Founding Father

American Sphinx: The Character of Thomas Jefferson

6,787 utenti

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Autobiografia

di Benjamin Franklin

7,327 utenti

111 recensioni

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His Excellency: George Washington

2,804 utenti

35 recensioni

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The Shoemaker and the Tea Party: Memory and the American Revolution

3,818 utenti

59 recensioni

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di Alfred F. Young

345 utenti

3 recensioni

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In Pursuit of Reason: The Life of Thomas Jefferson

di Noble E. Cunningham, Jr.

404 utenti

3 recensioni

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John Marshall and the Heroic Age of the Supreme Court

di R. Kent Newmyer

70 utenti

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Adams vs. Jefferson: The Tumultuous Election of 1800

James Wilson, Founding Father, 1742-1798

738 utenti

14 recensioni

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di Charles Page Smith

10 utenti

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Washington: A Life

di Ron Chernow

3,085 utenti

83 recensioni

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Sulla rivoluzione

di Hannah Arendt

1,372 utenti

11 recensioni

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Spiegazioni: Bretzky1: Obviously not specifically about the Founders, but nonetheless contains many interesting insights into them, especially Jefferson and J. Adams.

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Miracle at Philadelphia: The Story of the Constitutional Convention, May to September 1787

di Catherine Drinker Bowen

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14 recensioni

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Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different

di Gordon S. Wood

1,048 utenti

23 recensioni

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George Washington: A Biography (7 volumes)

di Douglas Southall Freeman

68 utenti

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John Adams

di David McCullough

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199 recensioni

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Thomas Jefferson : An Intimate History

di Fawn McKay Brodie

1,145 utenti

10 recensioni

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The Ascent of George Washington: The Hidden Political Genius of an American Icon

The First American: The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin

335 utenti

27 recensioni

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di H. W. Brands

1,911 utenti

11 recensioni

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L' invenzione degli Stati Uniti: i padri: Washington, Adams, Jefferson

di Gore Vidal

657 utenti

15 recensioni

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The Sacred Fire of Liberty: James Madison and the Founding of the Federal Republic

di Lance Banning

99 utenti

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Thomas Jefferson

di Joyce Appleby

230 utenti

5 recensioni

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The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy

di Thomas K. McCraw

108 utenti

3 recensioni

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Franklin of Philadelphia

di Esmond Wright

86 utenti

1 recensione

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Alexander Hamilton: American

Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence

608 utenti

10 recensioni

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di Garry Wills

465 utenti

6 recensioni

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The Sage of Monticello

di Dumas Malone

517 utenti

2 recensioni

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Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams

Patriarch: George Washington and the New American Nation

477 utenti

6 recensioni

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di Richard Norton Smith

305 utenti

3 recensioni

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Give Me Liberty: The Uncompromising Statesmanship of Patrick Henry

di David J. Vaughan

227 utenti

1 recensione

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John Jay: Founding Father

di Walter Stahr

203 utenti

1 recensione

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Jefferson and Madison: The Great Collaboration

di Adrienne Koch

133 utenti

1 recensione

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Realistic Visionary: A Portrait of George Washington

di Peter R. Henriques

67 utenti

1 recensione

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Henry Knox: Visionary General of the American Revolution

di Mark Puls

141 utenti

5 recensioni

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The Life of Washington

di Mason L. Weems

136 utenti

2 recensioni

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Masquerade: The Life and Times of Deborah Sampson, Continental Soldier

di Alfred F. Young

128 utenti

1 recensione

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Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

di Jon Meacham

2,471 utenti

75 recensioni

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Revolutionary Founders: Rebels, Radicals, and Reformers in the Making of the Nation

di Alfred F. Young

102 utenti

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Seven Who Shaped Our Destiny: The Founding Fathers As Revolutionaries (A Cass Canfield book)

di Richard Brandon Morris

77 utenti

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George Washington, Nationalist

di Edward J. Larson

7 utenti

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George Mason : Reluctant Statesman

di Robert A. Rutland

66 utenti

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Jefferson vs. Hamilton: Confrontations That Shaped a Nation

di Noble E. Cunningham, Jr.

66 utenti

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Quaker Constitutionalism and the Political Thought of John Dickinson

di Jane E. Calvert

29 utenti

1 recensione

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Ordeal of ambition; Jefferson, Hamilton, Burr

di Jonathan Daniels

23 utenti

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Soldier-statesmen of the Constitution

di Robert K. Wright

24 utenti

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Henry Knox, General Washington's general

di North Callahan

21 utenti

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Jefferson and Monroe: Constant Friendship and Respect

di Noble E. Cunningham Jr.

15 utenti

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Forgotten Founder: The Life and Times of Charles Pinckney

di Marty D. Matthews

17 utenti

1 recensione

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George Wythe: Teacher of Liberty

di Alonzo Thomas Dill

12 utenti

2

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The Political and Legal Philosophy of James Wilson: 1742-1798

di Mark David Hall

9 utenti

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Oliver Ellsworth and the creation of the federal republic

di William R. Casto

8 utenti

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Elbridge Gerry, founding father and republican statesman

di George Athan Billias

10 utenti

4

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Stormy Patriot: The Life of Samuel Chase

di James Haw

5 utenti

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Anthony Wayne, trouble shooter of the American Revolution

di Harry Emerson Wildes

6 utenti

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Connecticut's Yankee patriot, Roger Sherman

di John G Rommel

5 utenti

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George Mason and the War for Independence

di Robert Allen Rutland

5 utenti

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John Dickinson, conservative revolutionary

di Milton E. Flower

10 utenti

3

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Washington: The Indispensable Man

di James Thomas Flexner

1,063 utenti

9 recensioni

4.1

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The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation's Call to Greatness

di Harlow Giles Unger

518 utenti

12 recensioni

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An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America

di Henry Wiencek

506 utenti

7 recensioni

3.8

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To Begin the World Anew: The Genius and Ambiguities of the American Founders

di Bernard Bailyn

502 utenti

3 recensioni

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Revolutionaries: A New History of the Invention of America

di Jack Rakove

471 utenti

5 recensioni

3.8

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Duel: Alexander Hamilton, Aaron Burr, and the Future of America

di Thomas Fleming

413 utenti

3 recensioni

3.9

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James Madison

310 utenti

7 recensioni

½ 3.5

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John Adams: A Life

285 utenti

2 recensioni

4

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Gentleman Revolutionary

Setting the World Ablaze: Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and the American Revolution

241 utenti

5 recensioni

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Burr, Hamilton, and Jefferson: A Study in Character

208 utenti

2 recensioni

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di Roger G. Kennedy

196 utenti

2 recensioni

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George Washington on Leadership