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Skousen, W. Cleon (Willard Cleon)

Summary: Discover the 28 Principles of Freedom our Founding Fathers said must be undersood and perpetuated by every people who desire peace, prosperity, and freedom. Learn how adherence to these belifs during the past 200 years has brought about more progress than was made in the previous 5000 years.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: National Center for Constitutional Studies 2009

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 342.73 SKO

Schiff, Stacy

1 hold on 6 copies

Summary: "Thomas Jefferson asserted that if there was any leader of the Revolution, "Samuel Adams was the man." With high-minded ideals and bare-knuckle tactics, Adams led what could be called the greatest campaign of civil resistance in American history. Stacy Schiff returns Adams to his seat of glory, introducing us to the shrewd and eloquent man who supplied the moral backbone of the American...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown and Company 2022

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADA

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADA

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADAMS, SAMUEL SCH

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: B ADAMS SCH

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Bio Adams

Dershowitz, Alan M.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: John Wiley & Sons 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 322.1097 DER

Pollack, Pam

Summary: Highlights the life and accomplishments of the founding father, from his childhood as an orphan in the West Indies to his role in developing the Constitution and his tragic death in a duel with Aaron Burr.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop, an imprint of Penguin Random House 2017

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 HAM

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET HAMILTON

Berkin, Carol.

Summary: We know and love the story of the American Revolution, from the Declaration of Independence to Cornwallis's defeat. We forget, though, that the Articles of Confederation and our first attempts at self-government were disasters; the post-revolutionary Confederation slipped quickly into factional bickering and economic crisis. In 1787, a group of lawyers and politicians, some famous and others...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harcourt 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.318 BER

Schiff, Stacy

Summary: Thomas Jefferson once asserted that "for depth of purpose, zeal, and sagacity, no man in Congress exceeded, if any equaled, Sam Adams." John Adams called him "the most elegant writer, the most sagacious politician, and celebrated patriot perhaps of all." But in spite of his celebrated status among America's founding fathers as a revolutionary leader, Samuel Adams' life and achievements have...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD BIOGRAPHY ADAMS

Brookhiser, Richard.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 MORRIS, GOUVERNEUR Bro

Bolden, Tonya

Summary: "Before there was Elvis, Chuck Berry, Little Richard, and Johnny Cash, there was Sister Rosetta Tharpe. The godmother of rock & roll started as a little girl from Arkansas with music in her air, in her hair, in her bones, wiggling her toes. With a big guitar in hand and a big voice in her soul, she grew into a rock & roll trailblazer in a time when women were rarely seen rocking out."--Front...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 THA

Brathwaite, Lisa D.

Summary: "The life work of Eunice W. Johnson, co-founder of Ebony magazine and a visionary who championed Black elegance through the Ebony Fashion Fair--a cross-country fashion show fundraiser"--

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Lee & Low Books Inc. 2024

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 JOH

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