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The Revolutionary Generation
by Joseph J. Ellis
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by Woody Holton
Published Jun 2010
Read ReviewsWinner of BookBrowse's 2009 Nonfiction Book Award. In this vivid new biography of Abigail Adams, the most illustrious woman of America's founding era, prize-winning historian Woody Holton offers a sweeping reinterpretation of Adams's life story and of women's roles in the creation of the republic.
by Jon Meacham
Published Apr 2009
Read ReviewsJon Meacham in American Lion has delivered the definitive human portrait of a pivotal president who forever changed the American presidencyand America itself.
by David O. Stewart
Published May 2008
Read ReviewsThe successful creation of the Constitution is a suspense story. The Summer of 1787 takes us into the sweltering room in which delegates struggled for four months to produce the flawed but enduring document that would define the nation -- then and now.
by James L. Swanson
Published Feb 2007
Read ReviewsA fascinating tale of murder, intrigue, and betrayal. A gripping hour-by-hour account told through the eyes of the hunted and the hunters, this is history as you've never read it before.
by Robert A. Caro
Published May 2003
Read ReviewsBook Three of Robert A. Caro's monumental work, The Years of Lyndon Johnson---the most admired and riveting political biography of our era---which began with the best-selling and prizewinning The Path to Power.
by David McCullough
Published Sep 2002
Read ReviewsThe enthralling, often surprising story of John Adams, one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.
by William Safire
Published Jun 2001
Read ReviewsA presidential hopeful has taken a mistress. The time is the eighteenth century and the politicians involved are Hamilton and Jefferson. This is dramatized history at its best and presidential politics at its most fascinating.
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