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Summary: "From one of the most respected historians in America, twice the winner of the Pulitzer Prize, a new collection of essays that reflect a lifetime of erudition and accomplishments in history. The past has always been elusive: how can we understand people whose worlds were utterly different from our own without imposing our own standards and hindsight? What did things feel like in the moment when...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 900 BAIBailyn, Bernard
Summary: "A series of brilliant historical portraits combine to create a self-portrait of one of our greatest historians. With characteristic vitality and brilliance, Bernard Bailyn revisits the major phases of his long, pathbreaking career and offers readers newinsights into history and his distinctive approach to understanding it. From his early work on the New England merchants through his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. W. Norton & Company 2020
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.2 BAIBailyn, Bernard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1986
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.2 BAISummary: "The threat of foreign and domestic corruption; the balance of power between the federal government and the states and the controversial role of the Supreme Court; the danger of an unrestrained president and the potential remedy of impeachment. During the contest to ratify the Constitution America's founding generation wrestled with key questions and challenges that continue to test our nation...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 324.73 ESSSummary: Contains writings, debates, and speeches from 1787-88 expressing views on the United States Constitution, both for and against ratification.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library of America 1993
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1 available in Adult, Call number: SC DEBSummary: Contains writings, debates, and speeches from 1787-88 expressing views on the United States Constitution, both for and against ratification.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 1993