Willard Sterne Randall
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New Word City, LLC
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
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Historians rank Abraham Lincoln as one of America's greatest presidents, having led the nation through the slaughter and sorrow of the Civil War. He is also one of history's most tragic figures, losing his life to an assassin's bullet just days after achieving his long-sought victory on the battlefield. Here, in this short-form book by historians Willard Sterne Randall and Nancy Nahra, is Lincoln's inspiring and heartbreaking story.
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W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Description
Presents a biography of the frontier Founding Father who led a daring attack on Fort Ticonderoga and almost single-handedly brought the state of Vermont into the Union.
While Ethan Allen, a canonical hero of the American Revolution, has always been defined by his daring 1775 predawn attack on British-controlled Fort Ticonderoga, biographer Willard Sterne Randall challenges our conventional understanding of this largely unexamined Founding Father,...
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Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In 1776, upon the signing of the Declaration of Independence, the Founding Fathers concluded America's most consequential document with a curious note, pledging 'our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor.' Lives and honor did indeed hang in the balance, yet just what were their fortunes? How much did the Founders stand to gain or lose through independence? And what lingering consequences did their respective financial stakes have on liberty,...
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St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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"Unshackling America challenges the persistent fallacy that Americans fought two separate wars of independence. Williard Sterne Randall documents an unremitting fifty-year-long struggle for economic independence from Britain overlapping two armed conflicts linked by an unacknowledged global struggle. Throughout this perilous period, the struggle was all about free trade. Neither Jefferson nor any other Founding Father could divine that the Revolutionary...