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Pathfinder
John Charles Frémont and the Course of American Empire
Av Tom Chaffin
Häftad, 2014
293 kr
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The most eloquent, understanding, and yet very candid biography of Frémont that has appeared to date"" - Howard R. Lamar, Yale UniversityThe career of John Charles Frémont (1813-90) ties together the full breadth of American expansionism from its eighteenth-century origins through its culmination …
Giant's Causeway
Frederick Douglass''s Irish Odyssey and the Making of an American Visionary
Av Tom Chaffin
E-bok, 2014
397 kr
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In 1845, seven years after fleeing bondage in Maryland, Frederick Douglass was in his late twenties and already a celebrated lecturer across the northern United States. The recent publication of his groundbreaking Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave had incited threats to …
Giant's Causeway
Frederick Douglass's Irish Odyssey and the Making of an American Visionary
Av Tom Chaffin
Häftad, 2017
311 kr
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In 1845, seven years after fleeing bondage in Maryland, Frederick Douglass was in his late twenties and already a celebrated lecturer across the northern United States. The recent publication of his groundbreaking Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave had incited threats to …
Revolutionary Brothers
Thomas Jefferson, the Marquis de Lafayette, and the Friendship that Helped Forge Two Nations
Av Tom Chaffin
Häftad, 2020
413 kr
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Thomas Jefferson and the Marquis de Lafayette shared a singularly extraordinary friendship, one involved in the making of two revolutions - and two nations. Jefferson first met Lafayette in 1781, when the young French-born general was dispatched to Virginia to assist Jefferson, then the state’s …
Met His Every Goal?
James K. Polk and the Legends of Manifest Destiny
Av Tom Chaffin
Häftad, 2014
225 kr
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Soon after winning the presidency in 1845, according to the oft-repeated anecdote, James K. Polk slapped his thigh and predicted what would be the ""four great measures"" of his administration: the acquisition of some or all of the Oregon Country, the acquisition of California, a reduction in …
Fatal Glory
Narciso Lopez and the First Clandestine U.S. War Against Cuba
Av Tom Chaffin
Inbunden, 1996
670 kr
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Between 1848 and 1851, Lopez tried five times to dislodge Cuba's Spanish government. This text recounts Lopez's daring invasions of Cuba and reveals how he was assisted by New York steam ship magnates, penny press editors, Cuban industrialists and northern democratic urban bosses.
Giant's Causeway
Frederick Douglass's Irish Odyssey and the Making of an American Visionary
Av Tom Chaffin
Inbunden, 2014
354 kr
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In 1845, seven years after fleeing bondage in Maryland, Frederick Douglass was in his late twenties and already a celebrated lecturer across the northern United States. The recent publication of his groundbreaking Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave had incited threats to …
Correspondence of James K. Polk
Volume X11, January-July 1847
Av James K Polk, Tom Chaffin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2013
899 kr
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Many of this volume’s letters chronicle the Tennessean’s prosecution of the Mexican War, a conflict that, along with his 1846 acquisition of the U.S. portion of today’s Pacific Northwest, increased by one-third the size of United States. The letters also lift the veil on the personal life and …
