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2) John Adams
Author
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the life of the second president, John Adams, describing the many conflicts--including international exploits--he faced during his long political career and exploring the love story that was his marriage to Abigail and the complexity of his friendship with Thomas Jefferson.
3) Founding partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the brawling birth of American politics
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States Founding Partisans is a lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be. To the framers of the Constitution, political parties were an existential threat to republican virtues....
4) A republic of scoundrels: the schemers, intriguers & adventurers who created a new American nation
Publisher
Pegasus Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
xx, 348 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Founding Fathers are often revered as American saints; here are the stories of those Founders who were schemers and scoundrels, vying for their own interests ahead of the nation’s
We now have a clear-eyed understanding of Founding Fathers such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton; even so, they are often considered American saints, revered for their wisdom and self-sacrificing service to the nation....
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