2,320円 "It is hard to imagine this magnificent biography ever being superseded . . . It is a stylish, splendidly erudite work." ーTerry Eagleton, The Guardian "More than any other public figure of the eighteenth century, Tom Paine strikes our times like a trumpet blast from a distant world." So begins J...

18円 A "brief but potent" appreciation of one of the most influential and revolutionary works of political thought "mixing biography, criticism and philosophy" ( Los Angeles Times). Christopher Hitchens, the #1 New York Times–bestselling author of God Is Not Great, has been called a Tom Paine for our ...

4,563円 William Livingston's American Revolution explores how New Jersey's first governor experienced the American Revolution and managed a state government on the war's front lines. A wartime bureaucrat, Livingston played a pivotal role in a pivotal place, prosecuting the war on a daily basis for eight ...

2,228円 Winner of the George Washington Prize Winner of the Barbara and David Zalaznick Book Prize in American History Winner of the Excellence in American History Book Award Winner of the Fraunces Tavern Museum Book Award From the bestselling author of the Liberation Trilogy comes the extraordinary firs...

164円 Common Sense is a legendary work published anonymously on 1776 by Thomas Paine advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies. Written in clear and persuasive prose, Paine marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight fo...

330円 The works of Thomas Paine are culturally important and are part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it, helped shape the American nation and left their imprint on democratic thought all over the world. Napoléon Bonaparte, for one, claimed to have slept with a copy of "Right of M...

1,983円 **Meet Benjamin Franklin as you’ve never met him before . . . This hilarious collection includes the Founding Father’s satirical writings on farting, adultery, and other irreverent subjects you won’t find in your history books.** A mention of flatulence might conjure up images of bratty high scho...

100円 In 1799, the Federalist Party was at the height of its power. It controlled both houses of Congress, had the unanimous support of the Supreme Court, and had never lost a presidential election. According to President Theodore Roosevelt in his book Gouverneur Morris, in that year: "Four-fifths of t...

4,643円 A stunning revision of our founding document’s evolving history that forces us to confront anew the question that animated the founders so long ago: What is our Constitution? Americans widely believe that the United States Constitution was created when it was drafted in 1787 and ratified in 1788....

4,400円 An exciting and accurate portrayal of the military action in the southern colonies that led to a new American nation Following up the success of his 1777: The Year of the Hangman about the northern theaters of the American Revolutionary War, historian John Pancake now cover the war in the South, ...

1,088円 William Cooper and James Fenimore Cooper, a father and son who embodied the contradictions that divided America in the early years of the Republic, are brought to life in this Pulitzer Prize-winning book. William Cooper rose from humble origins to become a wealthy land speculator and U.S. congres...

4,227円 Although historians have assumed previously that early Kentucky was a one-party area, Watlington has discovered that there were actually three active parties ー the partisan,“ ”court,“ and ”country.“ From the land-grant maze following the 1779 migration, through a brief Tory movement and even Jam...