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1776
David McCullough tells the intensely human story of those who marched with General George Washington in the year of the Declaration of Independence.
Price: $18.00 - $32.00
1776: The Illustrated Edition: Excerpts from the acclaimed history, with letters, maps, and seminal artwork
Item #: 15546
By David McCullough. This treasury of eighteenth-century paintings, sketches, documents, and maps is distinctive art book and a collectible archive.
Price: $65.00
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
Item #: 16330
Winner of the George Washington Book Prize 2009. Historian and legal scholar Annette Gordon-Reed traces the Hemings family history.
Price: $35.00
Triumvirate: The Story of the Unlikely Alliance That Saved the Constitution and United the Nation
Item #: 16310
By Bruce Chadwick. Facing difficult obstacles, Hamilton, Madison, and Jay joined forces to convince wary Americans and 13 states to unite as one.
Price: $24.99
The Painter’s Chair. George Washington and the Making of American Art
Item #: 16062
By Hugh Howard. The narrative traces Washington’s interaction with the founding fathers of American painting, Peale, Trumbull, West, and Stuart.
Price: $30.00
The Exchange Artist: A Tale of High-Flying Speculation and America’s First Banking Collapse
Item #: 16355
Finalist for the 2009 George Washington Book Prize. Jane Kamensky recounts the wily schemes of Andrew Dexter, Jr., an early American dreamer.
Price: $29.95
Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation
Item #: 15163
By Cokie Roberts A blend of biographical portraits and behind the scenes vignettes chronicling women’s public roles and private responsibilities.
Price: $26.95
The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson
Item #: 16354
Finalist for the 2009 George Washington Book Prize.
Kevin J Hayes’s lively account of Jefferson’s spiritual and intellectual development.
Price: $34.95
Alexander Hamilton
Item #: 9799
Winner 2005 George Washington Book Prize. Ron Chernow brings to startling life the man who was the principal designer of the federal government.
Price: $35.00
Founding Mothers
Cokie Roberts brings us the women who fought the Revolution as valiantly as the men, often defending their very doorsteps.
Price: $14.95 - $24.95
The Perils of Peace: America’s Struggle for Survival After Yorktown
Item #: 14656
By Thomas Fleming. When Great Britain’s best army surrendered to Gen. Washington at Yorktown, the future of the 13 former colonies was far from clear.
Price: $27.95
Unwise Passions
Alan Pell Crawford brings to life this griping account of murder and infanticide played out in the intimate lives of this nation’s Founding Fathers.
Price: $15.00 - $27.50
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