Founding Father
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Founding Father
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 2006 P FRANKLIN FOUNDING FATHER SILVER DOLLAR NGC MS69  US $65.00
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 Ben Franklin Founding Father Uncirculated Silver 2006 US $58.50
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Founding Father $13.59 No Synopsis Available |
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John Jay: Founding Father $16.61 John Jay was a central figure in the early history of the American Republic. A New York lawyer, born in 1745, Jay served his country with the greatest distinction and was one of the most influential of its Founding Fathers. In the first full-length biography in almost seventy years, Walter Stahr brings Jay vividly to life, setting his astonishing career against the background of the American Revolution. Drawing on substantial new material, Walter Stahr has written a full and highly readable portrait of both the public and private man. It is the story not only of John Jay himself, the most prominent native-born New Yorker of the eighteenth century, but also of his engaging and intelligent wife, Sarah, who accompanied her husband on his wartime diplomatic missions. This lively and compelling biography presents Jay in the light he deserves: as a major Founding Father, a true national hero, and a leading architect of America's future. > |
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Thomas Jefferson - Founding Father (Biography) $14.56 Thomas Jefferson - Founding Father is the biography of Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. Major historical events that took place during his presidency include the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Thomas Jefferson - Founding Father is highly recommended for those interested in learning about the life and presidency of Thomas Jefferson and his role as an architect of the Declaration of Independence. |
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The Forgotten Founding Father $9.99 Noah Webster's name is now synonymous with the dictionary he created, but his story is not nearly so ubiquitous. Now acclaimed author of The Man Who Made Lists , Joshua Kendall sheds new light on Webster's life, and his far-reaching influence in establishing the American nation. Webster hobnobbed with various Founding Fathers and was a young confidant of George Washington and Ben Franklin. He started New York's first daily newspaper, predating Alexander Hamilton's New York Post . His "blue-backed speller" for schoolchildren sold millions of copies and influenced early copyright law. But perhaps most important, Webster was an ardent supporter of a unified, definitively American culture, distinct from the British, at a time when the United States of America were anything but unified-and his dictionary of American English is a testament to that. |
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The Forgotten Founding Father (Paperback) $22.39 Noah Webster`s name is now synonymous with the dictionary he created, but his story is not nearly so ubiquitous. Now acclaimed author of The Man Who Made Lists, Joshua Kendall sheds new light on Webster`s life, and his far-reaching influence in establishing the American nation. Webster hobnobbed with various Founding Fathers and was a young confidant of George Washington and Ben Franklin. He started New York`s first daily newspaper, predating Alexander Hamilton`s New York Post. His "blue-backed speller" for schoolchildren sold millions of copies and influenced early copyright law. But perhaps most important, Webster was an ardent supporter of a unified, definitively American culture, distinct from the British, at a time when the United States of America were anything but unified-and his dictionary of American English is a testament to that. |
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The Forgotten Founding Father (Hardcover) $45.09 American`s own The Professor and the Madman: a story of Noah Webster, author of American English. Noah Webster`s name is now synonymous with the dictionary he created, but his story is not nearly so ubiquitous. Webster hobnobbed with various Founding Fathers and was a young confidant of George Washington and Ben Franklin. He started America`s first daily newspaper, predating Alexander Hamilton`s New York Post. His "blue-backed speller" for schoolchildren sold millions of copies and influenced early copyright law. But perhaps most important, Webster was an ardent supporter of a unified, definitively American culture, distinct from the British, at a time when the United States of America were anything but unified-and his dictionary of American English is a testament to that. |
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Thomas Jefferson Founding Father (Biography) $20.79 Thomas Jefferson Founding Father is the biography of Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. Major historical events that took place during his presidency include the Louisiana Purchase and the Lewis and Clark Expedition. Thomas Jefferson Founding Father is highly recommended for those interested in learning about the life and presidency of Thomas Jefferson and his role as an architect of the Declaration of Independence. Author: Biographiq Binding Type: Paperback Number of Pages: 92 Publication Date: 2008/02/01 Language: English Dimensions: 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.19 inches |
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The Founding Father (Unabridged) $29.39 Boldly original and fully documented, this unauthorized yet definitive biography tells the almost incredible story of Joseph P. Kennedy.... |
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The Last Founding Father (Unabridged) $17.49 In this lively and compelling biography, Harlow Giles Unger reveals the dominant political figure of a generation.... |
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Founding Father Of Bluegrass Banjo $14.99 Cmh Records:8628 |
