An account of the first four United States Presidents and Virginians, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison and James Monroe, including their personal strengths and failures as well as their political lives, and how they created a nation

Each letter of the alphabet is represented by important people, ideas, and events in the history of the United States.

"This majestic new biography of James Madison explores the astonishing story of a man of vaunted modesty who audaciously changed the world. Among the Founding Fathers, Madison was a true genius of the early republic. Outwardly reserved, Madison was the intellectual driving force behind the Constitution and crucial to its ratification. His visionary political philosophy and rationale for the union of states--so eloquently presented in The Federalist...

Each letter of the alphabet is represented by an important woman in the history of the United States, as well as others in her same field of accomplishment.

Each letter of the alphabet is represented by an important woman in the history of the United States, as well as others in her same field of accomplishment.

Here, Lynne Cheney re-creates the years after World War II in a small town on the high plains of the West. Portraying an era that started with the Ink Spots on the Zenith Radio in her family's living room and ended with Elvis on the jukebox at the local canteen, she tells of coming of age in a time when the country seemed in control of its destiny and individual Americans in charge of theirs. She describes Casper, Wyoming, where she met a young man...