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Feiler, Bruce America's Prophet: Moses And The American Story William Morrow & Co. 2009 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1172073. ISBN #0060574887 / 9780060574888. (filed under: American History ) *
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Ferling, John A Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic Oxford University Press, USA 2003 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1188152. ISBN #0195159241 / 9780195159240. (filed under: American History ) *
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Ferling, John Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in The War Of Independence Oxford University Press 2007 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1172140. ISBN #0195181212 / 9780195181210. (filed under: American History ) *
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Ferling, John Almost a Miracle: The American Victory in The War Of Independence Oxford University Press 2007 hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1172140. ISBN #0195181212 / 9780195181210. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary In this gripping chronicle of America's struggle for independence, award-winning historian John Ferling transports readers to the grim realities of that war, capturing an eight-year conflict filled with heroism, suffering, cowardice, betrayal, and fierce dedication. As Ferling demonstrates, it was a war that America came much closer to losing than is now usually remembered. General George Washington put it best when he said that the American victory was "little short of a standing miracle." Almost a Miracle offers an illuminating portrait of America's triumph, offering vivid descriptions of all the major engagements, from the first shots fired on Lexington Green to the surrender of General Cornwallis at Yorktown, revealing how these battles often hinged on intangibles such as leadership under fire, heroism, good fortune, blunders, tenacity, and surprise. The author paints sharp-eyed portraits of the key figures in the war, including General Washington and other American officers and civilian leaders. Some do not always measure up to their iconic reputations, including Washington himself. Others, such as the quirky, acerbic Charles Lee, are seen in a much better light than usual. The book also examines the many faceless men who soldiered, often for years on end, braving untold dangers and enduring abounding miseries. The author explains why they served and sacrificed, and sees them as the forgotten heroes who won American independence. Ferling's narrative is also filled with compassion for the men who comprised the British army and who, like their American counterparts, struggled and died at an astonishing rate in this harsh war. Nor does Ferling ignore the naval war, describing dangerous patrols and grand and dazzling naval actions. Finally, Almost a Miracle takes readers inside the legislative chambers and plush offices of diplomats to reveal countless decisions that altered the course of this war. The story that unfolds is at times a tale of folly, at times one of appalling misinformation and confusion, and now and then one of insightful and dauntless statesmanship.
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Ferling, John Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic Oxford University Press 2003 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1190573. ISBN #0195159241 / 9780195159240. (filed under: American History ) *
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Ferling, John Leap in the Dark: The Struggle to Create the American Republic Oxford University Press 2003 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1190573. ISBN #0195159241 / 9780195159240. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary 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. In A Leap in the Dark , John Ferling offers a magisterial new history that surges from the first rumblings of colonial protest to the volcanic election of 1800. Ferling's swift-moving narrative teems with fascinating details. We see Benjamin Franklin trying to decide if his loyalty was to Great Britain or to America, and we meet George Washington when he was a shrewd planter-businessman who discovered personal economic advantages to American independence. We encounter those who supported the war against Great Britain in 1776, but opposed independence because it was a "leap in the dark." Following the war, we hear talk in the North of secession from the United States. The author offers a gripping account of the most dramatic events of our history, showing just how closely fought were the struggle for independence, the adoption of the Constitution, and the later battle between Federalists and Democratic-Republicans. Yet, without slowing the flow of events, he has also produced a landmark study of leadership and ideas. Here is all the erratic brilliance of Hamilton and Jefferson battling to shape the new nation, and here too is the passion and political shrewdness of revolutionaries, such as Samuel Adams and Patrick Henry, and their Loyalist counterparts, Joseph Galloway and Thomas Hutchinson. Here as well are activists who are not so well known today, men like Abraham Yates, who battled for democratic change, and Theodore Sedgwick, who fought to preserve the political and social system of the colonial past. Ferling shows that throughout this period the epic political battles often resembled today's politics and the politicians--the founders--played a political hardball attendant with enmities, selfish motivations, and bitterness. The political stakes, this book demonstrates, were extraordinary: first to secure independence, then to determine the meaning of the American Revolution. John Ferling has shown himself to be an insightful historian of our Revolution, and an unusually skillful writer. A Leap in the Dark is his masterpiece, work that provokes, enlightens, and entertains in full measure.
