Richard Brookhiser
epub |eng | 2003-07-15 | Author:Richard Brookhiser

CHAPTER TEN Radicals in Power W ASHINGTON APPOINTED Morris, relying on their long friendship and on Morris’s firsthand knowledge of the country. But when the nomination went to the Senate, ...
( Category: American Revolution March 3,2020 )
First Entrepreneur by Edward G. Lengel
epub |eng | 2015-12-12 | Author:Edward G. Lengel

MOUNT VERNON’S MOST WELCOME VISITOR wasn’t human. His name was Royal Gift, a magnificent Spanish jackass sent by King Charles III of Spain. Washington accepted him ecstatically. For many years ...
( Category: U.S. Presidents March 2,2020 )
An Imperfect God by Henry Wiencek
epub |eng | 2018-12-23 | Author:Henry Wiencek

( Category: U.S. Presidents February 28,2020 )

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