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Founding Father of the Bluegrass Banjo $12.99 Track Listing: 1. I'm the Talk of the Town, 2. Dixie Breakdown, 3. Home in the Mountains, 4. Feuding Banjos, 5. I'm Using My Bible for a Roadmap, 6. Follow the Leader, 7. I Know You're Married (But I Love You Still), 8. Charlotte Breakdown, 9. Country Boy Rock & Roll, 10. Five Foot Two Eyes of Blue, 11. Are You Missing Me?, 12. Dear Old Dixie, 13. I Want to Go Back to the Mountains, 14. Reno Ride, 15. One Morning in May, 16. Banjo Signal, 17. Lord's Ladt Supper, The, 18. Cincinnati Rag, 19. Limehouse Blues, 20. Miss Elsie's Place, 21. Skyline Drive, 22. He's Coming Back to Earth Again, 23. Long Gone, 24. Bye Bye Blues, 25. Take Me Along for the Ride |
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The Last Founding Father $26 Award-winning author Harlow Giles Unger recounts the life of James Monroe, who dedicated himself to serving his country and building America’s future. |
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George Washington: The Founding Father $3.95 George Washington is by far the most important figure in the history of the United States. Against all military odds, he liberated the thirteen colonies from the superior forces of the British Empire and presided over the process to produce and ratify a Constitution that (suitably amended) has lasted for more than two hundred years. In two terms as president, he set that Constitution to work with such success that, by the time he finally retired, America was well on its way to becoming the richest and most powerful nation on earth. Despite his importance, Washington remains today a distant figure to many Americans. Previous books about him are immensely long, multivolume, and complicated. Paul Johnson has now produced a brief life that presents a vivid portrait of the great man as young warrior, masterly commander-in-chief, patient Constitution maker, and exceptionally wise president. He also shows Washington as a farmer of unusual skill and an entrepreneur of foresight, patriarch of an extended family, and proprietor of one of the most beautiful homes in America, which he largely built and adorned. Trenchant and original as ever, Johnson has given us a brilliant, sharply etched portrait of this iconic figure--both as a hero and as a man. |
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Franklin: The Essential Founding Father $3.95 Historian and biographer James 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. |
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The Last Founding Father (Paperback) $32.73 Description not available. |
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George Washington : The Founding Father $11.89 No Synopsis Available |
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George Washington Founding Father $17.18 Rated: NASynopsis: He was a gentleman farmer from Virginia, a brilliant and bold tactician who proved equally adept at leading men into battle and a young nation into the future.From his youth of privilege to his inauguration as the nation's first president, here is George Washington's remarkable life. Exploring the truths, exploding the myths, it's the portrait of a man who first distinguished himself in the British forces, before creating the army that would ultimately defeat them. His was the pivotal role in establishing the modern world's first nation with neither a king nor an emperor.This is a stirring look at the American hero who remains -- in the words of Henry Lee -- "First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen." |
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Thomas Jefferson - Founding Father $9.74 No Synopsis Available |
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Gallatin: America's Swiss Founding Father $21.4 You won't find his portrait on our currency any more and his signature isn't penned on the Constitution, but former statesman Albert Gallatin (1761-1849) contributed immeasurably to the formation of America. Gallatin was first president of the council of New York University and his name lives on at NYU's Gallatin School of Individualized Study, so it is with pride that New York University Press and the Swiss Confederation publish this new biography of Gallatin. Gallatin's story is the opposite of the classic American immigrant tale. Born in Geneva, the product of an old and noble family and highly educated in the European tradition, Gallatin made contributions to America throughout his career that far outweighed any benefit he procured for himself. He got his first taste of politics as a Pennsylvania state representative and went on to serve in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Gallatin became the Secretary of Treasury in Jefferson's administration and, despite being of the opposite political party to Alexander Hamilton, Gallatin fully respected his predecessor's fiscal politics. Gallatin undertook a special diplomatic mission for President Madison, which ended the War of 1812 with the signing of the Treaty of Ghent and gave the United States its genuine independence. Gallatin continued in diplomacy as minister to France and to Great Britain, where he skillfully combined his American experience and European background. In the early 1830s, at the age of seventy, he retired from politics and commenced a new career in New York City as a banker, public figure, and intellectual. He helped establish New York University and the American Ethnological Society, became an expert in Native American ethnology and linguistics, and served as president of the New-York Historical Society. Gallatin died at age 88 and is buried in Trinity churchyard at Broadway and Wall Street. In our own day, as we look at reforming our financial system and seek to enhance America's global image, it is well worth resurrecting Albert Gallatin's timeless contributions to the United States, at home and abroad. Nicholas Dungan's compelling biography reinserts this forgotten Founding Father into the historical canon and reveals the transatlantic dimensions of early American history. Co-published with the Swiss Confederation, Federal Department of Foreign Affairs. |
