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In The Birth of the Republic, 1763-89, Edmund S. Morgan shows how the challenge of British taxation started Americans on a search for constitutional principles to protect their freedom, and eventually led to the Revolution.
By demonstrating that the founding fathers' political philosophy was not grounded in theory, but rather grew out of their own immediate needs, Morgan paints a vivid portrait of how the founders' own experiences shaped their passionate convictions, and these in turn were incorporated into the Constitution and other governmental documents.
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This pioneering work was the first full-length study of the role black Americans played in the crucial period after the Civil War, when the slaves had been freed and the attempt was made to reconstruct American society. Hailed at the time, Black Reconstruction in America has justly been called a classic.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The textbook you should have had in high school.
- De Saleh en 05-06-18
De: W. E. B. Du Bois, y otros
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers
- De: Brion McClanahan Ph. D.
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 9 h y 25 m
- Versión completa
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Here to rescue the reputations of our Founding Fathers from the plague of modern political correctness is The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Founding Fathers. Author and Professor Brion McClanahan shows how patriots like Franklin, Madison, and Hamilton laid the foundations of American civil liberty and had a better understanding of the problems facing us today than our current Congress.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Highly Recommended
- De Colleen H. en 08-13-09
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Decision in Philadelphia
- The Constitutional Convention of 1787
- De: James Collier, Christopher Collier
- Narrado por: Bronson Pinchot
- Duración: 13 h y 3 m
- Versión completa
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Fifty-five men met in Philadelphia in 1787 to write a document that would create a country and change a world: the Constitution. Here is a remarkable rendering of that fateful time, told with humanity and humor. Decision in Philadelphia is the best popular history of the Constitutional Convention; in it, the life and times of 18th-century America not only come alive, but the very human qualities of the men who framed the document are brought provocatively into focus - casting many of the Founding Fathers in a new light.
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5 out of 5 stars
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excellent book
- De Josh en 09-13-12
De: James Collier, y otros
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The Framers' Coup
- The Making of the United States Constitution
- De: Michael J. Klarman
- Narrado por: Mike Chamberlain
- Duración: 31 h y 45 m
- Versión completa
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Americans revere their Constitution. However, most of us are unaware how tumultuous and improbable the drafting and ratification processes were. As Benjamin Franklin keenly observed, any assembly of men bring with them "all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views." One need not deny that the Framers had good intentions in order to believe that they also had interests.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Context Matters
- De Keith en 03-18-18
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Founding Rivals
- Madison vs. Monroe, the Bill of Rights, and the Election that Saved a Nation
- De: Chris DeRose
- Narrado por: Adam Verner
- Duración: 9 h y 38 m
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In 1789, James Madison and James Monroe ran against each other for Congress-the only time that two future presidents have contested a congressional seat. But what was at stake, as author Chris DeRose reveals in Founding Rivals: Madison vs. Monroe, the Bill of Rights, and the Election That Saved a Nation, was more than personal ambition. This was a race that determined the future of the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, the very definition of the United States of America.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Must for Anyone Interested in the Constitution
- De Garshom L. Arkoff en 07-09-13
De: Chris DeRose
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Plain, Honest Men
- The Making of the American Constitution
- De: Richard Beeman
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 19 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 214
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The Constitutional Convention affected nothing less than a revolution in the nature of the American government. Led by James Madison, a small cohort of delegates devised a plan that would radically alter the balance of power between state and national governments, and then sprung that idea on a largely unsuspecting convention.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Grand Narrative
- De Maddie49 en 10-12-11
De: Richard Beeman
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The Fiery Trial
- Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery
- De: Eric Foner
- Narrado por: Norman Dietz
- Duración: 18 h y 7 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 519
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 428
Eric Foner gives us the definitive history of Abraham Lincoln and the end of slavery in America. Foner's Lincoln emerges as a leader, one whose greatness lies in his capacity for moral and political growth through real engagement with allies and critics alike. This powerful work will transform our understanding of the nation's greatest president and the issue that mattered most.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Great Book about a Monstrous Injustice
- De Cynthia en 07-29-13
De: Eric Foner
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to the Constitution
- De: Kevin R.C. Gutzman
- Narrado por: Tom Weiner
- Duración: 6 h y 34 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 630
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 463
Instead of the system that the Constitution intended, judges have created a system in which bureaucrats and appointed officials make most of the important policies. While the government claims to be a representative republic, somehow hot-button topics from gay marriage to the allocation of Florida's presidential electors always seem to be decided by unelected judges. What gives them the right to decide such issues? The judges say it's the Constitution.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The best PIG to date
- De Matthew Groom en 05-16-08
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How Alexander Hamilton Screwed Up America
- De: Brion McClanahan
- Narrado por: Thomas Rosenfeld
- Duración: 7 h y 39 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 53
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 54
He is the star of a hit Broadway musical, the face on the 10-dollar bill, and a central figure among the founding fathers. But do you really know Alexander Hamilton? Rather than lionize Hamilton, Americans should carefully consider his most significant and ultimately detrimental contribution to modern society: the shredding of the United States Constitution. Connecting the dots between Hamilton's invention of implied powers in 1791 to transgender bathrooms and same-sex marriage today, Brion McClanahan shows the origins of our modern federal leviathan.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Thank You Audible
- De No to Statism en 10-03-18
De: Brion McClanahan
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Freedom National
- The Destruction of Slavery in the United States, 1861-1865
- De: James Oakes
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 18 h y 53 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 40
The consensus view of the Civil War - that it was first and foremost a war to restore the Union, and an antislavery war only later when it became necessary for Union victory - dies here. James Oakes’s groundbreaking history shows how deftly Lincoln and congressional Republicans pursued antislavery throughout the war, pragmatic in policy but steadfast on principle. In the disloyal South the federal government quickly began freeing slaves, immediately and without slaveholder compensation, as they fled to Union lines.
