In this shocking and groundbreaking new book, economic historian Burton W. Folsom exposes the idyllic legend of Franklin D. Roosevelt as a myth of ...
On May 18, 1860, William H. Seward, Salmon P. Chase, Edward Bates, and Abraham Lincoln ...
The Real George Washington: The True Story of America s Much Indispensable Man
There is properly no history; only biography, wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson. If this is true of the general run of mankind, it is particularly true of George Washington. The story of his life is the story of the founding of America. His was the dominant ...
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In this great, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life-journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to ...
The Real Thomas Jefferson: The True Story of America s Philosopher of Liberty
Jefferson is the central figure in American history, and...he may yet prove to be the central figure in modern history. So stated noted historian Henry Steele Commager. And as the English novelist Samuel Butler one time wrote, Though God cannot alter ...