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Women Sit Below Statue of Founding Father Samuel Chapin $39.99 B. Anthony Stewart Women Sit Below Statue of Founding Father Samuel Chapin - Photographic Print |
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Johan Van Oldenbarnevelt Dutch Statesman a Founding Father of Dutch Independence $49.99 Johan Van Oldenbarnevelt Dutch Statesman a Founding Father of Dutch Independence - Giclee Print |
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Founding Gardeners $14.99 From the author of the acclaimed The Brother Gardeners, a fascinating look at the founding fathers from the unique and intimate perspective of their lives as gardeners, plantsmen, and farmers. For the founding fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions, as deeply ingrained in their characters as their belief in liberty for the nation they were creating. Andrea Wulf reveals for the first time this aspect of the revolutionary generation. She describes how, even as British ships gathered off Staten Island, George Washington wrote his estate manager about the garden at Mount Vernon; how a tour of English gardens renewed Thomas Jefferson’s and John Adams’s faith in their fledgling nation; how a trip to the great botanist John Bartram’s garden helped the delegates of the Constitutional Congress break their deadlock; and why James Madison is the forgotten father of American environmentalism. These and other stories reveal a guiding but previously overlooked ideology of the American Revolution. Founding Gardeners adds depth and nuance to our understanding of the American experiment and provides us with a portrait of the founding fathers as they’ve never before been seen. From the Hardcover edition. |
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Founding Of America $13.73 Rated: NASynopsis: They are the pioneers of America, some of the nation's most recognizable faces, the men responsible for the creation of the United States. In-depth portraits of the country s most prominent statesmen, including the secrets they shared and the legacies they left behind, make up this comprehensive collection of documentaries from HISTORY. From the extraordinary cast of characters, including John Hancock and Sam Adams, who brought a dazzling array of talent and genius to the fight for independence, to George Washington, a warrior whose epic journey to greatness led to the birth of a nation, THE FOUNDING OF AMERICA offers a comprehensive look at the revolutionary men responsible for laying the foundation of the United States. Topics covered in this engaging collection include the conflicts and controversies that shook the first presidential administration, the ruthlessly competitive spirit of founding father Benjamin Franklin, and the intimate connections of the country's founders with Freemasonry. |
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The Forgotten Founding Father By Kendall, Joshua $29.77 Chronicles of the story of the first AmericanEnglish dictionarys creator, revealing his close associations with George Washington and Ben Franklin as well as his authorship of an influential school primer and advocacy of a distinct American culture. 25,000 first printing. Author: Kendall, Joshua Subtitle: Noah Websters Obsession and the Creation of an American Culture Publication Date: 2011/04/14 Number of Pages: 355 Binding Type: Hardcover Language: English Depth: 1.25 Width: 6.50 Height: 9.50 |
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Gallatin : American's Swiss Founding Father $20.91 No Synopsis Available |
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John Rolfe: Famous Founding Father $2.88 No Synopsis Available |
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Charles Cotesworth Pinckney : Founding Father $39 No Synopsis Available |
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James Wilson : Founding Father, 1742-1798 $48.75 No Synopsis Available |
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Founding Faith $12.99 The culture wars have distorted the dramatic story of how Americans came to worship freely. Many activists on the right maintain that the United States was founded as a “Christian nation.” Many on the left contend that the Founders were secular or Deist and that the First Amendment was designed to boldly separate church and state throughout the land. None of these claims are true, argues Beliefnet.com editor in chief Steven Waldman. With refreshing objectivity, Waldman narrates the real story of how our nation’s Founders forged a new approach to religious liberty, a revolutionary formula that promoted faith . . . by leaving it alone. This fast-paced narrative begins with earlier settlers’ stunningly unsuccessful efforts to create a Christian paradise, and concludes with the presidencies of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison, during which the men who had devised lofty principles regarding the proper relationship between church and state struggled to practice what they’d preached. We see how religion helped cause, and fuel, the Revolutionary War, and how the surprising alliance between Enlightenment philosophers such as Jefferson and Madison and evangelical Christians resulted in separation of church and state. As the drama unfolds, Founding Faith vividly describes the religious development of five Founders. Benjamin Franklin melded the morality-focused Puritan theology of his youth and the reason-based Enlightenment philosophy of his adulthood. John Adams’s pungent views on religion–hatred of the Church of England and Roman Catholics–stoked his revolutionary fervor and shaped his political strategy. George Washington came to view religious tolerance as a military necessity. Thomas Jefferson pursued a dramatic quest to “rescue” Jesus, in part by editing the Bible. Finally, it was James Madison–the tactical leader of the battle for religious freedom–who crafted an integrated vision of how to prevent tyranny while encouraging religious vibrancy. The spiritual custody battle over the Founding Fathers and the role of religion in America continues today. Waldman provocatively argues that neither side in the culture war has accurately depicted the true origins of the First Amendment. He sets the record straight, revealing the real history of religious freedom to be dramatic, unexpected, paradoxical, and inspiring. An interactive library of the key writings by the Founding Father, on separation of church and state, personal faith, and religious liberty can be found at www.beliefnet.com/foundingfaith. |
