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Author: Richard R. Beeman
Publisher: Basic Books (AZ)
Published: 2013-05-07
Total Pages: 530
ISBN-13: 046502629X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes the political, diplomatic, and military challenges faced by the delegates from the 13 colonies at the Continental Congress and how they came together to agree to free themselves from British rule and forge independence for America.
Author: Paul Harvey
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Published: 1975
Total Pages: 44
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Mark Cole
Publisher:
Published: 2007-02
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780595431236
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn July of 1776, the members of the Second Continental Congress were meeting in Philadelphia. After approving the resolution for independence, they adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. In the Declaration, each of the men pledged his life, fortune and sacred honor to the cause of American independence. These are the stories of those men.
Author: William John Bennett
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 440
ISBN-13: 068484138X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe stories, songs, letters, and speeches collected in Our Sacred Honor are an inspiring celebration of American exceptionalism, produced by a collection of exceptional Americans.
Author: Willard Sterne Randall
Publisher: National Geographic Books
Published: 2022-02-08
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 1524745928
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn illuminating financial history of the Founding Fathers, revealing how their personal finances shaped the Constitution and the new nation In 1776, upon the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers concluded America’s most consequential document with a curious note, pledging “our lives, our fortunes and our sacred honor.” Lives and honor did indeed hang in the balance, yet just what were their fortunes? How much did the Founders stand to gain or lose through independence? And what lingering consequences did their respective financial stakes have on liberty, justice, and the fate of the fledgling United States of America? In this landmark account, historian Willard Sterne Randall investigates the private financial affairs of the Founders, illuminating like never before how and why the Revolution came about. The Founders’ Fortunes uncovers how these leaders waged war, crafted a constitution, and forged a new nation influenced in part by their own financial interests. In an era where these very issues have become daily national questions, the result is a remarkable and insightful new understanding of our nation’s bedrock values.
Author: Frederick Douglass
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-06-14
Total Pages: 30
ISBN-13: 3385512875
DOWNLOAD EBOOKReprint of the original, first published in 1876.
Author: Benson John Lossing
Publisher: Tales End Press
Published: 2012-08-06
Total Pages: 453
ISBN-13: 162358017X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe fifty-six signers of America's Declaration of Independence risked their “lives, fortunes, and sacred honor” to found a new country. In this classic work, Benson J. Lossing describes the lives of each of the founding fathers, their greatest achievements, and what impelled them to take such an incredible risk. While some are well known to us – Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, John Hancock – much of the pleasure in this book comes from reading about the lesser-known signers, and about the many challenges they faced throughout their lives in the young United States. Appendices contain Thomas Jefferson's original version of the Declaration, an analysis of its grievances, the subsequent Articles of Confederation and US Constitution, and the offending Stamp Act. This ebook edition includes an active table of contents, reflowable text, and 50 period engravings of the faces and signatures of the signers.
Author: Brion McClanahan
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
Published: 2009-06-30
Total Pages: 370
ISBN-13: 1596980923
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArgues that such figures as George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Ben Franklin laid the foundations of American civil liberty and had a better understanding of problems facing Americans today than the current U.S. Congress.
Author: Denise Kiernan
Publisher: Quirk Books
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1594743304
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents the lives, deaths, and scandals involving the fifty-six signers of the Declaration of Independence, including John Adams, John Hancock, and Thomas Jefferson.
Author: Roger W. Wilkins
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2002-07-12
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9780807009574
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn outspoken participant in the civil rights movement, Roger Wilkins served as Assistant Attorney General during the Johnson administration. In 1972 he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize along with Bernstein and Herblock for his coverage of Watergate. Yet this black man, who has served the United States so well, feels at times an unwelcome guest here. In Jefferson's Pillow, Wilkins returns to America's beginnings and the founding fathers who preached and fought for freedom, even though they owned other human beings and legally denied them their humanity. He asserts that the mythic accounts of the American Revolution have ignored slavery and oversimplified history until the heroes, be they the founders or the slaves in their service, are denied any human complexity. Wilkins offers a thoughtful analysis of this fundamental paradox through his exploration of the lives of George Washington, George Mason, James Madison, and of course Thomas Jefferson. He discusses how class, education, and personality allowed for the institution of slavery, unravels how we as Americans tell different sides of that story, and explores the confounding ability of that narrative to limit who we are and who we can become. An important intellectual history of America's founding, Jefferson's Pillow will change the way we view our nation and ourselves.
