This highly acclaimed biography captures, in a single volume, the complete picture of Thomas Jefferson's private and public life. Drawing on extensive research, Willard Sterne Randall presents a stirring biography that Publishers Weekly hailed as "a masterful . . . portrait that brings us closer to Jefferson than any previous biography".
In the first major biography of Benedict Arnold in 35 years, prize-winning journalist and historian Willard Sterne Randall unravels the web of personal drama and political intrigue that led to the most famous betrayal in American history. Citing documents long believed lost, Randall explores the full story of Arnold's brilliant but agonized career ...
This one-volume biography of the Founding Father charts Alexander Hamilton's career and accomplishments, which included serving as a close aide to General Washington in the Continental Army and as the first Secretary of the Treasury, as well as being co-author of The Federalist Papers. Randall also reveals a man of pleasures whose aristocratic ...
youth in colonial Virginia to his tragic final days at Monticello. Throughout the narrative, Randall shows Jefferson to be a dynamic and thoroughly modern man, who committed himself to a search for a meaningful, authentic way of life.
A new biography of the American soldier and statesman. Willard Randall is an expert on the history of the early American republic and the author of a highly acclaimed biography of Thomas Jefferson.
A fascinating look at neglected figures in American history, from the pen of one of Americas most popular biographers.. Our history was shaped by many people who have been forgotten in popular histories, and relegated to footnotes in scholarly ones. Forgotten Americans illuminates our past through fifteen portraitsof feminists, abolitionists, ...
A new biography of the American soldier and statesman. Willard Randall is an expert on the history of the early American republic and the author of a highly acclaimed biography of Thomas Jefferson.
'American Lives' is a collection of biographical essays of both well-known and lesser-known historical figures. Written by biographer Willard Sterne Randall, whose biography of Benedict Arnold was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize, and Nancy Nahra, each chapter in the collections a succinct, briskly written portrait of an important American. ...
A Little Revenge is the story of the relationship between Benjamin Franklin and his illegitimate son, William. A brilliant young man who first served Benjamin as military advisor and legal counsel, William eventually rose to be Royal Governor of New Jersey, only to become his father's implacable enemy.
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Binding: Hardcover
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Date Published: 2001
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Publisher: Reader's Digest Association
Date Published: 2001
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