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Summary: A retelling of the presidential election campaign between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson describes the fierce rivalry that was called "America's Second Revolution" and reveals the pivotal roles played by Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2007
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 324.973 LARLarson, Edward J. (Edward John)
Summary: From a Pulitzer Prize winner, a powerful history that reveals how the twin strands of liberty and slavery were joined in the nation's founding.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 LARLarson, Edward J. (Edward John)
Summary: "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian comes a masterful, first-of-its-kind dual biography of Benjamin Franklin and George Washington, illuminating their partnership's enduring importance. 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...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 LARLarson, Edward J. (Edward John)
Summary: The 1800 presidential election, the last great contest of the founding period, was so convulsive and so momentous for American democracy that Jefferson would later dub it "America's second revolution." America's first true presidential campaign gave birth to our two-party system and etched the lines of partisanship that have shaped American politics ever since. The contest featured two of our...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.973 LARLarson, Edward J. (Edward John)
Summary: Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Edward J. Larson recovers a crucially important--yet almost always overlooked--chapter of George Washington's life, revealing how Washington saved the United States by coming out of retirement to lead the Constitutional Convention and serve as our first president.
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WASHINGTON, GEORGE LARLarson, Edward J. (Edward John)
Summary: This course is an enriching examination of the varied elements that so often make this science the object of strong sentiments and heated debate.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 576.82 LARLarson, Edward J. (Edward John)
Summary: Twelve lectures by Edward J. Larson on human evolution.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Co. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 576.82 LARLarson, Edward J. (Edward John)
Summary: "From the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian, an entwined narrative of the most adventurous year of all time, when three expeditions simultaneously raced to the top, bottom, and heights of the world. As 1909 dawned, the greatest jewels of exploration--set at the world's frozen extremes--lay unclaimed: the North and South Poles and the so-called Third Pole, the "pole of altitude," located in...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910 LARLarson, Edward J. (Edward John)
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 2004