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Ferling, John Whirlwind: The American Revolution and the War That Won It Bloomsbury Press 2015 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Remainder Mark. Book #or1200786. ISBN #1620401746 / 9781620401743. (filed under: American History ) *
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Ferrie, Richard The World Turned Upside Down: George Washington and the Battle of Yorktown Holiday House 1999 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1187474. ISBN #0823414027 / 9780823414024. (filed under: American History ) *
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Fischer, David Hackett Paul Revere's Ride Oxford University Press 1994 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Remnant of sticker removal. Book #or1188649. ISBN #0195098315 / 9780195098310. (keywords: Paul Revere Massachusetts Battle of Concord Battle of Lexington) (filed under: American History ) *
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Fischer, David Hackett Washington's Crossing Oxford University Press 2004 paperback. Crease to the front cover.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1157098. ISBN #019518159X / 9780195181593. (filed under: American History ) *
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Fite, Gilbert C. The Farmers' Frontier 1865-1900 University of New Mexico Press 1977 paperback. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1173552. ISBN #0826303129 / 9780826303127. (filed under: American History ) *
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Flannery, Tim The Eternal Frontier: An Ecological History of North America and Its Peoples Atlantic Monthly Press 2001 hardcover. First Edition. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1201585. ISBN #0871137895 / 9780871137890. (keywords: Ecology American Americans Natural Abbott1122xyz) (filed under: American History ) *
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Fleming, Thomas 1776 : Year of Illusions hardcover. . Some wear from use. Good used book.. Ex-Library Copy. BOOK COND: Used; Good. JACKET COND: Used; Good. Book #or1082938. (filed under: American History ) *
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Fleming, Thomas Ben Franklin: Inventing America Sterling Publishing Co., Inc. 2003 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1177529. ISBN #140274143X / 9781402741432. (filed under: American History ) *
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Foner, Eric The Story of American Freedom W W Norton & Co Inc 1998 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1203104. ISBN #0393046656 / 9780393046656. (filed under: American History ) *
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Foner, Eric The Story of American Freedom W W Norton & Co Inc 1998 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1203104. ISBN #0393046656 / 9780393046656. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Freedom: a promised land, a battleground, America's cultural bond and fault line. The Declaration of Independence lists liberty among mankind's inalienable rights; the Constitution was framed to secure liberty's blessings. The United States bought the Civil War to bring about a new birth of freedom, World War II for the Four Freedoms, and the Cold War to defend the Free World.In Eric Foner's stirring history, freedom's story unfolds through aspiration and sacrifice, its meaning shaped not only in congressional debates and political treatises, but on plantations and picket lines, in parlors and bedrooms. Its cast of characters ranges from Thomas Jefferson to Margaret Sanger to Franklin D. Roosevelt; from former slaves seeking to breathe real meaning into emancipation to the union organizers, freedom riders, and women's rights advocates of our time.This landmark history shows the story of American freedom to be not a mythic saga but a vital, open-ended tale of accomplishment and failure, a record of a people forever contending over the crucial ideas of their political culture.
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Foner, Eric Tom Paine and Revolutionary America Oxford Univ Pr 1979 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1203076. ISBN #0195021827 / 9780195021820. (filed under: American History ) *
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Foner, Eric Voices Of Freedom: a Documentary History (Fourth Edition Volume 2) W.W. Norton & Company 2014 paperback. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1141490. ISBN #0393922928 / 9780393922929. (filed under: American History ) *
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Foreman, Jonathan Pocket Book of Patriotism Sterling Publishing 2005 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1202094. ISBN #1402729901 / 9781402729904. (filed under: American History ) *
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Foreman, Jonathan Pocket Book of Patriotism Sterling Publishing 2005 hardcover. . Clean crisp copy with no markings.. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1202094. ISBN #1402729901 / 9781402729904. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary What does it mean to be a patriot? This U.S companion to the runaway British blockbuster, T he Pocket Book of Patriotism , will tap into our national pride. Written by distinguished journalist and historian Jonathan Foreman along with George Courtauld, the author of the original, this small but richly informative timeline highlights key moments in U.S history, and simultaneous happenings abroad. More than just a list of important dates, it provides memorable quotes and speeches from major figures, excerpts from patriotic songs, and specific U.S. facts and trivia. From the Revolutionary War to Ground Zero, from "Give me liberty or give me death" to "I have a dream," The Pocket Book of Patriotism is instructional and inspirational for every citizen.
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Foreman, Jonathan Pocket Book of Patriotism Sterling Publishing 2005 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1147491. ISBN #1402729901 / 9781402729904. (filed under: American History ) *
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Foreman, Jonathan Pocket Book of Patriotism Sterling Publishing 2005 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1147491. ISBN #1402729901 / 9781402729904. (filed under: American History ) *
stock image, actual book may vary What does it mean to be a patriot? This U.S companion to the runaway British blockbuster, T he Pocket Book of Patriotism , will tap into our national pride. Written by distinguished journalist and historian Jonathan Foreman along with George Courtauld, the author of the original, this small but richly informative timeline highlights key moments in U.S history, and simultaneous happenings abroad. More than just a list of important dates, it provides memorable quotes and speeches from major figures, excerpts from patriotic songs, and specific U.S. facts and trivia. From the Revolutionary War to Ground Zero, from "Give me liberty or give me death" to "I have a dream," The Pocket Book of Patriotism is instructional and inspirational for every citizen.
