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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.6 - AR Pts: 38
Language
English
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Description
Benjamin Franklin is the Founding Father who winks at us. An ambitious urban entrepreneur who rose up the social ladder, from leather-aproned shopkeeper to dining with kings, he seems made of flesh rather than of marble. In bestselling author Walter Isaacson's vivid and witty full-scale biography, we discover why Franklin seems to turn to us from history's stage with eyes that twinkle from behind his new-fangled spectacles. By bringing Franklin to...
Author
Publisher
National Geographic
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
When the Revolutionary War ended in victory, there remained the stupendous problem of how to establish a workable democratic government in the vast, newly independent country. Three key Founding Fathers played significant roles: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Alexander Hamilton. Their lives and policies could not have been more different; their relationships with each other were complex and often rife with animosity. And yet these three men led...
Author
Language
English
Description
"In a genre overdue for a shakeup, Alexis Coe takes a closer look at our first--and finds he's not quite the man we remember. Young George Washington was raised by a struggling single mother, demanded military promotions, chased rich young women, caused an international incident, and never backed down--even when his dysentery got so bad he had to ride with a cushion on his saddle. But after he married Martha, everything changed. Washington became...
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Series
Publisher
Seahorse Publishing
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"How do Americans state what they believe in, how their representative government works, and more? By writing it down! Investigate great documents that have shaped United States history, including the Federalist Papers. Find out who wrote the papers, what they say, and why they remain important today. Read all about these remarkable documents that helped form a nation. Includes a support page of teaching tips for caregivers and teachers."--
Author
Publisher
Capstone Press
Pub. Date
[2007]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book, in graphic novel format, tells the story of the debates, disagreements, and compromises that led to the formation of the U.S. Constitution during the Constitutional Convention of 1787.
8) The U.S. Constitution : a primary source investigation into the fundamental law of the United States
Author
Publisher
Rosen Primary Source
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
A historical review of the people, issues, and events that led to the drafting and ratification of the United States Constitution.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Pub. Date
[2008]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 8 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
In May 1787 delegates from across the country--including George Washington, James Madison, and Benjamin Franklin--gathered in Philadelphia and, meeting over the course of a sweltering summer, created a new framework for governing: the Constitution of the United States.
Author
Language
English
Description
From the publisher. "While some have boasted it as a work from Heaven, others have given it a less righteous origin. I have many reasons to believe that it is the work of plain, honest men." -- Robert Morris, delegate from Pennsylvania to the Constitutional Convention From distinguished historian Richard Beeman comes a dramatic and engrossing account of the men who met in Philadelphia during the summer of 1787 to design a radically new form of government....
Author
Publisher
Jameson Books
Pub. Date
[1992]
Language
English
Description
One of the most important news stories of the last two centuries comes to life in this "eyewitness account" of America's first Federal elections and of the First Congress and President Washington creating the Bill of Rights. In this swift-moving and colorful chronicle, written by St. John as though he were an on-the-scene reporter, you will discover how Congressman James Madison became in the formative months of the new Republic the power behind Washington...
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Language
English
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Description
"The prizewinning author of Founding Brothers and American Sphinx now gives us the unexpected story--brilliantly told--of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew. The triumph of the American Revolution was neither an ideological nor political guarantee that the colonies would relinquish their independence and accept the creation of a federal...
Author
Publisher
Mariner Books
Pub. Date
2003
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 11.8 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Description
Though the American Revolution is widely recognized as our nation's founding story, the years immediately following the war-when our government was a disaster and the country was in a terrible crisis-were in fact the most crucial in establishing the country's independence. The group of men who traveled to Philadelphia in the summer of 1787 had no idea what kind of history their meeting would make. But all their ideas, arguments, and compromises-from...
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
[1987]
Language
English
Description
Covering the crucial years from the winning of independence to the creation of the federal government, The Forging of the Union may be considered a sequel to Richard B. Morris's Bancroft Award-winning book, The Peacemakers. Reexamining an enormous fund of original sources and the latest monographs, Morris treats the Confederation interlude as an extraordinary, if brief, period of trial and experimentation. Grave doubts were entertained on a wide variety...
Author
Publisher
Walker & Co
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Language
English
Description
A chronicle of the daily debates and backroom conferences in inns and taverns through July and August of the 1787, to reveal how tenuous the Constitution was, and how an agreement between unlikely collaborators got the delegates to agree.
18) Thomas Jefferson
Author
Series
Publisher
Cody Koala, An Imprint of Pop!
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
A biography of Thomas Jefferson.
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