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Adams, John 1735-1826 Franklin, Benjamin 1706-1790 Hamilton, Alexander 1757-1804 Jefferson, Thomas 1743-1826 Politics and government Statesmen Statesmen United States Biography United States United States Politics and government 1861-1865 United States Politics and government 1865-1869Filter By Series
Great courses (DVD)Summary: With the Boston Harbor still stained from over-taxed British tea, a revolution is brewing in the colonies! And now England has thousands of troops headed for America's shores to squelch her subjects' freedom-loving spirit! It's up to John Adams, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson to convince a stubborn congress of British colonists to unite as American patriots turn the inevitable war with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Summary: "In this masterful narrative, historian Winston Groom transports readers to the world of the American Revolution, where bold ideas, improbable events, and three extraordinary characters led to the remarkable birth of the country we know today. When the Revolutionary War ended in victory, there remained a stupendous problem: establishing a workable democratic government in the vast, newly...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books, Inc. 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 973.3092 GROSummary: Volume 1 begins with a look at two of the many crises faced by George Washington during his term as America's first president. At a time when any conflict had the potential to dissolve the fragile union, Washington surrounded himself with brilliant men who were bound by their undying devotion to America, but who were often bitterly divided about how best to serve their common cause. Volume 2...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV FOUOliphant, Thomas
Summary: "A behind-the-scenes, revelatory account of John F. Kennedy's wily campaign to the White House, beginning with his bold, failed attempt to win the vice presidential nomination in 1956. A young and undistinguished junior plots his way to the presidency and changes the way we nominate and elect presidents. John F. Kennedy and his young warriors invented modern presidential politics. They turned...
Format: text
Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.922 OLISummary: "The goal of this course is to illuminate the original foundations of our American civic culture by reenacting the Great Debate, from 1787 to 1788, over ratification of the proposed constitution. We will focus on the most profound intellectual and philosophic levels of the contoversy, centered on the competing republican visions held by the proponents of the constitution (Federalists) and their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2007
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2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342 GRECall number: DVD 342 GRE
Stahr, Walter
Summary: "Walter Stahr, author of the ... bestseller Seward, now tells the amazing story of Lincoln's secretary of war, Edwin Stanton, the most powerful and controversial of the men close to the president. Stanton raised an army of a million men and directed it from his Washington telegraph office, with Lincoln often at his side. He arrested and imprisoned thousands for "war crimes," some serious and...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 STANTON, EDWIN StaBiskupic, Joan
Summary: "Nine Black Robes displays the inner maneuverings among the Supreme Court justices that led to the seismic reversal of Roe v. Wade and a half century of women's abortion rights. Biskupic details how rights are stripped away or, alternatively as in the case of gun owners, how rights are expanded. Today's bench--with its conservative majority--is desperately ideological. The Court has been headed...
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Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 2023