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23 produkter
Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation
A Biography
Häftad, 1987
1123 kr
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The definitive life of Jefferson in one volume, this biography relates Jefferson's private life and thought to his prominent public position and reveals the rich complexity of his development. As Peterson explores the dominant themes guiding Jefferson's career--democracy, nationality, and …
The Great Triumvirate
Webster, Clay, and Calhoun
Häftad, 1989
523 kr
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This is a joint biography of Daniel Webster, Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun, the most prominent of the second generation of American statesmen, from 1812 until 1850. It is at the same time a history of the America of the period: its political style and character, political ambition and reputation, …
Lincoln in American Memory
Häftad, 1995
384 kr
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In tracing the changing image of Lincoln through time, this wide-ranging account offers insight into the evolution and struggles of American politics and society.
Great Triumvirate
Webster, Clay, and Calhoun
E-bok, 1988
409 kr
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Enormously powerful, intensely ambitious, the very personifications of their respective regions--Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun represented the foremost statemen of their age. In the decades preceding the Civil War, they dominated American congressional politics as no other figures …
Lincoln in American Memory
E-bok, 1995
283 kr
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Lincoln''s death, like his life, was an event of epic proportions. When the president was struck down at his moment of triumph, writes Merrill Peterson, "sorrow--indescribable sorrow" swept the nation. After lying in state in Washington, Lincoln''s body was carried by a special funeral train to …
Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation
A Biography
E-bok, 1970
588 kr
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The definitive life of Jefferson in one volume, this biography relates Jefferson''s private life and thought to his prominent public position and reveals the rich complexity of his development. As Peterson explores the dominant themes guiding Jefferson''s career--democracy, nationality, and …
Great Triumvirate
Webster, Clay, and Calhoun
E-bok, 1988
364 kr
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Enormously powerful, intensely ambitious, the very personifications of their respective regions--Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun represented the foremost statemen of their age. In the decades preceding the Civil War, they dominated American congressional politics as no other figures …
Thomas Jefferson and the New Nation
A Biography
E-bok, 1986
906 kr
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The definitive life of Jefferson in one volume, this biography relates Jefferson''s private life and thought to his prominent public position and reveals the rich complexity of his development. As Peterson explores the dominant themes guiding Jefferson''s career--democracy, nationality, and …
Lincoln in American Memory
E-bok, 1995
252 kr
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Lincoln''s death, like his life, was an event of epic proportions. When the president was struck down at his moment of triumph, writes Merrill Peterson, "sorrow--indescribable sorrow" swept the nation. After lying in state in Washington, Lincoln''s body was carried by a special funeral train to …
The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
Its Evolution and Consequences in American History
Av Merrill D. Peterson, Robert C. Vaughan
Inbunden, 1988
1872 kr
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This book colourfully examines a famous Jeffersonian document which set the precedent for the US Constitution's guarantee of religious liberty. Jefferson wrote the Virginia Statute, shepherded it through a decade-long struggle to adoption, and included it in his epitaph (along with the Declaration …
The Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom
Its Evolution and Consequences in American History
Av Merrill D. Peterson, Robert C. Vaughan
Häftad, 2003
716 kr
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This book colourfully examines a famous Jeffersonian document which set the precedent for the US Constitution's guarantee of religious liberty. Jefferson wrote the Virginia Statute, shepherded it through a decade-long struggle to adoption, and included it in his epitaph (along with the Declaration …
Olive Branch and Sword
The Compromise of 1833
Häftad, 1999
283 kr
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Dominated by the personalities of three towering figures of the nation's middle period - Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and President Andrew Jackson - Olive Branch and Sword: The Compromise of 1833 tells of the political and rhetorical dueling that brought about the Compromise of 1833, resolving the …
Jefferson Image in the American Mind
Häftad, 1999
576 kr
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This text, first published in 1960, presents a study of Thomas Jefferson's posthumous reputation, and its influence on American imagination and political thought from the 1820s to the 1930s. It examines how Jefferson's reputation rose and fell and what this shows about America's evolving culture.
Democracy, Liberty & Property
The State Constitutional Conventions of the 1820s
Inbunden, 2010
375 kr
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In one volume, "Democracy, Liberty & Property" provides an overview of the state constitutional conventions held in the 1820s. With topics as relevant today as they were then, this collection of essential primary sources sheds light on many of the enduring issues of liberty. Emphasising the …
Democracy, Liberty & Property
The State Constitutional Conventions of the 1820s
Häftad, 2010
276 kr
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In one volume, "Democracy, Liberty & Property" provides an overview of the state constitutional conventions held in the 1820s. With topics as relevant today as they were then, this collection of essential primary sources sheds light on many of the enduring issues of liberty. Emphasising the …
Thomas Jefferson: Writings (LOA #17)
Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters
Av Thomas Jefferson, Merrill D Peterson
Inbunden, 1984
598 kr
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Thomas Jefferson: Writings (LOA #17)
Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia / Public and Private Papers /Addresses
Av Thomas Jefferson, Merrill D. Peterson
E-bok, 1984
591 kr
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The most comprehensive one-volume selection of Jefferson ever published. Contains the "Autobiography," "Notes on the State of Virginia," public and private papers, including the original and revised drafts of the Declaration of Independence, addresses, and 287 letters.
Democracy, Liberty, and Property
The State Constitutional Conventions of the 1820s
E-bok, 2010
82 kr
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In one volume, Democracy, Liberty, and Property provides an overview of the state constitutional conventions held in the 1820s. With topics as relevant today as they were then, this collection of essential primary sources sheds light on many of the enduring issues of liberty. Emphasizing the …
Visitors to Monticello
Av Merrill D. Peterson, Merrill D. Peterson
Inbunden, 1989
596 kr
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Starving Armenians
America and the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1930 and After
Inbunden, 2004
366 kr
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The persecution and suffering of the Armenian people, a religious and cultural minority in the Ottoman Empire, reached a peak in the era of World War I at the hands of the Turks. Between 1915 and 1925 as many as 1.5 million Armenian men, women, and children died in Ottoman Turkey, victims of …
John Brown
The Legend Revisited
Häftad, 2004
244 kr
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This work traces the legend of John Brown from his own era to the present day. The narrative flows between a discussion of the events of Brown's life and the dramatization of the events in prose, poetry and the visual arts.
President and His Biographer
Woodrow Wilson and Ray Stannard Baker
Inbunden, 2007
496 kr
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As his presidency drew to a close, Woodrow Wilson came to realize the claim history would soon have on the documentary record of his life and work, of which he had been a rather inattentive keeper. While some of his more important manuscripts had been kept at his home on S Street in Washington, …
