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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
452 pages
Description
"How do you solve a problem like James Madison? The fourth president is one of the most confounding figures in early American history -- his political trajectory seems almost intentionally inconsistent. He was both for and against a strong federal government. He wrote about the dangers of political parties in the Federalist papers and then helped to found the Republican party just a few years later. And though he has frequently been celebrated as...
Author
Publisher
Print Choice Printing Co. Ltd
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 24 x 29 cm
Description
A bilingual biography of José Martí, who dedicated his life to the promotion of liberty for all men and women. Includes author's note, afterword, and author's sources.
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Publisher
W. W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
448 pages
Description
"A fresh portrait of Henry Kissinger focusing on the fundamental ideas underlying his policies: realism, balance of power, and national interest. The Inevitability of Tragedy is a fascinating intellectual biography of Henry Kissinger that examines his unique role in government through his ideas. It analyzes the continuing controversies surrounding Kissinger's policies in such places as Vietnam and Chile by offering an understanding of his definition...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
c2013.
Physical Desc
325 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Description
Examines the life of the great Irish philosopher, statesman, and political thinker, who supported abolition, free markets, and Catholic equality in Ireland in the eighteenth century, while warning of the dangers of a corporate state.
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xxii, 694 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Description
"Co-authored by the Chief White House correspondent at The New York Times and the Washington columnist at the The New Yorker, this is a biography any would-be power broker must own: the story of legendary White House chief of staff and secretary of stateJames A. Baker III, the man who ran Washington when Washington ran the world. In the latter half of the twentieth century, no Republican won the presidency without his help, and the men he counseled...
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Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xxv, 306 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Description
A memoir produced from tapes the former Chinese premier recorded in secrecy during his sixteen years of house arrest discusses his efforts to stop the Tiananmen Square massacre and the need for China to adopt democratic reforms.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Young Readers, an imprint of Penguin Random House, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
32 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
Based on the children's book series Ordinary People Change the World by New York Times bestselling author Brad Meltzer and illustrator Christopher Eliopoulos, the series will introduce kids to inspiring historical figures and the character virtues that helped them succeed. It's time for Yadina to start first grade, but she's really nervous. Alexander Hamilton helps her realize that new adventures can be exciting. --
A leveled Reader based on an episode...
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Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
487 p. ; 24 cm
Description
"In this remarkable book, the historian Jack Rakove shows how the private lives of these men were suddenly transformed into public careers--how Washington became a strategist, Franklin a pioneering cultural diplomat, Madison a sophisticated constitutional thinker, and Hamilton a brilliant policymaker. Rakove shakes off accepted notions of these men as godlike visionaries, focusing instead on the evolution of their ideas and the crystallizing of their...
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Pub. Date
[2018]
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"From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how America's second generation of political giants--Henry Clay, Daniel Webster, and John Calhoun--battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the shape of our democracy. In the early days of the nineteenth century, three young men strode onto the national stage, elected to Congress at a moment when the Founding Fathers were beginning...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
xix, 405 pages : illustrations (black and white) portraits, photographs, map ; 24 cm.
Description
"Edda Mussolini was the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini’s oldest and favorite child. At 19, she was married to Count Galleazzo Ciano, Il Duce’s Minister for Foreign Affairs during the 1930s, the most turbulent decade in Italy’s fascist history. In the years preceding World War II, Edda ruled over Italy’s aristocratic families and the cultured and middle classes while selling Fascism on the international stage. How a young woman wielded such...
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Broadway hit musical from Tony Award-winning composrer-lyricist-star Lin-Manuel Miranda. "Hamilton" is the acclaimed new hip-hop musical about the scrappy young immigrant Alexander Hamilton, the $10 Founding Father who forever changed America with his revolutionary ideas and actions. During his life cut too short, he served as George Washington's chief aide, was the first Treasury Secretary of the United States, a loving husband and father, despised...
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Pub. Date
[2020]
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"Theirs was a three-decade-long bond that, more than any other pairing, would forge the United States. Vastly different men, Benjamin Franklin-an abolitionist freethinker from the urban north-and George Washington-a slavehold-ing general from the agrarian south-were the indispensable authors of American independence and the two key partners in the attempt to craft a more perfect union at the Constitutional Convention, held in Franklin's Philadelphia...
74) John Hancock
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Series
Publisher
Lerner Publications Co
Pub. Date
c2005
Physical Desc
48 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
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"The prizewinning author of Founding Brothers and American Sphinx now gives us the unexpected story--brilliantly told--of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew. The triumph of the American Revolution was neither an ideological nor political guarantee that the colonies would relinquish their independence and accept the creation of a federal...
Author
Publisher
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
xxii, 600 p., [24] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), maps ; 25 cm.
Description
"Trotsky is perhaps the most intriguing and, given his prominence, the most understudied of the Soviet revolutionaries. Using new archival sources, Robert Service offers new insights. He discusses Trotsky's fractious relations with the leaders he was trying to unify; his attempt to disguise his political closeness to Stalin; and his role in the early 1920s as the progenitor of political and cultural Stalinism. Trotsky evinced a surprisingly glacial...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 409 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Description
Describes the rise and fall of the Marquis de Lafayette, the French hero who aided the colonists during the American Revolution, but who lost everything during the French Revolution due to his views that the monarchy needed to be reformed, not abolished.
Author
Series
Making of America (Abrams) volume 1
Publisher
Abrams Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
203 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
"The America that Alexander Hamilton knew was largely agricultural and built on slave labor. He envisioned something else: a multi-racial, urbanized, capitalistic America with a strong central government. He believed that such an America would be a land of opportunity for the poor and the newcomers. But Hamilton's vision put him at odds with his archrivals who envisioned a pastoral America of small towns, where governments were local, states would...
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