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Fossum, Robert H. (Editor); Roth, John K. (Editor) American Ground: Vistas, Visions & Revisions Paragon House 1988 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1204133. ISBN #1557781141 / 9781557781147. (filed under: American History ) *
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Fossum, Robert H. (Editor); Roth, John K. (Editor) American Ground: Vistas, Visions & Revisions Paragon House 1988 paperback. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1204133. ISBN #1557781141 / 9781557781147. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Gathers writings by Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, Alexis de Tocqueville, Wa Whitman, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, Edmund Wilson, W.E.B. DuBois, a Adrienne Rich.
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Fox, Frances Wells (one of the authors and who wrote the foreword) Wethersfield and Her Daughters: Glastonbury, Rocky Hill, Newington from 1634 to 1934 The Case, Lockwood & Brainard Co. hardcover. Limited to 800 numbered copies; this copy is 550. Previous owner two-page inscription on front paste down and front end page. Underlining to one page. Some wear from use. Good used book.. BOOK COND: Used; Good. Book #or1165922. (filed under: American History ) *
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Frankel, Max High Noon in the Cold War : Kennedy, Khrushchev, and the Cuban Missile Crisis Ballantine Books 2004 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1151603v1. ISBN #0345465059 / 9780345465054. (filed under: American History ) *
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FRANKLIN (Subject); Isaacson, Walter Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Simon & Schuster 2003 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1181038v1. ISBN #0684807610 / 9780684807614. (filed under: American History ) *
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FRANKLIN (Subject); Isaacson, Walter Benjamin Franklin: An American Life Simon & Schuster 2003 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1181038v1. ISBN #0684807610 / 9780684807614. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings, he seems made of flesh rather than of marble. In bestselling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin seems to turn to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. By bringing Franklin to life, Isaacson shows how he helped to define both his own time and ours. He was, during his 84-year life, America's best scientist, inventor, diplomat, writer, and business strategist, and he was also one of its most practical -- though not most profound -- political thinkers. He proved by flying a kite that lightning was electricity, and he invented a rod to tame it. He sought practical ways to make stoves less smoky and commonwealths less corrupt. He organized neighborhood constabularies and international alliances, local lending libraries and national legislatures. He combined two types of lenses to create bifocals and two concepts of representation to foster the nation's federal compromise. He was the only man who shaped all the founding documents of America: the Albany Plan of Union, the Declaration of Independence, the treaty of alliance with France, the peace treaty with England, and the Constitution. And he helped invent America's unique style of homespun humor, democratic values, and philosophical pragmatism. But the most interesting thing that Franklin invented, and continually reinvented, was himself. America's first great publicist, he was, in his life and in his writings, consciously trying to create a new American archetype. In the process, he carefully crafted his own persona, portrayed it in public, and polished it for posterity. Through it all, he trusted the hearts and minds of his fellow "leather-aprons" more than he did those of any inbred elite. He saw middle-class values as a source of social strength, not as something to be derided. His guiding principle was a "dislike of everything that tended to debase the spirit of the common people." Few of his fellow founders felt this comfort with democracy so fully, and none so intuitively. In this colorful and intimate narrative, Isaacson provides the full sweep of Franklin's amazing life, from his days as a runaway printer to his triumphs as a statesman, scientist, and Founding Father. He chronicles Franklin's tumultuous relationship with his illegitimate son and grandson, his practical marriage, and his flirtations with the ladies of Paris. He also shows how Franklin helped to create the American character and why he has a particular resonance in the twenty-first century.
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FRANkLIN; Morgan, Edmund S. Benjamin Franklin Yale University Press 2002 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1172049. ISBN #0300095325 / 9780300095326. (filed under: American History ) *
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FRANkLIN; Morgan, Edmund S. Benjamin Franklin Yale University Press 2002 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1172049. ISBN #0300095325 / 9780300095326. (filed under: American History ) *
 stock image, actual book may vary Benjamin Franklin is perhaps the most remarkable figure in American history: the greatest statesman of his age, he played a pivotal role in the formation of the American republic. He was also a pioneering scientist, a bestselling author, the country's first postmaster general, a printer, a bon vivant, a diplomat, a ladies' man, and a moralist-and the most prominent celebrity of the eighteenth century. Franklin was, however, a man of vast contradictions, as Edmund Morgan demonstrates in this brilliant biography. A reluctant revolutionary, Franklin had desperately wished to preserve the British Empire, and he mourned the break even as he led the fight for American independence. Despite his passion for science, Franklin viewed his groundbreaking experiments as secondary to his civic duties. And although he helped to draft both the Declaration of Independence and the American Constitution, he had personally hoped that the new American government would take a different shape. Unraveling the enigma of Franklin's character, Morgan shows that he was the rare individual who consistently placed the public interest before his own desires. Written by one of our greatest historians, Benjamin Franklin offers a provocative portrait of America's most extraordinary patriot.
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Fried, Stephen Appetite For America: How Visionary Businessman Fred Harvey Built a Railroad Hospitality Empire That Civilized The Wild West Bantam Books 2010 hardcover. BOOK COND: Used; Very Good. JACKET COND: Used; Very Good. Book #or1143099v1. ISBN #0553804375 / 9780553804379. (filed under: American History ) *
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