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Author: Milkyway Media Publisher: Milkyway Media ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 23
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 George Washington was the president of a company that was developing the navigability of the Potomac River. He was offered valuable shares in the company for himself and his heirs, but he only accepted if he could give whatever dividends that came his way to charities. #2 The United States was formed in 1776, but was not fully formed until 1789. Until then, the thirteen former British colonies were held uneasily together by the Articles of Confederation. The question was by whom and to what end the powers of the Confederation would be qualified. #3 In 1786, the rickety Confederation was appalled when Massachusetts was revolutionized by one Captain Daniel Shays, a revolutionary hero whom Lafayette had presented with an expensive sword. But by September of 1786, Shays was obliged to sell the sword. #4 In 1787, Washington was officially notified that Congress had named the second Monday in May for a convention to meet in Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation. However, Congress only agreed to the Annapolis Convention’s proposal that there be a meeting of delegates from all the States at Philadelphia in May to take into consideration the Trade and Commerce of the United States.
Author: Milkyway Media Publisher: Milkyway Media ISBN: Category : History Languages : en Pages : 23
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 George Washington was the president of a company that was developing the navigability of the Potomac River. He was offered valuable shares in the company for himself and his heirs, but he only accepted if he could give whatever dividends that came his way to charities. #2 The United States was formed in 1776, but was not fully formed until 1789. Until then, the thirteen former British colonies were held uneasily together by the Articles of Confederation. The question was by whom and to what end the powers of the Confederation would be qualified. #3 In 1786, the rickety Confederation was appalled when Massachusetts was revolutionized by one Captain Daniel Shays, a revolutionary hero whom Lafayette had presented with an expensive sword. But by September of 1786, Shays was obliged to sell the sword. #4 In 1787, Washington was officially notified that Congress had named the second Monday in May for a convention to meet in Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation. However, Congress only agreed to the Annapolis Convention’s proposal that there be a meeting of delegates from all the States at Philadelphia in May to take into consideration the Trade and Commerce of the United States.
Author: Gore Vidal Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300127928 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 166
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This New York Times bestseller offers “an unblinking view of our national heroes by one who cherishes them, warts and all” (New York Review of Books). In Inventing a Nation, National Book Award winner Gore Vidal transports the reader into the minds, the living rooms (and bedrooms), the convention halls, and the salons of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and others. We come to know these men, through Vidal’s splendid prose, in ways we have not up to now—their opinions of each other, their worries about money, their concerns about creating a viable democracy. Vidal brings them to life at the key moments of decision in the birthing of our nation. He also illuminates the force and weight of the documents they wrote, the speeches they delivered, and the institutions of government by which we still live. More than two centuries later, America is still largely governed by the ideas championed by this triumvirate. The author of Burr and Lincoln, one of the master stylists of American literature and most acute observers of American life, turns his immense literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of these formidable men
Author: Everest Media, Publisher: Everest Media LLC ISBN: 1669353478 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 23
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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 George Washington was the president of a company that was developing the navigability of the Potomac River. He was offered valuable shares in the company for himself and his heirs, but he only accepted if he could give whatever dividends that came his way to charities. #2 The United States was formed in 1776, but was not fully formed until 1789. Until then, the thirteen former British colonies were held uneasily together by the Articles of Confederation. The question was by whom and to what end the powers of the Confederation would be qualified. #3 In 1786, the rickety Confederation was appalled when Massachusetts was revolutionized by one Captain Daniel Shays, a revolutionary hero whom Lafayette had presented with an expensive sword. But by September of 1786, Shays was obliged to sell the sword. #4 In 1787, Washington was officially notified that Congress had named the second Monday in May for a convention to meet in Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation. However, Congress only agreed to the Annapolis Convention’s proposal that there be a meeting of delegates from all the States at Philadelphia in May to take into consideration the Trade and Commerce of the United States.
Author: Gore Vidal Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0525565817 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 433
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"May well be the finest of contemporary novels about the capital." THE NEW YORKER From the New Deal to the McCarthy era, follow the lives of Blaise Sanford, the ruthless Washington newspaper tycoon...his son, Peter, a brilliant liberal editor both fascinated and repelled by the imperial city...Peter's beautiful and self-destructive sister, Enid...her husband, Clay Overbury, a charismatic and ambitious politician...and James Burden Day, the powerful conservative senator. In WASHINGTON, D.C., the incomparable Vidal presents the life of politics and society in the nation's capital in the final stages of "the last empire on Earth."
