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29 produkter
American Sphinx (National Book Award Winner): The Character of Thomas Jefferson
Häftad, 1998
293 kr
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Founding Fathers
The Essential Guide to the Men Who Made America
E-bok, 2007
196 kr
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An authoritative, accessible guide to the figures who shaped a nation How did upstart colonists solidify the ideas celebrated in the Declaration of Independence and defeat the powerful British army? How did thinkers from disparate backgrounds shape a government that transformed modern politics? The …
Founding Brothers
The Revolutionary Generation
E-bok, 2003
221 kr
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In this landmark work of history, the National Book Award—winning author of American Sphinx explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed individuals–Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison–confronted the overwhelming challenges before them to set the course …
American Creation
E-bok, 2007
205 kr
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From the first shots fired at Lexington to the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase, Joseph J. Ellis guides us through the decisive issues of the nation’s founding, and illuminates the emerging philosophies, shifting alliances, and personal and …
First Family
Abigail and John Adams
E-bok, 2010
205 kr
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The Pulitzer Prize–winning, best-selling author of Founding Brothers and His Excellency brings America’s preeminent first couple to life in a moving and illuminating narrative that sweeps through the American Revolution and the republic’s tenuous early years. John and Abigail Adams left an …
American Sphinx (National Book Award Winner)
E-bok, 1998
128 kr
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National Bestseller For a man who insisted that life on the public stage was not what he had in mind, Thomas Jefferson certainly spent a great deal of time in the spotlight--and not only during his active political career. After 1809, his longed-for retirement was compromised by a steady stream of …
Revolutionary Summer
The Birth of American Independence
E-bok, 2013
158 kr
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A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning American historian, Joseph Ellis. The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed to secede …
Quartet
Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
E-bok, 2015
171 kr
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From Pulitzer Prize–winning American historian Joseph J. Ellis, the unexpected story of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew. We all know the famous opening phrase of Lincoln’s …
American Dialogue
The Founding Fathers and Us
E-bok, 2018
221 kr
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The award winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams to some of the most divisive issues in America today. The story of history is a ceaseless …
Passionate Sage
The Character and Legacy of John Adams
Inbunden, 1993
606 kr
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A fresh look at this astute, likably quirky statesman, by the author of the Pulitzer Award-winning Founding Brothers and the National Book Award winning American Sphinx. "The most lovable and most laughable, the warmest and possibly the wisest of the founding fathers, John Adams knew himself as few …
After the Revolution
Profiles of Early American Culture
Häftad, 2002
303 kr
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An entrepreneur, a writer who wanted to depict an ideal society, a dramatist who tried to reconcile high aesthetic standards and populism, and a Connecticut Yankee who ran into the contradictions of conservatism and liberalism—each of the four men depicted in this book had a vision of what kind of …
After the Revolution
Profiles of Early American Culture
Häftad, 1981
387 kr
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Through portraits of four figures—Charles Willson Peale, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, William Dunlap, and Noah Webster—Joseph Ellis provides a unique perspective on the role of culture in post-Revolutionary America, both its high expectations and its frustrations.
Great Contradiction
The Tragic Side of the American Founding
Häftad, 2026
192 kr
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A major new history from our most trusted voice on the Revolutionary era, the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Founding Brothers and the National Book Award winner American Sphinx , and featured in THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a film by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt, on PBS. An …
Great Contradiction
The Tragic Side of the American Founding
Inbunden, 2025
280 kr
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A major new history from our most trusted voice on the Revolutionary era, the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Founding Brothers and the National Book Award winner American Sphinx , and featured in THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION, a film by Ken Burns, Sarah Botstein, and David Schmidt, on PBS. An …
Writing the Declaration of Independence
E-bok, 2015
16 kr
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A colorful, enlightening account of how Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, and the road to July 4: a selection from Joseph J. Ellis’s American Sphinx , winner of the National Book Award. How did the newest and youngest member of Virginia’s delegation to the Constitutional …
Passionate Sage
The Character and Legacy of John Adams
Häftad, 2022
196 kr
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A fresh look at this astute, likably quirky statesman, by the author of the Pulitzer Award-winning Founding Brothers and the National Book Award winning American Sphinx.
Cause
The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783
Häftad, 2022
190 kr
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For Pulitzer Prize–winning historian Joseph J. Ellis, The Cause marks the culmination of a lifetime of engagement with the founding era, completing a trilogy of books that began with Founding Brothers. Here Ellis, countering popular histories that romanticize the “Spirit of ’76,” demonstrates …
His Excellency
George Washington
E-bok, 2004
158 kr
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National Bestseller To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as his …
Passionate Sage
The Character and Legacy of John Adams
Ljudbok, 2009
253 kr
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Here is a fresh look at an astute, likably quirky statesman, by the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning Founding Brothers and the National Book Award–winning American Sphinx. John Adams, one of the Founding Fathers of our nation and its second president, spent nearly the last third of his life in …
Cause
The American Revolution and its Discontents, 1773-1783
Inbunden, 2021
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
297 kr
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George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction. At the time, no one called it the “American Revolution”: former colonists still regarded themselves as Virginians or Pennsylvanians, not Americans, …
