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The Summer of 1787: The Men Who Invented the Constitution
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David O Stewart
A true-life suspense story, "The Summer of 1787" takes readers into the sweltering room in which delegates struggled for four months to produce the flawed but enduring document that had come to define the nation, then and now.
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Signing Their Lives Away: The Fame and Misfortune of the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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Denise Kiernan, Joseph D'Agnese
'We must all hang together, gentleman, or else we shall most assuredly hang separately' - Benjamin Franklin, at the signing of the Declaration of Independence. In July 1776, fifty-six men risked their lives and livelihood to defy the British and sign the most important document in the history of the United States - And yet how many of them do we ...
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A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution
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Carol Berkin
A study of the historical context, major players, and key issues and arguments that led to the adoption of the Constitution of the United States of America.
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On Two Wings: Humble Faith and Common Sense at the American Founding
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Michael Novak
In this book, Novak probes the innermost convictions of Washington, Jefferson, Madison and the others who helped the American eagle to take wing. He shows how they were able to find common ground by appealing to the God of the Hebrews. He traces what happened to this Hebrew metaphysics as the world of the founders became the world of modernity.
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Gentleman Revolutionary: Gouverneur Morris, the Rake Who Wrote the Constitution
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Richard Brookhiser
A journalist who specializes in the period chronicles the colorful, even lusty, life of Gouverneur Morris, the Anglo-French New Yorker and near-founding father who is credited with much of the language and phrasing in the U.S. Constitution, including its preamble. Morris is known for his DIARY OF THE FRENCH REVOLUTION.
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Samuel Adams: Father of the American Revolution
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Mark Puls
Samuel Adams is perhaps the most unheralded and overshadowed of the founding fathers, yet without him there would have been no American Revolution.
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Will You Sign Here, John Hancock?
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Jean Fritz
A biography of the first signer of the Declaration of Independence outlining all that he did for himself as well as what he did for Massachusetts and his new nation.
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The Declaration of Independence: The Story Behind America's Founding Document and the Men Who Created It
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Rod Gragg
Here is the extraordinary story of drama and daring, sacrifice and selflessness, danger and potential death that launched a freedom movement the world had never seen. Includes removable full-size replica of the Declaration of Independence. Consumable.
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The Signers: The 56 Stories Behind the Declaration of Independence
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Dennis Brindell Fradin, Michael McCurdy (Illustrator)
An award-winning author/illustrator team illuminates the lives of the valiant men who signed the Declaration of Independence, whose dauntless courage inspired thousands of colonists to risk all for freedom. Illustrations.
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Founding Fathers: Brief Lives of the Framers of the United States Constitution
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M E Bradford, Russell Kirk (Foreword by)
This work compiles biographical sketches for all 55 Framers who attended the Philadelphia Convention. It examines their constitutional theories, their visions for the newly-founded union and their opinions on ratification of the document.
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Benjamin Rush: Patriot and Physician
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Alyn Brodsky
The only full biography of Benjamin Rush, an extraordinary Founding Father and America's leading physician of the Colonial era While Benjamin Rush appears often and meaningfully in biographies about John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin, this legendary man is presented as little more than a historical footnote. Yet, he was a ...
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The Founders: The 39 Stories Behind the U.S. Constitution
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Dennis Brindell Fradin, Michael McCurdy (Illustrator)
The stories behind the Constitution are as powerful as the nation it created.This companion volume to "The Signers" brings all of the founders' stories tolight. Illustrations.
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Wives of the Signers: The Women Behind the Declaration of Independence
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David Barton (Foreword by), Harry Clinton Green
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Benjamin Rush: Signer of the Declaration of Independence
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David Barton
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Faith of Our Founding Fathers
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Dr. Tim LaHaye
Best-selling author Tim LaHaye blasts a hole in the common "separation of church and state" argument that has brought about the secularization of American society. By recording the writings of the founding fathers, LaHaye offers a bullet-proof case that America was founded on Christian principles. High school - adult.
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Our lives, our fortunes, our sacred honor
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Paul Harvey
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Greatness to Spare: The Heroic Sacrifices of the Men Who Signed the Declaration of Independence
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T R Fehrenbach
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Declaring Independence: The Origin and Influence of America's Founding Document
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David Armitage, Pauline Maier, Robert M S McDonald
This title features the Albert H. Small Declaration of Independence Collection at the University of Virginia Library.The Declaration of Independence is the touchstone of American nationhood, the document that marks the beginning of our history as a people. Eloquently articulating the principles and sentiments that drove patriotic subjects of King ...
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The Signers of the Constitution
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Robert G Ferris, James H Charleton
Describes the events of the Constitutional Convention and the lives and work of the thirty-eight men who signed the document. Includes the text of the Constitution and Amendments.
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American Connections: The Founding Fathers. Networked.
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James Burke
As an acclaimed history expert and bestselling author of "Connections," Burke employs his trademark style to reveal unlikely coincidences surrounding the signers of the Declaration of Independence and modern day America.
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Patriot Above Profit: A Portrait of Thomas Nelson, Jr. Who Supported the American Revolution with His Purse and Sword
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Nell Moore Lee
is a biography of Revolutionary War general Thomas Nelson Jr., who signed the Declaration of Independence, and a guide to the social, intellectual, and cultural life of colonial Virginia.
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Gouverneur Morris: An Independent Life
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Professor William Howard Adams
This title is a biography of one of the most colourful and least well-known of the founding fathers. A plain-spoken, racy patrician who distrusted democracy but opposed slavery and championed freedom for all minorities, an important player in the American Revolution, later an astute critic of the French Revolution, Gouverneur Morris remains an ...
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John Hancock
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Barbara A Somervill
Covering important figures throughout the ages, these lively books are filled with engaging text based on primary sources and thorough research. The full-color images, historical photos and paintings, and detailed maps add to the books' appeal.
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Samuel Adams: Son of Liberty, Father of Revolution
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Benjamin Irvin
The story of one of the most important -- and most elusive -- figures of the American Revolution, Samuel Adams traces the life of the "Man of the Revolution," as he was called by Thomas Jefferson, from his childhood as a fifth-generation New Englander to his pivotal role in the Boston Tea Party and war that followed to a life spent in public ...
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Signers of Declaration of Independance
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Robert G Ferris, Richard E Morris
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