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Historical American biographiesChervinsky, Lindsay M.
Summary: This is an authoritative account of the second president of the United States that shows how John Adams's leadership and legacy defined the office for those who followed and ensured the survival of the American republic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2024
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Summary: Traces the life of the wife of the first president of the United States, from her childhood in Virginia through her marriage to George Washington to her role in the American Revolution and the early years of the new country's history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Enslow Publishers 1998
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB WASHINGTO MCPFerling, John E.
Summary: "A spellbinding history of the epic rivalry that shaped our republic: Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and their competing visions for America... The decade of the 1790s has been called the 'age of passion.' Fervor ran high as rival factions battled over the course of the new republic-- each side convinced that the other's goals would betray the legacy of the Revolution so recently fought...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.09 FERHarness, Cheryl.
Summary: Presents the life of George Washington, focusing on the Revolutionary War years and his presidency.
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Publisher / Publication Date: National Geographic Society 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 WASPhilbrick, Nathaniel
Summary: "Does George Washington still matter? The bestselling author argues for his unique contribution to the forging of America by retracing his journey as a new President through the former colonies, now an unsure nation. A new first-person voice for Philbrick, weaving history and personal reflection into one narrative. When George Washington became president in 1798, the United States of America...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 PHICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US Pres PhilbrickCerami, Charles A.
Contents: Before the clash -- An old friend's bombshell -- The mounting anger -- The radical conservative -- Aggressive lobbying -- Thoughts of breaking up -- Jefferson's awakening -- A country without a capital -- Doubters and believers -- Nearing a decision on the capital -- That day on the street -- Dinner at Secretary Jefferson's -- The Philadelphia story -- Doubts settled, doubts revived -- Hamilton...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 2008
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.41 CERChaffin, Tom
Summary: Thomas Jefferson first met the Marquis de Lafayette in 1781, when the young French-born general was dispatched to Virginia to assist Jefferson, then the state's governor, in fighting off the British. The two could not have seemed more different. When Jefferson moved to Paris three years later as a diplomat, speaking little French and in need of a partner, their friendship began in earnest....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 CHALevin, Yuval.
Summary: "In The Great Debate Yuval Levin explores the origins of the familiar left/right divide in American politics by examining the views of the men who best represent each side of that debate: Edmund Burke and Thomas Paine. In a groundbreaking exploration of the origins of our political order, Levin shows that our political divide did not originate (as many historians argue) in the French...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 320.5 LEVLarson, Edward J. (Edward John)
Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially important--yet almost always overlooked--chapter of George Washington's life, revealing how Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first president.
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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Summary: "Thomas Jefferson, Thomas Paine, and James Monroe were in the vanguard of revolutionary ideas in the 18th century. As founding fathers, they risked their lives for American independence, but they also wanted more. Each wished for profound changes in the political and social fabric of pre-1776 America and hoped that the American Revolution would spark republican and egalitarian revolutions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bloomsbury Publishing 2018