Author: Gore Vidal Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307784231 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 673
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Lincoln is the cornerstone of Gore Vidal's fictional American chronicle, which includes Burr, 1876, Washington, D.C., Empire, and Hollywood. It opens early on a frozen winter morning in 1861, when President-elect Abraham Lincoln slips into Washington, flanked by two bodyguards. The future president is in disguise, for there is talk of a plot to murder him. During the next four years there will be numerous plots to murder this man who has sworn to unite a disintegrating nation. Isolated in a ramshackle White House in the center of a proslavery city, Lincoln presides over a fragmenting government as Lee's armies beat at the gates. In this profoundly moving novel, a work of epic proportions and intense human sympathy, Lincoln is observed by his loved ones and his rivals. The cast of characters is almost Dickensian: politicians, generals, White House aides, newspapermen, Northern and Southern conspirators, amiably evil bankers, and a wife slowly going mad. Vidal's portrait of the president is at once intimate and monumental, stark and complex, drawn with the wit, grace, and authority of one of the great historical novelists. With a new Introduction by the author.
Author: Gore Vidal Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300105924 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 206
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One of the master stylists of American literature, Gore Vidal now provides us with his uniquely irreverent take on America's founding fathers, bringing them to life at key moments of decision in the birthing of our nation. “Pure Vidal. . . . Inventing a Nation is his edgy tribute to the way we were before the fall.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review “[Vidal offers] details that enliven and . . . reflections on the past that point sharply to today.” —Richard Eder, New York Times “An engaging [and] . . . unblinking view of our national heroes by one who cherishes them, warts and all.”—Edmund S. Morgan, New York Review of Books “[Vidal's] quick wit flickers over the canonical tale of our republic's founding, turning it into a dark and deliciously nuanced comedy of men, manners, and ideas.”—Amanda Heller, Boston Sunday Globe “This entertaining and enlightening reappraisal of the Founders is a must for buffs of American civilization and its discontents.”—Booklist “Gore Vidal . . . still understands American history backwards and forwards as few writers ever have.”—David Kipen, National Public Radio
Author: Gore Vidal Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0375724818 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 482
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The Golden Age is Vidal's crowning achievement, a vibrant tapestry of American political and cultural life from 1939 to 1954, when the epochal events of World War II and the Cold War transformed America, once and for all, for good or ill, from a republic into an empire. The sharp-eyed and sympathetic witnesses to these events are Caroline Sanford, Hollywood actress turned Washington D.C., newspaper publisher, and Peter Sanford, her nephew and publisher of the independent intellectual journal The American Idea. They experience at first hand the masterful maneuvers of Franklin Roosevelt to bring a reluctant nation into the Second World War, and, later, the actions of Harry Truman that commit the nation to a decade-long twilight struggle against Communism—developments they regard with a decided skepticism even though it ends in an American global empire. The locus of these events is Washington D.C., yet the Hollywood film industry and the cultural centers of New York also play significant parts. In addition to presidents, the actual characters who appear so vividly in the pages of The Golden Age include Eleanor Roosevelt, Harry Hopkins, Wendell Willkie, William Randolph Hearst, Dean Acheson, Tennessee Williams, Joseph Alsop, Dawn Powell—and Gore Vidal himself. The Golden Age offers up U.S. history as only Gore Vidal can, with unrivaled penetration, wit, and high drama, allied to a classical view of human fate. It is a supreme entertainment that is not only sure to be a major bestseller but that will also change listeners' understanding of American history and power.
Author: Gore Vidal Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0525565779 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 385
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The third volume of Gore Vidal's magnificent series of historical novels aimed at demythologizing the American past, 1876 chronicles the political scandals and dark intrigues that rocked the United States in its centennial year. ------Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, Aaron Burr's unacknowledged son, returns to a flamboyant America after his long, self-imposed European exile. The narrator of Burr has come home to recoup a lost fortune by arranging a suitable marriage for his beautiful daughter, the widowed Princess d'Agrigente, and by ingratiating himself with Samuel Tilden, the favored presidential candidate in the centennial year. With these ambitions and with their own abundant charms, Schuyler and his daughter soon find themselves at the centers of American social and political power at a time when the fading ideals of the young republic were being replaced by the excitement of empire. ------"A glorious piece of writing," said Jimmy Breslin in Harper's. "Vidal can take history and make it powerful and astonishing." Time concurred: "Vidal has no peers at breathing movement and laughter into the historical past." ------With a new Introduction by the author.
Author: Real Network Publisher: ISBN: 9781494887995 Category : Languages : en Pages : 144
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In Gore Vidal: History of the National Security State & Vidal on America, TRNN Senior Editor Paul Jay and the acclaimed essayist, screenwriter and novelist Gore Vidal discuss the historical events that led to the establishment of the massive military-industrial-security complex and the political culture that gave us the "Imperial Presidency."
Author: Gore Vidal Publisher: Pickle Partners Publishing ISBN: 178625977X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 548
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Master storyteller Gore Vidal’s 1952 classic. The fast and furious hedonistic world of the jet-set commuting between the glamour centres of Europe is the setting for this famous novel by one of the twentieth century’s most remarkable writers. Philip Warren is a personable young American who moves amongst the international demi-gods of wealth and status in search of himself and a future which will satisfy his part cynical, part romantic outlook.
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