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Founding Fathers of the United States Franklin, Benjamin 1706-1790 Politics and government Presidents United States Biography Statesmen United States Biography United States United States Politics and government 1775-1783 United States Politics and government 1783-1809 United States. United States. Juvenile literatureAbramson, Marcia
Summary: "Everyone knows the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776. But did you know that it took until July 9th for General George Washington to get his hands on it? Explore the extreme history of our nation's birth certificate"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bearport Publishing Company 2021
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Summary: Describes the history of the Declaration of Independence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picture Window Books 2009
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.313 MORFreedman, Russell.
Summary: Describes the events leading up to the Declaration of Independence as well as the personalities and politics behind its framing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.313 FRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Juvenile, Call number: J973.3 FREClay, Kathryn
Summary: Shares facts about the Declaration of Independence, including the work of the First Continental Congress, how the document was shared with the American people, and its various parts.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Capstone Press, a Capstone imprint 2018
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Summary: "This book is about Patrick Henry's famous speech"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Gov DavidSummary: This new look at Founding Fathers such as George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton goes beyond their common depictions as American saints to expose the sometimes selfish motives behind their actions.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Pegasus Books 2023
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Summary: "From bestselling historian and Pulitzer Prize finalist H. W. Brands, a revelatory history of the shocking emergence of vicious political division at the birth of the United States Founding Partisans is a lively narrative of the early years of the republic as the Founding Fathers fought one another with competing visions of what our nation would be. To the framers of the Constitution, political...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Doubleday 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3092 BRAEllis, Joseph J.
Summary: "What would the founders think? We live in a divided America that is currently incapable of sustained argument and is feeling unsure of its destiny. Joseph J. Ellis, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers and the recent best-selling The Quartet, explores anew four of our most prominent founders, in each instance searching for patterns and principles that bring the lamp of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 973.3 ELLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Social Pol EllisMaier, Pauline
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Publisher / Publication Date: Knopf 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.313 MAISchmidt, Maegan.
Summary: Investigates the people involved with and the events leading up to the US Constitution and Bill of Rights.
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Publisher / Publication Date: ABDO Publishing 2013
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 342.029 SCHMiles, David (David W.)
Summary: "Do you know what's actually in the full Declaration of Independence? How it was written? What was happening at the time? How to read the formal language? Don't worry! Because now, in The Side-by-Side Declaration of Independence, kid patriots (and grown-ups alike!) can tackle the Declaration like never before. Decipher the original text of the Declaration on each left-hand page with help from a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bushel & Peck Books 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.313 MILCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.313 MILWood, Gordon S
Summary: "From the great historian of the American Revolution, NYT-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose subsequentfalling out did much to fix its course. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams could scarcely have come from more different worlds, or been more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2017
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1 available in New Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WOOCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 WOOEpstein, Daniel Mark
Summary: Ben Franklin is the most lovable of America’s founding fathers. His wit, his charm, his inventiveness—even his grandfatherly appearance—are legendary. But this image obscures the scandals that dogged him throughout his life. In The Loyal Son, award-winning historian Daniel Mark Epstein throws the spotlight on one of the darker episodes in Franklin’s biography: his complex and confounding...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 EPSStewart, David O.
Summary: "A fascinating and illuminating account of how George Washington became the single most dominant force in the creation of the United States of America, from award-winning author David O. Stewart"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WASHINGTON, GEORGE STEJefferson, Thomas
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Publisher / Publication Date: Modern Library 1993
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 818 JEFIsaacson, Walter.
Summary: Traces the life of Benjamin Franklin, from his days as a runaway printer to his triumphs as a statesman, inventor, and founding father. Chronicles his tumultuous relationship with his illegitimate son and grandson, his practical marriage, and his flirtations with the ladies of Paris.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster Audio 2003
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 921 FRANKLIN, BENJAMIN ISAIsaacson, Walter.
Summary: Chronicles the founding father's life and his multiple careers as a shopkeeper, writer, inventor, media baron, scientist, diplomat, business strategist, and political leader, while showing how his faith in the wisdom of the common citizen helped to forge an American national identity based on the virtues of its middle class.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 FRACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: 921 FRAMcCullough, David G.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADAWood, Gordon S.
Summary: A series of studies of the men who came to be known as the Founding Fathers. Each life is considered in the round, but the thread that binds the work together is the idea of character as a lived reality for these men. For these were men, Wood shows, who took the matter of character very seriously. They were the first generation in history that was self-consciously self-made, men who considered...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US WoodGlover, Lorri
Summary: Explores the family life of the Founding Fathers, providing intimate portraits of the households of such revolutionaries as George Mason, Patrick Henry, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Yale University Press 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 GLOBrumwell, Stephen
Summary: Drawing on a wide range of sources, including original archival research, Stephen Brumwell paints a compelling and challenging portrait of an extraordinary individual whose fusion of gentleman and warrior left an indelible imprint upon history.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WASHINGTON, GEORGE BRUChaffin, Tom
Summary: Thomas Jefferson first met the Marquis de Lafayette in 1781, when the young French-born general was dispatched to Virginia to assist Jefferson, then the state's governor, in fighting off the British. The two could not have seemed more different. When Jefferson moved to Paris three years later as a diplomat, speaking little French and in need of a partner, their friendship began in earnest....
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2019
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 CHAPhillips, Kevin
Summary: In this fresh history of one of America's key turning points, author Kevin Phillips charts how this tumultuous year shaped America's commitment to revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Brilliance Audio 2012