Author: R. B. Bernstein
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: reconsidered, fathers, founding
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 2009-05-05
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0195338324
ISBN-13: 9780195338324

Here is a concise, scholarly, yet accessible overview of the brilliant, flawed, and quarrelsome group of lawyers, politicians, merchants, military men, and clergy known as "the Founding Fathers"--who got as close to the ideal of the Platonic "philosopher-kings" as American or world history has ever seen. In The Founding Fathers Reconsidered, R. B. Bernstein reveals Washington, Franklin, Jefferson, Adams, Hamilton, and the other founders not as shining demigods but as imperfect human beings--people much like us--who nevertheless achieved political greatness. They emerge here as men who soug

Author: Michael Patrick Allen
Publisher: Dutton Adult
Keywords: fortunes, founding
Number of Pages: 438
Published: 1988-01-18
List price: $22.50
ISBN-10: 0525245693
ISBN-13: 9780525245698

Author: H . Lloyd Parry
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: school, exeter, founding
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2009-06-04
List price: $20.75
ISBN-10: 111085000X
ISBN-13: 9781110850006

Author: David L. Holmes
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: fathers, founding, faiths
Number of Pages: 240
Published: 2006-05-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 0195300920
ISBN-13: 9780195300925

It is not uncommon to hear Christians argue that America was founded as a Christian nation. But how true is this claim? In this compact book, David L. Holmes offers a clear, concise and illuminating look at the spiritual beliefs of our founding fathers. He begins with an informative account of the religious culture of the late colonial era, surveying the religious groups in each colony. In particular, he sheds light on the various forms of Deism that flourished in America, highlighting the profound influence this intellectual movement had on the founding generation. Holmes then examines

Author: Reese Schonfeld
Publisher: Collins
Keywords: founding, cnn, story, unauthorized, world, ted
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2001-02-05
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0060197463
ISBN-13: 9780060197469

They were the odd couple of broadcast news, destined to alter global communications forever -- to free-for-all of a saga that’s larger than life and more engaging than a major business book has any right to be.1979. Down in Atlanta, Ted Turner was fighting his battles with the networks. Up in New York, Reese Schonfeld was warring with the network journalists. Then they joined forces in a magnificent experiment and, for the next three years, stood shoulder to shoulder and back to back -- until the allies became antagonists, and the unraveling of CNN began.Turner was cable before cable was

Author: Joseph J. Elli
Publisher: Vintage
Keywords: generation, revolutionary, brothers, founding
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2002-02-05
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0375705244
ISBN-13: 9780375705243

In retrospect, it seems as if the American Revolution was inevitable. But was it? In Founding Brothers, Joseph J. Ellis reveals that many of those truths we hold to be self-evident were actually fiercely contested in the early days of the republic. Ellis focuses on six crucial moments in the life of the new nation, including a secret dinner at which the seat of the nation’s capital was determined--in exchange for support of Hamilton’s financial plan; Washington’s precedent-setting Farewell Address; and the Hamilton and Burr duel. Most interesting, perhaps, is the debate (stil

Author: James Srode
Publisher: Regnery Publishing, Inc.
Keywords: father, founding, essential, franklin
Number of Pages: 450
Published: 2002-04-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0895261634
ISBN-13: 9780895261632

Historian and biographer James Srodes argues that without Ben Franklin we would still be British subjects. In this book, Srodes tells Franklin’s incredible life story making full use of the previously neglected Franklin papers to provide the most riveting account yet of the journalist, scientist, politician, and unlikely adventurer. From London, Paris, Philadelphia to his numerous sexual affairs, Franklin’s life becomes a panorama of dramatic history.