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American Creation: Triumphs and Tragedies at the Founding of the Republic

By: Joseph J. Ellis

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Random House Audio: October 2007

Seller ID: 257903

ISBN: 0739331922

Binding: Audio CD

Condition: Used - VeryGood

From the first shots fired at Lexington to the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase, Joseph J. Ellis guides us through the decisive issues of the nation's founding, and illuminates the emerging philosophies, shifting alliances, and personal and political foibles of our now iconic leaders-Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, and Adams. He casts an incisive eye on the founders' achievements, arguing that the American Revolution was, paradoxically, an evolution-and that part of what made it so extraordinary was the gradual pace at which it...
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

By: Joseph J. Ellis

Price: $2.25

Publisher: Vintage: February 2002

Seller ID: 174702

ISBN: 0375705244

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Acceptable

In this landmark work of history, the National Book Award--winning author of "American Sphinx "explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed individuals-Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison-confronted the overwhelming challenges before them to set the course for our nation. The United States was more a fragile hope than a reality in 1790. During the decade that followed, the Founding Fathers-re-examined here as Founding Brothers-combined the ideals of the Declaration of Independence with the content of the Constitution to create the practical worki...
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Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

By: Joseph J. Ellis

Price: $5.95

Publisher: Vintage: February 2002

Seller ID: 199707

ISBN: 0375705244

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation

By: Joseph J. Ellis

Price: $4.95

Publisher: Vintage: February 2002

Seller ID: 228098

ISBN: 0375705244

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

His Excellency: George Washington

By: Joseph J. Ellis

Price: $7.98

Publisher: Vintage: November 2005

Seller ID: 123122

ISBN: 1400032539

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

National Bestseller To this landmark biography of our first president, Joseph J. Ellis brings the exacting scholarship, shrewd analysis, and lyric prose that have made him one of the premier historians of the Revolutionary era. Training his lens on a figure who sometimes seems as remote as his effigy on Mount Rushmore, Ellis assesses George Washington as a military and political leader and a man whose "statue-like solidity" concealed volcanic energies and emotions. Here is the impetuous young officer whose miraculous survival in combat half-convinced him that he could not be killed. ...
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His Excellency: George Washington

By: Joseph J. Ellis

Price: $10.98

Publisher: Vintage: November 2005

Seller ID: 127633

ISBN: 1400032539

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: New - New

His Excellency: George Washington

By: Joseph J. Ellis

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Knopf: October 2004

Seller ID: 257580

ISBN: 1400040310

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

The author of seven highly acclaimed books, Joseph J. Ellis has crafted a landmark biography that brings to life in all his complexity the most important and perhaps least understood figure in American history, George Washington. With his careful attention to detail and his lyrical prose, Ellis has set a new standard for biography. Drawing from the newly""catalogued Washington papers at the University of Virginia, Joseph Ellis paints a full portraitof George Washington's life and career-from his military years through his two terms as president. Ellis illuminates the difficulties the first...
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Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams

By: Joseph J. Ellis

Price: $7.98

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company: August 2001

Seller ID: 96116

ISBN: 0393311333

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A fresh look at this astute, likably quirky statesman, by the author of the Pulitzer Award-winning Founding Brothers and the National Book Award winning American Sphinx. "The most lovable and most laughable, the warmest and possibly the wisest of the founding fathers, John Adams knew himself as few men do and preserved his knowledge in a voluminous correspondence that still resonates. Ellis has used it with great skill and perception not only to bring us the man, warts and all, but more importantly to reveal his extraordinary insights into the problems confronting the founders that resonate to...
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Revolutionary Summer: The Birth of American Independence

By: Ellis, Joseph J.

Price: $8.95

Publisher: Knopf: June 2013

Seller ID: 243968

ISBN: 0307701220

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - VeryGood

A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning American historian, Joseph Ellis. The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country's founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed to secede from the British Empire, the British were dispatching the largest armada ever to cross the Atlantic to crush the rebellion in the cradle. The Continental Congress and the Continental Army were forced to make decisions on the run, improvising as history congealed around them. In a brilliant and s...
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