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1) The First Congress: how James Madison, George Washington, and a group of extraordinary men invented the government

Author

Bordewich, Fergus M

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Pub. Date

2016.

Physical Desc

xv, 396 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

2) Congress at War: how Republican reformers fought the Civil War, defied Lincoln, ended slavery, and remade America

Author

Bordewich, Fergus M

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf

Pub. Date

2020.

Physical Desc

[xx, 450] pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

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"The story of how Congress helped win the Civil War--a new perspective that puts the House and Senate, rather than Lincoln, at the center of the conflict."--

3) America's great debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the compromise that preserved the Union

Author

Bordewich, Fergus M

Publisher

Simon & Schuster

Pub. Date

2012

Physical Desc

x, 480 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., maps ; 25 cm.

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The spellbinding story behind the longest debate in U.S. Senate history: the Compromise of 1850, which brought together Senate luminaries on the eve of the Civil War in a desperate effort to save the Union.

4) Washington: the making of the American capital

Author

Bordewich, Fergus M

Publisher

Amistad

Pub. Date

c2008

Physical Desc

367 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.

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A history of the nation's capital city reveals the role of slavery in its construction, the political and financial obstacles that were faced by the founding fathers, and the back-room deals and shifting alliances that were to shape the region's influence.

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1) The First Congress: how James Madison, George Washington, and a group of extraordinary men invented the government

2) Congress at War: how Republican reformers fought the Civil War, defied Lincoln, ended slavery, and remade America

3) America's great debate: Henry Clay, Stephen A. Douglas, and the compromise that preserved the Union

4) Washington: the making of the American capital

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