Catalog Search Results
Showing Results using Keyword index
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
The first major biography of Benjamin Franklin in more than sixty years, The First American is history on a grand scale -- a work of meticulous scholarship and a thoroughly engaging portrait of the foremost American of his day. Diplomat, scientist, philosopher, businessman, inventor, wit, and bon vivant, Benjamin Franklin was in every respect America's first Renaissance man. The eighteenth-century genius comes to life in this masterwork by acclaimed...
2) Founding partisans: Hamilton, Madison, Jefferson, Adams and the brawling birth of American politics
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"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 parties were an existential threat to republican virtues....
Spelling Suggestions
Didn't find what you want? Here are some alternative spellings that you can try.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request