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Bound for Canaan: The Epic Story of the Underground Railroad, America's First Civil Rights Movement

By: Fergus M. Bordewich

Price: $14.99

Publisher: Amistad: February 2006

Seller ID: 97437

ISBN: 0060524316

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

An important book of epic scope on America's first racially integrated, religiously inspired movement for change

The civil war brought to a climax the country's bitter division. But the beginnings of slavery's denouement can be traced to a courageous band of ordinary Americans, black and white, slave and free, who joined forces to create what would come to be known as the Underground Railroad, a movement that occupies as romantic a place in the nation's imagination as the Lewis and Clark expedition. The true story of the Underground Railroad is much more morally complex and p...
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My Mother's Ghost: A Courageous Woman, a Son's Love, and the Power of Memory

By: Fergus M. Bordewich

Price: $12.95

Publisher: Anchor: February 2002

Seller ID: 229788

ISBN: 0385491301

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - LikeNew

LaVerne Madigan led an extraordinary life. In an era when few women even worked outside the home, La Verne was the executive director of the only major national rights advocacy group for American Indians at the time. Brilliant, beautiful, stylish, and independent, she worked tirelessly for what she believed in and inspired those who knew her. Perhaps no one as much as her young son, Fergus Bordewich.
One morning when Fergus was fourteen, he and his mother went riding, which they did often. It was the last time he saw her alive. Attempting to jump from her runaway horse, LaVerne fell under t...
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The First Congress: How James Madison, George Washington, and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government

By: Fergus M. Bordewich

Price: $12.98

Publisher: Simon & Schuster: February 2017

Seller ID: 204886

ISBN: 1451692110

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

This "fascinating" (Chicago Tribune), "lively" (The New York Times) history tells how the First Congress and the Washington administration created one of the most productive and far-reaching governments in American history--"gracefully written...and well worth reading" (The Wall Street Journal).

The First Congress may have been the most important in American history because it established how our government would work. The Constitution was a broad set of principles that left undefined the machinery of government. Fortunately, far-sighted, brilliant, and determined men ...
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