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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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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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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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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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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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Soldier-statesmen of the Constitution
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Robert K. Wright, Morris J. MacGregor
This book was written to explore the contribution of Revolutionary War veterans to the founding of the American republic. By veterans, we mean all those who served in the Continental and state forces, on land or sea. Twenty three of those veterans were among the men who signed the Constitution in Philadelphia on 17 September 1787. That document, ...
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Caesar Rodney's Ride Eighty Miles for Freedom
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Jan Cheripko, Gary Lippincott (Illustrator)
In July of 1776, the delegates to the Second Continental Congress faced a decision that would change their lives and the destiny of a continent: Should the American colonies declare independence from Great Britain? The delegates knew that casting a vote for independence meant risking their property, jeopardizing their family, and losing their own ...
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The Signers of the Declaration of Independence: A Biographical and Genealogical Reference
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Della Gray Barthelmas, Frank Borman, Colonel (Adapted by)
None of the 56 men who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 could have imagined a few years earlier that they would be part of such an event. All had been loyal British subjects earlier in their lives, and several had held British government posts in their home colonies. In 1743, Samuel Adams became one of the first to advocate for ...
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A Picture Book of John Hancock
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David A Adler, Michael S Adler (Illustrator), Ronald Himler (Illustrator)
John Hancock served as a delegate to the First Continental Congress and as the president of the Second Continental Congress; and he was the first to add his bold signature to the Declaration of Independence. This picture book introduces younger children to this colonial statesman. Illustrations.
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Samuel Adams
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Michael Burgan
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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Famous signers of the Declaration
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Dorothy Horton McGee
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Honorable Treason
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David Freeman Hawke
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Priestcraft and the slaughterhouse religion : a rejoinder to the notion that the United States was designed to promote the Christian religion : a perspective on current fundamentalism : a plea for a governed world
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Jack Lasley
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Blasphemy: How the Religious Right Is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence
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Professor Alan M Dershowitz
In "Blasphemy: How the Religious Right is Hijacking the Declaration of Independence", author Alan Dershowitz proves that no relation exists between the Declaration of Independence's 'Creator' and 'Nature's God', on the one hand, and the Judeo-Christian God of the Old and New Testaments, on the other hand. Learn about the religious right's goal to ...
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The fifty-six who signed.
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Sam Fink
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Carter Braxton, Virginia Signer: A Conservative in Revolt
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Alonzo Thomas Dill
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Biographical Sketches of the Signers of the Declaration of American Independence
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B J Lossing
The men who formed the United States came from all thirteen colonies. The real Josiah Bartlett did come from New Hampshire. John Adams was a descendant of John Alden of the Mayflower, one of the reasons he was referred to as a "Son of Liberty." Samuel Adams' business almost went bankrupt because he preferred politics to commerce. There was a real ...
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Anchor of liberty
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Fathers of America's freedom; the story of the signers of the Declaration of Independence
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Donald Ewin Cooke, Harry J. Schaare
Outlines the history of the Declaration of Independence and gives brief biographies of its fifty-six signers.
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