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Lexile measure
1280L
Language
English
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Description
"Few figures in American history have been more hotly debated or more grossly misunderstood than Alexander Hamilton. Chernow's biography gives Hamilton his due and sets the record straight, deftly illustrating that the political and economic greatness of today's America is the result of Hamilton's countless sacrifices to champion ideas that were often wildly disputed during his time. “To repudiate his legacy,” Chernow writes, “is, in many ways,...
2) John Adams
Author
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
John Adams, the second President of the United States, was a brilliant, fiercely independent, honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution.
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power" gives readers Jefferson the politician and president, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. Philosophers think; politicians maneuver. Jefferson's genius was that he was both and could do both, often simultaneously, catapulting him into becoming the most successful political leader of the early republic, and perhaps in all of American history.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Thomas Jefferson and John Adams could scarcely have come from more different worlds, or been more different in temperament. Jefferson, the optimist with enough faith in the innate goodness of his fellow man to be democracy's champion, was an aristocratic Southern slave owner, while Adams, the overachiever from New England's rising middling classes, painfully aware he was no aristocrat, was a skeptic about popular rule and a defender of a more elitist...
Author
Series
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2017]
Lexile measure
1170L
Physical Desc
203 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The America that Alexander Hamilton knew was largely agricultural and built on slave labor. In contrast, he envisioned something different: along with agriculture and small towns, he imagined a multiracial, urbanized, capitalistic America with a strong central government. A poor immigrant, Hamilton believed that such an America would be a land of opportunity for newcomers. His vision put him at odds with Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr, and others;...
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Formats
Description
An ironic examination of the founding years of our country. Historian Ellis guides us through the decisive issues of the nation's founding, and illuminates the emerging philosophies, shifting alliances, and personal and political foibles of our now iconic leaders. He explains how the idea of a strong federal government, championed by Washington, was eventually embraced by the American people, the majority of whom had to be won over. And he details...
Author
Publisher
Holiday House
Pub. Date
[2019].
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
31 pages : color illustrations ; 22 x 26 cm
Language
English
Description
From his youth in the Caribbean to his immigration to New York City, this picture book covers the highlights of Alexander Hamilton's legacy, including his part in the American revolution, his influence on the monetary system we still use today, and his tragic death.
9) John Adams
Pub. Date
2008
Edition
Widescreen ver.
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 501 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While our new nation was suffering attacks from both within and without, John Adams had a vision of a nation of liberty and justice for all. He guided his peers--General George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson--in setting the values and agenda for a glorious, free America. Adams and his wife Abigail refined these ambitious democratic ideals, and their partnership became one of the most moving love stories in American history.
11) Founding partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the brawling birth of American politics
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
451 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Language
English
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....
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
xi, 269 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
FIRST IN WAR, FIRST IN PEACE, FIRST IN LEADERSHIP.
Richard Brookhiser's revolutionary biography, Founding Father , took George Washington off the dollar bill and made him live. Now, with his trademark wit and precision, Brookhiser expertly examines the details of Washington's life that fullscale biographies sweep over, to instruct us in true leadership. George Washington on Leadership is a textbook look at Washington's three spectacularly successful...
Author
Publisher
Teacher Created Materials
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (48 pages) : illustrations (some color), color map.
Language
English
Description
Briefly explores the life and legacy of Alexander Hamilton, highlighting his political influence, political rivalries, and the events that led up to his sensational death by duel.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
Description
"Whatever sense of hope the Founder Fathers may have felt at the new government's birth, almost none of them carried that optimism to their graves. Franklin survived to see the Constitution in action for only a single year, but most of the founders who lived into the nineteenth century came to feel deep anxiety, disappointment, and even despair about the government and the nation that they had helped to create. Indeed, by the end of their lives many...
Author
Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Lexile measure
1020L
Physical Desc
321 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this special illustrated edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham, young readers will learn about the life and political philosophy of one of our Founding Fathers"--
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
32 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Alexander Hamilton was one of America's founders. He was the first secretary of the treasury and George Washington's right-hand man. But he also made some dangerous enemies during his short yet dramatic life "--
Author
Publisher
Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
xxi, 552 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In this remarkable new portrait, award-winning historian David O. Stewart unveils the political education that made Washington a master politician--and America's most essential leader. From Virginia's House of Burgesses, where Washington learned the craft and timing of a practicing politician, to his management of local government as a justice of the Fairfax County Court to his eventual role in the Second Continental Congress and his grueling generalship...