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Undaunted courage

By: Ambrose, Stephen E.

Price: $8.50

Publisher: New York : Simon & Schuster, 1997, c1996.:

Seller ID: BB0232198

ISBN: 0684826976

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: g

From the New York Times bestselling author of Band of Brothers and D-Day, the definitive book on Lewis and Clark's exploration of the Louisiana Purchase, the most momentous expedition in American history and one of the great adventure stories of all time.

In 1803 President Thomas Jefferson selected his personal secretary, Captain Meriwether Lewis, to lead a voyage up the Missouri River to the Rockies, over the mountains, down the Columbia River to the Pacific Ocean, and back. Lewis and his partner, Captain William Clark, made the first map of the trans-Mississip...
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This Was America: As Recorded By European Travelers in the Eighteenth, Nineteenth, and Twentieth Centuries

By: Handlin, Oscar

Price: $5.00

Publisher: Harper Torchbooks:

Seller ID: BB0246583

ISBN: BBC0000045431

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: vg-

Book of Ages: The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin

By: Lepore, Jill

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 10-113:

Seller ID: BB0259278

ISBN: 0307958345

Binding: Hardcover with Dust Jacket

Condition: vg/vg

National Book Award Finalist

From one of our most accomplished and widely admired historians, a revelatory portrait of Benjamin Franklin's youngest sister and a history of history itself. Like her brother, Jane Franklin was a passionate reader, a gifted writer, and an astonishingly shrewd political commentator. Unlike him, she was a mother of twelve.

Benjamin Franklin, who wrote more letters to his sister than he wrote to anyone else, was the original American self-made man; his sister spent her life caring for her children. They left very different traces behind. Making use ...
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Bourbon and Stuart

By: Miller, John H.

Price: $6.00

Publisher: New York : F. Watts, 1987.:

Seller ID: BB0243104

ISBN: 0531150526

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Very Good

A nice clean copy.
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The Invention of Air: A Story of Science, Faith, Revolution, and the Birth of America

By: Steven Johnson

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA), December 2008:

Seller ID: BB0252771

ISBN: 1594488525

Binding: Hardcover with Dust Jacket

Condition: vg/vg

Bestselling author Steven Johnson recounts in dazzling, multidisciplinary fashion the story of the brilliant man who embodied the relationship between science, religion, and politics for America s Founding Fathers.
"The Invention of Air" is a book of world-changing ideas wrapped around a compelling narrative, a story of genius and violence and friendship in the midst of sweeping historical change that provokes us to recast our understanding of the Founding Fathers.
It is the story of Joseph Priestley scientist and theologian, protege of Benjamin Franklin, friend of Thomas Jefferson a...
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