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1) Betsy Ross
Author
Publisher
Bridgestone Books
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.), map ; 24 cm.
3) Betsy Ross
Author
Series
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
31 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 19 cm.
Description
Details the life of the patriotic seamstress credited with creating the first American flag in 1776.
Author
Series
Publisher
Rosen Pub. Group
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
112 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Description
Biography of eight women who played a role during the American Revolution, including Deborah Samson, Nancy Morgan Hart, Lydia Darragh , Mercy Otis Warren, Esther DeBerdt Reed, Elizabeth Martin, Sybil Ludington, and Margaret Corbin.
Author
Publisher
Crown Publishers
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
597 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm
Description
"A brilliant physician and writer, Rush was known as the "American Hippocrates" for pioneering national healthcare and revolutionizing treatment of mental illness and addiction. Yet medicine is only part of his legacy. Dr. Rush was both a progressive thorn in the side of the American political establishment-a vocal opponent of slavery, capital punishment, and prejudice by race, religion or gender-and close friends with its most prominent leaders....
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
xi, 626 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Description
"In this magisterial biography, the eminent scholar John B. Boles does not ignore the aspects of Jefferson that trouble us today, but strives to see him in full, and to understand him amid the sweeping upheaval of his times. We follow Jefferson from his early success as an abnormally precocious student and lawyer in colonial Virginia through his drafting of the Declaration of Independence at age 33, his travels in Europe on the eve of the French Revolution,...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
415 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Description
"When the Revolutionary War ended in victory, there remained the stupendous problem of how to establish a workable democratic government in the vast, newly independent country. Three key Founding Fathers played significant roles: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton. Their lives and policies could not have been more different; their relationships with each other were complex and often rife with animosity. And yet these three men led...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
x, 321 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
"A series of studies of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers. Each life is considered in the round, but the thread that binds the work together is the idea of character as a lived reality for these men. For these were men, Wood shows, who took the matter of character very seriously. They were the first generation in history that was self-consciously self-made, men who considered the arc of lives, as of nations, as being one of moral...
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Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, "Samuel Adams was the man." With high-minded ideals and bare-knuckle tactics, Adams led what could be called the greatest campaign of civil resistance in American history. Stacy Schiff returns Adams to his seat of glory, introducing us to the shrewd and eloquent man who supplied the moral backbone of the American Revolution. He employed every tool available to rally a town,...
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