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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 10.6 - AR Pts: 38
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English
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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...
2) John Adams
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Language
English
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Chronicles the life of America's second president, including his youth, his career as a Massachusetts farmer and lawyer, his marriage to Abigail, his rivalry with Thomas Jefferson, and his influence on the birth of the United States.
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Language
English
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In this biography the author draws upon archives in the United States, England, and France, as well as unpublished transcripts of Jefferson presidential papers to give readers a view of Jefferson the politician and the President, a great and complex human being forever engaged in the wars of his era. The father of the ideal of individual liberty, of the Louisiana Purchase, of the Lewis and Clark expedition, and of the settling of the West, Jefferson...
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Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
The award-winning, smash Broadway hit, “Hamilton: An American Musical”, continues to captivate sold-out audiences and has sparked unprecedented interest in its historical protagonist.
In “Hamilton: An American Biography”, Tony Williams provides readers with a concise biography that traces the events and values that enabled Hamilton to rise from his youth as a dispossessed orphan to Revolutionary War hero and Founding Father, a life uniquely...
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Series
Publisher
Fall River Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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An illegitimate child, born in the Caribbean, who arrived in America as a near-penniless teenager, Alexander Hamilton did not seem to have much in common with the rest of the founding fathers. But the audacious young immigrant quickly proved himself in the cauldron of revolutionary fervor gripping the colonies in the 1770s. After making a name for himself in the Revolution as an artillery officer and aide to George Washington, Hamilton became one...
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Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2018]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.4 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
"Alexander Hamilton was one of America's founders. He was the first secretary of the treasury and George Washington's right-hand man. But he also made some dangerous enemies during his short yet dramatic life"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher
J. Wiley
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"Long before he became the seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson waged a bloody campaign to gain lasting American control of the Old Southwest - the huge territory that stretched from the Appalachians to the Mississippi and from the Ohio River to the Gulf of Mexico. Under the Peace of Paris of 1783, most of this vast country had already been ceded to the United States by Great Britain. But from the Creeks and the Seminoles to the...
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Series
Publisher
Compass Point Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.6 - AR Pts: 2
Language
English
Description
"These days it seems everyone is signing the praises of Alexander Hamilton, but what's the all the fuss about? After all, Hamilton was never a president, nor was he a beloved figure in his time. After rising from humble origins, he won powerful friends and made powerful enemies during his life, which ended in his infamous duel with Aaron Burr. Still, the United States is indebted to Hamilton for his actions as the first U.S. Secretary of the Treasury,...
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Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
FIRST IN WAR, FIRST IN PEACE, FIRST IN LEADERSHIP.
Richard Brookhiser's revolutionary biography, Founding Father , took George Washington off the dollar bill and made him live. Now, with his trademark wit and precision, Brookhiser expertly examines the details of Washington's life that fullscale biographies sweep over, to instruct us in true leadership. George Washington on Leadership is a textbook look at Washington's three spectacularly successful...
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Series
Publisher
Cody Koala, An Imprint of Pop!
Pub. Date
[2019]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 2.1 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
This book introduces readers to the life of one of our country's first leaders, Alexander Hamilton, who helped create the United States as we know it today. Vivid photographs and easy-to-read text aid comprehension for early readers. Features include a table of contents, a timeline, fun facts, Making Connections questions, a glossary, and an index. QR Codes in the book give readers access to book-specific resources to further their learning. Aligned...
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Series
Publisher
Yale University Press
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Volumes have been written about Washington, Adams, and Jefferson, but no previous work captures the intimate and vital details the way Vidal's does. His consummate skill takes the reader into the minds and private rooms of these great men, illuminating their opinions of one another and their concerns about crafting a workable democracy.
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Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Whatever sense of hope the Founder Fathers may have felt at the new government's birth, almost none of them carried that optimism to their graves. Franklin survived to see the Constitution in action for only a single year, but most of the founders who lived into the nineteenth century came to feel deep anxiety, disappointment, and even despair about the government and the nation that they had helped to create. Indeed, by the end of their lives many...
18) Thomas Jefferson
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Series
Publisher
Enslow Publishers
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
This book explores the life of the third president, from his childhood in Virginia, through his writing of the Declaration of Independence, to his years in office.
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Language
English
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"From the first shots fired at Lexington to the signing of the Declaration of Independence to the negotiations for the Louisiana Purchase, Joseph J. Ellis guides us through the decisive issues of the nation's founding, and illuminates the emerging philosophies, shifting alliances, and personal and political foibles of our now iconic leaders - Washington, Jefferson, Madison, Hamilton, and Adams. He casts an incisive eye on the founders' achievements,...
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Publisher
Crown Books for Young Readers
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 7.6 - AR Pts: 8
Language
English
Description
"In this special illustrated edition of the #1 New York Times bestselling Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jon Meacham, young readers will learn about the life and political philosophy of one of our Founding Fathers"--
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