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Forgotten Founding Father: The Heroic Legacy of George Whitefield $15.08 For many of those who are even familiar with his name, George Whitfield is thought of as a preacher, a man connected with the Great Awakening in the 1700s. While this is true, it is only part of the story. As a student at Oxford University, he experienced a spiritual awakening under the influence of John Wesley's Methodists and immediately began tending to prisoners, caring for the poor, and preaching the Christian gospel. He met with astounding success, in time speaking to larger crowds than had ever gathered in the history of England. Whitefield became the most famous man of his age. His impact upon the American colonies, however, may have been his most lasting gift. In seven tours of the colonies, Whitfield preached from Georgia to Maine, calling the colonists to spiritual conversion and challenging them in their sense of national destiny. He befriended men like Benjamin Franklin, converted men like Patrick Henry, and inspired men like George Washington. Furthermore, when he learned that England intended to tighten her control over the colonies, Whitefield warmed his American friends in sermon after sermon and even accompanied Benjamin Franklin to make the American case in the Court of Saint James. Many of the colonists considered him the father of their revolution. Forgotten Founding Father captures the early struggles and international successes of this amazing leader. The result is a portrait of a gifted but flawed human who yielded himself as a tool in the hands of a sovereign God. Also portrayed is how important Whitfield was to the American cause and how much Americans today owe to him -- a story that will inspire a new generation with a past vividly and truthfully retold. |
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Founding Father: The Lost Federalist Essays of Colonel Erasmus Milton $17.98 How does one deal with the eccentricities of a walking, breathing piece of history? What would you do if confronted with evidence that you had discovered a "Founding Father" and his lost essays, both of which were nearly 250 years old? For the author, Professor Robert Sielschott, just such a discovery led to a year and a half of living with history itself. In his book Founding Father, you will be enchanted by the life and wisdom of Colonel Erasmus Milton, who while ignored by history participated in every pivotal event of the founding of the nation. His life, adventures, and wonderful "Tacitus Essays" may well define for you the meaning of the title Founding Father. Here are samples of the rediscovered wisdom found in Colonel Milton's amazing "Tacitus Essays;" . "Who can doubt that the decline in national morality and our judiciary's war against religion have not corresponded?" . "We are all Americans, all of us from somewhere else, and whether on the Mayflower itself or in the belly of a wretched slave ship, we are better off for our ancestors having come here." . "For no man is free who must depend upon the government for his daily bread." . "There may be no greater good to society than the coupling of an honorable man and woman in the creation of this wellspring of good citizens we call 'family.'" . "It seems at times our Judges leave the loving bosom of their spouse 'The Law, ' and sleep instead with the harlots of personal opinion and public political approval." . "What could be more heartless than to convert our government to a giant wet nurse, then addict the people to her milk laden breasts. Having destroyed not just our ability to earn our own way with work and merit, but evenour desire to do so, can she not then order us about like a dominating, all powerful bitch?" |
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Founding Gardeners By Wulf, Andrea $32.11 From the author of the acclaimed The Brother Gardeners, a fascinating look at the founding fathers from the unique and intimate perspective of their lives as gardeners, plantsmen, and farmers. For the founding fathers, gardening, agriculture, and botany were elemental passions, as deeply ingrained in their characters as their belief in liberty for the nation they were creating. Andrea Wulf reveals for the first time this aspect of the revolutionary generation. She describes how, even as British ships gathered off Staten Island, George Washington wrote his estate manager about the garden at Mount Vernon; how a tour of English gardens renewed Thomas Jeffersons and John Adamss faith in their fledgling nation; how a trip to the great botanist John Bartrams garden helped the delegates of the Constitutional Congress break their deadlock; and why James Madison is the forgotten father of American environmentalism. These and other stories reveal a guiding but previously overlooked ideology of the American Revolution. Founding Gardeners adds depth and nuance to our understanding of the American experiment, and provides us with a portrait of the founding fathers as theyve never before been seen Author: Wulf, Andrea Subtitle: The Revolutionary Generation, Nature, and the Shaping of the American Nation Publication Date: 2011/03/29 Number of Pages: 349 Binding Type: Hardcover Language: English Depth: 1.50 Width: 6.75 Height: 9.75 |