Author: Marmaduke MILLERPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 60
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Slavery and the American War. A lecture, etc
Author: Marmaduke MILLERTwo Lectures on the Present American War, etc
Author: Montague BERNARD (Right Hon.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 106
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These Truths: A History of the United States
Author: Jill LeporePublisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393635252
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 733
Book Description
“Nothing short of a masterpiece.” —NPR Books A New York Times Bestseller and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year In the most ambitious one-volume American history in decades, award-winning historian Jill Lepore offers a magisterial account of the origins and rise of a divided nation. Widely hailed for its “sweeping, sobering account of the American past” (New York Times Book Review), Jill Lepore’s one-volume history of America places truth itself—a devotion to facts, proof, and evidence—at the center of the nation’s history. The American experiment rests on three ideas—“these truths,” Jefferson called them—political equality, natural rights, and the sovereignty of the people. But has the nation, and democracy itself, delivered on that promise? These Truths tells this uniquely American story, beginning in 1492, asking whether the course of events over more than five centuries has proven the nation’s truths, or belied them. To answer that question, Lepore wrestles with the state of American politics, the legacy of slavery, the persistence of inequality, and the nature of technological change. “A nation born in contradiction… will fight, forever, over the meaning of its history,” Lepore writes, but engaging in that struggle by studying the past is part of the work of citizenship. With These Truths, Lepore has produced a book that will shape our view of American history for decades to come.
The Last King of America
Author: Andrew RobertsPublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1984879278
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1033
Book Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of Churchill and Napoleon The last king of America, George III, has been ridiculed as a complete disaster who frittered away the colonies and went mad in his old age. The truth is much more nuanced and fascinating--and will completely change the way readers and historians view his reign and legacy. Most Americans dismiss George III as a buffoon--a heartless and terrible monarch with few, if any, redeeming qualities. The best-known modern interpretation of him is Jonathan Groff's preening, spitting, and pompous take in Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway masterpiece. But this deeply unflattering characterization is rooted in the prejudiced and brilliantly persuasive opinions of eighteenth-century revolutionaries like Thomas Paine and Thomas Jefferson, who needed to make the king appear evil in order to achieve their own political aims. After combing through hundreds of thousands of pages of never-before-published correspondence, award-winning historian Andrew Roberts has uncovered the truth: George III was in fact a wise, humane, and even enlightened monarch who was beset by talented enemies, debilitating mental illness, incompetent ministers, and disastrous luck. In The Last King of America, Roberts paints a deft and nuanced portrait of the much-maligned monarch and outlines his accomplishments, which have been almost universally forgotten. Two hundred and forty-five years after the end of George III's American rule, it is time for Americans to look back on their last king with greater understanding: to see him as he was and to come to terms with the last time they were ruled by a monarch.
The elements of commerce, politics and finances, etc. Lectures on the elements of commerce, politics, and finances. Intended as a companion to Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England, etc
Author: Thomas MORTIMER (Vice-Consul for the Austrian Netherlands.)Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: Lectures on Public Health, delivered at the Royal College of Surgeons, etc
Author: Edward Dillon MAPOTHERPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Cobbett's Lectures, Trial, Etc
Author: Officers and Objectives of the N.F.R. Association
Author: New York National Freedman's Relief AssociationPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 32
Book Description
Bulletin of the Public Library of the City of Boston
Author: Boston Public LibraryPublisher:
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Category : Boston (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description