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Author
Publisher
Make Profits Easy
Pub. Date
c2016
Physical Desc
241 p. ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Learn how the author of the Federalist Papers and the first Secretary of the Treasury nearly ruined his career by fighting duels, seducing women, and getting involved in America's first sex scandal.
Author
Language
English
Description
Ron Chernow vividly re-creates the whole sweep of Alexander Hamilton's life - his exotic, brutal upbringing; his titanic feuds with celebrated rivals; his pivotal role in defining the shape of the federal government; his shocking illicit romances; and his famous death in a duel with Aaron Burr in July 1804.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Thomas Jefferson and John Adams could scarcely have come from more different worlds, or been more different in temperament. Jefferson, the optimist with enough faith in the innate goodness of his fellow man to be democracy's champion, was an aristocratic Southern slave owner, while Adams, the overachiever from New England's rising middling classes, painfully aware he was no aristocrat, was a skeptic about popular rule and a defender of a more elitist...
Author
Publisher
Findaway World, LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 audio media player (approximately 10 hr., 21 min.) : digital, HD audio ; 3 3/8 x 2 1/8 in.
Language
English
Description
When the Revolutionary War ended in victory, there remained a stupendous problem: establishing a workable democratic government in the vast, newly independent country. Three key founding fathers played significant roles: John Adams, the brilliant, dour New Englander; Thomas Jefferson, the aristocratic Southern renaissance man; and Alexander Hamilton, an immigrant from the Caribbean island of Nevis. In this riveting narrative, best-selling author Winston...
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