Founding Brothers

• Author : Joseph J. Ellis
• Publisher : Vintage
• Release Date : 2000
• Total pages : 288
• ISBN : 9780375705243

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Summary : The introduction, discussion questions, suggestions for further reading, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your reading group's discussion of Joseph Ellis's Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation . We hope they will enrich your experience of this Pulitzer Prize-winning study of the intertwined lives of the founders of the ...

• Author : Joseph J. Ellis
• Publisher : Vintage
• Release Date : 2003-12-16
• Total pages : 304
• ISBN : 9780375705243

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Summary : In this landmark work of history and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Joseph J. Ellis explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed individuals—Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison—confronted the overwhelming challenges before them to set the course for our nation. The United States ...

• Author : Joseph J. Ellis
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2002*
• Total pages : 212
• ISBN : 9780375705243

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Summary : Download or read online Book Discussion Kit Founding Brothers written by Joseph J. Ellis, published by which was released on 2002*. Get Book Discussion Kit Founding Brothers Books now! Available in PDF, ePub and Kindle....

• Author : Joseph J. Ellis
• Publisher : Vintage
• Release Date : 2018-10-16
• Total pages : 304
• ISBN : 9780375705243

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Summary : The award-winning author of Founding Brothers and The Quartet now gives us a deeply insightful examination of the relevance of the views of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and John Adams to some of the most divisive issues in America today. The story of history is a ceaseless conversation ...

• Author : Joseph J. Ellis
• Publisher : Vintage
• Release Date : 2007-10-30
• Total pages : 304
• ISBN : 9780375705243

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Summary : 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 ...

• Author : Joseph J. Ellis
• Publisher : Vintage
• Release Date : 2015-06-30
• Total pages : 50
• ISBN : 9780375705243

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Summary : A colorful, enlightening account of how Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence, and the road to July 4: a selection from Joseph J. Ellis’s American Sphinx, winner of the National Book Award. How did the newest and youngest member of Virginia’s delegation to the Constitutional Congress come to ...

• Author : Joseph J. Ellis
• Publisher : Vintage
• Release Date : 2013-06-04
• Total pages : 240
• ISBN : 9780375705243

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Summary : A distinctive portrait of the crescendo moment in American history from the Pulitzer-winning American historian, Joseph Ellis. The summer months of 1776 witnessed the most consequential events in the story of our country’s founding. While the thirteen colonies came together and agreed to secede from the British Empire, the British ...

• Author : Joseph J. Ellis
• Publisher : Vintage
• Release Date : 2015-05-12
• Total pages : 320
• ISBN : 9780375705243

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Summary : From Pulitzer Prize–winning American historian Joseph J. Ellis, the unexpected story of why the thirteen colonies, having just fought off the imposition of a distant centralized governing power, would decide to subordinate themselves anew. We all know the famous opening phrase of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address: “Four score and ...

• Author : Joseph J. Ellis
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• Release Date : 2001
• Total pages : 277
• ISBN : 9780375705243

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Summary : A look at the life and work of the second U.S. president discusses Adams's mind and personality, the events that shaped his thinking, his perspective on America's prospects, and his famous disagreements. By the author of the National Book Award-winning American Sphinx. Reissue....

• Author : Joseph J. Ellis
• Publisher : Thorndike Press Large Print
• Release Date : 2022
• Total pages : 212
• ISBN : 9780375705243

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Summary : George Washington claimed that anyone who attempted to provide an accurate account of the war for independence would be accused of writing fiction. At the time, no one called it the "American Revolution" former colonists still regarded themselves as Virginians or Pennsylvanians, not Americans, while John Adams insisted that the ...

• Author : Joseph J. Ellis
• Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
• Release Date : 2002
• Total pages : 256
• ISBN : 9780375705243

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Summary : Portraits of Charles Willson Peale, Hugh Henry Brackenridge, William Dunlap, and Noah Webster provide a perspective on the role of culture in post-Revolutionary America, both its high expectations and its frustrations....

• Author : Joseph J. Ellis
• Publisher : Knopf
• Release Date : 2004
• Total pages : 368
• ISBN : 9780375705243

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Summary : This book chronicles the life of George Washington, discussing his childhood, military years, presidency, and his impact on American politics....

• Author : Joseph J. Ellis
• Publisher : Vintage
• Release Date : 1998
• Total pages : 440
• ISBN : 9780375705243

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Summary : Offers a reassessment of the life, image, and career of Thomas Jefferson, examining his complex personality, controversies about the man and his beliefs, and his accomplishments...

• Author : Joseph J. Ellis
• Publisher : Random House Large Print Publishing
• Release Date : 2010
• Total pages : 509
• ISBN : 9780375705243

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Summary : Presents a narrative profile of the second president and his wife that traces their more than fifty-year partnership in such areas as civic and foreign affairs....

• Author : Joseph J. Ellis
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release Date : 2007-10-01
• Total pages : 212
• ISBN : 9780375705243

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Summary : 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 ...