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5 out of 5 stars
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An Excellent Book on an Important and little understood subject
- De AlKami en 12-22-22
De: James Oakes
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Ratification
- The People Debate the Constitution, 1787-1788
- De: Pauline Maier
- Narrado por: Johnny Heller
- Duración: 23 h y 5 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 147
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 108
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 109
When the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia adjourned late in the summer of 1787, the delegates returned to their states to report on the new Constitution, which had to be ratified by specially elected conventions in at least nine states. Pauline Maier recounts the dramatic events of the ensuing debate in homes, taverns, and convention halls, drawing generously on the speeches and letters of founding fathers, both familiar and forgotten, on all sides.
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4 out of 5 stars
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History Always Repeats
- De Howard en 08-27-11
De: Pauline Maier
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The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History
- De: Thomas E. Woods Jr.
- Narrado por: Barrett Whitener
- Duración: 8 h y 4 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 1,512
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,104
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,098
Everything, well, almost everything, you know about American history is wrong because most textbooks and popular history books are written by left-wing academic historians who treat their biases as fact. But fear not; Professor Thomas Woods refutes the popular myths in The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Highly recommended! Not for the faint of heart!
- De RAC en 12-12-05
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The Real Lincoln
- A New Look at Abraham Lincoln, His Agenda, and an Unnecessary War
- De: Thomas J. Dilorenzo
- Narrado por: Charles Constant
- Duración: 8 h y 32 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 485
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Most Americans consider Abraham Lincoln to be the greatest president in history. His legend as the Great Emancipator has grown to mythic proportions as hundreds of books, a national holiday, and a monument in Washington, D.C., extol his heroism and martyrdom. But what if most everything you knew about Lincoln were false? What if, instead of an American hero who sought to free the slaves, Lincoln were in fact a calculating politician who waged the bloodiest war in American history in order to build an empire that rivaled Great Britain's?
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1 out of 5 stars
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OpEd Disguised as History
- De John McDowell en 10-30-18
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A Leap in the Dark
- The Struggle to Create the American Republic
- De: John Ferling
- Narrado por: Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff
- Duración: 23 h y 50 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 77
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It was an age of fascinating leaders and difficult choices, of grand ideas eloquently expressed and of epic conflicts bitterly fought. Now comes a brilliant portrait of the American Revolution, one that is compelling in its prose, fascinating in its details, and provocative in its fresh interpretations.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Loved every minute!
- De Richard en 03-03-15
De: John Ferling
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The Cause
- The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783
- De: Joseph J. Ellis
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George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction. At the time, no one called it the “American Revolution”: Former colonists still regarded themselves as Virginians or Pennsylvanians, not Americans, while John Adams insisted that the British were the real revolutionaries, for attempting to impose radical change without their colonists’ consent. With The Cause, Ellis takes a fresh look at the events between 1773 and 1783.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Modest history primer, wished for more substance
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His Excellency
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Acclaimed author Joseph J. Ellis penned the National Book Award-winning American Sphinx and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers, a fixture on The New York Times best seller list for an entire year, and one of the most popular history books of all time. Now this master historian turns his attention to the most exalted American hero, Founding Father and first President George Washington.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Ellis is a known liar
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American Slavery, American Freedom
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"If it is possible to understand the American paradox, the marriage of slavery and freedom, Virginia is surely the place to begin," writes Edmund S. Morgan in American Slavery, American Freedom, a study of the tragic contradiction at the core of America. Morgan finds the key to this central paradox in the people and politics of the state that was both the birthplace of the revolution and the largest slaveholding state in the country.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Explaining the great American contradiction
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Civil War of 1812
- American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels, & Indian Allies
- De: Alan Taylor
- Narrado por: Andrew Garman
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor tells the riveting story of a war that redefined North America. In a world of double identities, slippery allegiances, and porous borders, the leaders of the American Republic and the British Empire struggled to control their own diverse peoples. Taylor’s vivid narrative of an often brutal—sometimes farcical—war reveals much about the tangled origins of the United States and Canada.
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5 out of 5 stars
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A proper history of an obscure epoch
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Crucible of War
- The Seven Years' War and the Fate of Empire in British North America, 1754-1766
- De: Fred Anderson
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In this vivid and compelling narrative, the Seven Years' War - long seen as a mere backdrop to the American Revolution - takes on a whole new significance. Relating the history of the war as it developed, Anderson shows how the complex array of forces brought into conflict helped both to create Britain's empire and to sow the seeds of its eventual dissolution. Beginning with a skirmish in the Pennsylvania backcountry involving an inexperienced George Washington, the Iroquois chief Tanaghrisson, and the ill-fated French emissary Jumonville, Anderson reveals a chain of events that would lead to world conflagration.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A Detailed History
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Power and Liberty
- Constitutionalism in the American Revolution
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The half century extending from the imperial crisis between Britain and its colonies in the 1760s to the early decades of the new republic of the United States was the greatest and most creative era of constitutionalism in American history, and perhaps in the world. During these decades, Americans explored and debated all aspects of politics and constitutionalism - the nature of power, liberty, representation, rights, the division of authority between different spheres of government, sovereignty, judicial authority, and written constitutions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Thanks!
- De Emma Waney en 05-08-24
De: Gordon S. Wood
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The Cause
- The American Revolution and Its Discontents, 1773-1783
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George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction. At the time, no one called it the “American Revolution”: Former colonists still regarded themselves as Virginians or Pennsylvanians, not Americans, while John Adams insisted that the British were the real revolutionaries, for attempting to impose radical change without their colonists’ consent. With The Cause, Ellis takes a fresh look at the events between 1773 and 1783.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Modest history primer, wished for more substance
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His Excellency
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Acclaimed author Joseph J. Ellis penned the National Book Award-winning American Sphinx and the Pulitzer Prize-winning Founding Brothers, a fixture on The New York Times best seller list for an entire year, and one of the most popular history books of all time. Now this master historian turns his attention to the most exalted American hero, Founding Father and first President George Washington.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Ellis is a known liar
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American Slavery, American Freedom
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"If it is possible to understand the American paradox, the marriage of slavery and freedom, Virginia is surely the place to begin," writes Edmund S. Morgan in American Slavery, American Freedom, a study of the tragic contradiction at the core of America. Morgan finds the key to this central paradox in the people and politics of the state that was both the birthplace of the revolution and the largest slaveholding state in the country.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Explaining the great American contradiction
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De: Edmund S. Morgan
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Civil War of 1812
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- De: Alan Taylor
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Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Alan Taylor tells the riveting story of a war that redefined North America. In a world of double identities, slippery allegiances, and porous borders, the leaders of the American Republic and the British Empire struggled to control their own diverse peoples. Taylor’s vivid narrative of an often brutal—sometimes farcical—war reveals much about the tangled origins of the United States and Canada.
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A Detailed History
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The half century extending from the imperial crisis between Britain and its colonies in the 1760s to the early decades of the new republic of the United States was the greatest and most creative era of constitutionalism in American history, and perhaps in the world. During these decades, Americans explored and debated all aspects of politics and constitutionalism - the nature of power, liberty, representation, rights, the division of authority between different spheres of government, sovereignty, judicial authority, and written constitutions.
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De: Gordon S. Wood
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The American Revolution
- A History [Modern Library Chronicles]
- De: Gordon S. Wood
- Narrado por: Jack Garrett
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The American Revolution signalled a great change in the course of world history and progress. From this colonial revolt sprouted ideals of liberty and democracy, and all the aspirations and ambitions of a new people. In this work, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Gordon S. Wood discusses the character and consequences of the revolution, grounding the events and ideas that shaped the American consciousness.
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5 out of 5 stars
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The foremost scholar on the subject
- De Robert en 08-20-05
De: Gordon S. Wood
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Founding Brothers
- The Revolutionary Generation (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
- De: Joseph J. Ellis
- Narrado por: Bob Walter
- Duración: 12 h y 31 m
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An illuminating study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the American republic - John Adams, Aaron Burr, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and George Washington.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great!
- De Gotta Tellya en 08-10-16
De: Joseph J. Ellis
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American Colonies: The Settling of North America
- Penguin History of the United States, Book 1
- De: Alan Taylor
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 21 h y 54 m
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In the first volume in the Penguin History of the United States series, edited by Eric Foner, Alan Taylor challenges the traditional story of colonial history by examining the many cultures that helped make America, from the native inhabitants from millennia past through the decades of Western colonization and conquest and across the entire continent, all the way to the Pacific coast.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent ..
- De aintbuyinit en 09-03-18
De: Alan Taylor
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The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution: 1763-1789
- De: Robert Middlekauff
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The first book to appear in the illustrious Oxford History of the United States, this critically-acclaimed volume - a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize - offers an unsurpassed history of the Revolutionary War and the birth of the American republic.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Strong History Rich With Behind The Scenes Details
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American Sphinx
- The Character of Thomas Jefferson
- De: Joseph J. Ellis
- Narrado por: Susan O'Malley
- Duración: 15 h
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For a man who insisted that life on the public stage was not what he had in mind, Thomas Jefferson certainly spent a great deal of time in the spotlight. Historian Joseph J. Ellis sifts the facts shrewdly from the legends and the rumors, treading a path between vilification and hero worship in order to formulate a plausible portrait of the man who still today "hover[s] over the political scene like one of those dirigibles cruising above a crowded football stadium, flashing words of inspiration to both teams".
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3 out of 5 stars
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So: they did the DNA and … time to change appendix
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Anne Boleyn & Elizabeth I
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Anne Boleyn may be best known for losing her head, but as Tudor expert Tracy Borman reveals in a book that recasts British history, her greatest legacy lies in the path-breaking reign of her daughter, Elizabeth.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Brimming with Inaccuracies
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De: Tracy Borman
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Empress of the Nile
- The Daredevil Archaeologist Who Saved Egypt's Ancient Temples from Destruction
- De: Lynne Olson
- Narrado por: Lisa Flanagan
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In the 1960s, the world’s attention was focused on a nail-biting race against time: the international campaign to save a dozen ancient Egyptian temples from drowning in the floodwaters of the gigantic new Aswan High Dam. But the coverage of this unprecedented rescue effort completely overlooked the daring French archaeologist who made it all happen. Without the intervention of Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt, the temples—including the Temple of Dendur, now at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art—would currently be at the bottom of a vast reservoir.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Interesting but annoying
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De: Lynne Olson
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Into the Bright Sunshine
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- De: Samuel G. Freedman
- Narrado por: Mike Lenz
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During one sweltering week in July 1948, the Democratic Party gathered in Philadelphia for its national convention. The most pressing and controversial issue facing the delegates was not whom to nominate for president—the incumbent, Harry Truman, was the presumptive candidate—but whether the Democrats would finally embrace the cause of civil rights and embed it in their official platform. On the convention's final day, Hubert Humphrey, the relatively obscure mayor of the midsized city of Minneapolis, ascended the podium.
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Civil Rights for All not just limited segments of society.
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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
- De: Ian W. Toll
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On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss. Pacific Crucible tells the epic tale of these first searing months of the Pacific war, when the U.S. Navy shook off the worst defeat in American military history and seized the strategic initiative.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Legacy of Ashes
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- De: Tim Weiner
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 21 h y 37 m
- Versión completa
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General4 out of 5 stars 4,513
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 2,790
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 2,774
This is the book the CIA does not want you to read. For the last 60 years, the CIA has maintained a formidable reputation in spite of its terrible record, never disclosing its blunders to the American public. It spun its own truth to the nation while reality lay buried in classified archives. Now, Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times reporter Tim Weiner offers a stunning indictment of the CIA, a deeply flawed organization that has never deserved America's confidence.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Flawed but Important
- De Michael en 07-18-08
De: Tim Weiner
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1776
- De: David McCullough
- Narrado por: David McCullough
- Duración: 11 h y 33 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 19,049
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 14,502
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 14,429
In this stirring audiobook, David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence, when the whole American cause was riding on their success, without which all hope for independence would have been dashed and the noble ideals of the Declaration would have amounted to little more than words on paper.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Front Seat on History
- De Mark en 10-22-05
De: David McCullough
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The House of Rothschild, Volume 1
- Money's Prophets: 1798-1848
- De: Niall Ferguson
- Narrado por: Alexander Adams
- Duración: 28 h y 11 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 249
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 217
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 215
In his rich and nuanced portrait of the remarkable, elusive Rothschild family, Niall Ferguson uncovers the secrets behind the family's phenomenal economic success. He reveals for the first time the details of the family's vast political network, which gave it access to and influence over many of the greatest statesmen of the age. And he tells a family saga, tracing the importance of unity and the profound role of Judaism in the lives of a dynasty that rose from the confines of the Frankfurt ghetto and later used its influence to assist oppressed Jews throughout Europe.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Great research, poor narrative
- De Amaze en 04-30-19
De: Niall Ferguson
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